I seem to remember a whole ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ thing that got big a while back? Well there is apparently another movement, which seems to be way more popular, that embraces Random Acts of Asshattery.
Today I’ve seen people:
#1: Enter the on-ramp to the freeway and see that it was backed up somewhat. This caused that driver to come to a complete stop, backup and pull a u-turn across the median to get on the off-ramp. Of course this caused the 30 cars behind the asshat to slam on the brakes so that they didn’t rear end the fucktard while he pulled his u-turn. The stupid thing is this off-ramp always looks like it is backed up. I got through the backup (after the whole screetching halt thing) in about 2 minutes.
#2. Block the entrire aisle in stores with their cart. Sometimes it isn’t anyones fault, traffic happens. The problem is the fucktards who see that they are blocking the entire aisle and realize that there are people who are trying to get by yet do nothing about it. Today, three different people managed to block the entire aisle with their carts (which, in this particular store is kinda hard, the aisles are pretty wide) and totally ignored the people trying to get by. These people looked up at the traffic jam they were causing and went right back to whatever the hell they were doing. I can understand if the aisles are narrow but in this case there was no reason for the people to do it other than shear laziness. Fucktards.
#3. Be an hour late. This particular act of asshattery belongs to my sister. She is always late and always schedules too much to do and not enough time. Today we worked to get the boat lake ready. She showed up late. She scheduled 20 minutes to do the whole project (which took two hours) and therefore had to leave halfway through to do something else she had scheduled. This cause me to waste an hour in the middle. This is a particular issue with my sister, she never is on time and never schedules enough time for anything. My sister is an asshat. This cost me two hours.
#4. Park a truck so that it blocked the entire through lane at a convience store while someone made a phone call on a pay phone. This blocked incoming and outgoing traffic. The fucktard entered the lot, stopped and let his female companion out then sat there while cars lined up out onto the street so as to not have to park while she used the phone.
#5. Cut across three lanes of traffic to make a turn. This caused numerous people to slam on the brakes (yet again) so the asshat wouldn’t have to make a u-turn. I wonder if this asshat is related to the onramp asshat.
Gah, there are more instances of this kind of crap that happened today. It seems I can’t go anywhere without someone being a full and total jackass just for their own convience*. People suck.
Slee
*Yeah, it is a minor, trivial rant. I just wish that people would have a little more respect for others, it’d make life so much nicer.
So did I, but for completely different reasons. Some attention-whoring, delusional asshole tied up traffic for hours while they tried to decide if they were gonna jump from the GWB.
Advice to future jumpers: Pick a day where the wind gusts are over 85mph
Advice to cops: Either let these idiots jump - or shoot them down
Damn, that’s scary JohnBckWLD. I would certainly be pissed at that insane dude if I were a family member of those first responders who were up there risking their lives. shudder
Blocking an aisle with a cart? Shit, you can move the cart. What about the assholes that move into the middle of an intersection, even though there’s not enough room to get completely across, because traffic is obviously backed up, and then the light turns red and now they’re stuck in the middle of the intersection, preventing anyone in the lanes perpendicular to them from moving. And of course they stare ahead trying to convince themselves that they did nothing wrong. Guess what, asshole? The reason that traffic is so bad right now is that another asshole just like you did the same thing a block ahead of you. And if you get the opportunity to honk your horn and flip the fuckstains off, they act as though they can’t believe that anybody would be so rude. And what REALLY pisses me off, is that cops spend their days pulling people over speeders. They would do far more good and make as much money if they sat at these intersections, and handed fines to people that do this. They wouldn’t need to pull anybody over; just walk up to them (traffic is at a dead standstill) and hand them the ticket.
That shit caused it to take me 30 minutes to go about 100 yards last Friday. Today, I waited until there was enough room to get completely across the intersection to go, and some asshole behind me kept honking at me.
Oh, wait… are we supposed to add our own? Or just comment on sleestak’s? Maybe now I’M the asshat.
