Doesn’t everyone know that you’re supposed to be quiet at the library?

What would you do if you were at the library when another person was there talking on the phone loudly?

Would you try to ignore them, or would you find a way to make them keep quiet or leave?

In today’s story, one student is really annoyed that a contractor takes business calls from the library, so he comes up with a plan to make the contractor regret being loud at the library.

Let’s read all the details.

Local Contractor cannot respect his community. His local community happily returns that disrespect.

This past Winter, my brother was at the local library for about 6 weeks, studying for an important exam (Ship’s Officer).

He goes there to rid himself of distractions (video games), and it helps to keep him focused, he says.

He sits in the back of the library which overlooks a small park w/ a small river. Beautiful view.

There’s a rotating group of nerdy-guys (incel-type if I’m being less diplomatic) who hang out all day in this section, and my brother has made casual friends with them.

Another person in the library didn’t seem to understand that libraries are supposed to be quiet.

Well, there’s a local contractor who comes by 1-2 times daily and does business over the phone in this area.

I guess he likes the view as well.

Trouble is, he does not do it quietly.

My brother is trying to study, but keeps getting interrupted by this guy answering his phone. “Romano Construction!” or “Hey, Mr. Smith, Mike Romano, Romano Contractors!” (names have been changed)

The loud guy would not stay quiet!

My brother asked him to keep his voice down, which worked the first few times, until Romano got tired of this kid bothering him.

My brother switched to asking the front desk to handle it, but they got tired having to constantly do this, and Romano would just quiet down until the Librarian would leave.

The nerdy guys told my brother he’d been doing it ‘forever’, they were used to it.

His brother didn’t give up.

Finally, my brother spent a week humbly & politely asking this guy to please lower his voice or take his calls out in the lobby.

He made it a point to be very polite and stress that he was trying to study.

Romano seemed to sense his weakness and doubled down on the attitude, with replies like “Kid, go back to your books.” and “I told you before, i ain’t got time for you.”

My brother had set up his laptop to record all this.

Now it’s time for the revenge.

After a week or so of this he put together a 3-4 minute video of their exchanges, and posted it on 6 different Facebook Groups about our town.

He made sure to make it public, so it could be shared.

It was a hit!!

A couple hundred comments and dozens of shares.

His poor wife was tagged in several of the posts, and several people posted it to his Facebook company page.

All those posts were quickly deleted.

He was kicked out of another business.

Best of all, it was discovered that he’d been booted from the local Dunkin Donuts for this same kind of behavior.

Hell one of the FB Groups, ‘Jerks of (Our Town)’ made him their Profile Picture.

We’re in a smaller city (40-50,000 pop.), and no shortage of Karens, so poor dude got it with both barrels (for about a week, anyways).

Romano actually returned to the library.

My brother told the nerd group what he’d done and to have their phones ready for when he returned.

They all loved the video, he was like a Rockstar for a couple days.

About 4 days later, Romano finally came back to the Library.

My brother held up his phone, as did 2-3 of the others.

Romano knew he was being recorded.

Romano was HOT, but checked himself when he saw he was being filmed by several people.

He was NOT apologetic.

He just kept repeating that ‘Brother has affected his business’ and he was ‘just trying to conduct business’ and ‘needed a place to conduct business’, etc etc etc.

My brother said “I think you owe all of us an apology.”

He finally apologized.

Romano looked around at the group and said, “OK, I’m sorry.”

My brother said thank you and Romano walked away. after about 20-30 feet Romano turned around, saw my brother watching him (but the phone was on the table) and shot him the finger.

He never came back to the library, though. My brother passed all of his exams, some just barely.

A library is not the place to take business calls. He should’ve gone to Starbucks or something.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

A library is not an office.

The contractor should’ve worked from his car.

Here’s another vote for working from the car.

The contractor definitely sounds entitled.

Some public libraries really are beautiful.

When you’re at the library, be quiet!

That’s a no-brainer for most people.

If you liked that post, check out this post about a woman who tracked down a contractor who tried to vanish without a trace.