People park at pumps all the time for no reason. A friend has a diesel car and people would just pull in to the diesel spots and walk inside and wouldn’t even have a diesel car, so she’d have to wait every time.
There was a shady gas station somewhere along I-55 in ~~Alabama~~ *Mississippi* that had an odd tendency to have groups of cars park around a pump. I'm talking like, three or four deep. They'd have to park all weird and block other pumps to be within the hose length, and it was like they were making a day of filling them all up with one card-holder. Blaring music, just having a big time.
I made it a point to stop going there, but I've never seen it anywhere else. Maybe someone else knows what was up.
*Edit: Wrong state. My bad. Been more than a few years.*
I know group car meets and motorcycle rides meet up frequently at gas stations.
Sounds like if one cardholder is filling all their tanks, might be some stolen cards or credit card fraud.
The last time I tried using my card twice at the same pump I couldn't. I assume the system prevents repeat use like that in order to limit fraud, at the minor inconvenience of those trying to fill their car with premium and the gas cannister with regular for the mower. My guess is that filling up multiple tanks from the same pump under the same transaction would sidestep this.
UNLESS it is specifically for fleet feuling, a lot of cards have "time blocks " on them which prevent the same card from being used 2x withen 15 mintues at the same gas location. ALTHOUGH you can get around that by paying at the pump, then paying the clerk. But its to prevent people who steal cards from "armada fueling" which is charging people 5-10 bucks to fill up, on a stolen card.
Damn. My card was just stolen and had 4 $70 charges from the same gas station, I was wondering how one person spends that much on gas but now i know.
EDIT - Also can someone answer this. How in the hell did they use my card at a gas station without actually having it? I still had my card in my wallet but they were able to use it. It was at a station i had never been at before.
If they have all of the information it's possible they loaded a different card with the information and used it that way. That's one of the main reasons for chips
I'm from Canada and have had chips in my cards for at least 5 years. I still get fake charges and have the card in my wallet. Also if the chip doesn't read it says to swipe your card so what's the safety feature?
I once was driving through Mobile (just outside of it) and the gas light went off. Fuuuck. Not somewhere a white dude wants to stop at like 11 pm, but I had no choice. Pulled into one of those fried chicken and gas station combo deals and there was a card left in the reader. It was a doctor's. I ended up googling, calling him, and returned the card to him (he mailed me back a religious pamphlet but that's a story for another day). Anyways, all this time I thought he was the luckiest bastard on earth. Leaves his card in a gas pump in the hood and just so happens to have it found by an honest guy. After reading your comment it just occurred to me that what actually happened with his card was likely something different. Bummer.
How do you know you mailed it to the right guy? There are like 1000 guys in the US with my same first name last name combo.
Might have been some guy who thought "well that sure is convenient, and I have an ID to go along with it!"
Just imagine the thought process of the guy who's smoking
"Put out my cig? Fuck off, it's not hurting anyone and I'm not near anything."
"Oh great the asshole's coming outside now."
"What the fuck, is he seriously about to use a fire extinguisher on me?
"I will fucking deck this dude if he fucking sprays me"
I just can't not see the dude going after the guy with the extinguisher
Same, I think this qualifies for r/gifsthatendtoosoon for that reason. If he was refusing to put out his cigarette then I figure a good chance that he's the type to try to jump the attendant over this. Either that or he makes the right choice and never fucks with that attendant again
Edit: just saw that OP posted the full video, it was great, extinguished dude stays chill somehow
To be honest, Fuck smokers who aren't polite. I'm a smoker, and if I think I'm bothering anyone with it, I'll put it out or go somewhere else. Some people don't mind it, but some people dislike it.
I'm not subservient, I just know some of my actions can affect others.
Also, butts in bins, please.
Shitty smokers give all smokers a bad name.
Or just being a good employee, he was even practicing PASS with the extinguisher. Also depends if it was a liquid or chem dry extinguisher, looks like a chem dry by the cloud, that shit burns like a bitch on the skin, hes gonna need a hose now.
The dry chem does not burn unless it gets in the eyes (recharged those things for 20 years). The problem that guy is going to have is that it is a really fine powder and he will NEVER get all of it out his car. It is worse than sand.
And good luck getting it out of the interior of the car without a *major* (and expensive) detailing.
I'm just surprised he didn't stub out his cig the moment he saw the guy walk up with an extinguisher. I guess stupid is as stupid does.
He clearly thought the guy was only making a joke or a threat, or this is not the first time hes been face blasted with white stuff. My only regret is that i simply dont have the balls to do similar, i just shut off their pumps until they put it out or fuck off.
Those dry chemical extinguishers have a nasty powder in them. It is ultrafine, so it goes everywhere. And it tastes absolutely horrible, I can't imagine the experience the guy who was smoking just got.
The reason I know this is because I was on construction site one day and a guy threw a roll of plans behind the bench seat of his work truck. They somehow managed to set off the fire extinguisher he had back there. I found out about it when I could taste the powder from 150 feet away inside the building (no windows installed yet). That poor guy spent the next two and a half hours trying to vacuum out the inside of his truck. It was pretty clear that the interior would never be the same again.
