I'm in a terrible mood

"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
08/18/2014 at 22:37 • Filed to: RANTS

So my glasses broke. Frame sheared off right above the bridge. Da fuck? It gets worse

I'm blind as a bat without my glasses, so I keep an old pair in my glove box just in case I need them. I go to get them, and what do I find? A pretty nasty door ding on the passenger side door. Not one of those little 'if you look really closely you can see it' door dings, a sizeable dent in my fucking door that's easily noticeable from a few feet away. FUCK. THAT.

Seriously, this is going to sound childish, but that pisses me right the

fuck off. I take damn good care of my car. It's rarely dirty for more than a few days (pretty dirty right now, but I was out of town for the weekend. Going to wash it on Thursday). The fact that someone hit the door hard enough to leave a noticeable mark and just walked away is just ridiculous.

What annoys me even more is I didn't notice it til today, which makes me suspect it happened at work. If it did, seriously bro? My badge number is on the car. It would take literally 2 seconds to look up my email or get me on Lync and let me know. I don't even want reparation, shit happens, but man up and apologize.

Is that too much to ask? I don't want to exchange insurance information, I don't need your money, I just want you to reach out to me, even if it's just a note on the car, and say 'hey man, I accidentally hit your door. Really sorry about that'.

TL;DR: My glasses broke, and I discovered a nasty door ding on my car. Not sure which to be more angry about, not looking forward to paying to fix both. Rant over

DISCUSSION (22)

mcseanerson > Jayhawk Jake
08/18/2014 at 22:46

See that's the problem, people complained about people who only left notes before and now people won't even do that. It's like how food servers complain when they get small tips. I used to deliver pizzas and I only carried cash on me. I had change but I always left it in the car, in hopes that some people might be decent human beings and at least tip you the change if for no other reason to save you the hassle of walking back and forth to the car. Let me tell you how many scumbags had so little respect for my time that I was being compensated less than minimum wage while using my own gas I paid for and putting wear and tear on my car couldn't even let me keep thirteen fucking cents. Any time a waiter/waitress complains to me if a tip is less than two dollars I want to flip out. I would have been so grateful if fifty percent of my customers tipped me a dollar and the rest just let me keep the change, again just to save me the hassle of dealing with it.

Back to the original point, people aren't grateful for the little things and since nobody appreciates them society just keeps devolving to bigger and bigger assholes. Not saying you deserved any of this though, that guys an asshole.

That Darn Jackal > mcseanerson
08/18/2014 at 22:48

Aye. I know the pizza delivery struggle. Which is real. So very real.

pfftballer > Jayhawk Jake
08/18/2014 at 22:53

I have a story you may like. I work in a small office building, 1st floor is us, 2nd floor lawyers, 3rd floor is finance guys. Well, this 6 foot 5 big scary old guy is in the lawyer group and he strikes me as a real asshole. I held the door open for him one morning and he not only didn't say thanks, but looked at me like I was some kind of dickhead. Anyways, months go by with me avoiding him in the hallways and scowling at him when possible thinking about what a fucking asshole he must be. One day I come back from a hospital call and my secretary tells me that one of the upstairs tenants hit my car with their door and left their insurance info. I went out and looked and there was a light grey paint smear on the mirror housing of my brand new FRS. I rubbed it with my thumb and it instantly disappeared. So, even thought this big lug of a lawyer still won't make eye contact with me, or much less speak to me I have earned a bit of respect for him because clearly he knows you don't fuck with a man's ride. Know in your heart that whoever did this to your car ranks below the biggest dickhead lawyer I know. So my math says 99 percent of people are better than that so don't give up on people just yyou just ran into a 1 percenter.

mcseanerson > That Darn Jackal
08/18/2014 at 22:57

The thing is I actually enjoyed it. It was a second job to get me out of the tech support call center and get me more time driving and get paid for it. It was refreshing to not sit all day and for the most part not get cussed out by every customer I talked to. The only thing that pissed me off is I couldn't stand to hear waiters/waitresses complain about wages/tips anymore.

