Hey Reddit, what is the rudest thing you've ever seen anyone do?

Yserbius · 1 year

My mom was waiting in line by the check in counter for a flight. Two 14 year old ran up, looked at the huge line and tried to cut in front. One kid made it and my mom moved her suitcase to block the second kid. The first kid starts motioning and shouting to his friend. The kid next to my mom shouts back, "I would but this stupid ***** isn't letting me".

twinspop · 1 year

Aug 2001. Boarding a Southwest cattle-call flight. We were about 1/3 down from the front. We're in the tube and we hear commotion behind us. A pair of women are pushing passed everyone. No one's stopping them. My brother-in-law and I look at each other and think the same thing: fuck them. So, together with our wives, we make a wall, blocking their access to cut any more.

The pair arrive behind us and start yelling various obscenities at us. "You can wait in line like everyone else," I said. I was in an orange shirt and I shave my head. She looks at me and says "you! you probably just escaped from prison!" I guess that passes for smack. The 2 of them banter back and forth in their native tongues, before cursing at us some more.

They're still going at it as we get into the cabin. We get seated. As they pass by, she looks at my wife and shouts "And your wife! She doesn't even have any breasts! Hardly a woman!" (My wife just laughs.) Some more back and forth, but they eventually find seats further back.

About 2 minutes later a flight attendant stops at our chairs to ask what was going on. We tell her, the people behind us nod their heads. A few moments later the two women were escorted by us on their way off the plane.

We got free drinks on the flight. "everything went better than expected"

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IAreSeriousCat · 1 year

This probably isn't the rudest thing - that dubious honor probably goes to whoever dropped trou and took a pretty large shit on the floor of my store's bathroom - but it's up there.

A couple of years ago I was working as a barista at a bookstore cafe. One weekend I tore up my foot playing with my goddaughter, so I ended up on crutches. Running a busy espresso bar is actually pretty physical work for a food service job, so my coworkers and I decided that I would sit on a bar chair behind the counter and run the cash register.

So. I'm sitting on my chair and a woman comes up to order her drink. I take her order and tell her that [Coworker] will have her drink up in a minute. She gave me the nastiest look and said "why can't you just make it now?" I opened my mouth to explain, and she cut me off. "I don't want to hear any excuses for your laziness, I just want my drink." Keep in mind that, while I had grown tired of explaining my injury to every single customer about a day and a half earlier, my crutches were still clearly visible behind the counter.

I am an experienced enough retailer to know how to handle these situations in the most personally satisfying way. I put on my best Contrite Servant face, said "yes, of course Ma'am, I'm very sorry, I'll make it for you right away," grabbed my crutches and struggled laboriously to my feet. "It'll just take a second, why don't you sit down and wait? I'll call your name when it's ready." The look on her face was absolutely priceless.

Turns out that it's really hard to make a blended coffee drink and hold your crutches in place, so I actually did have to put weight on my foot. It really hurt, so my wincing as I handed her the drink was genuine. She looked thoroughly embarrassed - probably because she noticed the three or four regulars giving her the evil eye - and she didn't even apologize before booking it out of the store, never to be seen again.

heffocheffefer · 1 year

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sol1 · 1 year

I'm clearly late to the game and doubt this will get read, but this was the most rude/awesome event I've witnessed. I was driving to work and got in line to make a left turn behind a brand new red BMW M3 convertible with the top down. The light's red and while we're waiting this guy proceeds to throw his soda cup out the window into the bushes in the median followed by at least two fast food bags and a handful of what looked like gum wrappers. I was fuming, but it was a guy in an old, beat-up minivan that had pulled on the right of the M3 at the light that had the last laugh. He took his own, what looked like a 64oz Super Big Gulp cup, took the top off and splashed the soda into the convertible, threw the cup at the Bimmer driver and sped off when the light turned green. Greatest environment justice I've ever witnessed.

Edit: grammar

michal77 · 1 year

It was last year at one of the smaller London airports (Luton or Stansted, I don't remember). The queue to the security check-in (metal detector gates) was very long, doubling back on itself 10 times or more, in total it was about 30 minutes wait.

Everybody was waiting patiently, except those three German guys. They passed under the ropes and forced themselves into the queue about 5 persons from the checkpoint, just before me. When I politely admonished them (is this the right word? sorry, I'm not a native English speaker), I was told to fuck off. That was enough.

They went through the metal detector and one of them was being patted down by security officer while two other were waiting. I called quietly one of the officers at my side of the gate and told him that I know German a little bit, and heard that those three guys were talking about hiding something well to get it through the security.

