Sunday Rant – IOTW Report

Sunday Rant

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 10:07 BFH Uncategorized 76

This has the potential for being a rant many do not agree with.

Today I had to get somewhere quick. I was running a little late because I had to put oil in the car.

The lights in Florida are the worst in the world. They stay red for 4 minutes and then once they turn green they go back to red in 5 seconds. I have no idea where the missing time goes. Something is not adding up.

The lights were particularly cruel today, they knew I had a deadline.

There’s one turn I have to make that is a green arrow deal, it’s one of those “you have ten seconds to get through or you’re going to wait 4 minutes” lights. I didn’t have 4 minutes to spare.

There’s a guy at this light that sells newspapers. He’s not well off. He looks like he might be homeless. He sells to the people waiting for the light, and he goes quick. He never holds anyone up once the light is green, always looking back to make sure.

Today the light turned green and we weren’t moving. I usually start out by screaming before I hit the horn. I got a glimpse of what was going on. Someone who bought a paper decided to give the poor guy something in a couple of styrofoam containers. Some food. But they couldn’t just hand the food to the guy and go. No, they had to hand the guy one container at a time and give a speech as they were doing it.

There was about 3 seconds left before the light was going to turn red. I leaned on the horn.

The person in the car, most likely Jesus Christ himself (or so they thought), shot me a look like I was scum. This gave the normally nice homeless guy the chutzpah to give me the cordial f*ck you. That’s when the arm comes from down under in an upward arc and stops just above the hip. Like he’s tossing an orange. We missed the light, and I was late.

LISTEN! DO-GOODERS!!!!!!

Don’t friggin involve me in your good deeds. It ceases to be a good deed when you’re doing something nice for someone but you’re screwing over someone else.

What does a green light mean? Does it mean that you get to block the lane because you’re doing something nice for a homeless dude. No. It doesn’t.

Should I go to hell because I “lacked the compassion” to set aside my needs for a moment while you did something wonderful?

You’re not a good person if you’re helping an old lady to get something off the top shelf if you forcibly use me as the step stool.

Pull your car over and get out and walk over and do your good deed.

What’s that you say? You couldn’t? You were in a rush?

Asshole.

 

76 Comments on Sunday Rant

  3. I feel your pain, believe me. The one thing
    I hate more is when someone decides they need to talk to their friend in another car through open windows, and they block the only two available lanes of traffic, driving along at 20 MPH (they can’t go faster because they’re not watching the road,
    of course) and carry on their conversation while traffic stacks up behind them. If it wasn’t for airbags, I think more people would just say the hell with it and ram them from behind. Like you said, if you gotta talk, PULL OVER to do it. Grrrr.

    🙁

  5. I hate driving in Florida. It seems like, not only are the traffic lights retarded, but so are many of the drivers. Green means go, ok?

    I also agree with your rant about do gooders who have absolutely no consideration for others.

    It’s that kind of thoughtless person who is driving us to socialism. Their attitude, “we’re helping someone, so fuck you”.

    If a thought ever passes through their head, I hope it’s one that acknowledges we can help their favorite pet people without harming everyone else in the process.

  6. “it ceases to be a good deed when you’re doing something nice for someone but you’re screwing over someone else.”

    Ummm…could you please tell that to Ohio governor John Kasich? He expanded Medicaid because, when he arrives at the pearly gates of heaven, he thinks his having expanded Medicaid (OBAMACARE) will win him brownie points with St. Peter. Johnny boy thinks it is ok to steal from people, as long as he gives that which he stole to the less well off (many of whom are milking the system for free stuff). He thinks that makes him charitable. No, Johnny boy, it is only called charity when you give of YOURSELF/YOUR OWN STUFF

    Ok, sorry for my rant. I totally agree with you, Big Fur.

  7. Yup, happens all day long. Heck, here in the Hedge Fund ghetto I reside in fuckers in GIANT Cadillac SUVS slam their brakes on for a friggin chipmunk. Now I don’t like to crush chipmunks but if its between me getting killed by some stay at home mommy in her husbands bought SUV that’s late for friggin yoga or the chipmunk, its the chipmunk. Hope you made it where you were going Hat.

  8. Nice to see the view from Mr. Gates’ window again.

    Here’s your problem….you have a small car. I have a huge truck. When the light turns green if you don’t move I will move you. I once pushed six cars thru the intersection. Yes I got arrested. But by God they moved.

