New frontiers in student stupidity

[muckefuck]

I'm walking back from lunch. I see a car parked off to one side with the driver's door ajar. There's a guy in the driver's seat and two more standing by the open door. I have a bad feeling, but I figure Who would be stupid enough to back out with his door ajar?

OH. MY. GOD.

He waited until I was right behind him, natch. I stood there for a moment thinking He's got to notice me but he continued not to, so I started saying "Yo! Yo!" to get his attention.

It wasn't easy, because he was on the phone the whole time. I finally had to walk up to the front seat and practically wave my arms in his face. The two guys standing nearby, who I assume were buddies of his, made absolutely no effort to stop him from running me down.

From now on, I'm calling this place "Midvale School for the Gifted".

Comments

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

You had two marks against you: (1) no phone, and (2) you were on foot. What more can you do to proclaim your status as a peon?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I have a phone, I just wasn't yakking self-importantly on it rather than paying some damn attention to what was happening around me. Which I guess amounts to the same thing as (1).

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to work on your own sense of self-importance. What makes you think you're not good enough to ingore the world around you? Tell Dr. Owlet.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Uh...sorry, did you say something? I was gazing at my navel.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

And a very handsome navel it is!

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

My response in this situation, especially if I have something weighty and swingable is, assuming he's backing slowly enough that you can step back or aside and not get hit, is to wait until he backs up right next to me and slam the weighty object down on his trunk lid.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I've been a bit chary of doing that ever since a confrontation I had two years. I slapped my hand down on the trunk of a car which was blocking the crosswalk at an intersection. Half a block later, the driver caught up with me on foot and threatened to kick my ass. I don't think there was any real danger of this happening, but it reminded me that there are some pretty loose cannons inside some of those vehicles.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Well then he totally didn't deserve that door, anyways ...

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

And not the Melbridge County Asylum? I'm sure they would've noticed you had you been wearing your smart Royal Stewart kilt and playing your accordion.