20 seconds later they were taken away for questioning and, I hope, for a little bit of good old anal probing. Don't know what happened next. I was simultaneously a little bit ashamed of my action, and very content with the outcome.

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Edmuresay · 1 year

First thing that opped into my head.

After getting my first traffic ticket I had to go to traffic court. I was a minor, so I had to have my dad with me. My dad is a very punctual person, and for this court day we got up extra early to be the first people in line.

Anyways, were the first in line waiting patiently and by this time the line has grown to be very large. This old woman and her husband slowly walk up (in view of everyone) and just casually cut everyone in line.

Me being introverted and rather shy did not say anything, however, I can see my dad get instantly pissed. He goes (rather loudly), "Excuse me, lady. This is America. And in America WE STAND IN LINES. Now get to the back of the line where you belong." She gets this shocked look on her face and says, "You're an ASS!" to my father. My father replies, "I'm an honest ass. Back of the line."

I was incredibly embarassed but then a bunch of people clapped for my dad and completely embarassed the shit out of that old lady. I guess my dad just had the stones to put into words what everyone in that line was thinking.

ShrimpCrackers · 1 year

In China, many toddlers wear butt-less pants so they just shit anywhere as opposed to using diapers like in more developed nations. The worst was during a moving bus where the mom popped open the window, stuck the ass of her child out, and the kid proceeded to poop out the window. Still stunk up the bus.

obelisk45 · 1 year

The last time I told a couple in a theater to please be quiet, the girl flipped me off and the guy tried staring me down. When it continued I got up and left to get a manager (I payed $12 to see this movie and dammit I will see it). I barely made it out the door when I hear a "Hey!" turned around, and the guy (of the relationship) got in my face, shoved me, and told me how I shouldn't be making trouble for him and his girl.

An usher saw it happen and told the guy to leave or she'd call the cops. The guy goes to get in her face when his girlfriend comes out and throws a bitch fit about how I am ruining the movie for her and doing nothing but causing her and her boyfriend troubles. "We just wanted a good date night!", "How dare you!" etc etc.

The usher left to get the manager, who told the couple they had to leave and that he was calling the cops (he pulled out his cell phone and everything).

In the end, they left and I got a refund plus a pass for a free movie for my troubles.

jammbin · 1 year

I was waiting for the bus one day which was notoriously packed in the morning for people trying to get to campus. There was a blind girl waiting with her dog and her cane so it was very clear that she was blind. When the bus pulled up everyone started rushing around her and trying to get on the bus first and she was just kind of standing there moving her cane around while people were stepping over it and in front of her.

I moved behind her and told her she could get on the bus, and the driver asked if someone could give up their seat for her. Everyone just sat with their iPods in or looking at the ground. I was still standing behind her and she was feeling around for a seat that someone might have gotten up from. Finally some girl freaked out because she touched her arm and ran to the back of the bus.

I just couldn't believe all of those people cut her in line and wouldn't give her their seat, and that they weren't talking or trying to help. They were just in their own worlds not wanting to be 'inconvenienced.' It also really bothered me that no one SAID anything to her to help her out, she was blind, not deaf! I wanted to punch every person in the face. If I had been that girl I would have just started hitting people with my cane, but she was so patient.

Applesauces · 1 year

The rudest thing I've done:

I was sitting outside my apartment building smoking a cigarette when a random overweight guy walking into the building carrying a McDonalds bag and tells me:

"You know smoking causes heart disease right?"

Considering I was in a pretty bad mood i shot back.

"You know else causes heart disease? Being really fat."

jpodster · 1 year

I went to a climbing area with some friends in my brand new car.

On the way in the police stopped us and asked us if we were attending the 'Prom Party'. Not being locals and it being maybe 10 or 11 am we were surprised. We parked and were surprised to see some guys, too old to be going to prom, already partying. We ignored them and went climbing.

At the end of the day, maybe 5:00 pm we headed back to the car. As we passed the guys they start yelling at us, telling us to 'go back to the flats' and stuff much more crude. We were in BC, my car had Alberta plates but all three of us had moved from Ontario not 2 months prior.

We got to the car and could smell urine. The assholes had pissed up and down my car on all of the door handles. The rage I had was nearly uncontrollable.

What was I supposed to do? There were more of them then us and they were drunk. I'm still pretty angry when I think about this.

jamesiscoolbeans · 1 year

I was skiing at Killington a few weekends ago; my friend and I were in line waiting to get on the chairlift. We were almost next to get on, when I hear some lady behind me declare "We're next." I figure she can't be talking to us, because, she was behind us. Then she holds her ski pole up in front of my face and yells "I SAID we're next". The only comeback I had at the time was to smugly say "I don't speak english", which was perfect because she then started yelliing / having a mini hissy fit, screaming "YES YOU DO!!!!!", to which I replied "You don't know me!!"

