[omnivorette]

Ha - I love it when somebody bangs the hell in to me, and then says "excuse me." I sometimes say: "in my culture, it's customary to say excuse me before banging into someone."

[GG Mora]

g.johnson, on Jun 17 2005, 11:14 AM, said:

Wilfrid, on Jun 17 2005, 11:12 AM, said:

When I hold a door for someone, and they speed through with no acknowledgement, I like to call after them "Please, thank you." 

I use "you're welcome".

That's my response, too, though one day I had the good fortune to be holding a well-sprung screen door (I love Vermont's old general stores) for some asshole who couldn't even be bothered to make eye contact. I let go of the door so it hit him smartly on his ass.

[Wilfrid1]

Hey, I think I'll go shove a stalled tourist down an escalator.

[rancho_gordo]

I was buying $160 software at Costco. For some reason, this is deemed valuable enough to make me buy an empty box and have a clerk get the actual software for me. So I wait in the long line to check out and then am told I need to go to some pick-up window to get my goods. The window turns out to be locked and closed and no human in sight. I poke around and find some guy with a badge and ask if he can help me. He takes the key and opens his door and tells me from behind the bars, "Sure I can help. I have a lot to do but that doesn't matter. I'm here to serve!". I was so taken aback by his sarcasm I didn't quite know what to say. I said, "Well, I've already waited in one line and I have to get going" but my voice trailed off because I he turned his back and went to get the software.

[bloviatrix]

omnivorette, on Jun 17 2005, 11:07 AM, said:

If one more young man walks right in front of me, through a door, and just lets the door slam in my face, I'm gonna, I'm gonna...

True story. Several years ago I had to testify in case at the Federal Courthouse. Three guys enter the door right in front of me and let the door slam close. I'm about to say something when I realize the guy in the middle is in handcuffs.

[omnivorette]

bloviatrix, on Jun 17 2005, 10:47 AM, said:

Three guys enter the door right in front of me and let the door slam close. I'm about to say something when I realize the guy in the middle is in handcuffs.

That's no excuse.

[Tamar G]

Wilfrid, on Jun 17 2005, 03:12 PM, said:

When I hold a door for someone, and they speed through with no acknowledgement, I like to call after them "Please, thank you."

my most pissed off version of this is when I end up unintentionally holding the door for everyone and their mother. This usually happens when I'm leaving a store with 2 doors that open inwards. I pull open the one on the right to leave and the asshole walking in sees that a door is open and lazily avoids the closed door in order to walk through the one I opened. In this case, they never say thank you. Then everyone coming in behind them decides to follow them through the door I'm holding instead of opening the other door, again, usually with no thanks. After 2 or 3 people I start saying "welcome to [store name]" in a falsely cheerful voice, looking more and more pissed until someone realizes that I'm not holding the door for my health and lets me out. In just about every instance the person who finally lets me out is a man whose girlfriend has just barged through the door without giving me a second glance. This seems to happen an awful lot in Soho.

[bbqmonster]

Wilfrid, on Jun 17 2005, 03:37 PM, said:

Hey, I think I'll go shove a stalled tourist down an escalator.

That's my favorite sport!

[Daisy]

Dinner guest who arrived with peonies (which I looove), asked for a vase for them and then used my paring knife to cut the rubber band on the flowers. It was all I could do not to smack him.

[Wilfrid1]

bbqmonster, on Jun 17 2005, 01:42 PM, said:

Wilfrid, on Jun 17 2005, 03:37 PM, said:

Hey, I think I'll go shove a stalled tourist down an escalator. 

That's my favorite sport!

Another one today.

If you get off an escalator at the top, and stand still - hey, guess what happens? Yeah, we all go piling into the back of you.

What is so difficult...?

[Tamar G]

I was walking along fifth avenue just off the curb in the street to avoid the slow crowds, and mid-block (not at a crosswalk) some idiot on his cell phone literally steps into the street, ONTO me. He landed on my foot and then had the gall to look at me and say "Jeez, lady," as if it were my fault that he stepped on me. chutzpa, I tell you.

[ngatti]

You're just feeling extra stroppy today.

I chalk it up to Katies engagement.

[Wilfrid1]

Tamar, console yourself by spending a few minutes on Fifth watching cell-phone users stepping obliviously off the kerb and into the bus lane.

[StephanieL]

Freezing cold office. I have been huddled under a blanket for the past 3 weeks.

[Wilfrid1]

The grass is always greener. I have a little fan creaking away to supplement the alleged air-conditioning.