A person who's personality is so hostile that every facet of their actions is geared towards creating friction throughout their surroundings? A typical "chip-on-the-shoulder" person.
Especially in a place like Luby's. It's so hard to resist picking a fight around other's who are trying their best to decide between fried okra or macaroni and cheese.
But, the other day I had the fortunate opportunity to meet such a person, who seemed to lack the ability to control their ability to be an idiot.
You have to be an idiot to try to pick a fight in Luby's.
This woman was trying her best to get in a fight with anyone around her. First, she tried got in a fight with her man friend, who then decided to get out of line and stand against the window as she proceeded through. Then, as she near's the meat selections, he decided he want to get a tray and rejoin her.
She then asks us if we're going to let him cut in front of us, to which we just didn't care.
But because we didn't "answer her right," she decided to loudly repeat herself and loudly question why we didn't "answer her right."
And when we didn't take the confrontational bait, she set her sights on the Luby's servers, questioning them until they didn't have an answer, then getting mad at them for not knowing how much each portion of each kind of meat was.
And right away, she went for what seemed to be her primary weapon. She got loud. She got loud and threatened to "hold up this whole !#^&%?^ line!" Followed up by her loud exclaimations that she wanted to jump over the line and smack the smirks off the server's faces and that she gave tham all a "freebie" by not doing so.
Seriously? Yup...seriously. I know three-year-olds that don't pitch that big of fits - that's because they know better. If my kid ever acted like this so-called adult, they wouldn't be able to sit for a month.
Seems to me like this lady missed out on a few spankings as a kid.
Ever meet a person like this? Grind that...and let me know.
Mike Tobias
Port Arthur News
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Luby's can be a very crazy place. I haven't seen it as crazy as your blog describes, but when you have very hungry people waiting in a line that long mixed with a sometimes geared up service crew, you've got the potential for a nasty situation. I know the salad ladies are usually tempered because they're constantly rejected by people who don't want to burn one of their options with a salad.
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