# People who deliberately make your job harder **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 5, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958 "2003-06-05T23:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/1 "2003-06-05T23:35:51Z")
My job is to make sure the local middle schoolers cross a busy intersection safely. I haul myself out there every morning/afternoon tooting my whistle and waving my STOP sign. It’s not that difficult to convey instructions to those willing to listen. Of course, there are those smartass kids who _know_ just how to push our buttons. You know who you are. Kids who think its funny to empty our water bottle when we were crossing kids when its 99 degrees outside after we’ve been standing there for an hour. Or, instead of crossing at the crosswalk like good middle schoolers, where we can stop traffic for them to insure they cross the street wtihout incedent, they walk down half a block and jaywalk across the street. Who is going to get hell if they were to get hit by a car? Us of course. After all, we’re supposed to make sure they cross safely. But unless their parents give us permission to bonk them on the head with our metal sign when they acting up, there’s not much we can do. Kids who steal from the Ice cream truck then cuss you out when I recognize them the next day. Or sit in my chair and refuse to get up. Yeah, pretty tame stuff. I can already sense the :rolleyes: I’m gonna get from some Dopers that have it way worse. But the reason it bothers me is not _what_ they are doing, it is the fact that they are deliberately doing it to get on my nerves. The fact that they are trying to make me lose my temper. The fact that they have the kind of parents who think their child can do no wrong even though they are totally out of control. I hope next year I get assigned to cross Kindergarteners. They’re much more complacent, and actually look up to me. And they don’t jaywalk :mad: ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/2 "2003-06-06T01:19:47Z")
Don’t let the little fuckers get your down. You’re doing a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/3 "2003-06-06T01:30:59Z")
Middle school, as I recall, was the horrible preamble to puberty. However, that’s no excuse to act like an idiot. I hate the fact that most children go from being polite, to being rude little brats - in a matter of seconds between 5rd and 6th grade. If my kids do that, I’ll ground them for life. Trip the bad ones as they’re going through the crosswalk. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/4 "2003-06-06T01:41:02Z")
Matt Groening, in one of his “Life in Hell” books, said that Middle School is designed to keep kids quarrantined for their “snotty” years. By getting them out of elementary school, it prevents them from torturing the littler kids, and by keeping them out of high school, it protects them from getting the beatings they so richly deserve. ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/5 "2003-06-06T02:13:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*- in a matter of seconds between _5rd_ and 6th grade. \*\* Just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce “5rd”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/6 "2003-06-06T02:14:57Z")
Furd. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/7 "2003-06-06T03:58:02Z")
“Fiverd” ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/8 "2003-06-06T06:52:54Z")
I thought it was “thirfth”. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/9 "2003-06-06T11:22:30Z")
I fucking hate middle school kids. Living down the street from a middle school, I get to witness the sheer brilliance of 12 year olds crossing the street on a near daily basis. And then, just to add to the beauty, there are little leage and YFL teams that have games and practice at the school, so weekends and late afternoons aren’t safe either. Allow my ranting to begin: To the 3 Hispanic girls: WHEN CROSSING A STREET, LOOK FOR CARS. IF YOU SEE A CAR, DON’T GO. RUNNING TO THE MIDDLE, THEN PROCEEDING TO DANCE IS A BAD FUCKING PLAN. YOU WILL DIE IF A CAR HITS YOU! IT WILL NOT CARE, AND YOU WILL BE DEAD, SO DON’T DANCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING ROAD! To the legions of kids going to/from the bus stop (which some genius fucking city planner decided to put ACROSS the street from the school, when there is absolutely no reason): IF YOU WAIT FOR YOUR FRIENDS ON THE CORNER, RATHER THAN 1/3 INTO THE CROSSWALK, YOU WILL GET THERE JUST AS FAST (OR SLOWLY) AND TRAFFIC WILL FLOW THAT MUCH BETTER. THE CROSSWALK IS NOT, REPEAT _NOT_, THE APPROPRIATE PLACE TO APPLY MAKEUP, REORGANIZE YOUR BACKPACK OR FUCK WITH YOUR BELT. THERE ARE BATHROOMS, CLASSROOMS, BENCHES AND A MULTITUDE OF OTHER PLACES TO DO THAT To the one kid who decided to lag behind his friends and mom when he saw me coming: CROSSING SLOWLY IS NOT A SIGN OF HOW COOL YOU ARE. JAYWALKING SLOWLY IS NOT A SIGN OF HOW COOL YOU ARE, EITHER. IT IS A SIGN OF HOW STUPID YOU ARE, THOUGH. ESPECIALLY IF YOU SLOW DOWN IMMEDIATELY AFTER MAKING EYE CONTACT WITH ME AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS HURRY THE FUCK UP AND YELL AT YOU TO DO THE SAME. SEE ALSO MY FIRST NOTE ABOUT DANCING IN THE GODDAM ROAD. AND GET A FUCKING HAIRCUT WHILE YOU’RE AT IT. Lastly, and most heartfelt, to the mom standing in the middle of the road, next to her horridly parked SUV’s fully opened door: DRIVING 20 MPH WHEN I AM PASSED ALL THE KIDS AND THERE IS NO POSSIBLE TRAFFIC DOES NOT WARRANT YOUR YELLING AT ME TO “SLOW THE FUCK DOWN,” ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR YOUNG CHILD STILL IN THE VEHICLE. **Sublight** , I agree fully **Incubus** , I feel your pain. I say you sacrifice one or two every year, let evolution do its thing. If they can’t figure out that a 3000 pound block of steel will seriously fuck up their 105 pounds of 7th grade bitch-meat, they can’t hack it in modern society and will never have a positive impact on the gene pool. