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I was at Culvers for lunch yesterday, I had already finished my fish sandwich, and was getting ready to go, but I needed to re-fill my Mt. Dew, so as I am approaching the soda fountain I saw 2 white trash women slowly heading toward the machine, they see me and hurry up to get in front of me. No big deal, I am usually a polite guy, so I let them go in front of me. They stand there talking, slowly getting ice, filling their cups, the fat blob getting her diet Pepsi, and the meth addict looking skinny skank getting her Dr. Pepper. They fill their cups half full, and then start sipping from them and chatting, they don’t move, and are blocking the entire machine. They stand there talking and sipping. A small line has formed behind me by now as the cow and the scarecrow keep chatting away. I finally politely ask if I can get by to get some Mt. Dew, the lard ass looks at me with what I imagine she thinks is a stern look, and goes back to filling her cup, skinny then starts to get more Dr. Pepper. They again stop filling because of the bubbles and begin to sip. I am really starting to get pissed, but I politely ask if I can get my Dew. Meth head looks at me and snaps “wait your turn.” By now a good 2 minutes have gone by, about 10 people are standing behind me because Jabba the Hutt’s uglier sister is still occupying most of the space in front of the machine. Now here is when I become a jerk, because getting between me and my Mt. Dew is like getting between a momma bear and her cub. I look at the 2 ugly ass wastes of space and go off.
I say loud enough for the entire line behind me to hear, “I guess you can judge a book by its cover, hey fat ass, there are other people on the planet besides you, even though you take up more space than most of the other people combined do, and you, crack head, I have waited my turn, now I have to go back to work so I can pay the taxes that probably went in your pocket so you could get in my way at Culvers, now get the [expletive] out of my way, I am thirsty. “
The both have their jaws drop and are speechless for the first time they have been in the way, I get my drink and head out the door as the rest of the folks in line behind me look at me in shock.
I really did feel like such an [expletive] afterwards, I have never, ever said or done anything like that. I feel like something snapped inside my head, and I hope it does not happen again as I am pretty embarrassed now.

I can sympathize with your anger at people who have absolutely zero concept of whether or not a particular space is a good spot to set up camp and chat. Get out the [expletive]' way, people.

Don't worry about it.

Sounds like these idiots are not aware of other people or the world around them outside of their "own" world.

If I was in line behind you I would've laughed, likely because I would've been thinking the same thing. People like that, who KNOW damn well they are taking their time on purpose when others are waiting, sometimes need a wake-up call about their rude behavior.

I'm surprised the other folks waiting in line didn't break into applause

I felt like a jerk..., but quickly realized that was just my inherent Catholic guilt rearing it's ugly head - because it was the other guy that was a moron:

At the gym - I like to turn on my headphones, get my workout in, and GTFO. I move around generally based on what's open with equipt weights to expedite. Yesterday, I started with chin-ups. I tend to do about 12 or so, drop back down to take a 15 second rest break, go back up/regrip and do about 5 more. Then I'm done with chin-ups for now, and onto something else.

Anyway during my 15 second break, some guy comes over and says "can I work in with you?"
I said "what?" (had my earphones on)
He said " Can I work in with you?"
I said "I'm almost done here"
He said "Hey, I was already here doing my sets" (obviously he wasn't since I was there)

I ignore him and peel off my final 5-7 chin-ups and then go onto something else.
while he exclaims "Can you believe this guy?!"

Took me few seconds after I walked off, to settle in that I really felt like popping him. By then he'd made himself scarce, probably realized he was wrong and went to working out in the stretch mat area weirdo zone.

Funny thing, it gave me some good adrenaline -I didn't even feel much of the rest of that workout.

My internal dialogue is usually pretty close to what I actually said to the 2 clueless [expletive]. It just very rarely comes out. Luckily I was able to keep a word that rhymes with bunt from slipping out during my tirade.

This might be a good thread to post your "I was a jerk" stories....

You probably could have left out the fat ass and crack head comments (at least you didn't call them bunts), but I agree with Molly. I bet the folks behind you were secretly applauding you.

I usually don't go off like that either, but I snapped on a drive thru employee last year who was rude on the speaker. We were on vacation and I was in a relaxed state of mind, so I don't know what possessed me to throw a fit. It was like my filter was also on vacation.

When I got to the window I was going to semi-apologize, but the girl who took my order had disappeared. The girl who did wait on me looked scared to death, and treated me like a king.

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.