Quick survey of the flist: if "someone" decided to dust bookcases upon which they had not placed the books, and in the process determined that they could not perceive a classification scheme regarding the positioning of said books, and thus rearranged these books according to a different categorization method, would this be a minor annoyance, or bordering on grounds for justifiable homicide?
Depends on whose books they were. If they were library books well yes, I would likely go for homicide or at least torture ;) (I used to be a shelver, I had to keep the damn 599 section in order which is HELL ON EARTH)
If it was a personal collection, that's cool. Unless it's mine, then again, at least severe torture ;)
I find stuff by having a rough sense of what I last saw it in the vicinity of, so I tend to take the view that unless something is actively ROTTING OR ON FIRE it may be where it is for a reason and I shouldn't move it without at least informing someone of the change...
Mum also has a bad habit of putting crisps and such in the cupboard, where they do not get eaten before they go bad because I don't expect to find them in there. My brain may be a weird place, but it's mine and I do know how it works by now....
She dusted while I was asleep. And put "all the books about England" together. Um, no; some of those are about King Arthur, and some of those are travel, and some of those are biography. And the childrens' book go with the DVDs under 'entertainment', and she shuffled together "unread SF" with "non-SF modern literature", and... [facepalm]
And to someone like me whose brain stores information holographically, Moving Shit Around is the best way to ensure that it's never seen again, because I'll just keep returning to where I know I last saw it...
There was... epic screaming. I don't think she really got it even after I tried to draw the analogy of going in and sorting all of her beads by size instead of color... {sigh}
Hah, well, she doesn't exactly know how to use her computer in the first place so I doubt she'd notice, but I did try making the point that it was like going in and deciding to rearrange her art supplies by size or something, which seems roughly analogous, yeah... :)