# How about I break your tiny little fingers, gas station boy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 17, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914 "2006-02-17T04:44:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/21 "2006-02-17T18:45:47Z")
Hmm. Sorry, I guess.
**Dante** and **davenportavenger** make a good point: it’s bootless to sermonize about what’s going on in the heads of people you don’t know. **Dante** feels so strongly about it that he popped up to say so despite having no opinion to share with respect to the thread itself. That’s okay, because **davenportavenger** has two, one pro-OP and one pro-pittee. So between them, it all evens out.
Their irritation is regrettable, but there was no intent to tax their patience: I don’t even know who they are. I posted under the assumption that comments on a public message board can and will be taken or left, like any other advice or criticism. I do think that a threat to meet rudeness with mayhem is extreme and unhealthy, and I tried to couch this in abstract terms to avoid giving offense. I might have realized that any such attempt in the Pit is bound to be viewed with suspicion.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/22 "2006-02-17T18:54:13Z")
How Do You Know How I’m Viewing It? Are You A Freakin’ Mind-reader, Too?
:d
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/23 "2006-02-17T18:55:27Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> Talking on a cell phone is unprofessional, though.
“Gas station boy” is a _profession_ now? Maybe **levdrakon** can report him to the licensing bureau. 🙂
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/24 "2006-02-17T19:02:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> How Do You Know How I’m Viewing It? Are You A Freakin’ Mind-reader, Too?
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> :d
Huh. That was weird. That was supposed to be all caps, to parody a guy blowing a gasket, and a big grin to denote that I was making a joke.
😕
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/25 "2006-02-17T19:21:09Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> “Gas station boy” is a _profession_ now?
As long as they get paid for it, yeah. Always been that way.
See _The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition_, definition #2.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/26 "2006-02-17T19:25:13Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#):
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> **Dante** and **davenportavenger** make a good point: it’s bootless to sermonize about what’s going on in the heads of people you don’t know. **Dante** feels so strongly about it that he popped up to say so despite having no opinion to share with respect to the thread itself. That’s okay, because **davenportavenger** has two, one pro-OP and one pro-pittee. So between them, it all evens out.
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> Their irritation is regrettable, but there was no intent to tax their patience: I don’t even know who they are.
**Dante** I’ve never noticed before today, but he’s making quite a splash as someone whom you pretty much want to be on the other side as. **davenport** goes way back as someone who glories in unpleasantness. You’re cool, man, you’re cool.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/27 "2006-02-17T19:25:43Z")
> [@Audrey Levins](#):
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> On the whole, I have to chalk the whole OP up to minor irritable hysteria.
I got no problem with that. You could even add “lame.” I’m not going to defend myself too strenuously.
I was pissed off, so I ranted. Lamely. Oh, well.
I don’t think it’s elitist telling this one guy to go get a degree and do something else. I’m not trying to insult every under-educated low paid employee in the world. Just the ones who are too busy chatting on their cell phone and drumming their fingers while waiting for me to pull cash out of my wallet when they clearly have nothing more pressing to do but stand there and wait for me to pull cash out of my wallet. It’s not like I was trying to pay with a jar of pennies, with a line of people behind me.
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### Author:  [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/28 "2006-02-17T19:27:06Z")
> [@dnooman](#):
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> Damn my typing speed!
Dude, really. I about wore my fingertips to the nub waiting for you to post. Get moving next time.
😉
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/29 "2006-02-17T19:30:07Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#):
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> Dante feels so strongly about it that he popped up to say so despite having no opinion to share with respect to the thread itself.
Well, to be fair, I don’t feel **too** strongly about it. After all, I didn’t even really write my own post. I stole yours.
> [@The King of Soup](#):
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> I might have realized that any such attempt in the Pit is bound to be viewed with suspicion.
Truly, the only thing I suspect you of is being the real world incarnation of [Stuart Smalley](http://www.seanet.com/~rod/images/StuartSmalley.jpg). I just get the vibe that you really want to diagnose and advise people on their mental states. Alot.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/30 "2006-02-17T19:35:03Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> As long as they get paid for it, yeah. Always been that way.
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> See _The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition_, definition #2.
Goddamn **Lute** , what do you do, follow me around looking for the tiniest of nits to pick? It’s getting kind of old.
> [@](#):
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> **Profession**
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> # the body of people in a learned occupation; “the news spread rapidly through the medical community”
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> # an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
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> # an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; “a profession of disagreement”
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> # affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; “a profession of Christianity”
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> wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Get a fucking life, dude. Really.
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### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/31 "2006-02-17T19:41:26Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Huh. That was weird. That was supposed to be all caps, to parody a guy blowing a gasket, and a big grin to denote that I was making a joke.
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> 😕
Your post was decapped by the decapper.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/32 "2006-02-17T19:49:15Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> Goddamn **Lute** , what do you do, follow me around looking for the tiniest of nits to pick?
