My wife and I once picked up my grandparents to take them out to dinner. Grandpa sat in front and my wife sat in back with grandma so we could have our own convos. I started the car and checked for belts, as was my habit, and saw that grandpa didn’t have his on, so I sat and waited for him to put it on. Grandpa (g): uh…we’re all in, we can go… Me: just as soon as you put your seatbelt on. G: I don’t need one, let’s go. Me: my car doesn’t move until all belts are on. Back and forth a couple times, then grandpa looked me in the eye, held eye contact, and very deliberately reached over and shifted the car into reverse. I maintained eye contact, shifted back into park, and turned off the engine. Finally, my grandma, who was in back snickering with my wife over “our silly men” said “Louis, if he’s only HALF as stubborn as you, we’ll be here for another 2 hours. Put your seatbelt on, I’m hungry!!!” He did, and we went off for a great meal.
@@rickraber1249 nah, grandpa was great and I really miss him. He just had a few quirks. He was one of those that would grumble and gripe, but if anyone needed any help, he was the first onsite rolling up his sleeves to help out. He was a community volunteer, treated his wife of 50+ years very well, etc. Buuuuuttt…he could be stubborn lol
@@oldergent5266 I read a book recently where one of the characters described himself as 95% sweetheart and 5% a__hole. A lot of really good men are like that. (In fact, I'm not sure there are any good men out there that don't have a small percentage of the latter.) I think I would have liked your grandpa.
I really can’t blame you for insisting your Grandpa put on his seatbelt. It’s such a simple thing that’s saved a lot of lives and possibly mine. Long story short a couple years ago just after Boxing Day I had been really unwell and hadn’t slept at all for two nights. I had to go out and get some more medication because I’d ran out. On the way back heading towards home when I either totally lost concentration or I fell asleep at the wheel. I never saw that lamp post coming at all. So I slammed into that lamp post at roughly 30mph. I’m violently thrown forward, smacking my head hard into the steering wheel before the airbags deployed and the kind of rebound had my head hitting the airbag. Mercifully I wasn’t seriously hurt. With the car filling with smoke from the airbag I undo my seatbelt, grab my handbag from the passenger seat, turn the ignition into the off position before stepping outside. I didn’t understand the smoke was just from the airbag and feared things might catch on fire if I’d have left the ignition on even though the engine was dead. I’d barely taken two steps away from the car before help arrived in the form of a middle aged couple who’d been walking nearby when I crashed. I immediately told them I’d hit my head and they put their arms around me (this was pre-pandemic) and safely go me to a safe place on the pavement then called for an ambulance while a nearby resident that had heard the crash arrived. Before long they’d brought me a cushion to sit on then wrapped a warm blanket around me. The three of them cared for me and kept me conscious until the ambulance and police arrived. Even the fire brigade had to come because my car was leaking fluid all over one side of the road. Yet even more locals had come to help by coordinating traffic around the spill. Now, the relevant bit. The lamp post had totally stoved in half of the front of the car and turned the front passenger side wheel and wheel housing into a crumpled and twisted mangled mess of mental, plastic and rubber. (As the passenger side had hit the lamp post instead of being in the centre.) In the end I got away with a minor concussion, whiplash and some bruising across my chest and shoulder from the seatbelt. While the crumple zones no doubt helped by absorbing some of the impact the police and paramedics both agreed that my wearing the seatbelt prevented much more serious injuries because the impact would have thrown me either headfirst into the windshield or I’d have been thrown half through it onto the bonnet. Of course the other good reason is that in the UK it’s illegal to ride cars without seatbelts on and the driver is legally responsible for ensuring all passengers put their seatbelts on. My brother tried that once when I picked him up after a boozy night out. Fortunately when I asked him to put it on he happily complied.
They'd certainly learn that in my car, I can drive crazier than the most maverick of 70s Cops when I'm allowed to! Son 1:"You might as well just drive, I'm not putting my belt on." Me:"You sure?" S1:"I'm pretty sure." Me doing my best Gene Hunt impression:"Then you better 'ang on fer dear life, Doris, because it's time to fire up the quattro!" S1:*Screams like a baby girl as I proceed to flout all traffic laws at nearly 90mph*
"Do you know how dangerous seatbelts are in an accident" Not as dangerous as you going through a windshield at 70mph, but hey, you wanna be a smear on pavement then you can do it in your own car.
I can’t believe people still actually say this kind of BS (that seatbelts are dangerous) with a straight face. Just unbelievable how much they have to work to be that stupid. Seatbelts save lives! Airbags save lives!
@@stephanien6237 I had a woman cross the center line and hit me, head on. I had just filled the gas tank in a seven month old early '80s Toyota pickup. Wen I got in to leave the gas station, I put my seat belt on. I had an intense, burning pain as soon as I clicked the latch. It was so bad that I removed the belt to get out of the truck. The pain went away. Two minutes later I was hit, about a half mile away. My truck spun. I bent the steering column to the passenger side of the dash. The back of my head pushed out the rear window, and the seat brackets went through the back of the cab. This crushed the gas tank, leaving me sitting in a puddle of gasoline. I couldn't open either door, so I had to kick the passenger door open. I had barely made it out when a drugged up fool came running at me with a it flare. I had to punch him to get it from him and take it a safe distance. When the police arrived one asked, "Where did they take the driver's body?" I told him that I was driving. He looked me in the eyes and said, "Someone was looking out over you. This is the kind of wreck where a seat belt would have cut you in half. I told him about everything, and once again he said "Someone was looking out over you." and pointed up.
@@michaelterrell I think seatbelts have their time and place. Certain accidents, oh yeah seatbelts and air bags are deathtraps. They do save lives, but I think it's grossly overrexaggerated on how much they actually do save. I think the statistics of people dying due to the way seatbelts sit over the ribcage is just as bad as not wearing seatbelts at all.
Toxic and sexist. That mother has no shame in berating her daughter just for being herself without a care in the world and treats her like the bad guy when she cut off her family for not treating her like family. If your daughter is not girly enough, treat her like a human punching-bag. I wouldn't be surprised if that was that family's motto. Also, the mother has no dignity as a woman, much less a human. So pathetic
And all for being born a girl. As if it was her fault or something. There is nothing wrong with having varied interests and also for wanting more for yourself than what your parents did. OP did the absolute right thing in wanting to live her life the way she wanted to. There is no shame in loving the outdoors and comics just as there shouldn't be shame if you like to be more traditionally feminine. It's your life, so as long as you aren't trying to control others, live life how you want. Simple as.
Sister cleaning house story: OP, you weren't ripping her off, she was trying to rip you off! Quite frankly, if you hadn't thrown her out when you did she would have gotten into things she had no business getting into or caused various items to "disappear" (which she may have done already, check your belongings and important papers).
Oh crap, yeah. My partner's sister moved in with us for a couple of months until _their_ home was made ready (their as in my partner's as it's single occupancy only). When they left *many* of my things disappeared. From medical equipment & otc medicines to things she claimed as being hers even after my partner confirmed they'd been there before even she moved in, 2+ years prior. Since then over £200 in virtually new tools have disappeared from their home that I'd left there between jobs I'd been doing for them! She's such a bad influence that they both now expect me to help fund their lavish lifestyles despite their combined incomes being 80% higher than than mine, despite having no higher expenses other than food and drink.
All I can say about OP in the last story is ROCK ON, that was absolutely the correct way to deal with the situation. And it's so by the numbers, look, emotionally abusive parents trying to manipulate someone with guilt, who could have expected that?
Imagine being in your 20s and still being so fussy about seatbelts. I would've expected this from young children, but it's just sad from people who are supposed to be adults.
I'm with the Fluff Master on this one (usually do anyway), I could not believe they were in their 20's. Plus their dad still pampers them! Sounds like they are still living at home also. I see a rude awakening in their future.
Would love to see those 'kids' reaction when they finally get a job after college (which I'm assuming they were still in at the time), and finding out one of their company policies is always wearing seatbelts on company property/in company vehicles. I've known people who've lost promotions/been fired for not complying with this.
Went to buffet years ago. My boyfriend goes to the bathroom and after he is done washes his hands like any normal person should do. To his horror, another man who seems to have gone for number two, leaves the stall and goes directly to the food and picks up the spoons and serves himself. We told a worker about it. Cannot remember what happened but they did change the spoons. How gross is that man.
I was at a luncheon with my Mother and several of her coworkers. As we began eating, a guy finds a fly in his food. So he begins basically disecting the fly with his steak knife, and another calls the server over. The manager gets called, and the guy's meal gets replaced. One lady whispers (loudly) "Should we tell him we're from the State Health Department?" The Manager turns white. But we all just laughed it off and continued our meal. Hey, a fly can come from anywhere. If it'd been a roach, maybe a different situation. 😄
Saw the exact same thing last time I was in a buffet back in October of 2019. Haven't been to a buffet since, and not just because of COVID... Speaking of which, the pandemic hit that place hard. They shut down and the building is going to be turned into a martial arts school.
It's normal people don't see a big deal, can't tell you how many times I've seen it working in food service. People in general are disgusting and its the #1 reason why I don't eat out nor do I participate in work potlucks.
Kids with binoculars in the OP’s yard… they might be under 7 but that doesn’t mean they’re only peeping on her to see if she’s home. It’s best to nip that behavior in the bud ASAP.
My seatbelt saved me from being partially being thrown partially through my own windscreen when I fell asleep at the wheel after two nights without sleeping due to being ill. I’d been out to get new medication from the pharmacy and crashed into a lamp post.
I've bummed money off my dad often enough, but I always made sure it was for food, rent, etc. (And by food I mean dry rice or noodles, cheap carbs that last in the pantry until payday.) I'm terrible with money, but I'd never ever ask for money for something like eating out or a case of beer or whatever. Well, maybe beer, but here in Germany you can get a 6-pack of pints for 1.50 ^^ Point is, if you're going to ask your friends/family for money because your ass is broke, don't spend it on luxury items.
@@robertnelson9599 I solved it by getting a new job and moving to a cheaper apartment. I tried making my budget fit my bill, but thankfully I had the option of making my bill fit my budget.
Well if Karen doesn't want to be filmed she don't need to be in somebody else's yard without permission anyway she can't tell the owner of the property to take down the cameras that is his right as a property owner said for his protection.
Old saying among cops is that criminals aren't nearly as smart as they think they are, and they seem to think they're smarter than anybody else. These Karen types are just criminal thinkers who haven't broken the law - yet, at least some of them haven't. And ya gotta think that they really are pretty stupid.
20 years ago my wife and I rolled my Jeep six times and we were told that if we were not wearing seat belts we would have been killed. Even with belts I fractured my back, broke my left arm and fractured my skull. My wife had minor internal injuries. Seat belts save lives.
Even wearing a seatbelt as a passenger in a friend's car, I ended up with fractured C1, C2, C3, and enduring a "halo" for four months. Without the seatbelt, I would have been dead when the car rolled. Worth it.
Vaccines are the new seatbelts. Seat belts don't prevent crashes, but they save you from worse injuries. Vaccines don't stop you getting Covid, but they save you from worse symptoms.
I learned that a seat belt really makes a difference. This accident happened when I was in 1st grade. My family was on the way home after a day at the zoo. When a fender bender came up behind my Dads Atro Van and guided us into the back end of a ladies car who had pulled over to talk on her phone for something and was about to pull out. I did not like seat belts as a kid, mainly the shoulder strap. Now my favorite seat was behind the front passenger next to the sliding door. Well being a kid, I was using my pillow like serving tray, the cap of a bottle as a tea cup and the water bottle as a tea pot. Roleplaying my own make believe tea party. I was sitting with my knees facing the door when I went left cheek first into the front passenger's seat. My lil sis and I got a chance to ride in an ambulance on the stretcher boards. I was over all physically fine, she was sitting in the back middle seat and this was before shoulder straps were the norm on middle seats. She needed to be checked. My mom had a look over and my dad was fine as well. Since then, I have made sure to properly wear my seatbelt. That one accident has clicked inside me, every time I get into a vehicle rather driving or passenger, it's on correctly.
@ Lotus....My Prime Nephew saw me wearing a seat-belt and decided for chuckles to put his on. Later that day, SOME BODY ran into him and sent him spinning. His CAR centered the front end of a concrete utility pole. HE escaped with a scraped knee. Made him a believer.
I remember the day I realised also, over 10 years go when many still didn't put them on, me including. So my sister in law was driving(winter time at night), we cross this bridge and while I was admiring the light of this factory a thought crossed my mind "I never been in a car accident", so I put the seat belt on and not even 2 min later in a curve we hit ice and she lost control of the car hitting a tree. The accident wasn't bad, but if I didn't had it on I will probably had hit the windshield also had to have a collar for over a month. But unfortunately I actually do know a case in my city with some teens driving reckless at high speed at night... They hit a tree and the car caught on fire and everyone in the car died, but the only one that survived(barely) was the kid that didn't have the seat belt on and was thrown out of the car. Even knowing that I still will not go without one, cause chances of something like that happened are a lot less then when a seat belt is needed.
Seatbelt story, a friend of mine had a daughter that flat out refused to wear a seatbelt. So, she hauled her daughter to a class the local PD held. This was a while back so I don't know if the local PD still do this, but lets just say they didn't pull many punches.. Since it was voluntary, they didn't edit much. No bodies, but anything else was fair game including blood splatters, shattered windshields from where someone went through complete with blood and other things. She said after the class when they got into the car she put her seatbelt on and told my friend that daughter never wanted to be one of those people in the class. Daughter now has kids of her own and from what my friend told me, whenever one of her kids turns 16, they get the class. (Daughter lives out of state.) She never has any problems with her kids wearing seatbelts.
