I remember when I was a child and the big joke in the library was to mock the angry librarian who hissed and insisted any noise-makers to quiet. Now an author struggling to become a money-making-published-word-carver, I do much of my editing in the quiet dwelling place of the bookman’s abode.
Unfortunately, there are still people, even my own age, who enjoy friendly stories and over-pompous smiles in this same place a modest author would just call a library, but a snob would call a ‘den for story-makers and takers.’
I cannot comprehend what comes over a person to fully engage in a conversation inside a library. I can see there are times we run into friends and are at the very least required to say, “Hello, How are you? – Me, I’m good. – Oh really! – Alright see you later.”
Anything more than that is unnecessary and rude. Oh, what’s that?? I’m being a prick for telling you to quiet when you feel like talking to your friend? Ah, I’m sorry, my mistake.
Please-shut-the-fuck-up and go pretend you’re cool somewhere else.
I don’t come to the library to look cool or impress anyone. I come to the library to get work done, and I’m pretty sure everyone else does, too. Even those pretty girls you see getting really drunk on Friday nights who accentuate the ‘s’ sound at the end of every word they can possibly fit it into.
Yes, those girls.
So in conclusion, I would like to formerly invite that old, bead-chained-glasses wearing old strict ‘hag’ back to her place of work. We need you, I can’t take any more of these smiling ‘librarian’ good-for-nothings who leave me to do all the quieting for my pencil-pushing amigos.
If you like to talk when you are in the library,
You can suck-it.
– Thomas M. Watt
Thomas M. Watt 
It’s a sad day indeed when McDonalds is a quieter place to work than the library, but that’s how it is. Adults are louder than children probably because kids are still being taught to at least whisper in the library. Of course people answered their cell phones and discussing their dysfunctional relationships at the next table are the MOST annoying.