Intolerant against the intolerance

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It is not the first time that the same thing happens to me; actually quite surprisingly it is becoming a regular and bizarre situation due to either my from-time-to-time bad humour or to my lack of patient when I see that wherever there is a rule, it does not apply to everyone in an equal basis. Let me brief you a little bit with the situation. I was in the library yesterday morning enjoying the pleasure of books and internet both of them free of any charge when my mobile phone started to ring. As I always consider of the others, immediately I switched the volume off and run out from the premise to catch the call as a friend of mine, who is visiting London for a few days, was trying to reach me to arrange a meeting. It is important to describe that I decided to catch the phone in the stairs that communicate the venue where I was with the lending library which is in the ground floor so no way to disturb anyone at all as both halls are closed by crystal doors; in addition, despite is forbidden, the stairs are the common place where people attend their cellular queries as going out of the building is a bit risky taking into account that you normally do not take your own properties with you to talk on the phone. My surprise was that one of the library staff followed me and warned me at the beginning of the stairs that is not allowed to pick the phone up; for that reason I went down the stairs a few more steps but she did the same and told me the same thing. Obviously, I hang on the phone instead of leaving the building as I left my laptop inside the hall I was doing some paperwork and I decided to reply with my usual courteous. Had that thing happened a year ago, I would had shout my mouth and put my head looking at the ground feeling guilty for what I had just done, but as I feel now more confident with my command of the English language I decided to inform her that I have seen some library-users not only using their phone inside the premises but also answering the phone at their pleasure without no one telling them off. I said to her that I just saw that the day before and her reply was that “someone should had told that person off”; “but no one did it”, I counter-argued “and now you are scolding me using different rules depending on the person with the same situation and that is not fair at all!” I kept on saying, and the only thing she could say, pointing at me wasYou just don’t do it again!”. I decided to leave as it is as she was really nervous and ending up pointing at me, one unrespectable thing that she shouldn’t have done but I thought to myself that “you’d better be careful with this kind of people” because I bet that her second step, in case I had kept my arguments up would have been to call the Security Guy to keep me out of the building and, the third step, I bet again, would have been the Security Guy, in order to avoid his duties, to call the Police and surprisingly, when dealing with this kind of matters you just do not think that one or two policemen are going to show up to tackle the alleged problem, but I bet again that at least four or five would have shown up taking into account that the rate of crime in this city is very low and that a library-user who try to appeal for his rights and try to explain to a deaf librarian about how unfair she has behaved is more important than other’s people problems. I always try to be tolerant with everyone and everything but when in any situation there is an intolerant issue; in that case I am the most intolerant person in the world. I would say I cannot stand the intolerance. 

2 Responses to “Intolerant against the intolerance”

  1. I completely agree! I am sorry – due to Dawid’s state I just started reading blogs again. There is another aspect of what happened to you:
    I think it seems to be a very small incident, but if you think in terms of this being a patters and move it to more serious, even life depending scenes it can become seriously dangerous! Once again refering to my own experience I know that if you ignore lack of tolerance, you are taking part in the harm happening, because it CAN be avoided. We live in very conformist and consumer oriented times and people do not even know thei neighbour’s names! We ignore a crying kid in the street or a woman who obviously is abused – because we feel we are not allowed to interfere. Still, my personal opinion is that we should, because laws are there to be practised and lack of tolerance and equal treatment is just a result of weak, complexed and undermined personalities, who sadly need to be guided and do need to be corrected!

  2. very well, quejarse is lo suyo. If no te quejas convenientemente finish puteando a others persons.

    Your intolerance and encabritamiento are justificated. To mi me hubiese pasado lo mismo.

    One kiss viril and masculine.

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