I got less than $100 in tips tonight, waaaaaaaaaa.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Jayhawk Jake
08/18/2014 at 23:04

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pc1Bh3YcpRQ/S…

Chin up, broceratops

That Darn Jackal > mcseanerson
08/18/2014 at 23:07

I totally get that. I worked at a pizza hut in the back of the house during high school and despite my high school life being a black hole of depression and anxiety, the Hut provided more fantastic people, stories, and "good god what is that smell" per hour than anything else ever. We were a pickup/delivery only hole in the wall so I never got the firsthand waitstaff bitching, but our drivers got stiffed all the time. Laughter is the best medicine for bleak financial situations. Hysterical or otherwise.

mcseanerson > That Darn Jackal
08/18/2014 at 23:12

I worked at a Dominos with the same setup. I refer primarily to my two sisters who are both waitresses. My mom and them say I'm a cheapskate because I say tipping starts at ten percent. If it is good to exceptional service it can go up depending on how good the service is and how not broke/charitable I am at the moment. When they argue that I need to tip more I call them greedy and say that I would have been grateful if everyone tipped a dollar and I shouldn't be expected to make up the difference because of all the assholes who can't be bothered to tip even a dollar.

Leadbull > Jayhawk Jake
08/18/2014 at 23:13

I know that poor eyesight feel.

I can't even read my watch without glasses/contacts.

That Darn Jackal > mcseanerson
08/18/2014 at 23:21

Admittedly, I do bleed for waitstaff. If they do an enthusiastic, well-meaning job, I tip well. Usually in the 20-30 percent range. Shitty job? You get a buck. Maybe two bucks. I don't blame them for anything that happens in the back, but if you're a shitty person, shitty tip.

The cheapskate dig is a little asinine though. Kudos to you for sticking to your guns.

mcseanerson > That Darn Jackal
08/18/2014 at 23:24

Maybe I am a cheapskate. It's gotta be the best damn service I've ever had to break twenty percent. On the flipside I still tip even the biggest assholes at least a dollar because you can't not tip and I also don't use percentages at waffle house. Those people work harder than anyone else in the food industry and they charge less. Tipping even twenty percent would be an insult.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Jayhawk Jake
08/18/2014 at 23:26

I am also blind as a bat (legally can't drive without lenses) and I would be PISSED if I found a dent so large I could see it without my glasses on.

That Darn Jackal > mcseanerson
08/18/2014 at 23:28

Yeah, tipping should be a gut feeling thing. Whatever you're comfortable tipping should be the going rate. And a ton depends on the venue. Mind I'm not a patron of the haus of waffles, but the waitstaff at similar joints do deserve healthy tips. That they have to put up with all that shit is nuts.

Jayhawk Jake > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
08/18/2014 at 23:29

I had glasses on when I saw the dent. It's not THAT big, I may have over-stated a bit, but it's definitely noticeable on a black car. I'll try to get a picture in daylight tomorrow, it's too dark for the iphone to pick it up in the garage.

mcseanerson > That Darn Jackal
08/18/2014 at 23:32

At waffle house the wait staff does anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of the prep and all the clean up. Your typical waffle house will have one cook and two waitresses. The waitresses do everything the cook doesn't.

That Darn Jackal > mcseanerson
08/18/2014 at 23:33

"How can we make this as inefficient as possible?"

Jayhawk Jake > Leadbull
08/18/2014 at 23:34

About the same. When the eye doctor does the whole 'hold this up to your face and read it' test I have to basically stick it on my nose.

I mean, I'm not blind, could be worse, but it's pretty bad. I used to give dirty looks to kids in school who only needed a slight correction so they'd never actually wear their glasses.

Genetics. Perfect teeth, horrible eyesight. My mom actually had her retina detach once, our eyes are that bad.

Leadbull > Jayhawk Jake
08/18/2014 at 23:42

I'm 20/600 (correctable to 20/20).

I'm an ideal candidate for Lasik, apparently; I'm seriously considering it.

liquid_popcorn > Leadbull
08/19/2014 at 11:12

If you do Lasik make a post about it. I have contacts, but have considered Lasik...but surgeries are not my jam. Still curious, but want more knowledge first.

Leadbull > liquid_popcorn
08/19/2014 at 11:30

I most likely won't get it 'till I finish school in two years. It's like four grand, and not covered by insurance.

I'm not a fan of surgery, either (I've had three actual, invasive ones), but I'm also not a fan of contacts. I think it would be a great investment for my future.

liquid_popcorn > Leadbull
08/19/2014 at 11:53

Gotcha.

Yeah, I'd have to agree. I haven't had any surgeries, but they freak me out.

n54 & s38 > Jayhawk Jake
08/19/2014 at 12:01

Haha. Ditto. Perfect teeth, blind as fucking bat without glasses or contacts. Runs in the family too.

Leadbull > liquid_popcorn
08/19/2014 at 12:01

To be fair, lasik can barely be considered "surgery".