[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It wasn’t that way till vagrancy laws were done away with. Noe one of my favorite libraries is loaded with unwashed bums sleeping there. The third floor was closed a few years back due to....BEDBUGS!

[driftless2]

The last several times I've gone to the public library in the city closest to me, the reading section was filled with smelly, loud-mouthed oldsters who used it as a public forum to tell everybody about their personal problems.

A few of them spread themselves out prone on the couches taking naps and barring anybody else from using them. One older woman stank of urine. Nobody does anything about it. Which is why I haven't been back for a decade.

[Duchess47]

That sounds about right :)

[Mears]

My God,bedbugs in a library,

In some areas the library is a “babysitter” where working Moms tell their kids to hang out after school——and wait until they get home from work.

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