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04-26-2019, 10:52 AM #76
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04-26-2019, 11:03 AM #77
Think this goes here
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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04-26-2019, 11:15 AM #78"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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04-26-2019, 11:21 AM #79
You did it wrong. When I traveled on SW with my 3 year old I made a point of being last to board, he sat in one row I sat in another. Worked out very well for both of us. It's never too early to teach your kids independence and teach yourself not to helicopter. Plus if I told my kid not to kick the seat in front of him he would ignore me. If a stranger in the next seat told him he would obey. He also would run up and down the aisles. The flight attendants didn't seem to mind, too much. (Also when the kids ate at friends house they would happily eat stuff they wouldn't eat at home.)
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04-26-2019, 11:30 AM #80
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04-26-2019, 12:05 PM #81
Wasnt trying to be religious. Same thing I tell my son all the time dont get upset about what ( and who) you cant change.
And not to dust off my philosophy degree but we have been living in a part-real, part-sim life since we became conscious beings. What we perceive is real aint necessarily so, at least not how we think it is. Also expectations vs reality is one of the defining points of "happiness" no matter what shapes either.
& fk this is thread drift even for this place.
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04-26-2019, 12:06 PM #82Registered User
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@bromontane
Maybe.
The more things change, the more they stay the same could be said.
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04-26-2019, 12:49 PM #83
I have pulled off the road for a car wash or long gas line and if that is the only spot and it looks like I am queued up then they could be wrong as then I would wait until the stall emptied and motion the other in the front if they wanted to get into that next spot...
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04-26-2019, 02:23 PM #84Registered User
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I was in the supermarket when they opened a new line. I was closest to the front of the other line except for the ones in front of me who already put their groceries on the belt, so the new cashier tapped my shoulder to specifically bring me (and of course unspecifically any of those behind me who cared, to his new line).
Everybody followed like a normal human, except the asshole right behind me who thought it would be cool to break into a sprint or something. Me and the cashier would have none of it, but he was so ticked at me for having the audacity to bring it up, that he acted like he needed to rest his hand on the credit card terminal that allows us to like...pay and move on, and allow the line to proceed</serenity now>
Unrelated to the thread, but what's up with the morons who form the line that blocks the grocery aisle EVEN AFTER you've already formed a 90-degree bend in the line to prevent that? Once I swear the lady was gonna try to climb up on the cereal box end cap she was so averse to anything but straight.
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04-26-2019, 02:29 PM #85
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04-26-2019, 02:29 PM #86
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04-26-2019, 03:37 PM #87Banned
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I had one thing. They were opening a new line and tapped the person in front of me that had already put half their huge load on the belt.
I went to the newly opened checker while dude in front of me was collecting his stuff to move it over.
Checker rudely tells me the guy is first, so we wait. Could have been done with me before that guy got his shit together and kid corralled in the new line.
I was annoyed.
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04-26-2019, 03:43 PM #88
once your shit is on the belt, you are legally prohibited from switching lines. it's like a rule and shit.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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04-26-2019, 03:48 PM #89
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04-26-2019, 04:33 PM #90Registered User
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In reality, most people who have moved out of their parent's house have bigger issues than this. They may have wives with cancer, kids on drugs, financial troubles, and a shitload of other things you and I have no idea about. Sometimes all their shit bubbles to the top and they may take out it on some poor lass not paying attention. Or maybe it's decades of watching people not fucking figuring out how A SIMPLE LINE works and you blow your lid. (That would be me, maybe Bunion too, who knows.)
You might want to spend less time in front of a computer if you have to actively adjust expectations going from yer house to the car wash, bro. I don't think everyone expects Amazon 1-click ordering experiences, and if they do, fuk 'em.
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04-26-2019, 08:40 PM #91Registered User
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04-26-2019, 09:30 PM #92
Probably better things to worry about than which bay someone waits for.... like when the gas station is busy and fuckers leave their car at the pump when they are done then go inside to load on 10 hour old hot case food and other stuff
“I have a responsibility to not be intimidated and bullied by low life losers who abuse what little power is granted to them as ski patrollers.”