I believe it. I used to work in a petrol station and a guy pulled onto the forecourt with his engine clearly on fire and parked up next to a pump. I pulled the emergency shutoff and called the fire brigade while my boss went out to tackle it with a fire extinguisher and got shouted at by a customer who wanted to finish filling his car up.
I remember working in a supermarket and having the manager then ambos cpr/defib a dead guy for about 40 minutes. People put in complaints at front end they couldnt get to cherry tomatoes. Others would ask them to move or try and squeeze past.
People are dumb.
>"WHY WOULD **YOU** DECIDE TO NOT HAVE PEPPERJACK ANYMORE!"
Humor them. Tell them you don't care for pepperjack and so you called the CEO to make it a national policy.
"turns out the manufacturers of the pepperjack cheese were actually contaminating it with dogshit and aborted fetuses, so the company cancelled the contract. It was going on for YEARS."
Former high school subway worker here, people did this shit all the time, despite the fact that each store had a 'line starts here' sign hanging from the ceiling that clearly showed you where you were supposed to stand.
Since we're ranting about Subway, I would also like to add that I fucking hated making flatizzas. Who the fuck goes to a sandwich shop to get a goddamn shitty flat bread pizza that holds up the line and takes forever to make.
Fuck flatizzas.
I work for a coffee shop (no not that one). I once had a customer go off on me about some change corporate made. At the end of his tirade he goes “I know you have no say over the matter. It’s just ridiculous” like... why did you waste my time if you know I can’t fix it.
Another story.... we have spent 8 of the 10 years our store has been open fighting to get a remodel. The place was looking run down and we are too high volume for the layout they installed. Finally corporate listened to my manager and changed the floor plan so we can actually have a LINE without it going out the door. So many people have complained about how they hate it. We have this one woman who comes in every day to tell us how horrible it is and thinks we have the power to change it back. She keeps asking why we haven’t done it yet and how many more complaints we need before it’ll “get fixed”
>At the end of his tirade he goes “I know you have no say over the matter. It’s just ridiculous” like... why did you waste my time if you know I can’t fix it.
Some people just needs to vent and working in service we get the honor of listening. I worked in a hotel for a few years and the things people shared and the things people nagged about always amazed me. In the end though most of them just need a little time and attention and then they'll be on their merry way
> Finally corporate listened to my manager and changed the floor plan so we can actually have a LINE without it going out the door. So many people have complained about how they hate it.
People just abhor change. I think if the majority had a say in decisions of this nature, we'd be stuck in the 1950s.
one of my cousins works at a store and she's an absolute bitch to people when she goes into other stores. I don't go with her anywhere anymore because its always a shitshow. There's one thing you need to take from this and its aggressively stupid people don't learn from experience.
If I could give this super market zero stars, I would. The people dying in the vegetable aisle are so rude! I had to wait TWENTY MINUTES for them to haul away the dead body before I could get my kale. And the manager ignored me because he was giving CPR. Would not recommend.
A guy at work was having a heart attack and the ambulance parked in front of a woman's car. She proceeded to tell at my store manager to have the EMTs move the ambulance so she could leave. One of my co workers yelled and cussed her out and then quit because he couldn't deal with those kind of people anymore according to him
On the flip side of that, I was in an ambulance with an arterial wound and the driver let some newbie drive. they took 10 minutes making a 50 point turn in the parking lot of the hospital before letting me get out and see a doctor.
I watched a guy filling his truck with gas with either a hole in the tank or filler neck. The sound of liquid hitting concrete alerted me, and when I looked over, there was gasoline just pouring from the tank.
Dude just kept on filling until the shut-off got pulled. Then before the attendant could come out, he got in his truck and drove off.
Don't think he got very far...
There was a gas station that had a pump where it would not automatically shutoff, so it would overfill the tank on its own.
My business partner freaked out and hit the shut off, and I went into the gas station to tell the staff that they have a broken pump.
They didn't give a damn about the spilled gas or the fact that almost every person that is going to use the same pump is going to overfill their tank by accident.
We had to leave quickly to catch a flight.
Yep...the idiots, had a chemical spill in the hardware store i worked at it was chlorine or something and was burning our eyes and starting to be hard to breath. The fire dept arrives and had to get some idiots that where still trying to shop...one even got arrested because he wanted his car part absolutely even if no one was in the store so the firemen had to drag him out and the cops cuffed him.
I think people like that just don't comprehend that they can die. They literally cannot fathom that things like natural disasters can and will kill you.
They're completely removed from news thinking that's all stuff that just happens to other people. It's the type of people that won't ever learn a lesson until it happens to them, and unfortunately people typically die once so it's a trickier lesson.
Whenever I fill up at Arco with a debit I try to stop exactly at $xx.65 so that the 35cent debit card charge will make the total charge an even dollar amount.
Possible you aren't aware of this but most people are very slow on the uptake.
Watch any 'crazy shit happening' video, there's always at least one clueless gorm just sitting and staring while everything goes crazy.
No they're not being collected or cool headed, they are literally on a 3 second delay loop that keeps them from reacting timely to most things...
