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So I had a nice long 4-day weekend (we got Monday off), I took the kid to various beaches, fireworks, parks, got a bunch of stuff done on the yard and just had a relaxing weekend, with lots of fun and very little work. I did meet some special guys (all men for some reason) this weekend though:
Guy number 1: I took the yard waste to the dump, which works like every dump I have ever been to. There is a booth/office with the employee, with an exit and entrance ramp on either side, so you can talk to them through the window, and this dump, like a lot of them, has a scale on either ramp, so they can charge dumping fees by weight. I got in line for the entrance scale, waited my turn and like everyone before me got on the scale when the car in front of me left it. I stopped to talk the employee and the car behind me was already on the scale, but since yard waste is free it wasn`t a problem for me. The employee tells me which pile to dump in, I drive in and the car behind me follows without stopping to talk to him, follows me to the compost pile, and starts taking out garbage bags and throwing them in the compost pile. So the employee came over to yell at the driver who was behind me, made him climb through the compost to pick up his garbage, told him what bin to dump it in, told him what the fee would be, and explained he had to pay on his way out or the police would be called.
The driver kept protesting that it was `stupid` that there were no signs or instructions, and he hadn`t known to stop and talk the employee, and the employee kept saying, `it`s what everyone in front of you had done!` It was also `stupid` that the dump charged fees, just like every other dump in the province 
. I stayed around long enough to see him stop and pay, so no police needed, but really, if I had never been to the dump before I think I would at least stop and ask what to do.
Guy number 2: At the grocery store, a SUV was stopped in front of the crosswalk-type area in front of the store doors for about 12 seconds before he zooms into it, shaking his fist and screaming `how fucking long does it take to walk across the road` and almost knocking over the one-legged man who was crutching his way across it. You, Mr Angry SUV Driver, are an asshole, the king of the assholes, and I hope you get three flats on your way home!
Guy number 3: Was actually nice, I met him at the beach, and even though I was in a swimsuit he still wanted to chat at me, and asked for my phone number. That made me smile
Guy number 4: I also met at the beach. He`s one of those guys that when you give them half a glass of water and ask if its half full or half empty he looks at it suspiciously before saying `it`s poison right?` So Cranky McGrumpypants told me about all the things he had discovered about my neck of the woods, and what he thought of them (hint, the thread title is named after him)
- It`s stupid that the roads aren`t flat (neither is the ground they`re on, but I guess we should have fixed that before building the roads?)
- It`s stupid that the roads aren`t laid out in a grid, how do we know where we are? (we use these fancy things called maps, but I can see the confusion, they`ve only been around for about 16 000 years, so maybe the technology hasn`t reached him yet)
- It`s stupid that liquor is sold at the liquor store (as opposed to the....? I don`t even want to know what store he thought it should be at)
- It`s stupid that there is no life guard at the beaches (there are actually more public swim areas than people who live here, it`s a little impractical to have a lifeguard at each of them, WATCH YOUR OWN DAMN KID)
- It`s stupid that it rained Monday (I guess it doesn`t rain on Mondays where he`s from?)
- It`s stupid that I tied my car key to the string from my bathing suit bottoms (I suppose you give yours to the lifeguard who should be here? I give up)
I`m pretty sure the only thing I said to him was `Why are you still here?` He answered me. I need to learn to keep my mouth shut.
Guy number 5: kept taking pictures of the fireworks with his flash on. He was standing right beside me. I wanted to throw his phone in the lake. He also said to his wife `I didn`t know that boats glowed in the dark` after seeing the boats out on the lake watching with their rear lights on to avoid accidents. I hope she smacked him when they got home.
It was a good weekend, I just couldn`t believe the number of stupid/annoying/weird people I met.
Guy number 1: I took the yard waste to the dump, which works like every dump I have ever been to. There is a booth/office with the employee, with an exit and entrance ramp on either side, so you can talk to them through the window, and this dump, like a lot of them, has a scale on either ramp, so they can charge dumping fees by weight. I got in line for the entrance scale, waited my turn and like everyone before me got on the scale when the car in front of me left it. I stopped to talk the employee and the car behind me was already on the scale, but since yard waste is free it wasn`t a problem for me. The employee tells me which pile to dump in, I drive in and the car behind me follows without stopping to talk to him, follows me to the compost pile, and starts taking out garbage bags and throwing them in the compost pile. So the employee came over to yell at the driver who was behind me, made him climb through the compost to pick up his garbage, told him what bin to dump it in, told him what the fee would be, and explained he had to pay on his way out or the police would be called.
The driver kept protesting that it was `stupid` that there were no signs or instructions, and he hadn`t known to stop and talk the employee, and the employee kept saying, `it`s what everyone in front of you had done!` It was also `stupid` that the dump charged fees, just like every other dump in the province . I stayed around long enough to see him stop and pay, so no police needed, but really, if I had never been to the dump before I think I would at least stop and ask what to do.Guy number 2: At the grocery store, a SUV was stopped in front of the crosswalk-type area in front of the store doors for about 12 seconds before he zooms into it, shaking his fist and screaming `how fucking long does it take to walk across the road` and almost knocking over the one-legged man who was crutching his way across it. You, Mr Angry SUV Driver, are an asshole, the king of the assholes, and I hope you get three flats on your way home!
Guy number 3: Was actually nice, I met him at the beach, and even though I was in a swimsuit he still wanted to chat at me, and asked for my phone number. That made me smile
Guy number 4: I also met at the beach. He`s one of those guys that when you give them half a glass of water and ask if its half full or half empty he looks at it suspiciously before saying `it`s poison right?` So Cranky McGrumpypants told me about all the things he had discovered about my neck of the woods, and what he thought of them (hint, the thread title is named after him)
- It`s stupid that the roads aren`t flat (neither is the ground they`re on, but I guess we should have fixed that before building the roads?)
- It`s stupid that the roads aren`t laid out in a grid, how do we know where we are? (we use these fancy things called maps, but I can see the confusion, they`ve only been around for about 16 000 years, so maybe the technology hasn`t reached him yet)
- It`s stupid that liquor is sold at the liquor store (as opposed to the....? I don`t even want to know what store he thought it should be at)
- It`s stupid that there is no life guard at the beaches (there are actually more public swim areas than people who live here, it`s a little impractical to have a lifeguard at each of them, WATCH YOUR OWN DAMN KID)
- It`s stupid that it rained Monday (I guess it doesn`t rain on Mondays where he`s from?)
- It`s stupid that I tied my car key to the string from my bathing suit bottoms (I suppose you give yours to the lifeguard who should be here? I give up)
I`m pretty sure the only thing I said to him was `Why are you still here?` He answered me. I need to learn to keep my mouth shut.
Guy number 5: kept taking pictures of the fireworks with his flash on. He was standing right beside me. I wanted to throw his phone in the lake. He also said to his wife `I didn`t know that boats glowed in the dark` after seeing the boats out on the lake watching with their rear lights on to avoid accidents. I hope she smacked him when they got home.
It was a good weekend, I just couldn`t believe the number of stupid/annoying/weird people I met.
Boob men of the world,gather,we salute you!
For that matter, I can't say I disapprove of of curvy and cuddlesome either. 
the bastard. I can imagine how seeing it happen made you feel!
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