Special Snowflake Stories

[Miss Misha]

I'm not saying the bikers right by any means, but I don't think they were wrong, either.  Because of their size, motorcycles can be hard to see, so by driving in packs they increase their visibility.  To merge through the pack can cause a safety risk, so I can see why this would irritate the biker that yelled at the OP's DH.

It is not another driver's responsibility to make room for you between themselves and the vehicle in front of them.  It is your responsibility to make sure you can fit in that gap safely; if you cannot, you don't put your car there.  Can it be courteous to slow down to allow another driver over?  Yes, but not doing so does not make anyone rude.  How would it be any different if there were three or four semis in the right hand lane blocking the OP's DH from merging over?  If the gap between them was not sizably safe for the OP's DH to merge, what would he have done?  Merge through them or slow down to move in behind them?  With motorcycles, that safety gap needs to be a bit larger (hence why the biker was probably angry).  I just don't see how the bikers were SS; to me, it is no different than any other traffic.

Catching up on the thread (20 pages to go!), but this caught my eye because of what happened to me today.  There are two lanes that turn left at a stoplight onto a bridge in my town.  At the other end of the bridge, only the right lane exits to another island, the other lane continues to another city.  However, most people using the bridge want to go to the island.  Which leads to some interesting lane changes. 

Today, I was the last in a line of cars going over the bridge in the right lane.  Cue a late model expensive car running the dark orange yellow light and then starting to change lanes -- into my car!  She wasn't pulling into a space between cars, she was pulling into my drivers' side door!  I honked.  Then she turned on her turn signal and tried to pull over again - into the side of my car!  She just couldn't understand why I wouldn't stand on my brakes to let her in -- when there was no one behind me and she had entered the bridge after me.  She actually accelerated and cut off a car at the far end of the bridge to get off on the island.  The kicker is she probably thinks I was rude because I did not literally stop dead to let her in.

[mmswm]

No worries, LadyKnight.   Though I do sincerely mean my apology.

[ica171]

Tonight we had to drop DH's car off to get his brakes changed. On the way there, we saw several flashes of the red light camera at the busiest intersection in town. There are lots of red light runners there; I imagine the city makes tons of money off of that intersection. Running red lights has always seemed a very snowflakey activity to me; in addition to endangering other drivers to save a few minutes of time, you are basically saying to other drivers that you are more important than them. You don't have time to wait at a red light, so you will run it and make them wait to go through their green light. Before the red light cameras were installed, I actually sat through an entire green light more than once because people just kept running the red light.

[stargazer]

SS from school yesterday. I need the handicapped stall - as I can not get off the other toilets with out help due to a cast on my leg from the thigh to my ankle .  SO on my way in I stopped in the bathroom to find the stall occupied...not by someone actually using it, not even for changing, but by someone having a phone conversation. Noticing that I was waiting for it, she calls  out " I am going to be a while and if you wait - I'll just be longer!"  This is a small building and this is the only handicapped stall in it.  So I left and came back a half hour later, only to hear her say "Yeah, I am in the bathroom, in the handicapped stall, it's so funny, there's this chick who keeps coming back and I am holding her up!" and then laughed.
  I ended up needing to change my clothes because of her, and she thought this was hysterical.  I don't get it. Luckily most people are not like this.

I'm having a hard time with this.  Are you saying you messed yourself instead of going somewhere else or trying another stall?  I know you said you can't bend your leg, but clearly you must have crutches with you and can use those to help. I know I certainly have experience doing that.   Either that or get someone to get her out.  I would use the men's restroom before allowing her to have that much control over my day.  And she laughed hysterically because she was around when it happened?  Clearly she is one of the most evil people to have ever lived because I can't even comprehend it.  I'm very sorry.

[Mental Magpie]

SS from school yesterday. I need the handicapped stall - as I can not get off the other toilets with out help due to a cast on my leg from the thigh to my ankle .  SO on my way in I stopped in the bathroom to find the stall occupied...not by someone actually using it, not even for changing, but by someone having a phone conversation. Noticing that I was waiting for it, she calls  out " I am going to be a while and if you wait - I'll just be longer!"  This is a small building and this is the only handicapped stall in it.  So I left and came back a half hour later, only to hear her say "Yeah, I am in the bathroom, in the handicapped stall, it's so funny, there's this chick who keeps coming back and I am holding her up!" and then laughed.
  I ended up needing to change my clothes because of her, and she thought this was hysterical.  I don't get it. Luckily most people are not like this.

