Comments on: It’s Raining Weirdos

By: Odd Children @ Your Library « Lawnchair Naturalist

Odd Children @ Your Library « Lawnchair Naturalist — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:09:11 +0000

[...] about something like “weirdos at your library” but realized this had not only been done here by Woeful but also that this wasn’t all that weird [...]

By: Why so many homeless @the library? « impagination

Why so many homeless @the library? « impagination — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:41:16 +0000

[...] basic. Tonight we take a look at one prominent and visible symptom of a much much grander problem. Woeful calls them “irregulars.” Sometimes they’re homeless, they’re not always [...]

By: Woeful

Woeful — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:51:25 +0000

The WiFi strength is going to be on a case by case basis. Some libraries make sure that the signal is available in their parking lots… Work? blogging? Not normally, it’s more like some days work is too frustrating to blog about.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:35:53 +0000

Wait is this starting to feel like work to you? So sorry Woe! : )

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:34:40 +0000

ooo good to know free wifi, so anyone with an Iphone can stop in and be online ….From the lobby? From the parking lot?

By: Woeful

Woeful — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:48:39 +0000

The library is a good place to come, cool down, and read a book or magazine… Or bring you laptop and use the WiFi!

By: Stiletto

Stiletto — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:30:38 +0000

I’ve forgotten how wonderfully cool a library can be in the swelter of summer.

By: Woeful

Woeful — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:35:16 +0000

Libraries are public buildings. They are heated in the winter, and cooled in the summer. They provide a vast assortment of reading, viewing, and listening material for… Everyone. So it’s not really surprising that the homeless are our best customers. We really are like their living room. But at closing time, they have to find a place to retreat to that might be hot, cold, wet or a combination of all three, before we open the next day, and they begin the cycle all over again.,

You don’t have to go home… But you can’t stay here.

By: dailytri

dailytri — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:23:54 +0000

But it’s a friendly vortex that folks obviously don’t mind getting sucked into. There must be some social study out there that explains why public libraries are “home” to the illiterate and inept.

By: Woeful

Woeful — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:45:00 +0000

This post was really difficult to write. It was like reliving a nightmare, and it wasn’t really funny the that I try to spin most of my stories. This wasn’t the only incident like this that day either, only the most trying. Everyone was very needy that day, and everything was a big personal crisis for people.

LOL… You wouldn’t even need to consciously head to the library. The library is like a vortex for the rentally challenged, and the mentally ill that would eventually draw you in like a magnet anyway.