See i'm torn because seatbelts DON'T garuntee you're safe. of the 22,215 fatalities in 2019 only 47% of them weren't wearing seatbelts. While SOME fatalaties can be prevented by using seatbelts those who do die there is very little difference if you are or are not wearing a seatbelt as you're just as likely to die with it on as without it. Personally I think it's insane to fine people for not wearing it because it's your own personal choice, we need to stop protecting stupidity... let natural selection weed people out if you're unwilling to wear a seat belt then you should atleast be smart enough to avoid accidents which you would need one in. If you A) Choose to not wear it AND/OR B) are reckless enough to get into an accident you deserve whatever consequence is coming your way. Also I don't wanna hear all this 'but you can't prevent accidents that's why they're accidents' yes, this is partially true, you can't predict that the semi next to you is going to flip over because of the wind while you're both going 80+ on the interstate but you can be proactive and NOT sit ontop of a semi while going 80+ on the interstate. Proactive driving will almost always save your life reactive driving will almost garuntee you wind up in an accident. I live in an area where people simply don't know how to drive and I constantly have people running stop signs and red lights and if I wasn't paying attention I would have been hit. I was also almost hit by a semi which was knocked over by the wind on an interstate but because I have a rule that you only pass by semis when they are going insanely slow and always give them a 6 car min distance otherwise I was able to easily avoid that accident while the jaggoff in the red sports car who had been sitting right next to that semi for 20 minutes was crushed under it. Having rules you follow to protect yourself is how you stay safe on the road not some flimsy piece of canvas and aluminum. Tools can only get you so far the best protection from accidents is your own brain power and if you can't manage that then i'm sorry you deserve to be in an accident. I have spent 20+ years on the road making cross country road trips and have never once been in an accident but i've seen hundreds of cars driving like they're the only one on the road get totalled 30 to 50 feet from me. The key here is: I'm not the only driver on that pavement and I drive like it. Humans need to be more attentive than we are and if you're not well ... accidents clear out the gene pool of that lack luster brain cell gene.
@@suruthebeast4065 That's like saying helmets don't save lives. 53% of fatalities were wearing seatbelts? Then they were dead no matter what. Your question should be: Of the 47% who weren't wearing seatbelts, how many would have survived otherwise? Also, most countries with seatbelt laws also have universal healthcare. If the taxpayer has to cover your medical bills, the government gets to minimise them through safety laws.
@@aaronleverton4221 Countries with seatbelt laws have universal healthcare? Really that's your argument? What about the US they have seatbelt laws and no universal healthcare. You're absolutely delusional bud. You're living in a fantasy land where you can just say whatever you want and you're right but that's not the fact of the matter. There are tons of countries with Universal Healtchare that don't have a seatbelt law and there are tons of countries without universal healtchare that do. Also Now let's look at the effectivness of seatbelts in those who died: In 2019 22k people died in automobile accidents, only 14k of them were wearing seatbelts making it only 47% of people who died in accidents were wearing seatbelts. Which maeans that seatbelts save only about 1/4th of the people who die each year approximately. I wish studies were done into how many of the other 3/4 of the deaths were actually caused by the seatbelt because i'm going to go out on a limb and say that number would probably be about 1/4 of the other half of those who died with em on. So seatbelts have less than 50% success rate. So my argument still remains 100% valid while yours is based on personal opinion non cold hard facts. Personally I do feel that people should wear seatbelts just because it is an added leeel of security because a larger portion of accidents are caused because people are distracted or down right stupid. This would be solved if we just removed seatbelts and let those were gonna die of stupidity just die. We have no need for em. But that's 'harsh' and 'problematic' even tough prior to the 16th century ish, if you weren't smart enough to save yourself you died. Didn't know a certain berry would kill you, there wasn't a law for that. Didn't know not to feed the bear, no law for that. Didn't know not to drink strange liquids ment for cleaning, no law for that. We've got so many laws defending bad decision making it's no wonder why so many stupid people exist.
@@suruthebeast4065 You don't English very well, do you? "... *most* countries with seatbelt laws also have universal healthcare." Read all of the words and understand what they mean in the sentence they are used in. And that statement is not rebutted by saying "There are tons of countries with Universal Healtchare that don't have a seatbelt law..." The latter has nothing to do with the former, nor does it disprove the reason I gave for UHC countries legislating seatbelt use. You also don't know how to do statistics. The effectiveness of seatbelts in those who died is zero. They died. The seatbelt did not save them. The only way seatbelts can save 1/4 of people who die every year is if they survive auto accidents while wearing seatbelts and then die later from causes unrelated to motoring. The question was how many of the fatalities were preventable by seatbelt use. And you flipped your numbers. First you said *only* 47% weren't wearing seatbelts, meaning the majority of fatalities were strapped in, then you said 47% were strapped in, meaning the majority of deaths were unsecured. Also, you say this: "You're absolutely delusional bud. You're living in a fantasy land where *you can just say whatever you want and you're right but that's not the fact of the matter* ." and then you say this: " I wish studies were done into how many of the other 3/4 of the deaths were actually caused by the seatbelt because *i'm going to go out on a limb and say that number would probably be about 1/4 of the other half of those who died with em on* ." You were saying something about wondering why so many stupid people exist. Suggest you look in the mirror.
@@aaronleverton4221 My point is here you're acting like Seatbelt laws came about because of UHC guess what... US had em first... and to this day still doesn't have UHC. Seatbelt laws and UHC are not related is my point and the fact that you are using UHC as an argument for them is your grasping at straws to prove your point. These two things have NOTHING in common when it comes to why they exist. It's merely an argument people like you use because of (insert politically charged reason here). What you're saying is like laws against murder being related to having a system of laws in general. The two things have come cross over but one doesn't exist because of the other. UHC existed well before Seatbelts and the overlap of the invention of the car and seat belts is about 100 years. Correlation is not causation. It doesn't matter how you slice it seatbelts under ALL figures only sit at a marging a 5% from 50% effectiveness. They are NOT as useful as clowns like you make them out to be, they are a thin strip of fabric trying to restrain you from impacts capable of launching you out of the vehicle past glass built to withstand impacts. Personally i'd rather die than be strapped with months of hospitalization and then the following medical bill from broken ribs because at least in the former my suffering was quick (hopefully). To answer your question about how many of the fatalties could have been stopped... i gave you that number probably about 47% of them... and that's being generous have you ever been on a crash site where people have died? It's not pretty, people die with and without seatbelts you've got a god on your side if you get out of a serious crash with only minor injuries, I saw a car flip over five or six times on an highway under the bridge I was on once, he and his family died, taking out 3 other cars causing 7 total fatalities and about 12 other injuries from those who only got fender benders stopping quickly on the road. The likely hood of you surviving such a crash is NOT on your seatbelt but rather on your luck, that's why it's about a 50/50 split... some people flipped heads, others flipped tails. Life is a gamble and they lost.
after watching people dip into dishes put it back & snotty nosed, dripping, & they would wipe it the back of their hands, I stopped eating at snarf bars decades ago what I had witnessed.
@quetzalpacheco Yeah, jail is a bit far, but there are people who have legit been charged with bioterrorism for claiming to have COVID-19 and intentionally coughing on people and things. Still, spreading disease needs to be cracked down on. Too many science-deniers see no problem with spreading disease, and the only way to stop their dangerous behavior is to implement real punishment. In food handling courses, there's an emphasis on protecting 'YOPI' people (Young, Old, Pregnant, Immunodeficient). It's those vulnerable people that face the brunt of science-denialists and pro-disease people. An infant shouldn't have to pay with their life for some entitled prick's conniption fit.
Imagine being over 20 and missing your flight (and half of your vacation) because you're too entitled and stubborn to follow basic safety instructions...
And blaming someone else for it. And calling your dad and still not getting it. I was gonna guess the sons were about 12 years old. Now I'm gonna guess they'll probably end up as Sovereign Citizens.
What I would've said that since the sister said the scrap book and such fell under the umbrella of house cleaning then the 100 allowance should cover it.
@@gothgirl4evr782 : How could walking the dog and doing a scrapbook be part of cleaning the house, especially since OP had not requested a scrapbook be made, nor having the dog walked?
@@jacklow9611 I guess maybe you didn't catch it, I didn't say the dog walking was under the umbrella, but when the sister was telling OP that she did the scrap booking and when OP said she didn't ask her to do that the sister replied that it falls under the umbrella of house cleaning so she not just wanted an extra 125 for the dog but additional 75 for the other stuff she did that wasn't asked if her. When OP refused on that basis the sister said "well that falls under umbrella of cleaning the house".
@@gothgirl4evr782: I just don't understand how making a scrapbook can be considered part of cleaning the house, irrespective of the dog walking. If she was making the scrapbook, she wasn't doing any cleaning while she was doing that.
@@jacklow9611 i didn't claim it was, I was quoting OP's sister she contradicted her self by asking for extra for that and when OP refuses she said "that falls under umbrella of cleaning and OP is ripping her off" by not paying for doing those things
Wtf, those seatbelt “kids” are grown men! I would have just thrown them and their luggage out as soon as he refused to wear the seatbelt. Multiple calls to dad?! He should’ve called an Uber like a big boy.
Story 6: Always wear your seatbelts, even if you hate them. If you refuse to wear them, inertia will teach you a lesson. Also, seatbelts do not possess serious danger in a car crash, they do the opposite. Also, the fact that grown adults are refusing to wear seatbelts really speaks volumes about their personality.
I taught my daughter a lesson when she was 5 or 6 years old. We were on the way back from church and were driving back roads in a rural area. When I heard her unbuckling her seat belt I stopped, told her to stay buckled and buckled her again. We hadn´t made another 100 meters when I heard her belt come unbuckled again. In the rear view mirror I saw how she smiled to her brothers. I signaled to my wife to not be worried, checked the rear view mirror to make sure no other car was in sight and did an emergency braking. This sent her flying from her seat while the Volvo came to a screeching halt from approximately 30 mph. The backside of the passenger seat is well padded, so she didn´t experience any physical harm. When she scrambled up from behind the front seat crying I told her that THIS is what the belt prevents her from and that you never know when there will be a need for an emergency braking. I guess she learned her lesson that day because she never again argued about the seat belt.
Well, technically speaking, shoulder belts DO cause a hazard for a small amount of the adult population. If one cuts too high across your neck (or certain cardiac issues), it *can* be a decapitation issue if they aren't adjustable/can't be adjusted well enough - a situation that I run into pretty often, due to the disproportionate skeletal complications that come with one of my genetic conditions - I have a letter that I carry specific to this in countries I require it). Nothing in this world is 100%, and misused safety equipment is worse than none at all. Being said, unless there's a medical or maintenance reason, use the belt PROPERLY.
There are cases where the seat belt does kill people. But it saves more lives than it kills. Anyway, here in the story I thought we were talking about 15-year-old kids. These were grown adults.
When you fence your yard. put the fence at least 6 inches inside your property line. If the neighbor wants to hook into your fence, you can make them pay half of that side of the fence if they do hook into your fence or just cut it away from your fence, making their fence useless. My parents did this and it made their neighbors furious but had to cut my dad a check for what he asked for.
I remember watching a video about the most disgusting things that people have done in all you can eat buffets. One that stuck out was how someone would eat and eat, and then go to the bathroom to throw up, then get more food. Hearing about it gave me the shivers. Edit: seat belts are, in a way, like anti-air flak cannons. They are inaccurate. Very inaccurate. They rarely ever hit their targets on a good day. But the alternative is letting enemy planes fly to their targets uncontested. Seat belts make give you an injury in a serious crash, but without them, it will be much worse.
Reminds me of the Hunger Game series, to be more precise the part where Peta and Katniss are "celebrating" their victory with a huge party and those little cocktails that caused the people to trow up so they could eat more🤢
I really dont get why people do that. Not only is it disgusting, but after throwing up, I physically wouldnt be able to eat anything for a while afterwards. Between my stomach and throat hurting and the aftertaste of the vomit, I'd be lucky to be able to stomach more than dry toast for the next few hours at least.
Wandering Kids Story: If OP isn't willing to spend the money a fence would cost, perhaps a one time fee to a Lawyer for a Cease and Desist Nastygram and Restraining Order (Stay Off my Property) would be appropriate... Still, if I were OP, cost be damned, I'd put up at least a 5 foot tall chain link fence around my Property with MANY No Trespassing signs hung along it's length and then call the Police each and every time one of the Entitled Family set foot inside the fence line...
I like the idea of the restraining order better. That way when OP calls the cops for trespassing, the restraining order will be the first thing that pops up in the system. Problem solved. : )
One thing confuses me about the one with the boys who “don’t do seatbelts”. The father even told his sons to put on their seatbelts so why did the son blame OP rather then the boys who disregarded what OP said AND what he said?..
Because people like that always want what they want and bullying or plain obstinacy usually gets it for them. And the dad called OP to complain too. I had the same thing, only it was while driving my 2 kids, their 3 friends (all about 6 to 9 yrs. old), and the friends' oldest sister, age about 14. The snotty little teen quietly undid her belt going down the road, but I heard her. So I simply pulled off and said what OP said, mainly, we'll get going again once you put that seatbelt back on. It's amazing what a little peer pressure and whining from younger siblings will do - she put it back on in about a minute. I told her mother about it, as I knew the mom would deal with her about it. I also explained to the kid that it would be a $200 ticket (at the time), and go on my driving record, AND raise my insurance rates. I guess some people actually like the idea of doing that to somebody else, like OP or me. Go figger. BTW I never took the 14 yr. old anywhere again. Burn me once, find your own ride.
