I'm at the Brentwood Kaufman Public Library Right Now...

[Exitus Acta Probat]

My internet connection is back up, for which I'm very grateful so I don't need to return to the library. I don't know how much porn was being viewed by the transients using the free computers, but what really creeped me out was the bum staring at the fifteenish girl -- is this also a regular thing at public libraries these days?

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

My internet connection is back up, for which I'm very grateful so I don't need to return to the library. I don't know how much porn was being viewed by the transients using the free computers, but what really creeped me out was the bum staring at the fifteenish girl -- is this also a regular thing at public libraries these days?

That was no bum, that was Roy Moore

[Finper]

Pretty sad when you live in a city where it's dangerous for a teenager to go to the library to study. But hey the weathers nice

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by Finper

Pretty sad when you live in a city where it's dangerous for a teenager to go to the library to study. But hey the weathers nice

A library

Or a public park

Or pretty much anywhere ..

But hey like you said mid 70s in December is everything is groovy.

And weed is legal .

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Finper

Pretty sad when you live in a city where it's dangerous for a teenager to go to the library to study. But hey the weathers nice

That's actually nothing new

And yet another reason why families with kids don't live in the city of L.A. unless they're either poor, on drugs, or don't give a **** about their kids. (And yes, that includes Brentwood, or anywhere else where Garcetti is mayor, the LAPD are the cops, and LAUSD controls the schools.)

BTW I don't think the weather's that nice.

[noregon98]

It's like that at all libraries.


Many people also using the library here to play video games or watching stuff on YouTube, or even movies from the library's collection for their 2-4 hour daily limit.

That's cool. An hour of the above granted every day, for every hour spent taking an online course!

Also, at least an hour for e-mail only (regardless of taking the online course), just in case that's the only form of communication to family or friends they have.


A while back my Mac's Airport wasn't working, so I had to use the library's computer for a new resume and some other business, including online banking.

More times than not, the patrons playing games or watching videos were able to extend their time at their one specific computer, than I was, and some where on theirs before I started my sessions.

I'd sometimes get a few prompts for extra time until I got a message to the effect of someone else had a reservation on it.

40-50 public computers there, many showing the Available status on it's screen, yet I've had to stop my session, move and search for one of the available ones, sometimes merely to the next chair over (why the heck didn't the reserve-ees get the one next to mine!).

Meanwhile, the patron next to me is still occasionally audibly movin'-and a-groovin to whatever is on their screen and in their headphones, from who knows how long before I got there or how long after they will remain.

Extra library credit is when I have to swap the secretarial chair with the cloth seat at the available computer, for a wooden chair, so my clothes don't end-up smelling like theirs the rest of the day.

I've complained about the doors in the main library here, as the locks don't work for the stalls.

This old geezer (me) was walked in on once, even though I had personal belongings draped over both sides of the door in plain view at eye level...I guess he was just another anarchist disguised as a mere-poor-homeless-99%-er.

I walked in on geezer myself once, and lucky for me, not only was it merely a half-a split-second, his body was properly positioned and covered!

I reported the latches to the staff and their reply was that they weren't broken, it was because "people do other things in there".

Yeah drugs.

Meanwhile, I'm sometimes frantically bathroom-hopping between three floors to find an available one so I can use it as originally intended.


I arrived at an elevator there once, waiting to press the buttons.

Someone young whippersnapper bolts in front and in a deep voice says "go around".

So I did go around, only I moved and reached around to his front side, to which I asked him "is this what you meant, as you weren't specific as to which side, front or back, I was supposed to go around"!

I spoke the above in a pitch just about as low and deep as his was, and since I saw he wasn't going to escalate the situation, I then semi-joked that if he was going to try and use a low pitched voice like that for his intimidation intention in the future, "it has to be lots lower, and from the chest...like this" , I instructed, as my pitch was gradually getting lower and lower than than it was from the start of the quote!

He sort of smiled, then alerted me that one of the zippers on my backpack wasn't fully closed, which was cool, because it saved something from potentially falling out.

[saybanana]

Roy Moore is roaming libraries now. And Trump is supporting his pedophile behavior.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by saybanana

Roy Moore is roaming libraries now. And Trump is supporting his pedophile behavior.

He has to be disguised as a homeless person if he's in Brentwood, otherwise Antifa would lynch him on the traffic island on San Vicente