Yeticus Rex has it spot on. You got pwned, if I am using the lingo correctly.
You sound like a really smart, funny, interesting person. Someone I would really enjoy bantering with in a Jeneane Garofalo sort of way. But you are profoundly immature - and you know it.
Was flipping the kid off funny? Absolutely - I snickered when I read the OP. But only in a “funny on a TV show” sort of way.
As other posters have stated, impulse control is learned. Was the kid in the wrong for saying that? No question. In a fantasy, watch-Zach-Braff-on-Scrubs-act-out-his-impulse-sort-of-way, is what you did something we all wish we could do? Again, absolutely. Was it even remotely okay in real life? Please. Grow up.
And I am sorry about the pig. But that’s no excuse.
I didn’t realize this was a debate in which I needed to defend myself from getting pwned. If you can’t handle a few minor altercations in public (rarely with children…i’m not proud of this) then you probably wouldn’t like me in general. Whats so great about being a mature adult who’s mastered the art of propriety anyways? I don’t want to be on my death bed thinking “man I really wish I flipped that asshole the bird”
I went to school I have a job I work hard. I walk my dog I pay my rent but GOD DAMN Don’t you guys find controlling yourself incredibly exhausting? Maybe I’m just overly belligerent. I don’t want to get any more self analytical because I’m starting to annoy myself.
I’m with you, man. This whole freaking world is overrun with people who don’t, I don’t see why I should be the one to blink first. Let them meet me half way. I have said it earlier, but that kid is being raised wrong. It never would have occured to me to do that to an adult as a child. Fuck 'em.
Well, I’m certainly willing to give you a pass on it. You just had to put down an animal friend & was trying to relax & didn’t need anyone’s crap. But be careful when dealing with other people’s kids.
It all depends on your point of view. I don’t want to be on my deathbed thinking “man I really wish I hadn’t thrown my Diet Coke in the face of that greeter at Walmart when he asked me to step outside and put out my cigarette.”
I really don’t. I’m just not that angry. My husband, now…he can fly off the handle about any little thing. (Not at me, I’m thinking more specifically here of how he is when he’s driving). Don’t you find anger incredibly exhausting?
I’m with you, sweetie. Just reading this thread makes me wanna take a nap.
BTW, the kid in the OP was outta line. if one of my kids said something like that (and i’m sure they did) I’d factor the bird they received into the explanation of why they shouldn’t comment about other people in public. Now when we are alone and in private, we can really dish the dirt…
Seriously, I recall more than once instructing my kids not to comment about things until we got into the car with the doors closed. Perhaps they would be leaving an activity, and would be eager to talk about who did what right and who did what wrong. Or out in public like at a mall. Or leaving church, if they were going to be critical about the service or attendees. Our consistent line was that such opinions should not be aired in public where they might be overheard. We knew the point had stuck when they occasionally repeated the instruction to us!
Okay you guys think I’m way bigger of a bitch than I am. I follow the rules. I was OUTSIDE walking down the sidewalk and the ahole/mother/baby/car cluster was parallel parked on the opposite side of the street (residential street not hugeass street) There was no way the kid could smell/inhale my second hand smoke.
Because I have to wait a long long time for a machine to warm up in the lab, I will draw you a diagram of what happened. (not to scale)
I also want to point out that I unlike most people pick up my cigarette butts and throw them away in the garbage can instead of just leaving them on the street/sidewalk.
All right, lobstermobster, you’ve won me over with your l33t drawing skillz. My example with the Walmart greeter was a bad one. I still think controlling your temper is a good thing, and flipping off a kid is bad, but I’m willing to give you a pass on the McDonald’s incident from your subsequent description, and I’m sure that you’re not a bitch. I retract the word “jerk” from my first post in this thread.
If ever you meet my five-year-old, I promise he won’t say anything about your cigarette, and I hope you’ll be nice to him too.
P.S. Kudos on picking up your cigarette butts. Another big point in your favour in my book. If Alphagene were still around (ex-moderator who was involved in a long discussion once about cigarette butts in the street), I hope he would be inspired by your example.