@@rickraber1249 but what gets me isn’t that a parent sided with the entitled brats over OP, that happened all the time, but he was on OP’s side telling the kids to buckle up over the phone so it seems more like he’s siding with the bratty kids over OP and HIMSELF! That’s what I don’t understand…
@@christianmarshal6117 Look at these "kids" - I was expecting OP to say they were in their late teens, not early 20's. They turned out the way they were raised. The way they were raised makes no sense if their parents expected to produce responsible adults. So none of it makes sense to you and me.
@@christianmarshal6117 Well, we know that the dad didn't enforce using the seatbelts on his entiteled sons himself, so he obviously thinks not wearing seatbelts wasn't a big deal (and/or is a total pushover regarding his sons). So while he did tell the sons to just put on the seatbelt to get the issue out of the way (and probably wasn't happy that they didn't follow that advice), he was also mad at OP for remaining adamant about it and actually risk the sons miss their flights. From the entiteled dad's POV, OP caused them damage by being a petty stickler for unimportant rules.
As someone who works in a place that offers a salad bar, I do well to wash my hands multiple times a day between running utensils through the dishwasher.
For the seatbelt story, the second the alarm went off slam the brakes. Lesson is learned the first time. Or by the second one if the kid is too stupid to learn it the first time. My cousins and I all learned that lesson. They were the ones that took a few more times to learn it, but they learned after the third or fourth headbutt into the dashboard
I agree, except slamming on the brakes can cause an accident, and that would get some poor, innocent third party harmed, and it would not go well for OP.
Went to a buffet and watched this woman get a big scoop of mashed potatoes plopped them down on her plate.. then cleaned off the spoon with her fingers licking them with every swipe... disgusting enough but then put the spoon back into the fresh tray of potatoes... I damn near threw up..
lady it's illegal to trespass on op's property and op keep those cameras up do not take them down ever your neighbour has no right to tell you to take them down she's not in charge of them if she keeps that up sue her and her kids
On holiday, the restaurant was also a walk in, a guy was there and you could tell he was full of cold(flu) kept blowing his nose in the cloth napkins and then getting a fresh one with the staff not seeing. Had to tell the staff what he was doing, he and his family was escorted out to the police waiting and he was made to pay for all the napkins and food on the table without eating which was bagged and throw straight in the bin.
Story 1..if she claims that dog walking and organizing a scrapbook is"part of keeping up the house" than it goes to say ITS PART OF THE 100.00 you're already getting.
Story 4: Karens are such hypocrites, "Oh I can't walk 50 feet to get a Chocolate Bar, what do you think I am a Moron?! you go get it i'm too lazy" Me: I would've gotten the staff involved too, there is no way I would ever allow a Karen to steal my snacks, a Man's Snacks are Holy
Story 5: Maybe OP should put up some markers on their property in direct view of the cameras, I know how annoying people think (Having been at the receiving end at such treatment) and they cannot resist touching other people's stuff, if the Neighbor's kids take or destroy the markers OP can sue their Neighbor and hopefully destroy their reputation or better yet; get them thrown out
The friend “borrowing” money story. I taught in US high school for decades. Variations on the following story happened every year. It happened to boys it happened to girls. One of my homeroom students (female) started dating a guy in the same school. When they began dating she insisted on paying 50/50. He was fine with that. I gather she was working at a better paying job. Slowly he began asking her to pay for “more”. Then he would say he was short that week so could she pay for everything. She agreed but slowly was getting irked. Then one day he asked her to skip the last couple of classes to drive him to the mall. She agreed. In the mall they went to a shoe store. New Air Jordan’s had just come out. The B/F had a friend, who worked in the Store, to hold a pair in his size. I should note this at the peak of Air Jordan mania & that the shoes cost well over $100. So the B/F gets the Shoes & is incredibly happy. So the young couple go to check out. Clerk rings them up & asks…credit or cash. The B/F look at his G/F expectantly. It suddenly hit my student that he expects her to pay for the expensive shoes. The clerk again asks….cash or credit. My student walked out leaving him there. She knew he had a bus pass to get home. Next day there was a slight buzz around school. She told her female friends what had happened & they were all peeved. He felt that, as his G/F, that she should have no problems buying him a gift. We’ll, they broke up. One of my coworkers was in Guidance. I suggested to her to call in my student as she needed support. No happy ending here. My student moved on with an unhappy life lesson.
Re the kids in the back yard: Write a letter to the neighobor, telling them their kids are no longer permitted in your yard. Make sure that it is witnessed and the delivery is witnessed. They will, naturally, ignore it. Follow up with a Cease and Desist letter from a lawyer. If they ignore that, go for a Restraining Order.
When I was nine I was involved in a car accident where it rolled and wound up on its roof. If I hadn't been wearing a seat belt I undoubtedly would have been killed or seriously injured. Instead I just wound up with a headache for a while. Put the damn seat belt on, people. They're there for a reason.
17:00 Their sons were 21/24 at the time! I thought they were LITERAL children! LMAO! It makes the story even crazier. I had to rewind thinking OP meant they were NOW adults. Those "kids" should feel totally embarrassed.
That first story made me want to say: "Transactions require mutual consent to be valid", but then I remembered how the US medical system works, so ... you go girl! Apparently, this is what Americans want!
@@jtc1947 yeah, I'm absolutely not a fan of our (U.S.) medical "system", but I cannot fathom the intended point NeroByrne was trying to make in relation to the sister's scummy behavior.
I thought the kids in story 5 were actual kids- like maybe preteens- but then you dropped that bombshell that they were full-grown adults, and I just had the biggest eye roll ever.
I actually got two for the first story 1. I watch someone's crotch goblin running around licking the salt and pepper shakers. They pulled of course cause I got an employee who was already on it. Other time I watched an employee fish a dirt covered spoon out of a bucket of dirty silverware and try and serve me with it. Then proceeded to argue with me about it. Especially when I was doing servsafe certification at the time and study pass it (food service mandatory certification for my area of work) so it's very important. Anyway not sure what all happened to him but I hope he learned you can't take short cuts
Back in the mid to late 70s, very early 80s, our across the street neighbor, had a half of a city block. He welcomed the neighborhood kids to play baseball, football, kick the can, etc. Do you know how many times my dad and the other neighborhood dads replaced windows in that old man's house? Many, many, many. Different times.
Stores should have a " Code Karen" / " Code Chad" announcement when one is in the store, and where they're at.. Or maybe a flashing purple Karen/Chad alarm...
Lol...that chocolate bar would have tasted phenomenal because I really just can't stand when entitled parents decide that their crotch goblins should be my problem. Especially if I had already been nice enough to give them my spot in line (I also hate lines 🤣) & they then have the nerve to take that sort of tone. I would consider it a life lesson for the brat too.
What OP should have done is put up No Trespassing signs, and when the kids were on the property, contact the police and show them the video. Being civil to a neighbor is a two-way street, and if one is civil but the other won't be, then something drastic might be needed.
Once I was getting on a bus and paid for my all day pass. A woman who had come up behind me was showing a disability pass, so the driver thought I was paying for both of us. After realizing what had happened, I went back to the driver and said I didn't know the woman and was just paying for the day pass for myself. He took the two passes back and gave me the right one.
Seat belts and airbags both hurt like hell in minor accidents that you probably wouldn't be too severely injured by, but save your life in major accidents. They always need to be worn. My uncle is one of those freak accidents where not wearing a seat belt is the only reason he's alive, and he doesn't wear them because it gives him way too much anxiety, but he still makes his kids wear them, because he understands that it's far more likely to save their lives than to kill them. The only reason why not wearing one saved his life is because he and his friends were going 120+mph and collided with a tree, and he just happened to be lucky enough to go through the windshield and miss the tree while everyone else was either held in by their seat belts, or their bodies hit the tree/others in the car. He has severe permanent damage from the accident though. He is one of very, very few cases where not wearing a seat belt saved his life, but that is solely because of the speed they were going and what they hit that the impact of the seatbelt holding back others in the car made them sustain more damage than flying through the air a couple hundred feet. But in pretty much any other circumstances, he would be dead and those in seat belts would be alive.
@@jtc1947 yes, my uncle and his friends were on drugs and wanted to drive their new friend's car super fast, and didn't know that the road ahead curved until it was too late. There was a lot of stupidity involved, but 3 young boys aged 17-20 died that day, and my uncle barely survived, so it's still very sad. My uncle learned from his stupidity and changed, but the other 3 didn't get the chance to learn from it
It would have saved them a lot of trouble instead of fighting with the driver just putting on a seatbelt being near 20s they should have known better that seat belts actually save more lives then take lives it's a lot safer to have a seatbelt on than not and it's not just buckle it up behind you it has to be around you well you will get hefty tickets since the 90s they haven't been playing around with the seatbelt thing back in the 80s they didn't care if you wore seat belts or not since then they put laws on the book where you have to have a seatbelt or you will be heavily fines
Even to the first argument, "Dad is OK with it!", I'd have reacted, "He might be, but neither I nor the police are. My car, my rules. Either you follow them or get out!"
@@ruthgar9753 my country is like that, if the person without a belt is legally an adult, they get the ticket and the spot on their traffic violation record. If they are minors, it's on the driver, and it's a 150-200€ ticket/person without a belt.
S5: My mum hated anybody kids playing in our yard when they had their own, and ours was fenced. She would just go and put the sprinkler on the lawn, smile sweetly and just say time to water...it wasnt, meanwhile, we had beautiful front yard lol.
Story 5: Uhm, I'm not sure if it's the same in Uhmerica, but in BC, Canada, if the passenger is 21 or over, they get the ticket instead of the driver for not wearing a seatbelt. But OP did the right thing. Source: passenger got such a ticket while riding in my car.
Conference meal story reminded me of something my grandpa did while at a hy-vee. We both had to use the restroom, but I was the only one who washed my hands. Then, on our way out right after using the restroom, my grandpa shoves his unwashed hands into an open display container of peanuts...
Agreed. As an old fart thinking back on the relationships I've had over the decades (including my current wife) the ones with women who could be called "tomboys" were the most rewarding and interesting. I guess I just find strength, resilience and self confidence to be more attractive traits in a woman than learned helplessness.
when I was younger I found playing with boys more fun. maybe it was my male friends and three older brothers that seem to have more fun than my female cousins and sister. and I was called a dike but I learn as I grown up that I was straight as an arrow when it came to relationships. thinking of having zex with my another female was a laugh to me and hell if I wanted to see a female body just look at myself in a mirror.
That is the second seat belt story I have heard in as many days. I taught my grandkids the importance of seat belts as soon as they were old enough to get out of them by themselves (we allowed it on the private road leading home), and try to goof around in the back seat. When we would get to our drive, at about 5 MPH, I would pop the brake quickly and it was usually enough to toss them off the seat. Me: "And that is why..." Them: "we wear seat belts!" It was a bit of a joke to them but we have never had a problem with them wearing them everytime.
People I know only have a back fence, not a fully enclosed fenced yard. Many of the neighbors only have partially fenced in yards. It honestly depends on where you live.
OP in Story Six was definitely in the right. I don't drive but if I did, I wouldn't even start driving until I heard every seat belt click. That would be one of my personal laws for my car.
The first time you get in my car I tell you the rules. You WILL wear a seatbelt the entire time the car is engaged. You will follow the rules of the driver. You will not touch the environmental controls nor the sound controls without permission of the driver. If you do not follow the rules you will be left in a safe place to make a phone call. My brother once told some friends that yes, I would put HIM out if he didn’t follow my rules.
