Im Bibliothek sprechen wir NICHT.

To the guys sitting on the 5th floor of the library at 9:30 on a Thursday night, chatting noisily while the rest of us try to study,

There is a "no shhh" zone for a reason. My fiance has a paper due in 25 minutes and we came up here because it was going to be too noisy to focus downstairs. The first time girls walked by and you started talking to them, we ignored it. The second time, when you gave up whispering and began talking louder and louder with them, we should not have had to shush you repeatedly before loudly asking you to please stop talking, or to whisper if you really needed to speak. And please, saying over and over "didn't you read the article today?" is not an excuse. Just because some girl gets hit on all the time on the fifth floor doesn't give you the license to be noisy.

Thank you, and goodnight,

Catherine