Angry
Over the weekend I ran to the convenience store to grab some Diet Coke and to fill up the truck with gas. When I pulled up all the pumps were taken. I surveyed the vehicles and saw a Grand Am with people in the two front seats just sitting there so I assumed they just got done pumping gas so I pulled behind them. They continued to have a nice little chit chat as I grew increasingly more annoyed. Then after a minute or so, both doors open, a Hispanic woman and guy get out and they saunter into the store. Most Hispanics don’t have credit cards to pay at the pump. I was annoyed that they were just taking their good ole time and immediately surveyed for another spot.
I found one and after waiting another couple minutes I was pumping gas. The Hispanics still had not come back out. I finished pumping 15 gallons of gas, the Hispanics had still not come back. I go inside to pick up the Diet Coke, the Hispanics are in the line at the Subway ordering lunch! F’in idiots! I can’t stand it when people have no consideration for others. Ignorant and worthless are the adjectives that came to mind as I shot these morons dirty looks.
The store had no Diet Coke, only Coke Zero. I don’t quite understand why you need Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Minerals and Coke Zero. Evidently Coke Zero uses a different sweetener than Diet Coke. When I tried it at home I wished they had Diet Coke instead. Coke Zero is too sweet, yuck.
I expect many things when I go to the gym. I expect it to be hot, I expect it to be dirty, I expect it to smell, I expect the weights to be strewn about in a haphazard fashion and I expect the owner to be sitting on his ass behind the counter caring less about it. What I don’t expect is to get into a loud verbal confrontation with a fellow gym member. Well that is what happened today.
I go into the gym and start stretching on the barbell tree. The barbell tree in an inverted V shaped rack that holds the preset barbell weights ranging from 20 to 110 pounds. I immediately notice that someone decided to pull down one of the normal barbells and threw an olympic bar on there with 40 pounds on either side. There was no one in the vicinity except a woman so of course I figured once again, some lazy ass threw the bar there and was too much of a slug to put it back, so I pull it off and grumpily plop it in the floor against the wall and then go back and put the preset barbell back. Every single day I find myself picking up after lazy/ignorant people at the gym that are unable to comprehend the concept of putting stuff back where it came from. I figured today was just another day of the same.
So I am down on a flat bench doing dumb bell chest presses and some guy comes over grumbling. I have seen this guy at the gym for a long time, I never talk to him. He has some sort of accent that sounds eastern European to me. He is a pretty big guy. When I walked in he was up at the squat racks towards the front of the gym, at least 50 feet away. So anyway I hear him bitching about someone moving the bar. I sit up and say “I moved the bar” He says “Why you move the bar??!!” I said because it was on the regular barbell rack, it isn’t supposed to be there” He said he was using it. I said I didn’t know he was using it or else I wouldn’t have moved it. By this time we both were using very angry and an increasingly loud tone of voice. He says “You should ask someone if they are using something before you move it” I say “Everyday I pick up shit people leave sitting around here” He says “I’m not other people’s!!!” I was really angry by now and fired back “how was I supposed to know you were using it??!!” “You made a mistake!” he says. “No I didn’t make a mistake!” I returned. Then he walks over to the bar which was still on the floor and says “Can you at least help me carry the bar back over to the rack, I don’t want to hurt my back because of your mistake.” I’m sure fire was in my eyes. I say “Oh, you want HELP carrying the bar?” in my best “you are a pussy” tone. As he was on the one end of the bar waiting for me to lift the other end, I stomp over grab the bar with both hands, yank it up myself, stomp back over to the rack and as I threw it down I said “I did not make a MIS (CLANG as I dropped the bar onto the hooks for emphasis) TAKE!” No further words were spoken. But boy did my work out have a nice angry edge to it.
As I worked out I analyzed the confrontation to see if I was somehow at fault. Nope, Igor is just a dick. How was I supposed to know that the guy 50 feet away from me was coming back to use the bar. Before I use anything in the gym, am I supposed to go around and do a personal meet and greet to make sure no one is using the piece of equipment I want to use/move? Of course not. The guy is just a big dickhead.
There is some good follow up info in the comments of the entry two below this one regarding the Loose Change Final Cut documentary. Here you go for those that are too lazy to scroll down.
Tim Sparke Says:
October 29th, 2007 at 6:22 pm e
Hi Mr Duff
Do get ready for Loose Change Final Cut which proves the official story of 9/11 can’t be true.
This is an online event to be the first to watch the new film Loose Change Final Cut on www.joiningthedots.tv, the new online documentary film site.
I am new to this forum and aware that many of you think that ‘Loose Change’ is ‘conspiracy bullshit’. I have to admit that I was one of those who didn’t question the official story of 9/11 up until this weekend. I even supported the invasion of Iraq – arguing against my even more conservative brother, that if I can’t believe my Prime-Minister, Tony Blair, that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction then we should all give up…..sadly he was right, I was wrong….and the rest as they say is history…..
I saw the new film Loose Change Final Cut on Friday in Sweden at a secret test screening. I expected the film to be full of half-truths, insinuations, and attacks on the Bush administration…..instead it was a cogent mature fact filled essay which showed evidence culled from the US networks (Fox, NBC, CNN, ABC etc) that:
1) At least 6 of the 9/11 hi-jackers were trained at US military bases and two of them shared a home with an FBI informant.
2) That US agents had been tailing the hi-jackers prior to 9/11 and made three attempts to inform the FBI – each time the meetings were cancelled.
3) That the man who according to the fbi funded 9/11, the head of the Pakistan Secret Service, was meeting with key government officials on the morning of 9/11.
4) That Dick Cheney was warned that a plane was going to hit the Pentagon, officials requested permission to shoot it down and he refused permission, effectively condemming 120 US patriots to be killed.
5) That the part of the building which was hit at the Pentagon was, according to Donald Rumsfeld investigating a missing 2 trillion dollars….
There is other utterly damming evidence regarding how Bush forced the EPA to change the air quality warnings about the safety of breathing in toxic fumes from the dust that covered Manhatten and more, and more and more…it is quite remarkable….and all of it, straight from the mouths of CNN, Fox, ABC etc.
As I say I was quite prepared to dismiss the film before I watched it, but don’t take my word for it, watch it yourself and make up your own mind.
After seeing this evidence…which is all from mainstream sources my opinion about the Loose Change boys changed….