@@blondienhouston4825 My first car was a 1963 Pontiac Catalina convertible. My next door neighbor would always jump in when I had to go somewhere. The first thing he would do is change the radio station from Country to Rock, then turn it wide open. I salvaged a FM tuner from a damaged eight track tape player and hid it in the glove compartment. I fed the audio into the radio, at the volume control, so all you could do was turn it on and set the volume. He was yelling, "You're radio is broke! I laughed and said, "It sounds OK to me! 😁
@@blondienhouston4825 I would climb over the fender of that '63 Catalina to stand beside the engine to change spark plugs or do other work. You could lay in the trunk, crosswise ant not touch either side. I was knocked sideways by a Rainbow Bread truck one day. It shoved me two lanes to the left and into the curb, without damage. The paint job was only weeks old and didn't even have a scratch. It was in storage at my dad's house went I went into the US Army. (26T20) My brother in law swiped the keys to my dad's garage, and to that car. He went hunting in id, with his dogs in the back seat and tore it up. Then he 'tuned it up' which it didn't need. The jackass replaced the distributor cap which was new, and got the plug wires out of order. The dumb ass drove it that way until it destroyed the engine a few hours later. My family sent it to the junkyard before I got home and they didn't tell me. If he had done this to my prized red 1966 GTO, I would have happily killed him. I had bought it with two rods knocking and a damaged crankshaft. I rebuilt the engine and shoehorned a Turbohydro 400 three speed automatic transmission into it to replace the two speed Powerglide. I had to have a custom driveshaft made. It was just 26 inches long. I modified the two speed shifter to work with it, but left the two speed indicator on the center console. It would scare the crap out of a passenger when it shifted the second time. I worked in Electronics before serving. I had modified the rear deck for a pair of 6x9 speakers and made a new liner to cover them so it looked stock. I bought a newer Delco AM/FM stereo radio and parts to make it look stock in the car. I also found the OEM eight track but I needed some parts to repair it. I had that car at Ft Rucker in the early '70s. I had a guy in my company with an early Z28, and all we heard was, "When I get my 'Z' out of the speed shop, I'm going to blow all your shit away!" He would laugh at my GTO because, "It takes an expert to soup up a car!" I easily beat him with only four cylinders, then he tried to give me the title. I told him that I didn't want a car that I had beat with half an engine. He sold it two days later for half of what he had spent on it. Never piss off an Engineer! My brother in law was a real Mama's boy, and useless. He pretended to be a tough ass, but I was in the same grade as he was and I knew better. I took down the Captain of out football team one day at the end of Gym class when I was in the tenth grade. Anyone on that team scared the shit out of him. The guy swung an army laundry bag full of his football gear at me. I grabbed it, swung in a full circle and hit him so hard that he slid almost 20 feet across the slick floor. Thee was on his back as I stomped over to him and yelled, "You better be glad that you didn't piss me off!" Then I slammed the bag down on his gut. I looked at the stunned teacher and about sixty boys and yelled, "OK, who is next?" The bell rang just then. I had almost sixty 'stooges' fighting to get out doors that opened in. 😁 When I did get home from Active Duty he had a new Corvette that he would park at the end of our walkway to our back door. I needed to park my GMC Handivan there after work so that I could carry my tools in. He constantly said, "Oh, I forgot!" I finally told him that I had a gallon of gelled paint stripper that I was going to spread over it, the next time that he 'forgot'. He yelled, "But it's a Corvette!" I replied, "It is just a piece of plastic crap." and walked away. Amazingly, he never 'forgot' after that. 😁
I once had someone try to cash out on a conference I attended. When the Host asked if I could vouch for him, I turned to the bloke and said "Let me see your 3822" He had no idea what that was and that was when I told him it was best to do some homework before you try to leech off an Air Force Conference..
Buffet story reminded me of my mom and how she doesnt like Golden Corral, a buffet restaurant where I live. I dunno if she personally SAW this happen, but I know that she DEFINITELY wouldnt finish eating if she saw. Imagine if this is a recent story, yikes.
The pandemic has been a blessing to buffets in my province. Now, you just get a list of items and pick out what you want and can have plate after plate out of anything you want on the menu, as long as you finish what you ordered. Less waste, fresher food, and no gross things happening to the food.
Story 2: this is why self-serve buffets don't exist for the most part. My place was the opposite where you can order anything and the waiters will bring the already prepared food to you.
In that first story, even to the entitled sister's point that 'picking up the mail is included with keeping the house clean" doesn't fly. If it truly is included, and the OP already pays her $100 for keeping the house clean, then no, she doesn't owe her... because it's INCLUDED...
Story 1, op should have handed her the bills and told her she needs to pay 50%, and if she refused or (inevitability) complained, kicked her out. This would then give her the rights to rebuke any snide comments from her acquaintances.
I haven't eaten at a buffet for decades since I saw a child stick his hands in the mashed potatoes, lick his hands and stick it back in. I said ugh! And his mother said, " aw he's just a kid and he's hungry. Besides, we all have germs". Keep in mind, this kid was like 9 or 10 yrs old. Old enough to know better and Old enough to wait until he got an actual plate. I was disgusted, never ate buffets again because you never know who did what to the food before you got there.
Story 2: After THIS?! More like after I read someone caught norovirus from a buffet. As much as I enjoyed buffets as a kid and teenager, I’ve heard a lot of horror stories as an adult. Knowing how gross people are, I’m surprised my parents ever agreed to go lol
Buffet story reminded me: Our small town grocery store put in a small salad bar about a year ago. It’s against the wall on one side so the items on that side can be difficult to reach from the side customers use. If I squat down a bit to get under the sneeze guard with my arm better, I can reach ok while still keeping my head above the sneeze guard. One day, as I approached it, a worker was there and she ‘informed’ me that ‘it’s easier to reach the back if you lift the glass part.’ I said, ‘you mean the sneeze guard?’ She had a confused look on her face so I went on. ‘That’s suppose to help protect the food from people breathing/coughing/sneezing germs onto the salad bar.’ I know it’s okay for employees to move it as they take care of the food but customers shouldn’t be moving it. This was just a couple weeks ago, as we’ve had more sickness in our community. I hope she stopped telling customers they can lift that up.
Forget not going to a self-serve buffet any more - I once saw a kid licking the top of the salt shaker at a random, unoccupied table a restaurant, sooooo yeah.... I bring my own salt and pepper nowadays.
One Solution for the neighbor's kid coming into your yard is to have lawn sprinklers installed. And "accidentally" turn on the sprinklers when they are in the yard.
Story 1 - OP was nuts to give the sister money for cleaning ..... or doing anything else while freeloading. Cleaning was a fair exchange for a roof over her head, food in her belly and a warm place to sleep. Yeah, no, OP was not out of place for putting out the sister.
During that entire seatbelt story, I thought the boys were little kids around 10-12 years old or something. To hear they were both in their 20s shocked me.
I remember being on holiday with a buffet at a hotel, I went for some dessert and in front of me was a 8 to 10 year old kid by himself. He grabbed the spoon for the icecream tub and started scooping into his bowl but in between every scoop, he licked the ice cream off the spoon and put it back in. Uuuugh
We used to go to a buffet pretty regularly. One of the workers from the kitchen came out of a stall and went directly back to the kitchen without washing her hands. Disgusting. I wished I'd complained to management. Instead I just let it go and didn't eat there afterwards.
Story 2: I once stopped at a chain pizza place in a mall food court. What I saw in the back just disgusted me. There was this overweight, sweaty chef in a dirty white tank and uniform pants, with most of his arm, nearly to the armpit, in a huge vat full of what looked like spaghetti/ pizza sauce, stirring it with his hand. I've never been able to get that picture out of my head, and it's been at least 30 years. I moved on quickly.
No matter HOW small the issue, you ALWAYS have to stand up to Karens! They continue the behavior BECAUSE they know that people will let them get away with stuff BECAUSE "it isn't worth fighting over/causing a scene" ... it's the same reason parents need to be consistent with their kids and not give in because the kids will throw a fit otherwise. Actually, if you think about it, those kids have probably grown up to be the Karens. STAND FIRM, PEOPLE!!
Had to install security cameras at several of my apartment buildings due issues at them. Funny thing is we knew what tenants were doing the stuff that was causing us these problems. So we install the cameras in the common areas making sure to not focus on any apartments specifically or in a way to be able to see inside apartments. And wouldn't you know the problem tenants were the only one to complain about the cameras saying they were violating their privacy and one even tried to get a attorney to write us a cease and desist letter by not telling him the truth. So we just sent the attorney a picture showing how each camera was set up and where it was aimed. And the tenant had to pay the attorney for nothing and the cameras stayed. Hand one problem tenant moved out shortly after we set up the cameras.
When working out of State, I would always get early for the complementary breakfast. After 2 or 3 days of only being able to get coffee, I was awake and downstairs too early for breakfast to start, they asked me what I would like. I told them coffee, cereal and milk. From then on, I always had those ready or almost ready by the time I got down there. Love being a nice guy to the workers.
Last story is definitely a "why don't they ever call" moment You'd think that after being away from their daughter for all that time they'd have changed, but instead OP's mother goes right back to berating them without skipping a beat. Glad at least OP laid down the truth on her before she hung up
I was torn by that but maybe she's right. Long ago Mum went through a bad spot when Dad died.I was 11, she was 32. Later moved 2 disaster boyfriends in turn into our house when we were teens & gave them the run of it. My sister is a stubborn cow and I still remember how Mum temporarily threw her out 16. Opened doors between the dining room & lounge. Mum: Sister do X for boyfriend. Sister: No. Closes door. Mum opens door. Mum: Sister you can leave. Sister: Fine. Family friends put her up. Those exact words & just 1 example. Mum grew up, profusely apologised & all's well for decades. But for a few years? Hell.
I also feel bad for Fred sister and mother for having to put up with OP family asking Constantly for her information they lost her plain and simple they only have themselves to blame if they had treated her with some respect things may have turned out differently
I loved the buffet story and have one of my own. I went to Tampa with two friends for a fun weekend at Busch Gardens. We went to a local Chinese buffet and there was a line forming at the sushi station as the freshly made sushi was brought out. I was second in line behind this woman who picked up the entire tray and took it to her table. About 20 people in line looked on and we're fuming. I turned and looked at them and smiled. I walked over to her table and got sushi off of the tray that I wanted. She told me that I was incredibly rude! I said "and now you know how it feels when you took the whole tray to your table!". People that were in line behind me were in tears laughing and lined up behind me getting the sushi off the tray they wanted too. Several gave her a piece of their mind while they did it! My friends who were sitting at our table watching the whole thing we're laughing so hard tears were streaming down their face. They said "We were wondering what you were going to do when she walked off with that whole tray. We thought you were going to walk over pick it up and take it back!". I said "You should never bring food back to the buffet that's been taken off, that's not sanitary. Besides, it was much better for her to have to face each and every person that she rudely denied as a teachable life lesson moment. Bet she will think twice about doing that again so I feel that I have done my good deed for the day!"
My wife and I once picked up my grandparents to take them out to dinner. Grandpa sat in front and my wife sat in back with grandma so we could have our own convos. I started the car and checked for belts, as was my habit, and saw that grandpa didn’t have his on, so I sat and waited for him to put it on.
Grandpa (g): uh…we’re all in, we can go…
Me: just as soon as you put your seatbelt on.
G: I don’t need one, let’s go.
Me: my car doesn’t move until all belts are on.
Back and forth a couple times, then grandpa looked me in the eye, held eye contact, and very deliberately reached over and shifted the car into reverse. I maintained eye contact, shifted back into park, and turned off the engine. Finally, my grandma, who was in back snickering with my wife over “our silly men” said “Louis, if he’s only HALF as stubborn as you, we’ll be here for another 2 hours. Put your seatbelt on, I’m hungry!!!”
He did, and we went off for a great meal.
Good for Grandma. Grandpa's a jack_ss.
@@rickraber1249 nah, grandpa was great and I really miss him. He just had a few quirks. He was one of those that would grumble and gripe, but if anyone needed any help, he was the first onsite rolling up his sleeves to help out. He was a community volunteer, treated his wife of 50+ years very well, etc. Buuuuuttt…he could be stubborn lol
@@oldergent5266 I read a book recently where one of the characters described himself as 95% sweetheart and 5% a__hole. A lot of really good men are like that. (In fact, I'm not sure there are any good men out there that don't have a small percentage of the latter.) I think I would have liked your grandpa.
I really can’t blame you for insisting your Grandpa put on his seatbelt. It’s such a simple thing that’s saved a lot of lives and possibly mine. Long story short a couple years ago just after Boxing Day I had been really unwell and hadn’t slept at all for two nights. I had to go out and get some more medication because I’d ran out.
On the way back heading towards home when I either totally lost concentration or I fell asleep at the wheel. I never saw that lamp post coming at all. So I slammed into that lamp post at roughly 30mph. I’m violently thrown forward, smacking my head hard into the steering wheel before the airbags deployed and the kind of rebound had my head hitting the airbag.
Mercifully I wasn’t seriously hurt. With the car filling with smoke from the airbag I undo my seatbelt, grab my handbag from the passenger seat, turn the ignition into the off position before stepping outside. I didn’t understand the smoke was just from the airbag and feared things might catch on fire if I’d have left the ignition on even though the engine was dead. I’d barely taken two steps away from the car before help arrived in the form of a middle aged couple who’d been walking nearby when I crashed. I immediately told them I’d hit my head and they put their arms around me (this was pre-pandemic) and safely go me to a safe place on the pavement then called for an ambulance while a nearby resident that had heard the crash arrived.
Before long they’d brought me a cushion to sit on then wrapped a warm blanket around me. The three of them cared for me and kept me conscious until the ambulance and police arrived. Even the fire brigade had to come because my car was leaking fluid all over one side of the road. Yet even more locals had come to help by coordinating traffic around the spill.
Now, the relevant bit. The lamp post had totally stoved in half of the front of the car and turned the front passenger side wheel and wheel housing into a crumpled and twisted mangled mess of mental, plastic and rubber. (As the passenger side had hit the lamp post instead of being in the centre.) In the end I got away with a minor concussion, whiplash and some bruising across my chest and shoulder from the seatbelt. While the crumple zones no doubt helped by absorbing some of the impact the police and paramedics both agreed that my wearing the seatbelt prevented much more serious injuries because the impact would have thrown me either headfirst into the windshield or I’d have been thrown half through it onto the bonnet.
Of course the other good reason is that in the UK it’s illegal to ride cars without seatbelts on and the driver is legally responsible for ensuring all passengers put their seatbelts on. My brother tried that once when I picked him up after a boozy night out. Fortunately when I asked him to put it on he happily complied.
Unless shotgun is giving directions they shut their mouths and do as they're told.
Driver drives.
Being ejected from a car and banging around the cabin is more dangerous than whatever happens with a belt.
They'd certainly learn that in my car, I can drive crazier than the most maverick of 70s Cops when I'm allowed to!
