College students don't puke in the library, right?

In the midst of all this questioning about what I should be doing with my life and where in the library world I belong, I worked an evening shift at my public library reference job. A roving group of high school students annoyed the hell out of us for the first half of the evening before one came over to report that her friend had vomited all over the young adult department. And down the stairs. And all over the bathroom (inside and outside). And then would not leave, but periodically hung out in the lobby area when he wasn't in the bathroom loudly vomiting.

Ah, public service.

I knew people in college who threw up in bars, and in the dorms, and on the sidewalks downtown. But no one I can think of ever threw up in the library. So that's a point in favor of academia.