I'm having a hard time with this.  Are you saying you messed yourself instead of going somewhere else or trying another stall?  I know you said you can't bend your leg, but clearly you must have crutches with you and can use those to help. I know I certainly have experience doing that.   Either that or get someone to get her out.  I would use the men's restroom before allowing her to have that much control over my day.  And she laughed hysterically because she was around when it happened?  Clearly she is one of the most evil people to have ever lived because I can't even comprehend it.  I'm very sorry.

Perhaps OP didn't have time to get somewhere else or ask for someone to get her out, hence why she needed to change her clothes.  Further, crutches from that angle aren't necessarily stable and I would try to wait as long as I could before I'd risk falling over with an entire leg cast and hurting myself all over again.

That being said, I'd have made that girl's day miserable before I had to change clothes because of her.

[Sootikin]

She had at least half an hour though, I would think that's plenty of time to find another loo or to get someone to deal with the SS.

[Diane AKA Traska]

SS from school yesterday. I need the handicapped stall - as I can not get off the other toilets with out help due to a cast on my leg from the thigh to my ankle .  SO on my way in I stopped in the bathroom to find the stall occupied...not by someone actually using it, not even for changing, but by someone having a phone conversation. Noticing that I was waiting for it, she calls  out " I am going to be a while and if you wait - I'll just be longer!"  This is a small building and this is the only handicapped stall in it.  So I left and came back a half hour later, only to hear her say "Yeah, I am in the bathroom, in the handicapped stall, it's so funny, there's this chick who keeps coming back and I am holding her up!" and then laughed.
  I ended up needing to change my clothes because of her, and she thought this was hysterical.  I don't get it. Luckily most people are not like this.

I'm having a hard time with this.  Are you saying you messed yourself instead of going somewhere else or trying another stall?  I know you said you can't bend your leg, but clearly you must have crutches with you and can use those to help. I know I certainly have experience doing that.   Either that or get someone to get her out.  I would use the men's restroom before allowing her to have that much control over my day.  And she laughed hysterically because she was around when it happened?  Clearly she is one of the most evil people to have ever lived because I can't even comprehend it.  I'm very sorry.

Perhaps OP didn't have time to get somewhere else or ask for someone to get her out, hence why she needed to change her clothes.  Further, crutches from that angle aren't necessarily stable and I would try to wait as long as I could before I'd risk falling over with an entire leg cast and hurting myself all over again.

That being said, I'd have made that girl's day miserable before I had to change clothes because of her.

EvilTraska would have lobbed an underwear grenade over the stall door...

[A.P. Wulfric]

I'm sorry snow dragon, but I'm really having a hard time understanding this.  You were able to wait 30 minutes, but you never sought out an alternative bathroom?  I understand having a full cast is hard (and I'm impressed that your doctor is allowing you to swim in a competitive lap lane!) but this seems just a bit outlandish.  I've met some evil people who likely would do that, but I'm not sure why you didn't take your crutch or anything else and start wailing on the door after her snide comment. Or for that matter, head to a different building or floor on campus. Or call campus security. If this truly happened the way you say, you and your friend should be heading to students with disabilities and lodging a complaint about the insensitivity of your fellow classmates. Twice in a short amount of time is just ludicrous.

[snowdragon]

SS from school yesterday. I need the handicapped stall - as I can not get off the other toilets with out help due to a cast on my leg from the thigh to my ankle .  SO on my way in I stopped in the bathroom to find the stall occupied...not by someone actually using it, not even for changing, but by someone having a phone conversation. Noticing that I was waiting for it, she calls  out " I am going to be a while and if you wait - I'll just be longer!"  This is a small building and this is the only handicapped stall in it.  So I left and came back a half hour later, only to hear her say "Yeah, I am in the bathroom, in the handicapped stall, it's so funny, there's this chick who keeps coming back and I am holding her up!" and then laughed.
  I ended up needing to change my clothes because of her, and she thought this was hysterical.  I don't get it. Luckily most people are not like this.

