Stupid people while shopping....

I know we've had a lot of these threads lately, but I figure that a break from political threads can't hurt.

The wife and I headed out to pick up a baby gate today to keep Jack from crawling into the kitchen. Target's got some nice ones so we headed over there. While inside, I came to the conclusion that you will find the largest concentration of stupid in supermarkets, box stores, etc.

First, we're walking through the aisles when a woman cuts in front of us from the left, LEAVES her wagon in the middle of the 'intersection' we're at, and walks without it into the stacks to my right. I had to move her cart to get around it. -( Imagine sitting at a 4 way intersection, someone comes through it from the left and parks under the light.)

Second, and this was awesome- after we checked out, we're heading for the door. There's two sets of exit doors, the automatic ones, and the ones that you (God forbid!) have to push on, and there's a small corral fence separating the two sets. A family of four is on their way out the manual doors.....get to them and realize that they're not opening automatically.....back up, GO AROUND the corral, and walk out the automatic doors.

Then, in general, I have a problem with the morons who leave shopping carts in randomly in the parking lot while a good urination with a slight tail wind can hit the nearest cart deposit. Walk 8 steps, put the friggin thing away, then go home. If there's anything worse than stupidity, its stupidity that is so pervasive that it lingers after the offender is gone.

Replace stupid with lazy ;P

I had a girl come into the hospital the other day at like 5 in the morning. She comes in with one of those jackets with the thick fake fur lining around the collar and these really tight sweat pants (she pulled off the lower half quote nicely actually) and walks to my desk to tell me her side hurts.

I go, "K, fill out a triage and bring it back up to me." She starts filling out the triage, which is basically name DOB SS and chief complaint, takes half an hour filling it out, then leaves it on the triage table and sits down.

I wait for her to make the two extra steps to bring it to me...but nope. She sits and stares at my desk, and then at the triage desk that's like four feet in front of my office, I guess expecting me to leave my office and pick it up.

I'm at this completely flabbergasted at the laziness / stupidity this girl
is excercising, but then she tops anything I've ever seen-

She gets up, flails her arms, goes "This is bull<expletive>!" and storms out.

QQ ...

Nah. Just seems like you get a bit worked up over some pretty small stuff. Take it easy, bro.

 

stratoaxe wrote: She comes in with one of those jackets with the thick fake fur lining around the collar and these really tight sweat pants (she pulled off the lower half quote nicely actually)

That's because everyone's butt looks nice in those pants. If I put on a pair of yoga pants, my butt would look nice too.

Reb Cpl wrote: carl_the_sniper wrote:   stratoaxe wrote: She comes in with one of those jackets with the thick fake fur lining around the collar and these really tight sweat pants (she pulled off the lower half quote nicely actually) That's because everyone's butt looks nice in those pants. If I put on a pair of yoga pants, my butt would look nice too. Shens.

Fine, I'll do it and post pics.

choopie911 wrote: I stand by my opinion that the dumbest people on earth can be found in the youtube and imdb comments sections. I'm surprised they can breathe

Truth

jmac3 wrote: choopie911 wrote: I stand by my opinion that the dumbest people on earth can be found in the youtube and imdb comments sections. I'm surprised they can breathe Truth

QFT.

YouTube especially...there's usually some common
sense to be found on IMDB...but YouTube...damn. If ever there was a case for natural selection failing...

  Any military related video on youtube no matter the time it was taken in, the country portrayed, or anything like that WILL turn into a debate about the Iraq war in the comments section.

   

Edited by carl_the_sniper - 18 January 2010 at 5:45pm

Reb Cpl wrote: First, we're walking through the aisles when a woman cuts in front of us from the left, LEAVES her wagon in the middle of the 'intersection' we're at, and walks without it into the stacks to my right. I had to move her cart to get around it. -( Imagine sitting at a 4 way intersection, someone comes through it from the left and parks under the light.)

Whenever someone does this to me I check to see how carefully they are watching their cart.  If they aren't keeping an eye on it (and it has enough stuff in it that finding all the same items again would take a while) I casually relocate it to the other side of the store.

My favorite stupid occurred in a mall parking lot last fall.  I was setting in my car waiting for the wife to finish shopping* when a car pulled in from the opposite driving lane (through one space and into the one next to me).  The elderly lady driving did not park very well (way to close to the yellow line on my side of her parking spot) and really didn't have room to get out.  She didn't let this stop her from trying though, she bounced her door off the side of my car three or four times until I rolled my window down and asked her to quit.  (Apparently she didn't realize anyone was in the car.)  Amazingly, she had the nerve to ask me to move.  In return I asked her to quit hitting my car and put my window back up.  She wasn't smart enough to park properly, but she did hit my car much more gently the last time she opened the door and it gave her enough room to squeeze out.  (She also gave me a dirty look as she walked away from her car.)  She was back out in a few minutes and must have forgot I was there because she slammed the door into my car again trying to get back in.  (Fortunately, I have the vinyl/plastic door/fender skirts on the vehicle and no damage was done.)

*She sent me to the car for activating all of the little singing toys next to the cash register.