As I walked into the library, the smell of musty old books overwhelmed me. "I knew there was a reason I hated coming here." I muttered to myself as I walked over to the computer work desks, thankfully there was one, and only one, desk open. As uncomfortable it may be, I had no choice. I needed to get this project typed and this was the only way I could do it thanks to that stupid laptop.
"Do you mind if I move this?" I asked the gentleman who was using the desk next to mine. He had all of his stuff spread across two desks, and was completely ignoring the fact that I was even there.
After a moment I tapped him on the shoulder lightly, "Excuse me, sir?" I asked him politely again, and still got no response. I waited a could minutes before trying one last time. "Sir." I said more loudly this time, causing me to receive a dirty look from the librarian. "Will you please move your things, I really need to get to work." I waited here for 2 minutes before giving up. I picked up his stuff off of my desk and plopped it onto his.
"What the hell!?" he shouted at me. "What is your problem lady? I'm trying to work here." He said as he spread his papers across my desk again.
"My Problem? I've been politely trying to get your attention for the past 15 minutes, so I could get to work." I was starting to get irritated.
"What?"
"Your crap is taking up two spaces, and I really need to use this empty computer. So if you would be so kind to move your things over, I would greatly appreciate it." I replied sarcastically.
"No." he said simply before turning around and placed his things on to my dest yet again.
"What did you just say?" I shouted by now I was past irritated, and moved to full on pissed off. People from all around the library were starring.
"I said no, now if you could please leave me alone, I have a lot of work to do." his voice was starting to rise. The librarian walked over to us.
"Excuse me!" she said in a hushed yet very stern voice, "But there are people trying to work in here and if you two don't be quiet I will kick you out."
"I'm sorry ma'am." I replied in a whisper. "But this gentalman will not move his things so I can work at this computer desk. I have a very important essay due tomorrow and desperately need to type it up. I don't want to disturb any one."
"Sir." her voice was still very harsh, "Will you please move your belongings so thing young lady can work on her essay?" after a few moments of silent eye contact she added "Don't forget that I have the power to kick you out of here, then you really won't get any work done."
A few more moments passed before he spoke again. "Yes Ma'am." He collected his belongings and moved them from my desk.
"See now that wasn't so hard now was it?" she smirked at him before turning her attention back to me "There you go miss. Good luck on the essay and if you have any questions feel free to ask." she smiled at me and returned silently to her desk.
"Thank you." I said in her direction as I sat down at the computer. I checked the time, 5:15, that jerk waisted 10 minutes of my time. I opened a word processer and began to type. I glanced to the man who made this so difficult, "God," I thought to myself, "people can be so irritating."
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