OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[MrNubbz]

My business partner used to love to call early Monday morning and later Friday afternoon meetings.

Then I said, I'm gonna have to break away. Those meetings stopped.

Prolly pissed off the Pub/Course Manager

[betarhoalphadelta]

Today at the office, I was walking down the two flights of stairs from my floor, to the cafeteria, to grab some of the worst, most bland office cafeteria food ever, because I didn't have time to pack a lunch like I usually do.

So anyway, I end up stuck behind this guy walking down the stairs very slowly, because... he's on his GD phone, reading and texting.  He's going so slow, but there's enough traffic coming up the stairs, I don't have a chance to get around him.  Finally we get to the bottom, and he takes one step away from the bottom stair, and just stops.  And there's not enough room to get around him.  So I finally just tap him on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me" and he sort of looks back at me blankly, but moves slightly further away from the stairway, and I can finally get around him.

Then after I grab my lunch and I'm headed back up the stairs, on two occasions I encounter people coming down the stairs side by side, just chatting it up, oblivious to oncoming traffic.  Each time they see me, and still make no move to get single file, until they're basically on top of me.  I had to come to a complete stop, because otherwise they would not have moved in time for me to NOT plow into them.

Being back in the office is great, really great!

I saw a post on Instagram... Something to the effect of:

There's nothing worse than when you're a fast walker... And you're walking behind another fast walker but they're only 95% as fast as you. So now you have to either slow down, or you have to suddenly accelerate to comically fast walking to appropriately pass them.

Story of my life. 

[MrNubbz]

I saw a post on Instagram... Something to the effect of:

There's nothing worse than when you're a fast walker... And you're walking behind another fast walker but they're only 95% as fast as you. So now you have to either slow down, or you have to suddenly accelerate to comically fast walking to appropriately pass them.

Story of my life.

Ya well you're trying to get to the ball in the rough and use the foot wedge before anyone notices

[betarhoalphadelta]

Ya well you're trying to get to the ball in the rough and use the foot wedge before anyone notices

Sounds like...

[MikeDeTiger]

I saw a post on Instagram... Something to the effect of:

There's nothing worse than when you're a fast walker... And you're walking behind another fast walker but they're only 95% as fast as you. So now you have to either slow down, or you have to suddenly accelerate to comically fast walking to appropriately pass them.

Story of my life.

This happens a lot to me while driving.  Do I slow down 2-3 mph, or do I risk getting a ticket as I gun it way faster to pass them even though I was already going 10 over the limit?

[bayareabadger]

Only thing worse than Monday morning meetings, is Friday afternoon meetings, especially in the summer.

I had a boss who would do our weekly team check out at 1:30. It wasn’t my favorite, but it was smart from a business sense.