  9. I’m with ya ‘Hat!!

    Here in Houston and the ‘burbs, begging and panhandling for charity at intersections is like one of those “rights” SCOTUS finds in the bowels of the Constitution. Even the friggin’ volunteer fireman are out there with their rubber boots collecting for this or that. The most pathetic are the self-proclaimed “good” ones, like My Kids Little League All Stars® (who need to fly to _____ for XXX Tournament) or the Jumpin’ for Jesus Church & Life Style Center and Arcade®. “What’s wrong, man… don’t you love Jesus?” Yes I do, but rendering to God and/or Caesar doesn’t happen in the left turn lane with a 15-second arrow. I’m a weak brother when it comes to waiting through 5 left-turn signals, so don’t cause me to fall, you hammerheads.

    The looks and the comments when you DON’T give piss me off. I routinely tell the parents groups to stop teaching their kids to beg. “Have a car wash, a bake sale or a yard sale, ” I tell them. I get the, “What… WORK FOR MONEY?” look.

    I’m also sick of the “homeless” scammers who tell you, ever so piously, “Bless you!” when you give them a dollar, which is immediately spent on a bottle of wine, smokes, drugs or an i-phone. I watched one “homeless” guy put his ‘Starving Family Needs Food’ sign and holey coat in the back of his two year-old Denali parked about a block away from his median.

    The do-gooders are about as low as people who feed the pigeons who crap on everything honest people try to keep clean. If people standing in traffic were not enabled, they wouldn’t be standing in traffic, slowing down people who do have something important to do. Wanna beg, get on the sidewalk, such as they actually exist in Harris County.

    Oh… it’s also illegal here, but that law is enforced about as often as our immigration laws.

  10. Their attitude, “we’re helping someone, so fuck you.”

    SOCIALISM EXPLAINED SUCCINCTLY!!!!

    They say there are left-wing Christians out there. I think I might have been behind one today.

  11. Sounds a lot like a “performance do-gooder”. You know they type, it’s not worth it unless they (the giver) get to be in the spotlight. Whether giving a self satisfactory speech on how the receiver can be a better person, congratulating themselves on how “giving” they are, or holding up a line just so everyone can see how much better they are than you, it’s all a performance and its all about them.

    Sorry you had to deal with that, but you weren’t wrong.

  13. I’ve never used my horn so much as I do these days. Between the phones and medicated drivers, I’m surprised some days to make it across a 5 minute town in just 10 minutes.

    Giving someone the finger doesn’t do it for me anymore, in fact when someone gives me the finger it has no effect whatsoever on me. I have resorted to full on cock chugging. The people who really piss me off get the two handed cock chug, the other hand juggling the nuts. Leaves them with a dazed look on their already stupid faces.

  14. Bwhaha! Definitely lefty behavior. I’m stuck in Los Angeles for at least another year and my neighbors have stayed up all night trying to save a sick and dying wild bunny. When it died, they wept bitterly. When one of their friend’s teenaged daughter got pregnant, they encouraged her to have an abortion. Save the bunnies! But not the babies. Go figure.

  17. To coin an old term, “Show Boating.” It isn’t about the giving, it’s about the deed being seen by the spectators that are forced to be witnesses. Actually, it was nothing more than a very selfish act.

  18. It makes me smile to see that you have 100% agreement (so far) among all the comments, BigFurHat. Your reaction to the conceited thoughtlessness is appropriate.

    After getting no reaction several times when I’ve blown my horn in situations like this, I’ve taken to rolling the window down and yelling, “Yo’ mama was too stupid to teach you not to play in traffic!” It doesn’t work any better than the horn but it makes me feel better.

  21. We have a couple hot spots like that around here. Funny at one this past year, some do gooder lady wanted to buy just one of the homeless dudes a night at a motel about a block away. Apparently the other 3 working the other corners figured they were entitled to the temporary accommodation, there was a big fight at the motel and all 5 of them were arrested.

  22. BFH, looks like your do-gooder felt the need to deliver a message with his charity, which probably wasn’t necessary.

    I like the Torah’s 8 Degrees of Giving:

    Level Eight: Giving grudgingly, with a sour countenance.
    Level Seven: Giving less than you can afford, but doing so pleasantly.
    Level Six: Giving generously, but only after being asked.
    Level Five: Giving before you are asked.
    Level Four: The recipient knows the giver, but the giver does not know the recipient.
    Level Three: The giver knows the recipient, but the recipient does not know the giver.
    Level Two: Giving anonymously, where the recipient does not know the giver and vice versa.
    Level One: Helping someone become self-sufficient.

