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Laughing at others without being a jerkface.

posted 6 years ago by captainbucky (15252)
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We have this little game at my house. You see I live very close to the main arena/stadium in my city. There is a fire hydrant across the street which people neglect to see because it is sometimes blocked a little bit by tall grass. So every time there is an event at the arena we sit on the deck of my second floor condo and laugh at people who think they have found the perfect spot, only to get out of their car, see the fire hydrant, curse and have to move on. We shout out together YOU CAN'T PARK THERE!

How about some other stories where it is ok to laugh at other people without it being mean or anything.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

Ah, simple pleasures.

😎

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Exactly!

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

😎

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

😄So that's what that was all about! I can see how that would be fun.
We like sitting out on our front porch watching people walk by. We live a block away from a busy street. The ball park is only a couple of blocks away. The video store and a Burger King is a block down. Lots of folks walk by. Many of them are staring down at their phones and occasionally don't notice where they are going. That's amusing!
I can't say that there is much to laugh at but some things do make us smile for one reason or another. I like it when folks are walking by with their dogs. Families going to the baseball games in the summer is nice to see.
There is also a Roller Blade/Boards park across from Burger King, so we see so many teenagers flying by on their wheels. The thing that always makes me smile is the young teenage couples who walk by holding hands. They remind me of what it use to be like back in ancient times.😄

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

I like watching young love too...

Wait your town still has a video store?

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

Yes. Family Video stores still exist here in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois.

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[–] db20db (16229) 6 years ago

It's the only video store still available in my town. I haven't been there yet.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Is it a Blockbuster? What's it called? They actually still rent videos?

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

The name is Family Video.
Yes. They rent movies and games and occasionally they have sales.

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[–] db20db (16229) 6 years ago

It's just not a feasible option for me anymore; it's all the way across town. My local library, which is just a few blocks away and a popular place during the summer,recently upgraded its policy on dvd rentals. I've been enjoying that, coming home with a nice stack of movies after each visit.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

❤️️
I like the library too. Ours is about a 15 minute walk from our house. They are beginning to get a wider selection of movies these days. It use to be fairly limited.
Over the years, I have built up quite a selection so I pretty much have all of the movies the library offers.
There is a great collection of DVDs of our city's history. It's a set of about 10 discs. A local jeweler produced these over many years. I love watching them and seeing the city the way it was back in the day from the late 1800s to present day. It's interesting to see the changes.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

Hmmmm... I wonder what that was all about.
Forget it. I really do not want to know.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

You should get off your ass Cap & trim the tall grass.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Not my property

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

To sit there in comedic anticipation is wrong, cap.

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[–] db20db (16229) 6 years ago

No it's not ! Why was Candid Camera so popular then ?

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Because those people were paid on both sides of the stunt. I do not believe cap paid for his pleasure.

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[–] db20db (16229) 6 years ago

Maybe only after the fact. There's no way so many of those people weren't caught off guard, which was kind of a catchphrase with that program.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Doesn't matter, paid is paid...All negative emotion is erased at declaration. "I'm gonna get a check. I'm goin' to the Sizzler."

cap can't do that. The big cheese cap yucks it up with his out of state relations (from above). It's a bad dream (like in "Dead End").

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[–] db20db (16229) 6 years ago

It does matter. Real people getting caught in the act of being themselves. It doesn't get any funnier than that.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

No it’s a fine thing to do

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

How the hell is that funny? Those people are already at stress & uncomfortable & then discover you busting their balls.

It's a shitty thing to do, cap. The better person woulda saw that the first time, kept their yap shut and trimmed that grass. That-a-way you wouldn't be here today trying to justify your actions.

It's like that cruel fellow who tied the thread to the lady's purse, set it on the side of the road and hid in the bushes. People would stop. Get out to retrieve it---and he'd pull it back by the line of thread that was attached. & lhao.

Of course you didn't hide the hydrant, but, you sure as shootin' tied the string to it.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

I’m not doing anything except laughing at people who thought they could show up exactly the time the concert started and thought they landed a plum spot that no one else saw.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Why would you grudge them that perceived luck?

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Explain how it’s percieved luck

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

They obviously thought they'd lucked into a choice parking slot. That someone had just pulled out of it and they'd arrived at the perfect time. The proper thing would have been for your party to keep their mouths shut and let the people move along. But, that wasn't your intent to begin with. You went out there on the balcony for the express intent of catching someone in such a predicament. That's mean, cap. There is no pleasure there.