I'm having a hard time with this.  Are you saying you messed yourself instead of going somewhere else or trying another stall?  I know you said you can't bend your leg, but clearly you must have crutches with you and can use those to help. I know I certainly have experience doing that.   Either that or get someone to get her out.  I would use the men's restroom before allowing her to have that much control over my day.  And she laughed hysterically because she was around when it happened?  Clearly she is one of the most evil people to have ever lived because I can't even comprehend it.  I'm very sorry.

Perhaps OP didn't have time to get somewhere else or ask for someone to get her out, hence why she needed to change her clothes.  Further, crutches from that angle aren't necessarily stable and I would try to wait as long as I could before I'd risk falling over with an entire leg cast and hurting myself all over again.

That being said, I'd have made that girl's day miserable before I had to change clothes because of her.

  I don't know about you but I am not asking anyone but my family or best friend to pull me off the toilet and see me naked from the waist down.   I did ask the secretary for the department housed in that building to call for security, to deal with it, but I don't know if  they were slow incoming or she never called but I never saw them come.  There is no way I would be able to use the smaller stall with crutches, they are that tiny. 

A.P. Wulfric - the next closest bathroom is in the gym, up several steps. I do not know of an accessible one in the immediate area.  Other than the gym there would be the theater - locked except when in use,  and several dorms - locked at all times and you need to live there to get in.  The communications center is a good 10  minutes walk even on two good legs. The campus is not laid out for convenience at all.

Wailing on anything is the last thing you want to do on crutches. 

 

[Amara]

snowdragon, I am beyond appalled at your experience. I think you should seriously considering taking this to a dean or even a VP at the school. The intentional cruelty compounded by your need to use the handicapped stall is beyond reprehensible. And the failure of the staff--secretary, security, etc.--to take immediate action is almost as bad. This needs to be addressed at a high level and it needs to be addressed now.

[Starchasm]

Can people please stop surreptitiously calling shenanigans on Snowdragon?  This is one of my favorite threads (despite the fact that I don't post in it much  ) and would really hate to see it get locked.

[PeterM]

Can people please stop surreptitiously calling shenanigans on Snowdragon?  This is one of my favorite threads (despite the fact that I don't post in it much  ) and would really hate to see it get locked.

Seconded. Either have the courage to accuse her directly or keep it to yourself.

[Aeris]

Can people please stop surreptitiously calling shenanigans on Snowdragon?  This is one of my favorite threads (despite the fact that I don't post in it much  ) and would really hate to see it get locked.

Seconded. Either have the courage to accuse her directly or keep it to yourself.

Except that that is the opposite of what the Dame has explicitly told us to do.

Be very careful how you call shenanigans.   It is very acceptable to ask people for clarifications on what you perceive to be holes in the story.  Outright claiming they are lying is not acceptable.  Ask questions in such a way that it becomes obvious by their own answers that they've hung themselves....that's what we mean by giving people plenty of rope to hang themselves.  Some members are very good at setting up great questions and the stupid troll slams the ball right out of the ball park with their answers.

[Wordgeek]

Please return to the snowflake stories.  Questions about forum operations should go in the relevant folder.

[afbluebelle]

SSS: AF Edition.

Had weekend duty today. No one likes weekend duty, but we aren't paid by the hour, and are technically "on duty" 24/7, so weekends happen. The guy that was supposed to be on my crew today didn't answer his phone when called repeatedly, was quite rude on the phone when told we had to come in, and was complaining that he shouldn't have to work the duty because he was a midshift person. That'd be a valid excuse if he'd worked the shift prior, but he had been off since Friday morning, and he knew he had to work. Apparently he thought that he was a Super Special snowflake and didn't have to do what everyone else had to.

As much as I hate paperwork, I'm going to make an exception for this kid. I'm pretty easygoing, but I really dislike whiners who think that rules shouldn't apply to him.