A man came in today to use the internet, which isn't anything out of the ordinary, since on any given day we have 100s of people looking for the very same service. He was assigned to a computer whose screen happens to face the circulation desk and is clearly visible to the staff.
As I was walking back toward the desk, a co-worker of mine began to chuckle and my manager, standing next to him, tilted her head sideways and looked perplexed, yet slightly amused. When I came within sight of this gentleman, I saw that his computer screen was turned almost completely toward the wall of the cubicle he was in and he was straining to fit his head between the screen and the wall. The woman next to him also had her computer turned, but not quite as extremely sideways. They reminded me of an old married couple who had some sort of disagreement and refused to even show each other what they were up to. I actually wish that had been the case...
My manager slowly and carefully walked by this gentleman to try to get a glimpse of his computer screen. I had turned to help another patron, and when I turned back to see what had happened, he was gone.
He had apparently been looking at personal ads that bordered on pornography. My manager had explained the no porn policy to him and asked him to leave. Although it wasn't very humorous in the fact that he was searching for something or someone like that, I had to laugh at how hard he tried to hide what he was doing. Not the most un-suspicious way I've ever seen.
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