Son 1:"You might as well just drive, I'm not putting my belt on."
Me:"You sure?"
S1:"I'm pretty sure."
Me doing my best Gene Hunt impression:"Then you better 'ang on fer dear life, Doris, because it's time to fire up the quattro!"
S1:*Screams like a baby girl as I proceed to flout all traffic laws at nearly 90mph*
In high school they made us watch a very dramatized but graphic video of the scenario. Just one person bouncing around the cab, hitting everyone.
"Do you know how dangerous seatbelts are in an accident" Not as dangerous as you going through a windshield at 70mph, but hey, you wanna be a smear on pavement then you can do it in your own car.
I would break check them constantly if they didn’t put on their seatbelts
I can’t believe people still actually say this kind of BS (that seatbelts are dangerous) with a straight face. Just unbelievable how much they have to work to be that stupid.
Seatbelts save lives!
Airbags save lives!
@@stephanien6237 I had a woman cross the center line and hit me, head on. I had just filled the gas tank in a seven month old early '80s Toyota pickup. Wen I got in to leave the gas station, I put my seat belt on. I had an intense, burning pain as soon as I clicked the latch. It was so bad that I removed the belt to get out of the truck. The pain went away. Two minutes later I was hit, about a half mile away. My truck spun. I bent the steering column to the passenger side of the dash. The back of my head pushed out the rear window, and the seat brackets went through the back of the cab. This crushed the gas tank, leaving me sitting in a puddle of gasoline. I couldn't open either door, so I had to kick the passenger door open. I had barely made it out when a drugged up fool came running at me with a it flare. I had to punch him to get it from him and take it a safe distance.
When the police arrived one asked, "Where did they take the driver's body?" I told him that I was driving. He looked me in the eyes and said, "Someone was looking out over you. This is the kind of wreck where a seat belt would have cut you in half. I told him about everything, and once again he said "Someone was looking out over you." and pointed up.
@@stephanien6237 and airbags are lethal if not wearing the seatbelt
@@michaelterrell I think seatbelts have their time and place. Certain accidents, oh yeah seatbelts and air bags are deathtraps. They do save lives, but I think it's grossly overrexaggerated on how much they actually do save. I think the statistics of people dying due to the way seatbelts sit over the ribcage is just as bad as not wearing seatbelts at all.
When family members are toxic cutting them off is the only way.
And instead of figuring out why there is no contact, they continue to guilt trip you.
Toxic and sexist. That mother has no shame in berating her daughter just for being herself without a care in the world and treats her like the bad guy when she cut off her family for not treating her like family. If your daughter is not girly enough, treat her like a human punching-bag. I wouldn't be surprised if that was that family's motto. Also, the mother has no dignity as a woman, much less a human. So pathetic
@@darcos7535 That's why they need to be told, just before it goes into effect.
And all for being born a girl. As if it was her fault or something. There is nothing wrong with having varied interests and also for wanting more for yourself than what your parents did. OP did the absolute right thing in wanting to live her life the way she wanted to. There is no shame in loving the outdoors and comics just as there shouldn't be shame if you like to be more traditionally feminine. It's your life, so as long as you aren't trying to control others, live life how you want. Simple as.
Sister cleaning house story: OP, you weren't ripping her off, she was trying to rip you off! Quite frankly, if you hadn't thrown her out when you did she would have gotten into things she had no business getting into or caused various items to "disappear" (which she may have done already, check your belongings and important papers).
Oh crap, yeah. My partner's sister moved in with us for a couple of months until _their_ home was made ready (their as in my partner's as it's single occupancy only). When they left *many* of my things disappeared. From medical equipment & otc medicines to things she claimed as being hers even after my partner confirmed they'd been there before even she moved in, 2+ years prior. Since then over £200 in virtually new tools have disappeared from their home that I'd left there between jobs I'd been doing for them! She's such a bad influence that they both now expect me to help fund their lavish lifestyles despite their combined incomes being 80% higher than than mine, despite having no higher expenses other than food and drink.
All I can say about OP in the last story is ROCK ON, that was absolutely the correct way to deal with the situation. And it's so by the numbers, look, emotionally abusive parents trying to manipulate someone with guilt, who could have expected that?
Only thing that could be a cherry on top would be if she's sued them and won for a therapy bill and punitive damages over the neglect and abuse.
I think she should've done it at the funeral where the rest of the family was watching. But then, I'm a sucker for drama at funerals.
It was exactly the right way to deal with any narcissist. No contact when possible, then very firm boundaries when it is not.
Imagine being in your 20s and still being so fussy about seatbelts. I would've expected this from young children, but it's just sad from people who are supposed to be adults.
I'm with the Fluff Master on this one (usually do anyway), I could not believe they were in their 20's. Plus their dad still pampers them! Sounds like they are still living at home also. I see a rude awakening in their future.
We should not wear seatbelts.
And that they haven't had the patients to follow a simple rule for 30 minutes to get what they want. How did they get through school?
Would love to see those 'kids' reaction when they finally get a job after college (which I'm assuming they were still in at the time), and finding out one of their company policies is always wearing seatbelts on company property/in company vehicles. I've known people who've lost promotions/been fired for not complying with this.
@@JimmySpace69 dude, if you are fishing for a darwin award, you need to be more original...
Went to buffet years ago. My boyfriend goes to the bathroom and after he is done washes his hands like any normal person should do. To his horror, another man who seems to have gone for number two, leaves the stall and goes directly to the food and picks up the spoons and serves himself. We told a worker about it. Cannot remember what happened but they did change the spoons. How gross is that man.
I was at a luncheon with my Mother and several of her coworkers. As we began eating, a guy finds a fly in his food. So he begins basically disecting the fly with his steak knife, and another calls the server over. The manager gets called, and the guy's meal gets replaced. One lady whispers (loudly) "Should we tell him we're from the State Health Department?" The Manager turns white. But we all just laughed it off and continued our meal. Hey, a fly can come from anywhere. If it'd been a roach, maybe a different situation. 😄
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Saw the exact same thing last time I was in a buffet back in October of 2019. Haven't been to a buffet since, and not just because of COVID...
Speaking of which, the pandemic hit that place hard. They shut down and the building is going to be turned into a martial arts school.
It's normal people don't see a big deal, can't tell you how many times I've seen it working in food service. People in general are disgusting and its the #1 reason why I don't eat out nor do I participate in work potlucks.
My employer had to install self flashing toilets because many women wouldn't or didn't know how to flush after themselves.
Kids with binoculars in the OP’s yard… they might be under 7 but that doesn’t mean they’re only peeping on her to see if she’s home.
It’s best to nip that behavior in the bud ASAP.
Story 6: Kid; "Seatbelts are dangerous"
Me: Say that to the Pavement when you get into a Car Accident and your skull gets smashed wide open
My seatbelt saved me from being partially being thrown partially through my own windscreen when I fell asleep at the wheel after two nights without sleeping due to being ill. I’d been out to get new medication from the pharmacy and crashed into a lamp post.
@@mikoto7693 glad you’re ok!
I'd have shown the kids copious videos on TH-cam proving what idiots they are. Unless you want your brains scrambled, buckle up.
I would just start driving and then make a full brake immediately after, so they have a physical lecture. If it doesn't work, repeat.
We came as soon as we could entitled kid got seriously burned
Story 3: Don't you hate when people try to exploit your generosity and leech off your money while lying about what it's for?
I've bummed money off my dad often enough, but I always made sure it was for food, rent, etc.
(And by food I mean dry rice or noodles, cheap carbs that last in the pantry until payday.)
I'm terrible with money, but I'd never ever ask for money for something like eating out or a case of beer or whatever.
Well, maybe beer, but here in Germany you can get a 6-pack of pints for 1.50 ^^
Point is, if you're going to ask your friends/family for money because your ass is broke, don't spend it on luxury items.
@@Nerobyrne Try setting up a budget for yourself, make your paycheck last as long as possible.
Eventually you have to stop being the host (going by the leech comparison) and start asking for payback
@@robertnelson9599 I solved it by getting a new job and moving to a cheaper apartment.
I tried making my budget fit my bill, but thankfully I had the option of making my bill fit my budget.
@@captainpolar2343 d. D. D. Hh. Hhhhhhhhhhhhd. H
Karen: Take down your cameras, I don't want you to film me trespassing
Me: How dumb do you think OP is, seriously?
The real question is how dumb is Karen.
@@robertnelson9599 immeasurable dumb i guess
Karen: I demand you take down your security cameras.
Me: *J. Jonah Jameson laugh*
Well if Karen doesn't want to be filmed she don't need to be in somebody else's yard without permission anyway she can't tell the owner of the property to take down the cameras that is his right as a property owner said for his protection.
Old saying among cops is that criminals aren't nearly as smart as they think they are, and they seem to think they're smarter than anybody else. These Karen types are just criminal thinkers who haven't broken the law - yet, at least some of them haven't. And ya gotta think that they really are pretty stupid.
20 years ago my wife and I rolled my Jeep six times and we were told that if we were not wearing seat belts we would have been killed. Even with belts I fractured my back, broke my left arm and fractured my skull. My wife had minor internal injuries. Seat belts save lives.
Even wearing a seatbelt as a passenger in a friend's car, I ended up with fractured C1, C2, C3, and enduring a "halo" for four months. Without the seatbelt, I would have been dead when the car rolled. Worth it.
I agree definitely
Vaccines are the new seatbelts.
Seat belts don't prevent crashes, but they save you from worse injuries.
Vaccines don't stop you getting Covid, but they save you from worse symptoms.
That guy in the third story was 100% an addict. The erratic behavior adds to that conclusion
Addiction is tough to deal, but enabling them is the worst thing you can do.
@@robertnelson9599 especially do to fatalities
I learned that a seat belt really makes a difference.
This accident happened when I was in 1st grade.
My family was on the way home after a day at the zoo. When a fender bender came up behind my Dads Atro Van and guided us into the back end of a ladies car who had pulled over to talk on her phone for something and was about to pull out.
I did not like seat belts as a kid, mainly the shoulder strap. Now my favorite seat was behind the front passenger next to the sliding door. Well being a kid, I was using my pillow like serving tray, the cap of a bottle as a tea cup and the water bottle as a tea pot. Roleplaying my own make believe tea party.
I was sitting with my knees facing the door when I went left cheek first into the front passenger's seat.
My lil sis and I got a chance to ride in an ambulance on the stretcher boards. I was over all physically fine, she was sitting in the back middle seat and this was before shoulder straps were the norm on middle seats. She needed to be checked. My mom had a look over and my dad was fine as well.
Since then, I have made sure to properly wear my seatbelt. That one accident has clicked inside me, every time I get into a vehicle rather driving or passenger, it's on correctly.
@ Lotus....My Prime Nephew saw me wearing a seat-belt and decided for chuckles to put his on. Later that day, SOME BODY ran into him and sent him spinning. His CAR centered the front end of a concrete utility pole. HE escaped with a scraped knee. Made him a believer.
I remember the day I realised also, over 10 years go when many still didn't put them on, me including. So my sister in law was driving(winter time at night), we cross this bridge and while I was admiring the light of this factory a thought crossed my mind "I never been in a car accident", so I put the seat belt on and not even 2 min later in a curve we hit ice and she lost control of the car hitting a tree. The accident wasn't bad, but if I didn't had it on I will probably had hit the windshield also had to have a collar for over a month.
But unfortunately I actually do know a case in my city with some teens driving reckless at high speed at night... They hit a tree and the car caught on fire and everyone in the car died, but the only one that survived(barely) was the kid that didn't have the seat belt on and was thrown out of the car. Even knowing that I still will not go without one, cause chances of something like that happened are a lot less then when a seat belt is needed.
@@Ally.81 Too many people put the pedal to the metal which is very stupid.
Seatbelt story, a friend of mine had a daughter that flat out refused to wear a seatbelt. So, she hauled her daughter to a class the local PD held. This was a while back so I don't know if the local PD still do this, but lets just say they didn't pull many punches.. Since it was voluntary, they didn't edit much. No bodies, but anything else was fair game including blood splatters, shattered windshields from where someone went through complete with blood and other things. She said after the class when they got into the car she put her seatbelt on and told my friend that daughter never wanted to be one of those people in the class. Daughter now has kids of her own and from what my friend told me, whenever one of her kids turns 16, they get the class. (Daughter lives out of state.) She never has any problems with her kids wearing seatbelts.
See i'm torn because seatbelts DON'T garuntee you're safe. of the 22,215 fatalities in 2019 only 47% of them weren't wearing seatbelts.
While SOME fatalaties can be prevented by using seatbelts those who do die there is very little difference if you are or are not wearing a seatbelt as you're just as likely to die with it on as without it.
Personally I think it's insane to fine people for not wearing it because it's your own personal choice, we need to stop protecting stupidity... let natural selection weed people out if you're unwilling to wear a seat belt then you should atleast be smart enough to avoid accidents which you would need one in. If you A) Choose to not wear it AND/OR B) are reckless enough to get into an accident you deserve whatever consequence is coming your way.
Also I don't wanna hear all this 'but you can't prevent accidents that's why they're accidents' yes, this is partially true, you can't predict that the semi next to you is going to flip over because of the wind while you're both going 80+ on the interstate but you can be proactive and NOT sit ontop of a semi while going 80+ on the interstate. Proactive driving will almost always save your life reactive driving will almost garuntee you wind up in an accident.