Not by any means the rudest, but that lady sure was a bitch for not wanting to wait an extra 15 seconds for a chairlift.

fquested · 1 year

Spadina streetcar in Toronto. Streetcar is packed with little old chinese ladies, mothers with kids etc. Then University students start getting on. Two young morons get on and stand right at the front. When a mother in front of them gets up to leave the streetcar, they ignore all the elderly people nearby and take the seats. THEN these two guys start insulting all the 'chinks' and 'gooks', talking about people as if they couldn't hear or understand them. A very large black man moves to the front of the bus and looms over them. You can see them thinking a certain N word, but this guy was BIG, and you could see they thought better of using it, but were making unsubtle comments about fat people, etc. Big guy leans forward and they flinch, but he's just grabbing the stop indicator. They know they flinched, so start talking more trash. Big black guy turns his back to them and let loose with the vibrating ass cheeks for 7 seconds or so, and then got off the streetcar. Their faces were hilarious, and quite a few people were laughing at them.

tl;dr big guy farted on two douchebags on public transit.

soothslayer · 1 year

Someone threw a half-full beer can at a guy in a wheelchair at the chili cook-off. Neither I nor the guy in the chair saw who threw it. I was staring in amazement because I couldn't believe what just happened. The guy in the chair saw me, thought I did it, and wanted to fight. That was a pretty surreal couple of minutes.

suprxtragrav · 1 year

There is this douche at the library at school who always uses the same stall, and when he does, he covers the seat with like half a toilet paper roll, and pisses all over it when he is finished, and does not clean up. Oh and he doesn't flush, either. So basically the stall is out of commission for the rest of the day until some poor janitor has to clean it up.

I see this almost every day. For any redditors who go to the university of alberta, check it out: Cameron library 4th floor Mens.

sw17ch · 1 year

This isn't all that rude, but I find it funny:

My wife and I were making dinner last October. We have a large window over the kitchen sink facing the street. We have it open since it's a nice day. Any way, we live in a small college town and one of the local students is walking past the house.

He pulls out a 12oz can of Miller Light from his pocket (pocket beer, wtf?). Before telling the next detail, it's important to note he's walking by himself. He takes said 12oz can, pulls out his keys and jabs a nice hole in the bottom portion of the can's side wall. He then proceeds to shotgun the whole thing. Remember, he was alone... perhaps showing off to himself?

Any way, he then looks left, then right, then dumps the can in my yard.

I'm pissed, what does this jackass think he's doing? My more courageous self is trying to get the sissy side of me to yell something out the window. Well, my wife picks up here: "HEY!", she yells. The can-dropper FROZE. "PICK IT UP!"

Realizing he was caught, does an apologetic wave at the window, picks up the can, scuttles down the road...AND DUMPS IT IN MY NEIGHBOR'S YARD.

Any way, don't be a jerk. My wife is not a good person to get on the wrong side of. :)

Soylent_Veal · 1 year

Went out with a small group of friends for a birthday and ended up spending somewhere between $60-90 across the table. One of the people in our little group didn't have any cash so everyone gave him the price of their meal + a generous tip (we had received excellent service) in cash and he put the entire meal on his credit card.

This fellow then proceeded to mark out the tip area on the CC card receipt and leave a $5 bill as a tip. This was after everyone else had given him enough extra cash to easily tip 20% without putting in any of his own money above the cost of his meal.

I was so flabbergasted that I didn't even say anything, just locked eyes with him and laid my last $10 bill on top of the $5 he was leaving for the tip. I didn't know a redhead could turn that red with embarrassment before.

Might not be the rudest thing I've seen, but it was the first to jump to my mind. I've always considered it a sign of someone's personality on how well they treat people in a "lower" position than themselves (employees, waiters/waitresses, children, pets, etc).

whyihatepink · 1 year

About ten years ago, I got to visit Europe with some friends and a professor. One of the friends grew up pretty wealthy, and got pretty much anything he asked for. At the time, Oakleys were all the rage, and extremely expensive ($200-300 a pop iirc). This guy managed to lose his, and had his parents send him money for new ones, not once, but twice. So after this guy has dropped $600 on sunglasses within a week, he had the audacity to tell us he didn't have enough money for his meal after he'd already eaten it- he also ordered a ton of really expensive food. So everyone else is forced to fork over our own money to pay for his meal. When we got back to the hotel he thanked us for the "gift", and declined he owed us any money, since it was a friendly favor. Clearly.

