[thursday at work]

Rude Old Guy: 97 Pacific.
Me: 97 Pacific? You mean the Pacific Reporter?
ROG: 97 Pacific.
Me: Right. Let me check on that. Well, it looks like the Pacific Reporters are located in the Reading Room. [I point out the handy signs that label the various books...very visible]
ROG: Those are the 2nd series.
Me: Well, off the left of those, there's a sign that reads just "Pacific Reporter."
ROG: Those are the second series.
Me: My mistake. Let's take a look at the map.
ROG: They must be in the basement. [which they are so not...]
Me: They look like they've recently been put in the corner on the upper deck of the Reading Room. [i point it out]

the rude old guy walks away all huffy. but you have to understand that his whole attitude and body language was such that he thought he had some right to be served like he was someone really "important." then he has the nerve to come back later at noon and ask about basement retrievals when the sign clearly reads that the next trip is at 3pm. yea...and he all tried to be nice about it, as if that would magically cause someone to come back from lunch just to get the book. and as soon as i told him that it wouldn't be possible to go at that moment, he was visibly enraged - like his composure slipped - but he did the whole "i'm really a nice old guy...really i am..." routine to see if he could get things to go his way. too bad i can see right through him. apparently he's known around the library for his unbelievably rude behavior and treatment of staff. i was told that that's him on a good day. much like the guy in my spanish class from last quarter that i wanted to serve a beat-down to, my right foot was itching to give this guy a good, swift kick to the head. it wasn't that he was just rude - because at the law lib/law school there are tons of rude people that i encounter, but it was that he felt he was superior to all other people, that we're all here for the sole purpose of serving him or catering to him - it was his arrogance that was the kicker. [course, we're all arrogant on some level - but he was having the big ego...much like russell crowe.