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[–] croft_alice (12180) 6 years ago

Drunk people

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Which you often are

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[–] croft_alice (12180) 6 years ago

Not in the slightest

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[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 6 years ago

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

My sentiments exactly.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

They actually can’t hear us when we yell

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[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 6 years ago

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

I’m not. That’s why I said without being a jerk

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Also there is literally nothing you can do . You can’t cut the grass by the hydrant that’s city property. They can’t hear me laugh .

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I get it now.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

I should add that they can’t hear us shouting that out

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

what's the point then ??

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

❤️️Excuse me for butting in here. I think I get the point. This is just my take on it.
It's summer. He is sitting out there on his upper story deck enjoying a drink. It's a lazy afternoon/evening. He is looking out at the traffic around the stadium. This is a distance from his home. He sees this sort of thing with cars and the fire hydrant often in the summer. Apparently, the city is lazy when it comes to cutting the grass along that stretch of street. It is simply something you laugh at on a lazy summer afternoon. You may shout even though they can't hear you. You are laughing while you shout because you have seen this sort of thing over and over.

I may be wrong, but that sounds like the sort of thing that he was talking about.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Nonsense. He doesn't need you to bail him out, Margo. Let him own up to it. He grew it. Let him chew it.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

That is exactly what I’m talking about

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

I'll just bet it is. You stepped out the door, cap.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

No I’m in the door plus I don’t grow the grass

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

I could see Margo doing this, but, you? No.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

What could you see Margo doing ?

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Sitting on her balcony with you pulling into that spot. "Hot damn, Ethel, we're in luck. We're walking distance, safe and no money for parking, darling. You're right, we're goin' Waffle House post game. And no Dutch treat. I'll pay the entire bill!"

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Oh culburn why did you have to go there ...

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

I didn't figure you for this stunt to be frank. I didn't figure Margo either, but, thought I'd give her a noogie nonetheless.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

❤️️ I think that most people do understand what you were talking about. It isn't so much about making fun of anyone. It's just one of those silly things that we are helpless to do anything about so you sit there with your beer and laugh.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Which sounds exactly what the title of the thread is.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

❤️️ Most people did understand .
Now what do we talk about next????
Never mind. I'll see you around! LOL!

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Ya good idea . Thanks for knowing exactly what I was talking about though . Was not complicated

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

But, you were a "jerkface."

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

What could I have done differently

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Well, you won't cut the grass.

Do penance.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

It’s illegal to cut grass owned by the city

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Nonsense.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

How so

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Practicality.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Oh you lay off the sauce

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Me in the sauce? Please! Every time you speak up...

"I was watching Myra Breckinridge and drinking a beer."
"I was guarding the fire hydrant and drinking a beer."
"I was selling apples on the corner and drinking a beer."

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Look at it this way Margo. The other day I was sitting outside enjoying a beer, a man walked by with a bag of groceries, he had a couple of apples fall out of his grocery bag and didn’t notice. I saw a couple of bunnies pop out of the bushes and grab them. I laughed . Should I have ran and told the man , took the apples away and given them back to the man ? Would that have made me a nicer guy ?

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

No, you should give up the sauce, A. B. You should have collected the apples, caught up to the man and returned them, then introduced yourself.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

You’d take good away from hungry animals ?

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Absolutely. That man paid good money for that food. I'd have felt mighty good righting that situation. That's your neighbor.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

He was? How so

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

He lived walking distance to the store. That's your neighborhood, your neighbor. You be neighborly to him-introduce yourself, he'll pass it along, so on & so forth. Maybe sometime you're in need---and you're assisted by your neighborhood.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

He actually drove a pick up truck and his phone died so he had to walk

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

& if you'd been sober you could have driven him.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Oh now I get who you are

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Sure, eating the box lunch I'll stick my snout in there.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

You love your nose candy

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Yes, I'm the SOB who's short 2 apples + a pound of Land O' Lakes Butter.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

❤️️ I'm already laughing! In situations like that, we are just helpless to do anything but laugh.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Exactly . You should have seen the last time I tried to parellel Park. My neighbours were laughing at me. I laughed too

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[–] sambow (114) 6 years ago

Cap, next time put a barrel over the fire plug and after they park there, take the barrel away, take the air out of the tires and wait for the tow truck, then you can really laugh.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

You could have remained inside the condo & searched your soul.

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