Weird Individual Behavior

RBS · December-15th-2008, 03:15 PM

So, I'm in San Ramon for one day for my job and before I take the plane back east, I decide to meet an old friend for dinner and take the BART train to see him.

The train is a little crowded so I look around and see:

1. A guy with his skateboard on the seat next to him.
2. A guy asleep with his bicycle blocking the four seats to the front of him.

Figuring it'd be easier to ask the guy to move his skateboard instead of waking up the sleeping guy, I do so.

I ask him to move his skateboard and he looks at me like I ate his first-born male child. Then, he is so annoyed that he asks actually wakes up the guy in front of him and tells him to move his bicycle so other people can sit down!

What's up with these people?

tippy · December-15th-2008, 03:25 PM

He probably thought it was unfair you called him out when bicycle dude was taking up considerably more space than his skateboard.

Brian Olewnick · December-15th-2008, 03:30 PM

You insulted his date.

tippy · December-15th-2008, 03:33 PM

Will you please move your *Mrs.* Skateboard?

Scott Dolan · December-15th-2008, 03:35 PM

For Christ's sake, is this a genuine thread or just some really stupid joke to pass the day?

tippy · December-15th-2008, 03:39 PM

I think it's weird when people sing out what they are listening to on the headphones like the train is a captive audience for American Idol tryouts. It makes me imagine my fist meeting their head in a Wile E. Coyote kind of way.

RBS · December-15th-2008, 03:40 PM

It's not a joke. It really happened.

Squaredancecalling Steve · December-15th-2008, 03:41 PM

It is what it is. And the skateboard dude was what he was. And I am right, And you are right, And all is right as right can be! And all is right as right can be,
Right as right can be!

tippy · December-15th-2008, 03:54 PM

Perhaps the pleasures of San Ramon wear off quickly. Did you make it to this?

tippy · December-15th-2008, 03:57 PM

There is also the PG&E Testing Facility known as the mini-EPCOT. Check it out:

I know this stuff because my cousin lives in Pittsburgh.

RBS · December-15th-2008, 04:04 PM

San Ramon, California. Woo!

The most exciting thing to do is watch the traffic lights change.

I was the only pedestrian! That was exciting!

And then I walked by a Loehmann's. That was cool.

I didn't make it to whatever happening place that picture was, though.

tippy · December-15th-2008, 04:07 PM

Don't feel bad. It's hard to do everything in one day. You gotta pace yourself.

Jimmy Cantiello · December-15th-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by RBS

So, The train is a little crowded so I look around and see:

1. A guy with his skateboard on the seat next to him.
2. A guy asleep with his bicycle blocking the four seats to the front of him.

Figuring it'd be easier to ask the guy to move his skateboard instead of waking up the sleeping guy, I do so.

I ask him to move his skateboard and he looks at me like I ate his first-born male child. Then, he is so annoyed that he asks actually wakes up the guy in front of him and tells him to move his bicycle so other people can sit down!

What's up with these people?

And you wonder why I hate people?

shrugs · December-15th-2008, 08:17 PM

I got to hear a guy talk about Santa Clause, Jesus and Abraham on the bus this morning.

He was torturing several people with his diatribe.

Dr Dave · December-15th-2008, 08:23 PM

I'd throw a shoe.

GoodSpeak · December-15th-2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by RBS

So, I'm in San Ramon for one day for my job and before I take the plane back east, I decide to meet an old friend for dinner and take the BART train to see him.

The train is a little crowded so I look around and see:

1. A guy with his skateboard on the seat next to him.
2. A guy asleep with his bicycle blocking the four seats to the front of him.

Figuring it'd be easier to ask the guy to move his skateboard instead of waking up the sleeping guy, I do so.

I ask him to move his skateboard and he looks at me like I ate his first-born male child. Then, he is so annoyed that he asks actually wakes up the guy in front of him and tells him to move his bicycle so other people can sit down!

What's up with these people?

He's a skateboarder, Randy....a manufactured martyr. The suburban Second Coming. The poor little rich kid who never got everything he ever asked for from his parents. Have pity...they do suffer so.

If you look over 20, they are going to be total jerks to prove to the world all adults must have it in for them. Snowboarders do the same sort of bullshit. It is an amazing thing to watch.

They have elevated asshole-ness to an art form

RBS · December-15th-2008, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by GoodSpeak

He's a skateboarder, Randy....a manufactured martyr. The suburban Second Coming. The poor little rich kid who never got everything he ever asked for from his parents. Have pity...they do suffer so.

If you look over 20, they are going to be total jerks to prove to the world all adults must have it in for them. Snowboarders do the same sort of bullshit. It is an amazing thing to watch.

They have elevated asshole-ness to an art form

Thanks, my man. Yeah, the dude was in great pain. I interrupted his self-imposed narcissistic reverie.

Obviously, you've had some contact with these Bozos, right?

clinthopson · December-16th-2008, 12:28 PM

If some guy wants to ride his bike then he should ride it all the way and not crowd up public transportation.

