# You're all being really weird about this **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718 "2018-02-28T01:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/41 "2018-02-28T03:21:26Z")
How long have you been off the meth? Could be your damaged brain is overreacting. No? Then you’re just dumb if you think a bunch if goofs on a message board, in the pit, are gonna care. You are delusional if you think so. Sorry, 3rd time, call your Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/42 "2018-02-28T03:27:52Z")
It seems to me that expecting a response to a complaint is four days is being unreasonable, especially when the allegations in it would have to be investigated. I’d expect three weeks at a minumim. And I’m sure that if the transit company found after the investigation, that they driver had done something wrong, and was thus deserving of sanction, then her union would step in and defend her. I doubt you’ll see your desired outcome (the driver’s termination) for a long, long time; if it is indeed deserved. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/43 "2018-02-28T03:37:32Z")
> [@lucid-nonsense](#): > > I was in the mental institution because I threw a printer off my balcony for not coming with a charging cable. You probably shouldn’t have told them you had killed your Brother. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/44 "2018-02-28T03:43:33Z")
OP: None of your tales make any sense. If you had the route map on your goddam phone, you knew where the bus was going. If you had transfers in your hand you could have handed them to the bus driver and sat down and shut the fuck up and got driven to the airport. And you claimed in post #4 in the closed thread that you had proof of all these terrible things that were happening to you, but all you linked to was a Twitter page with something totally incoherent about you crying over a dog on a bus, which was apparently also the transit system’s fault. Nice job throwing a printer off your balcony, but no one gets committed to a mental hospital for that. They might get charged with mischief or reckless endangerment or something, but for that to trigger a mental assessment, it would have to be part of an already established pattern of irrational behavior. I don’t mean to seem unsympathetic, but all your stories seem to be missing significant facts – facts that one suspects would considerably change the nature of the story – or else they’re completely incoherent. It’s no surprise that no one takes you seriously. You need some Valium and some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/45 "2018-02-28T03:47:57Z")
> [@lucid-nonsense](#): > > I was in the mental institution because I threw a printer off my balcony for not coming with a charging cable. I hadn’t slept for quite some time and I’m not gonna lie, some amphetamine logic might have been involved. But I’m an otherwise normal person. This whole issue of yours with the bus driver seems like amphetamine logic. ---
**Author:** ![lucid-nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lucid-nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucid-nonsense)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/46 "2018-02-28T03:49:55Z")
Unlike what you contend, I am not a crazy person and I can tell when I am not wanted somewhere, so I will stop posting. Just ask yourselves, would you honestly say I was given a fair listen? Don’t answer me, ask the question to yourself. I mean, come on. I’m only allowed to talk in the Pit, where people immediately make fun of me. Do you actually think you’re being fair? If you come to the conclusion that I wasn’t given a proper listen, don’t worry about it too much, no one except my friends and family have believed me so far. Honestly, it took me some time to believe it myself, which is the only reason I didn’t spit in that CUNT’s face. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/47 "2018-02-28T03:51:01Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > OP: None of your tales make any sense. If you had the route map on your goddam phone, you knew where the bus was going. If you had transfers in your hand you could have handed them to the bus driver and sat down and shut the fuck up and got driven to the airport. > > And you claimed in post #4 in the closed thread that you had proof of all these terrible things that were happening to you, but all you linked to was a Twitter page with something totally incoherent about you crying over a dog on a bus, which was apparently also the transit system’s fault. > > Nice job throwing a printer off your balcony, but no one gets committed to a mental hospital for that. They might get charged with mischief or reckless endangerment or something, but for that to trigger a mental assessment, it would have to be part of an already established pattern of irrational behavior. > > I don’t mean to seem unsympathetic, but all your stories seem to be missing significant facts – facts that one suspects would considerably change the nature of the story – or else they’re completely incoherent. It’s no surprise that no one takes you seriously. You need some Valium and some sleep. I would amend this to just get some sleep. Don’t take anything. ---
**Author:** ![lucid-nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lucid-nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucid-nonsense)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/48 "2018-02-28T03:51:33Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > OP: None of your tales make any sense. If you had the route map on your goddam phone, you knew where the bus was going. If you had transfers in your hand you could have handed them to the bus driver and sat down and shut the fuck up and got driven to the airport. > > And you claimed in post #4 in the closed thread that you had proof of all these terrible things that were happening to you, but all you linked to was a Twitter page with something totally incoherent about you crying over a dog on a bus, which was apparently also the transit system’s fault. > > Nice job throwing a printer off your balcony, but no one gets committed to a mental hospital for that. They might get charged with mischief or reckless endangerment or