You try to be nice to people but....

duchalla

So last night, myself and the wife went to supermarket to get a few groceries. We bought our stuff, hopped backed into the car and drove toward the car park exit. Now, it was busy so the cars were all moving fairly slowly. Anyway, I saw this woman coming out of the shop, put her groceries on the roof of her red mini cooper, unlock the door, hop into her car and drove off with the the bag of groceries still on the roof.
As I said all the cars were moving slowly towards the exit in 2 lanes, so I gave her a little beep to get her attention and I started pointing at the roof of her car. Yer wan starts shouting and roaring out the window, "who the fcuk are you to start hooting at me?! who do you think you are?", all very aggressively. She gave me the finger and took off, you have to turn right when exiting the car park, as she took the right the bag of shopping came off the roof and went all over the road, burst carton of milk, bread, broken jam jars, exploding 2 litre bottles of coke all over the road. I pulled up beside her, gave her another little beep and a smile and drove off! All I was doing was trying to alert her to the fact that she left her shopping on the roof of her car and all I got was agression and abuse. Serves the wagon right....

Squ

Karma.

endacl

Post put a smile on my face OP. You were nice to me. Thanks.

squod

Any cucumbers in that shopping bag or did she have a boyfriend?

joydivision

Did you report her for littering ?

flutterflye

I don't really try and be nice to people. People are arseholes.

BizzyC

Haha, nice one.

You did the right thing, but still got the entertainment out of it.

upandcumming

Should have given her the finger.

biko

Which finger did you use to point with?

darragh16

Nothing salvagable no?

sfwcork

maybe she thought u wanted a 3 way and she loves the carpet more than cucumber!

Madam_X

flutterflye wrote: »

I don't really try and be nice to people. People are arseholes.

People who say this never ever include themselves.

Nice one on trying to be nice OP.

flutterflye

Madam_X wrote: »

People who say this never ever include themselves..

Huh? Include themselves in what? Not being nice to themselves, or themselves being arseholes?
Sure very few people are actually nice to themselves, and we can all be arseholes.
Really don't understand what you're saying.

flutterflye

flutterflye wrote: »

I don't really try and be nice to people. People are arseholes.

Are you not "people"?

Most people that I have encountered are as nice to me as I am to them. So pretty damn nice actually.

Yeh, there are arseholes, but they are in the minority, and whatever anyone says about "circumstance" or any of that crap. People who are arseholes, choose to be arseholes.

Cool story OP, she got what she deserved!

Mocha Joe

You were being an arsehole. You nearly ruined it. Everyone in slowly moving traffic, doing their shopping on a horrible, dull night. Some wagon drives off with shopping on the top of her car and it goes everywhere. It brightens everyone's day and YOU NEARLY RUINED IT!

tipptopper

upandcumming wrote: »

Should have given her the finger.

She probably would have enjoyed it n all

phasers

what kind of beep did you do? It might have been an aggressive one

Gummy Panda

phasers wrote: »

what kind of beep did you do? It might have been an aggressive one

So that's why that coyote is always trying to kill road runner

flutterflye

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you not "people"?

Most people that I have encountered are as nice to me as I am to them. So pretty damn nice actually.

Yeh, there are arseholes, but they are in the minority, and whatever anyone says about "circumstance" or any of that crap. People who are arseholes, choose to be arseholes.

Cool story OP, she got what she deserved!

Course I am people!
I am under no illusions that I am the nicest person in the world!
Unlike some of us!

keith16

phasers wrote: »

what kind of beep did you do? It might have been an aggressive one

I like the drunken "beeps" myself. Starts off beeping randomly and then goes and pukes in the corner before falling asleep in a ditch.

A sleepy beep.

Giselle

She got what she deserved, and hopefully she'll remember that before she explodes at someone else.

I hope she had a huge mess to clean up

Chuck Stone

duchalla wrote: »

exploding 2 litre bottles of coke all over the road.

Hmmm...

flutterflye

flutterflye wrote: »

Unlike some of us!

Go on...I'm all ears?

Squ

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm all ears?

Pic?

Squ

Squ wrote: »

Pic?