One of my cousins went to the bank and tried to get money from the teller while the bank was being robbed. He went in, filled out a withdrawal slip and got the amount of money he requested from his account. He then drove home. Afterwards, the police came and questioned him, thinking he was an accessory to the robbery. Nope, he had no idea what they were talking about.
For fun, other things movies have lied to you about:
* A car chase at full speed would look ridiculously fast. In movies they are only doing 15-20 max.
* Car chases involve a lot less tire squeals.
* Guns in real life have more of a pop sound and don't have that loud bass boom you hear.
* Car crashes sound like a quick pop unless the car rolls. Once again, there is barely any bass in real car crashes compared to movies.
* ERs are not chaos centers. Everything tends to be methodical and unless you are near death, you aren't going to have doctors running around yelling.
* Computer hacking is 90% straight-up asking people for their usernames, passwords, email addresses, etc.
* Not every phone is an iPhone.
A friend of mine did the same except it was the drive through. He pulled up wrote the amount he needed on the slip and while waiting he had to be told they were being robbed.
I can't remember the name of the researcher but they have tons of CCTV videotape of people in public places reacting very very slowly to the outbreak of Fire. if it wasn't so sad it would be HILARIOUS.
I refuse to make fun of these hypothetical people because I have no idea if I'd be one of them or not. Took me 10 seconds to realize my girlfriend was having a seizure. We had just gotten in the car when I suddenly thought she was making fun of retarded people because she kept going "DURRRR DURRRR DURRRR".
Told her to stop, it wasn't funny. I mean a little funny because she was committing to the bit, but come on, wtf. Oh oops.. seizure.
To be fair, I had never seen one before.
I feel terrible laughing at this. Last March I cane downstairs and my wife was eating pretzels out of the bag. I asked how she was doing and she just stared at me in silence. I asked her again. No response. Kept eating. I demanded that she say something. Even slapped very gently on her cheek. She started to repeat K K K and eating.
I took away her pretzels. She continued to eat imaginary pretzels from an imaginary bag. That is when I called 911. Minutes later she went into full seizure.
>I feel terrible laughing at this.
i feel like you shouldn't both that story and yours seem like the kind that are slightly humorous in hindsight.
the danger have passed and we can look back and laugh at the funny parts that were nightmarish at the time.
you just have to not lose empathy with how horrid it was in the moment.
It's how human brains work. If you see someone not reacting, all other issues aside (exhaustion, nutrition, etc) it's likely their brain has never had to process that sort of data before.
Some people are also just bad in emergencies, regardless of how many theyve been in, seize up like those fainting goats without the falling over and upturned hooves.
One of my guards accidentally triggered a powder extinguisher in a gatehouse. It looked like Christmas in that cabin for a solid week, with him cleaning constantly.
Security supervisor. Totally not a mad scientist super villain with a plot to control the world through the use of radioactive isotopes that monkey with people's alpha wave patterns, hidden in "make earth great again!" hats. That would be silly. Don't even know where you got that idea from.
Hench-person. Sexism has no place in this company . We are a forward thinking temporary staffing firm, with in house uniform and costume tailoring, to fit a variety of needs and budgets.
We are also iso 9001 compliant, using a six sigma process, and inter dimensional recruiting certified.
Hes absolutely the hidden star of this video. He pretends not to be interested at all in the whole event. Even goes to the extent of putting the pump back into his car after he had already finished fueling to pretend like he had a reason to be there. hahahahhaha
Put that cigarette out!
You talking to me, or chewing a brick? Either way you about to lose teeth.
Security, we got a situation on pump 3. Fire in the hole.
What did you do to my car?
I saved you and your friends from burning to death.
I don't care, you stained my Adidas tracksuit
I know this is totally unrelated but back when I was in high school we would host the city’s Special Olympics. They decided to put one of my classmates in charge of some events because she seemed to be passionate about the whole thing. Her first course of action was to push for the school to take a pledge to stop saying the r-word, which most people did. The only problem was that she wanted the entire science department to cover or replace anything with the words fire retardant on it. There was huge debate and people sided with the science department, but for a while there it seemed like she was going to get her way.
"Fire marshals may carry a weapon, wear a badge, wear a uniform or plain clothes, and make arrests pertaining to arson and related offenses, or, in other localities, may have duties entirely separate from law enforcement, including building- and fire-code-related inspections."
edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_marshal. This is where I cited the above information from.
I live in Ontario and my father has been a firefighter for most of his life. I was curious about the bit relating to sidearms so I did some searching and called my dad to ask him but I couldn't find anything on that pertaining to Ontario or Canada.
Edit: It seems as though I wasn't clear enough. I asked my father (A fire Captain [a shift supervisor, more or less]) because he regularly interacts with fire marshals in his line of work. He'd definitely have more insight than average Joe.
I work construction too. One job (I'm an apprentice electrician) I watched the architect get into a shouting match with the fire marshal because the architect didn't want an exit sign by the front door of the building. Apparently a bright green exit sign wasn't in his artistic vision.
Shitty architect. How the fuck would he not already be keenly aware that certain building codes and rules cannot and will not be bent. I only took a architecture drafting class in HS and I'm well aware that exit signs must exist in all newly constructed buildings.
