In the midst of my afternoon, with my pile of books sitting next to my laptop, I heard some noise and fuss next to me. I was sitting in the last row, up against the wall, with only two other patrons. By the time I looked up, the lady sitting next to me was packing up her things and whispering loudly to the man next to her in an upset tone, "This is a library!" Obviously, the man next to her had done something inappropriate. It was clear that she was getting up to immediately report him to security, but I had visions of her saying to the guard, "the man in the back said something inappropriate to me," causing the guard to flip a coin and ask me, instead of the man next to me, to leave the reading room never to return.
Thankfully, the accused was given a verbal warning and he picked up and left. Anyway, I am grateful that the other library patron gave security a detailed description of the man that was bothering her. Thanks to her description, I will be allowed in to the Library of Congress again next Monday.
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