You could hurt somebody with all that!

[jade504]

Hi there! I typically just love lurking and reading the stories y'all share, but this just happened not 20 minutes ago and I felt the need to share with you fine folks.

Backstory - I'm an "Entertainment Technician" at my casino employer. Mostly I work with designing lights and running them for shows that come in to our different venues.

Now, it's a very rare occasion for any of us techs to be out on the casino floor interacting with the public. Sometimes, however, there's just no getting around the need to transport equipment from one place to another and using the main floor to do so.
Maneuvering large, heavy roadcases full of expensive equipment over carpet isn't the easiest of tasks, especially with me being all of 5' tall, so I do my best to move at a slow but steady pace. When the pathway is clear of traffic, I step it up so the equipment can get back to its home that much faster.

Enter crazy psycho lady who has an apparent death wish on top of having to pee like a racehorse.
This broad steps out into the walkway, INCHES in front of this huge roadcase pile I'm pushing, and just stands there, staring at me while I shift all my weight in the opposite direction in an effort not to run her over. This, of course, results in some of the stacked cases shifting slightly, but thankfully none topple to the floor.

CL- Crazy Lady
me- your friendly 5' of Fury light tech

*screeching halt and shifting of heavy roadcases*

CL: *death glare directed at me*
me: *breathing again* "Can I help you, ma'am?"
CL: "Where tha batrooms at?"
me: "....Directly behind you...?" (under the huge, brightly lit sign that says "LADIES")
CL: "Oh."
*pause while eying pile of roadcases*
CL: "Yoo shud be careful wit all dat. Sumbody cud get hurt."
*CL storms off to bathrooms*

...only in my dreams, ma'am. Only in my dreams.

My coworker is now convinced that I'll be having dreams about accosting people with keyboard cases tonight. I'm not certain he's wrong.

[Exaspera]

*pause while eying pile of roadcases*
CL: "Yoo shud be careful wit all dat. Sumbody cud get hurt."

Let's nickname her Princess Obvious

[Mystic]

Yay! Another LD! Welcome

[protege]

CL: "Where tha batrooms at?"

"Uh, Wayne Manor?"

Sorry, the smartass gene I possess would have come out there

[XCashier]

What is it about heavily laden transporters that entice people to step in front of them? I've read several stories about idiots stepping in front of heavily loaded pallet jacks and forklifts as well. Laws of Physics, people, read up on them.

[EvilEmpryss]

She was clearly confused 'cuz the term "Lady" doesn't apply to her.

[BlaqueKatt]

What is it about heavily laden transporters that entice people to step in front of them? I've read several stories about idiots stepping in front of heavily loaded pallet jacks and forklifts as well.

in the lab the "highly educated" lab techs routinely step in front of loaded autoclave carts-carts weigh anywhere from 250-350 pounds-me pushing the cart weighs 150.....hmmm what's newton's first law again?

[Midorikawa]

in the lab the "highly educated" lab techs routinely step in front of loaded autoclave carts-carts weigh anywhere from 250-350 pounds-me pushing the cart weighs 150.....hmmm what's newton's first law again?

Aren't you a lab tech? :-P *gets out lab coat* "Objects at rest stay at rest, objects in motion stay in motion, unless you stare them down while standing in the direct path of said moving object. Stopping power of the stare increases exponentially with mass and speed of the object."

[Seshat]

People are constantly expecting mobility scooters to stop on a dime and have a zero turning circle, too. It just doesn't work that way!

[Hyndis]

This same thing also probably explains why trains kill so many people every year.

Trains are not subtle. They are very loud, follow a predictable schedule, and the path they take is better than carved in stone; it forged with iron.

Trains also cannot stop.

Yes, they can see you, yes they can try to stop, but due to the mass and speed of the train it cannot stop in time. Trains can take miles to slow down and stop.

Being a complete moron and standing in front of a train expecting it to stop, or walking along train tracks with an iPod blaring at maximum volume while not paying any attention to your surroundings is a deathwish.

Yet I'm sure people just blame the train.

[chainedbarista]

CL: "Yoo shud be careful wit all dat. Sumbody cud get hurt."

we can only hope.

i've also never understood why people think heavy, full carts, long lines of empty shopping carts and other large items should be able to move with the flexibility of a snake and stop immediately without any kind of problem.

while i didn't take physics, i do understand that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless sufficient force is applied to slow/stop said object. damn me for actually using my lump of fat in my head.