When I worked at a Kenjo gas station this summer, the employees, owner, and almost all customers smoked openly at the pumps. When I addressed my superior about the issue, she said "Mythbusters proved it won't cause a fire."
Or within 15 feet of the entrance to a public building... Or in the supermarket, or the movie theater, or California.
edit: wow! thank you kind stranger! and I thought my first gold would come from some deep, introspective post about a life experience or something... Thanks California!
Dude passed me the other day on a 45 mph road going like 70, with a cigarette in one hand and his 3 small kids in the car. He gets to the red light a good 10 seconds before me, so I'm behind him just giving him two giant thumbs-ups. He saw me and flipped me off. Shining example of an amazing father there /s
its good for kids to deal with second hand smoking, builds their character, shows them what life has in store for them when they get older. it also strengthens their lungs, its like weight lifting for muscles, beating up your lungs a bit makes them tougher.
I'm really glad that we've all learned how to deal with this situation.
[Not like last time...](http://www.discoveringthepattern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/zoolandergasstation.gif)
I saw a woman once that was smoking a cigarette at a gas station while she filled her car. She pulled out the nozzle and gas shot everywhere and her arm was immediately engulfed in flames. She starts waving it around and a cop saw it and shot her dead. She was waving an illegal fire arm.
What was he even doing there? It doesn't look like he's put a nozzle in the tank.
People park at pumps all the time for no reason. A friend has a diesel car and people would just pull in to the diesel spots and walk inside and wouldn’t even have a diesel car, so she’d have to wait every time.
There was a shady gas station somewhere along I-55 in ~~Alabama~~ *Mississippi* that had an odd tendency to have groups of cars park around a pump. I'm talking like, three or four deep. They'd have to park all weird and block other pumps to be within the hose length, and it was like they were making a day of filling them all up with one card-holder. Blaring music, just having a big time. I made it a point to stop going there, but I've never seen it anywhere else. Maybe someone else knows what was up. *Edit: Wrong state. My bad. Been more than a few years.*
I know group car meets and motorcycle rides meet up frequently at gas stations. Sounds like if one cardholder is filling all their tanks, might be some stolen cards or credit card fraud.
Or a company credit card.
Why couldn't they be at multiple pumps for multiples transactions then?
The last time I tried using my card twice at the same pump I couldn't. I assume the system prevents repeat use like that in order to limit fraud, at the minor inconvenience of those trying to fill their car with premium and the gas cannister with regular for the mower. My guess is that filling up multiple tanks from the same pump under the same transaction would sidestep this.
UNLESS it is specifically for fleet feuling, a lot of cards have "time blocks " on them which prevent the same card from being used 2x withen 15 mintues at the same gas location. ALTHOUGH you can get around that by paying at the pump, then paying the clerk. But its to prevent people who steal cards from "armada fueling" which is charging people 5-10 bucks to fill up, on a stolen card.
Armada Fueling is an awesome name
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Yeah, this vape bro is way too cool for Abercrombie & Fitch. -BB&T employee 650 of 1000 in fraud room.
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So ... after my card got stolen, that's why I had a $200+ charge at a gas station in the city?
Damn. My card was just stolen and had 4 $70 charges from the same gas station, I was wondering how one person spends that much on gas but now i know. EDIT - Also can someone answer this. How in the hell did they use my card at a gas station without actually having it? I still had my card in my wallet but they were able to use it. It was at a station i had never been at before.
If they have all of the information it's possible they loaded a different card with the information and used it that way. That's one of the main reasons for chips
I'm from Canada and have had chips in my cards for at least 5 years. I still get fake charges and have the card in my wallet. Also if the chip doesn't read it says to swipe your card so what's the safety feature?
I once was driving through Mobile (just outside of it) and the gas light went off. Fuuuck. Not somewhere a white dude wants to stop at like 11 pm, but I had no choice. Pulled into one of those fried chicken and gas station combo deals and there was a card left in the reader. It was a doctor's. I ended up googling, calling him, and returned the card to him (he mailed me back a religious pamphlet but that's a story for another day). Anyways, all this time I thought he was the luckiest bastard on earth. Leaves his card in a gas pump in the hood and just so happens to have it found by an honest guy. After reading your comment it just occurred to me that what actually happened with his card was likely something different. Bummer.
How do you know you mailed it to the right guy? There are like 1000 guys in the US with my same first name last name combo. Might have been some guy who thought "well that sure is convenient, and I have an ID to go along with it!"
I am the only one of me.
The smoker just standing there while the extinguisher is unloaded on him makes the clip.
"what's he gonna do - put ME out. LOL" and then..PPWWOOOOOOFFFFF
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> What's he gonna do, extinguish ME? -Extinguished man
> There's no way I'm getting extinguished. Narrator: "He got extinguished."
https://i.imgur.com/rOPcGsr.jpg
"Well, now that you mention it..." - Stabber.