something, but for that to trigger a mental assessment, it would have to be part of an already established pattern of irrational behavior. > > I don’t mean to seem unsympathetic, but all your stories seem to be missing significant facts – facts that one suspects would considerably change the nature of the story – or else they’re completely incoherent. It’s no surprise that no one takes you seriously. You need some Valium and some sleep. Of course I don’t make sense. It’s pretty hard to make sense if you just close my threads? Seriously, I’m not mad, like I said, even I can barely believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/49 "2018-02-28T03:56:49Z")
The reason you keep having your threads closed is because you’re ranting and raving all over the place. Calm the fuck down and accept that people are going to disagree with you. (And if this is how you act when you’re not mad, I shudder to think what you’re like when you’re pissed off. Again, chillax) ---
**Author:** ![lucid-nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lucid-nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucid-nonsense)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/50 "2018-02-28T04:12:30Z")
Am I swearing? Am I shouting? Sorry, I guess this is over text, but I’m trying to sound calm? I’m not sure why you think I’m freaking out or something. I’m not sure how to convince you that I am thinking rationally right now? I’m sorry I shared that incident about the mental institution, I swore not to sleep before she got fired, maybe not the best idea, I agree. But try doing something crazy for someone you love once, maybe you will actually like it. Sorry, I know I said I would stop posting, but some people seem to want me to stop (snfaulkner and that mod) for good, some to stop for now (cochrane and wolfpup), some not to mind one way or the other (Guinastasia). But no one actually wants to hear my story? Really? I haven’t given you any background info about my experiences as part of an interracial couple. It’s pretty crucial to understanding why I’m convinced it was racism. But mostly, this story is about a POWER CUNT who happens to be racist. I mean, we’ve seen racists before, don’t you think? We’ve been dating for three years and we’ve traveled all over the world. This woman was special. I mean, I’ve dated mostly French-Canadian girls with light brown skin and now I’m dating an English woman with dark brown skin – just calling a spade a spade here, snow is white, coal is black, skin is shades of brown or shades of pink. I should be well-placed to speak, no? Seriously, I sound crazy to you? This is rambling? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/51 "2018-02-28T04:16:37Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > You probably shouldn’t have told them you had killed your Brother. Okay, that took me a second, but bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/52 "2018-02-28T04:19:00Z")
> [@lucid-nonsense](#): > > Nobody has explained to me why I can’t get a denial or an explanation. It should take less than an hour to find her and ask her version of the events. There were also witnesses. They will forget if this doesn’t happen quickly. In fact, that is probably what they are counting on. Dude, people grounded in reality are fully aware that bus routes take more than an hour to get through. Those same people are also fully aware that yanking a driver off a bus for a complaint without little or no substantiation isn’t an easy proposition–you have to have another driver handy to finish the route, you need to transport the substitute driver to the bus already en route and to transport the substituted driver to the main office and then either back to her en route bus or to the appropriate dispatching center, you also need to inform the union shop steward and check a few other things in advance. All of this is necessary for two reasons: (1) simple logic, and (2) as you’ve been told a number of times, unionized shops exist. Look, you’re not being rational at all about this. What really happened? Stick to answering that question and leave motivation out of the equation. After all, there is no way for you to know the driver’s motivation. Do you want someone treated unfairly because you were treated unfairly in your opinion? How does that make sense? What you should want is for a valid and verifiable issue to be disposed of correctly and legally. And try to get a grip on reality. You’re spewing and, by your own admission, acting badly (“spamming their social media”). That ain’t being real, dude. ---
**Author:** ![lucid-nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lucid-nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucid-nonsense)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/53 "2018-02-28T04:20:44Z")
Seriously, this woman humiliated us because she enjoyed it; the racism was the excuse. She still needs to go. For me, it was just a devastating glimpse into what my girlfriend had to endure her entire life. Nobody believes that I love this woman this much and that it happened EXACTLY as I describe it. The conversation lasted less than 15 seconds. No rude words were said by anyone. We knew which bus we were taking, we just wanted to make sure. The driver straight-up lied to make us believe it was the wrong bus. We wanted to confirm it was the right bus. She told us to give her tickets or get off her bus. I believed her (I was convinced it was the wrong bus at that point, I had no reason to suspect her of lying), so I got off the bus without an argument. I was just confused as to why she was telling us so rudely. The airport was only 20 minutes walk away so we figured we’d walk. Then when she passed by the gears started turning that there was NO way that was honest confusion. Come on, do I sound hysterical? Quit acting like I’m foaming at the mouth because I was arrested once. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/54 "2018-02-28T04:21:48Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > You probably shouldn’t have told them you had killed your Brother. :D:D:D ETA: What **Green Bean** said. . ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/55 "2018-02-28T04:22:51Z")
