Things are not always what they seem

I just came back from Tampa Florida. As tired as I am (and sick too), I
went down to breakfast. Since my house is vacant for an extensive
remodel, we're living in a suite hotel. I've been noticing all the
little pricks around here who are going to schools for Nortel and such.
Then you have the typical business travelers who take up the space with
them thinking they're "all that and a bag of chips". As much as I've
been traveling around the country, I've been seeing the same type of
people. They hang around taking up space and talking on their cell
phones with their bad fitting suits and flimsy "gay man's" bag over
their shoulder. This morning though, I had to stop everyone and point
out one aspect that's just been bugging me...and I'd like to share that
here too.

I went into the business center and there was some guy sitting there at
this desktop computer and he was trying his best to look important. He
was checking his Hotmail account and reading up on his company email
(which he gets on his Hotmail account). I needed to use the printer
just to print a couple documents for the day, and since I'm in a hotel
I didn't think to hook one up in my room...just to use for once or
maybe twice. I *do* have a desktop computer and four laptops (one is my
work laptop) which we use in my room, but no printer. Well, I asked the
guy if he was going to be long. This twat turns around and looks me up
and down as if to want to degrade or intimidate me and says "yes, I
just might be". I looked back at how he was dressed and compared it to
my dress. He was sitting there in this big comfy chair wearing a suit
and his hair slicked back. I was standing there wearing a ball cap, HD
t-shirt that I picked up someplace, jeans with the knees knocked out
and flip-flop sandals. "Okay" I responded as I walked back out to wait.
Before I could get back, another one of these "whoo-hoo" duds popped
into his place and again...was checking his company email on Hotmail.
He was opening these little spreadsheets that looked like someone's
birthday list or something. This guy went even further to check the
latest news on MSNBC! Well, politely I asked him if he'd be long, as I
was standing there holding a flash card with a single pdf document on
it which I needed just a moment to print. This guy proceeded to do the
same thing as the other. When he did, I simply pulled up a chair and
sat just to the right rear of him to watch every move he made on the
computer and to read every word in each document. He then turned and
asked in a sarcastic voice "would you mind giving me some privacy". At
this point, I lost it! These stupid assholes want privacy? They believe
they're some sort of important? I bolted out of my chair and told this
smart mouthed jackass what he could do with his privacy! If he thought
he was so freaking important, then what the hell is he doing on a
business computer owned by a hotel. This jackass didn't even have an
email account that his company would give him. Everything about these
bastards is borrowed. They borrow a car to get someplace, they borrow a
room to stay a night, they borrow a computer to check a borrowed email
account! Whew! I shamed that dumbshit down so much, I was even calling
his suit (that didn't fit) "borrowed".

After all this, my wife then pointed out how I might be standing there
dressed the way I was but at least what I had was mine. She even got in
on the show by saying how people who are "important" at least have a
company to give them a laptop computer and an email account. The guy at
the hotel desk made a comment to them that if they needed a connection
to the internet, the rooms have it provided. I guess I wasn't the only
one fed up with looking at those people wandering around trying to be
important and such.

What's the moral you might ask? Well, these are the same people in our
society who believe they're "successful". They bounce from place to
place believing they are someone who's more important than anyone else.
I've got news for everyone...people who are successful and important
don't have to borrow computers. They have companies give them one. The
successful and important people don't operate their company email off
Hotmail, they have a company provide it. The people who have companies
think highly of them also don't have to pay for what they need, the
company is more than glad to provide them with everything.

That's *my* rant!

Oh, BTW...IT'S TOO FREAKING COLD HERE IN TEXAS!!!

 

Interesting rant Brian. I'm just curious, do you think the above incident
will prompt you to buy your own printer to use while away from home, or
will you continue to 'borrow' the one at the hotel?...lol.

Really cold up here in Michigan too. Hope the rest of your day goes
better for you then how it started out.

