Jenna Kefauver / Staff Writer
Sharing is caring.
If you’ve ever gone to the Green Library at the Modesto Maidique Campus then it’s probable you’ve seen the giant booths between Starbucks and the escalators. And unless you’ve gotten to the library at 5 a.m., it’s very probable you’ve never sat in one.
Every day I walk in there I see an empty booth, that is until I see one person sitting in a booth made for at least six. And most of the time, that one person is asleep. Which makes me both very sad and somewhat irrationally angry.
Especially when I go on a day when the library has been open for about 20 minutes, in a tropical storm, and I still can’t sit down.
So here’s my idea everyone, let’s share. Haven’t you heard that sharing is caring? Make friends, share a table. Have an engaging conversation over coffee and a bagel. Or do what I do and sit at the booth with the guy asleep on his side of the booth; he’s not conscious so he has no clue what’s happening anyway. And if he wakes up, chances are he’ll look at you confused for about two seconds, realize he doesn’t care and pass out again.
One request about sharing though. Please don’t use them as your marital bed. I already see enough post-coital couples outside my place of work daily, I don’t want to see more while attempting to study and realizing I have to go attempt to fight for a place upstairs because couples can’t wait until they get home to cuddle and whatever else they happen to be doing.
But seriously guys, who knows what could happen if you just share a booth one day? You could meet your future wife, future husband, maybe even your future best man or maid of honor for your wedding.
So pull up a spot on a bench and possibly make some new, lifelong friends. Or feel really awkward for 10 minutes before you can attempt to nonchalantly walk away. Que sera, sera. Just share. Make the world a better place. One library booth at a time.
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