I’m Special

If there’s anything that’s guaranteed to piss me off (other than all legislation proposed by socialists), it’s when some asswipe thinks that rules don’t apply to them because, well… because.

I’m not talking about regulations or laws, by the way;  I’m talking about rules of an establishment, or of a gathering:  that sort.  Nothing pisses me off much more than when a restaurant has a dress code, and some dickhead arrives in a t-short and shorts demanding to be seated — and nothing cheers me more than when he is told by said restaurant’s management to fuck off (politely or, preferably, rudely).

Here’s a case in point:

A bride was faced with the awkward task of asking guests to leave her wedding after they brought their children along — even though she had explicitly warned that it was a child-free event in the invitation.
The anonymous woman posted her story on Reddit this week, recalling the drama that unfolded when a family friend and her husband brought their unwelcome toddler and infant to her big day.
Though she tried to handle it tactfully, the exchange soon grew heated and she asked the couple to leave — a decision that thousands of Redditors have now defended, telling her she was well within her rights.

Of course she was.  I wonder what makes someone think, when they see on the invitation that children are not welcome, that “Oh well… I’m going to take my kids anyway!”

What did they think would happen?

And then, when asked to leave, “the exchange soon grew heated” ?  So now you get all aggro when confronted about your appalling lack of manners?

Here’s another one:

A mother has come under scrutiny after a video of her raging at a dog handler for not allowing her daughter to pet a service dog went viral.
In the altercation filmed on December 19, Megan Stoff was with a golden retriever, Nala, in a busy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania shopping mall, when a mother and her young daughter approached them.
Asking if her daughter could pet the working pooch, Megan and a co-worker told the mother ‘no’, as petting a service dog can interfere with its training.
Allegedly, just minutes later, after walking away the woman returned in a rage and began shouting at Megan and her co-workers.
The mother says: ‘That was definitely very rude how she talked to me.
‘Firstly you should have a sign [saying not to touch the dog], and secondly she should not have said “no”, she could’ve said “sorry the dog is in training”, that would’ve been nicer.’
Megan tells the woman to walk away, and points out Nala’s vest has the words ‘Please do not pet me I’m working’ written on both sides of it, along with ‘Do not touch’ and ‘Do not pet’.
She adds that it’s illegal to ‘harass a service dog’.
Expressing her contempt at the manner in which she was told ‘no’, the mother soon realizes she’s being filmed and tensions escalate further when she threatens to call her lawyer.

Once again:  despite a clearly-posted rule, some asshole decides that the rules don’t apply to her — and then, when the transgression (and lack of manners) is pointed out to her, she loses her shit.

All because her lickle itty-bitty kiddie wasn’t allowed to pet a dog.  And don’t get me started on the calling-in-the-lawyers part.  Were I the dog trainer and been threatened with lawyers, I’d have called in the cops and had the bitch arrested — and pressed charges — because, duh, it’s illegal to interfere with a service dog, and the silly woman should be called on her idiocy and lack of manners.

There was a custom back in my favorite era (VIctorian / Edwardian times) when a lack of manners would occasion being thrashed with a riding-crop or cane, in public, by the person being offended.  Along with so many other institutions of the time, I want to see this one brought back.

6 comments

  1. In the South, “Aren’t you special?” isn’t a compliment.

    And “Bless your heart” isn’t a blessing.

  2. A true story about one of those women who will not be denied and won’t take no for an answer. Over ten years ago my daughter was the women’s wear buyer for a group of Ski stores in Dallas and Ugg boots were a hot fashion item. One day daughter gave me a phone call and said, you won’t believe this one.

    It seems that one of the wealthy class of over-dressed Dallas women came into their stores and wanted a pair of boots in her size and being later in the season they were sold out. The woman became kind of loud and demanded to have Ugg boots ordered in her size and when she would not shut up, daughter was called out of her office in the back of the store to explain why the could not special order the boots.

    My daughter was being very patient explaining how she would attend the annual Ski Wear trade show in Aspen every year and place orders for the following year and she would do her best to get the size assortment right however as the season progressed they would start running out of specific sizes and their goal was to sell out of as much as possible by the end of the season. The loud woman told her to call the manufacture have them make some up special as an exception, then Laura explained that the raw materials Lambskins made of lambs in Australia was seasonal also and there were only so many lambs harvested each year. That shut the woman up for a second and then she asked if the boots were made out of dead lambs and daughter said yes and once again, there are only so many each year. And since it never occurred to the loud, woman that lamb and sheep skins were made of dead animals she started screaming, screeching and yelling about animal cruelty and how could a store sell dead animal skins made into boots.

    As daughter finished the story on the phone she said, “How can a woman driving a large, expensive BMW, dressed in Park Cities Dallas high end clothing be that damned stupid and then carry on at the top of her voice embarrassing a fairly large store full of people? ” My reply was the world is full of stupid rich and poor and they don’t mind being rude and having been a retailer myself I remember the joy of seeing them leave the store hoping to never see them again.

  3. Can I infer from your distaste for people that feel that rules do not apply to them that you
    do not like hillary? It is beyond obvious that no laws, rules, standards, procedures etc. apply to her.

  4. We’re living in a world in which accountability is effectively dead. For some people, it’s established law, for no amount of stupidity, incompetence, or negligence on the part of a government agency establishes a liability. Why would anyone assume the rules are anything but politely worded suggestions if breaking them leads to no meaningful consequences?

  5. “There was a custom back in my favorite era (VIctorian / Edwardian times) when a lack of manners would occasion being thrashed with a riding-crop or cane, in public, by the person being offended. Along with so many other institutions of the time, I want to see this one brought back.”

    A far more civilized era. I’m convinced Western Civilization took sick in the First World War…and has yet to recover.

  6. There was a custom back in my favorite era (VIctorian / Edwardian times) when a lack of manners would occasion being thrashed with a riding-crop or cane, in public, by the person being offended. Along with so many other institutions of the time, I want to see this one brought back.

    I’m not so much in favor of this as I’m in favor of bringing back that fine old institution of caning Senators.

    And to the lady who’s appalled at boots made with dead lambs: think how much noisier and messier it would be if they were made with live ones.

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