Can't embed in After Hours. Sorry!

flutterflye

Actually, reminds me of a few weeks ago, the school bus was pulling off and I noticed that there was one child left behind - the teachers were all shouting and waving trying to get his attention but he was oblivious..
So I followed him in my car to the school gate beeping at him over and over, tried to go on the other side of the road to reach his window to try and gesture to him, but he just looked at me angrily like I was a nutter, waved me away, and sped up. Meh. I tried - not my fault he just thought I was trying to overtake him or whatever he thought.

Madam_X

flutterflye wrote: »

I don't really try and be nice to people. People are arseholes.

So, on the basis of their being *some* rude people out there (a minority in my experience) "people" are arseholes - and you make a point of not being helpful to others... on the basis of some rude people? Really? You wouldn't help someone with for instance a buggy up steps?

akiko

Last winter something similar happened to me!

I was a passenger in a car on my way to work. There was a long delay in traffic and I noticed the person in the car on front had left their gloves and hat on the roof.
I hopped out of my car and tapped on the girls window and she glared at me, I said through the window you have left your hat on top of your car, she gestured that she could hear me so I reached over and grabbed the hat to show her. She then shouted F**K off and just ignored me!

Keep in mind I was dressed in a suit and wool coat so I dont think I looked particularly dangerous! I put her hat back on the roof and felt very foolish as I walked back to my car where my boyfriend was in hysterics!

Never again!

Korvanica

Deleted User wrote: »

Can't embed in After Hours. Sorry!

host it on imgur and just link it.

Problem solved...

sink

It's easy to mistake someone good intentions. I was picking the folks up from the airport there a little while back and as I was waiting a while I had turned the engine off and the lights out. With all the commotion of getting them and their bags into the car and asking how they got on etc, I had forgotten to turn my lights back on. It's not immediately apparent in the airport because it's very well lit, anyway some lad starts blowing his horn and making on these hand gestures at me. I hadn't a clue what he was trying to communicate. So I just gave him this puzzled look like 'wtf is your problem mate'. It's wasn't until I exited the airport that I noticed I hadn't my lights on. I felt like such a idiot.

Giselle

flutterflye wrote: »

Actually, reminds me of a few weeks ago, the school bus was pulling off and I noticed that there was one child left behind - the teachers were all shouting and waving trying to get his attention but he was oblivious..
So I followed him in my car to the school gate beeping at him over and over, tried to go on the other side of the road to reach his window to try and gesture to him, but he just looked at me angrily like I was a nutter, waved me away, and sped up. Meh. I tried - not my fault he just thought I was trying to overtake him or whatever he thought.

I think that qualifies as trying to be nice.

flutterflye

Madam_X wrote: »

So, on the basis of their being *some* rude people out there (a minority in my experience) "people" are arseholes - and you make a point of not being helpful to others... on the basis of some rude people? Really? You wouldn't help someone with for instance a buggy up steps?

Ah of course - I always do that.
Or if there was an elderly person who couldn't get up out of their seat, or something like that.
But on the most part, I just let them at it - I wouldn't go out of my way like - I used to - all the time, but after a lifetime of getting reactions like the op did, I don't bother so much.
If someone looks like they are really struggling, or if they specifically ask for help, I probably would though.

Korvanica

Korvanica wrote: »

host it on imgur and just link it.

Problem solved...

Good thinking.
Here you go.

Giselle

Deleted User wrote: »

Good thinking.
Here you go.

Some earrings would be round off that look nicely.

Squ

Deleted User wrote: »

Good thinking.
Here you go.

Thats exactly as weird as i was expecting!

CrazyRabbit

Thank God she didn't buy any Mentos. The OP could have been seriously injured with all that exploding coke.

flutterflye

Deleted User wrote: »

Good thinking.
Here you go.

Aaggghhh!
No wonder people are nice to you - they're terrified of you!

donegal_road

a few years ago a friend of mine was wrong changed in a shop, he got too much change back. Thinking he was doing the right thing, he turned at the door and went back to the cashier and explained he had been given incorrect change.
The woman at the til pointed to a sign at the counter which said 'Please check your change before leaving the counter..' blah blah, and more or less told my friend to take a hike.
He said ok, thanks, and explained he had been given €10 extra, and if that was the shop's policy then that was fair enough. She actually tried to argue back saying that the rule only worked when a customer was given too little change, she hadn't a leg to stand on by that stage

Onesimus

duchalla wrote: »

