Should I enter the reading room with my backpack?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:35 am
I go to the local library every Saturday. The local library has 6 floors, the lockers is on the ground floor and the reading room is on the sixth floor. And in the reading room there is a rule says people cannot enter the reading room with their backpacks and handbags, people must put their backpacks in the lockers which is on the ground floor.
But the thing is 99% of the people who visit the 6F reading room do not bother to go to the first floor to put their backpacks into the lockers.
In the 6F reading room there is a 50-year-old librarian responsible for keeping the order, occasionally she will ask the visitors entering the reading room to drop their backpacks in the first-floor lockers, and when confronted by the librarian the visitors usually will obey her and go down the stairs to drop their backpacks, but 90% of the time this lady is absent or is sitting before the computer playing some online poker game with her eyelids drooping.
This created a dilemma for me, If I follow most people’s example and go to the reading room with my backpacks, I will feel uncomfortable inside because I have violated the rule and there is a chance that the good old librarian may lift her eyelids, see me entering with my backpack and order me to go to the ground floor lockers. Yet on the other hand, if I do not follow most people ‘s example and put my backpack into the ground floor lockers, I will still feel uncomfortable because to the crowd I ‘m the exception and they are the norm, as if there is something wired about me.
What should I do? Why it seems others do not feel uncomfortable at all when they enter the reading room with their backpacks?
But the thing is 99% of the people who visit the 6F reading room do not bother to go to the first floor to put their backpacks into the lockers.
In the 6F reading room there is a 50-year-old librarian responsible for keeping the order, occasionally she will ask the visitors entering the reading room to drop their backpacks in the first-floor lockers, and when confronted by the librarian the visitors usually will obey her and go down the stairs to drop their backpacks, but 90% of the time this lady is absent or is sitting before the computer playing some online poker game with her eyelids drooping.
This created a dilemma for me, If I follow most people’s example and go to the reading room with my backpacks, I will feel uncomfortable inside because I have violated the rule and there is a chance that the good old librarian may lift her eyelids, see me entering with my backpack and order me to go to the ground floor lockers. Yet on the other hand, if I do not follow most people ‘s example and put my backpack into the ground floor lockers, I will still feel uncomfortable because to the crowd I ‘m the exception and they are the norm, as if there is something wired about me.
What should I do? Why it seems others do not feel uncomfortable at all when they enter the reading room with their backpacks?