This place could use a dose of Socks.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

I went down to the bookstore today to buy some books for school already.

I would be setting a precedent for years to come, mind you, because I usually buy my books about two weeks into the semester. But there was some kind of itchy notion in the back of my brain that said, "Go spend hundreds of your well earned dollars on new editions of books you'll only glance at to fulfill a requirement set by an overzealous instructor entrenched in the derma of the university machine.

But that's besides the point.

The real noteworthy juiciness happened on the way out. An older woman was slowly backing up and happened to glance off of the back bumper of a mud encrusted pick up that looked like a relic from an unused dukes of hazard clip. It was the barest of swatches, the smallest of dings and as she does so, she stops and ambles out of her car to inspect the "damage" a clean swipe on the back of a rusty bumper.

The two individuals who are obviously the occupants of the vehicle are coming out of the store adjacent and are in "fuck shit up" mode. The southern drawled screaming begins and the most horrific scene of older woman belittlement begins. She's apologetic and frail and these mudborn thugs are steamrolling over her delicate words in torrents of anger ad abuse. It's nauseating. And as I'm approaching, a police officer teleports onto the scene (aka drives from behind the building from the local hardees ahahahahahahahaha) and wraps things up. But I'm disgusted nonetheless.

A similar incident happened when I was visiting a friend of mine. A house across the street was revving their broken truck's engine to the point of blast off while the funeral home next door catered to a hmong service outside.

Where's the fucking humanity in any of this? The compassion? The understanding? The lack of pettiness over a rusted chrome bumper and a few quiet minutes during a grieving period? Fuck!

[Nyerp]

but that wasn't socks-ish at all; it was actually interesting to read

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

but that wasn't socks-ish at all; it was actually interesting to read

It was sort of a two in one thing. Like tell a story and make a request. I multitask.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

where do you live?

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

where do you live?

Wisconsin. The land of corn and cheese and beer and little else, except for some nice wooded regions.

[wawi]

Things like that happen all the time here. It's sad.
On a semi-related note, when should I purchase my books for uni? Before or wait for the first few days of class

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

Things like that happen all the time here. It's sad.
On a semi-related note, when should I purchase my books for uni? Before or wait for the first few days of class

Wait and buy them off of abebooks.com. Or not. It depends on your school.

Some professors are human and actually prefer it if you buy the earlier version of the book. It can be the difference between $250 and $50.

[Samus Aran]

It's strange. Even if the car is dirty and dinged up and generally worthless anyway, people still get so worked up over someone making yet another ding in it. I can understand being pretty pissed if it's a brand new, super expensive car...but that still certainly doesn't warrant cursing up a storm at someone, especially if said person is apologetic anyway.

Although I would venture to say that it can be any possession that's damaged or broken, really. Either people are too possessive or just have a lot of anger built up and need a reason to let it out.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

It's strange. Even if the car is dirty and dinged up and generally worthless anyway, people still get so worked up over someone making yet another ding in it. I can understand being pretty pissed if it's a brand new, super expensive car...but that still certainly doesn't warrant cursing up a storm at someone, especially if said person is apologetic anyway.

Although I would venture to say that it can be any possession that's damaged or broken, really. Either people are too possessive or just have a lot of anger built up and need a reason to let it out.

Mistakes happen I guess. Things happen, more appropriately. Being on pins and needles and being always on the defensive, ready to hand off to the offense is dangerous and shitty. Looking for conflict, I suppose, is the right way of putting it.