I live in an area where people simply don't know how to drive and I constantly have people running stop signs and red lights and if I wasn't paying attention I would have been hit. I was also almost hit by a semi which was knocked over by the wind on an interstate but because I have a rule that you only pass by semis when they are going insanely slow and always give them a 6 car min distance otherwise I was able to easily avoid that accident while the jaggoff in the red sports car who had been sitting right next to that semi for 20 minutes was crushed under it.
Having rules you follow to protect yourself is how you stay safe on the road not some flimsy piece of canvas and aluminum. Tools can only get you so far the best protection from accidents is your own brain power and if you can't manage that then i'm sorry you deserve to be in an accident. I have spent 20+ years on the road making cross country road trips and have never once been in an accident but i've seen hundreds of cars driving like they're the only one on the road get totalled 30 to 50 feet from me. The key here is: I'm not the only driver on that pavement and I drive like it. Humans need to be more attentive than we are and if you're not well ... accidents clear out the gene pool of that lack luster brain cell gene.
@@suruthebeast4065 That's like saying helmets don't save lives.
53% of fatalities were wearing seatbelts? Then they were dead no matter what.
Your question should be: Of the 47% who weren't wearing seatbelts, how many would have survived otherwise?
Also, most countries with seatbelt laws also have universal healthcare. If the taxpayer has to cover your medical bills, the government gets to minimise them through safety laws.
@@aaronleverton4221 Countries with seatbelt laws have universal healthcare? Really that's your argument? What about the US they have seatbelt laws and no universal healthcare.
You're absolutely delusional bud. You're living in a fantasy land where you can just say whatever you want and you're right but that's not the fact of the matter.
There are tons of countries with Universal Healtchare that don't have a seatbelt law and there are tons of countries without universal healtchare that do. Also
Now let's look at the effectivness of seatbelts in those who died:
In 2019 22k people died in automobile accidents, only 14k of them were wearing seatbelts making it only 47% of people who died in accidents were wearing seatbelts. Which maeans that seatbelts save only about 1/4th of the people who die each year approximately. I wish studies were done into how many of the other 3/4 of the deaths were actually caused by the seatbelt because i'm going to go out on a limb and say that number would probably be about 1/4 of the other half of those who died with em on.
So seatbelts have less than 50% success rate. So my argument still remains 100% valid while yours is based on personal opinion non cold hard facts.
Personally I do feel that people should wear seatbelts just because it is an added leeel of security because a larger portion of accidents are caused because people are distracted or down right stupid. This would be solved if we just removed seatbelts and let those were gonna die of stupidity just die. We have no need for em. But that's 'harsh' and 'problematic' even tough prior to the 16th century ish, if you weren't smart enough to save yourself you died. Didn't know a certain berry would kill you, there wasn't a law for that. Didn't know not to feed the bear, no law for that. Didn't know not to drink strange liquids ment for cleaning, no law for that. We've got so many laws defending bad decision making it's no wonder why so many stupid people exist.
@@suruthebeast4065 You don't English very well, do you?
"... *most* countries with seatbelt laws also have universal healthcare."
Read all of the words and understand what they mean in the sentence they are used in.
And that statement is not rebutted by saying "There are tons of countries with Universal Healtchare that don't have a seatbelt law..."
The latter has nothing to do with the former, nor does it disprove the reason I gave for UHC countries legislating seatbelt use.
You also don't know how to do statistics. The effectiveness of seatbelts in those who died is zero. They died. The seatbelt did not save them.
The only way seatbelts can save 1/4 of people who die every year is if they survive auto accidents while wearing seatbelts and then die later from causes unrelated to motoring.
The question was how many of the fatalities were preventable by seatbelt use.
And you flipped your numbers. First you said *only* 47% weren't wearing seatbelts, meaning the majority of fatalities were strapped in, then you said 47% were strapped in, meaning the majority of deaths were unsecured.
Also, you say this:
"You're absolutely delusional bud. You're living in a fantasy land where *you can just say whatever you want and you're right but that's not the fact of the matter* ."
and then you say this:
" I wish studies were done into how many of the other 3/4 of the deaths were actually caused by the seatbelt because *i'm going to go out on a limb and say that number would probably be about 1/4 of the other half of those who died with em on* ."
You were saying something about wondering why so many stupid people exist.
Suggest you look in the mirror.
@@aaronleverton4221 My point is here you're acting like Seatbelt laws came about because of UHC guess what... US had em first... and to this day still doesn't have UHC. Seatbelt laws and UHC are not related is my point and the fact that you are using UHC as an argument for them is your grasping at straws to prove your point. These two things have NOTHING in common when it comes to why they exist. It's merely an argument people like you use because of (insert politically charged reason here).
What you're saying is like laws against murder being related to having a system of laws in general. The two things have come cross over but one doesn't exist because of the other. UHC existed well before Seatbelts and the overlap of the invention of the car and seat belts is about 100 years. Correlation is not causation.
It doesn't matter how you slice it seatbelts under ALL figures only sit at a marging a 5% from 50% effectiveness. They are NOT as useful as clowns like you make them out to be, they are a thin strip of fabric trying to restrain you from impacts capable of launching you out of the vehicle past glass built to withstand impacts. Personally i'd rather die than be strapped with months of hospitalization and then the following medical bill from broken ribs because at least in the former my suffering was quick (hopefully).
To answer your question about how many of the fatalties could have been stopped... i gave you that number probably about 47% of them... and that's being generous have you ever been on a crash site where people have died? It's not pretty, people die with and without seatbelts you've got a god on your side if you get out of a serious crash with only minor injuries, I saw a car flip over five or six times on an highway under the bridge I was on once, he and his family died, taking out 3 other cars causing 7 total fatalities and about 12 other injuries from those who only got fender benders stopping quickly on the road. The likely hood of you surviving such a crash is NOT on your seatbelt but rather on your luck, that's why it's about a 50/50 split... some people flipped heads, others flipped tails. Life is a gamble and they lost.
Story 2: Nowadays with covid so rampant, anyone who does anything like this should be arrested and charged with bioterrorism.
Nah just force em to eat ALL OF IT before they could leave
@@southaussiegarbo2054 And also stick em with the full bill for all of the food in the buffet, of course.
after watching people dip into dishes put it back & snotty nosed, dripping, & they would wipe it the back of their hands, I stopped eating at snarf bars decades ago what I had witnessed.
@quetzalpacheco Yeah, jail is a bit far, but there are people who have legit been charged with bioterrorism for claiming to have COVID-19 and intentionally coughing on people and things. Still, spreading disease needs to be cracked down on. Too many science-deniers see no problem with spreading disease, and the only way to stop their dangerous behavior is to implement real punishment. In food handling courses, there's an emphasis on protecting 'YOPI' people (Young, Old, Pregnant, Immunodeficient). It's those vulnerable people that face the brunt of science-denialists and pro-disease people. An infant shouldn't have to pay with their life for some entitled prick's conniption fit.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 precisely!!
Imagine being over 20 and missing your flight (and half of your vacation) because you're too entitled and stubborn to follow basic safety instructions...
Sounds like the anti-vaxxed whowho then Die of COVID.
And blaming someone else for it.
And calling your dad and still not getting it.
I was gonna guess the sons were about 12 years old.
Now I'm gonna guess they'll probably end up as Sovereign Citizens.
"Do you know how dangerous seatbelts are in an accident?" "Yes, I do. Not at all. Put the fucking belt on, you little shit."
The same amount of damage the bulldozer would suffer if Prosser drove it over Arthur!
I mean technically they are but any injury from the seat belt will be significantly less than flying out the window and smashing into the pavement
Chest injuries are possible. But it's worse for your chest and head when you go through the windscreen at 100 klms per hour.
I will suggest the law is wrong wherever OP lives. In UK, if the passenger is an adult, they are the one fined.
@@ShadowEclipse777 yeah you might break your collar bone but you'll live
Officer, how can you be so sure I am the one who robbed his house? It’s not like he got any security cameras!
down the hallway and to the left, you'll find r/kamikazebywords
@@captainpolar2343 there’s more than one door. which door should i open?
@@wtfarethesehandles first door on your right
@@captainpolar2343 thanks
I love how the Karen has no problem having her son peep in OP’s house, but having cameras is a problem.
Why didn't she call the cops??!
OP should've withdrawn the $100 and said "sorry, no more allowance for you after I discount the rent and utilities off it."
What I would've said that since the sister said the scrap book and such fell under the umbrella of house cleaning then the 100 allowance should cover it.
@@gothgirl4evr782 : How could walking the dog and doing a scrapbook be part of cleaning the house, especially since OP had not requested a scrapbook be made, nor having the dog walked?
@@jacklow9611 I guess maybe you didn't catch it, I didn't say the dog walking was under the umbrella, but when the sister was telling OP that she did the scrap booking and when OP said she didn't ask her to do that the sister replied that it falls under the umbrella of house cleaning so she not just wanted an extra 125 for the dog but additional 75 for the other stuff she did that wasn't asked if her. When OP refused on that basis the sister said "well that falls under umbrella of cleaning the house".
@@gothgirl4evr782: I just don't understand how making a scrapbook can be considered part of cleaning the house, irrespective of the dog walking. If she was making the scrapbook, she wasn't doing any cleaning while she was doing that.
@@jacklow9611 i didn't claim it was, I was quoting OP's sister she contradicted her self by asking for extra for that and when OP refuses she said "that falls under umbrella of cleaning and OP is ripping her off" by not paying for doing those things
Worst part about the first one is that if she had just approached him with not plan first, then maybe they woulda worked something out… too bad
Ahh yes nothing like going home after school and doing some chores while listening to some karens getting what they deserve keep up the great work
Agreed
I can relate to this so much
Literally me rn
I need to try this
I listen to them while at work. Helps me focus and the time go faster
Wtf, those seatbelt “kids” are grown men! I would have just thrown them and their luggage out as soon as he refused to wear the seatbelt. Multiple calls to dad?! He should’ve called an Uber like a big boy.
Story 6: Always wear your seatbelts, even if you hate them. If you refuse to wear them, inertia will teach you a lesson. Also, seatbelts do not possess serious danger in a car crash, they do the opposite.
Also, the fact that grown adults are refusing to wear seatbelts really speaks volumes about their personality.
It's the same people refusing to wear masks
I taught my daughter a lesson when she was 5 or 6 years old. We were on the way back from church and were driving back roads in a rural area. When I heard her unbuckling her seat belt I stopped, told her to stay buckled and buckled her again. We hadn´t made another 100 meters when I heard her belt come unbuckled again. In the rear view mirror I saw how she smiled to her brothers. I signaled to my wife to not be worried, checked the rear view mirror to make sure no other car was in sight and did an emergency braking. This sent her flying from her seat while the Volvo came to a screeching halt from approximately 30 mph. The backside of the passenger seat is well padded, so she didn´t experience any physical harm. When she scrambled up from behind the front seat crying I told her that THIS is what the belt prevents her from and that you never know when there will be a need for an emergency braking. I guess she learned her lesson that day because she never again argued about the seat belt.
Well, technically speaking, shoulder belts DO cause a hazard for a small amount of the adult population. If one cuts too high across your neck (or certain cardiac issues), it *can* be a decapitation issue if they aren't adjustable/can't be adjusted well enough - a situation that I run into pretty often, due to the disproportionate skeletal complications that come with one of my genetic conditions - I have a letter that I carry specific to this in countries I require it). Nothing in this world is 100%, and misused safety equipment is worse than none at all. Being said, unless there's a medical or maintenance reason, use the belt PROPERLY.
There are cases where the seat belt does kill people. But it saves more lives than it kills.
Anyway, here in the story I thought we were talking about 15-year-old kids. These were grown adults.
@@melodyharpole8272 I thought they were even younger than that. XD
When you fence your yard. put the fence at least 6 inches inside your property line. If the neighbor wants to hook into your fence, you can make them pay half of that side of the fence if they do hook into your fence or just cut it away from your fence, making their fence useless. My parents did this and it made their neighbors furious but had to cut my dad a check for what he asked for.
Pretty smart.
I remember watching a video about the most disgusting things that people have done in all you can eat buffets. One that stuck out was how someone would eat and eat, and then go to the bathroom to throw up, then get more food. Hearing about it gave me the shivers.
Edit: seat belts are, in a way, like anti-air flak cannons. They are inaccurate. Very inaccurate. They rarely ever hit their targets on a good day. But the alternative is letting enemy planes fly to their targets uncontested. Seat belts make give you an injury in a serious crash, but without them, it will be much worse.
Reminds me of the Hunger Game series, to be more precise the part where Peta and Katniss are "celebrating" their victory with a huge party and those little cocktails that caused the people to trow up so they could eat more🤢
I really dont get why people do that. Not only is it disgusting, but after throwing up, I physically wouldnt be able to eat anything for a while afterwards. Between my stomach and throat hurting and the aftertaste of the vomit, I'd be lucky to be able to stomach more than dry toast for the next few hours at least.
@@marcusreading3783 maybe they get used to the taste, maybe they expell the food before it starts melting in stomach acid.
Wandering Kids Story: If OP isn't willing to spend the money a fence would cost, perhaps a one time fee to a Lawyer for a Cease and Desist Nastygram and Restraining Order (Stay Off my Property) would be appropriate...
Still, if I were OP, cost be damned, I'd put up at least a 5 foot tall chain link fence around my Property with MANY No Trespassing signs hung along it's length and then call the Police each and every time one of the Entitled Family set foot inside the fence line...