Some dickhead piled a truckload of tree limbs in the alley behind my house, next to one of the dumpsters I’m obligated to mow around. So I piled them in the middle of alley and called the city. They left them there and the garbage truck spread them out when it ran over them, back into my mowing area. So I put them in the dumpster (well, half of them, they all wouldn’t fit). Minor, but no less so than being backed up in traffic.
#3. Be an hour late. This particular act of asshattery belongs to my sister. She is always late and always schedules too much to do and not enough time. Today we worked to get the boat lake ready. She showed up late. She scheduled 20 minutes to do the whole project (which took two hours) and therefore had to leave halfway through to do something else she had scheduled. This cause me to waste an hour in the middle. This is a particular issue with my sister, she never is on time and never schedules enough time for anything. My sister is an asshat. This cost me two hours.
Invite her out for a little trip on the lake. Then make her walk the plank. Is her help a standing obligation? Is she part owner or very frequent guest on the boat? Can she be keelhauled?
Same here. Just shove the cart out of the way and keep going.
The best was when I did this to a woman in the store who immediately started ranting to her friend about “who does he think he is!”, and the friend told her to shut up and stop being a jerk because she was blocking the aisle!
When I find a cart blocking a shopping aisle, I’ve taken to moving the cart into a completely different aisle, adding random groceries to in on the way.* I do so enjoy watching the puzzled owner search for it.
*only works when the asshat has wandered a bit down the aisle and is engrossed in reading lables.
UEFA Euro qualifying match between Denmark and Sweden. Sweden was up 3-0 (including one very sweet goal), but Denmark pulled it back to a tie at 3-3. It’s the 89th minute, and Sweden is given a penalty kick. Exciting stuff…
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And then some asshat in a Danish jersey runs into the middle of play and appears to hit the ref.
The ref walks away, consults briefly, and cancels the match. He calls it 3-0 for Sweden, but all UEFA will say ATM is that “an investigation is to be launched”.
You know from past experience that she is always late, so plan for it, and don’t let it mess up your schedule. My sister is constantly late too, but we all know that and expect it. If we plan Christmas dinner for 1pm, we tell her noon, and she’ll arrive just in time.
And the “had to leave halfway through to do something else” – are you mute, or just gutless? The appropriate response would be “No, Sis, we aren’t done yet. We have to finish this today, so you’ll just have to be late for that. Now get back to work.”
If you continue to let her arrive late and leave early without speaking up, nothing is likely to change.
The lights go down in the theater. I think part of the magic of the theater is when the lights do down. You know that something wonderful is about to happen, or that some trickery is happening on stage as the troupe takes down one set and sets up another in the dark.
So anyway, the lights go down…
…except for the kid playing a Nintendo DS a row in front of me and 5 seats to my left. That thing was casting shadows on the walls and ceiling. When he would turn it a little my way it was VERY distracting! At least it was on mute.
WTF are thes parents thinking? You can’t make that whiny little bitch shut her yap for one lousy hour at a dance recital without providing her electronic entertainment?
I was seething, but couldn’t muster the chutzpah to say anything.
Been there, tried that, planned for it and it didn’t do shit. Also, she varies her late time enough that lying about the time doesn’t work. I tried that. Add an extra hour on and don’t tell her, she *still * manages to be late.
The latest thing is this: I have told her that if we plan on something and she is late I will not wait. At all. 30 seconds late and I am outta there. I explained to her how absolutely rude it is to be consistantly late. I am not dealing with it anymore.
Also, a big fuck you. I did bring up the fact that it was way rude that she had to bolt part way through. She claimed that she had to do it for her job. My Dad, however, insisted we wait because he didn’t want to have to go over a bunch of stuff twice. His boat, his rules.
All kidding aside, that’s about the worst piece of advice you could give a cop. "Suicide by cop"is probably one of the most traumatizing things that can happen to a police officer.
Let’s not even GO there, k?
Poor bastard though. Wonder what made him attempt such a stunt. Eek. And man, what a bad time of day for the rest of the world. Faaaaack a daaaack.
Poor bastard though. Wonder what made him attempt such a stunt. Eek. And man, what a bad time of day for the rest of the world. Faaaaack a daaaack.