# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/121 "2011-05-27T19:13:35Z")
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**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/122 "2011-05-27T19:14:22Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I had the opposite experience last month that put a shine on the rest of my day. I was fourth at the check-out lane of my local supermarket holding a small red velvet cake from the bakery. Everyone else had more items, but I didn’t have a problem with it since it wasn’t an express lane. I was chatting with the guy behind me and mentioned that I was buying the cake for my wife’s birthday, which was today, and that she had a weakness for red velvet cake. > > The guy in front of me heard and insisted that I get in line in front of him “since it’s your wife’s birthday.” After going around and around for a bit, I finally relented and stepped in front of him. Then the guy after him did the same thing, and the woman in front of _him_, all saying, “Hey, get home to your wife.” > > By the time I checked out, the whole line of strangers was wishing my wife a happy birthday. So, WTF was up with them, anyway? 🙂 I’m not sure it’s relevant, but no one in the line appeared less than seventy. I looove this. Made my day to read it. Thank you for sharing, and a belated Happy Birthday to your lovely wife, who is lucky to have a spouse who appreciates small kindnesses. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/123 "2011-05-27T19:50:47Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I had the opposite experience \*\*last month \*\*that put a shine on the rest of my day. I was fourth at the check-out lane of my local supermarket holding a small red velvet cake from the bakery. Everyone else had more items, but I didn’t have a problem with it since it wasn’t an express lane. I was chatting with the guy behind me and mentioned that **I was buying the cake for my wife’s birthday, which was today,** and that she had a weakness for red velvet cake. > > The guy in front of me heard and insisted that I get in line in front of him “since it’s your wife’s birthday.” After going around and around for a bit, I finally relented and stepped in front of him. Then the guy after him did the same thing, and the woman in front of _him_, all saying, “Hey, get home to your wife.” > > By the time I checked out, the whole line of strangers was wishing my wife a happy birthday. So, WTF was up with them, anyway? 🙂 I’m not sure it’s relevant, but no one in the line appeared less than seventy. Bolding mine. You bought your wifes cake a month before her birthday? Wow you caught yourself a good one there if she still loves you after the month old cake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/124 "2011-05-27T19:59:29Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Well, maybe you’ve also been traveling since 6 AM and are just fine with the walkway carrying you. Also maybe you hurt your leg cleaning out a gorilla cage. Also fuck you for your judgment, I stood on the right. > > ETA - this was, perhaps obviously, in response to airport moving walkways. I’ll assume this was a general “fuck you,” which would be rude but not against the rules, and not a specific “fuck you” against a particular person, which would be grounds for giving a warning. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/125 "2011-05-27T20:49:24Z")
We recently hired a new employee who is not just overtalkative but also has no professional filter. She is not malicious or anything, but she’s exactly the type of person who’ll ask nosy questions like “Why don’t you have any children?” Strangely, most people around here understand this about her and put up with her with a smile. I seem to be the only person aroundthat has low tolerance for her mental and verbal diarrhea, and avoid her because of it. Yesterday, on her way out of the door, she walked by my cubicle to say goodbye along with my cubicle neighbors. Instead of saying “bye, ywtf” she called me by some cutesified version of my real name. Okay, shouldn’t be a big deal, I know. But seriously, who told her it’s a good idea to make up nicknames for people that she doesn’t even know on that level? She apparently appended “–poo” to the end of our bosses name too (as in “Davidpoo”) and called him that to his face earlier. He’s a nice, easygoing fellow who probably let it slide, but seriously? WTF? You’re an entry-level cubicle rat who just started working here and you’re calling the top dog _Davidpoo_? I guess she could sense my disfavor with her nickname because she asked me if it was okay if she called me that. I said no, call me by my real name. “Okay, I don’t mind,” she said. You don’t _mind_? As if you’re doing me a favor by not calling me by some cutesy bullshit? WTF is wrong with you, woman? ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/126 "2011-05-27T21:08:35Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I’ve noticed that some of the most aggressive close-space competition is outside the local gym. Really? You need to be in the very closest possible space before you walk in to _use the treadmill_? [snip] I have a spin on this that you may not have considered. When I’m going to the YMCA to work out, I usually park as close as possible to the door… NOT because I don’t want to walk a long way before I start exercising, but because _after I’m done_ with my punishing bout of elliptical-machine-enhanced masochism, my legs are done in and I don’t want to walk too far BACK to my car. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/127 "2011-05-27T21:10:21Z")
By the way, MY personal WTF moment is the way my kids get harder and harder to wake up after the middle of the week. … “WTF” **does** stand for “Wednesday - Thursday - Friday,” right? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/128 "2011-05-27T21:24:57Z")
