re: Anyone ever have a public outburst?

When I was about 7 or 8, my parents brought us to Disney World. Talk about a horrible use of money, but I digress.

One morning, we are having breakfast outside. I am eating cereal, Lucky Charms as the legend goes.

I had one bowl and wanted a second. My parents told me no because that was too much sugar (one bowl is too much sugar, but that’s a topic for another day).

In my frustration, I slammed my fists onto the table and yelled “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!”

My parents have since told me that it took everything in them to not bust out laughing. But what happened that day is I got my arse beat red for being a little shithead.

I stopped by a field and stream store in, I think, Birmingham to pickup some floating jig heads that work great for redear bream fishing, and for some reason the only place that sold them was F&S stores and so I remembered to stop by on my way through and pick up a few packs.

There was one 55 year old, purple haired Karen working the checkout, and for some reason unbeknownst to me (because I was on the phone talking business but doing it very quietly to not be "that guy"), the checkout line was growing more than it was moving forward. When it was my turn next up I realized why the bluehairs in front of me were taking so long to get out of the door: Purple hair Karen was berating customers until they agreed to give all of their information to her and join the field and stream "club."

When it was my turn to checkout the war of attrition began, and I wound up telling the lady that in no uncertain terms she could keep the damn jig heads and I'd never be back and I hoped they went out of business (which they did, all of them, I think). I always wondered how many people got their information sold to God knows who when that company folded, and not necessarily by the company, but by individuals who had the access to do it and who knew that so much personal info had at least some inherent value, which is better than none for a person about to lose a job. Aside from the "time factor" of her single-fingering all my information into the computer, my concern was (and is) joining every "club" that every retailer under the sun wants you to join just makes it that much easier for identity thieves to put your puzzle together.

That was the only time I went against my "raisings" and showed my arse in public and even then it wasn't worldstar material, but when I got done lighting into her filthy looking and acting arse I swear I heard a clap or two from the line behind me when those exit doors slid open for me on my way out.

There is a time for everything under the sun, and sometimes the time is nigh for a man to show his arse in a public place, for the long-term repercussions of deciding not to blow your fuse can be far worse than deciding to do the damn thing.

Lay off that tren, man.

We have a few Field & Stream stores here in Dallas area

I once berated an Academy manager for 2 or 3 minutes because, on a Saturday, he had two registers open with 20+ people in each line and a group of 5 or 6 employees standing within eyesight of the registers doing frick all.

I spotted the manager, dropped the shite I was going to buy on the floor, went over to him and proceeded to tell him what I thought of his managing approach. I finished it by saying, "It is your damn job, do better!" and walked out. He was tearing up, and those 5 or 6 employees scattered when I pointed them out to him.

One thing in cannot tolerate is blatant uselessness. Everyone has the ability to at least TRY.

No I’m not an a-hole.

No, but I did bear witness to one at a pizza buffet restaurant. This was a very, very, very, shortly before filming things to publicly shame idiots like this guy was the norm. I don’t really remember what he was upset about, but he was yelling at some waitress. I remember we had a private room but could see everything from the window. The waitress came to our private room later and I made sure to pull her aside and tell her that she was doing a fantastic job

Like "crop dusting"?

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hen I settled in to take advantage of the free wifi for a couple hours.

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