we are a library, not a taxi service!

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:55 am

finally had to put a sign on the door and by the computer with small no taxi logos that says, please be considerate and do not ask for rides. I have this lady that would wait til 4:30 a half hour before we would close go mess on the computer til 5 min til close then ask if she could get a ride home. she has done this 3 times now! she lives 4 blocks from the library, yes it is cold out but my thinking is she has a very heavy parka winter coat on, she walked down here she is not handicapped , she can walk back, she had all day before it got colder to come here and do what she had to do. I have another job, cleaning the clinic. although it is not a set in stone punch in time clock her four blocks is OUT of my way. This is other issue to at hand, she smells so bad of body odor and cig smoke and you all that know me on here know how I am about this. she made my car stink so bad I had to spray it. plus my nose was running and my eyes burning then from the spray I was wheezing! this not the first time we had people come up and know we were going to leave to go to lunch or have to leave for something then say hey by the way can you give me a ride and it's out of our way, there is being nice and helping out a person but it gets to being a pain in the buttocks!!I guess I am just more considerate and wouldn't think of asking someone to take me home or run me here or there..

Shawn · Post by **Shawn** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:23 pm

Hey, don't feel you have to do others favors all the time. It's not your job. If they want a ride they should ask a bus driver, or cab driver for a ride. Some people seem to believe that the world owes them and it's okay to ask for whatever they want. I once had a total stranger ask if he could have a sip of my drink. I just stood there staring at him and asked "really?...really?". "You want me to let you drink from my soda bottle? There's a water faucet in the restrooms". Maybe you could ask the local cab companies for some business cards that you could hand out when people ask.

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:26 pm

Sadly laharpe is so small we don't have taxis, I was being sarcastic they don't have bussing either. You can walk from one end of the town to the other in less than 1/2 hour. It's only about 2 miles long. Main street is our main drag you blink while going through town and you miss it. You can Google Us laharpe, illinois and laharpe library where I work. Do images on Google to. See how small we are.

jenok · Post by **jenok** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 2:37 am

Sounds like my town literally! City limit sign to city limit sign might be 2 mile but the actually main street is more like 1 mile its actually the highway. 2 gas stations, a library, school, senior center, and a few businesses and that's it. Course it much easier than living with 20,000 people or more in the same amount of space like a big city would have. There's not as much drama and crime, though everyone seems to know you and what your doing all the time.

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:57 pm

That is us, except one of our gas stations closed. We do have a dollar General, a food store, 5 churches, A free clothes center, one hair cutting place, city hall that is just where the cop hangs out, club house, a couple organizations halls, swimming pool, nice ball park, kids park, choke and puke eating place, tax accounting, law offices, small news paper, historical society, 1 state bank, flower shop, Casey General store, tire shop, and soon a used furniture store. Oh ya the very small library and Dr office where I work at. I am a assistant librarian but really head in my area cause I have someone under me and I know and do most of the work on my side and I clean the clinic. Had to take classes on pathogens and blood born junk and get certified to clean. Oh I guess we do have a gomer Pyle garage that fixes cars..post office that is main street.

jenok · Post by **jenok** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:35 am

We just recently got a dollar general and a subway. No general/grocery store but dollar general does have a few groceries. No swimming pool either but there are quite a few creeks coming off the nearby lake which people can swim in. No ball park. We do have a clinic, bank, and most the rest of the stuff you listed.

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:38 pm

This is what I had to do to get the smell out of my car! Wash the car seat covers, because the apple spray was so over powering it made it worse. You couldn't breathe. I had sprayed where she sat. Well that didn't do it, still smelled like apple. So I got carpet cleaner sprayed the carpets and scrubbed it in 20 below weather. I had gloves on but my fingers got to the point where I couldn't feel them. I scrubbed the seat to, I took the mats in and washed them in the tub and then tried to wipe the console down but of course any thing that was wet froze, including the carpet cleaner I sprayed. I took it to the laundry mat where the big vacuum was and sucked up as much as I could. Then took a trip to macomb 35 miles away with the heater on high on the floor to dry it. It got the body odor and the apple smell out. This woman came in the library last week, she kind of played it cool.. I think she saw the no taxi sign lol.. must of known it was cause of her..

jenok · Post by **jenok** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:03 am

Could of tried putting baking soda on the seat and left it for a bit then vacuumed it up. I haven't tried that before but its supposed to help neutralize odors. It does on other things I've tried it on.

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:30 pm

I wanted it cleaned not just cover or neutralize the odor. She was dirty swanky, I figured after a few days of the spray and bod odor not leaving nothing was going to work but getting carpet cleaner and spray and scrub it. I read about baking soda but wasn't for sure how well it would get sucked up and if I had it on the seats I didn't want it on my legs this summerS