pityh00r · 1 year

On the bus some teen mom comes on with a bunch of bags and a massive stroller filled with crap (and a baby) and starts giving the dirtiest looks to a woman sitting in the front courtesy seats. After the woman doesn't acknowledge her, teen mom says "Ummm.. can you MOVE PLEASE?!" and the woman looks incredibly startled and mumbles an apology and reaches for her walking stick. Yep. She was blind. It was awful. The teen mom looked embarrassed but also didn't back down and apologize and forced the blind woman to move to a different seat. Others sitting closer helped her out as teen mom's crap was all over the place.

friendlyfire · 1 year

Couples with entitlement issues who bring babies to LOUD MOVIES at the theater. And then refuse to take them out of the theater or keep them quiet when they cry.

I sat through Wolfman and a baby was crying through half of it. Everytime there was a loud/action part the baby started crying. I was nearly ballistic. Some people yelled at them to shut it up and they yelled back. I really should have gone and gotten a manager, but I didn't want to take 5-10 minutes out of watching the movie to go complain.

I've done it in the past though.

virtueandwine · 1 year

Mine is similar to yours.. I was young and at swim practice, an Asian man was dropping his two daughters off at the pool for practice as well. This woman in a tank of an SUV was annoyed at him for stopping in front of the entrance (he was seriously there for maybe a minute) and yelled "GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, CHINAMAN!" In front of his children and everything.. I remember being embarrassed and appalled :(

TheBigPanda · 1 year

I live in China and the Chinese have no sense of privacy (I am gonna leave all the cultural background and reasoning behind on this one). Every single time I go to the cinema people will talk loudly into their phones often for 10-15 mins while the movie is running. If they arrive more than one you can also be certain that at least 5-6 couples in the theatre will have a running conversation during 90 percent of the movie. They can also be extremely rude in daily life. My friends pregnant girlfriend overheard being referred to as a "fat cow" several times during her pregnancy by random people she passed on the street. They openly talk about you in Chinese not giving a damn if they think you can hear/understand them and pointing you out to their friends and children if they see you on the street. It usually goes something like this. "Look! A foreigner! Over there!" (gesticulating wildly towards me). His 2 friends will stop and stare at me until I've walked past them. Then they'll go "He's so fat!" "All foreigners are fat", "And did you see his nose? So big", "His hair was strange", "They are all strange. Foreigners can't learn Chinese either", "Ah, so he can't understand us?", "No,, they are fat and stupid" (laughing). The concept of queuing is unknown here in China as well. EVERYTIME I am waiting to pay for something some guy or girl will run to the teller and throw the stuff he wants on the desk. The weirdest thing is that the clerk always let them do that.

Codeegirl · 1 year

I was at an outdoor free concert, right up front in my wheelchair. Some drunk lady decided that instead of going around/behind me to get to the other side, she'd step ON my lap and over me.

[deleted] · 1 year

Working at a pharmacy brings up the ugly side of people, especially when they're at drive-thru, they assume that a window separating us means that they can act like total assholes, swearing and flipping us off for inconvenience.

Then there are the impatient twats who constantly honk their horn while I'm helping someone. Instead of coming into the damn pharmacy to pick up their medication, they would call the pharmacy while in line at the drive thru and yell at whoever picks up the phone. This one lady actually said something along the line of "You guys need to compensate me like what McDonalds would do when they make their customers wait too long."

There are numerous instances where people start punching the bullet-proof window with their fist out of anger, this other lady parked her car in drive thru for 2 whole hours while spouting racist tirade just because her doctor won't authorize her anymore refills. She thought that blocking drive thru would make things inconvenient for us (unfortunately for her we got other tasks finished). Half the time the customers get mad, it isn't even our fault, it's either the doctor or insurance company and we're the punching bag. Working at a pharmacy in the US pretty much turned me into a misanthropist :/

Gurupup · 1 year

Reddit, was this rude? 20 years ago when I was in the first grade there was a child in a wheelchair in my class. This kid was MEAN! He would purposely run over the other kids feet, throw things, curse at us, and destroy our projects. (OK so he probably had some emotional issues but he was still a bully) Since I was a good student the teacher sat him next to me and asked me to help him when I could. And I really did try but he was always rude. One day while I was in the bathroom he took out scissors and cut up my favorite troll folder. MY FAVORITE! When I got back and saw it I flipped. I pushed all his books off his desk and told him to pick them up himself. He started shaking his fist at me and saying, "Why I otta, I otta..." And I shouted, "What are you gonna do? RUN after me?" The teacher saw this and I was sentenced to 2 weeks of "sensitivity" training. Nothing happened to him. I'm still pissed.

