I think the bird got fatter on the shiny one.

I know which of those two id rather have.



The one with the fat bird!

Back when I worked retail during college summers, I had a customer ultimately decide against completing a transaction because, in order to pay the full amount in cash, he would have to give up a $1 bill that was "too new."

I love this story and may claim it as my own.

Did you guys know you can polish metal?

The guy with the bill’s position is more defensible — you can’t polish bills.

He was preserving a ****ing $1 bill because it was all nice and crisp. Sort of seems like it's missing the point of having a $1 bill. I mean, it would be one thing if he collected something as odd as $1 bills, but he was carrying it in his wallet, presumably to, like, pay for stuff.

Reminds me of a guy I knew in college who was obsessed with getting the closest parking spot in the lot outside the dorm, and when he would get that thing he would make every excuse possible not to drive and risk losing the spot, whereas he would drive pretty much daily if parked anywhere else (including just a handful of spots away).

I was convinced Chop's bird comment was a compete troll and neither pic had a bird in it. Took me way too long to find it.

Had a lady lose her mind on me once because I gave her two fives and 7 ones as change from a 20. When I told her i was low on change and didn’t have anything else, she wanted me to get more from a coworker, who was also extremely low on change. I told her “this isnt a bank” and she went postal, literally screaming, and when she left she told me I’d “never go anywhere in life.”

Oh yea, and she had smaller change, she just wanted to break a 20. Lol. People’s obsession with breaking 20’s has never ceased to amaze me - i avoid it whenever possible.

Joke’s on you lady, i totally had the change, you were just being a ****. Never work retail

I’ve never in my life done anything like either of these. You wonder how people that do get through life. Neuroses like these only get worse as we age ... imagine where these two are now.

While that dude in my college dorm was a somewhat extreme case, the irrational behavior in parking lots seems very common. I find that too many people are willing to drive more laps or whatever around the parking lot in hopes of parking 50 feet closer to the building. If you're able-bodied then it's absurd to do anything but just quickly settle up in the best-looking spot you see.

Well the one is probably parked nearby.

almost nothing tilts me more than some ******* camped in the middle of the parking lot waiting for someone whose not even remotely close to backing out just so they can get that spot, when the parking lot isnt even full and there are spots farther down. Its even more tilting when people do this at places like malls or even more absurd, hiking trail heads, where you are there to walk as it is.

conversely, its a huge delight when someone does when im the one who will be backing out. I love to just sit in my car and watch them get frustrated and then the instant they finally move i back out.

Yeah, they've done studies on that.

People love to exert whatever power they can over others.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1997.tb00661.x

huh, interesting that guys leave quicker if its a nicer car. Would feel like its the other way around.

Just to be clear, I don't do it in really crowded parking lots, if thats the case I actually hurry. When its your typical fat, lazy, american who could park 50 feet further down tho, well yeah, then I'm super gleeful about it.

I thought people didnt want to break 20s.

I'm with you. My husband likes to gamble on getting a closer spot but in the time it takes to get one - even if one is available - I could already be in the store. It's also usually harder to get out of. I always just beeline for the back parking - there's always a spot and nobody is stalking other cars holding everything up.

that's why I drop my wife off right in front the store and then am free to spend the next 15 min hunting for GTO parking spot

That's why I stay home or work while my wife goes shopping.

+1

I never have any troubles with parking, but I like shiny colorful things.

Back in the university days, I lived off campus, as did many other students. The number of parking spaces on campus was woefully inadequate for the student population. This meant that the lots were pretty much always full, and an interesting system developed as a result. Some cars would wait at the entrance to the lot closest to the buildings, and offer any approaching students a ride to their car in order to take the space. This became completely standard and almost everyone did it. It was pretty sweet in the winter when the lots would fill up with nasty dirtsnowslush and you didn't have to walk thru it.

In a precursor to today's society where everyone is super paranoid of everyone else, there were a few folks that would instead wait in their cars at the entrance, then slowly drive behind approaching students at walking speed, following them to their car without offering a ride. SOP for dealing with these folks was to walk halfway down the parking lane, then walk between cars to the next lane. They inevitably floored it and raced around to try and catch up to you before you got to your car so that no other car would take the space. The response to that behavior was to wait until they caught up, then walk between cars to the next lane again. Rinse and repeat until they gave up.

Alolbar has a justice boner right about now.


In any crowded lot, my approach is to park far away and walk. It's such a lol waste of time to try to hunt down closer spaces. If I'm with other people, I drop them off at the entrance first.


On a completely related note, beer yoga is a thing:

Plebs. I paid the extra $40/mo for faculty parking. Well worth it

The bird is the small spike-looking thing on top of the large hippo/rhino thing.

Rich student itt