There are days in the library which end with me desperately craving a glass of wine or a pizza. It is probably for my health that I can’t have a secret bottle of spirits stashed away in the desk drawer thanks to our no food/drink in the library rule. I wonder does Boss Lady have such a thing in one of her metal filing cabinets, or her latest enormous designer handbag?

Linda, of course, ignores the No Eating or Drinking rule. We’re supposed to keep our lunches and tea-breaks strictly in the break room but nearly every day she brings a mug of tea to the desk or I find crumbs scattered over the computer’s keyboard.

If I remind a regular library user of the rule they have a tendency to glance over at Linda in a rather pointed way. I lack a certain moral authority in my polite...

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