I thought I’d start this thread after reading about people using the handicapped tags of their dead relatives over in IMHO.
What stories do you have of people you know who amaze you with some of the things they do… in a bad way?
I’ll start with the story I shared over in the other thread…
A sports official colleague of mine can be cheap and selfish at times. Two of his many offenses that come to mind are 1) He regularly parks in handicapped spots using his deceased dad’s handicapped placard. 2) College officiating obviously leads to a lot of travel. It’s notorious that the umpires get put up in the cheapest hotels because they’re comped by the schools. Anyway my colleague in question has no problem going to the hotel up the street and taking part in their ‘free’ breakfast. I don’t think I’d have the stones to do that.
Most tasteless thing I’ve heard this week: Last month a friend’s son went bar-hopping with a friend, acquired a BAC several times the legal limit, then killed himself that night. The friend thought it would be a great idea to “recreate” his last day by revisiting the same bars in the same order . . . and then post about it on Facebook where his mother could see it. :eek:
I know a young able guy who was using a handcapped parking card. He finally got a ticket and moaned about it for months.
A guy I used to work for would take people out for lunch, and then grab all the hard candies from the table and the register on his way out. “THAT WAY I don’t have to buy Halloween candy”.
I knew a guy who had a relatively minor orthopedic injury that he milked the hell out of. He got his physician to help him get a handicap placard and to have signs and a blue line put in front of his house. He then collected Workman’s Comp for two years, always watching over his shoulder for an investigator.
Backing up; his original injury happened on a Saturday. He layed around in pain until Monday morning, then had his wife drive him to the job site where he collapsed, injured on the job.
The shit nozzles that defecate on the floor and walls, or cover the ceiling in wads of wet toilet paper in public toilets. I mean fucking hell, what an amazing use of a human mind and life, shitting on the walls so a minimum wage slave has to clean it up.
Bravo sir/or madam, you have surely landed a decisive blow against the empire.
Trinidad, but to be fair it was way more common in Houston where I grew up. Or maybe it just comes from working and having a bunch of friends in fast food, tales of the bathroom are legion and terrifying.
I always wondered WTF was going through the mind of someone that does that.
My parents have a handicapped card. There have been times when either or both of them legitimately needed it, but there have also been times when they were perfectly capable of walking a few extra yards (and were even being encouraged to get more exercise), but they continue to use it anyway. I find it a bit disappointing, but I haven’t called them out on it.
The Fucket List thread is really depressing, though.
One time I was on a crowded bus. There’s a seat near the front of the bus reserved for handicapped or pregnant people. A young able-bodied woman about my age was sitting in the seat, and a pregnant woman asked her politely if she (the pregnant woman) could sit there. So the young woman did give the pregnant woman her seat, but then the young woman, now standing, spent the rest of the bus ride bitching to a friend on her cell phone that she had to give up her seat.
I’d also post about what I’ve seen in public bathrooms, but it’s not pretty.
There are other things that amaze me in a bad way, but I’m too tired to post very coherently. I will say I have been pretty disgusted with all the anti-gay marriage people coming out of the woodwork recently.
The other day I was at the grocery. Had to go to the bathroom. Went to the stall and immediately did a 180 after seeing fecal matter smeared all over the seat.
Me: [whispers in ear] your bathroom is in really bad shape.
Manager: The men’s bathroom?
[uh yeah, do you not see this three day old beard I’m sporting on my face?]
Me: Yes. The men’s.
Manager: Oh, good. Not my problem.
WTF? Did she say that because she’s a woman and wont be using the men’s room? Or… WHAT THE HECK DID SHE MEAN BY THAT?!
My aunt showed up 24 hrs after her brother, my uncle died to get some free shit. My uncle was asking for her during the time he had left, and she never showed up or called him.
This is not in a class with most of the above, but the people who drive me mad are the ones who leave the supermarket carts all over the parking lot because they are too bone lazy to push it over to the collection stall.
I once witness a finely dressed, obviously upper class “lady” pull a kleenex out of her purse, blow her nose, then daintily held it at arms length and let it drop on the sidewalk. I sidled past her and said, “Pig”.
On the other side I am amazed at the number of youngsters who will get up to give me a seat on a crowded bus. I am able-bodied, but 75.
At lunch recently a friend of a friend was crowing about how another friend of hers had just convinced the VA that his diabetes was service-connected and that he should get disability pay for it (she also loves to bitch about wasteful government spending, then talk about how she beats the tax system). Then she turns to me (knowing I’m retired military) and says “You could get disability for your diabetes, too!” I told her, “ya know, perhaps I could. I could probably get disability pay for my back problems and the problems I have with my feet, and the ringing in my ears, as well. But there are vets who have serious health and mental problems, and I’d have to be a prime asshole to take money for problems that I can deal with, when these guys are fucked up for life.” It was a fine moment to see her with her jaw swinging in the breeze and no noise coming out of it for a change.
Derf, cartoonist who draws the weekly strip “The City” periodically does a strip labeled “True Story”, in which he portrays somebody, allegedly seen IRL, acting stupid and/or obnoxious.
He just so happens to have one such strip up this week. Check it out quick, though, as he changes the strip more-or-less weekly (on whatever day he seems to get around to it). The link isn’t a permalink. He does strips like this from time to time.