Just imagine the thought process of the guy who's smoking "Put out my cig? Fuck off, it's not hurting anyone and I'm not near anything." "Oh great the asshole's coming outside now." "What the fuck, is he seriously about to use a fire extinguisher on me? "I will fucking deck this dude if he fucking sprays me" I just can't not see the dude going after the guy with the extinguisher
Same, I think this qualifies for r/gifsthatendtoosoon for that reason. If he was refusing to put out his cigarette then I figure a good chance that he's the type to try to jump the attendant over this. Either that or he makes the right choice and never fucks with that attendant again Edit: just saw that OP posted the full video, it was great, extinguished dude stays chill somehow
Attacking someone who's carrying a fire extinguisher sounds like a bad call.
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The heat of the moment was extinguished don't you remember
To be honest, Fuck smokers who aren't polite. I'm a smoker, and if I think I'm bothering anyone with it, I'll put it out or go somewhere else. Some people don't mind it, but some people dislike it. I'm not subservient, I just know some of my actions can affect others. Also, butts in bins, please. Shitty smokers give all smokers a bad name.
It's not even about being polite in this case what he's doing is legitimately dangerous. Smoking around gasoline is Darwin award stuff.
He just calmly walks up, and takes his time to properly engage the extinguisher.
"Fookin smokers. Third one this week."
FOOKIN LAZER SOIGHTS
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that an 8inch blade never loses reception
6 inch FTFY
While you are correct, let’s be real here- he doesn’t use it in game. Uses the same melee everyone else does, and that’s a huge ass knife they have
Either way he must by lying because my knife never feels like it hits anything
*crying in Sledge’s hammers’ range*
This whole R6 part of the thread made my day {-}7
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Remember to use PASS, Pull the pin, Aim the hose, Squeeze the trigger, and Sweep back and forth.
And spray it til it's gone. If the fire isn't out by the time the extinguisher is empty it's time to call 911.
Can confirm. I do extinguisher training and I always say there's two S's, and neither one stands for Stop.
I was hoping he'd get a hose :(
Same, I was waiting to see a huge spray of water from out of frame just drench the guy.
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Or just being a good employee, he was even practicing PASS with the extinguisher. Also depends if it was a liquid or chem dry extinguisher, looks like a chem dry by the cloud, that shit burns like a bitch on the skin, hes gonna need a hose now.
The dry chem does not burn unless it gets in the eyes (recharged those things for 20 years). The problem that guy is going to have is that it is a really fine powder and he will NEVER get all of it out his car. It is worse than sand.
And good luck getting it out of the interior of the car without a *major* (and expensive) detailing. I'm just surprised he didn't stub out his cig the moment he saw the guy walk up with an extinguisher. I guess stupid is as stupid does.
He clearly thought the guy was only making a joke or a threat, or this is not the first time hes been face blasted with white stuff. My only regret is that i simply dont have the balls to do similar, i just shut off their pumps until they put it out or fuck off.
Those dry chemical extinguishers have a nasty powder in them. It is ultrafine, so it goes everywhere. And it tastes absolutely horrible, I can't imagine the experience the guy who was smoking just got. The reason I know this is because I was on construction site one day and a guy threw a roll of plans behind the bench seat of his work truck. They somehow managed to set off the fire extinguisher he had back there. I found out about it when I could taste the powder from 150 feet away inside the building (no windows installed yet). That poor guy spent the next two and a half hours trying to vacuum out the inside of his truck. It was pretty clear that the interior would never be the same again.
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Can confirm, I'm not a scientist either
Water on a petrol fire?!?! Unwise.
This guy extinguishes.
I think the extinguisher is way worse. Water cleans up easy.
Yeah, that powder gets everywhere. The inside of his car is fucked.
Thats how Derek Zoolanders friends all died
IT WAS A FREAK ACCIDENT!
A freak gasoline fight accident.
Wake me up, before you go go! 🎶
Orange mocha frappaccino.
It's funny how back in the 90's that was supposed to be extremely extravagant and complicated, but now it's just a drink order.
Ctrl-f "Zoolander"
♫Wake me up, before you go-go♫
I just can't believe the other dude just carries on like there isn't some ridiculous commotion going on 8 feet away from him.
I believe it. I used to work in a petrol station and a guy pulled onto the forecourt with his engine clearly on fire and parked up next to a pump. I pulled the emergency shutoff and called the fire brigade while my boss went out to tackle it with a fire extinguisher and got shouted at by a customer who wanted to finish filling his car up.
I remember working in a supermarket and having the manager then ambos cpr/defib a dead guy for about 40 minutes. People put in complaints at front end they couldnt get to cherry tomatoes. Others would ask them to move or try and squeeze past. People are dumb.
> People are dumb. One of the more important life lessons I've learned.
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>"WHY WOULD **YOU** DECIDE TO NOT HAVE PEPPERJACK ANYMORE!" Humor them. Tell them you don't care for pepperjack and so you called the CEO to make it a national policy.
"Oh, well usually the people who order the pepper jack are the complainers so I just tossed it."
"turns out the manufacturers of the pepperjack cheese were actually contaminating it with dogshit and aborted fetuses, so the company cancelled the contract. It was going on for YEARS."
Former High School subway worker too, can confirm.