We just finished setting up an article to be printed by a contributor from a major financial corporation. When it came to his byline, there was a bit of a discrepancy. Kind of like if Cecil wrote an article for us, and his byline said “Special report by Cecil Adams, The Reader” and we’d only ever seen it as “Cecil Adams, The Chicago Reader”. No problem, all we have to do is call the PR or marketing department to make sure we’ve got it right and exactly the way they want to see it in print. We called the corporation’s main phone number at their head office, they connected us to an extension, and we followed the voicemail instructions on the outgoing message and emailed our question. The response: a freaked out email: “How did you get my name and email address???” Seriously? It turns out that they have a “media hotline” which goes to this person. She provides her name and email address on her voicemail, so you can send her non-urgent questions like ours… but then she’s totally freaked out when someone actually does exactly that? Fortunately, we got someone further up on the food chain when we called the head office again, who was quite nice and helped us out. Still, I can’t fathom why they have their media hotline go to someone who freaks out when someone uses it. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/129 "2011-05-27T21:33:49Z")
A few weeks ago, I was at the grocery store, in line at the self-checkout. The line was long and backed up into the general walking area. A woman walks up to me and growls, “I’m tryin’ to get through!” Really? You can’t say “excuse me”? Has our society really degenerated to the point where we act like this now? Really? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/130 "2011-05-27T21:36:43Z")
This actually happened several years ago, but every now and then I’ll think about it and get really angry. I was waiting to get something at the seafood counter when an older woman stepped up, so I let her go first. She asked the guy behind the counter about the price of crab legs, which he told her was $XX.xx per lb. She looked back at him and said, “Does that include the shell?” 😕 He was like yes, that’s how we buy it, so that’s how we sell it. Her response: “But I don’t eat the shell, so why should I pay for it?” I don’t care how old you are, I wanted to slap that woman. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/131 "2011-05-27T21:51:53Z")
I went for lunch today at a local taco place. There is a guy ordering, and two more guys standing in line behind him. First guy finished ordering and takes a seat. The other two guys stand there chatting away, oblivious. I wait for a bit, then tap one on the shoulder and say “I think she’s ready to take your order.” He says “Oh, we’re waiting for someone else, go ahead.” Ok, not that bad. A little clueless, but ok. Until I watch it happen FIVE MORE TIMES. Get out of the way, dumbshits! There’s plenty of room for you to wait somewhere else. There is, AT MOST, one other person in line at any given time. You don’t need to hold your spot! ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/132 "2011-05-27T21:59:06Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > This actually happened several years ago, but every now and then I’ll think about it and get really angry. I was waiting to get something at the seafood counter when an older woman stepped up, so I let her go first. She asked the guy behind the counter about the price of crab legs, which he told her was $XX.xx per lb. She looked back at him and said, “Does that include the shell?” 😕 He was like yes, that’s how we buy it, so that’s how we sell it. Her response: “But I don’t eat the shell, so why should I pay for it?” > > I don’t care how old you are, I wanted to slap that woman. I don’t see what the problem is there. If she had never purchased crab before, it doesn’t seem like a totally off-the-wall question. Here, people snap off the stems of portobello mushrooms and leave them in the produce bin because, if you’re paying by weight, not need to pay for the stem you’re going to throw out. There are a lot of other foods like that. I can see someone asking the question if they’ve never bought crab before, or if they’re unsure about the differing costs by weight of “crab _meat_” vs. “crab _legs_”. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/133 "2011-05-27T22:49:54Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > I don’t see what the problem is there. If she had never purchased crab before, it doesn’t seem like a totally off-the-wall question. Here, people snap off the stems of portobello mushrooms and leave them in the produce bin because, if you’re paying by weight, not need to pay for the stem you’re going to throw out. There are a lot of other foods like that. No, this is just asinine. Produce is sold intact because it keeps best that way, but people understand that the price is based on what is presented for sale Hell, most produce has a substantial portion that’s discarded in the kitchen, and you could “save” quite a bit if you only rung up the bits that were going in the pot. Break the bottoms of the asparagus, trim the tops off the leeks, rip the greens off your bunched carrots trim the stalk off your broccoli, go nuts! Except that that you’re stealing from your grocer, because they paid by weight for the intact item, and adding to their labour and waste management costs be leaving your trash in the produce bins for them to deal with. Oh, but don’t worry – they’ll just raise prices a bit so that people with a lick of sense can subsidize the solipsistic twits. If you see anyone doing this, kick them in the crotch, hard. After all, they’re doing it to you. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/134 "2011-05-28T01:34:43Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > I don’t see what the problem is there. If she had never purchased crab before, it doesn’t seem like a totally off-the-wall question. Here, people snap off the stems of portobello mushrooms and leave them in the produce bin because, if you’re paying by weight, not need to pay for the stem you’re going to throw out. There are a lot of other foods like that. > > I can see someone asking the question if they’ve never bought crab before, or if they’re unsure about the differing costs by weight of “crab _meat_” vs. “crab _legs_”. No, what those people are doing is called “stealing”. Breaking off pieces of produce so you don’t have to pay for parts you don’t want, which the grocer will now have to throw away even though they paid for them by weight, is as good as theft. And I don’t care if this lady had never even heard of what a crab was, she was staring at big stacks of crab legs sitting on ice in the cooler and pointing at them, so my guess is just going to be that she is fucking retarded and deserved to get slapped that day. Luck was on her side, however, and she did not in fact get hit for her stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/135 "2011-05-28T01:57:45Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > No, what those people are doing is called “stealing”. Breaking off pieces of produce so you don’t have to pay for parts you don’t want, which the grocer will now have to throw away even though they paid for them by weight, is as good as theft. And I don’t care if this lady had never even heard of what a crab was, she was staring at big stacks of crab legs sitting on ice in the cooler and pointing at them, so my guess is just going to be that she is fucking retarded and deserved to get slapped that day. Luck was on her side, however, and she did not in fact get hit for her stupidity. So the next time I buy bananas I can’t peel 'em before they’re weighed? (That’s my WTF comparison) ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/136 "2011-05-28T02:02:35Z")
No, of course you can do that! After all, you don’t _ **eat** _ the peels!! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/137 "2011-05-28T02:02:51Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > Wowzers, this thread has been very eye-opening for me! I haven’t felt bad about the things that I’ve said or written in a long time. Dickness and the quest for proficiency have always been aspects of my character, but I think my more recent plunge into the antisocial world of perfection seeking may have left me a little bit out of touch with reality. > > In my defense, I think my original post may have misrepresented the situation. I really did intend to go there to practice my own stuff regardless of whether or not there was anyone else in the room. Also, I often approach total strangers with “Are you learning Capoeira?” or “Hey, do you do any Jiu-Jitsu?”, and it typically leads to either “Nope, sorry.” or “Hey, yeah!” followed by swapping stories or rolling around like ninjas and having boatloads of fun, regardless of the other person’s skill level. I love taking on challenges, but I also love teaching people new things. Of course, the boatloads of fun outcome doesn’t happen very often, so maybe I was just frustrated because I was hoping Flailer McGoo would be one of those rare individuals that I could actually connect with. > > In any case, thanks to everyone who made a point of knocking me off of my high horse. I think we all need that from time to time. :applause: Nicely done. I just wanted to add, though, that sometimes people are incompetent not for lack of trying or because they haven’t learned the right skills, but because people simply aren’t and cannot be perfect, for a variety of reasons. I’m doing yoga right now and it has been one of the most humbling experiences of my life. It’s a beginning level class that I’m taking, but there are people in that class who have been doing yoga for years…decades even. And they still have to be corrected by the instructor. I’m the youngest person in the class and I’m in good physical shape, but I’m also the worse student. There are many poses that I just cannot do without assistance. It’s so easy to feel discouraged. But in yoga, you’re supposed to keep your attention on you and your own mat. Not on what other people are doing. The thing that keeps me going is when my instructor says, as she assists me with an asana,is that I’m doing a good job. She may very well be lying, but it makes me feel like I’m not a total tool. The next time you see that guy, compliment him on whatever he’s doing. A little encouragement goes a lot farther than criticism. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/138 "2011-05-28T02:03:23Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > No, this is just asinine. Produce is sold intact because it keeps best that way, but people understand that the price is based on what is presented for sale Hell, most produce has a substantial portion that’s discarded in the kitchen, and you could “save” quite a bit if you only rung up the bits that were going in the pot. Break the bottoms of the asparagus, trim the tops off the leeks, rip the greens off your bunched carrots trim the stalk off your broccoli, go nuts! Except that that you’re stealing from your grocer, because they paid by weight for the intact item, and adding to their labour and waste management costs be leaving your trash in the produce bins for them to deal with. Oh, but don’t worry – they’ll just raise prices a bit so that people with a lick of sense can subsidize the solipsistic twits. :rolleyes: Pfffft - Whatever. I totally bring my potato peeler with me to the grocery store. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/139 "2011-05-28T03:07:57Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Are you in Boston, by any chance? Boston has the worst drivers I have ever seen in the US. MADNESS. Why yes, yes I am. I have seen some amazing things on the roads here, but going around me at a red light seemed particularly insane. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170/140 "2011-05-28T03:16:35Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’ll assume this was a general “fuck you,” which would be rude but not against the rules, and not a specific “fuck you” against a particular person, which would be grounds for giving a warning. > > **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator Oh, apologies - yes, that was a general “fuck you”, not one directed at anybody in particular. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-your-wtf-moments-with-other-peoples-behavior/583170.md?page=8)