ElwoodDowd · 1 year

I work I.T. in schools, and one day at one of our schools, the following occurred:

I was installing a Smartboard with another technician in a classroom while two teachers (that classroom's teacher, a younger man, and a music teacher, an older lady from a different school in our district) chatted about their work.

Ignoring the two, we started work at 3:45 or so, just after the kids let out, and a few minutes later an announcement came over the school's speaker system "Could the owner of the vehicle blocking the wheelchair ramp please move their vehicle."

My coworker and I look at each other, the young teacher looks at us judgmentally, and I tell my coworker that I'll go make sure it isn't us.

It wasn't and we get back to work. We finish putting the board and projector up at a few minutes to five, but during the install every five minutes the following messages are sent over the intercom (times are approximations):

• 4:00 - "Could the owner of the vehicle blocking the wheelchair ramp please move their vehicle." In an angrier tone.

• 4:05 - "There is a dark blue SUV blocking the wheelchair ramp, can you please move your vehicle."

• 4:10 - "We have a staff member who is disabled and needs to use the ramp to get home. Can the owner of the SUV please..."

• 4:15 - "We have a staff member who is bound to a wheelchair, can the owner of vehicle with the license plate number ###-### move their SUV."

• And so on until five, with increasing detail and anger.

At 4:57, packing up our tools, there is an announcement where the secretary just didn't care anymore and just yelled the message as if scolding a child.

The old teacher on our classroom, who has been chatting about her work with a giant smile on her face for over an hour stands up and scoffs: "Oh, I'm sure I left enough room." and leaves the classroom to move her car.

I was mad about this for days.

rayray21 · 1 year

Headed to the DMV at lunch one day. Had just stopped off at Jamba Juice and purchased a large carrot juice. Pull up to stoplight and must make a u-turn to reach my final destination. There are two turn lanes, so I chose the outside lane so that after my u-turn, I don't have to switch lanes. (inside lane is u-turn ONLY, outside lane is left turn OR u-turn)

It's a warm summer afternoon, so I have my window down, carrot juice in hand. Woman from the inside turn lane (remember - u-turn ONLY) decides that she is only going to make a left turn - not a u-turn and forces herself into my lane and narrowly avoids the front end of my car. It forces me to make a left turn as well and we end up on the road next to each other.

My first concern was "Oh my god - I almost just got in an accident". That was, until the woman rolled down her passenger window and proceeded to yell at me for getting in her way. She rolled her window up quickly and gave me the finger.

I think the best part of the whole ordeal was the expression on her face when she saw just how well a large cup of carrot juice can coat her entire car with a lovely shade of orange.

[deleted] · 1 year

There was always this old black guy in a wheelchair I used to see while driving to school on MLK. He had no legs, always just rolling up and down the street. One day I was driving and I saw a bunch of youths surrounding the guy, and they had a camera. They pulled him off his wheelchair and let him slump to the ground, filming him and pushing him back off as he was trying to get back into it. I was so angry I wanted to stop them myself, but I was too scared so I just called the cops on them instead. I still regret not having more courage to stand up to them myself but I knew at 4'11'' I wouldn't stand a chance. Not rude I guess, but definitely the cruelest I've seen.

crummydustbunny · 1 year

I was at a mcdonalds and I had just finished ordering. I fell to the back of the store, waiting, and watching the other hungry guests eagerly fall into que waiting to place their orders. It was fairly busy, with about 10 people waiting to order. It was a weekday. I noticed an elderly white male, I mean OLD. Cane, hunch, and all. He had a mcflurry in his hand, and he seemed to be trying to return it. I couldn't hear them from afar, but then the old man suddenly spoke up... 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T RETURN IT?' The young black girl looked shook up, giving him condolences that from afar I could not make out. The old man spoke again: 'WHY DO THEY LET BLACKS EVEN WORK?!' He took the top off his mcflurry, raised it high in the air, turned it upside down and slammed it onto the counter making a huge mess and getting all over the girl and the counter.

Everyone in the store fell silent, the old man just strolled away and the girl retreated to the back room, as the manager and her co workers cleaned up the mess.

Syphon8 · 1 year

I was swimming with one of my friends when I was 11 or 12 at the local pool when some kid I've never seen before swam up to us, and started insulting us. Speaking lewdly of our mothers and such. We swam away.

He found us. Repeat.

3 movements later, I started to swim, but turned around and gave him a black eye. 20 minutes later, I saw him crying at the side of the pool, icing his eye. I doubt he continues to insult strangers.

