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eruthrosSo I am sitting at the cafe around the corner from my house, having a coffee and using their internet1 and doing some work. All good, right?
And the girl sitting at the bar using her computer just got up, left her computer and cell phone and keys, and wandered off. That was ten minutes ago. She's still not back. Oh my god, people.
I mean, there are these huge signs in the libraries that say, in essence, "people will steal your stuff! even if you've just gone to the bathroom! don't leave it at the table!"2 and I always wonder why people need the signage -- I can't imagine leaving my computer for half an hour to go print some stuff and find that one book. I leave the AC cable, sometimes, or my books, but ... but ... the unsecured laptop? How does this not make other people go "aaaaah?" How can they do this? I am baffled.
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1 It turns out that the reason it took them forever to call me back? Was because my apartment is called new installation, because it has a new apartment number, and they can't get a guy there for new installation until September 17th. So they figured, no rush. I tried to convince them that it had been a different apartment number until two years ago, and there had honestly been cable in there, I was starting at a cable outlet, and they kept saying "oh, no, ma'am, apartment 4F has never had cable" and I'd say "okay, yes, but it was apartment 4!" and they'd say "well, yes, apartment 4 had cable, but you're not requesting installation of roadrunner service in apartment 4." And eventually I gave up, because it was clear that this was not on their phone conversation flow sheet. SO.
2 This is about as effective as the signs that say "These computers are for research. Please do not spend an hour on facebook on them. Hey, notice how people can't access the catalogue here anymore because of the facebooking? Stop it." Or the signs, on the door of the anthro graduate reading room, that say "this room is for quiet individual study by graduate students. Are you a graduate student? Then don't come in." I'm always wandering in and being like "... are you seriously using my reading room to work on your chemistry group project? No, seriously?"
And the girl sitting at the bar using her computer just got up, left her computer and cell phone and keys, and wandered off. That was ten minutes ago. She's still not back. Oh my god, people.
I mean, there are these huge signs in the libraries that say, in essence, "people will steal your stuff! even if you've just gone to the bathroom! don't leave it at the table!"2 and I always wonder why people need the signage -- I can't imagine leaving my computer for half an hour to go print some stuff and find that one book. I leave the AC cable, sometimes, or my books, but ... but ... the unsecured laptop? How does this not make other people go "aaaaah?" How can they do this? I am baffled.
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1 It turns out that the reason it took them forever to call me back? Was because my apartment is called new installation, because it has a new apartment number, and they can't get a guy there for new installation until September 17th. So they figured, no rush. I tried to convince them that it had been a different apartment number until two years ago, and there had honestly been cable in there, I was starting at a cable outlet, and they kept saying "oh, no, ma'am, apartment 4F has never had cable" and I'd say "okay, yes, but it was apartment 4!" and they'd say "well, yes, apartment 4 had cable, but you're not requesting installation of roadrunner service in apartment 4." And eventually I gave up, because it was clear that this was not on their phone conversation flow sheet. SO.
2 This is about as effective as the signs that say "These computers are for research. Please do not spend an hour on facebook on them. Hey, notice how people can't access the catalogue here anymore because of the facebooking? Stop it." Or the signs, on the door of the anthro graduate reading room, that say "this room is for quiet individual study by graduate students. Are you a graduate student? Then don't come in." I'm always wandering in and being like "... are you seriously using my reading room to work on your chemistry group project? No, seriously?"
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Date: 2008-09-04 12:40 am (UTC)I am surprised you didn't grab the opportunity to snag a better laptop-HEH-HEH!
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Date: 2008-09-04 02:05 pm (UTC)