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[AzyWng]

Indeed. He's always going "Yoink!" when he does that.

Cheeky little bugger.

[martinuzz]

Had a series of very strange social interactions yesterday, in my quest for a certain item that could have been sold at a variety of stores.
Almost everyone I interacted with was either weirdly friendly or excessively rude, yet somehow I managed to communicate with all of them without panicking and flubbing my conversation rolls due to anxiety penalties.
Even that perfect stranger who said to me, "Hey stupid, do you got a lighter?"
Sure, a better scenario would have been to pause and point out the irony of calling someone else an idiot immediately before voicing such poorly-structured word salad, but a terse-yet-unworried "no" was good enough. I was mainly just impressed at my ability to prevent such an unexpected attack from affecting my mood.

Oh shit I've rambled and there's no time to abridge this post.
Good night Bay12.

Good job. I probably wouldn't have been able to prevent spitting out a comment like 'surely, someone as bright as you don't need no lighter', and gotten punched in the face by the rudeboy.

[Tack]

Am I the only guy who says a casual and unhurried "nah sorry" and moves on but wishes he'd said something eloquent and provocative?

[Trekkin]

Am I the only guy who says a casual and unhurried "nah sorry" and moves on but wishes he'd said something eloquent and provocative?

I say something similar, having been the only nonsmoker in a sea of them for a while and gotten thoroughly tired of being either polite or witty: "Left it on your mother's nightstand, sorry."

[JoshuaFH]

Am I the only guy who says a casual and unhurried "nah sorry" and moves on but wishes he'd said something eloquent and provocative?

I often think that, but then I think that trying to be more eloquent or witty than is absolutely necessary actually damages the conversation by adding more detail and less focus that isn't related to the actual point of the what's being talked about. That being said, I have no clue why anyone would go up to a stranger and address them as 'stupid', I'd have been baffled to the point of speechlessness in that situation.

[Yoink]

Watch out for daimo he's always stealing your lighters

Just 'cause I'm scoffin' away on them ciggies all day...

Good job. I probably wouldn't have been able to prevent spitting out a comment like 'surely, someone as bright as you don't need no lighter', and gotten punched in the face by the rudeboy.

This was actually one of a pair of trashy females, seemingly waiting for a bus/taxi/whatever. That's not to say she wouldn't have punched me, though.

Am I the only guy who says a casual and unhurried "nah sorry" and moves on but wishes he'd said something eloquent and provocative?

Generally when someone asks me for a cigarette I'll drawl out a "sorry man, I don't smoke tobacco" which tends to get a knowing grin from even the scungiest of characters.
That excuse doesn't really work for not having a lighter, though, and for all I know it's my hair that makes it work to begin with.

I have no clue why anyone would go up to a stranger and address them as 'stupid', I'd have been baffled to the point of speechlessness in that situation.

Yeah, this. Hence why I was pleased that I managed a coherent response at all.
I'm still not sure why I encountered so much weirdness yesterday. I was dressed somewhat unusually for me, and most of these confusing social interactions were with females, but I'm pretty sure I was wearing far too much colour to have been attractive.
Clearly I need to goth harder.

[hector13]

Good job. I probably wouldn't have been able to prevent spitting out a comment like 'surely, someone as bright as you don't need no lighter', and gotten punched in the face by the rudeboy.

You mean...

Ruud boy. /it’s funny because it’s stupid

Ruud Boymans?

[Dunamisdeos]

Nobody says things like that to me because I am 6'4" and 240lb.

Everyone is either really nice to me because I am generally agreeable or really nice to me and I have to convince them I don't want to make them into people jelly.

[redwallzyl]

GPS directed me the wrong way on a one way street in pitch darkness on winding city roads, fun times, luckily it was not very busy.

[Teneb]

Spoiler: I don't know whether to place this on Other Games or here, but the WTF was large indeed (click to show/hide)

Fight some wild dogs. Try to rest, interrupted by wild dogs. Kill them, try to rest again: even more wild dogs. Surely I can rest now! Nope, humanoid dogs (gnolls) now. Feel dread as I click the rest button. Even more gnolls. That was the last wave unfortunately, because I was hoping to see how far the game took it.

Baldur's Gate Enchanced Edition, in case someone doesn't recognize it.

[MrRoboto75]

Now enhanced with 50% more wild dogs

[overseer05-15]

101 wild dalmations

Good job. I probably wouldn't have been able to prevent spitting out a comment like 'surely, someone as bright as you don't need no lighter', and gotten punched in the face by the rudeboy.

You could've taken one of his cigs and thrown it away. Then he would've become... a cigarette lighter!
ba-dum tss

[Greiger]

It's not comedy unless you are laughing madly while being beaten to death.

[Yoink]

Gosh, normally I'd put this in the Mildsad thread, but... wandering the city, wracked with anxiety, struggling to enjoy myself in spite of it all and even wearing an old shirt I haven't worn in ages... it feels like I've travelled back in time. Fuck.
I think I've been getting too used to having less anxiety, now it's a shock when my issues do rear their ugly heads.

[Eric Blank]

Spoiler: I don't know whether to place this on Other Games or here, but the WTF was large indeed (click to show/hide)

Fight some wild dogs. Try to rest, interrupted by wild dogs. Kill them, try to rest again: even more wild dogs. Surely I can rest now! Nope, humanoid dogs (gnolls) now. Feel dread as I click the rest button. Even more gnolls. That was the last wave unfortunately, because I was hoping to see how far the game took it.

Baldur's Gate Enchanced Edition, in case someone doesn't recognize it.

Reminds me of DF .40d. Critters would ambush you constantly. Like fast travelling was prohibitively dangerous just because youd probably get ambushed by a large group of wolves or a grizzly bear every 20 squares or something. It still happens now and then, but at least it isnt as frequent, and youre less likely to get scratched in the lowerbody by a wolf and have your ass just explode into gore in one hit. I once saw a child punch a critter and its lower body exploded, just one punch. Boom, no more ass.

Or bogeymen right now. Fucking bogeymen.