A quiet night with hot chai

I’m glad to say that it’s a quiet night here so far, the staff are familiar with Silence – they won’t call out your name or bring you your order, they know to just leave it at the bar to be quietly collected.

So far it’s a really nice time of things.

Quiet.. until it wasn’t.

We were well on our way towards a quiet night, a banana split and a sunset, but it suddenly turned into a busy evening. At least we have our table reserved but there’s no room for a Whispers in the Night table.

Noise cancelling headphones are advised.

Some people and their kids..

It was a quiet night until about 8:00p, and then parents with six – count ’em, six – kids came in running, screaming and horsing around while their parents ignored them, finally leaving with ice cream in their hair and on the floor. None of the family had any concept of personal space (hard to pull off in a nearly-empty venue) and the gaggle of children averaged eight years old, definitely old enough to know better. My ears were actually ringing from the intensity of noise cancellation with noise generation, which I didn’t think was possible.

The venue staff handled it like champs, but any attendees would have instantly bailed outside.

I mention this because, every once in a while, people enter the venue that the host can’t control. What can I say, leaving your house can be high risk, it comes with being alive. Silence in the Library exists so that we don’t have to embrace these risks all by ourselves.

And we’re at this venue because afterwards, there’s ice cream. 😉

Silence cancelled (2/24)

I apologize for the late notice, but I will not be at the cafe this evening.

Also, please be aware we are changing the schedule from twice per month to only the last Tuesday of the month.