I like the idea of the restraining order better. That way when OP calls the cops for trespassing, the restraining order will be the first thing that pops up in the system. Problem solved. : )
One thing confuses me about the one with the boys who “don’t do seatbelts”. The father even told his sons to put on their seatbelts so why did the son blame OP rather then the boys who disregarded what OP said AND what he said?..
Because people like that always want what they want and bullying or plain obstinacy usually gets it for them. And the dad called OP to complain too. I had the same thing, only it was while driving my 2 kids, their 3 friends (all about 6 to 9 yrs. old), and the friends' oldest sister, age about 14. The snotty little teen quietly undid her belt going down the road, but I heard her. So I simply pulled off and said what OP said, mainly, we'll get going again once you put that seatbelt back on. It's amazing what a little peer pressure and whining from younger siblings will do - she put it back on in about a minute. I told her mother about it, as I knew the mom would deal with her about it. I also explained to the kid that it would be a $200 ticket (at the time), and go on my driving record, AND raise my insurance rates. I guess some people actually like the idea of doing that to somebody else, like OP or me. Go figger. BTW I never took the 14 yr. old anywhere again. Burn me once, find your own ride.
@@rickraber1249 but what gets me isn’t that a parent sided with the entitled brats over OP, that happened all the time, but he was on OP’s side telling the kids to buckle up over the phone so it seems more like he’s siding with the bratty kids over OP and HIMSELF! That’s what I don’t understand…
@@christianmarshal6117 Look at these "kids" - I was expecting OP to say they were in their late teens, not early 20's. They turned out the way they were raised. The way they were raised makes no sense if their parents expected to produce responsible adults. So none of it makes sense to you and me.
@@christianmarshal6117 Well, we know that the dad didn't enforce using the seatbelts on his entiteled sons himself, so he obviously thinks not wearing seatbelts wasn't a big deal (and/or is a total pushover regarding his sons). So while he did tell the sons to just put on the seatbelt to get the issue out of the way (and probably wasn't happy that they didn't follow that advice), he was also mad at OP for remaining adamant about it and actually risk the sons miss their flights. From the entiteled dad's POV, OP caused them damage by being a petty stickler for unimportant rules.
It's the "I take no responsibility for my actions, so I will blame someone else" that really pisses me off.
oh man! That buffet story had me gagging so hard I almost lost it...Gross is an understatement.
As someone who works in a place that offers a salad bar, I do well to wash my hands multiple times a day between running utensils through the dishwasher.
For the seatbelt story, the second the alarm went off slam the brakes. Lesson is learned the first time. Or by the second one if the kid is too stupid to learn it the first time. My cousins and I all learned that lesson. They were the ones that took a few more times to learn it, but they learned after the third or fourth headbutt into the dashboard
I thought they were like 13 or something, not in their 20s
@@JessFirefox YES! That was really a surprise that the passengers were adults rather than small kids.
I agree, except slamming on the brakes can cause an accident, and that would get some poor, innocent third party harmed, and it would not go well for OP.
Went to a buffet and watched this woman get a big scoop of mashed potatoes plopped them down on her plate.. then cleaned off the spoon with her fingers licking them with every swipe... disgusting enough but then put the spoon back into the fresh tray of potatoes... I damn near threw up..
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lady it's illegal to trespass on op's property and op keep those cameras up do not take them down ever your neighbour has no right to tell you to take them down she's not in charge of them if she keeps that up sue her and her kids
On holiday, the restaurant was also a walk in, a guy was there and you could tell he was full of cold(flu) kept blowing his nose in the cloth napkins and then getting a fresh one with the staff not seeing. Had to tell the staff what he was doing, he and his family was escorted out to the police waiting and he was made to pay for all the napkins and food on the table without eating which was bagged and throw straight in the bin.
KARENS AROUND THE WORLD SHUT YOUR MOUTHS, IT'S FLUFFY TIME!!!!
Maybe if they're convinced Gorilla Glue makes a lipstick...
@@jasondyrkacz8270 that's a good point🤔🤔🤔
Amen to the last story! I’ve no clue if my egg donor and husband are alive let alone where they live. It’s sheer bliss.
Story 1..if she claims that dog walking and organizing a scrapbook is"part of keeping up the house" than it goes to say ITS PART OF THE 100.00 you're already getting.
Story 4: Karens are such hypocrites, "Oh I can't walk 50 feet to get a Chocolate Bar, what do you think I am a Moron?! you go get it i'm too lazy"
Me: I would've gotten the staff involved too, there is no way I would ever allow a Karen to steal my snacks, a Man's Snacks are Holy
Story 5: Maybe OP should put up some markers on their property in direct view of the cameras, I know how annoying people think (Having been at the receiving end at such treatment) and they cannot resist touching other people's stuff, if the Neighbor's kids take or destroy the markers OP can sue their Neighbor and hopefully destroy their reputation or better yet; get them thrown out
The friend “borrowing” money story. I taught in US high school for decades. Variations on the following story happened every year. It happened to boys it happened to girls.
One of my homeroom students (female) started dating a guy in the same school. When they began dating she insisted on paying 50/50. He was fine with that. I gather she was working at a better paying job. Slowly he began asking her to pay for “more”. Then he would say he was short that week so could she pay for everything. She agreed but slowly was getting irked.
Then one day he asked her to skip the last couple of classes to drive him to the mall. She agreed. In the mall they went to a shoe store. New Air Jordan’s had just come out. The B/F had a friend, who worked in the Store, to hold a pair in his size. I should note this at the peak of Air Jordan mania & that the shoes cost well over $100.
So the B/F gets the Shoes & is incredibly happy. So the young couple go to check out. Clerk rings them up & asks…credit or cash. The B/F look at his G/F expectantly. It suddenly hit my student that he expects her to pay for the expensive shoes. The clerk again asks….cash or credit. My student walked out leaving him there. She knew he had a bus pass to get home.
Next day there was a slight buzz around school. She told her female friends what had happened & they were all peeved. He felt that, as his G/F, that she should have no problems buying him a gift. We’ll, they broke up. One of my coworkers was in Guidance. I suggested to her to call in my student as she needed support. No happy ending here. My student moved on with an unhappy life lesson.
Re the kids in the back yard: Write a letter to the neighobor, telling them their kids are no longer permitted in your yard. Make sure that it is witnessed and the delivery is witnessed. They will, naturally, ignore it. Follow up with a Cease and Desist letter from a lawyer. If they ignore that, go for a Restraining Order.
When I was nine I was involved in a car accident where it rolled and wound up on its roof. If I hadn't been wearing a seat belt I undoubtedly would have been killed or seriously injured. Instead I just wound up with a headache for a while. Put the damn seat belt on, people. They're there for a reason.
Honestly I'm jealous of the strength some of these op's possess. They've recently given me the courage to go no-contact with my dad and his wife
Anyone toxic who upsets you should be out of your life.
17:00 Their sons were 21/24 at the time! I thought they were LITERAL children! LMAO! It makes the story even crazier. I had to rewind thinking OP meant they were NOW adults. Those "kids" should feel totally embarrassed.
That first story made me want to say:
"Transactions require mutual consent to be valid", but then I remembered how the US medical system works, so ... you go girl! Apparently, this is what Americans want!
Probably about as much as North Koreans want to starve I'd say.
@@SherioCheers they don't get to vote for their politicians though.
At that point, the people who vote for this system are to blame.
nice propaganda commie, go back to papa stalin
@Nerobyrne.... Not exactly sure how Your comment relates to the entitled relative? Pls explain?
@@jtc1947 yeah, I'm absolutely not a fan of our (U.S.) medical "system", but I cannot fathom the intended point NeroByrne was trying to make in relation to the sister's scummy behavior.
I thought the kids in story 5 were actual kids- like maybe preteens- but then you dropped that bombshell that they were full-grown adults, and I just had the biggest eye roll ever.
I actually got two for the first story 1. I watch someone's crotch goblin running around licking the salt and pepper shakers. They pulled of course cause I got an employee who was already on it.
Other time I watched an employee fish a dirt covered spoon out of a bucket of dirty silverware and try and serve me with it. Then proceeded to argue with me about it. Especially when I was doing servsafe certification at the time and study pass it (food service mandatory certification for my area of work) so it's very important. Anyway not sure what all happened to him but I hope he learned you can't take short cuts
Back in the mid to late 70s, very early 80s, our across the street neighbor, had a half of a city block. He welcomed the neighborhood kids to play baseball, football, kick the can, etc. Do you know how many times my dad and the other neighborhood dads replaced windows in that old man's house? Many, many, many. Different times.
Stores should have a " Code Karen" / " Code Chad" announcement when one is in the store, and where they're at.. Or maybe a flashing purple Karen/Chad alarm...
about camera story, that's why they have a CCTV branded "People FU" to mess with these people especially
Lol...that chocolate bar would have tasted phenomenal because I really just can't stand when entitled parents decide that their crotch goblins should be my problem. Especially if I had already been nice enough to give them my spot in line (I also hate lines 🤣) & they then have the nerve to take that sort of tone. I would consider it a life lesson for the brat too.
Yes exactly, that kid is probably an entitled brat! Crotch goblins! Hilarious 🤣
What OP should have done is put up No Trespassing signs, and when the kids were on the property, contact the police and show them the video. Being civil to a neighbor is a two-way street, and if one is civil but the other won't be, then something drastic might be needed.
Story 3: I wouldn't trust that guy with anything, he clearly has a problem
Once I was getting on a bus and paid for my all day pass. A woman who had come up behind me was showing a disability pass, so the driver thought I was paying for both of us. After realizing what had happened, I went back to the driver and said I didn't know the woman and was just paying for the day pass for myself. He took the two passes back and gave me the right one.
Seat belts and airbags both hurt like hell in minor accidents that you probably wouldn't be too severely injured by, but save your life in major accidents. They always need to be worn. My uncle is one of those freak accidents where not wearing a seat belt is the only reason he's alive, and he doesn't wear them because it gives him way too much anxiety, but he still makes his kids wear them, because he understands that it's far more likely to save their lives than to kill them.
The only reason why not wearing one saved his life is because he and his friends were going 120+mph and collided with a tree, and he just happened to be lucky enough to go through the windshield and miss the tree while everyone else was either held in by their seat belts, or their bodies hit the tree/others in the car. He has severe permanent damage from the accident though. He is one of very, very few cases where not wearing a seat belt saved his life, but that is solely because of the speed they were going and what they hit that the impact of the seatbelt holding back others in the car made them sustain more damage than flying through the air a couple hundred feet. But in pretty much any other circumstances, he would be dead and those in seat belts would be alive.
120+ MPH? Kinda shows what kind of stupidity was going on. To misquote the good Colonel? "A FOOL AND HIS LIFE ARE SOON PARTED."
@@jtc1947 yes, my uncle and his friends were on drugs and wanted to drive their new friend's car super fast, and didn't know that the road ahead curved until it was too late. There was a lot of stupidity involved, but 3 young boys aged 17-20 died that day, and my uncle barely survived, so it's still very sad. My uncle learned from his stupidity and changed, but the other 3 didn't get the chance to learn from it
@@hailyjohnson407 Sounds like Uncle is plain lucky to be alive.
Story 5: by the childishness I would've thought the sons were actual children.
It would have saved them a lot of trouble instead of fighting with the driver just putting on a seatbelt being near 20s they should have known better that seat belts actually save more lives then take lives it's a lot safer to have a seatbelt on than not and it's not just buckle it up behind you it has to be around you well you will get hefty tickets since the 90s they haven't been playing around with the seatbelt thing back in the 80s they didn't care if you wore seat belts or not since then they put laws on the book where you have to have a seatbelt or you will be heavily fines
In some cases the offending passengers get ticketed as well as or instead of the driver, but that depends on circumstances and where it happens.
Even to the first argument, "Dad is OK with it!", I'd have reacted, "He might be, but neither I nor the police are. My car, my rules. Either you follow them or get out!"
@@ruthgar9753 my country is like that, if the person without a belt is legally an adult, they get the ticket and the spot on their traffic violation record.
If they are minors, it's on the driver, and it's a 150-200€ ticket/person without a belt.
S5: My mum hated anybody kids playing in our yard when they had their own, and ours was fenced. She would just go and put the sprinkler on the lawn, smile sweetly and just say time to water...it wasnt, meanwhile, we had beautiful front yard lol.
Story 5: Uhm, I'm not sure if it's the same in Uhmerica, but in BC, Canada, if the passenger is 21 or over, they get the ticket instead of the driver for not wearing a seatbelt. But OP did the right thing.
Source: passenger got such a ticket while riding in my car.
Sweden have the same thing but it's 15 and above
Conference meal story reminded me of something my grandpa did while at a hy-vee. We both had to use the restroom, but I was the only one who washed my hands. Then, on our way out right after using the restroom, my grandpa shoves his unwashed hands into an open display container of peanuts...
Speaking as a female who would be called a tomboy. We can do what we set our minds to. Don't let them talk down to you. They are just wrong.
Agreed. As an old fart thinking back on the relationships I've had over the decades (including my current wife) the ones with women who could be called "tomboys" were the most rewarding and interesting. I guess I just find strength, resilience and self confidence to be more attractive traits in a woman than learned helplessness.
when I was younger I found playing with boys more fun. maybe it was my male friends and three older brothers that seem to have more fun than my female cousins and sister. and I was called a dike but I learn as I grown up that I was straight as an arrow when it came to relationships. thinking of having zex with my another female was a laugh to me and hell if I wanted to see a female body just look at myself in a mirror.