  23. Whenever any beggar or panhandler asks me for money, my response is always the same: I don’t have any extra money because Barack Obama got re-elected. If you want some of my money, go ask Obama for it. He’s stolen it all.

    I usually get a response similar to “That’s not true. Obama has nothing to do with it.” I don’t respond because they’re brain-dead and have no idea about the destructive effects of their socialism.

    This also works when a charity phones. The liberal on the other end (and you can be sure it’s a liberal) will get all huffy and puffy and start defending Obama. Bingo! Brain-dead, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing socialist libtard! I laugh in their face and tell them I had a career that paid me $35 an hour. Now thanks to Obama, I have a job that pays about $20 LESS per hour. Then I tell them if they don’t want to beg for money, stop voting democrat so the economy gets better and the money will flow in voluntarily. These LoFos have no comprehension of cause and effect.

  24. I have more respect for the individuals holding signs enticing you to buy a pizza than for those who hold a sign shaming you into giving them your hard earned dollars. To me this is the difference between an American capitalistic mindset and our current social entitlement mentality.

  25. Also on a rant. I have 2 stop signs before I get out of my subdivision. I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee and am presented each stop sign before it can shift to 3rd gear barely approaching 25mph before stopping.

    However this Jeep also has a viscous coupled mechanical fan. So when I accelerate modestly the first few minutes of driving the fan roars, it sounds like I’m revving the ball sack off it, but we’re barely reaching 2000rpm.

    So some new people moved in a year or so ago, they live dead center between these two stops. They hear the fan and start running around flapping their arms and shouting that I’m going too fast.

    Progressive goofs are clueless!

    Not satisfied with me yelling big bird and flapping my arms whenever I see them now, they started calling the cops. The cops come and they sit for awhile hopping to nab me, but I don’t break any laws to begin with, so it’s not working and I’d love to hear their recent conversations with dispatch as a result.

    My new trick recently is to shift into Low instead of Drive thereby holding first gear and blare the fan all the way down the street at 15mph. They sqwauk and squeal, I laugh my ass off.

  27. Exactly right BFH. One of my own personal pet peeves.

    I would add to it, that a blue handicapped tag hanging from your rear view mirror, is a pass for you to use preferred parking. It is NOT a license to drive your car on the interstate like it is a fricking wheelchair! You are also not entitled to your own personal half-mile of following space between you and the car in front of you. Here is a hint: If you are driving 50 in the left lane, and car after car is flashing their lights at you, it means you are driving too goddam slow, and need to move over!

  28. Oh I have another example of this kind of “screw you” dogooderism that everyone can identify with.
    You’re driving on the interstate. You see a sign that says “lane closed ahead merge left”. And because you were taught in drivers ed to do what signs tell you to, you merge left. And then the people who don’t merge stay in the right lane and pass you. Next thing you know. Wham! Massive traffic jam.
    Now you’re crawling through traffic keeping your front bumper as close you can to the car in front of you so those idiots who are still in the closed lane have to get in behind you. Next thing you come to a complete stop and you look up ahead.
    And next car up there is a douchebag do gooder who has stopped the traffic in the open lane to let the people who stayed in the closed lane into the line AHEAD of themselves YOU and EVERYONE ELSE!
    And you realize this muttonhead in conjunction with the people who didn’t obey the sign are the ones who are CAUSING the traffic jam. THOSE are the drivers that need to go the very center of circle of bad driver hell. Even worse than the do gooders at the traffic lights. Not ONLY do they encourage people to not get out of the closed lane when the signs tells them to, BUT they themselves cause the traffic jam by stopping traffic. And the thing that really makes me just tear the steering wheel right off the dash is when you look in the rearview mirror and see people behind you moving OUT of the OPEN lane into the CLOSED one, because it’s now MOVING and the OPEN lane isn’t.

  29. Driving seems to be the rant that elicits the most reactions from readers.

    Here’s one that might result in a homicide one day-
    the guy who darts out to make his right hand turn in front of you (with no one behind you for miles) and then goes 25 mph.

    I wish I had the Ben Hur axel, I’d love to tear the shit out of their car.

  30. Sadly, this is what’s wrong with my beloved native Florida, which has exploded from 3 million natives to 20 million population in my Boomer’s lifetime.
    The ‘homeless’ panhandler moved here from up North, because the pickings are better here.
    Fur moved to Florida from NY because life here down South is still better here–despite millions of relocatee’s including himself bringing their ugly Noo Yawk finger-giving, horn-pounding, shout-insults-out-the-window-at-strangers social pathologies with them.