Dude, I just posted a reply and wasn’t paying attention to whom I was replying. This is, what, the third thread in which I’ve replied to you being an ass?
> [@](#):
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> It’s getting kind of old.
Then stop making an ass of yourself.
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### Author:  [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/33 "2006-02-17T20:05:53Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness **davenport** goes way back as someone who glories in unpleasantness.[/QUOTE]
Well, fuck you too.
Maybe if **KoS** didn’t write every post in this stilted purple-prose soliloquy-esque tone, he wouldn’t come off like such a pretentious wannabe motivational speaker. I mean, he could have just told the OP “well, it’s not really such a big deal, I’d cool off if I were you.” But no, he spends like 1000 words to say the same thing, using phrases like “synaptic bobsled” just to show how smart he is, and topping it off with an ultra-condescending “I hope you feel better soon.”
Seriously dude, simplify your language, you’re coming off like a dick.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/34 "2006-02-17T20:12:44Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> **Dante** I’ve never noticed before today, but he’s making quite a splash as someone whom you pretty much want to be on the other side as. **davenport** goes way back as someone who glories in unpleasantness. You’re cool, man, you’re cool.
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> Daniel
And the Ironic Post Of The Day goes to **Left Hand of Dorkness** , who “feels so strongly about it that he popped up to say so despite having no opinion to share with respect to the thread itself.” Thus putting himself on the same side as me. 😃
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/35 "2006-02-17T20:13:56Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> Dude, I just posted a reply and wasn’t paying attention to whom I was replying. This is, what, the third thread in which I’ve replied to you being an ass?Then stop making an ass of yourself.
Well, in the second thread, you were wrong, or have you forgotten? (Clue: Two is a multiple of one.) And in this one, I was making a joke. To another poster. Not being an ass. Which makes you 0 for your last 2. And in the first, while in the minority, I had a point to make and made it. No assery there. So that’s 3 swings and 3 misses.
If you seriously think that if, for example, someone were to pay me oh, let’s say, ten dollars to listen to their problems and give them advice that that would make me a _professional_ therapist then you must be a pedant about word meanings \*par \*_excellence_. Now that I think about it, I am sure that is the case. Here’s a little hint for a happy life. Not everything is exactly as you think it should be. You need to get out more, Steve-O.
A little more time on the slant board wouldn’t hurt, either.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/36 "2006-02-17T20:21:55Z")
> [@Dante](#):
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> And the Ironic Post Of The Day goes to **Left Hand of Dorkness** , who “feels so strongly about it that he popped up to say so despite having no opinion to share with respect to the thread itself.” Thus putting himself on the same side as me. 😃
First, I do have an opinion, which I expressed in my first post: it seems possible to me that this dude was drumming his fingers unconsciously to bleed off energy, not to signal impatience.
Second, what you quote above isn’t something I said, so I’m not sure where the irony comes in.
Third, if there’s a candidate for most ironic post, I think it’d have to be **davenport’s** first line in the post immediately above yours.
Which brings us to my new favorite quote: “Life is full of ironies for the stupid.”-PJ O’Rourke.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/37 "2006-02-17T20:25:34Z")
Gas Station Boy sounds like he’s been poorly trained to deal with the public (which happens more times than not these days). I would’ve called the station the next day and registered a complaint with the store manager.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/38 "2006-02-17T20:33:54Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> Well, in the second thread, you were wrong, or have you forgotten?
My being wrong has no bearing. You were being a demanding ass.
> [@](#):
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> _I was making a joke._
Didn’t look like one. If it was just a joke, why didn’t you say so instead of accusing me of stalking you?
> [@](#):
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> _And in the first, while in the minority, I had a point to make and made it. No assery there._
One can be an ass while making a point. You were being an ass by virtue of dismissing all those who disagreed with you.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/39 "2006-02-17T20:37:11Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> First, I do have an opinion, which I expressed in my first post: it seems possible to me that this dude was drumming his fingers unconsciously to bleed off energy, not to signal impatience.
So you did! My mistake.
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> Second, what you quote above isn’t something I said, so I’m not sure where the irony comes in.
Actually, it was something **TKoS** said, which you quoted in your post. Which would have made sense in the context of my post if you hadn’t posted earlier in the thread. But you did.
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> Which brings us to my new favorite quote: “Life is full of ironies for the stupid.”-PJ O’Rourke.
I guess it is… :smack:
BTW, I figured out why you noticed me today. FTR, I wasn’t referring to you in that post, but I believe you are going to find yourself on the opposite side of the table of me most of time.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-i-break-your-tiny-little-fingers-gas-station-boy/344914/40 "2006-02-17T20:38:28Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> If you seriously think that if, for example, someone were to pay me oh, let’s say, ten dollars to listen to their problems and give them advice that that would make me a _professional_ therapist
Maybe if you start your own radio show à la Dr. Laura…
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