6 It sucks going through life always being angry about stuff that you have no control over. That’s how I used to be, but have been really working the last few years to just let it go. Somehow I still find myself in situations where there is a good chance of me having to slap someone silly. There’s one thing that will surely cause me to become unhinged, when someone laughs at me. Not like I slip because I am being an idiot, but when I am doing the “right thing” and some idiot decides that it’s funny. Believe it or not, this happened to me today.
I was on my way home from getting a prepared meal, so that we would not have to do any real cooking after the gym. I had also just bought a sandwich, and with 17 minutes until the lady was supposed to pick me up on her way home from work , I pulled my sandwich out to eat on my walk home. In doing so, I pulled out all of the napkins, which then began to blow everywhere in the wind. This was in front of a restaurant that is a popular hangout for ne’er-do-wells with trusts funds. Thus, one smug little twit in a stupid corduroy sport coat started laughing at me for jumping around to pick up all the napkins, which made the other dude and three girls he was with laugh too. I was not going to have this.
After collecting all my things, I walk right up to this pathetic excuse for a human being, and set my things on the table next to him. I then proceeded to ask him what exactly was funny, and why is was so. He looked me right in the eye and said “because you were jumping around like an idiot,” then turned to his friends to laugh, but they weren’t laughing. “Your parents obviously never taught you the proper manners of a gentleman, and though I would love to beat the snot out of you, you aren’t worth it.” He looked at me with this stupid grin like he had just won, but the last move was mine. His food had just arrived before he started laughing at me, and he had hardly eaten any of it. I casually picked his plate up, walked to the curb, dumped his food in the gutter, returned to the table, procured my things, and walked away. Nobody said anything.
No one got hurt, but a lesson was delivered.
6 Responses to “Something New”
mrprawn
SF is full of assholes like this. I never really had friendly neighbors until I moved closer to the Sierra Nevada foothills. Make your money and then leave SF.
Rhino
Santa Barbara is the plan.
Freebie
People in the Mission are the least ass-hole like. I lived there for a few years, now moved to Boston and every time I go back to SF I feel like everyone is so damn nice.
Marc David
You can’t escape assholes. SB would be cool. I’d have shot you with my mini AK47 from my purse.
Fully auto… 3 rounds. It’s wicked cool.
UncleBuccs
This guy was an obvious douche. An idiot doesn’t attempt to catch escaping paper flying in the wind….an asshole would just let it go without trying, essentially littering without giving a care.
elizamae
I love when people say: “there are so many assholes in ______, you need to move”.
Here’s a revelation: there are assholes EVERYWHERE. You will never escape them, and, it seems, they are attracted to you like the opposite pole of a magnet.
If you move because of the people of locale A, you may enjoy a brief respite in your new location, but trust me, the same type of people are there, and they will eventually work their way into your life…if you let them.
Unless we plan on moving to a 200 acre ranch in the middle on north-central Wyoming, we will never escape the idiocy.