Regards,

Vic

 

TOP POST.
bjay@webtv,net
Brian, first I wanna say, =your commentary= was interesting, and
humorous, and may I say, well written. You are almost as good with words
and phrases as your Father.
It was a ==bit lengthly===, and is the reason I am top posting my
response.
You did say a coupla odd thang's, and I
zeroed in on them of course, because thats part of the ''usenet 101''
teachings.
Plus, I couldn't resist, because of your
‘‘Post Subject Title’’
I learned this the hard way, when I first started reading this fine
group.
I pretty much can say I learned this talent from reading you, Louie, and
MotganKane's responses on here thru the years. <g>
You are amost as good as Henry over on Reekyville, oh yeah and that
little fart, (iggy), from Florida. You mentioned him on here lately, I
recall.<g>
Anyway, the deal is ''taking stuff out of context''. Most folks will do
it, if they spot something that warrants it. <g>
so here goes:

~Brian said. (I snipped to this part)
‘‘This twat turns around and looks me up and down as if to want to
degrade or intimidate me and says "yes, I just might be". I looked back
at how he was dressed and compared it to my dress.’’
---chuckle--

(Then on down)- Brian said this;
‘‘After all this, my wife then pointed out how I might be standing
there dressed the way I was but at least what I had was mine.’’
---chuckle---

(See, I'm getting good! This is all in fun, hope ya' git a laff out of
it) --bjay--

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Brian's =fine= post, in its entirety--
(Brian Walker)
I just came back from Tampa Florida. As tired as I am (and sick too), I
went down to breakfast. Since my house is vacant for an extensive
remodel, we're living in a suite hotel. I've been noticing all the
little pricks around here who are going to schools for Nortel and such.
Then you have the typical business travelers who take up the space with
them thinking they're "all that and a bag of chips". As much as I've
been traveling around the country, I've been seeing the same type of
people. They hang around taking up space and talking on their cell
phones with their bad fitting suits and flimsy "gay man's" bag over
their shoulder. This morning though, I had to stop everyone and point
out one aspect that's just been bugging me...and I'd like to share that
here too.
I went into the business center and there was some guy sitting there at
this desktop computer and he was trying his best to look important. He
was checking his Hotmail account and reading up on his company email
(which he gets on his Hotmail account). I needed to use the printer just
to print a couple documents for the day, and since I'm in a hotel I
didn't think to hook one up in my room...just to use for once or maybe
twice. I *do* have a desktop computer and four laptops (one is my work
laptop) which we use in my room, but no printer. Well, I asked the guy
if he was going to be long. This twat turns around and looks me up and
down as if to want to degrade or intimidate me and says "yes, I just
might be". I looked back at how he was dressed and compared it to my
dress. He was sitting there in this big comfy chair wearing a suit and
his hair slicked back. I was standing there wearing a ball cap, HD
t-shirt that I picked up someplace, jeans with the knees knocked out and
flip-flop sandals. "Okay" I responded as I walked back out to wait.
Before I could get back, another one of these "whoo-hoo" duds popped
into his place and again...was checking his company email on Hotmail. He
was opening these little spreadsheets that looked like someone's
birthday list or something. This guy went even further to check the
latest news on MSNBC! Well, politely I asked him if he'd be long, as I
was standing there holding a flash card with a single pdf document on it
which I needed just a moment to print. This guy proceeded to do the same
thing as the other. When he did, I simply pulled up a chair and sat just
to the right rear of him to watch every move he made on the computer and
to read every word in each document. He then turned and asked in a
sarcastic voice "would you mind giving me some privacy". At this point,
I lost it! These stupid assholes want privacy? They believe they're some
sort of important? I bolted out of my chair and told this smart mouthed
jackass what he could do with his privacy! If he thought he was so
freaking important, then what the hell is he doing on a business
computer owned by a hotel. This jackass didn't even have an email
account that his company would give him. Everything about these bastards
is borrowed. They borrow a car to get someplace, they borrow a room to
stay a night, they borrow a computer to check a borrowed email account!
Whew! I shamed that dumbshit down so much, I was even calling his suit
(that didn't fit) "borrowed".
After all this, my wife then pointed out how I might be standing there
dressed the way I was but at least what I had was mine. She even got in
on the show by saying how people who are "important" at least have a
company to give them a laptop computer and an email account. The guy at
the hotel desk made a comment to them that if they needed a connection
to the internet, the rooms have it provided. I guess I wasn't the only
one fed up with looking at those people wandering around trying to be
important and such.
What's the moral you might ask? Well, these are the same people in our
society who believe they're "successful". They bounce from place to
place believing they are someone who's more important than anyone else.
I've got news for everyone...people who are successful and important
don't have to borrow computers. They have companies give them one. The
successful and important people don't operate their company email off
Hotmail, they have a company provide it. The people who have companies
think highly of them also don't have to pay for what they need, the
company is more than glad to provide them with everything.
That's *my* rant!
Oh, BTW...IT'S TOO FREAKING COLD HERE IN TEXAS!!!

 

It took you all of 20 minutes...not including the time it took for you
to read it. In all these months, it must've been lonely for you.

