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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Atherton Library

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It's a nice library, especially for those of us who remember the old library; however there are minorities from other places, even other countries, who are starting to become bossy , even towards anglos who have grown up here. It's bizarre how they start out friendly and submissive, just glad to be able to use the nice library, but then over time they become possessive and entitled even to the point of thinking they are superior to the locals. 

Even a minority employee who apparently only works weekends and hadn't seen me before because I usually only visit during the week tried to treat me like a newcomer and even was a little misleading about using the study rooms, which I use on a regular basis and I know about all the rules.

 I had to tell her the rules and that she was wrong about what she was telling me. I guess she wasn't expecting to hear such intelligence out of the mouth of a random "white boy" (who is almost 60-yo ). 

Times have changed, haven't they.