I totally agree that often it's better to hold your tongue nowadays. I am curious if any of you folks have other specific examples where people's behavior simply didn't make any sense. I guess looking at things externally, this guy could have felt that I was being entitled person by walking straight up to the mushroom lady. However, when confronted I immediately rolled over politely so his reaction so odd.Yeah, lots of entitlement. My wife doesn't want me confronting or saying anything about/to them though because she's terrified one of them is nuts enough to be both packing heat and willing to use it on me for telling them they're being a jerk. Scary thing is she's not (always) wrong...
Tell you what. I'm lucky. I run my own auto repair service. I do everything by appointment and personal visit. And I only take referrals. Once in awhile I fire a customer or potential customer. But in general eveyrone I deal with are all good decent people. And they don't want to mess up our relationship. So they don't refer the kooks they know!
Do you think he was looking for a specific size Chrome tip or was the shopping trip completely unrelated with his wardrobe state?
You could set your phone bill to be paid automatically by your credit card. You can then contact your credit card to set the due date to be something that works best with your paycheck schedule. Some credit cards, like the Wells Fargo cash back visa, have automatic phone protection as a side benefit provided you pay the entire phone bill with your credit card. That can save you 5 to 10 dollars per phone line if you actually paid for damage protection. The Wells Fargo credit card is pretty worthless aside from that so this is pretty much the only thing I charge on that credit card.
If you want to weld all day, I say go for it. The money is very good and it's a highly sought after skill. I purposefully did not pursue the welding certificate in my trade ( pipe fitter / steam fitter ) and fell into the Foreman position, my pay is on average 10% higher than the journeyman welder. When I do a job with weld pipe ( anything 3" and larger unless called for ), I figure out the cut sheet lengths, order weld fittings, flanges, Olets and other materials - then I tell my apprentice to cut and bevel pipe and hand my cut sheet to the welder. It's a no brainer job, the welder does what I tell them to do.
Same crap happened here at the Hard Rock Hollywood, I go there at least once a week to play poker.Yeah, lots of entitlement. My wife doesn't want me confronting or saying anything about/to them though because she's terrified one of them is nuts enough to be both packing heat and willing to use it on me for telling them they're being a jerk. Scary thing is she's not (always) wrong...
I just stick one of those colored lights that shine on the house out front. I never(rarely) have time for holiday decorations. Clearly that is a ME problem!
WEC must have told them he was a hard-core drifter.