    Not long ago, that behavior down here was restricted to the trailer trash. Now, the relocatee’s have dragged us down to their level.
    Florida (and most of the South) has suffered its own ‘fundamental transformation’. God help us.

  31. What about this fartknuckle…
    the guy who takes it upon himself to orchestrate traffic movement with hand gestures and he’s orchestrating movement that isn’t the rule of the road.
    It messes up your natural instincts…

  32. despite millions of relocatee’s ** including himself ** bringing their ugly Noo Yawk finger-giving, horn-pounding, shout-insults-out-the-window-at-strangers social pathologies with them.>>

    Excuse me?

  34. What I get driving in SC:

    No turn signal use (especially fatal to m-cycle riders)
    .
    No headlights in the rain

    High beams in the fog

    Driving in rainstorm, left lane on expressway, 30 MPH, flashers on

    Light turns green, oblivious driver still texting because fuck me right?

    Anyway BFH, my motto is leave early because it’s better to be 10 minutes early than 5 minutes late. And btw, We constantly have people attempting to take up donations for whatever at the busiest intersections as well. I’m just amazed nobody’s been hit by a vehicle yet.

  36. I think I’ve come up with a way to discourage panhandlers. Just last week one of them approached my car while waiting for a red light. The guy say’s “gimmie a dollar” I replied, “Do a little dance”. The guy was completely taken aback, shook his head and muttered “racist” as he backed away.

  37. I believe BFH is completely wrong. Sometimes I provide a meal for a homeless person along the road (I stop by the food bank on the way home so I don’t have to spend my own money), and I stop in traffic not only to give it to him/her, but I stay there and make that homeless guy eat right in front of me and the other motorists I am blocking. Then I watch that fellow walk to the trash can to throw out the paper bag, all the while reminding him he should pick up 5 other pieces of trash as well.

    I do this because I am more compassionate than you, I am more intellectual than you, and I am in all ways more superior than you – and you must witness my generosity and compassion whether or not you want to. After all, if I don’t force other motorists to watch my magnificence, how can I be sure they will recognize me for the higher being that I am?

    I know some of the other commenters here will disagree with me, but that’s because you are racist.

  39. Oh! That’s my most hatingest road-rage inducing action, evah!

    When I first moved to MN, I used to complain that there were only 3 types of drivers here:

    1. Me First
    2. Oh, No You Don’t
    3. Who the Hell Cares

  43. That guy doing film of SC drivers is clearly not a native, which may be part of his problem.

    Where he should be doing that is VA. I have guessed it was a VA driver doing something boneheaded from up to a quarter mile away on the highway, and we were both five states away from their home. Finally get close enough, and yep. VA plates.

    Now, I seldom see people driving with the handicap hang-tag on their rear view mirror. It’s the ones who’ve ponied up for the plate itself that get my attention. Have often observed they drive in a way indicating how they qualified for it in the first place.

  44. What about the ones who have taken to leaving 1.5 car spaces between them and the car in front of them?. Get three of them in a row, and access to the right turn bump lane is gone until the light changes.

    Or they sit back that far from the crossing line (and people who stop way over it is another thing – it’s there for a reason, people). I once sat across from a guy in the left turn lane who stopped so far back, he didn’t trigger the sensor & had to wait for the intersection to cycle back again.

    What is up with that? Are they all texting on their phones?

  45. I have always believed that if you can’t do the speed limit, get off the road. The speed limit sign may be a maximum but it should also be a minimum. Get to the speed limit and drive. Otherwise, give up the car. I don’t like people speeding, but get to the limit dammit!

  46. So, adult beverage in one hand, cigar (or hand gestures) with the other hand. It takes a REAL man to steer the car.
    “Yes, officer, you should have seen him. Drinking, ranting, making gestures . . . .and that gigantic furry HAT! He looked like a Hasidic Hillbilly.”

  48. So just this morning, driving down a residential street, 20 mph. Up ahead an ancient ford escort shoots out of a driveway and into the driveway across the street. As I drive by the driveway, she throws it into reverse and starts to back up right into me. I swerve around her and give her the horn. I turn onto the arterial street and look in my rearview mirror. Here she comes, driving like a bat out of hell, swerving in and out of traffic so she can get next to me at the stoplight. She is screaming at us we roll down the window, she then tells me (in a mexican accent) to slow down. We let her have it. It used to be that people were embarrassed when they did something stupid behind the wheel; now they are arrogant and bellicose. The fact that she was likely here illegal is just icing on the cake.

