"Some people take this world for real."

My grandfather use to have this saying “some people take this world for real”. Of course he would say words of wisdom between old sailor shanties and whistling like a bird, but I digress. What he meant is that some people take things to a higher extreme when the given situation does not require it.

In an art museum you can really find Security guards that take things too seriously. There has got to be some medical term for it, Manic Obsessive I guess? What would you call a person who sees smudges on the INSIDE of a case and turns it into an emergency? Or calls a Supervisor if someone so much as coughs too strongly?

Let’s go deeper; let’s say there was a guard that has been working in this mad house for more than 30 years. Let’s say that they do not accept the fact that they works for idiots and instead shows blind loyalty to fallacy rather than speak up. Let’s say that they follow the rules, to the letter, then complains about doing it.

If you work Security in an art museum you MUST maintain the idea that this is just a nine-to-five job. Tell people not to touch the art then live your life. Do your job, live your life. Not the other way around.