As someone with an appearance that screams “this nice lady can be trusted,” I am actually not interested watching the laptops of new “friends”. Eventually, there would be drama with someone. My advice: get a good laptop case that makes it easy to pack up.
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Yea, fundamentally, that's why I don't ask anyone here. At a place like Starbucks, it's part of the culture -- it's noisy anyway, and the whole experience is transient. But, in a library, interrupting someone's concentration is, like, THE cardinal sin.
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Bring the librarians cookies
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I mean, that's something I should do in general -- but this library is too big, crowded, and anonymous.
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Buy a laptop lock?
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I'd almost certainly do something stupid like tethering it to a chair leg.
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Unfurl an illuminated scroll that proclaims, among other things, that whomsoever invokes the sacred bonds of friendship shall be party to the ancient pact of guardianship over other parties' most precious holdings at such time as Nature, as she inevitably must, asserts herself.
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That's what I do, anyway.
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Ask them what they’re reading?
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I just approach someone I’ve seen at the library regularly and ask them to watch my stuff for a minute.
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