Special Snowflake Stories

[darling]

*snip*

Did we follow Other Town's example?  Of course not.

WE made Thief a member of the newly formed Friends of the Library Committee because THAT would give Thief perspective on stealing. 

To this day, Thief sincerely believes that they should have a say in most library programming and decisions......

You know, I was reading your post, and didn't see your username, yet somehow I knew this just had to be from you... LOL

Jail time for book thieves!

[kherbert05]

Another 'my political theory is more important than your artwork' snowflake:

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/woman-defaces-famous-louvre-painting-with-black-pen

A woman who is part of a group of 9/11 conspiracy theorists scribbled with black marker on a French painting on loan from the main Louvre to one of the satellite museums. Fortunately the curators say the damage is very superficial and should be easily cleaned.

This comment is probably not eHell approved, but I truthfully hope she is punished fairly severely for that!  I don't understand why some people feel they have the "right" to destroy the creative work of other people.

I'm confused - why attack this painting? does this group think the French were behind 9/11?

[VorFemme]

Another 'my political theory is more important than your artwork' snowflake:

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/woman-defaces-famous-louvre-painting-with-black-pen

A woman who is part of a group of 9/11 conspiracy theorists scribbled with black marker on a French painting on loan from the main Louvre to one of the satellite museums. Fortunately the curators say the damage is very superficial and should be easily cleaned.

This comment is probably not eHell approved, but I truthfully hope she is punished fairly severely for that!  I don't understand why some people feel they have the "right" to destroy the creative work of other people.

I'm confused - why attack this painting? does this group think the French were behind 9/11?

I think it was more along the lines of "attack this famous painting and get LOTS of publicity for *our cause*" - but it could also be that the idjit is just an idjit and picked it out because she was in front of it when she found the marker in her purse.....

[snowdragon]

Another 'my political theory is more important than your artwork' snowflake:

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/woman-defaces-famous-louvre-painting-with-black-pen

A woman who is part of a group of 9/11 conspiracy theorists scribbled with black marker on a French painting on loan from the main Louvre to one of the satellite museums. Fortunately the curators say the damage is very superficial and should be easily cleaned.

This comment is probably not eHell approved, but I truthfully hope she is punished fairly severely for that!  I don't understand why some people feel they have the "right" to destroy the creative work of other people.

I'm confused - why attack this painting? does this group think the French were behind 9/11?

I think it was more along the lines of "attack this famous painting and get LOTS of publicity for *our cause*" - but it could also be that the idjit is just an idjit and picked it out because she was in front of it when she found the marker in her purse.....

after 9/11 and when they were talking about invading Iraq there were hard words between the US and France there were things like folks renaming French fries  to Patriot Fries and French Toast became Freedom Toast, ect. This could be a reaction to the same incident.

[marcel]

*I* considered this person to be an SS.
It also hurt my brain and left me profoundly annoyed.

Saw a vanity licensce plate this weekend (so someone requested this and paid extra for it) which read:
14DROAD (One for the road).

Now, I suppose there is a small possibility that the driver means he/she really loves driving and is "one that loves the road", but really, the interpretation of that phrase "one for the road" means "one last drink before we start out."
So...let's drink and drive. 

Yeah. Annoyed.

The expresion can also be used for food and non-alcoholic beverages (In this very thread, 2 pages back a poster uses this very expresion for non-alcoholic beverages.)

[RegionMom]

A good friend of mine in college was an art major, and I would sometimes study with her in the tomes of the library where she would review art history books and I would write papers (back in days of handwritten rough drafts).

One evening she had a giggle fit and proclaimed, "Lawrence has had this book before!" 
I came over and she showed me beautiful artwork, with the male private parts CUT out with an exacto knife.  She explained that everyone who knew Lawrence knew he was gay, except his parents (who worked on campus, and thought the upside down pink triangle on his jacket meant supporting women) so he would "get his jollies" through art pron.  (Again, pre-internet days, and this was a religious school).

I wondered what he did with his paper collection of male bits--did he decoupage a trinket box?  Rank them in a journal?  Take a world art tour and recognize famous nudes just by the bits he cut and carried?

Ewww...

The college had a dark room for art/photography students-I wonder why he did not just take a camera to the library and process his own pictures instead of destroying the art books.

hmmm...another story I have never anyone told before now.

