A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette: Tobacco, Disposing of

Monday, January 11, 2010

Please do not spit your chewing tobacco into the library's public restroom urinal. If you need to flush it, swallow it first.

Anonymous said...: Yes, spit tobacco is a real joy to find in a library because it is so much less offensive than smoking. This is particularly the case when patrons do one of three things:

(1) take a waste basket and place it by their carrel/table to spit into,

(2) spit into an old transparent water bottle [*NEWSFLASH: Pages/shelvers—those aren’t tea leaves in the bottle you’re picking up!*], or

(3) spitting into an old flimsy disposable soda fountain or coffee cup.

The tobacco chewers might not mess-up my lungs with their cancerous habit, but no one likes to clean up the nasty spittle—especially when they throw that used water bottle into a recycling bin. I still pity those people that get the cancer jaw that comes with that nasty habit though.; 10:04 AM
Lib. Tech. up North said...: Yes, keep your jaw and tongue cancers to yourself!; 11:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Don't forget about the nasty folks that spit in the only working water fountain. Seriously people, take that loogie to the toilet!; 11:24 PM

A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette