When I was a six foot tall, whipcord lean, blue eyed and apparently cute seventeen year old, I signed up to a temp agency for summer work. I was given a job at an apartment store who then assigned me to the women's lingerie section where I spent several months being low key molested by middle aged women who required my opinion on bra fittings.
In retrospect I think that probably helped quite a lot of people buy more expensive and decadent bras.
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My place of employment has a classic arcade standup game, loaded with about 300+ classic games on it. I don't know where it came from, but it came with the power to turn a great many of the men in my office into assholes.
I was playing a bubble popper game this afternoon and one of the menfolk ambled up and started chanting, "High score, high score!" to encourage me I guess? I didn't respond to him, and before he walked away, he sneered, "You're going to have to be faster than that."
This is the second, maybe third time I've dealt with this. Just leave me the fuck alone and let me have my decompressing bubble pop game, OKAY? FFS.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
@Cupcake WHAT THE FUCK? That's ridiculous. Those dudes are seriously just pissing all over that territory.
@Cupcake said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My place of employment has a classic arcade standup game, loaded with about 300+ classic games on it. I don't know where it came from, but it came with the power to turn a great many of the men in my office into assholes.
I was playing a bubble popper game this afternoon and one of the menfolk ambled up and started chanting, "High score, high score!" to encourage me I guess? I didn't respond to him, and before he walked away, he sneered, "You're going to have to be faster than that."
This is the second, maybe third time I've dealt with this. Just leave me the fuck alone and let me have my decompressing bubble pop game, OKAY? FFS.
Sounds like a horrible attempt at flirtation, like pulling on pigtails or some archaic thing like that.
Maybe. He better not do that if I’m playing Marvel vs. Capcom.
So weird. Like 45 minutes ago there was an explosion that I heard from my house, I figured it was just some idiot lighting off firecrackers or whatever, until my friends that live closer to city center's fb pages started lighting up about a high impact explosion that set off car alarms, broke some windows, rattled others, could be noticeably felt in the house/apartment, ect. Police, the fire department, and a ton of journalists are running around everywhere knocking on doors, blocking off streets, ect now trying to find the source, but there's nothing. Not a fire, we do have a ton of new buildings going up so I would imagine they're going to be stuck going to all the new construction, ect. So weird. I am thinking maybe a meteorite? But usually you see those, especially one big enough to shatter windows/set off alarms! But I'll take mystery explosion with no evidence it happened and make the tinfoil UFO people happy over a building collapse or real explosion where people are hurt!
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I thought I-35 was annoying for people merging at ridiculous moments ('Oh there's half a car-length open? lemme merge on in.'), but the route I take on my new commute is worse.
Been at the new job a week and I've twice now had people try to force me out of my lane by merging in on top of me.
Motherfuckers I have severe depression. I would welcome a severe, life-threatening accident that I am not at fault for. Bring it on.
Stories like that make me miss my Cadillac. Before you go thinking I was all fancy, no. Nooooooo. That car was almost as old as I was when I started driving it at 19. Before I inherited it, it had been "totalled" twice according to the insurance company. It had a solid steel frame and a curb weight of nearly 4,000 lbs. A van hit me once. Not a minivan. A full size cargo van. There was more damage to the van than my Cadillac.
It was like... go ahead, fucker. Hit me. We'll see how this works out for you.
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There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello
I have a Fiat 500. Most things would destroy me.
But I also just... don't care. It's not like I drive horridly reckless or anything. I mean they're the ones who decide, while side-by-side with my vehicle when I'd have no way of seeing a turn signal.... to just suddenly begin to merge as if I might slam on my brakes or try to fling into the next lane over.
But I just really don't care anymore when I'm the only one in the car.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Auspice I drive a 12 year old Saturn coupe. It's not even close to being the sort of tank my Cadillac was, but.... yeah. Yeah, I get you. I tend to be a pretty cautious driver and am fond of leaving a solid amount of space between me and whoever is in front of me. Same speed, but lots of space. If you feel the need to cut in front of me, go right ahead. There's room. You want to swerve into my lane in the space I'm in, while I'm just going straight? Sure. You do you, boo. You'll be at fault and I could use the insurance money for a new car.
RL Peeve: being so drained of energy from work going into crunch time that I have nothing to MU* with. I can't even bother to play computer games ffs. I come home and listen to music and read books and then I sleep.
@Kay said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
RL Peeve: being so drained of energy from work going into crunch time that I have nothing to MU* with. I can't even bother to play computer games ffs. I come home and listen to music and read books and then I sleep.
My (new) boss changed my schedule recently despite that accommodation having been partially done for medical reasons. I have to be awake several hours earlier than I previously did, and frequently end up leaving work.... at the same fucking time. It is exhausting and the longer the week drags on, the more likely I am to just come home and go to bed. And then waste Saturday just sleeping.
I feel your pain. And I hate this. I hate this so much.
So I'm leaving Target and in my rearview, I witness this (I'd been on the other side of the parking lot...). I ended up turning around, parking, and going to move it. People were just swerving around it!
I've seen some really shitty cart placements in my time (2nd retail job I had, someone opted to toss a cart on top of a pile of plowed snow), but this takes the cake.
That's just fucking malicious.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
Entirely possible that it rolled out there. I've seen that happen many, many times.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@Thenomain said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Entirely possible that it rolled out there. I've seen that happen many, many times.
They'd still have needed to leave it in a really bad place for that to have happened. 
Target doesn't have outside carts and there wasn't a cart return on that aisle.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
Sure. If they parked right next to the lane and put the cart on the no-parking area (like next to the grate or the fire hydrant), it just takes one gust of wind or a particularly sloped incline to start it rolling.
It's entirely possible, too, that they gave it a shove toward the side of the store and drove off, but my experience has that the exception more than the rule.
It's incredibly cool that you were a good samaritan about it, however it got there. A++.
"Well, we're past the return date. But I could give you store credit."
"Isn't there something you could do for me?"
"Weeeell... I could give you store credit for non-returnable merchandise instead of telling you to suck on a tailpipe?"
@Auspice Oh wow, you caught a wild shopping cart in its natural habitat and free from the cart corral slavery. Be careful, these have a tendency to cause bumps in cars nearby.
By the way, that's a very clean parking lot.
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@Bananerz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice Oh wow, you caught a wild shopping cart in its natural habitat and free from the cart corral slavery. Be careful, these have a tendency to cause bumps in cars nearby.
By the way, that's a very clean parking lot.
Could be clean due to the heavy rain storm we had a few days ago.
I was stunned more by how many people were just... swerving around the cart than the cart itself.
@Thenomain said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Entirely possible that it rolled out there. I've seen that happen many, many times.
They'd still have needed to leave it in a really bad place for that to have happened. Target doesn't have outside carts and there wasn't a cart return on that aisle.