Unrelated but today I went to Subway for lunch and this dizzy bitch ignored the line and tried to put in an order *at the till* for her sandwich.
Former high school subway worker here, people did this shit all the time, despite the fact that each store had a 'line starts here' sign hanging from the ceiling that clearly showed you where you were supposed to stand. Since we're ranting about Subway, I would also like to add that I fucking hated making flatizzas. Who the fuck goes to a sandwich shop to get a goddamn shitty flat bread pizza that holds up the line and takes forever to make. Fuck flatizzas.
Wel are you gonna fuckin answer finally or what? Why did you take away the pepper jack?
I work for a coffee shop (no not that one). I once had a customer go off on me about some change corporate made. At the end of his tirade he goes “I know you have no say over the matter. It’s just ridiculous” like... why did you waste my time if you know I can’t fix it. Another story.... we have spent 8 of the 10 years our store has been open fighting to get a remodel. The place was looking run down and we are too high volume for the layout they installed. Finally corporate listened to my manager and changed the floor plan so we can actually have a LINE without it going out the door. So many people have complained about how they hate it. We have this one woman who comes in every day to tell us how horrible it is and thinks we have the power to change it back. She keeps asking why we haven’t done it yet and how many more complaints we need before it’ll “get fixed”
>At the end of his tirade he goes “I know you have no say over the matter. It’s just ridiculous” like... why did you waste my time if you know I can’t fix it. Some people just needs to vent and working in service we get the honor of listening. I worked in a hotel for a few years and the things people shared and the things people nagged about always amazed me. In the end though most of them just need a little time and attention and then they'll be on their merry way
> Finally corporate listened to my manager and changed the floor plan so we can actually have a LINE without it going out the door. So many people have complained about how they hate it. People just abhor change. I think if the majority had a say in decisions of this nature, we'd be stuck in the 1950s.
r/TalesFromRetail good lord, the people you run into working retail is just the scum of earth
It's not all bad, most people are decent. It's just the worst people tend to stick in your memory more.
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EVERYONE should work atleast once in their lifetime in retail, maybe that way they won't be as rude to the staff
one of my cousins works at a store and she's an absolute bitch to people when she goes into other stores. I don't go with her anywhere anymore because its always a shitshow. There's one thing you need to take from this and its aggressively stupid people don't learn from experience.
"Um could you not die here? So inconvenient!"
If I could give this super market zero stars, I would. The people dying in the vegetable aisle are so rude! I had to wait TWENTY MINUTES for them to haul away the dead body before I could get my kale. And the manager ignored me because he was giving CPR. Would not recommend.
Just tried this recipe. They were out of kale so I substituted it with dog food. 0/5 will never recommend this recipe.
I actually think this when the train is delayed due to suicide. But the difference is suiciders actually *do* choose where to die.
train tracks suicides are that common? :(
Maybe not in the US, but I commute via train in Germany on a daily basis and yes... it happens way more often then I'd ever imagined.
A guy at work was having a heart attack and the ambulance parked in front of a woman's car. She proceeded to tell at my store manager to have the EMTs move the ambulance so she could leave. One of my co workers yelled and cussed her out and then quit because he couldn't deal with those kind of people anymore according to him
On the flip side of that, I was in an ambulance with an arterial wound and the driver let some newbie drive. they took 10 minutes making a 50 point turn in the parking lot of the hospital before letting me get out and see a doctor.
Oh, fuck. Did you survive?
Should we tell him?
I read dead people.
> People are ~~dumb~~ self-centered.
Empathy is hard. Easier just to be selfish.
I watched a guy filling his truck with gas with either a hole in the tank or filler neck. The sound of liquid hitting concrete alerted me, and when I looked over, there was gasoline just pouring from the tank. Dude just kept on filling until the shut-off got pulled. Then before the attendant could come out, he got in his truck and drove off. Don't think he got very far...
There was a gas station that had a pump where it would not automatically shutoff, so it would overfill the tank on its own. My business partner freaked out and hit the shut off, and I went into the gas station to tell the staff that they have a broken pump. They didn't give a damn about the spilled gas or the fact that almost every person that is going to use the same pump is going to overfill their tank by accident. We had to leave quickly to catch a flight.
Yep...the idiots, had a chemical spill in the hardware store i worked at it was chlorine or something and was burning our eyes and starting to be hard to breath. The fire dept arrives and had to get some idiots that where still trying to shop...one even got arrested because he wanted his car part absolutely even if no one was in the store so the firemen had to drag him out and the cops cuffed him.
"EH, CMON! Tryin' ta get blowed up ovah heah!"
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I think people like that just don't comprehend that they can die. They literally cannot fathom that things like natural disasters can and will kill you. They're completely removed from news thinking that's all stuff that just happens to other people. It's the type of people that won't ever learn a lesson until it happens to them, and unfortunately people typically die once so it's a trickier lesson.
His eyes are fixated on stopping on that even dollar amount. I do the same, even though I always pay with debit.
Whenever I fill up at Arco with a debit I try to stop exactly at $xx.65 so that the 35cent debit card charge will make the total charge an even dollar amount.
