I feel like a jerk..

[The Third Man]

I've found that people who don't work full time struggle to comprehend life as someone who works. Since they have far less scheduling and deadlines they easily forget that hey, other people have places to be and things to do that they can't get out of.

[wart57]

So many words in that first post ... a simple "n/m" would have sufficed.

Seriously though, I handle things like this by not being bashful but also trying to be respectful. In that case I would have left out the fat ass etc... comments but I would have asked them to move. Are you sure it was really 2 minutes, because I think I would have only let that go about 20 seconds.

I checked my watch several times. It seriously took Jabba about 30 seconds to decide between regular Pepsi and Diet. I told you I felt bad about the fat ass and crack head comments, I really don't know what came over me, I never say stuff like that out loud, but I have been having a really tough time with the wife lately, and I think I was projecting my inner anger at the two clueless idiots.
But Boy, that was the best tasting Mt. Dew ever.

What came over you was a couple of self absorbed insecure jerks deciding they were going to stake their claim in the world in front of a Coke machine at your expense. Doesn't make what you said right, but it is understandable and I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

It was when Skanky McSkinny said "Wait your Turn" so rudely that I lost it. Like me asking if I could get my Dew while they waited for the bubbles to die down in their drinks was the rudest thing ever, so I showed them what rude was. I have not lost any sleep over it; I just wish I could have sounded more like Shakespeare than Andrew Dice clay when I called them out.

[The Third Man]

Maybe if you timeline Shakespeare heavily enough and make the appropriate era adjustments, he was actually the proto-Clay.

[Jocephus]

thou doth a [expletive]

[heyzeus]

One time maybe 6 years ago, my wife and I were heading home after an evening out. It was maybe 1am or so. We were on a pretty busy and high speed road near our house, probably doing about 40 mph, when some ahole pulls out of a bar parking lot to make a left turn right in front of us. I slammed on the breaks and we only missed him by 10 feet or so. He just kept going, oblivious.

So I was pretty upset and adrenaline pumping when, a few minutes later, we arrived back out our house - only to find that some OTHER ahole had parked in front of our driveway. I'm not talking about just the bumper jutting out a bit, this person had parked their Camaro so that the entire width of the driveway was blocked.

I guess the near-miss of the earlier incident had put me in a more enraged/irrational state than usual. I put our car in park, jumped out, and screamed to my deserted, dead-quiet neighborhood "WHOSE [expletive] CAR IS THIS! WHOSE IS IT! GET OUT HERE!" I then kicked the door of the car, denting it, and may have keyed it too, I don't remember.

It really scared my wife, the way I acted. I'm a very mild mannered person - rarely if ever raise my voice or lose my temper, and never been in a fight. She was rightfully alarmed to see me respond that way. The other two drivers were jerks, and then I let myself become one too.

[wart57]

Maybe if you timeline Shakespeare heavily enough and make the appropriate era adjustments, he was actually the proto-Clay.

You are right, I guess I subconsciously took in to account my audience, Shakespeare would have gone way over their heads.

[IMADreamer]

I would have high fived you. Actually I would have said something way before you. Maybe you shouldn't have called them fat ass and crack head, but oh well.

Probably the worst I've ever done or at least the only time I actually regretted it was at the Wendy's drive through in some town on the middle of no where. Nic and I were on vacation and in her AMG. AMGs only come in automatic transmission. Well we ordered, they got the food wrong so we waited, and waited, and waited. Then the guy at the window says "You should have gotten that car in a manual, I know I would have but I like to have total control of my car." To which I replied "no you wouldn't, first they don't come in manual and second you work at [expletive] Wendys. You will never have to worry about deciding to buy an AMG Mercedes with an auto or manual because you work at [expletive] Wendys."

I felt like a jerk later. kinda.

Was it necessary to put the guy down because he worked at Wendy's and may never afford a Mercedes?

No it wasn't. Which is why I said I felt like a jerk. I wouldn't have said that had I had not gotten such terrible service but it was just everything boiling over.

There is also something else at play which is when you own a nice/classic/or sports car everyone tells you what you did wrong in buying it and it gets [expletive] old fast. I could go on for days about how people would tell me "oh you should have never gotten your Vette in black." "I'd have left it stock." "The 440 is the better engine for driving then the hemi in the Cuda." "The C class AMG is better then the E class AMG because it's smaller and more sporty." Whatever. Of course it's never from some guy who has actually had experience with the car. Just some asshat giving his two cents on how to spend your money. So there was that at play too. I really don't do the car thing for other people. It's for me. I like them, I do what I want to them, and as for the AMG Nic was the same way. It was her dream car, a payoff after spending the first 30 years of her life trying to be first in her HS class, college class, PhD class so she could land a killer job that pays it's employees in expensive cars and giant checks. She wasn't trying to show anyone up. It just pisses you off when some dickwad runs something you worked hard and sacrificed for.

Hell I'll probably do something stupid lose everything I have and have to work at Wendys someday and I will deserve it. I will deserve all the crap I get from [expletive] out there like me.

[stlouie_lipp]

[Jocephus]

im sure someone can tell me im wrong but i loved that movie.

[Molly]

im sure someone can tell me im wrong but i loved that movie.

Hubby has told me that sometimes he would like to act out that movie