Friday OT - Watch the World… Sparkle?

[Angie]

Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for being there in my hour of need and sharing this Friday topic:

“What do you do with the 'Watch the world burn' mentality that's more like a dud sparkler.”

Farnsy’s example is way better than mine and totally something I do, but he should share it. The best one I can think of before finishing my coffee is that I will 100% like/heart/whatever people’s posts on social media that are just patently ridiculous or overdramatic. @Mr Janny asks me why, and it is because I like to just watch the world burn in a controlled and sustainable fashion.

What are yours?

 

[carvers4math]

I am just way more mean than you.

Snooty girl in high school leaving rest room with part of her skirt stuck up in her pantyhose - yea, I let her leave that way and listened to the laughter in the hall of people bustling to get to their next class.

On the other hand, when it comes to safety I cave. Dude that parked way too close to me in a parking lot put his coffee cup on top of the car and forgot it. I tried rolling down my window and yelling at him since I had to crawl through the passenger side to get in my car. Honked at him too. Luckily it flew off in the parking lot and not the roadway so I could still laugh while trying to do the right thing.

 

[Farnsworth]

Here was my example.

I'll type in a company name just trying to get to there website, but I'll always just click on the 'sponsored link' at the top knowing they will get charged ad revenue,

 

[JP4CY]

Daycare bratty kids at pickup:

I will stay with my kid, wait until that family is out of the room, and bring my kid up to the teacher and say "if you ever treat your teacher like that, they will tell me" type of statement. I reaffirm to the teacher thay in no way will I tolerate their disrespect to them.

I'm not anyone special by doing this, I just know that good daycare providers are incredibly hard to come by.

 

[madguy30]

Not sure if this counts/fits but I'm all in on human darwinism so I only watch these videos of some jackbag at Yellowstone getting too close to see if the elk/buffalo/grizzly bear actually mauled the person this time.

On CF I will mark the 'haha' emoji for meltdown posts for when ISU is down by two buckets in the first half etc.

 

[Pat]

Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for being there in my hour of need and sharing this Friday topic:

“What do you do with the 'Watch the world burn' mentality that's more like a dud sparkler.”

Farnsy’s example is way better than mine and totally something I do, but he should share it. The best one I can think of before finishing my coffee is that I will 100% like/heart/whatever people’s posts on social media that are just patently ridiculous or overdramatic. @Mr Janny asks me why, and it is because I like to just watch the world burn in a controlled and sustainable fashion.

What are yours?

(Frantically looking back at old Facebook posts and checking for sarcastic likes…)

 

[Clonefan32]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm really bad at putting things back where they belong at stores, if that makes sense. If I grab a can of green beans and realize later I already have a can at home, I'm putting that **** back in the bread aisle instead of walking back.

It's part just lazy, and in part the most rebellious thing I do and for that one split second, I feel alive.

 

[NWICY]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm really bad at putting things back where they belong at stores, if that makes sense. If I grab a can of green beans and realize later I already have a can at home, I'm putting that **** back in the bread aisle instead of walking back.

It's part just lazy, and in part the most rebellious thing I do and for that one split second, I feel alive.

So you're the person that leaves the ice cream container next to the laundry soap.

I hope you're not that person

 

[CYdTracked]

Daycare bratty kids at pickup:

I will stay with my kid, wait until that family is out of the room, and bring my kid up to the teacher and say "if you ever treat your teacher like that, they will tell me" type of statement. I reaffirm to the teacher thay in no way will I tolerate their disrespect to them.

I'm not anyone special by doing this, I just know that good daycare providers are incredibly hard to come by.

Can I give you a virtual high five for this!? I'm the same way with my kids and believe me you'll see the benefits from teaching them this at an early age because their school teachers will go out of their way to tell you how polite and respectful your kids are. At least that's been the experience we've had from all our kids elementary teachers so far have sent us personal messages about how they appreciate how polite and courteous they are. Now if we could only get them to listen to us better at home... LOL

 

[CYdTracked]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm really bad at putting things back where they belong at stores, if that makes sense. If I grab a can of green beans and realize later I already have a can at home, I'm putting that **** back in the bread aisle instead of walking back.

It's part just lazy, and in part the most rebellious thing I do and for that one split second, I feel alive.