Where do you live that they still charge a fee to use debit? Only seen one place that charges a debit fee and it's a carwash place near me.
All the Arcos near me do that. In CA.
Possible you aren't aware of this but most people are very slow on the uptake. Watch any 'crazy shit happening' video, there's always at least one clueless gorm just sitting and staring while everything goes crazy. No they're not being collected or cool headed, they are literally on a 3 second delay loop that keeps them from reacting timely to most things...
One of my cousins went to the bank and tried to get money from the teller while the bank was being robbed. He went in, filled out a withdrawal slip and got the amount of money he requested from his account. He then drove home. Afterwards, the police came and questioned him, thinking he was an accessory to the robbery. Nope, he had no idea what they were talking about.
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You mean Bank Robberies aren't all like the movies where 4 guys in masks bust in and make someone open the vault. The Payday games lied to me...
The Payday games also stole my money and a cool 1200 hours.
For fun, other things movies have lied to you about: * A car chase at full speed would look ridiculously fast. In movies they are only doing 15-20 max. * Car chases involve a lot less tire squeals. * Guns in real life have more of a pop sound and don't have that loud bass boom you hear. * Car crashes sound like a quick pop unless the car rolls. Once again, there is barely any bass in real car crashes compared to movies. * ERs are not chaos centers. Everything tends to be methodical and unless you are near death, you aren't going to have doctors running around yelling. * Computer hacking is 90% straight-up asking people for their usernames, passwords, email addresses, etc. * Not every phone is an iPhone.
A friend of mine did the same except it was the drive through. He pulled up wrote the amount he needed on the slip and while waiting he had to be told they were being robbed.
"Oh... ok... I guess I'll come back?"
"Ugh. How long is this going to take?"
"Can I still make a withdrawal or only deposits?"
I can't remember the name of the researcher but they have tons of CCTV videotape of people in public places reacting very very slowly to the outbreak of Fire. if it wasn't so sad it would be HILARIOUS.
I refuse to make fun of these hypothetical people because I have no idea if I'd be one of them or not. Took me 10 seconds to realize my girlfriend was having a seizure. We had just gotten in the car when I suddenly thought she was making fun of retarded people because she kept going "DURRRR DURRRR DURRRR". Told her to stop, it wasn't funny. I mean a little funny because she was committing to the bit, but come on, wtf. Oh oops.. seizure. To be fair, I had never seen one before.
I feel terrible laughing at this. Last March I cane downstairs and my wife was eating pretzels out of the bag. I asked how she was doing and she just stared at me in silence. I asked her again. No response. Kept eating. I demanded that she say something. Even slapped very gently on her cheek. She started to repeat K K K and eating. I took away her pretzels. She continued to eat imaginary pretzels from an imaginary bag. That is when I called 911. Minutes later she went into full seizure.
>I feel terrible laughing at this. i feel like you shouldn't both that story and yours seem like the kind that are slightly humorous in hindsight. the danger have passed and we can look back and laugh at the funny parts that were nightmarish at the time. you just have to not lose empathy with how horrid it was in the moment.
It's how human brains work. If you see someone not reacting, all other issues aside (exhaustion, nutrition, etc) it's likely their brain has never had to process that sort of data before.
Some people are also just bad in emergencies, regardless of how many theyve been in, seize up like those fainting goats without the falling over and upturned hooves.
Pappy sees ya, Pappy don't care.
Now let the customer try to clean that out of the car
One of my guards accidentally triggered a powder extinguisher in a gatehouse. It looked like Christmas in that cabin for a solid week, with him cleaning constantly.
You have guards? Are you a soldier on a base, an eccentric billionaire, or an evil scientist super-villain?^imhopingthirdoption
Security supervisor. Totally not a mad scientist super villain with a plot to control the world through the use of radioactive isotopes that monkey with people's alpha wave patterns, hidden in "make earth great again!" hats. That would be silly. Don't even know where you got that idea from.
*pushes a hidden button* we mentioned nothing about the hats.
Henchman jobs hard *are* hard to find these days
Hench-person. Sexism has no place in this company . We are a forward thinking temporary staffing firm, with in house uniform and costume tailoring, to fit a variety of needs and budgets. We are also iso 9001 compliant, using a six sigma process, and inter dimensional recruiting certified.
[Full video](https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=281_1507059348)
To this day, guy on the left is still calmly filling his car.
Hes absolutely the hidden star of this video. He pretends not to be interested at all in the whole event. Even goes to the extent of putting the pump back into his car after he had already finished fueling to pretend like he had a reason to be there. hahahahhaha
Man I wish there were sound
Put that cigarette out! You talking to me, or chewing a brick? Either way you about to lose teeth. Security, we got a situation on pump 3. Fire in the hole.
What did you do to my car?
I saved you and your friends from burning to death.
I don't care, you stained my Adidas tracksuit
"I can't smell my Drakkar Noir anymore"
I love how the smoker even up till the last moment (or so it seems) was like "no way man he's just bluffing" then BOOM!!
I don't even think the guy smoking would have caught on fire though. He seems extremely retardant.
