Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting involved in an MLM (which is bad enough) and then your whole Facebook/IG presence, which was previously just funny memes and pictures of your kids and pets for your friends and family, is now scammy engagement bait. “Friends! Are you still cleaning with toxic chemikills?!?! Ask me how to clean with just WATER!!! And how you can earn money from home!!!!!111”

I can live with that. I think it's worse to get a message from an old friend, sounding like they want to reconnect, and then it's actually a bait and switch and they try to sell you something!

I got a scammy DM like this from an old friend in the middle of my very close relative’s funeral, thinking it was a well wishes of some sorts, but nope it was for beach body. Phone turned off and immediately blocked.

[Anonymous]

Tailgating other drivers
Not using your turn signal

Spitting your gum out anywhere but trash

Leaving a mess on the toilet seat. Either sit down or clean up after yourself.

Not offering your seat on bus/metro to someone in greater need than you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pulling up to the curb to run into Starbucks or the dry cleaners.

Everyone is just dropping off or picking up, park in a parking space and walk in like the rest of us.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parking in two parking spots or even worse, parallel parking in vertical parking spots to keep your precious sports car free of neighbors

On cold blustery days standing in a doorway, holding the door open to talk to somebody inside the shop

Arguing with customer service reps or cashiers at a store

Letting your dog run off leash in a park

Taking your dog to a school playground to play in the fenced in field

Not picking up your dog’s poop.

[Anonymous]

People who park themselves for hours at a table in a café and proceed to take loud work calls and/or attend Zoom meetings, shouting into the phone or mic like they are in their damn office. There are always men doing this at Northside Social in Falls Church. Serious lack of social skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Getting involved in an MLM (which is bad enough) and then your whole Facebook/IG presence, which was previously just funny memes and pictures of your kids and pets for your friends and family, is now scammy engagement bait. “Friends! Are you still cleaning with toxic chemikills?!?! Ask me how to clean with just WATER!!! And how you can earn money from home!!!!!111”

+1,000. Bonus points for “all companies are MLMs!! Walmart has managers!!” and “don’t you want to help a Mama pay for her daughter’s dance lessons or her son’s baseball?” Gag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who park themselves for hours at a table in a café and proceed to take loud work calls and/or attend Zoom meetings, shouting into the phone or mic like they are in their damn office. There are always men doing this at Northside Social in Falls Church. Serious lack of social skills.

I worked at a restaurant in a business district in college and we had dudebro corporate Chads who would buy a cup of coffee or a bagel and then spend all day conducting “meetings” and “interviews” with a rotating cast of characters at the table.

[Anonymous]

Judgemental people like you.

[Anonymous]

What to me is a TA, judging others without offering to help... i.e. the grocery cart. Maybe someone has trouble walking, breathing, etc. and could use some help. A simple, is there anything I can do to help and returning the cart if it bothers you so much would make you a far better person than judging them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Judgemental people like you.

The loud talker in public places, no headphones, hogging a cafe table, no-picker-upper of poop poster has arrived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What to me is a TA, judging others without offering to help... i.e. the grocery cart. Maybe someone has trouble walking, breathing, etc. and could use some help. A simple, is there anything I can do to help and returning the cart if it bothers you so much would make you a far better person than judging them.

Yeah, no. I've tried to help and I've never had the person not get mad, huffy and/or offended. Probably caused by embarrassment for what is actually a version of being called out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who park themselves for hours at a table in a café and proceed to take loud work calls and/or attend Zoom meetings, shouting into the phone or mic like they are in their damn office. There are always men doing this at Northside Social in Falls Church. Serious lack of social skills.

I once saw people conducting whole ass job interviews at the Panera inside Tysons Mall. I don’t think they were super-legit interviews or anything, probably something like Cutco knives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Driving a cybertruck

This plus not scooping after your dog and being rude to staff are definitely in my top ten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's TA?

Tumbling armadillo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who park themselves for hours at a table in a café and proceed to take loud work calls and/or attend Zoom meetings, shouting into the phone or mic like they are in their damn office. There are always men doing this at Northside Social in Falls Church. Serious lack of social skills.

I once saw people conducting whole ass job interviews at the Panera inside Tysons Mall. I don’t think they were super-legit interviews or anything, probably something like Cutco knives.

There was a woman who did this almost every day at Peet's (now something else, but still a cafe) next to Trader Joe's on Route 7. Her whole job must have been just recruiting because she was there almost every day for months, interviewing person after person. It's funny you say "Cutco knives" because that is the exact kind of thing I thought of when I saw this person. She seemed to be interviewing a lot of people who might not have had many jobs before, and she would act so serious and aggressively professional, and it's like lady -- you don't even have an office...