It's happened. I have met the most senseless guy on campus. Thursday, I went up to the fifth floor of the library and spotted what I thought was a vacant computer. Someone was still logged into it and there were some HBLL search boxes open, but there were no personal belongings nearby to indicate that anyone was still using it. I assumed that the last person had simply forgotten to log off and sat down to work on a paper.
I had been working on the computer for about 15 minutes when a guy approached me and accused me of stealing his computer, saying that he'd been in the middle of doing a search. He was clearly upset. I offered to give it back, but told him that I'd already closed the search boxes and logged him off. He turned around while I was still talking to him and stormed off, angrily muttering that I'd stolen his computer.
I thought this was common sense, but apparently it's not, so let me make it clear: if you leave a public computer alone for over fifteen minutes with no indications that you're still using it, and you think it will still be vacant when you return, then you're obviously in need of a little more college. This is especially true during the last week of classes when papers are due and computer lines are long.
Furthermore, HBLL computers automatically log the user off if they've been idle for a while. The guy's work would have been gone before he returned and decided to act like a jerk.
Bridget Jack Meyers
Spanaway, Wash.