Ungrateful Americans!

Last month we had repeated incidents of vandalism at the Library. Twice in a row people came and drank a lot of beer in the courtyard near my area and broke large plate glass windows by throwing beer bottles at them until they shattered. Glaziers came to fix the windows one week and then had to come back again the following week to fix more shattered windows. Our workspaces, tools and supplies were covered with shattered glass, both from the windows and the beer bottles. In fact, I cut myself a few weeks after the incident, when I went to pick up some printer cartridges and grabbed a glass shard.

The window replacement team consists of an old salty dog of a Black guy and a tall good looking Bosian guy. The Black women I work with have their panties in a twist over the Bosian guy and his "sexy" accent. I joked that a few years ago he was strangling Serbs with his bare hands and now he's fixing our windows. The glaziers are an odd combination of fellows, but work together well. While they were putting in the second round of windows the Bosnian guy expressed disbelief that anyone would vandalize a library. The old Black guy, being well aquainted with human nature said, "If it seems like right, some people just gotta do the opposite!"