I'm constantly avoiding bicyclists who think they have the right of way over a two ton car. Yep, they have their bike lanes,. but that doesn't register with some of these idiots.

I'm full of holiday cheer.

claude · December-16th-2008, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by clinthopson

If some guy wants to ride his bike then he should ride it all the way and not crowd up public transportation.

Don't you guys have these?

patricia · December-16th-2008, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by clinthopson

If some guy wants to ride his bike then he should ride it all the way and not crowd up public transportation.

I'm constantly avoiding bicyclists who think they have the right of way over a two ton car. Yep, they have their bike lanes,. but that doesn't register with some of these idiots.

I'm full of holiday cheer.

I applaud cities that have bike lanes and applaud twice for people who use them.
I recommend smiting of people who ride their bikes on sidewalks. Bikes are wheeled vehicles, not pedestrians, for God's sake. Why should pedestrians have to step out of the way on a sidewalk to make way for some doofus on a bicycle who is afraid to ride on the street?? WHEW!!

GoodSpeak · December-16th-2008, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by RBS

Thanks, my man. Yeah, the dude was in great pain. I interrupted his self-imposed narcissistic reverie.

Ay...there's the rub.

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Originally Posted by RBS

Obviously, you've had some contact with these Bozos, right?

Too much contact.

I teach them.

Ugh.

GoodSpeak · December-16th-2008, 09:14 PM

You know...my favorite thing to do with the self-involved skater dudes is to walk up to them and shout:

"Skateboarding is NOT a crime!"

To which they often reply: "Yaah, well Fock yo-...!"

Then it hits them.

It just tweaks the shit out of their little braincells.

Fun to watch, too.

RBS · December-17th-2008, 04:05 PM

Ha! Good one.

Once I was plodding up some hill in Central Park on my rollerblades in 100 degree heat. I mean, barely walking, it was so hot.

It's a two lane "bicycle lane" sort of thing and I was on the right side. So I'm barely crawling up this thing when some idiot yuppie comes running towards me, in the wrong lane and yells, "GET THE F*** OUTTA MY WAY!"

If I was quicker, I would have taken off my skates and thrown them at his head.

patricia · December-17th-2008, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by RBS

Ha! Good one.

Once I was plodding up some hill in Central Park on my rollerblades in 100 degree heat. I mean, barely walking, it was so hot.

It's a two lane "bicycle lane" sort of thing and I was on the right side. So I'm barely crawling up this thing when some idiot yuppie comes running towards me, in the wrong lane and yells, "GET THE F*** OUTTA MY WAY!"

If I was quicker, I would have taken off my skates and thrown them at his head.

You, with the cat-like reflexes that characterize your every move, should have stuck your arm out and clotheslined him to the ground, PUTZ that he was.

Scott Dolan · December-17th-2008, 04:53 PM

He was too embarrassed at the prospect of getting his ass beat in public by a yuppie.

tippy · December-17th-2008, 04:56 PM

I like to tease the elementary school kids on their way home from school. I tell them that if they don't lose weight now, their parents aren't going to love them anymore and no one will marry them. It's pretty fun - I can usually make them cry.

patricia · December-17th-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by tippy

I like to tease the elementary school kids on their way home from school. I tell them that if they don't lose weight now, their parents aren't going to love them anymore and no one will marry them. It's pretty fun - I can usually make them cry.

Obviously a much-needed public service that will save these round-bottomed kids misery and embarrassment in later life.
If not you...............................then who???

Jimmy Cantiello · December-17th-2008, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by RBS

It's a two lane "bicycle lane" sort of thing and I was on the right side. So I'm barely crawling up this thing when some idiot yuppie comes running towards me, in the wrong lane and yells, "GET THE F*** OUTTA MY WAY!"

And you wonder why I hate people?

Dr Dave · December-17th-2008, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by tippy

I like to tease the elementary school kids on their way home from school. I tell them that if they don't lose weight now, their parents aren't going to love them anymore and no one will marry them. It's pretty fun - I can usually make them cry.

Cruelty to children is a reliable indicator of a sociopath. Congratulations, you have developed the correct behavioral response to 21st Century America.

tippy · December-18th-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr Dave

Cruelty to children is a reliable indicator of a sociopath. Congratulations, you have developed the correct behavioral response to 21st Century America.

Torture of animals is another reliable indicator of a sociopath.

This thread is pretty short in my opinion to think that we have covered all weird individual behaviors, although I guess it is a special branch out of trivial annoyances.

Another weird behavior is pica. Pregnant women get this I hear and actually my cat, Reggie, occasionally too - he at one point was eating clay cat litter. I do not know why but it was most alarming so they have had an empty litter box since - TG they use is without the litter in there. Phew. He also loves to eat plastic bags - I guess they taste sweet, maybe a substitute for cotton candy? - AND recycled products made from plastic bags (i.e., those recycled grocery bags). It's not a good thing though because that plastic has to come out one way or the other.