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Firstly, let me make it clear. I am not a librarian. I work in a library, but I am not a librarian.

Secondly, my pet peeve is people who answer their mobile phone in libraries, or anywhere else where other people are expecting you to be quiet. It's one thing to have a surreptitious snippet of a conversation, it's quite another to have a full blown (and loud) chat about the where you're going for lunch, tea and dinner. Just go somewhere else.

And it's not just libraries. I caught the train back from London a few months back, and sat on the quiet carriage. The woman sat opposite me had her phone out on the table. Every few minutes it would ring, and she would immediately hang it up. This was your typical Dom Joly / Nokia ringtone too. Eventually I asked her to just turn it off or go to another carriage.

Anger flared in her eyes. "I can't do that," she sneered. "I'm expecting a PHONECALL."
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:34, Reply)