As someone that used to work retail this was one of my biggest pet peeves when people would just put things back on a shelf somewhere else in the store once they decided they no longer wanted it in their cart. One small town grocery store I once worked at the meat manager had a nickname for one gal that came in regularly and just made a big mess of our self service pre-packed meat coolers. "Heads up guys, the tornado is about to hit!" She would pick through all the packages and just toss them aside until she found something she liked and we'd go out and spend a couple minutes putting the display back together when she was done. Also nothing worse than facing the products in the aisle to find a cold item sitting on a dry goods shelf because someone was too lazy to go put it back. Those items usually had to be thrown out because you don't know how long they had been sitting there and you can't safely re-stock them so people that do that are just helping drive up that costs of groceries since that becomes lost inventory when that happens.

 

[CascadeClone]

I often use the last paper towel on the roll at work, and don't replace the roll. And then sneak out of the bathroom or kitchen like Gollum.

Either that, or I do the right thing and go get a bunch of rolls and re-stock it completely. It's probably 50/50.

 

[Al_4_State]

I like telling people from Texas that stuff that comes from Texas isn't special.

 

[Angie]

(Frantically looking back at old Facebook posts and checking for sarcastic likes…)

You are the opposite of a drama bomb or vaguebooker!

 

[JM4CY]

I like telling people from Texas that stuff that comes from Texas isn't special.

LOL. I've done that.

They do NOT like that. At all.

 

[MJ29]

I like telling people from Texas that stuff that comes from Texas isn't special.

When I lived in Texas, I worked with a dude who liked to brag about how Texas could secede, and he'd list out all the reasons why Texas didn't need the rest of the nation for anything.

One day, I said to him, "If Texas secedes, I'm moving back to Iowa."

"Why would you do that?" he asked.

"Because I'm an American, not a Texan," I said. "And I don't want to be known as a Texan."

He was flabbergasted.

He tried to argue with me soooo many times that Texas was the best place to live in the world, but when I asked him if he'd lived anywhere else, he said "no." He'd visited lots of places and he thought that made him an expert.

 

[Al_4_State]

LOL. I've done that.

They do NOT like that. At all.

For Christ's sake, there are bottles of Bud Light with the Texas state shape on them. Those snowflakes need every single generic product marketed to them and to tell them how special they are. I'm completely convinced that I could stamp my dog's turds with a Lone Star and sell them at a Bucc-Ee's.

Tell them KC has better BBQ (I don't actually believe that) and watch them really come unglued.

 

[JayV]

Wednesday night at Taco Bell, the drive through was taking too long (like 10 min per car) to get food, so I drove off after ordering and before paying. I don't make a habit of this behavior though.

Yeah, I'm a rebel, Dottie.

 

[wenkeej]

So this is the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. I read what the topic is and I'm confused, so I'm going with my first thought.

 

[JM4CY]

When I lived in Texas, I worked with a dude who liked to brag about how Texas could secede, and he'd list out all the reasons why Texas didn't need the rest of the nation for anything.

One day, I said to him, "If Texas secedes, I'm moving back to Iowa."

"Why would you do that?" he asked.

"Because I'm an American, not a Texan," I said. "And I don't want to be known as a Texan."

He was flabbergasted.

He tried to argue with me soooo many times that Texas was the best place to live in the world, but when I asked him if he'd lived anywhere else, he said "no." He'd visited lots of places and he thought that made him an expert.

Where did he go to college?

 

[Bipolarcy]

Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for being there in my hour of need and sharing this Friday topic:

“What do you do with the 'Watch the world burn' mentality that's more like a dud sparkler.”

Farnsy’s example is way better than mine and totally something I do, but he should share it. The best one I can think of before finishing my coffee is that I will 100% like/heart/whatever people’s posts on social media that are just patently ridiculous or overdramatic. @Mr Janny asks me why, and it is because I like to just watch the world burn in a controlled and sustainable fashion.

What are yours?

My one guilty pleasure: I used to come back from my supper break at work 15 minutes early just so I could take a dump not only on company time, but on overtime.

Really, it's the only dishonest thing I've done as an adult. I once returned to a restaurant that I ate at a week earlier because after I left, I realized they had given me back too much change, about $3 and change too much. I just stuffed it in my pocket without looking and didn't realize it until I got home and was putting it in my money clip. A week later when I was in the vicinity of the restaurant, I stopped in and gave them the $3 and change. They looked at me like I was crazy.