It sounds crazy if you are not sleeping. You know you get really irrational with less than 2 nights sleep. After that all bets are off, you could be thinking and acting like psychotic idiot or hallucinate. Humans get weird really fast without sleep. Go to bed. It will look very different in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/56 "2018-02-28T04:27:03Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Here’s an alternative scenario: > > LN boards bus with girlfriend. “Does this bus go to the airport?” > > BusDriver (who has been asked this question umpty-gazillion times already today decides to play dumb), “I dunno”. > > LN already has his smartphone out, and starts getting stroppy with the bus driver, points to his phone. “Whaddya mean YOU DON’T KNOW. LOOK, LOOK HERE!!!” (wildly pointing at phone). > > Passengers are starting to bank up behind LN and his girlfriend. > > BusDriver, realising she has a somewhat crazy bastard onboard says, “Dude, gimme your tickets and move into the bus please” Here’s an alternate alternative: it’s possible that, as a policy matter, the drivers are flatly told _not to answer those questions_; figure management never wants a guy who went to the wrong place to sputter _“B-B-But the bus driver said”_ — and so the clear message from on high, which HR emphasizes in training and tests them on every six weeks, is Hey Just Make The Scheduled Stops And Collect Tickets. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/57 "2018-02-28T04:27:45Z")
Yes, you are rambling. Also, so you know, you are far from the only person on this Board, let alone the world, who is in an inter-racial relationship. You are not in a unique position to speak to this. If you have something new to add as to why you did not just hand her your tickets and sit down, by all means, go ahead. Otherwise, you need to explain to your beloved that justice is taking longer than you thought and you will have to sleep, then get some sleep. The level of mania you are throwing off in your posts is staggering. ---
**Author:** ![lucid-nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lucid-nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucid-nonsense)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/58 "2018-02-28T04:29:55Z")
Ah, sorry, I failed to focus on some crucial info. This is SO DEEP British Columbia. I chose this spot specifically to go to Whitewater, a ski resort famous for its lack of crowds, if that even makes sense. This place is REMOTE. This is the bus we were trying to take on Google Maps, [Google Maps](https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Selkirk+College,+Frank+Beinder+Way,+Castlegar,+BC/West+Kootenay+Regional+Airport,+Highway+3%2F3A,+Castlegar,+BC/@49.3045725,-117.652459,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x53632b552050cb2d:0x8bb79dc8bb57317c!2m2!1d-117.652355!2d49.3117995!1m5!1m1!1s0x53632ca47d8baf4b:0x3ef160669884597c!2m2!1d-117.633984!2d49.2973462!3e3?dcr=0) (Sorry, I don’t know how to make that look prettier). Use Street View and ask yourself if it’s realistic that she wouldn’t know if the bus goes to the airport. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/59 "2018-02-28T04:30:11Z")
> [@lucid-nonsense](#): > > Seriously, this woman humiliated us because she enjoyed it; How do you know she enjoyed it? > [@](#): > > the racism was the excuse. NO. Racism is what you assume to be the excuse. Do you know the old adage about “assume”? > [@](#): > > She still needs to go. If a proper investigation determines that she, in fact, did do something wrong, then what needs to happen is that she is disciplined per the matrix in the union’s agreement with the company. Your opinion on what needs to happen is absolutely irrelevant and, I might add, is kind of silly for an adult in 2018 to say. > [@](#): > > For me, it was just a devastating glimpse into what my girlfriend had to endure her entire life. It might also be a glimpse into what she’ll have to deal with. Take a while to see if you get what I mean there. > [@](#): > > Nobody believes that I love this woman this much and that it happened EXACTLY as I describe it. Whether you love or or not is 100% irrelevant to what you purport to have happened. And if you didn’t happen to have tickets to show, you’re trying to sprint in quicksand. > [@](#): > > The conversation lasted less than 15 seconds. No rude words were said by anyone. We knew which bus we were taking, we just wanted to make sure. The driver straight-up lied to make us believe it was the wrong bus. We wanted to confirm it was the right bus. She told us to give her tickets or get off her bus. I believed her (I was convinced it was the wrong bus at that point, I had no reason to suspect her of lying), so I got off the bus without an argument. I was just confused as to why she was telling us so rudely. The airport was only 20 minutes walk away so we figured we’d walk. Then when she passed by the gears started turning that there was NO way that was honest confusion. Again, nothing in that story lends credence to your idea that the driver enjoyed the incident or that racism was the reason. > [@](#): > > Come on, do I sound hysterical? Quit acting like I’m foaming at the mouth because I was arrested once. No, you don’t sound hysterical. What shows hysteria is your rapid posting of multiple threads on the same issue and in the wrong fora even after you’ve been explained the proper thread and your beating to death what you want to happen immediately to the driver even after you’ve been told what a valid investigation by the bus company would entail. It might help your health to calm down and learn some patience. ---
**Author:** ![lucid-nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lucid-nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucid-nonsense)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718/60 "2018-02-28T04:31:31Z")
I’ve slept the entire night at the hospital and a complete night after. I am in full possession of my faculties. Look at my previous thread on free will and ask yourself if I am crazy? I think I’m shockingly articulate for a crazy person, but… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-all-being-really-weird-about-this/809718.md?page=4)