SHHHH!!!! It's a LIBRARY!!!
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ciroccojThere is a guy who has been shuffling papers, getting up to staple a few, then sitting back down on a groaning chair, shuffling some more, getting up to staple a few more, sitting back down, in a cycle that lasts approx. 25 seconds... for FORTY MINUTES.
STOP THAT!!!
And the other day I saw my first recorded case of ultra PDA lack of consideration for others. I'm sitting at a library computer, some guy sits down at the next computer and starts tapping away. About twenty minutes later his girlfriend comes in. Big wet sloppy kiss. (Um, I didn't need to hear that, I think, but am otherwise undisturbed.)
Low murmurs, a few giggles, another sloppy kiss. Slluurrp goes this one. (Ew).
More giggles. Sloppy kiss No. 3. And 4, 5, 6, 7. With little teeny weeny moaning sounds that can't be heard by anybody who's not within one computer's distance. Like, um, me.
I decide to take an early coffee break.
Come back, guy is alone again. Thank god. Sit back down, keep studying, girlfriend comes back. Another sloppy kiss. Lots of tongue. (EEEWW!!) Girlfriend climbs onto guy's lap, whispering in the guy's ear, tongues a-twirl.
Another coffee break.
Come back, guy's gone. Hopefully they went and found a stairway or some other "private" place to go at it. Ee-yuck.
Normally I have no problem with PDAs - I think they're cute. But this was not a Public Display of Affection, it was more like a Public Display of Copulation. Which I really don't think the library is meant to hold.
Later Edit: Oh, and
(Re consideration in a non-sealed agreement on partial payment of debts)
It might be (and indeed I think it would be) an improvement in our law, if a release or acquittance of the whole debt, on payment of any sum which the creditor might be content to receive by way of accord and satisfaction (thought less than the whole) were held to be, generally, binding though not under seal; nor should I be unwilling to see equal force given to a prospective agreement, like the present, in writing though not under seal; but I think it impossible, without refinements which practically alter the sense of the word, to treat such a release or acquittance as supported by any new consideration proceeding from the debtor.
Foakes v. Beer (1884), 9 App. Cas. 605.
Earl of Selborne L.C.
Say what?
STOP THAT!!!
And the other day I saw my first recorded case of ultra PDA lack of consideration for others. I'm sitting at a library computer, some guy sits down at the next computer and starts tapping away. About twenty minutes later his girlfriend comes in. Big wet sloppy kiss. (Um, I didn't need to hear that, I think, but am otherwise undisturbed.)
Low murmurs, a few giggles, another sloppy kiss. Slluurrp goes this one. (Ew).
More giggles. Sloppy kiss No. 3. And 4, 5, 6, 7. With little teeny weeny moaning sounds that can't be heard by anybody who's not within one computer's distance. Like, um, me.
I decide to take an early coffee break.
Come back, guy is alone again. Thank god. Sit back down, keep studying, girlfriend comes back. Another sloppy kiss. Lots of tongue. (EEEWW!!) Girlfriend climbs onto guy's lap, whispering in the guy's ear, tongues a-twirl.
Another coffee break.
Come back, guy's gone. Hopefully they went and found a stairway or some other "private" place to go at it. Ee-yuck.
Normally I have no problem with PDAs - I think they're cute. But this was not a Public Display of Affection, it was more like a Public Display of Copulation. Which I really don't think the library is meant to hold.
Later Edit: Oh, and
(Re consideration in a non-sealed agreement on partial payment of debts)
It might be (and indeed I think it would be) an improvement in our law, if a release or acquittance of the whole debt, on payment of any sum which the creditor might be content to receive by way of accord and satisfaction (thought less than the whole) were held to be, generally, binding though not under seal; nor should I be unwilling to see equal force given to a prospective agreement, like the present, in writing though not under seal; but I think it impossible, without refinements which practically alter the sense of the word, to treat such a release or acquittance as supported by any new consideration proceeding from the debtor.
Foakes v. Beer (1884), 9 App. Cas. 605.
Earl of Selborne L.C.
Say what?
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Date: 2003-11-03 08:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-03 09:09 am (UTC)I made it about halfway through the first line before my eyes glazed over. Gawd.
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Date: 2003-11-03 09:20 am (UTC)Me too. Unfortunately, I had to unglaze them and plod through four more pages. In teeny-tiny print.
::jaw-cracking yawn::
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Date: 2003-11-03 01:20 pm (UTC)