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[Euld]

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First day of school was a mess.  My brother's car broke down on the way to the bus stop, so mom had to drive me the rest of the way there.  Then the bus had to stop, two crazies had crashed their cars in the middle of the road and left the cars right there.  The bus couldn't get past.  So I hopped out and hurried as fast as I could to the light rail.  About ten minutes short of the light rail station, the bus I was on passed me up.  Then I got on the light rail, and realized I forgot to buy a ticket, and spent the next half an hour in fear, wondering if I was gonna get caught and get fined a couple hundred bucks for robbing the state of three bucks.  Thankfully, they never noticed.  When I got off the light rail, I suddenly realized I forgot how to get to school.  So I meandered a bit, guessing on landmarks until I found the right street and made it.  I made it class on time.

Then my brother's wife texts me.  It's TEN MINUTES until class starts, and she isn't even there yet (we have the same class).  I mentally facepalm.  I'm already tired and annoyed, she will only make things worse.  She shows up and sits down, class starts, and things seem a bit better.  The subject is interesting, the teacher is obviously interested in what he's teaching, and he's quite funny.  The subject is also difficult, but I hope I can handle it.  Class ends, I get half an hour to eat, but I need to figure out a minor problem with my school login information.  Turns out I spend the entire half an hour running around and don't get to eat.  I get to class just in time to almost run into the teacher, who gives me an odd look when all I say is "Oh!"

Turns out this teacher is... disorganized.  Her explanations are really out of the loop, or something like that.  It's hard to get a straight answer out of her.  When I complain about her later, driving home with my bro and his wife, they say I should have worked harder at getting a straight answer out of her.  Later, I have to pick up my brother from work.  I drive to the right place, at the right time.  And get a $150 parking ticket.  Turns out the spot we usually get my brother from is a bus zone.  I guess we knew that, but today, my brother suddenly took an extra half hour and I made the awesome decision of waiting there.  I drive my brother home, tell him what happened, and pretty much ignore him the rest of the way home.  I tell my mom what happened, we rant about our bad days for a while.  Then my brother throws a fit later.  And tomorrow, between my two jobs, I have oh, maybe four hours to do homework.

[Akura]

First, I'm sick of getting ambushed by Jehova's Witnesses at the bus stop. What's worse, you just can't tell them to bugger off, you just can't.

And yesterday, I get yelled at by the manager for not doing something I hadn't even been told to do yet, which was to stay back, literally up to my ass in rotten squash, alone, to throw them out. And he tells me to fill the trash bags all the way to the top(which makes them impossible to lift. I almost gave myself a hernia trying) in order to save on bags, and wait for a guy who didn't come back for a few hours, but was one of the few people there certified for a forklift, to take them out to the dumpster(which was already full, by the way).

And that's not the highlight of the day. There's this one guy who volunteers there as a contractor, a total asshole who thinks he owns the place. Before, the boss had said something about him cutting wood in the warehouse(which he's not supposed to do), and one of the other "volunteers" there repeated it, and the guy suddenly goes off on him, then comes back the next day, starts yelling at my coworker again, getting so in his face I actually thought the contractor was going to attack him. The boss' response to this was to take the contractor out to lunch and apologize to him. They keep excusing his behavior on the fact he has a metal plate in his head. Personally, I think he's fully mentally compentent. Otherwise, he should not be operating power tools(much less in a food warehouse).
Yesterday, he was back, again cutting wood in the warehouse. He gets again into an argument with another guy, that one lazy kid who actually gets paid to be there, over him wanting the kid to clean up his sawdust, because he's a "volunteer"(note, and actually volunteer, not in the same context as me or the other guy), and therefore has to privilege of having other people cleaning up after him. At the end of the day, he says to the manager to get "one of the guys who works here" to clean up the mess because he wanted to leave, meaning me and the other volunteer, who were standing right there. The other guy calls him out on it, which almost gets both me and him fired since the boss seems to like him so much. He managed to piss off most of the staff as well with this.

[Bdthemag]

Well, whenever I get ambushed by those religious people I just turn to them and say "Would you like to hear about the Church of Scientology?", they usually just turn around and walk away then.

[TherosPherae]

I don't take the bus, but when the Mormons/Jehovah's Witnesses/what have you decide that walking up my driveway to give me a pamphlet is a good idea, I'll usually just open the door while wearing my pajamas and a dirty t-shirt and say "'Sup?"

Looking like white trash is probably one of the best ways to scare those guys off, barring looking like a motorcyclist.

[SalmonGod]

I was raised Jehovah's Witness until the age of 8 or 9.  While I understand they can be annoying and their beliefs are riddled with many of the typical problems (patriarchy, anti-homosexuality, etc), I do think they deserve a couple words in their defense.

In general, I attribute them with very widespread integrity.  You won't catch them at hypocritical behavior, other than that which is in their scripture.

They are actually as peaceful and respectful on both an institutional and individual level as their religion teaches them they should be.

They stay the hell out of politics.

[RedKing]

I was offered a "free magazine" in a Trader Joe's parking lot some time back. Looked like a health-and-fitness kind of thing, so I said sure. As I started reading the articles, they seemed a little odd, like "Praying Your Way to Health" and "Slimming Down With Jehovah" (I shit you not).

Then, BAM! An issue of The Watchtower hidden cleverly in the middle.

If you have to resort to rickrolling me to get me to read your literature, that's probably a sign that something's amiss.

[Aqizzar]

[nenjin]

As far as fundamentalists go, they're the nicest of the lot. I think only the Gideons are really nicer than them.

[scriver]

I rather like the Salvation Army. Christmas shopping in the cold, dark winter just isn't the same without their warming music bands.

[Bohandas]

If you have to resort to rickrolling me to get me to read your literature, that's probably a sign that something's amiss.

That's exactly like what happened here!

[RedKing]

If you have to resort to rickrolling me to get me to read your literature, that's probably a sign that something's amiss.

That's exactly like what happened here!

I see what you did there. And I am most pleased.

[nenjin]

So I get home after going to the grocery store, preparing to make myself a nice cup of my favorite local coffee bean.

I open the bag and the smell hits me. What....what is this? Smells like...chocolate...no....no it's far more sinister than that.

I check the normal looking package of coffee and see a dull olive sticker the size of a silver dollar on it....

"Hazelnut Blend"

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

And I forgot to buy smokes on top of it.

[nenjin]

Aaaaannnnddddd on the way to get smokes, some woman ignores my right of way on a green turn arrow and decides she's gonna turn right right now. And there I am in the middle of one of the biggest intersections in town with my hands held in the air, as if to say "What the fuck, you stupid fucking bitch?"

It's funny I could see straight into her passenger's face, and the expression there said "Oh please god, don't plow straight into our broadside like she deserves, and so you can collect some insurance money." I really hope she at least told that feckless dumbshit behind the wheel how close I came to murdering her with my car.

[Aklyon]

Goddamnit.
Thats all i can reasonably say about this stupidity.

[Angel Of Death]

Goddamnit.
Thats all i can reasonably say about this stupidity.

What the fuck!?

That's it. Internet Crime Squad time.