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/10 "2003-06-06T11:23:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Incubus \* > \*\*My job is to make sure the local middle schoolers cross a busy intersection safely. \*\* I have nothing against you Incubus because I think you mean well, but by doing your job you are jeapardizing the future of humankind. Back in the caveperson days when Mama Ook told little Ooglet to watch out for Grizzly Bears, if he ignored her he ended up as a grizzly snack. There was much wailing and sorrow for the loss of little Ooglet, but everyone knew deep down that it was for the best. Ooglet would have eventually bought it anyways because he wouldn’t listen to his elders who had successfully navigated bears and the other perils of their world to reach the ripe old age of 20. It was best for him to go now before he used up precious resources more appropriately used on those smart enough to listen. Now in the modern world grizzly bears are scarce, at least in the big city, so man invented automobiles to replace them. But, here you come along and stop the process of natural selection. Please think about what you are doing for the sake of us all. Do it before we end up wasting countless resources and before these modern Ooglets grow up to have even dumber little Oogs of their own! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/11 "2003-06-06T12:57:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yumanite \* > \*\*Just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce “5rd”? 😉 \*\* Already beaten to death, but… “fnord” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/12 "2003-06-06T13:30:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*Already beaten to death, but… > > “fnord” > 😃 \*\* Good God, haven’t you people ever experienced a typo? Tough crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/13 "2003-06-06T14:03:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > Good God, haven’t you people ever experienced a typo? > > Tough crowd. Hell, that’s practically **celebrating** that typo. It was light-heartedly done. You haven’t seen rough yet. ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/14 "2003-06-06T14:23:45Z")
I could go on and on about little fuckers trying to cross a simple street. I swear, sometimes it’s like lemmings trying to cross a fucking river. Just one point…when you fucking see a DO NOT CROSS LIGHT it means DO NO FUCKING CROSS you cock sucking kids of a whore! If it’s a left turn advance green for cars, this doesn’t mean TO CROSS AND BLOCK CARS TURNING LEFT! One of these days I’m going to go postal and just plow through some of these kids. I play a little game myself, I try to go as fast as possible while getting as close as I can to those little pricks. I have yet to see any police enforce the cross sign laws though…ever. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/15 "2003-06-06T14:59:18Z")
Any chance the school board’d let you carry a cattle prod? ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/16 "2003-06-06T16:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Uzi \* > \*\*I have nothing against you Incubus because I think you mean well, but by doing your job you are jeapardizing the future of humankind. > Back in the caveperson days when Mama Ook told little Ooglet to watch out for Grizzly Bears, if he ignored her he ended up as a grizzly snack. There was much wailing and sorrow for the loss of little Ooglet, but everyone knew deep down that it was for the best. Ooglet would have eventually bought it anyways because he wouldn’t listen to his elders who had successfully navigated bears and the other perils of their world to reach the ripe old age of 20. It was best for him to go now before he used up precious resources more appropriately used on those smart enough to listen. > Now in the modern world grizzly bears are scarce, at least in the big city, so man invented automobiles to replace them. But, here you come along and stop the process of natural selection. Please think about what you are doing for the sake of us all. Do it before we end up wasting countless resources and before these modern Ooglets grow up to have even dumber little Oogs of their own! \*\* That guy from Yemen, he’s a smart one he is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/17 "2003-06-06T16:54:39Z")
Ender\_Will, you win. Most entertaining rant I have read all day. “7th grade bitch-meat” is funny because I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/18 "2003-06-06T22:32:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yumanite \* > \*\*Just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce “5rd”? 😉 \*\* _I_ don’t, as a rule. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/19 "2003-06-06T23:24:06Z")
Middle school children: a major design flaw in God’s plan. I shudder to think what I was like at that age. If only I knew now what I knew then, because then I knew fucking _everything._ **Blonde,** Typos are a major source of entertainment here at the SDMD. Don’t take it personally. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958/20 "2003-06-06T23:27:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*Good God, haven’t you people ever experienced a typo? > \*\* Tpyo’s are not alloewd! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deliberately-make-your-job-harder/179958.md?page=2)