But I don't. Yesterday I got ripped a new one by this guy who has been coming in with his laptop to make use of our high speed connection. Unfortunately he waited until the afternoon to come in and set up in our computer lab, so I had to tell him that a class from the middle school would be using the lab in about twenty minutes and that the lab would be closed to the public. He was not a happy camper. For someone who I'd say is in his mid to late forties, he threw a better tantrum than my friend's two-year-old son. It was a sight to behold.

We did the wrong thing and rewarded his bad behavior by letting him stay in the lab with the kids. I told him he wouldn't want to stay in there with a bunch of middle school students, but he insisted that he did. Fast forward twenty minutes when about eight of the students rushed through the doors of the lab and startled the bejesus out of the guy. I don't think he realized how loud kids can be when you get them together in groups, even a small group of ten or eleven kids. He kept looking up nervously from his laptop every few minutes, and all I could think was, "Dude, this is nothing. Wait until our gangbangers get here." And once those three kids arrived, the lab was hopping. All I could do was giggle.

Out of curiosity, I did check in on the group periodically. The later it got into the day, the more hunched the gentleman was over his laptop. I noticed that at some point he had put headphones on to block out some of the noise, but I don't think that really helped. He still would twitch and look around whenever the kids startled him.

Hee hee hee....

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