Hesparian · 1 year

When I was a Freshman in High School, there was a guy name Nate who was a year younger than me. Before I got my first car we rode on the same bus. During this year Nate's mother committed suicide by shooting herself with a pistol. Nate, was excused from school for two weeks to grieve with his family and resumed school, instead, after five days. Ladies and gentlemen of Reddit, on Nate's first day back, the bus ride home was noisy as usual and Nate sat alone as usual. Until a mindless classmate of his, without thought directed a " Your Mom" joke/comeback to him personally. Nate started crying, and slowly stood up and stood above his classmate, just staring as tears rolled down his face. Without missing a beat the same kid raises his voice and says very sarcastically and mockingly, " Ohhh, yeah that's right..." and proceeds to stick his two fingers ( pointer and middle) into his mouth, imitating a gun, made a loud explosion sound and puffed out his cheeks, as if the gun went off inside his mouth. And then proceeded to whiplash back from the blast and fall to the seat. That day, every student on that bus, watched a smaller, younger and weaker Nate violently thrash this boy's head against the bus window as he screamed and cried.

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pdclkdc · 1 year

driving to work every day. somedays i'm the asshole, somedays it's everyone else. most days it's probably both.

creepyredditloaner · 1 year

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flexxilexi · 1 year

Maybe not the rudest thing, but on the subway in Boston I'd regularly see young, able-bodied people grabbing the "Please leave this seat available for the elderly or disabled" seating. Headphones on. Surrounded by little old ladies with canes or heavily-pregnant women.

I can be a bitch, so I'd routinely ask them if they'd mind giving up their seat for someone in greater need.

*I realize not everyone who appears able-bodied is able-bodied, but 9 times out of 10 the person would look sheepish and stand up. That other 1 time, they'd tell me to fuck off.

Edited to add that I offered up my seat to anyone who looked like they needed it more than I did. I'm not a complete asshole.

hammah · 1 year

A lot of people walk by my house, often with dogs, to get to a trailhead at the end of my street. As you can imagine I get stuck picking up a lot of dog crap from ignorant/rude pet owners.

I watched a lady stop to let her dog crap on my lawn and then start to walk away. I asked her if I could get her a plastic bag to pick it up but she basically ignored me and kept going.

I bagged it myself, jumped in my car and went looking for her. I saw her a few blocks away going towards her front door, stopped in front of her house, tooted my horn and yelled to her that she had forgotten something "back there". I then threw the bag at her house where it basically exploded against the wall next to her head.

Man that felt good!

dahv · 1 year

Many things Chinese (I live on the mainland) do seem incredibly rude to Westerners, but are normal to them. Cutting in line, shouting louder than someone else to get the attention of a service worker, etc.

My rudest story: I was at the grocery and had some oranges and bananas to weigh (in large Chinese groceries your produce is weighed and priced before you go to the checkout counter). The service attendant had weighed the oranges, and I was in the motion of handing him the bananas, when an old lady next to me threw her produce directly onto the scale.

Now, in China, when someone cuts you, you have about a second to react and claim your spot, or else the attendant will serve the cutter.

But in this instance I was so shocked I said nothing. I just looked over at this old lady. Even by Chinese standards, she was being rude. The scowl on her face told me that she was in bad mood, or just didn't like foreigners, or both.

tl;dr Some old Chinese lady "produce blocked" me.

redsundance · 1 year

I used to be a server at Macaroni Grill in a city where it was probably the nicest restaurant; so the customers we had acted like they were in a five star restaurant, demanding the same level of service. Usually this wasn't an issue, I was a good server and was never really overwhelmed, we had a good staff that helped each other out so even if things got tough I could just ask.

So as a Server Developer, I was the lead on large parties. This one time a party of 30 came in and sat what we called the 'champagne room'. The leader of the group, a small middle aged man, balding, overweight and outspoken, came up to me and introduced himself. I thought, how nice, someone with manners, and continued serving them.

Now the issue came up when the entire group of 30 needed their salads sent out and their drinks refilled, I had my partner on the table start refilling their drinks while I took out the salads five at a time on a tray. Knowing the middle aged man was the reason for the meal I served he and his wife their plates first, he kindly asked me for a roll-up [silverware] as he didn't have one. Of course, I said, I'll bring it out when I have all the salads out.

Now at this moment, one of the few kids in the group knocked over their drink all over the table, my partner went to clean it up and I refilled the remaining drinks and went back to the salad serving. When I was done with this, maybe three minutes later, I walk over to the macro station and grab a roll-up only to turn around and be facing the middle aged man.

