OK you made your point, fat boy: NOW MOVE THE FUCKING CAR

The BBQ Pit
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This took place in a restaurant Sunday, its a popular eatery with the older folk. Around dinnertime there was this very elderly couple who were walking around looking very distraught. We overhear that they were upset because someone parked their car in, and they wanted to go home.

The wait staff and the manager make an announcement describing the car, and asking if the owner could move it. No one responds. So, the wait staff goes from table to table asking each table if it was their car. No one responds as these poor old people were clearly getting very upset.

So, the management and the wait staff let every one know that they will TOW the car.

Thats when this big, fat blowhard 50-60something at a table next to us fesses up. He tells the waitress, loudly, that the other car was parked illegally, so why should he have to interrupt HIS dinner to move out of their way?

The waitress says, look, friend, look at these people----how about giving a pair of old people a break and just moving your car?

Fatso complains that then his dinner will get cold, and if he is going to move his car, then the restaurant will have to comp his meal! That brings the manager over, who refuses to acquiesce to his demands, and then, patiently lets the patron know that since the old peoples car was parked illegally, they will tow it, BUT, will have to tow HIS car first to get to it!

Finally, satisfied that he made his little point, fatso waddles out of the restaurant and moves his car so Ma and Pa Kettle can finally go home and enjoy what little is left of their long lives. What fucking jerk:

  1. So, in other words, you DELIBERATELY parked their car in.

  2. They are OLD PEOPLE for crissakes. I suppose there is no benefit of the doubt they made a mistake when they parked? Oh boy, you are a BIG MAN, (well, actually you are BIG–and FAT) picking on a pair of elderly people. Big, brave man. You made your little point. You taught all of us our lesson, didn’t you?

  3. As for your meal being ruined, frankly, buddy, one less meal wont hurt you.

  4. What about OUR meals? Maybe you should pay for our meals since they were repeatedly interrupted by wait staff asking us if it was our car, because you refused to respond. That, plus the uncomfortable spectacle you put on ruined the night for everyone.

I hope one day someone does this to YOU when you are old. Well, actually you are such a fat, gross pig you will die of a heart attack soon anyway, so I hope someone does this to an elderly family member one day, and maybe you will see how it feels.

Fuck off and die, Fatbody.

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Fucking old farts should have learned to park properly.

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I don’t understand: if the old folks’ car was parked illegally, how was it legal for fat boy to park blocking them in?

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No sympathy here for the object of this Pitting. However, in general, it does worry me a bit when I hear of “very elderly” drivers not driving or parking their cars correctly.

I know our natural impulse (well, apparently the natural impulse of everybody but that jerk in the restaurant, at least) is to say “Oh, poor Grammy or Grampy, give them a break, they’re old, they made a mistake, let it go.”

Which is all very charitable and humane and appropriate, right up to the moment when Grammy or Grampy, not realizing that they’re no longer mentally alert enough to be responsible drivers, make one of their mistakes on the road under more serious conditions, resulting in loss of property and/or life.

Of course, for all I know in this particular case, Ma and Pa Kettle could be the reigning tri-state chess and bridge champions who still win weekend drag racing competitions in their spare time, so these concerns wouldn’t apply to them. In general, though, while I don’t support behaving like an asshole to old people about their vehicular-management errors, I’m not so sure we should always just shrug it off and give them the “benefit of the doubt”, either.

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I’ll bet it was a god damn Buick too.

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Oldsmobile, fer sure.

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From the OP it’s safe to assume one of them wasn’t a Smart Car.

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Drivers trying to ‘educate’ other drivers, to ‘teach them a lesson’ is never a good idea and often downright dangerous. What an ass.

On the bright side, after so long a delay as soon as the elderly couple got home they wouldn’t have to wait to go swimming.

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They might have been parked at a curb, but partially over a yellow zebra-striped portion of the curb in which it was illegal to park. So the fat guy may have parked on the side of the old people’s car where it was legal to park.

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I’m just glad the jerk was fat otherwise we wouldn’t have had anything to make fun of him.

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I dont get it. “Parking illegally”? The guy saw that they had parked in a non parking space, and decided to punish them, knowing full well that, at a point, he would have to move his car? And then complain because that would actually happen?
I dont get the story.

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What does the guy being fat have to do with it? You seem more angry about the guy’s girth than his behavior.

Jerks come in all shapes and sizes- no need to attribute any personality traits to this one just because of his size.

I’m torn on the “take pity on the old and frail” vs. “not my problem they’re old and addled” trains of thought. On one hand, I know and love some people in the old and frail category, but I also don’t see why it’s my problem to just suffer the consequences of their issues either.

Maybe the old folks and the blowhard guy could have come to some compromise- like they wait until he’s done with his entree, and before dessert or something.

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… and then maybe he’d get his meal comp’ed. Some people think like this, all the time. “How can I get something for free?”

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It’s all about the Seven Deadly Sins.

Let’s see which sins I think fatass committed…
Gluttony. Yep.
Pride. No doubt about it.
Wrath. Absolutely.
Greed. Possibly.

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Especially if they are BIG and FAT people. Apparently.

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Remarkable. Nine whole posts got by before this little bit of inevitability plopped into the thread like an obese man into a wheezing beanbag.

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Nice bit of imagery, but I think you should have gone with “leather recliner” or “vinyl sofa.” You know those fatty fatty fat wats could never get back up out of a beanbag even if you dangled a whole box of Little Debbies as bait.

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As someone who’s far more concerned about elderly drivers who’ve outlived their own mental faculties than I am about whether or not some jerk is also a fattie, I have to concur with Kimstu’s assessment.

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Ahhh, gotta love the SDMB.

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Cool. Now I’ve got a new username for when I *really *let myself go.