It's nice to see you're still infatuated with me...

 

Wow! Okay, so when you say you're getting "dressed up"...we now know
what you mean?

That's okay and all, just as long as we have that out of the way and
everything. I didn't want you to get the wrong impression. When I say
"dress", I refer to the attire and not an article. When you say
"dress", you're imagining dudes wearing women's clothing?

Weird, but whatever!

 

Hey Vic, and you?
Me too.

B. Jay Kana--
NETexas
03Valk-&-98 Magna
Have a Dandy Day--

 

Without regard to your opinion(s) of the lobby users, I
think(IMO) if you had changed you request from:

"going to be long"

to:

"could I ask you to print this small flash drive document for me, please"

You would have been met with much less resistance. I
did assume/read that all you wanted was the document
printed? That task could've have been completed with
the most minimal disruption to the current user's busy
activities. And, you didn't really need to boot the user
off the computer entirely.

I suspect the current computer user detected your frus-
tration when he responded - "I just might be". Person-
ally, I would've replied - "maybe, what do you want to
do".

But, I can certainly identify with your narrative. Been
there, done that myself. I just try to be more subtle now.

Gary

 

Bjay:
Wow! Okay, so when you say you're getting "dressed up"...we now know
what you mean?
That's okay and all, just as long as we have that out of the way and
everything. I didn't want you to get the wrong impression.
When I say "dress", I refer to the attire and not an article. When you
say "dress", you're imagining dudes wearing women's clothing?
Weird, but whatever! Brian~




Brian, in relation to motorcycle attire, I would never use that term to
describe, putting on my Gear/Leather and stuff.
Therefore, you'll never, ever read =me= saying; I ''dressed up''. I read
your entire post, but I took a little bit out of context, to kid you.
<g>
I thought it was funny.
But that is beside the point, I was kidding around how we =all= are
=guilty= of picking out those certain ideal little words and phrases,
that are included and/or part of what/how we all write in esponses to
others, to be cute. <g>
Dont you agree? <g>

B. Jay Kana--
NETexas
03Valk-&-98 Magna
Have a Dandy Day--

 

So, let me get this straight:
You put on leather, pose on your motorcycle, wave and give others a
"thumbs up", wait for your "kitchen pass"...and imagine dudes in
women's clothing?

I guess everyone has to do something...

 

''Brian, in relation to motorcycle attire, I would never use that term
to describe, putting on my Gear/Leather and stuff. Therefore, you'll
never, ever read =me= saying; I ''dressed up''. I read your entire post,
but I took a little bit out of context, to kid you. <g>
I thought it was funny.
But that is beside the point, I was kidding around how we =all= are
=guilty= of picking out those certain ideal certain words and phrases,
that are included and/or part of what/how we all write in responses to
others, to be cute. <g>
Dont you agree? <g>
B. Jay Kana--
NETexas
03Valk-&-98 Magna
Have a Dandy Day--




(brian walker)
So,Bjay, let me get this straight:
You put on leather, pose on your motorcycle, wave and give others a
"thumbs up", wait for your "kitchen pass"...and imagine dudes in women's
clothing?
I guess everyone has to do something...



(sorta like that)
Brian,apparantly, above is your method/version of taking stuff out of
context, and honestly, it was humorous the way you wrote it.
But, your version/method does not show quotes, like I did in mine of
what you actually wrote, word by word. <g> (;~}.
Above what you wrote in response to me is misCharacterizing, what I
(sorta) wrote.
All in fun, on this nice, sunny Saturday, atleast it is over here.
(chuckle)

B. Jay Kana--
NETexas
03Valk-&-98 Magna
Have a Dandy Day--

 

Gosh Brian, I thought you'd be happy to hear from me, lol. I can't see where
I said anything that might have offended you? Heck, I even chatted a bit
about the weather, lol. You'll have to excuse my curiosity, it's just not
very often you see some one get so excited over what most people would
consider a minor inconvenience. I couldn't help but wonder if you'd taken
steps to see that it didn't happen again, that's all. Lord knows, no one
should have to go through life putting up with what you had to put up with
this morning, lol. All those 'borrowers', it must have been hell, lol.

If, in your opinion, rolling my eyes and chuckling about all the
'borrowers' you had to put up with this morning constitutes infatuation, I
won't try and argue the point with you, lol. Again, hope your day went a
lot better then it started.

Vic

 

I don't have "bad" days.

