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Topic: The "What makes me go insane!" thread
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 10-06-2009 12:24 AM
Going off the recent discussion of screaming babies in the random video links thread....
Yeah.
Screaming babies do make me go insane. Seriously. I'm not afraid to admit it. I'm pretty sure it is the main reason I chose not to become a parent. I just can't deal with that shit.
But yeah. Yes, I understand that is how babies are and I'm willing to overlook the screaming baby factor when the baby is screaming in an appropriate environment.
What makes me really go insane about this is when the parents make selfishly idiotic decisions to place the baby in a combination of time and environment where an infant, much less one screaming the air out of its lungs, should NEVER be present.
Example. Sometimes I choose to go grocery shopping at midnight so I don't have to put up with the hoards of people, which include screaming babies and ADD infected kids, clogging the aisles. Nevertheless, I could visit "Wally World" at 3:00am and still be guaranteed to be hearing some lady's 8 month old infant screaming like the end of the world if fixing to take place. Why is this kid awake at all, much less out of the house at freaking "Wally World?" WTMF?? The baby should have been in bed over 6 hours ago.
BTW, what the hell is it with so many parents these days that they never seem to ever have any set bed times for their damned kids? What the hell is that? I'll answer that rhetorical question: the parents are weak pussies.
When I was in elementary school, my bedtime was 8:00pm. It didn't matter if the sun was still up. If me and my brother farted around trying to delay heading to bed we got one hell of an ass whipping. No flexibility. None. Once I got to middle school age the bed time got extended to 10:00pm or 11:00pm. And that's where it stayed throughout high school. We only got to stay up late on weekends. That was it. These days it seems pretty normal to me to see elementary school age kids having no fucking set bed time at all.
And we wonder why the rest of the developed world is kicking our ass in terms of math and science scores (and probably kicking our ass in a growing number of areas we are too proud to admit).
I'm really glad I'm not stuck on long distance air flights very often. I think I'd flip my lid if I had to listen to a baby screaming for 6 hours straight while belted into a coach seat. If I knew I would have to put up with that nonsense I'd take some really serious drugs right after boarding the flight, my work place's company wide piss tests be damned!
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 10-07-2009 11:55 PM
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this one already: people who try to use $100 bills to pay for stuff at stores that cannot take $100 bills. What makes me insane is when the $100 bill holder gets all pissy and starts a scene with the cashier.
Several years I got into it with some dude at the gas station near my house. I was in there buying a soda pop. This guy ahead of me in line tries to pay for his fuel and snacks with a $100 bill, despite the signs at the register clearly stating they cannot accept bills larger than $20. When the cashier refused to take $100 bill man's C-note he flipped out and started yelling at the lady.
"You have to take this $100! It's legal tender! By law you have to take it," he shouted. The young lady behind the counter could only respond with the polite yes sir, no sir bit. He just wasn't backing down, despite several people standing in line behind him while he threw his shit fit.
I had enough of $100 bill man abusing this lady. So I said, "hey asshole. Yeah, I called you an asshole. She can't since she works here. Why don't you pull out a smaller bill or a credit card and pay for your stuff that way? You KNOW why they can't bills larger than a $20, yet you're trying to pass a $100 bill anyway. Are you trying to impress someone?" I'll bet that jackass likes entering stores through the exit door instead of the entrance.
The $100 bill man pulled some other money out of his wallet, paid for his stuff and left in a huff. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have said anything at all to the guy. Seriously, he could have punched out my lights or stabbed me in the neck for all I know. It just pissed me off that he wouldn't stop yelling at this lady when she couldn't yell back at him without being fired for it.
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