So last night, myself and the wife went to supermarket to get a few groceries. We bought our stuff, hopped backed into the car and drove toward the car park exit. Now, it was busy so the cars were all moving fairly slowly. Anyway, I saw this woman coming out of the shop, put her groceries on the roof of her red mini cooper, unlock the door, hop into her car and drove off with the the bag of groceries still on the roof.
As I said all the cars were moving slowly towards the exit in 2 lanes, so I gave her a little beep to get her attention and I started pointing at the roof of her car. Yer wan starts shouting and roaring out the window, "who the fcuk are you to start hooting at me?! who do you think you are?", all very aggressively. She gave me the finger and took off, you have to turn right when exiting the car park, as she took the right the bag of shopping came off the roof and went all over the road, burst carton of milk, bread, broken jam jars, exploding 2 litre bottles of coke all over the road. I pulled up beside her, gave her another little beep and a smile and drove off! All I was doing was trying to alert her to the fact that she left her shopping on the roof of her car and all I got was agression and abuse. Serves the wagon right....

Its weird. I find that the beep of a fellow driver is almost always interpreted as intimidating by people on the receiving end.

jester77

With an attitude like that I hope she was crying over her spilt milk.

Gone Drinking

I had a similar situation, except I was the idiot.

I got to a set of lights and there was a van behind me. The lights went green and I went off. Seconds into driving from the lights the van started beeping it horn and pointing upwards. I was convinced he was moaning because I hadn't taken off the second the light went green.

He kept up with me and was flashing the whole time. I could see him in my rear view mirror, he could see I could see him. But I couldn't understand what he was moaning about.

I just kept looking at him in my rear view mirror and shrugging my shoulders/arms in a "what are you moaning about?" kind of way.

Anyway, got into traffic a couple of hundred yards down the road and we were stopped. He beeped again and I was like "WTF?" and I turned my head around to look out the back window of the car..

what was he beeping at? Well the boot of my car was wide open. The boot of my car is the back of my car. So in affect, there was nothing there! I had been looking at the guy in my mirror the whole time through a hole in the back of my car and I had no idea what he was on about.

I got out and gave him a wave, did an oul /facepalm and he had a laugh about it.

Stupidest. Day. Ever.

Rented Mule

Squ wrote: »

Karma.

..not unlike the driver of this red mini cooper .....is a bitch.

duchalla

phasers wrote: »

what kind of beep did you do? It might have been an aggressive one

It wasn't, twas only half a toot, I was conscious of the fact that I didn't want to come across aggressively, I even had a small smile on my face.

bb1234567

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you not "people"?

Most people that I have encountered are as nice to me as I am to them. So pretty damn nice actually.

Yeh, there are arseholes, but they are in the minority, and whatever anyone says about "circumstance" or any of that crap. People who are arseholes, choose to be arseholes.

Cool story OP, she got what she deserved!

If only the majority of people were nice....if only. Youre very lucky to have a minority of arseholes in your life whoopsadaisydoodles...

nocoverart

flutterflye wrote: »

I don't really try and be nice to people. People are arseholes.

YUP! people are horrible things. I much rather animals and things with hard drives.

Rebelkell

I was queing at the bar at a concert in Marley park when the girl infront dropped her wallet. I tapped her on the shoulder and said sorry you.... I was cut off with oh for F#@Ks sake can't guys just leave me alone i can't even get a drink without being hit on or words to that effect.
I replied deadpan you dropped your wallet but she didn't even grasp that and told me to leave her alone. I pointed her wallet out to her buddy at that point.
She was morto at that stage when she realised what had happened.

blaze1

Was she parking in a family car parking space as well.. I hope she was. That should happen to all people who park in family spots with no kids.

YES I'm LOOKING AT YOU!

Fr_Dougal

blaze1 wrote: »

Was she parking in a family car parking space as well.. I hope she was. That should happen to all people who park in family spots with no kids.

YES I'm LOOKING AT YOU!

No you're not. If you were looking at me you'd have called the guards by now...hmm...it's cold out here...

GrumPy

flutterflye wrote: »

I don't really try and be nice to people. People are arseholes.

Your post reminds me of my wallpaper.

http://i.imgur.com/XruBb.png

Gongoozler

Wish I'd the same experiences with people as some of you in this thread. People are cnuts for the most part.

Madam_X

people are horrible things.

Why is this emo sh1t so respected by people (the irony)?

If everyone seems horrible to you, maybe you need to look at yourselves. Maybe you are one of those horrible people and have a skewed view of the world...