So it’s been a couple hours since this “incident,” but I’m still thinking about it and peeved.
Today I got to class early because we had an exam review session. This meant I’d be in the same seat from 12-2:40, so I decided to plug in my laptop. Normally I don’t have to, but I didn’t want to risk my battery dying and losing all my notes. I arrived early, plugged in my laptop, and started taking notes.
The lecture hall I was in has dual outlets between every 2 sets of chairs. However, the first two rows do not have outlets and have to plug into the ones behind them. So I plugged into the outlet behind me.
My cord was laying across my lap when, all of a sudden, I start to feel a tugging on my power cord. It starts digging into my arm and jiggling my laptop more and more. I turn around to see if someone tripped on it. Instead, a girl who had arrived late is sitting in the row behind me with my cord, unplugged, in her hand. Oh I SEE. She was trying to get my attention by yanking on my cord hard enough to pull my laptop right off my desk.
So I turn around to see what needed my attention. OH. My computer is UNPLUGGED. Perhaps it came unplugged on its own somehow? No.
Fuckingcuntbitchsittingbehindme: (flailing my unplugged power cord in her hand like some kind of dirty sweatsock that she can’t be bothered to touch) “Yeah I need this outlet so I need you to plug this in somewhere else.”
Me: “Umm… do you want me to fuck you up? Because I will fucking cut you if you do not plug my laptop in right-the-fuck-now. Who the fuck do you think you are that you can just unplug people’s shit? I pay almost $30 fucking thousand a year to have access to one fucking outlet and if you don’t back off, you won’t live to see graduation. Oookaaaaaaaaaay….”
All I could muster was a dirty look and then I had to get up, mid lecture, and plug my cord into a different outlet. Why she could not just use the open outlet on the other side of her, I do not know. But I am still pissed. Who just unplugs someone else’s computer because she feels like it? Because she wants to use the outlet right under her and not the one a foot further away?
I told John and I’m pretty sure his head exploded. He’s still asking me about it, still angrier than even I am. Which is pretty funny, considering I’m the hot-tempered one and I’ve only seen him truly “mad” maybe four times ever.
I promised him that I would not let anyone walk all over me again like that, and if anyone ever did that to me again I’d give them “what for.” We’ll see I guess…

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April 21, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Andrea
Hell no! I would have been livid. I’m to chicken to stand up for myself. Afterwards, I’m always thinking of the most clever and rude thing to say but it’s too late.
April 22, 2008 at 5:08 pm
whip1
OOh now I’m mad. My husband is always embarrassed by me going off on people. He tries to remind me that in Milwaukee everyone knows each other so if I yell at someone I’ll probably run into them later. Thinking of that has helped me keep my mouth shut. Sometimes. Though it would have been very hard in that situation. You win the zen award of the day.