Where was he parked?
I agree. Why should I respect people just because they choose to serve multinationals?
Someone who hasn’t seen him in a long while.
Nobody who isn’t weird would take her brother to prom.
Oh, yeah, Morbo, he was parked in the “Reserved for Our Over-65 Friends” spot, but forgot to put it in Park…
(I threw in the “pillaged” comment because he held up our line while he found exactly $1.87 in change from the pockets of his tweed sport coat.)
Man, CondoRobot, there are much better targets out there than a polite serviceman.
Or can’t get a date otherwise. And there’s nothing wrong with that. She SHOULD have been able to be escorted to prom by her brother, all sharply dressed in his uniform (and to add: I was surprised to see this guy had a high and tight haircut. Air Force personnel are generally encouraged to grow beards and neck hair since they normally aren’t required to do anything).
I do in fact do all my own shopping and have never had this experience. Not once.
I thought maybe it was Kentucky until I read the article.
Nobody who isn’t weird thinks this is weird.
Seriously, people have family members take them to prom all the time. It’s so well known it shows up on sitcoms. Sure, people usually prefer going with a boyfriend or girlfriend, but that’s not always possible.
And, because I know it will come up, I didn’t go at all. At the time I didn’t really want to go. Now I regret that I never had that experience. Stupid MORP proselytizers.
Same here. I’ve been in line behind uniformed servicemembers while retail clerks offered or gave them military discounts, but I’ve never heard a servicemember ask for one.
I have a feeling that what the OP calls “shamelessly begging for a military discount” might merely mean “casually inquiring whether the establishment in question happens to offer a military discount”, though.
If it’s customary for many retail establishments to knock down their prices to servicemembers, I don’t see why people who qualify for such discounts shouldn’t be free to ask politely whether a discount is available (as long as they’re willing to take no for an answer, of course).
By the way, AFAICT the OP has still not cited any specific instances of actual misconduct on the part of the military personnel he’s inviting us to get mad at.
Mind you, I’m well aware that there have been in the past and doubtless continue to be various instances of actual misconduct, sometimes very grave ones, on the part of military personnel. But if you haven’t got a specific recent accusation to put on the table, your generic-outrage Pitting tends to fall pretty flat.
Of course, Condescending Robot is typically so tightly wound that it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the mere fact of somebody requesting permission for a 22-year-old servicemember to attend a 21-and-under prom was enough all by itself to send him into a frothing rage at the brutal injustice of military privilege. But if he wants any of us less white-knuckled posters to join in on his Two Minutes’ Hate against arrogant soldiery, it seems to me he needs to dig up some cites of things a reasonable person could get upset about.
They do seem entitled. I saw a guy get military discount once. Then he ass raped the cashier and asked me for directions to the local movie theatre.
I’ve asked if stores have a military discount before because a lot do and you just don’t know about it. If they say they don’t I say, "that’s all right " and then pay whatever the total is.
And i still rock my high and tight. The wife likes it and it actually works with my hair.
Sweet weird sisters who are so relieved their brothers are no longer a walking target for xenophobic religious totalitarian zealots behind every rock that they give up a shot at getting raped by Johnny football hero to proudly show them off would.
Bless sweet sisters cotton socks.
But yeah, as to the OP, to hell with those entitled life risking soldiers thinking we owe them anything but getting fatter and whiter as we waste away leaving our beds unmade for weeks on end until mom threatens to throw our lazy gamer asses out on the street if we don’t at least look for a job. This is America home of the whiney douche who can’t stand to wait in line baby.
If you read the reddit post on this, the Airman got pretty much trashed by Soldiers. So it ain’t Soldiers who feel the sense of entitlement. It is only assholes in the Military who want to score with under-age chicks that feel that this is acceptable.
SFC Schwartz
Or lack thereof.
(just jealous, because you can never have a Bad Hair Day)
The Air Force is not military. Technically only the Army is “military”.
But OP if you want to froth at the mouth at military misbehaviour, this story was right in your link.
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Maj. John E. Jackson, 37, and Carolyn Jackson, 35, force-fed their three adopted children hot sauce and red pepper flakes, broke their bones, refused them medical attention and deprived them of water, said U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman
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Now there’s some misconduct a reasonable person can get upset about. Yikes. :eek:
Well, we aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
We’re just single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”,
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind
When there’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
It’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind.
From “Tommy”, Rudyard Kipling.