He sticks his fat finger into my chest and jabs me with each word, 'I asked for silverware, how am I supposed to eat my salad without a fork, you idiot'. Being a tall guy, I kind of peer down at him and just hand him the roll-up in my hand, not saying anything. I follow him back to the table and ask if everyone is okay, everything is copacetic so I proceed to enter their orders into the macro.

This is a laborious process for such a large group with their own additions and subtractions to each plate, right as I am finishing up my manager comes up to me and tells me i'm off the table. Naturally I'm shocked, seeing as everything was fine, my manager tells me the middle aged man complained that I was rude and wasn't moving quick enough. Now this would be fine if it were true, but I had managed to get drinks and salads out to a group of 30 in less than 15 minutes after their arrival, that's good time by any measure.

Unfortunately my section was with the large table, so I had to serve the tables around this group. The first time I went back I heard him loudly exclaim, to my partner that had taken over the table, 'what happened to the other guy! did he retire? hahaha'

My partner didnt say anything but I turned around and smiled at him, 'no sir, i didnt retire, you asked that I stop serving your table'. He was silent, his wife and several other people looked at him with quizzical faces, his wife asks, 'why did you do that?', to which he had no answer.

So as the group was leaving this mans wife had him walk up to me, hand me $20 and apologize, it was a pretty nice ending to an otherwise shitty situation.

Unidan · 1 year

It was a few weeks ago in NY when it snowed pretty bad, so we were digging out a friend's car that is completely buried. We see this old lady trying to dig her car out with a windshield scraper, so we ask if we can help dig her car out.

"I guess," she mutters.

So the three of us, and her nice neighbor come and start digging her car out. It takes us like 15 minutes, all of us working pretty fast with huge shovels to dig her out. One of my friend's shovels breaks because the ice and snow are so tough. She gets in her car, doesn't say a word, and peels out, covering us in dirty snow, nearly hitting a friend of ours and leaves.

That bitch would still be digging her car out if we didn't stop to help.

log1k · 1 year

Not me, but my friend on facebook had this in her status the other day so I'll post it:

What is wrong with most of the mcmaster students I just rode the bus with? All sitting at the front and letting this extremely old man who can barely stand, stand? Me, being almost 9 months pregnant got up to give him my seat and a student rushed to take it who was getting off the next stop anyway! So rude

I'd fucking smack that kid if I were her.

MariBelle · 1 year

I was at the airport in Memphis and was about to walk into the bathroom. I noticed a woman following behind me and another woman following behind her. I walk in and the lady behind me turns around and tells the lady behind her "This is the woman's bathroom" to which the other one responded "I AM A WOMAN!" ha ha, I about died laughing. Granted, the woman in question did look "butch" but she had obvious womanly traits.

SisterNamedJan · 1 year

I was driving down a residential road when a car in front of me stopped to open his door and 'clean out his car' - IE throw empty water bottles and fast food bags onto the road. As soon as I started to drive around him, he hit the gas and drove two blocks at about 70 on a residential road just to prevent me from 'passing' him. And then he stopped again.

dingledog · 1 year

A horse sneezed on me at a state fair once.

Duke_the_Pancake · 1 year

My uncle had brain cancer, he survived it but it has made him clumsy and a bit feeble. In the church parking lot, on the way to the car with his daughter, he fell. Dozens of "Christians" walked right by and not one offered to help him. My uncle doesn't go to church anymore.

skintension · 1 year

During one of the car free days in Brussels, I was riding my bike about 10 meters behind a sweet elderly couple on old Dutch bikes. It was a lovely day out, the sun was shining, the city was quiet from the lack of cars, everyone was out having fun on their bikes.

As we cruised down Koningsstraat towards Botanique, we approached a group of Arab teenagers. One of them walked into the middle of the street and as the elderly couple swerved around him he spit right into the woman's face.

I almost took his head off with my u-lock but managed to contain myself. Pretty much ruined my day though. Fucking racists.

Sloloem · 1 year

When I was in high school I was in the marching band. We had to compete with the sports teams for use of the athletic field to practice. For a few weeks near the end of summer demand is very high between us, the football team, and the soccer team.