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04-26-2019, 10:48 PM #93
I was running in to grab 4 or maybe 5 things at Grocery a few weeks ago. I was in the 15 items or less express lane and did not even have a cart or basket even. The guy behind me had one of the smaller mini carts. He pushed his cart up after I put up the divider for him to get his items on the belt. Then I stepped up to the area to pack my tote as the cashier was checking and weighting the stuff. I could not get back to the payment terminal because this guy was right at the register and his cart in front. My comment to him and the cashier was "He must be paying for my groceries also" (since he was at the credit pin pad and his cart was blocking me from stepping back to the pin pad.... He got the hint and moved back really quick (or else I would have had to maybe pay it forward if he really did pay for my small items....)
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04-26-2019, 11:02 PM #94
Shopping at the grocery store is a great enlightening experience, mixing people of all economic and social classes, except for the folks who have maids and others to shop for them or have the coin to have food delivered--at least it's that way where I shop--wealthy skiers and the people who clean houses, plow snow, and pound nails. (A few years ago the people in the wealthiest subdivision tried to get a private line at Safeway but they were turned down.) Anyway--time spent in a supermarket observing how clueless people are about a very simple task will explain to you why this country is fucked up. (Just watch me at the self-checkout, although I'm convinced it's the checkout, not me. I don't have any trouble at HD.)
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04-27-2019, 09:58 AM #95
My approach would have been a little different, but not much. I likely would not have initiated with that language for a woman, maybe a little more likely with a fella.
I try to tiptoe in then bring out the hammer if need be. Figuratively speaking. But I will flat out take it up a notch if they are not getting it.
This shit happens in the tramline all the time and you gotta start easy until they show their ignorance. Some just genuinely don't get it and then an explanation usually remedies the issue; not always though.
First I woulda figured out the van guys choice; I can't be livin on his decision making process. Prolly get out and just ask hey whats yer plan? If the line in is set up single file, its plain, but if it's open lanes then he must choose.
Our bays are different types - self wash, auto wash, etc. one will have a line yet others are empty. I could see her thinking you were waiting for a specific one. Or maybe that was not how it appeared, hard sayin'...
When you explained to her the status and her reply was to "calm down", well that woulda been the problem moment. I'm not comfortable with random fucks, in the middle of a debate/discussion, assessing my state of mind. For all she knew, this was the calmest you've ever been.
We talk about people having a gun handy. Assuming you can tell a stranger what to do and how to act, well, them's aggressive actions for some folk.
Crazy if she had pulled something on you instead...
An apology...Ha that would have calmed me a bit as I surely woulda laughed. Your reply was way better than Id'a come up with quick. Prolly just a GFY at that point, laughingly.
I like to say that " We are polite, but not terribly patient, here in Wyo."
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04-27-2019, 01:04 PM #96
Well done
I am quick to forgive transgressions like ^^^ when the offender is a child. And with adolescents I usually find subtle mocking to be effective.
Case in point - teenage girl was pushing her shopping cart down the aisle, head buried in her phone. I remained in position and let her run into me.
She looked up quite startled when she hit me. I smiled and said “situational awareness is important”. She turned really red, then recovered and gave me the “teenage girl harrumph” (fathers of girls know what I mean) before moving on. When I saw her later she wasn’t staring at her phone. Mission accomplished
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04-27-2019, 03:56 PM #97
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04-27-2019, 06:54 PM #98Banned
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04-27-2019, 07:38 PM #99
Expecting situational awareness from random strangers in a public place is a recipe for frustration.
When another motorist pulls a dumb move on the road I picture my own 16 year old behind the wheel.
It is much easier for me to write that out than practice it, but it is the goal. Plus guns, lots of dipshits pack heat.
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04-27-2019, 10:39 PM #100features a sintered base
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So, first of all, apparently some of you guys would not survive the experience at my 'local' gas station (uptown in Manhattan--I never go there unless I'm on 'E') where at any busy time of day you have about a half-dozen cabs parked randomly around the pumps, all pumps full, and lines going both ways with cabs in between who often weren't even getting gas trying to move back out onto the street. No real lines, no order, pretty much chaos so no one ever worries about some real/imagined etiquette to all of it.
But I do occasionally stop at these larger gas stations with longer rows of pumps, where people will be lined up waiting, but two or three pumps down from the end there will be an unoccupied pump and the first person in line is either unaware or too fixated on the pump right in front of them to move forward to the empty pump. I typically just drive past the line and pull up to the empty pump--I have no idea why the first person in line doesn't do that, but I'm not going to leave a pump empty just because other people are too sleepy to figure it out. I am aware some people might consider it a dick move, but to me it just seems like a waste of everyone's time not to be more efficient.[quote][//quote]
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