The Horse gets cursed out last night! Has your spouse ever embarrassed you?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205633)
Walnut Creek, California
July 1, 2017 10:42am CST
Yesterday evening, as I was driving to my softball game, those flashy crosswalk lights went on near a newish apartment complex. Those flashy lights mean you don't have to stop, but they alert you that a pedestrian intends to cross there.
I stopped and watched what appeared to be couple crossing in front of me. The woman looked Latina and was about 30. The guy was caucasian, had neatly trimmed red beard, and was also about 30. What was slightly strange was that the woman, who was wearing sunglasses, appeared to be looking right at me. I expected a little wave of thanks, as many people do, but there was none.
After they passed, I laughed and said from my open window, "What, no little wave of thanks?" I expected one of them to laugh with me and say, "Oh, we have entitlement issues!" or something like that.
Instead, the woman advanced toward my car, like someone about to jump you, and said, "Why don't you just f*ck off!" The man looked with an expression somewhere between horror and surprise.
If she starts a row (I'm being British here to show how much more cultured and sophisticated I am than she), and I turn out to be some psycho-killer, the poor guy is going to be the one who ultimately has to protect them from the Raging Horse.
I wanted to say "Why don't you get a better life!" but just laughed and said "Have a good one!" as I drove off. I had a game to play and wanted to have time to warm up.
Have you ever had a spouse or loved one with anger issues severe enough to put you in an embarrassing or dangerous situation? I did have a girlfriend once who yelled without reason at some kids playing in our driveway, but nothing beyond that that I can recall.
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26 responses
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
1 Jul 17
Maybe she thought you were trying to hit on her hahah. People's assumptions now a days! 
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@vandana7 (98804)
• India
1 Jul 17
@TheHorse .. Me thinks she did not like you reminding her that she forgot or lacked manners...I do snap at times..when I have one thing too many on my hands...phoning me can be a bad idea. lol. I remember Hora called me up...and I treated him like any other salesperson told him..not interested curtly...no patient hearing...lol. That was the first time. After that I have become careful.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
1 Jul 17
@TheHorse
Yes, and if you have that vibe 
then they go on social media and blast it omg someone tried to hit on me.
Sometimes it's their imagination. There are some people who are just trying to be nice and some who really are or are creeps. I have a girl on my Facebook that writes posts like this everyday.
then they go on social media and blast it omg someone tried to hit on me.
Sometimes it's their imagination. There are some people who are just trying to be nice and some who really are or are creeps. I have a girl on my Facebook that writes posts like this everyday.4 people like this
@vandana7 (98804)
• India
1 Jul 17
Non stop. Like in the other home (single bedroom unit), dad did not like people placing their footwear on steps. He lifted them and threw them left and right in neighbor's compound, some outside...footwear should be kept inside the house he'd screamed. I returned home after the day's work, and there they were all ladies standing in front of gate..talking and I got told look what your father did. Hmmmmmmm I am not his mother.
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@ptrikha_2 (45463)
• India
1 Jul 17
And why really the neighbours keeping their shoes or slippers there
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@ptrikha_2 (45463)
• India
2 Jul 17
@TheHorse Many still do that. But many of us live in much more similar style to the way you or people in UK live.("The Western way").
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
1 Jul 17
No has never happened to me..I avoid all dangerous situations now.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
1 Jul 17
@TheHorse Yeah know what you mean..I guess I take that back too.. I have seen one person go off the deep end with absolutely no control whatsoever..someone close to me..now I avoid that at all costs..very dangerous.
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@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Jul 17
@TiarasOceanView I hope this person didn't drag others down with him or her.
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@LadyDuck (457967)
• Switzerland
1 Jul 17
@TheHorse The problem is that he had already warned several times the kids, asking them to go to play in another area. That time he was very upset and he yelled at the kids. I have to say that, at the difference when he had been polite, it never happened again.
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@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
2 Jul 17
@Courtlynn Where are you? Remind me! I'm tired of people walking around like they're afraid of each other. What ever happened to Louis singing "What a Wonderful World"?
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
1 Jul 17
No, I actually tend to be the one with some anger issues. I do not do things like curse out traffic. I did embarrass my first spouse once in Wal Mart, when I got annoyed at a cashier. I was also a Wal Mart employee at that time. It is enough to make a person grumpy.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
1 Jul 17
Wow that was extreme of her.
Sometimes my husband jokes too much, that's not usually a bad thing unless someone doesn't realize he's kidding. At times I have had to tell people, sorry he's just a jokester.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
1 Jul 17
@TheHorse My husband forgets that not everyone knows him or his sense of humor.
@FourWalls (62090)
• United States
1 Jul 17
Honestly, in this day and age, I'm more surprised when people do wave a thank-you when you let them pull out in traffic or stop at the crosswalk. And yes, they probably do have entitlement issues. Too many people in this country do. (Think Kennedy could be elected today if he were alive and tried that "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" crap on this generation???)
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@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Jul 17
I do the wave and jog thing, unless I'm carrying coffee or something. Sometimes I'll wave even if I'm the one driving, as if to say, "I see you." That sometimes leads to a reciprocal wave. But Californians, particularly here in the suburbs, are notorious for entitlement issues.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
1 Jul 17
That really was uncalled for. I hope that her boyfriend said something to her. I don't know what she was thinking about to be in such a mood!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
1 Jul 17
@TheHorse Whatever was going on, it certainly didn't bring out her best side.
@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jul 17
@CoralLevang I'm glad that it's not "attached" to Eros for you. Some women I've worked with who were abused as kids seek out abusers for lovers.
@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jul 17
@CoralLevang I'm glad to hear that. Just eat some chocolates and see what you find.
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
1 Jul 17
Dang, she was rude @TheHorse . She must have thought she was something 'special'.
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@celticeagle (158958)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jul 17
SOme people just get up in the morning with a attitude and it seems to grow during the day. I lived with a man who had anger issues. I did too so we made a great couple. We could get a long for about three months and then he'd get drunk and all of it would come to the surface.
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@just4him (306024)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Jul 17
That was uncalled for on her part. I can't imagine anyone doing something like that. I think she has something wrong in the brain somewhere when a simple comment, made in an amusing manner can evoke such anger in a person. I don't recall anyone getting angry for no reason.
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@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jul 17
As @clara2017 pointed out, she may have had psychological issues that I didn't anticipate when I joked with her.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
2 Jul 17
Yes and many times, but nothing I will discuss on mylot.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
2 Jul 17
I always wave thanks just because I'm so shocked that someone actually stopped to let me cross.
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@clara2017 (11)
• Australia
2 Jul 17
rude people are still every where, I don't like any sort of embarrassment so I always stay away from my cousin who has such character of yelling at everyone for nothing i can't stand her,
you did well taking it easy may be she had a psychological problem.
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