That is the second seat belt story I have heard in as many days.
I taught my grandkids the importance of seat belts as soon as they were old enough to get out of them by themselves (we allowed it on the private road leading home), and try to goof around in the back seat. When we would get to our drive, at about 5 MPH, I would pop the brake quickly and it was usually enough to toss them off the seat.
Me: "And that is why..."
Them: "we wear seat belts!"
It was a bit of a joke to them but we have never had a problem with them wearing them everytime.
Happy fluff day
Unfenced yards are completely mind boggling to me. I've never lived anywhere without fenced yards.
People I know only have a back fence, not a fully enclosed fenced yard. Many of the neighbors only have partially fenced in yards. It honestly depends on where you live.
OP in Story Six was definitely in the right. I don't drive but if I did, I wouldn't even start driving until I heard every seat belt click. That would be one of my personal laws for my car.
I loved the last one. Good job on OP for telling her mom off for her entitled behavior.
The first time you get in my car I tell you the rules. You WILL wear a seatbelt the entire time the car is engaged. You will follow the rules of the driver. You will not touch the environmental controls nor the sound controls without permission of the driver. If you do not follow the rules you will be left in a safe place to make a phone call.
My brother once told some friends that yes, I would put HIM out if he didn’t follow my rules.
Me too, my car, my rules. I don't bluff, I WILL put you OUT!
@@blondienhouston4825 My first car was a 1963 Pontiac Catalina convertible. My next door neighbor would always jump in when I had to go somewhere. The first thing he would do is change the radio station from Country to Rock, then turn it wide open. I salvaged a FM tuner from a damaged eight track tape player and hid it in the glove compartment. I fed the audio into the radio, at the volume control, so all you could do was turn it on and set the volume. He was yelling, "You're radio is broke! I laughed and said, "It sounds OK to me! 😁
@@michaelterrell ohhhh, I remember 63 pontiacs 🥰 yes I'm an old fart! 🤪 (and 8 tracks)
@@blondienhouston4825
I would climb over the fender of that '63 Catalina to stand beside the engine to change spark plugs or do other work. You could lay in the trunk, crosswise ant not touch either side.
I was knocked sideways by a Rainbow Bread truck one day. It shoved me two lanes to the left and into the curb, without damage. The paint job was only weeks old and didn't even have a scratch. It was in storage at my dad's house went I went into the US Army. (26T20)
My brother in law swiped the keys to my dad's garage, and to that car. He went hunting in id, with his dogs in the back seat and tore it up. Then he 'tuned it up' which it didn't need. The jackass replaced the distributor cap which was new, and got the plug wires out of order. The dumb ass drove it that way until it destroyed the engine a few hours later.
My family sent it to the junkyard before I got home and they didn't tell me.
If he had done this to my prized red 1966 GTO, I would have happily killed him. I had bought it with two rods knocking and a damaged crankshaft. I rebuilt the engine and shoehorned a Turbohydro 400 three speed automatic transmission into it to replace the two speed Powerglide. I had to have a custom driveshaft made. It was just 26 inches long. I modified the two speed shifter to work with it, but left the two speed indicator on the center console. It would scare the crap out of a passenger when it shifted the second time.
I worked in Electronics before serving. I had modified the rear deck for a pair of 6x9 speakers and made a new liner to cover them so it looked stock. I bought a newer Delco AM/FM stereo radio and parts to make it look stock in the car. I also found the OEM eight track but I needed some parts to repair it.
I had that car at Ft Rucker in the early '70s. I had a guy in my company with an early Z28, and all we heard was, "When I get my 'Z' out of the speed shop, I'm going to blow all your shit away!" He would laugh at my GTO because, "It takes an expert to soup up a car!" I easily beat him with only four cylinders, then he tried to give me the title. I told him that I didn't want a car that I had beat with half an engine. He sold it two days later for half of what he had spent on it. Never piss off an Engineer!
My brother in law was a real Mama's boy, and useless. He pretended to be a tough ass, but I was in the same grade as he was and I knew better.
I took down the Captain of out football team one day at the end of Gym class when I was in the tenth grade. Anyone on that team scared the shit out of him. The guy swung an army laundry bag full of his football gear at me. I grabbed it, swung in a full circle and hit him so hard that he slid almost 20 feet across the slick floor. Thee was on his back as I stomped over to him and yelled, "You better be glad that you didn't piss me off!" Then I slammed the bag down on his gut. I looked at the stunned teacher and about sixty boys and yelled, "OK, who is next?" The bell rang just then. I had almost sixty 'stooges' fighting to get out doors that opened in. 😁
When I did get home from Active Duty he had a new Corvette that he would park at the end of our walkway to our back door. I needed to park my GMC Handivan there after work so that I could carry my tools in. He constantly said, "Oh, I forgot!" I finally told him that I had a gallon of gelled paint stripper that I was going to spread over it, the next time that he 'forgot'. He yelled, "But it's a Corvette!" I replied, "It is just a piece of plastic crap." and walked away. Amazingly, he never 'forgot' after that. 😁
I once had someone try to cash out on a conference I attended.
When the Host asked if I could vouch for him, I turned to the bloke and said "Let me see your 3822"
He had no idea what that was and that was when I told him it was best to do some homework before you try to leech off an Air Force Conference..
Irony for the win!
Buffet story reminded me of my mom and how she doesnt like Golden Corral, a buffet restaurant where I live. I dunno if she personally SAW this happen, but I know that she DEFINITELY wouldnt finish eating if she saw.
Imagine if this is a recent story, yikes.
The pandemic has been a blessing to buffets in my province. Now, you just get a list of items and pick out what you want and can have plate after plate out of anything you want on the menu, as long as you finish what you ordered. Less waste, fresher food, and no gross things happening to the food.
Story 5: "He was just looking to see if you're home and say hi!"
With binoculars?! That's by far the creepiest way to say "hi" to your neighbor!
Happy Monday
Story 2: this is why self-serve buffets don't exist for the most part. My place was the opposite where you can order anything and the waiters will bring the already prepared food to you.
Hi darkfluff
Hey! Looks like we watch a lot of the same videos!
@@Loki-and-Thor Lol! Great minds think alike!
In that first story, even to the entitled sister's point that 'picking up the mail is included with keeping the house clean" doesn't fly. If it truly is included, and the OP already pays her $100 for keeping the house clean, then no, she doesn't owe her... because it's INCLUDED...
Story 1, op should have handed her the bills and told her she needs to pay 50%, and if she refused or (inevitability) complained, kicked her out. This would then give her the rights to rebuke any snide comments from her acquaintances.
I haven't eaten at a buffet for decades since I saw a child stick his hands in the mashed potatoes, lick his hands and stick it back in. I said ugh! And his mother said, " aw he's just a kid and he's hungry. Besides, we all have germs".
Keep in mind, this kid was like 9 or 10 yrs old. Old enough to know better and Old enough to wait until he got an actual plate. I was disgusted, never ate buffets again because you never know who did what to the food before you got there.
Story 2: After THIS?! More like after I read someone caught norovirus from a buffet. As much as I enjoyed buffets as a kid and teenager, I’ve heard a lot of horror stories as an adult. Knowing how gross people are, I’m surprised my parents ever agreed to go lol
Buffet story reminded me: Our small town grocery store put in a small salad bar about a year ago. It’s against the wall on one side so the items on that side can be difficult to reach from the side customers use. If I squat down a bit to get under the sneeze guard with my arm better, I can reach ok while still keeping my head above the sneeze guard. One day, as I approached it, a worker was there and she ‘informed’ me that ‘it’s easier to reach the back if you lift the glass part.’ I said, ‘you mean the sneeze guard?’ She had a confused look on her face so I went on. ‘That’s suppose to help protect the food from people breathing/coughing/sneezing germs onto the salad bar.’ I know it’s okay for employees to move it as they take care of the food but customers shouldn’t be moving it. This was just a couple weeks ago, as we’ve had more sickness in our community. I hope she stopped telling customers they can lift that up.
Forget not going to a self-serve buffet any more - I once saw a kid licking the top of the salt shaker at a random, unoccupied table a restaurant, sooooo yeah.... I bring my own salt and pepper nowadays.
One Solution for the neighbor's kid coming into your yard is to have lawn sprinklers installed. And "accidentally" turn on the sprinklers when they are in the yard.
Story 1 - OP was nuts to give the sister money for cleaning ..... or doing anything else while freeloading. Cleaning was a fair exchange for a roof over her head, food in her belly and a warm place to sleep. Yeah, no, OP was not out of place for putting out the sister.
During that entire seatbelt story, I thought the boys were little kids around 10-12 years old or something. To hear they were both in their 20s shocked me.
Same here. I was shocked when the OP drove off without them. But then later … oh yeah, that was the right thing to do.
I remember being on holiday with a buffet at a hotel, I went for some dessert and in front of me was a 8 to 10 year old kid by himself. He grabbed the spoon for the icecream tub and started scooping into his bowl but in between every scoop, he licked the ice cream off the spoon and put it back in. Uuuugh
If those jobs fell under the umbrella of keeping the house clean, then by her logic, shes not even owed more than $100 🤷♂️
The "art supply" dude was a total MOOCHER!!!
We used to go to a buffet pretty regularly. One of the workers from the kitchen came out of a stall and went directly back to the kitchen without washing her hands. Disgusting. I wished I'd complained to management. Instead I just let it go and didn't eat there afterwards.
Story 2: I once stopped at a chain pizza place in a mall food court. What I saw in the back just disgusted me. There was this overweight, sweaty chef in a dirty white tank and uniform pants, with most of his arm, nearly to the armpit, in a huge vat full of what looked like spaghetti/ pizza sauce, stirring it with his hand. I've never been able to get that picture out of my head, and it's been at least 30 years. I moved on quickly.
No matter HOW small the issue, you ALWAYS have to stand up to Karens! They continue the behavior BECAUSE they know that people will let them get away with stuff BECAUSE "it isn't worth fighting over/causing a scene"
... it's the same reason parents need to be consistent with their kids and not give in because the kids will throw a fit otherwise.
Actually, if you think about it, those kids have probably grown up to be the Karens. STAND FIRM, PEOPLE!!
"They just wanted to know if you were home to say hello". Aaaah yes, because using the doorbell is too advanced for a 7yo kid
I love how the 'kids' are 20/21.... that's a bloody adult!
Had to install security cameras at several of my apartment buildings due issues at them. Funny thing is we knew what tenants were doing the stuff that was causing us these problems. So we install the cameras in the common areas making sure to not focus on any apartments specifically or in a way to be able to see inside apartments. And wouldn't you know the problem tenants were the only one to complain about the cameras saying they were violating their privacy and one even tried to get a attorney to write us a cease and desist letter by not telling him the truth. So we just sent the attorney a picture showing how each camera was set up and where it was aimed. And the tenant had to pay the attorney for nothing and the cameras stayed. Hand one problem tenant moved out shortly after we set up the cameras.
Nice! Having the problem tenant out was probably worth much more than the cost of the cameras.
When working out of State, I would always get early for the complementary breakfast. After 2 or 3 days of only being able to get coffee, I was awake and downstairs too early for breakfast to start, they asked me what I would like. I told them coffee, cereal and milk. From then on, I always had those ready or almost ready by the time I got down there. Love being a nice guy to the workers.
The seatbelt story gave me the same impression that the boys were kids, i was surprised too when they were in their 20s.
Last story is definitely a "why don't they ever call" moment
You'd think that after being away from their daughter for all that time they'd have changed, but instead OP's mother goes right back to berating them without skipping a beat. Glad at least OP laid down the truth on her before she hung up
I was torn by that but maybe she's right. Long ago Mum went through a bad spot when Dad died.I was 11, she was 32. Later moved 2 disaster boyfriends in turn into our house when we were teens & gave them the run of it. My sister is a stubborn cow and I still remember how Mum temporarily threw her out 16. Opened doors between the dining room & lounge. Mum: Sister do X for boyfriend. Sister: No. Closes door. Mum opens door. Mum: Sister you can leave. Sister: Fine. Family friends put her up. Those exact words & just 1 example. Mum grew up, profusely apologised & all's well for decades. But for a few years? Hell.
I also feel bad for Fred sister and mother for having to put up with OP family asking Constantly for her information they lost her plain and simple they only have themselves to blame if they had treated her with some respect things may have turned out differently
I loved the buffet story and have one of my own. I went to Tampa with two friends for a fun weekend at Busch Gardens. We went to a local Chinese buffet and there was a line forming at the sushi station as the freshly made sushi was brought out. I was second in line behind this woman who picked up the entire tray and took it to her table. About 20 people in line looked on and we're fuming. I turned and looked at them and smiled.
I walked over to her table and got sushi off of the tray that I wanted. She told me that I was incredibly rude! I said "and now you know how it feels when you took the whole tray to your table!". People that were in line behind me were in tears laughing and lined up behind me getting the sushi off the tray they wanted too. Several gave her a piece of their mind while they did it!
My friends who were sitting at our table watching the whole thing we're laughing so hard tears were streaming down their face. They said "We were wondering what you were going to do when she walked off with that whole tray. We thought you were going to walk over pick it up and take it back!". I said "You should never bring food back to the buffet that's been taken off, that's not sanitary. Besides, it was much better for her to have to face each and every person that she rudely denied as a teachable life lesson moment. Bet she will think twice about doing that again so I feel that I have done my good deed for the day!"