[Rohanna]

I'm sure there are psychologists that would have a field day with his "destruction of lust object" habits.... 

[Amava]

RegionMom's post made me gasp for breath. I really don't have a problem with it if people want to adorn their room with erotic material or want to make a scrapbook or something. But ACK!!! to destroy library property for it! And art history books, no less!  He should buy his own material, not treating the library books as his own!  And even if he can't afford to get his own material, that is still no excuse to just take the library books and treat them as his own!

I wouldn't have fits of giggles about that. If I knew who was destroying library property I'd rat him out without delay. He should be made to reimburse the library for everything he damaged!

Gahhh he makes me angry.

[Thipu1]

I'm sure there are psychologists that would have a field day with his "destruction of lust object" habits.... 

In the library world there are stories of librarians who have been forced to paint pants on the kid in 'The Night Kitchen' with liquid paper because of patron pressure. 

There's also the time when Ted Geissel (Dr. Seuss) was involved in a bizarre situation.  He was found writing fake dedications in the works of Mary Baker Eddy.  What can you do when the 'vandalism' may actually enhance the value of the book?

A problem art libraries face is that there are sometimes patrons who will deface books to make an
artistic statement of their own.  I fault 'The Humument' with inciting this sort of thing. 

[Yarnspinner]

A good friend of mine in college was an art major, and I would sometimes study with her in the tomes of the library where she would review art history books and I would write papers (back in days of handwritten rough drafts).

One evening she had a giggle fit and proclaimed, "Lawrence has had this book before!" 
I came over and she showed me beautiful artwork, with the male private parts CUT out with an exacto knife.  She explained that everyone who knew Lawrence knew he was gay, except his parents (who worked on campus, and thought the upside down pink triangle on his jacket meant supporting women) so he would "get his jollies" through art pron.  (Again, pre-internet days, and this was a religious school).

I wondered what he did with his paper collection of male bits--did he decoupage a trinket box?  Rank them in a journal?  Take a world art tour and recognize famous nudes just by the bits he cut and carried?

Ewww...

The college had a dark room for art/photography students-I wonder why he did not just take a camera to the library and process his own pictures instead of destroying the art books.

hmmm...another story I have never anyone told before now.

One more before we have to take the art vandalism to its own thread...we used to have a young male patron who either idolized or had a crush on Mark Spitz.  It got to a point where we would have to make him stand in front of us while we checked books and magazines he had borrowed because he would use a razor and sit in the library to cut out every single photo of Mark he found.  There was definitely a problem there as his family kept paying for everything he damaged (and we knew they couldn't really afford it) and because he really, really did not seem to understand that what he was doing was WRONG.

[snowdragon]

Went to Wegmans today to get some stuff for a party and there was a kid walking around the granola bar and sticking his hand into various things, taking out a handful and eating - then moving on to the next bin. We alerted staff and the kid's mom got mad at us because "he's just a kid, why should he not be able to eat?"  Like anyone wants food that has been handled by some kids bare hands after he has stuck them in his mouth.

Staff took the entire "bar" down and had to replace it all. What a waste.

[magician5]

If Deity had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way/

[Otterpop]

Went to Wegmans today to get some stuff for a party and there was a kid walking around the granola bar and sticking his hand into various things, taking out a handful and eating - then moving on to the next bin. We alerted staff and the kid's mom got mad at us because "he's just a kid, why should he not be able to eat?"  Like anyone wants food that has been handled by some kids bare hands after he has stuck them in his mouth.

Staff took the entire "bar" down and had to replace it all. What a waste.

Thank you!  You've done all us self serve bar patrons a service (I love the olive deli bar at my local Von's and shudder to think what has gone on there).  That mom was just gross...too bad the store did not charge her for trashed contents.

[Winterlight]

I've just remembered this one - why I didn't think of it before is a mystery.  Biggest SS I've ever met -

Woman across the aisle from us on a flight from UK to Germany.  She looked middle-aged, her son was about one-year-old. 

Our flight was delayed by about half an hour.  When we finally started to move, she seriously asked the stewardess if the pilot could wait a bit longer as the noise was interfering with her son's nap time.  Jaw hit floor.  AND she was ratty when the stewardess said it wouldn't be possible.

I think this wins the thread!

[Rohanna]

If Deity had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way/

I wasn't actually born naked- I  born in a caul, so I guess I really shouldn't run around nude pthen