My wife and I were at Lowes this morning picking up a few things for a project or two for this weekend. While loading her Explorer with our goodies that we had just purchased, a guy pulls up in a Mazda sportscar of some variety and parks across from me. No big deal. For some reason, he's barking at his wife about not taking her coffee cup to throw it away... again, no big deal... well, he snares his coffee cup, and hers (both stryofoam from a gas station) and picks them up from the two-seater. He then proceeds to bark a little more at her as they're walking towards the store. While in route to the store (mind you, we're both parking in the LAST space in the lot -- a half-mile away from the store), he stops at a F-150 that is parked out a little ways and tosses his cups into his bed.

Being the type of guy that I am, I roll down my window and yell at him -- "Is that your truck big guy?" He kept walking. I yelled again -- "Yeah, I'm talking to you -- the guy who just tossed the trash from his car in the back of that truck that isn't yours...". He finally turns around. "Mind your own business as$hole..." he replies.

At this point, I begin to fume. This a-hole has just told me to screw-off because I called him on being a butthole. Well, I took exception to this.

I drove around the lot as if I was leaving and pulled back into the spot where I was originally parked - across from this twerp. I jump out, grab the coffee cups from this guys bed and take them over to this guy's car and toss them inside -- did I mention that the Mazda was a convertible and he left his top down? They were empty -- I wouldn't have tossed a full cup of coffee into his car (well, I don't think I would've). Another guy saw ALL of this go down and he pulled up beside me. His suggestion was that I go in and buy a can of white paint and dump it on his black two-seater's interior. Naturally, we didn't do this but both got a nice chuckle out of it.

While I know doing what I did makes me no better off as a person, it made me feel good knowing that this total a$$hole got what he had coming -- well, at least a little portion of it.

It's not that it's a F-150 that recieved his garbage; quite the contrary. I would've done this if it was a 1981 beater. It's that this jerk thought it kosher to dispose of his garbage in the back of this truck rather than carrying it to the door where a trashcan sat and properly disposing of his junk. I thought I'd share.... I'm really not a vengeful type of guy but I guess I'm still a little p'ssd off at that jerk.

-RP-

 

Rockpick; You done good. We, pickup owers, need to stand up for eachother in situations like this. Way to go.

 

Nicely done RP.

 

Hopefully the A-hole will get the message though I doubt it. He'll probably just take it out on his wife in some verbally abusive tirade.

 

Wouldn't it have been great to watch his face when he saw the cups? Good job. How much more would it have been for him to put them in the trash at the door?

 

a big thank you to RP from pickup owners everywhere.

 

If I were you RP, I have a lot of crap (garbage) in the trunk of my Mounty... If I saw him throw is crap in someone Else's truck, car what ever, I would have pulled up next to that punks car, and did the same to his... throw all my crap in his car. whats the big deal? he throws his garbage in someones Else's truck, why can't I throw mine in his?


man, I have a lot of crap I could have thrown in his car

 

He would have had a nice black eye to go along with the cups in his car had I been there.

 

Wheres Jamz when you need him?

 

Good one RP!
I thought you were in NY picking up a Thing?

 

That's a much more politacally correct way than I would have done it.By the time it was over, cops from 3 different counties would have been there....

 

Ahhh...I've had this happen to me several times at school, because my truck bed is much closer than the recycling bin. I always figure out who it is, and make them clean it out. They are always shocked when I come into their classrooms and tell them to go clean out my truck.

 

A couple years ago I saw a car bump into another parked vehicle in a parking lot, maybe a couple of hundred $$ worth of damage. Afterwards I also overheard the three (kids) occupants joking about the old joke of leaving a note saying something to the effect "other people think I am leaving you my phone number because I just damaged your vehicle, but I won't tell you who I am" kind of thing.

After all their laughing and hooting about the note they left, but I had already made a quick observation, then I went to read the note after they were out of sight...

After reading the note, I add a little extra sentence to the bottom of the note that read "also, I forgot to tell you that my vehicle description is "XXXX", and my license plate number is "xxx xxx" ", with xxx being the real numbers btw.

I never knew if it worked, but it made me feel good to do it...

 

It's official now bro. You are my hero.

I'm serious.

People like that **** me off to no end. I'm glad you had the ***** to confront the guy. Most people shake their head and wish they could do something about the problem. You just did it.

You da man.

 

I'm glad I wasn't there. I would have shot him. Well, not really, but it would have been tempting.

Nice show, BTW.