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Post by Tara on Aug 9, 2005 20:26:14 GMT -5
I call this the "People suck" thread. Feel free to share your story. Okay, this happend yesterday at work. Somebody thought it was smart to pop the hood of their car in the parking lot only to spill anti-freeze all over the driveway. I work at a place where we take care of animals. (If they drink it, they die) So I was called to help clean the mess by hosing it down. I was fine with that. Anything for the animals right? So this lady comes out power-walking and saying, "Oh my goodness, I hope you didn't get my car wet," So I looked up and noticed the front right tire had some droplets as well as about 4 inches above where the body was. So I apologized. She got into her car, and I thought she was leaving when she parked it right at the exit. She got out and looked at it and noticed the spots and tried wiping it off. Then she comes around saying, "You've got to do this when there are no cars around. You can't be doing this around cars," So I was like, "I'm sorry. There is anti-freeze in the driveway," And she's like, "I just washed this thing today!" And sped off. What a jerk. She just dropped off her pet and then she cares more about her car than her pet's safety. Really... I thought she needed to get over herself. Does anyone else have similar stories from the workplace or school?
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Post by ophelia97 on Aug 14, 2005 0:54:35 GMT -5
I was driving home one morning and there was a train blocking the intersection I normally go through to get there, so I drove to the next intersection. Guess what- the train was stopped there, too, blocking traffic so the engineer could go inside a corner grocery store. You would think he could have parked a few feet back to let us go through. I had to drive 20 minutes out of the way just to get home
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Post by littlepea on Aug 14, 2005 11:34:19 GMT -5
tara, you should have just laughed in her face and said it's only water. what does she do if it's raining? and does she swerve to avoid driving through puddles? there was one time back in school when i was walking around town with 2 friends. school had finished for summer, we were let out at lunch time and it was boiling hot and we were walking around the city centre to get a few things and generally go window shopping. we were really tired and worn out so we went into a starbucks, got some drinks and sat down on the couch they had in there (as coffee shops occaisionally do). we were just relaxing, enjoying the comfy seat and rest but then after a few minutes some guy comes over and says "do you think you could give someone else a seat? it's pretty selfish of you to hog it" ... now i don't know why we didn't tell him to f*ck off cos there were 3 of us and he wanted the seat for himself and his girlfriend (ie. 2 people) and we were there first, so he should have just waited for us to leave if he wanted to sit there, but something compelled us to let him have it (maybe it was the years of conditioning taught to us in school that we had to be polite) and we left before we realised how rude it was of him to kick us out like that ... more recently i was walking home from the train station after going to see my football team in action. i was wearing a replica strip that the team wears (which is usually not a good idea because it's asking for trouble if some rival fans see you wearing it, but i felt like keeping it on as i walked home from the match). this is the strip the team plays in (you can see fans in the crowd wearing replica shirts too) and as you can see it's sponsored by millions - the tiny tasty chewy sweet. usually football teams are sponsored by big companies, like budweiser or sky tv etc. but we're sponsored by a sweetie manufacturer. anyway, as i was walking home some girl and her boyfriend walked past me, the girl came right up to my face and pointed at my shirt saying "look, they're sponsored by millions, the wee sweeties" and started giggling, and her boyfriend started laughing at me too. for a second i thought "go fudge yourselfs" but our sponsor is a bit silly (especially as it says "the tiny tasty chewy sweet" under the main logo on our shirt) and it's all part of wearing the shirt with pride. besides, her boyfriend was quite puny so if she wanted to take it any further he would have got a beating
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Post by Tara on Aug 14, 2005 13:27:03 GMT -5
tara, you should have just laughed in her face and said it's only water. what does she do if it's raining? and does she swerve to avoid driving through puddles? And risk getting a little reprimanding by the boss? I don't think so. I was smart enough to think that far ahead. But I did share the story with fellow workers and one of them did mention about the rain. lol Another "people suck" story. It was late at night and my mom and I ere coming home from a meeting. We stoped at the grocery store to pick up a few things. I asked her if it was alright I just drop her off at the entrance and let her do the quick shopping while I wait. It was a deal. So I'm pulling up to the entrance and this little girl is about to walk out, but she sees my car is coming and stops. I still wanted to get a little closer to the entrance so I moved up a tad bit. The girl's mother proceeds to walk without even looking at where the car was going. But I knew she knew. I've got lights on my car, it was only about 5 feet away from where she was standing. That pissed me off for so long. I know people want money and all, but damn, be a little polite about it. Geez! No, I didn't hit anybody and yes, I know pedestrians get the right of way, but it was as if she was asking to be hit, I was so close to giving her the finger....so close.
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Post by littlepea on Aug 14, 2005 18:55:09 GMT -5
in the UK we have "zebra crossings" (they're the things the beatles are walking across in that famous photograph on abbey road) which are a type of pedestrian crossing. basically if there's someone waiting to cross at the side of the road then cars are meant to stop and let them across. they often have them in car parks too which suggests to me that cars have the right of way on the road, but obviously it's still a crime to run someone over just cos it's your right of way (though sometimes it might seem like you'd be perfectly justified ). i like driving and i'm usually a very courteous driver but if i know how to be aggressive if i need to be and force other people out of the way. my favourite is when there's a big queue to turn left off a roundabout (roundabouts go round the other way in the UK remember) so i sneak up the right hand lane and go all the way round the roundabout so it's my right of way and i skip the big line of traffic (ie. i go 270' to the right rather than going 90' to the left ). try it out, it works a treat if it's busy
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Post by dianaholberg on Aug 14, 2005 19:43:39 GMT -5
lol littlepea... that even sounds legal. But we have very few roundabouts in the U.S. The only place I've seen them is Richmond, VA (only 1) and Washington, DC.
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Post by Tara on Aug 15, 2005 14:16:13 GMT -5
There are quite a few in Mass. Actually, when I went to Cape Cod, I think there were about 3 of them.
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Post by littlepea on Aug 15, 2005 15:39:16 GMT -5
there's tonnes of them in the UK, particularly in newly built areas. i think people tend to prefer roundabouts to traffic lights cos it's more, sort of, free-flowing. like with traffic lights it's on a timer and you can't go even if there's no-one coming (we don't even have that "right on red" rule in the UK ... or "left on red" for that matter) but with roundabouts you can just go if it's free
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Aug 15, 2005 20:06:23 GMT -5
We have them. Though the only place I've seen them is near the hospitals in Fort Worth(there's a children's hospital and a regular one right close together) to help people cross safely from the hospital to another or to a parking garage. Very handy at night.
And now, my addition to the "people suck" thread... a few weeks back I had to have fillings done on two of my front bottom teeth. I knew something wasn't quite right with one of them from the start..just didn't look right. Saturday night it came loose and came off...brushing my teeth was horrible because it hurt ! So this morning I go into the dentist and get the shot to get numb..right...all was supposedly good..until the dentist used the drill and it hurt. So I got the shot twice more. Oh yay. LOL. He apologized and I like my dentist but that was just so annoying.
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Post by Tara on Aug 16, 2005 7:55:16 GMT -5
Well, at least they apologized.
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