I was in downtown Chicago. This guy walks up to me and explains that he was in an argument with his gf. He says she hopped in the car and left, leaving him stranded w/ no money to get home. He asked for trainfare to the burbs ($5), which I gave him, then I went on my way. A couple of hours later, I'm on the way home, the same guy walks up to me withe the same bs story!
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I would have done the same thing, and I know you felt like reading him the riot act. Too bad there are so many dishonest people in this world! Hang in there!
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After I read it, I was sorry I clicked on it! What a clown. I really hope my visit isn't the 2,000,000th! Why are you talking it up for him? Guys do stick together, of course, duh, why did I ask! You sure he's not you? How did you know about this site? If he makes it, I hope she welches on the deal and dumps him.\n                just call me: Polly Purebred
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I have quite a few bad date stories.  But the one that takes the cake was the first guy I dated after my divorce 3 years ago.  I decided to be proactive and try the online dating format.  I corresponded with this guy for about a week and he asked me out.  I had not seen a photo (bad move on my part) but agreed to dinner. When I called him to confirm our date I got this really odd voice mail message that made reference to some obscure bible passage.  Now, please understand that I'm not what you would call religious.  My profile clearly referenced my musical tastes and what you would call "new age" interests  While I thought the voicemail thing a bit odd, I tried to maintain a positive attitude so we set up a time for us to go out.  The next night he picked me up at a friend's house and showed up in a mini-van.  Immediately, my reaction was "omg, this is not good".  I walked out to meet him at his vehicle and the inside looked like he lived in it...fast food remnants, sporting goods, etc.I knew this was no love connection but I tried to be a good sport and at least make it through dinner.  We went to a local restaurant where he started to spout off his very fundamentalist religious rhetoric.  He told me that "the government" has already developed "mobile execution stations", I think he meant that these are like the emissons testing vehicles but more sinister.  Basically he said that the end of the world is coming and people who refuse to have a bar code/mark of the beast would be executed.  He leaned into me and serious as a heart attack says "so, what are you going to do on judgement day?  Are you going to take the mark of the beast?" Needless to say "mark of the beast" is looking more appealing by the moment.  At this point, I'm thinking that this date can't get worse...but low and behold it got much worse.  There was a large group of people adjacent to us at this restaurant and were obviously celebrating a child's birthday.  There were helium balloons all over their table.  My date summons the waitress with whom he had been relentlessly flirting with and says "can I ask you a favor"?  Immediately I put two and two together and started praying "god please don't let him do what I think he is about to do"!  You guessed it...he procured a balloon and managed to suck helium and do his best Alvin and the Chipmunks impression.  I started inhaling my dinner in the hopes of getting out of there ASAP.  He managed to get the attention of the entire restaurant and then asked me out again for the next night.  I told him my to take me home and politely declined further dates.  After this fiasco I realized that dating takes a lot or work and a lot of humor.  I started giving my dates silly little nicknames.  This guy was affectionately called "Jesus Boy" by me and my friends.  This was one of many frogs I had to kiss.  Some of the others were "college professor guy whose kitchen looked like a nuclear waste dump",  "Yoga instructor that looked like Yoda" and "transvestite dude" (you figure that one out)! and countless other potential suitors.  I'm happy to say that I finally did manage to find a great guy and we both like to laugh about my very laughable dating exploits!
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It was me. I'm sorry. I should have given you a ride, but I couldnt get all these other cars to stop with me. I was out voted.\n\n\n\n:)
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absolutely the most ridiculous instance of police abuse/brutality that i can recall in many years.....i am appalled...i sent this link to my dad as he and i discuss these issues daily and he says believe it or not it happens everyday all over.....just so happens someone caught this...i cannot believe they expected that guy to just get up...i wonder how easy it would have been for them to get up after being tazed...and to threaten him with tazing again? OUTRAGEOUS!...he was obviously incapacitated if he couldnt even get up so where was the threat to them that would have caused them to do it again!?!...i'd have probably been still puking my guts up too much to get off my knees!...can you say lawsuit?...i hope they get what they deserve...this was totally senseless....thank you for opening my eyes today
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I've done so many outrageous things, that I can't pick one that is the most outlandish!  I'm not sure my current boyfriend knows about all of them, and I certainly do not want to start anything tonight!! I would say, to be on the safe side... that the craziest thing I've done to date was when I flew to Boston from St. Louis to visit an online friend.  Turns out he had a one room basement apartment with only one bed.  Keep in mind that I had never met this person until I visited him. I chose to stay with him in his dinky apartment and sleep next to him for however long I was there.  (I think it was like 4 days or so.)  I told my boyfriend at the time that it was an old friend from school that I was visiting.  I was very young, and the guy I was visiting was a VERY big guy! I must have weighed 105 lbs., and he about 300.   I was outrageously stupid to do what I did.  Nobody knew exactly where I was. I didn't own a cell phone at the time.  I had no money. I could have been killed.. seriously!  But fortune smiled on me and I had the most wonderful time.  The guy was a complete gentleman who truly wanted to show me the sights and introduce me to new foods and people.  I do not recommend ANYONE doing what I did.
