An Important Life Lesson about Assholes

[thinkkank]

There's an old guy that lives in the basement room of our house. He's always yelling. Everyday I can hear him from the floorboards yelling about one thing or another. The sounds of his assholishness blast through every room in the house like they own the damn place.
I was going to do my laundry in the basement and I had to knock on the basement door to get entry. That ray of sunshine opened the door and immediately began yelling about one clump of dust on the ground. Keep in mind my roommate and I always clean the floors because the landlord told us to. Every now and then some dust builds up. The floor was for the most part clean. The way the old guy yelled you would've thought it was a pool of diarrhea, vomit and dumpster juice.
He berated me non-stop for 5 minutes with no interruptions. I think he took one breath and just let all of those words fly out at the highest volume possible. It was incredible breathe work. In another life he would have been an opera singer.
I had to calm him down by reassuring him that the dust can't hurt him and that I would clean it up as soon as I put the laundry load in the machine. He stormed away huffing and puffing.
I learned that assholes get angry like dogs bark. A dog always barks at everything. They can't help it, that's who they are. I would never get offended at a dog barking because I know that it is natural to them. It's the same with assholes. Assholes get mad at everything. They can't help it even if they wanted to. I don't take it personally because that's who they are. It has nothing to do with me, it's in their DNA to get upset over everything.
Anyways I just wanted to get that off my chest.

 

[reclaimedbynature]

I don't know.. I imagine more people tend to ignore them as well, it's when these ''assholes'' get violent or act on their will that it becomes a problem. I think you handled it very well though.

 

[Little_Suzy]

I just realized I'd never lived in a house with a basement or been in one!

 

[wait.what]

There's an old guy that lives in the basement room of our house.

I like how you make it sound like he's just kind of … there. Like he's a utility included in the rent. You know, "Two-car attached garage, washer and dryer, new furnace, asshole installed in basement."

 

[lemonbunny]

I like how you make it sound like he's just kind of … there. Like he's a utility included in the rent. You know, "Two-car attached garage, washer and dryer, new furnace, asshole installed in basement."

this made it so funny to me, idk why.

assholes will be assholes indeed

 

[Grav]

Weird. Ever ask the landlord why he lives there (assuming he pays rent) and why he's such an asshole? Most of these people I've met stop barking if you don't respond to them. But then I've had a few that do it to push someone around. Those have gotten a "you know I'd really like to stab you in the eyes and leave" in a calm voice and a smile then walk off. Others, old people, I've told them "You know being an old fuck, you might want to change your tune since your time is limited and you'll be meeting someone". I know belief in afterlife, etc but it's pretty funny if you say that with someone else around to laugh at the shithead. Does he just yell to yell? Does he have some condition that's not being treated?

I just realized I'd never lived in a house with a basement or been in one!

Always had a basement, even an old one in a house build 1848. My sister-in-law (wife's brother's wife) won't go in basements, she has a fear of them. If she gets snarky I just invite her to ours in that Norman Bates' kind of way.

 

[thinkkank]

Weird. Ever ask the landlord why he lives there (assuming he pays rent) and why he's such an asshole? Most of these people I've met stop barking if you don't respond to them. But then I've had a few that do it to push someone around. Those have gotten a "you know I'd really like to stab you in the eyes and leave" in a calm voice and a smile then walk off. Others, old people, I've told them "You know being an old fuck, you might want to change your tune since your time is limited and you'll be meeting someone". I know belief in afterlife, etc but it's pretty funny if you say that with someone else around to laugh at the shithead. Does he just yell to yell? Does he have some condition that's not being treated?



Always had a basement, even an old one in a house build 1848. My sister-in-law (wife's brother's wife) won't go in basements, she has a fear of them. If she gets snarky I just invite her to ours in that Norman Bates' kind of way.

He was there long before I moved in. I think he's family friends with the landlord

 

[thinkkank]

life taught me another lesson about assholes. they get triggered easily.

my roommate yelled at me because there was a can of tuna in the garbage can. We have a recycling can and a garbage can in the kitchen. I put a single can of Tuna in the garbage can by mistake. He saw it and yelled at me for five minutes. He stood close to my face and started yelling about how I have to do my part to "save the environment" and how I have to care about the environment. He was so close I could smell his breath and count his nose hairs.
We're talking about a single can of Tuna. Not radioactive waste or tonnes of plastic. One can of Tuna. He thought one can of tuna was going to destroy the environment.
He was clearly taking his issues out on me. The problem wasn't the can. He's never shown any interest in environmentalism before, but now all of a sudden he's captain planet.
I had to calm him down and assure him that I would take the can out and never do it again.
He's a crybaby and an asshole. If I told him that garbage gets sorted by machines and workers at waste management plants and that a single can of tuna would end up being recycled anyways he wouldn't listen.
I took the whole experience to be a lesson from the universe, reminding me that assholes and babies will cry over the smallest things.
Maybe I should give him a pacifier so that the next time he gets upset and cries he can suck it until he feels calm.