# Stories of the abuse of service folk **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665 "2010-04-28T20:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/101 "2010-05-02T20:26:36Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > Like I said I didn’t do it very hard, maybe I shouldn’t of used the word “slammed”. It was more like I brought his head down to the counter. Mentally challenged or not, which is what I think you liberal weenies have a problem with, someone tries to assualt me which he did in the first place. I’m allowed to defend myself. > > So get bent. You’re a really, really shitty speller. And sentence constructor. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/102 "2010-05-02T20:33:07Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > You’re a really, really shitty speller. And sentence constructor. > > Carry on. Personal insults aren’t allowed in MPSIMS. Knock it off. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/103 "2010-05-02T20:58:24Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Personal insults aren’t allowed in MPSIMS. Knock it off. > > **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator So, move the thread, **twickster**. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/104 "2010-05-02T21:14:49Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > So, move the thread, **twickster**. :dubious: If y’all want to take the **Ibanez** hijack to the Pit, go ahead – most people are posting other stuff that’s completely MPSIMS appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/105 "2010-05-02T21:29:50Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > :dubious: > > If y’all want to take the **Ibanez** hijack to the Pit, go ahead – most people are posting other stuff that’s completely MPSIMS appropriate. Okay. Noted. Sorry for the testiness. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/106 "2010-05-03T00:08:51Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > So, move the thread, **twickster**. I guess this outburst can’t really be considered threadjacking since it provides such a good example of what the OP was requesting. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/107 "2010-05-03T00:52:13Z")
> [@Dan\_Norder](#): > > I guess this outburst can’t really be considered threadjacking since it provides such a good example of what the OP was requesting. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/108 "2010-05-03T07:38:08Z")
When I was a room service waiter, very briefly, one night I took an open faced roast beef sandwich to a room. The guy who opened the door said “It fucking took you long enough! Put it on the table!” I apologized, though really it hadn’t been that long at all, but he wouldn’t hear it- just “Mother fucker this” and “where’s the fucking au jus” that and then he called me faggot and insulted my mother. I kicked him in the nuts and left the room. This hotel had a balcony that overlooked a 14 story atrium. As I was leaving he ran out of the room and hit me in the head with an ashtray. I turned and gave him two right jabs, the second knocking out his bottom teeth, which wasn’t hard since he was wearing dentures, but he countered by pulling a vintage Tab bottle (one of those with the speckled glass), breaking it on the head of a passing room attendant, and jabbing it into my midsection. You can imagine his surprise when he drew blood from the parasitic twin I had at the time but I expressed cold indifference! From a maid’s cart I took a pillowcase and 16 C-cell batteries (quite serendipitous since nothing in the rooms ran on C-cells) and went to town on him. He deflected many of the blows with his walker, but one blow knocked out his left eye, though he had a spare in a small bag around his neck. As I moved in for the coup de grace he pulled a .38 snubnose and emptied it into my scrotum; years later I had to have three of my testicles removed just before a tennis match. I lost it and went at him mano a mano, the two of us locked like Moriarty and Holmes at Reichenbach Falls, and soon we went 14 stories through the atrium crashing through the stained glass roof above the pool. (Today it’s a law that when there are atriums more than 12 stories there must be a balcony, but at the time this wasn’t the case.) Finding a Bowie knife in a glass case that had been opened by our fall (the hotel gift shop only sold things associated with Alamo personalities, which was odd) I held him face down and scalped him. I thought he was done for, but as I was giving an Arapaho victory dance he used his prosthetic left arm to trip me and I fell into a display of Jim Dickinson bobbleheads, grabbed a Mexican saber and said “It’s deguello, bitch!”, but by that time the store manager arrived and asked us to leave, and neither of us being savages we complied. By this time we’d calmed down a bit, and we said “No hard feelings”, and he learned to be less abusive in the future, and I learned that some things you have to just let roll off you like blood off a scalp wound. Then I learned the son of a bitch didn’t put a tip on his room bill! That _really_ pissed me off. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/109 "2010-05-03T07:59:26Z")
Boy, **Sampiro** , if I had a nickel for every time that happened to me … ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/110 "2010-05-03T13:41:49Z")
> [@Dan\_Norder](#): > > I guess this outburst can’t really be considered threadjacking since it provides such a good example of what the OP was requesting. Oh, come now. Everybody knows that mods aren’t human, ergo they have no ego to bruise.😉 ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/111 "2010-05-03T13:45:11Z")
**Sampiro** - Meh. I could do all that loaded and with one arm tied behind me back. _That’s_ how tuff _I_ am. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/112 "2010-05-04T00:33:33Z")
:D::gives **Sampiro** a standing ovation::😃 ---
**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 4, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/113 "2010-05-04T00:47:45Z")
Oh my god you guys - **Sampiro’s** story is totally made up - **NOBODY** orders an _open faced_ roast beef sandwich at a hotel. You’re all so gullible. ---
**Author:** ![Beerman1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@Beerman1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beerman1963)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/114 "2010-05-04T01:51:15Z")
By og if that store manager had done that to me… lets just say it would have been on:p ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/115 "2010-05-04T02:43:15Z")
> [@Beerman1963](#): > > Did phone support for a company that made a product for the retail auto industry. > Now picture talking to car salesmen all day about a product that prevented them from showing a car when it did not function as planned(it stored and retrieved keys). Number one "I am gonna push this (insert favorite word here) machine out in the middle of the road… Thanks a heap for making me remember the job I had answering phones for a computer leasing company. One particularly memorable customer decided he no longer wanted the very large computer he’d been leasing. Not surprisingly, he didn’t want to pay to ship the thing back to us (freight - did I mention this thing was _heavy_?), despite the fact that the contract made it clear that getting it back to us was _his_ problem. The conversation ended with him asserting that he was going to wheel it out to the parking lot and leave it there until we sent someone to pick it up :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/116 "2010-05-04T03:47:06Z")
Well, pretty much the whole Sampiro ranticle is a work of glory, but, particularly delighting in: " You can imagine his surprise when he drew blood from the parasitic twin I had at the time but I expressed cold indifference!" And, where can ya get a Jim Dickinson bobblehead??? The mo’ better half of Memphis wants to know. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/117 "2010-05-04T04:56:53Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > Lesson learned here - not everyone reads every thread, esp the more ridiculous ones. > > Sorry for the hijack, it was just a parody. :o I thought it was funny! ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665/118 "2010-05-04T07:06:54Z")
I’ve been working as a bouncer for 11 years. Most of the really bad customer stories I know end with some degree of violence, but I don’t want to seem to be suffering from ITGS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-of-the-abuse-of-service-folk/537665.md?page=5)