  49. [This has the potential for being a rant many do not agree with.]
    I come here several times aday cause I think your a nice person and I agree with your point of view. I also think your an old softy whose bark is louder than his bite.
    In my town you can’t hold up traffic while you chat with someone on the sidewalk. That will get you a ticket. Real quick. Pull your damn car over to the side. Get out of traffic.

  50. Nice to see Brad checking in. I work nights now so I won’t be around for
    ” The wisdom of Brad ” always liked this site at night.
    Kinda like ‘Playboy after Dark’ from the 60’s.
    A gentlemans club if you will.

  53. Well, make some room for me.

    I once screamed at an able- bodied grown ass man who followed my mom out of the grocery store and told her about all his “prollems” and needed “ten dollahz” and would not stop hounding her. I told him to please go away. He wouldn’t. Then he made the mistake of getting snippy and then saying, “I’M TALKING TO YOUR MOTHER!!!”

    Aaaaand then I kinda got rude…

    Me: Look motherfucker, I asked you NICELY. Get the fuck away from her right fucking NOW. GO!!!

    Him: Man, fuck you, bitch. (starts to back up and walks away in between cars)

    Me: Fuck MEEE? No, fuck YEEEEW.
    You want money? You want food? You don’t look crippled, bitch. Why don’t you ask your savior 0bama for all of that shit. Get a fucking job, you cunt!!! I know you voted for him at least 5 times!!!

    [aaand Scene]

    *Fans self* That was fun, you guys. I won’t lie. LoL!

    Anyway, I went back to the car and finished loading up the groceries – went to sit in the car…
    My parents were ROTFL. My dad said he almost lost it when I started screaming about 0bama. 😀

  54. I always leave early, so I can drive ten miles per hour under the speed limit. I like to leave my turn signal on while driving slowly down the highway, too. I just do it because it’s fun to look in the rear view mirror and watch people in the cars behind me freak out. Just kidding. I don’t do that.

  55. I gnash my teeth at the imbeciles that drive in the left lane and are refuse to pull over and get out of the way.
    I save my best rancor for those who do a mile over the speed limit and refuse to get over, and who give the universal ‘why’ hand signal when someone lays on the horn.

  56. “Should I go to hell because I “lacked the compassion” to set aside my needs for a moment while you did something wonderful?”

    Who says you’re going to hell? First off, the guy handing out the food to a homeless guy isn’t doing that guy any favors. Most of that food handed out either feeds the guys dog or it gets tossed in the garbage. You were more than compassionate, I would have been arrested for road rage. I never give out food or money to anyone, and it pisses me off when I see people do it. They only enable these people to continue in their ways of pissing more people off. I keep enough space between me and the car in front of me in case I decide to go around them, let’s see how they react to that!

  61. Next Sunday, let’s do the grocery store. I want to know exactly how long some people can stare at 6 Tri Tips. One of which I would like to purchase and would do so if they moved their fat retarded ass out of the way.

  62. I used to work in DC – God forbid I ever have to do it again – poor drivers from all over the world gathered in 69 square miles and stop lights NOT synchronized with any others and that ALL go red in an emergency.

    Almost as bad as New York City and Baltimore.

  65. now if you were riding your bicycle like you;re supposed to, NONE of this would’ve happened and you wouldn’t have a rant… you’d have left 2-17 hours earlier, and da bitch wouldn’t be dere

  66. Yeah!….and that would include grocery cart etiquette….three carts wide and JUST WHERE THE ” F” DID YOU PARK YOUR CART….beautiful, brings out my inner Kennison…LOL

  68. Up here in your northern neigbour, BC just passed a law that it is an offense to drive in the left lane unless passing (or if the traffic has slowed to less than 50km/h). It is known as the “left lane bandit law” and is welcomed because of all the self-appointed traffic fascists who like to slow everyone down driving to block people passing.

  69. Fur, I am including you with the millions of transplants, because you are. I assume you are a good guy and play well with others, unlike most of the millions of screwed up a-holes who move down here to Florida to foul OUR nest.

  71. Yeah, I like the Obama trick. I straight up ask them if they voted for Obama. It doesn’t matter whether they answer “yes” or “no”, I just scoff at them and say, “I THOUGHT SO!”, and turn away from them in utter contempt. If the say something like, “What’s Obama got to do with it?”, I say, “I’ll take that as a ‘YES’…”, and pull the same exit.

Comments are closed.

iOTWreport.com ©2024 ----- iOTWreport is not responsible for the content of comments. All opinions in comments are solely the commenter's.