The Daily Peeve / Rant

[iris lilies]

Our news today announced the third library plus a civic center in the region have been closed for cleanup after contamination by people smoking meth in bathrooms. The first required $200,000+ to clean up the ventilation system in the bathrooms and beyond. I suspect then other libraries started testing. The news hasn't focused on the homeless, but it doesn't take much to connect people seeking warmth in public buildings.. It's a known problem without effective solutions so far. Also, traces of fentanyl closed the restrooms for a while in a major light rail center. I think the solution to homeless has been discussed already, so it's just a rant maybe.

It's a sad day when centers of learning where kids can go for educational purposes are no longer safe. Maybe the functional days of public libraries are in their sunset with the internet?

I remember when the bed bug infestation hit libraries. I was sitting around the table at the weekly administrative meeting of our library system when someone inquired if we should test for bedbugs. Several of us practically lept across the table shouting NOOOOooo!

Because— if we test, we will find. And treating 20,000 sq ft in one old building would not be something we wish to manage.

[early morning]

Because— if we test, we will find. And treating 20,000 sq ft in one old building would not be something we wish to manage.

Wait, what??? So then patrons will drag home bugs, and THEY will have to bear the costs of bed-bug treatment, because the library board wasn't willing to test and possibly have to treat? Please tell me you at least removed all the upholstered furniture! I may never sit in a library again.....

[pinkytoe]

Though the downtown library here is our closest one, we travel to another branch not frequented by folks seeking shelter and wi-fi. I would be very sad if libraries went away.

[iris lilies]

Wait, what??? So then patrons will drag home bugs, and THEY will have to bear the costs of bed-bug treatment, because the library board wasn't willing to test and possibly have to treat? Please tell me you at least removed all the upholstered furniture! I may never sit in a library again.....

we had no infestation. I woukd not be at all surprised if an energetic pest control employee found a few.

We had homeless oh, I’m sorry unhoused persons in our library all the time, and even tho we set limits on the amount of their personal crap they could bring in with them, , they undoubtedly, had some… Visitors on their person.

[iris lilies]

Electronic ticketing. Ugh.

I paid giant money to see Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock this Sunday night. Someone told me the secret code to get into the online ticket sale site to buy tickets before the actual day of sales. That seems weird that there is such a thing, but boy did it ever work!

So then I start getting all these email Messages from the concert venue telling me that I need to put the tickets in my Apple wallet. Well, guess what, I’ve never set up my Apple wallet and I don’t wish to do that. So while I’m mulling that over my old Apple phone decides to shut off. At the moment it’s back on, but it seems to have trouble holding a charge. But using a Wi-Fi connection I went in to try to follow the directions of the ticket venue but none of it made any sense when I set up an account with Ticketmaster as requested. Ticketmaster said I had no tickets on file. Maybe that’s because I didn’t put them in my Apple wallet?

So by today I’m scared because again did I mention I spent giant sums of money on these tickets? and I’ve got to be able to get into the venue on Sunday night. So I went downtown to the box office and a nice lady assured me that my tickets are “there“wherever that is and she sent them digitally to my text box. And, she gave me my “account number” so if something doesn’t work that account number will get me in.

TLDR: I am old and I want a paper ticket, do not make me jump through all these digital hoops. so why don’t you Mr. Venue just charge me an extra $20 and mail me an mf paper ticket?!!?!

[Tradd]

Sounds like you need a new phone. I love digital stuff.

[Simone]

Utilities should not be run like profit-driven businesses. They are part of the infrastructure.

Agree.

[iris lilies]

Sounds like you need a new phone. I love digital stuff.

I think this odd behavior of my old Apple phone is a push. I need to get a new phone. DH traded his old model in for a new one and I’m going to get exactly what he has, a low model, small size. I dislike the big phones.

[ToomuchStuff]

Electronic ticketing. Ugh.

TLDR: I am old and I want a paper ticket, do not make me jump through all these digital hoops. so why don’t you Mr. Venue just charge me an extra $20 and mail me an mf paper ticket?!!?!

How do you count the concerts you have been to?
Do I count the one, that my grandmother, always wanted to see, that we (as a family) took her to as a birthday present (Boxcar Willie)? I didn't.
I went to one concert, Friday June 13th, 1986, and we got them back out for 9 encores. (Tangerine Dream)
So when I mentioned to my boss, that I found out about Roger Waters coming to town, and missed the tickets until they were really too expensive on the secondary market, he took notice. A couple years before that, he wanted to buy me tickets to see Steve Winwood (someone we both like), but one of the two brothers was off for some time do to surgery (my hours went up as I filled in)
So in 2020, when it was announce Roger was coming back, he called the day of the announcement and bought 4 tickets. Pandemic hit and the concert was to be rescheduled. Boss dies and the gal who was his caretaker had the tickets in her email. She died and her phone was deactivated, and there was no way for me to get the tickets as they kept disconnecting me.

I am with you on paper tickets.

[rosarugosa]

We went to a concert a few months ago, and I paid about $15.00 extra to have paper tickets mailed to us. We didn't want the digital hassle at the door, and we wanted the ticket stubs for our collections!