# Really??! \[Your WTF moments with other people's behavior\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170 "2011-05-25T16:15:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/41 "2011-05-26T05:07:47Z")
When walking out of the men’s restroom the guy who uses a paper towel as a barrier to grab the door handle and then drops the paper towel on the floor. He then proceeds straight to the elevater and _presses the button_ with a _bare finger_. Imagine what is living on never been cleaned elevator buttons, yet this douchebag is a germaphobe who dropped the paper towel on the ground after using it as a mitt. Really??! WTF and shit. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/42 "2011-05-26T05:13:55Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Dude, there are 8 stalls in this bathroom. I’m sitting in the one on the end and 7 are vacant. Did you _really_ have to use the one right next to me for your loud, gassy, loose movement? Really??! Was the guy tapping his foot? Or were you? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/43 "2011-05-26T11:31:11Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > …that the cleanest stall in any public john is usually the very first one, so that’s where I always head for my morning constitutional… That is one big-ass stall. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/44 "2011-05-26T11:43:20Z")
Was doing my washing in the local laundrette, guy comes in, puts a single boring white t-shirt in the machine, half a box of powder, £3 to run the cycle. Wha? I’ve tried, but I can’t think of any circumstances in which I could think that was anything other than batshit. I could see a work shirt- maybe he spilt ketchup down it and had a meeting later, but why would anyone want a boring plain white t-shirt cleaned that badly? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/45 "2011-05-26T11:51:35Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > This one averages about once a week at work. I’ll be on the elevator and someone will literally try to push past me to get on before I’m out. Every fucking day when I go home this happens. Just because it’s morning and YOUR time to go upstairs and go to work doesn’t mean it’s like that for everyone! GTFO of my way! And is it ever those hot girls in the amazing tight pants that push past me? OH no! It’s the babushkas that from a country that outlawed smiling back before WWI who marinate in their dollar store perfume or the angry old men who wasted their lives. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/46 "2011-05-26T13:22:59Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > I just got back from my school’s gym, which has a room with heavy bags and padded floors for martial arts. I saw a guy doing what can only be described as “flailing his legs at the heavy bags,” with no indication that he had any physical coordination or control whatsoever. I was pretty sure that I had seen him flailing in there one time before, so I said “Are you trying to learn [Capoeira](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capoeira)?” He replied in the affirmative. “How long have you been going at it?” I asked. “About 10 years,” he replied. > > Before, during, and after this conversation, I’m throwing out some relatively advanced Capoeira/gymnastics moves, partly because I wanted to show off, partly because that’s what I had intended to do in that room anyway. “How flexible are your legs?” I continued. “Not very,” flailer responded. I tried not to sound too preachy, but I ventured onwards with “You know, you should probably work on your leg flexibility before trying to master individual moves. It’s like you’re going to a chess tournament without even learning how all of the pieces work first.” He responded with a sound that was somewhere between “Ahh.” and _cough_. He then turned around and started flailing again. > > Really??! I was sorely tempted to say something like: “Listen, you green-shoe-wearing shitbag: If I did anything for ten years and was as bad at it as you are at Capoeira, I would probably kill myself or check with a doctor to see if I had muscular dystrophy. Not only have I explained that your efforts to improve have been completely misguided, I have also told you the better way to approach the challenge _and_ shown you what you would be capable of if you took my advice. How could you be so fucking inept that you would immediately go back to doing the same thing you’ve been doing???” This thread is about other people who interfere with you and the pursuit of your daily activities through their clueless or self-absorbed behavior. It is not about you or your superior ninja skills. This guy was minding his own business doing his own thing. You are the “Really ?!?!?!” guy in this scenario. Another one of my favorites are the clueless morons that pull up to the ATM machine and begin to commit several acts of high finance. Please folks, at least have your deposit slips filled and you money counted before you actually pull up to the ATM. Please. Same thing for the mail drop lane in front of the Post Office. The one near my house has a curbed in lane for the mail drops. Once you pull in there, there is no getting out without pulling all the way through. Please have your 2000 wedding invitations stuffed, sealed and stamped BEFORE pulling up to the mail drop. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/47 "2011-05-26T14:09:56Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Was doing my washing in the local laundrette, guy comes in, puts a single boring white t-shirt in the machine, half a box of powder, £3 to run the cycle. > > Wha? I’ve tried, but I can’t think of any circumstances in which I could think that was anything other than batshit. I could see a work shirt- maybe he spilt ketchup down it and had a meeting later, but why would anyone want a boring plain white t-shirt cleaned that badly? It smelled like his mistresses perfume? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/48 "2011-05-26T14:18:25Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > I just got back from my school’s gym, which has a room with heavy bags and padded floors for martial arts. I saw a guy doing what can only be described as “flailing his legs at the heavy bags,” with no indication that he had any physical coordination or control whatsoever. I was pretty sure that I had seen him flailing in there one time before, so I said “Are you trying to learn [Capoeira](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capoeira)?” He replied in the affirmative. “How long have you been going at it?” I asked. “About 10 years,” he replied. > > Before, during, and after this conversation, I’m throwing out some relatively advanced Capoeira/gymnastics moves, partly because I wanted to show off, partly because that’s what I had intended to do in that room anyway. “How flexible are your legs?” I continued. “Not very,” flailer responded. I tried not to sound too preachy, but I ventured onwards with “You know, you should probably work on your leg flexibility before trying to master individual moves. It’s like you’re going to a chess tournament without even learning how all of the pieces work first.” He responded with a sound that was somewhere between “Ahh.” and _cough_. He then turned around and started flailing again. > > Really??! I was sorely tempted to say something like: “Listen, you green-shoe-wearing shitbag: If I did anything for ten years and was as bad at it as you are at Capoeira, I would probably kill myself or check with a doctor to see if I had muscular dystrophy. Not only have I explained that your efforts to improve have been completely misguided, I have also told you the better way to approach the challenge _and_ shown you what you would be capable of if you took my advice. How could you be so fucking inept that you would immediately go back to doing the same thing you’ve been doing???” How dare he not kiss your ass after you generously took a moment away from basking in your own awesomeness to offer him unsolicited advice? You really should punish him by never offering him unsolicited advice again. That’ll show him. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/49 "2011-05-26T14:29:58Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Or you sit in an empty movie theatre and the next group to come in sit right next to you. I’m a very small amount of menopausal hormones away from starting to yell at these people. When _Shutter Island_ came out, my son and I both wanted to see it. He skipped school and I skipped work and we went to the first showing. It looked like we were going to get a private screening. Then, a couple walks in and sits right next to us. I got my son’s attention and smiled. I stood up, he followed me. We relocated to another area of the theater. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/50 "2011-05-26T14:32:49Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > You are the “Really ?!?!?!” guy in this scenario. Lol, yeah, this is true. I am a bit of a skill-obsessed asshole. It just boggles my mind that a human could be willing to be terrible at something for so long. Wouldn’t you just cry yourself to sleep every night if you were that incompetent? ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/51 "2011-05-26T14:46:46Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > In a similar vein, people who have absolutely nothing in their hands and seem to be walking along just fine and hit the automatic door opener button to get into the building. Are your arms broken? Is the door too heavy for you? Really? If I’ve just washed my hands, I might hit the door-opener button with my elbow to avoid germs. > [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > Lol, yeah, this is true. I am a bit of a skill-obsessed asshole. It just boggles my mind that a human could be willing to be terrible at something for so long. Wouldn’t you just cry yourself to sleep every night if you were that incompetent? Maybe he should get credit for trying to get some exercise and skill. ETA: My _ **Really??!!** _ moments are frequently in reaction to other people’s chewing. The other day my coworker was eating the loudest carrot sticks known to man. i wanted to hit her. My sister-in-law’s husband and kids, too, have this really disgusting, smacking way of chewing. I can’t imagine how she can sit with that at the dinner table, night after night. I would have snapped long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Lorski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/52 "2011-05-26T14:57:53Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > Lol, yeah, this is true. I am a bit of a skill-obsessed asshole. It just boggles my mind that a human could be willing to be terrible at something for so long. Wouldn’t you just cry yourself to sleep every night if you were that incompetent? Um, no. Just because he’s incompetent at that doesn’t mean he is at everything else. And I don’t recall you saying the he ASKED for any “advice” from you. MYOB. > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > \*\*You know, I think some of these responses say more about the poster than the person they were having a what the fuck moment about. \*\* Like the guy upthread who was shocked that the random guy he came up to in the gym didn’t bow down to how awesome his martial arts skills were, or the guy who has never seen the elderly employ a shopping cart as a walker. Bolding mine, totally agree. My late grandmother did that. She put her little oxygen tank in it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/53 "2011-05-26T15:01:39Z")
People who are waiting at the bus stop doing nothing, then get on the bus and have to stand there, go into their pocket or purse, take out their wallet and start counting out their money. Couldn’t do it while you were waiting? And any one for any reason who parks at a bus stop. I’m usually leaning on the driver’s side door when they come back from their “I’ll only be here a minute” errand. I always say “I’ll just be here till the bus gets here.” What are they going to do? Call the cops and get a ticket? ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/54 "2011-05-26T15:02:38Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > Lol, yeah, this is true. I am a bit of a … asshole. QFT ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/55 "2011-05-26T15:12:43Z")
Worked in retail a long time so I have more than a few, People who want to haggle on things that are 3 dollars or less always does it. One special one comes to mind. Working in the computer department a nice well dressed older gent comes to the counter and proceeds to tell me a somewhat lengthy about is upcoming vacation. I’m waiting patiently to find out what this has to do with my department and eventually find a pause to ask “Excuse me sir, but did you have something I could help you with?” “Well yes, I was wondering if you could tell me what time my plane leaves?” WTF? Another favorite of mine is when panhandlers get bitchy. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/56 "2011-05-26T15:19:01Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > …And any one for any reason who parks at a bus stop. I’m usually leaning on the driver’s side door when they come back from their “I’ll only be here a minute” errand. I always say “I’ll just be here till the bus gets here.” What are they going to do? Call the cops and get a ticket? Or put a slug in your belly. You’re braver than I (me?). mmm ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/57 "2011-05-26T15:35:33Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > Lol, yeah, this is true. I am a bit of a skill-obsessed asshole. It just boggles my mind that a human could be willing to be terrible at something for so long. Wouldn’t you just cry yourself to sleep every night if you were that incompetent? Maybe he’s a [professional golfer?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_KHh_c6Ha4) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/58 "2011-05-26T15:38:37Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > …On the stalls issue, I read that public health scientists had determined that the cleanest stall in any public john is usually the very first one, so that’s where I always head for my morning constitutional. … > > That is one big-ass stall. > mmm **MMM** : I bet “morning constitutional” doesn’t mean what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/59 "2011-05-26T15:42:37Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > …It just boggles my mind that a human could be willing to be terrible at something for so long. Wouldn’t you just cry yourself to sleep every night if you were that incompetent? Oh, I don’t know. Do you cry yourself to sleep every night because you’re that socially clueless and probably have been for some time? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/60 "2011-05-26T16:06:37Z")
When you’re driving down a stretch of road with no one behind you, and someone can’t wait until you pass them to pull out into the road, oh no, but pulls out right in front of you, and you’re going 60 and they’re going 15 and their car has no pickup. I hate those people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170.md?page=4)