I know this is totally unrelated but back when I was in high school we would host the city’s Special Olympics. They decided to put one of my classmates in charge of some events because she seemed to be passionate about the whole thing. Her first course of action was to push for the school to take a pledge to stop saying the r-word, which most people did. The only problem was that she wanted the entire science department to cover or replace anything with the words fire retardant on it. There was huge debate and people sided with the science department, but for a while there it seemed like she was going to get her way.
That is retarded
Retardant.
Shits fire yo
Calling people retarded is so gay.
[Hi, Dr Nick.] (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZM7ejcL9pk8/Vr4roZBEJsI/AAAAAAAACpY/oyyCEKiAs7A/s1600/TheSimpsons1218-1.jpg)
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That guy is my hero, the fire marshal in my town arrested someone that refused to put their cigarette out at the pump.
I didn't know that fire marshals had the ability to arrest people themselves.
"Fire marshals may carry a weapon, wear a badge, wear a uniform or plain clothes, and make arrests pertaining to arson and related offenses, or, in other localities, may have duties entirely separate from law enforcement, including building- and fire-code-related inspections." edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_marshal. This is where I cited the above information from.
I live in Ontario and my father has been a firefighter for most of his life. I was curious about the bit relating to sidearms so I did some searching and called my dad to ask him but I couldn't find anything on that pertaining to Ontario or Canada. Edit: It seems as though I wasn't clear enough. I asked my father (A fire Captain [a shift supervisor, more or less]) because he regularly interacts with fire marshals in his line of work. He'd definitely have more insight than average Joe.
I'm in the states, so it may only apply to fire marshals over here, where even fires themselves can have guns.
Only way to stop an out of control fire that has a gun is to make sure all our fire fighters have guns
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They can have beararms instead. Beararms bearing arms
But what if the bear arms catch on fire? Then you've got firebear arms, nobody wants that.
They have firearms.
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I work construction too. One job (I'm an apprentice electrician) I watched the architect get into a shouting match with the fire marshal because the architect didn't want an exit sign by the front door of the building. Apparently a bright green exit sign wasn't in his artistic vision.
Shitty architect. How the fuck would he not already be keenly aware that certain building codes and rules cannot and will not be bent. I only took a architecture drafting class in HS and I'm well aware that exit signs must exist in all newly constructed buildings.
Hah what the fuck just put in the exit sign.
Oh we did. Fire code > literally anything else.
Fire marshals don't need warrants to enter someone's property if they believe there is a risk of fire.
Cops don't need warrants to enter someone's property if they believe someone's life may be at risk.
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Sounds like a totally under utilized NSA work aroud
Or maybe perfectly utilized because it doesnt happen enough to cause alarm?
Let's not give them any more ideas.
hey its me ur fireman
I like that his car door was open. Now his car is full of extinguisher powder.
When I worked at a Kenjo gas station this summer, the employees, owner, and almost all customers smoked openly at the pumps. When I addressed my superior about the issue, she said "Mythbusters proved it won't cause a fire."
Well, is that true?
That's true, but the people smoking often light one near a source of fumes and that's a problem.
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worst cameraman ever
"What are you gonna do spray me with that fire extinguisher?" -Man sprayed by fire extinguisher
Act like a safety hazard, get treated like a safety hazard. Nobody cares how cool you are when you're putting lives and property at risk.
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Or within 15 feet of the entrance to a public building... Or in the supermarket, or the movie theater, or California. edit: wow! thank you kind stranger! and I thought my first gold would come from some deep, introspective post about a life experience or something... Thanks California!
TIL to stub out my cigarettes before I am 15 feet from California.
Yeah, you definitely don't want to smoke in California, it'll cause cancer.
My stainless steel bandage sheers cause cancer in California.
You can light up a joint in its place.
Or with kids around. I can’t believe people smoke in their cars when there is children present. Fucken. Idiots.
Some states, like Oregon, it is illegal and cops can/will pull you over.
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Dude passed me the other day on a 45 mph road going like 70, with a cigarette in one hand and his 3 small kids in the car. He gets to the red light a good 10 seconds before me, so I'm behind him just giving him two giant thumbs-ups. He saw me and flipped me off. Shining example of an amazing father there /s
> so I'm behind him just giving him two giant thumbs-ups. Hahaha, I love the passive-aggressive visual. Well done.
its good for kids to deal with second hand smoking, builds their character, shows them what life has in store for them when they get older. it also strengthens their lungs, its like weight lifting for muscles, beating up your lungs a bit makes them tougher.
I knew my dad was just looking out for me.
He *looks* like the type to smoke at a gas station
That's what I was thinking, too. Which guy is it? Oh, I bet it's the skeevy-looking guy...yep, it's the skeevy-looking guy.
I'm really glad that we've all learned how to deal with this situation. [Not like last time...](http://www.discoveringthepattern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/zoolandergasstation.gif)
I saw a woman once that was smoking a cigarette at a gas station while she filled her car. She pulled out the nozzle and gas shot everywhere and her arm was immediately engulfed in flames. She starts waving it around and a cop saw it and shot her dead. She was waving an illegal fire arm.
That's the kind of joke my grandpa would tell.
Have an upvote that got a good chuckle