What Do You Think About This Fight in the Library?

People are assholes, you did nothing wrong.

I’m kinda prone to getting involved either physically or verbally so I would’ve just left like you did, before I lost my temper. If those people are going to disrespect others wherever they go, someone will eventually teach them a lesson.

@rangerr
^ What she said.
You ran into a bunch of selfish and immature twats who were deliberately breaking the rules of the library and being rude about it when politely asked to be a bit more considerate. You did nothing wrong, there’s nothing you should feel bad or humiliated about.

Thanks….its the way they were ganging up on me that makes was actually kind of intimidating to be honest. The guy sarcastically yelled “good job!” and “look what you did now!” It was really weird.

I would have asked the supervisor to find me another place to study since they were unwilling to enforce the “no-talking” rules of the room. There are lots of places in the library where you can gab to your heart’s content but usually very few where you can read/study in peace.

I echo what other posters have said. You did nothing wrong, they were just selfish, posturing jerks.

I agree with what everyone else has already stated. I’d also be looking higher up in the library management “food chain” to not only have the rules enforced, but to have the supervisor reprimanded for not throwing those two out (not for a simple rule violation, which anyone can do—though the violation should be corrected) but for then crowing about it and intimidating you when you spoke to the supervisor. (“Supervisor” in this case is a title without meaning, obviously.)

It’s a pretty awful thing (and a bad day indeed) when you are the one who is made to feel small, bad, and oppressed—for attempting to follow the rules.