Contractor disrespect his small community, locals happily give him a dose of his own medicine: ‘Heck, one of the FB groups "[Loser] of Our Town" made him their profile picture'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Apr 19, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

The library is specifically built as a place for quiet. It's so people can read, study, or even just relax. It's rows and rows of books filled with knowledge and adventure are only accessible if you are in the right headspace to soak it all in. If you are there and someone is screaming into their phone about the woes of reality right next to you as you're trying to hallucinate through scribbles on some processed lumber, it's going to be very difficult. It's not easy to be transported to the wide open sea on a pirate ship or retain the facts about the human anatomy in the middle of a library if someone is next to you being noisy. That's why librarians and library attendees are constantly shushing everyone around them. 

 

So what do you do when some tough guy entitled dude waltzing into your quiet space yelling and refusing to quiet down? This guy trying to study came up with a plan! 

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  • We love social media, don't get us wrong. It's a place for humor, drama, and lore to develop. We can't get enough of it! And one of its helpful functions is public shaming. Sure, this can go way out of hand sometimes, but other times it can be very helpful! Like when this entitled man invaded the space of studious library attendees and tried to get away with it. One of the “nerds” studying decided to take video of this male-Karen's behavior and post it all over the web for his small town to catch wind. He was quickly made the loser of the town and never bothered anyone in the library again. 

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  • This past Winter, my brother was at the local library for about 6 weeks, studying for an important exam (Ship's Officer). He goes there to rid himself of distractions (video games), and it helps to keep him focused, he says. He sits in the back of the library which overlooks a small park w/ a small river. Beautiful
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  • view. There's a rotating group of nerdy-guys (incel-type if I'm being less diplomatic) who hang out all day in this section, and my brother has made casual friends with them. Well, there's a local contractor who comes by 1-2 times daily and does business over the phone in
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  • this area. I guess he likes the view as well. Trouble is, he does not do it quietly. My brother is trying to study, but keeps getting interrupted by this guy answering his phone. "Romano Construction!" or "Hey, Mr. Smith, Mike Romano, Romano Contractors!" (names have been changed) My brother
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  • asked him to keep his voice down, which worked the first few times, until Romano got tired of this kid bothering him. My brother switched to asking the front desk to handle it, but they got tired having to constantly do this, and Romano would just quiet down until the Librarian would leave. The nerdy guys
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  • told my brother he'd been doing it 'forever', they were used to it. Finally, my brother spent a week humbly & politely asking this guy to please lower his voice or take his calls out in the lobby. He made it a point to be very polite and stress that he was trying to study. Romano
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  • seemed to sense his weakness and doubled down on the attitude, with replies. like "Kid, go back to your books." and "I told you before, i ain't got time for you." My brother had set up his laptop to record all this. After a week or so of this he put together a 3-4 minute video of their exchanges, and
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  • posted it on 6 different Facebook Groups about our town. He made sure to make it public, so it could be shared. It was a hit!! A couple hundred comments and dozens of shares. His poor
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  • wife was tagged in several of the posts, and several people posted it to his Facebook company page. All those posts were quickly deleted. Best of all, it was discovered that he'd been booted from the local Dunkin Donuts for this same kind of behavior.
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  • H I one of the FB Groups, 'Jerks of (Our Town)' made him their Profile Picture. We're in a smaller city (40- 50,000 pop.), and no shortage of Karens, so poor dude got it with both barrels (for about a week, anyways).
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  • My brother told the nerd group what he'd done and to have their phones ready for when he returned. They all loved the video, he was like a Rockstar for a couple days. About 4 days later, Romano finally came back to the Library. My brother held up his phone, as did 2-3 of the
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  • others. Romano was HOT, but checked himself when he saw he was being filmed by several people. He was NOT apologetic. He just kept repeating that 'Brother has affected his business' and he was 'just trying to conduct business' and 'needed a place to conduct business',
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  • etc etc etc. My brother said "I think you owe all of us an apology." Romano looked around at the group and said, "OK, I'm sorry." My brother said thank you and Romano walked away. after about 20- 30 feet Romano turned around, saw my brother watching him (but the phone was on the table) and shot him the finger.
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  • He never came back to the library, though. My brother passed all of his exams, some just barely.
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  • Xaphios Crazy isn't it? I was in a library recently and a guy walked in, went up to the librarian and really loudly said "can I get a kebab?". She was like "sir this is a library" and he whispered "oh, sorry. Can I get a kebab?"
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  • Super_Reading2048 "People need a place to conduct business" yes they do; it is called an office. Your brother did great. Whoever set up the webpage jerks of our town is a legend!
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  • Black Wizard70 LOVE THIS STOR. Striking a blow for bookworms everywhere! I don't mind when someone answers their phone in the library, or even a downlow conversation. However if you're going to be obnoxious about it? Yeah, I'd be petty as f
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  • Ok_Arm2201 Wow, going to a library that is literally designed the most quiet place and yapping on your cell phone. That's an extreme sense of entitlement.
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  • MeepMeepBologna I work in an academic library, which is very different from a public library. We do not tolerate this bulls t. At all. JeffTheNth I got yelled at in my college library because their chair squeaked when I sat down..... how tf could I know it would squeak?
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  • Fabulous_Limit9494 Where are th manners of some people. Jeez even when I head to a library, I'll be sure to place my phone on silent or vibration mode so as not to disturb th peace. And if I were to get a phone call, I'll go somewhere where there aren't anyone and speak quietly and tell them I'll call back later or if it's urgent ask them to wait and I'll step out to give them a callback. zz..
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