One day, the soccer team had gone over their allotted time and we were waiting by the bleachers near the gate in the fence to get onto the field after they'd left. The soccer moms were apparently not please we were cutting into their precious children's practice time and had the idea that we were being given undue favor by the administration (Our marching band had won state championships 15 years running at that point). As we stood there watching them funnel out through the gate and glare at us, one of the moms who was there with several younger children in addition to the player stuck out her foot tripped her own son and then as she helped the boy back up muttered very conspicuously "Damned Bandies!". She tried to convince the child he fell over some of our equipment on the ground.

miltonwaddams · 1 year

I had a friend ask me to fix his friend's computer. I did and returned it to my friend, I don't even know who's computer I fixed. I was with him later and some girl comes up and gives him a cake (french toast bacon cake, it was ridiculous). I say "what's the cake for?" and he gets quiet and the girl says "Oh, he fixed my computer!". It's not the rudest shit ever, but it just seemed so devious and shitty. I didn't say anything to her and neither did he.

deathdonut · 1 year

I was at a order-up-front style restaurant and a family of well-dressed people in front of me ordered food and a round of waters. They then went to fill their drinks and the teenage girl filled her waterglass with a soft drink and gave sort of a smirk.

I kept expecting the parents to say something, but rather than scold or even ignore her, they all filled up their water glasses with various soft drinks.

I waited for them to sit down before I went to their table and said "Don't worry, I'll pay for your drinks. We all go through rough financial times. I recently lost my job and totally understand." They just stared at me open-mouthed while I walked to the register, pointed them out and paid for 3 drinks.

bitwize01 · 1 year

Maybe not rudest, but most rage-inducing: When I was in college an abortion protester with a giant sign stuck her sign in my face and stood in front of me while I was walking. Basically A man-sized butchered fetus placed right in front of my face.

I ripped the sign out of her hands and broke the wooden prop over my knee. She started making a scene but the enraged death-glare I gave her made her back off.

[deleted] · 1 year

And yes, we did revolt against her. Someone gave her $20 and told her to get the fuck out.

$20? That taught her.

jhra · 1 year

When I was in high school I went to this music festival in a stadium, we were in pretty good seats but in front of us were a bunch of total assholes. One guy had a laser pointer and was flashing it around until he found a young kid that was fully strapped into a wheelchair Hawkings style. This asshole spent half an hour shining a fucking laser into the kids eye before some soccer dad looking guy confronted him. As the confrontation was going down the ass was shining the laser in the dad's eyes, then dad right hooked him and the whole crowd cheered him. A few minutes later the ass was arrested.

openglfan · 1 year

I hate getting to these things late but here goes anyway. In case anyone reads down to the bottom.

The day after I got married, my new wife and I were flying from Chicago to Maui. This is a 10 hour flight and we were looking forward to spending the day together. Well, it wasn't until we get on the plane that we realize that her seat is 34A and mine is 35G. Opposite sides of the plane (note, this was the airline's fault, I had reserved my seat correctly). We realize what's happening and go to the stewardess, who gives us the "that's too bad for you, but I can't help you" look that customer service reps love to use. She does however suggest we ask people around to give up their seats so we can sit together.

I turn to an older lady sitting next to me (she has the window) and say, "Excuse me. I don't normally do this, but I just got married yesterday, and the airline screwed up our tickets. Would you please mind moving over to the window seat on the other side of the plane so that we could sit next to each other?" This old lady turns to me and says, "No, it would be too disorienting."

I know she was in her rights to not give up her seat, but I wanted to shake her. Luckily the guy next to my wife never showed up so I got to sit with her anyways.

zap_rowsdower · 1 year

When my brothers and I were younger, my Mom used to organize 5k runs a couple of times a year through a civic organization she belonged to. My brothers and I would always work a water station, handing out glasses of water to runners as they passed by. I was probably 12, my brother 8, and a runner had just passed the water station and was headed up a hill. My 8 year old brother was shoved to the pavement by this guy as he passed simply because he was too close to him. Dick.

stealthname · 1 year

I was just in Shanghai. It didn't really surprise me how my perception of courtesy doesn't exist there, but still. Appalling how when the subway pulls up, everyone standing in front of the door will shove their way in and the people trying to get out just has to shove their way out. It got to the point where it was just satisfying to also shove people out of their way because they were just never taught to wait. Also, when a near empty train pulls in, everybody RUNS to the seats, and usually it's the old people who end up having to stand (so when they sneeze, they could do so in my face because covering one's mouth when coughing or sneezing also isn't the norm).

Say what you want about people in nyc being jerks, but we are a hell of a lot nicer than you think.

Hellokyochan · 1 year

I didn't see it but a nurse that was sent out from a hospice company to help care for my dying Grandmother instead stole her checkbook and cleaned out her bank account. It's one thing to steal from someone it's a totally different thing to steal from someone who is dying that you're supposed to be helping.

Luckily they caught her and another girl who actually cashed the check and they are going through court proceedings now.

JackNco · 1 year

I watch an italian man (I asume as I was in rome) push a woman with a pushchair back so he could get in the taxi she was getting in to and leave her in the mid day sun in July in Italy!

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