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AMEN!!!  Our society has become a nation of Whiners.  Everything that we do if someone doesn't like it, they can whine about and there is a lwsuit for everything.  Whaaaaaa, he looked at me wrong I am suing him.  WTF, Absolutely agree.  People need to realize how good things are and how advanced and papmered we really are.  Take a trip to a REAL homeless shelter, not one of these that has people that just don't like the company at home.  Go feed and listen to someone that is much less fortunate than you and then whine about your car not being at work for only 8 hrs a day out of 24.  geezzzz!!!
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Well here in Illinois they even give tickets for spitting on the street, so yours sounds equally as ridiculous, but ours cost about $75.00 and up for the ridiculous offenses, how much was yours?! I wouldn't worry to much about it, but here they are serious about their money, and will issue you a warrant if you don't pay it!!!! good luck with that! All the  unsolved murders and kidnappings etc. that they could be out solving, yet they always have time to zero in on the most trivial things that it is hard to believe thta there is even a law against, money grubbing little bastards....!!!!
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You really shouldn't have been getting out of your car until you talked to him.  \n\nHe felt like you were threatening him or not listining to his directions.
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MY ANSWER IS THIS. YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PARKING IN PHILADELPHIA. TOO MANY IILEGAL BRIBES AND TOO MUCH TOWING WITHOUT NOTICES FOR HEARINGS AND IT HAPPENED TO ME. WROTE A BLOG ON IT. SICK OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE PERFECT DRIVING RECORDS GETTING HARRASSED BY PHILA PPA. CITY HALL AND THEN PPA LIES AND SAYS OH WELL WE SENT NOTICES-THEN 3 DAYS BEFORE HEARING TO DISPUTE TICKETS YOU TOW SOMEBODY'S CAR? TRUST ME THE FBI WASN'T THERE FOR NOTHING . IM A PI -IN TRAINING AND NOW YA'LL PISSED HALF OF WEST PHILA AND MANAYUNK OFF. WHAT IF I BROUGHT IT TO CITY HALL TO GET PERMIT PARKING INSTEAD? HMMMMMM SO PONDER IT. I CAN'T EVEN PARK ON MY STREET SAT ,FRIDAY BECAUSE COLLEGE KIDS TAKE UP TO PARTY. THEN I GET TICKETED IN MY DRIVEWAY? YET I GOT PICS OF LOCALS PARKED IN TOW ZONES,ON THE SIDEWALKS AND IN FRONT OF FIRE ZONES/HYDRANTS AND NO TICKETS THERE? YEAH. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? LOL MEXXI. CLICK ON TO MY  ICON TO REPLY IF YOU WANT.ANYONE SAY AY! TO THIS?
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My apartment building burned to the ground on January 26,2003.\nApproximately 30 people including myself lost every thing they owned. I lost my car when the building collapsed and managed to walk away that morning with just my daughter, my dog and my purse. \nPeople from all over the county came together to make sure every family in that building had a place to stay that night.\nChurches and civic groups arranged to have furniture and housewares donated by merchants in the area, families donated \nclothes, housewares and more furniture.  Total strangers donated $ to a fund set up to help each family get into a new apartment and to make sure their utilities were connected.\nI worked at a car dealership @ the time and the owner of the dealership gave me a car to drive until I had saved up enough $ to pay for it.\nI had $96.00 in my bank account and an 8 year old daughter to support and was left with absolutely nothing due to something beyond my control and total strangers chose to help me and make sure that I had everything my family needed to get on with our lives.\nI have a completely new understanding of what people's kindness can do. I want to be able to make people realize that you can start over, all you may need is a hand.
