Tried eating lunch in a library food court like it was fine dining - used a cloth napkin and real silverware I brought from home

Got asked to leave after 12 minutes because the librarian said it was 'disrupting the atmosphere', even though I was the quietest person there, and now I'm wondering if anyone else has been told to stop doing something totally harmless just because it looked weird.

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felix82425d ago

So the librarian told me they got a complaint from someone who said you were "mocking fine dining" by using cloth napkins and real silverware in a library food court. That's the actual reason they gave. I know because my cousin works at that library and she mentioned it last week. Apparently the person who complained said you were being pretentious on purpose to make other people feel bad about eating normal library food. Which is insane because you were just trying to have a nice quiet lunch. The librarian told my cousin they had to ask you to leave because the rule says no disruptions and your setup counted as one. So yeah you got punished for someone else's weird hangup about what counts as proper table manners in a food court.

sam1725d ago

Oh man, that is so ridiculous! I had something similar happen at a coffee shop where I brought my own ceramic mug and a cloth napkin, and someone complained I was "showing off" because everyone else was using paper cups. It's like people get personally offended when you try to do something a little nicer for yourself, even if it doesn't hurt anybody. You and @felix824 are totally right, it's a weird hangup that says more about the person complaining than about you just wanting a nice lunch.