Since you're so determined to stalk me: I tried to get some rest from
the past several weeks, but my phone wouldn't stop ringing from all the
people all over the country trying to arrange travel in the next couple
weeks before Christmas and the year's end. It seems I've had many
people who decided to wait and are now trying to figure out ways to get
me onsite...even though I've been telling them I've booked up December
back in September. I also tried to get my car worked on (long overdue
projects and neglect...adding bigger cams, injectors, changing the
timing belts, new clutch, and a couple interior issues), but didn't
find anyone to do the work today. Everyone wants to work on it tomorrow
and into the weekend, so I have to drop it off then. I went by and
checked on the progress with my house and saw it was going well. The
floors and cabinets are out now and the contractors are starting on the
new walls. I left the list for them and pointed out a couple things I
hadn't noticed before. I spent the day running around in my jeep since
my car is going into the shop. Trying to get caught up on everything
before going back on the road next week is tough, but not a problem for
me.

My day didn't start out bad...I can't speak for the twats I ran into at
the business center though. Perhaps a loser/nobody like yourself would
let some loser/nobody like what I ran into affect the entire day, but
loser/nobodys aren't worth my time/effort. If you honestly read into my
posting that some nobody like those two would make for a bad day,
you're sorely mistaken. Personally, I enjoyed pointing out what a
nobody that one guy was.

 

I guess to some pussy who can't pass a small group of motorcycles on a
4 lane highway with shoulders and on a motorcycle yourself without
throwing a tantrum by flipping lights to bright and honking horns at
them...while screaming and spitting inside your helmet, the answer
would be to cry and whine to a desk clerk about being in "line".

I think you should trash your (correct) spell checker and start
actually reading the context of your postings.

That being said, I didn't figure a usenet pussy like you would even
come close to understand anything in my post.

 

LMAO.. Poor ol'Bill Fright is something, isn't he ? hmmm.. Wonder if he
is still making movies, or some such shit ? I think you are overstating his
reactions to that group of riders, on that fateful day.. I doubt seriously
that
the boy could bring himself to actually confront anyone like that..
<chuckle>
Hell.. who knows, they might even ditch him and kick his fat ass..

Bill Walker
Irving

 

Yeah, I forgot all about those movie offers he was making around
here...kinda sorta like the trike building offers we've seen, huh?

Nah, I believe he sat behind those motorcyclists flashing his lights,
honking his horn and just generally throwing a tantrum. Those
motorcyclists probably had a good chuckle about it too.

 

LOL... What's to "know".. You posted it.. let the chips fall where they
will..
<evil grin> If your own post is to be believed (which I seriously doubt)
you
made an ass out of yourself on the highway (I don't think you've got that
kind
of balls).. then, you posted it on a motorcycle newsgroup and made an ass
out
of yourself, again.. yuk, yuk.. that's all, folks..

 

ROTFL... bet'cha Brian can figure out how to get past a group of motorcycle
riders on the highway without making a complete ass out of himself.. whether
he's riding a Harley, wearing a Harley t-shirt, or riding a Honda..
According
to you, that's a major problem when you try to ride.. wha'cha think, sparky
?

 

Or c) they stop by the HD dealers of the cities they visit and pick up
a t-shirt to remind them of where they've been.

Oh by the way, (comma...proper usage) your "a)" doesn't make a bit of
sense. It's a t-shirt! Nobody makes friends by the t-shirts they wear!

Or I could go to the business center and use theirs for the one time
I'd need it.

Only a disfunctional idiot would buy a new printer to only print one
page document and that's it.

Then again, look who suggested buying a printer for that one page use...

 

So far, the only dealership I've been into to buy one of those "fad"
t-shirts and the people weren't nice and friendly was Curly's in
Greensboro NC. My favorite two places were Temecula and Orange Park
Florida. Now those two knew how to have a good time!

The one in Raleigh NC was cool, but not the same. They had this little
piece of cut steel on the curb. I stopped and asked what it was for and
they said to ride the motorcycles from the parking lot to the showroom.
I told them that one day they'd learn to ride the motorcycles where
they wouldn't need a ramp to get up a 2" curb.

Maybe if Bill Fright would spend a little less time honking his horn
and flashing his lights at other motorcyclists, he might be able to get
along with them enough to enjoy himself...as opposed to wishing dudes
had a pussy...

 

How do you know what I'm "capable" of? You've never met me.

I'll tell you one thing I *am* capable of, I'm capable of riding with
other motorcyclists and riding the way I want without having to get
pissed off and make an ass of myself. I'm also capable of having a nice
time with others around me instead of sitting around being a lonely
bitter slug like you've proven yourself to be.