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constantly i have been in love with the worst dession maker in history for 4 years.  his latest:  He got a job and had to go to ceder rapids iowa and he got on the gray hound and left.  the first stop it made he got off bought a ticket home and asked god if he would give him a sign.  (he is a truck driver unemployed for a year)  a man came up and asked him if he was a truck driver and he said NO.  Then the guy says well ive been a truck driver for 9 years and you look like a truck driver to me.  Heres your sign now he is looking at being blackballed from all truck driving jobs.  I guess he didnt really want me to be a stay at home mom after all.  PS i have been the one to pay all the bill 3 out of 4 years together.  and yes he is so hot with long hair and he went and shaved it all off in a wim.  what dumb bells
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This actually happened to me.  True story.  I was coming back from the 7-11 after buying a hostess twinkie when this rather disheveled man approached me.  He kept trying to touch me.  I kept pushing him but the more I pushed, the more aggressive he got.\n\nthat's when it hit me.  there was no more room in hell.\n\nI immediatly sprang into action.  I shoved the twinkie in his mouth and kicked him...in a very awkward place.  I ran screaming down Ventura Blvd (in LA) that the zombies were attacking.  Much to my horror, every face that looked at me was that of another zombie.  I was surrounded.  They were everywhere.\n\nNow I am a BIg fan of the (original) film Dawn of the Dead, but I saw what happened to those people...both times.  So I, screw the mall, I'm going to Universal City.  There has to be some safe haven there (hell, Spielberg had his offices there for the longest time).  Sure enough, I make the journey.\n\nSure enough, I was wrong...again.  Nothing but blank stares, lumbering bodies and mob mentality.  When I tried to explain my position to the woman in the booth that she shouldn't charge me three day's salary (hey, I'm underpaid) just to get in, she just looked at me like I was lunch and there was no way for her to crawl through the glass.\n\nI lost it.  I started screaming for asylum and broke through the gates.  I was like Andrew McCarthy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers scremaing, "They're here!  They're Here!"\n\nThey let me out of jail this morning.  Apparently...and I know this is becoming a recurring theme...I was wrong.\n\nIn fact, I think the guy who I stuffed the Twinkie in the mouth was trying to say, "thank you" through all that sponge cake.
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What if your car kicked up a rock and cracked my windshield? Would you feel responsible to pay me? Of course not.\n\nObviously, the person responsible is the kid that threw the rock out into the road. Good luck finding him or getting any money out of him. \n\nAct of God, indeed! Silly woman.
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When I wanted to commit suicide mine's name was Bob.  He was a homeless man sitting on a street corner in our town - which has never been seen before or since - we're a very rural town and I only had $2.10 in my pocket, but knew I had to go to Hardees and get him a drink and a biscuit.  My husband had come through the intersection moments before me and saw him too and thought it odd we had anyone sitting on a street corner.  No one stopped.  Why?  No one saw him, except my husband and myself.  As I handed him the food he didn't even open it - he told me to rely on my faith and convictions and to live freely - I said thank you, I needed that, he said he knew, he had waited for me.  I called my husband and asked him if he had seen the guy and I told him what I had done - he happened to be going back through the intersection - when looked at the time, he hadn't had time to be gone - but he was.  I immediately sought help and began antidepressants.  I've always wondered if he ate the biscuits?  He never did open the package and my husband said it wasn't at the corner either.  I guess that's for Bob and God to know.  He didn't introduce himself - I just seemed to know his name.
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Bad...even though my common sense told me in case emergency, I  was like "oh, he owes his dealer and got his ass kicked. i see". And i'm a sweet girl too.\n\nMy parents should have never raised me in that neighborhood...
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Well, if it's a small community and your friend's well-known it's likely that the officer was told when he went back to his car, "Hey, don't give this guy a ticket," either over the radio, his pager, or his cell phone, by either his dispatcher or the sheirff himself.  The good-ole-boy system's alive and well in my hometown.  Happens often.