Fail beg is fail...

[Dante]

Now, I have a certain respect for anyone who has ever had to beg for food, that is... it has to be one of the most humbling and psychologically painful experiences on the planet that I know of. It's a situation I wish I could rectify around the entire globe granting every human being a good meal and dignity, to be honest I certainly love food, that is a fairly obvious conjecture... But I'm also anything but rich and generally gather huge amounts of calories in a single meal taking all-you-can-eat to it's limits to minimize cost. (Eat now or starve later...)

All the same, there is a certain risk to the whole thing... Sometimes the people you'd ask don't have what you're looking for, or they might be having a hard time of it too and can't afford to help out.

However, today I was granted insight into an example of begging that was quite beyond my comprehension of understanding, it failed in such a manner that I had no actual understanding of how to respond and WWJD was failing me quite a bit. It wasn't even wrong.

Said freshman walked up to me in the cafeteria with a set of odd conjectures, he had concluded that every other student (except for him) on campus had meal credits which allowed students on the plan to buy an entire meal for a single credit. Needless to say, I live off campus and don't always eat in the cafeteria, I simply don't own such a plan, I pay for my meals out of pocket. If I had such credits more then I knew I was going to use, I'd probably help someone else out by letting them use them - but I don't own such credits. Even then, that's generally done between friends to my knowledge and not between strangers.

That doesn't begin to compare to his reaction however when I apologized for the inconvenience and informed him I didn't own such a plan.

His response will go down in the history of epic failures for begging for all eternity. He scowled at me to my face and responded by saying:

"What?! You look pretty [modsnip. No cursing even if it's starred out, please] fat to me!" - Epic Fail Begger

Rule #-1: When begging do not walk up to the person you are begging from and before they get two seconds to think insult them to their face.

Rule #-2: Do not insult potential instructors who can fail you on whim .

Rule #-3: Do not phrase a vast difference of strength against your favor in the form of an insult or antagonizing phrase while within pancaking distance of said newly formed opponent.

I wasn't quite sure how to respond, I mean... How does one respond to someone who goes out of their way to insult you while begging?! How does one act 100% arrogant while begging?! I didn't even know those two things could be combined ROLF. So, I couldn't help myself, I'm not sure how evil it was, but I just didn't say anything, flipped him the backside of my palm and laughed my head off as I walked out the room. I mean, how can you contain laughter at that?!

I mean, I hope I didn't do anything too cruel or mean, but just what could I do?! So, I'm laughing and I haven't stopped laughing for an hour and figured I'd let other people know as well.

[SnoringFrog]

Wow...that's a new one. Bad attempt at guilt-tripping you, maybe? lol.

[Shao Feng-Li]

"Get a job."

Or something like that would have been a good come back.

Man, some people are just awful. If he were actually hungry, I don't think he would have done that.

[Tsukuyomi]

It's hard to tell if he had no means of paying for is meal, or if he was just looking a way out of using his meal credits o.O

I would've chuckled a bit too and attach a,"I'm sorry, but I really don't have any to give out." ^^;

[ChristianKitsune]

Aww that's rather weird indeed!

I guess it was a better reaction than getting seriously angry at him... Still I would have apologized again and then removed myself and laughed about it later...not sure the palm idea was a very nice thing. And may have been a bit immature. :/

God calls us to love those who hate us, I'm not sure what you did was very loving.

Although I am not sure what I would have done in such a situation... maybe just stare at the person and start crying? XDDD

[Ante Bellum]

That's pretty low...not to mention brainless. Is it true about the instructor part?

[Dante]

Is it true about the instructor part?

In all truthfulness, yes. would I do it, no... although if he acted like that towards me or other students in class I can tell him to leave (and throw his paper out/call security if he refuses (with repeat offenses punishable by dropping him with a WF)) nobody realizes this about their instructors until they become one, but how we control our grading and whether we choose to curve ect... all of that is up to us. That's why sadistic instructors get a reputation... they get pleasure out of hurting others to an extent. Meanwhile those that grade towards the happier end of the spectrum gain their own reputation as good... because they gain pleasure out of seeing their students thrive... even if that's an artificial thriving. Choose your guides and role models wisely .

Mind you. Not all who are sadistic started out that way... I think a good portion just got sick of seeing kids that felt they were "owed" the grade just for signing up for the course.

Generally though, I'd feel like a pretty bad instructor if I were to take my vendetta out on someone for doing something dumb like that... their attitude suggests they have plenty of other ways they'll manage to fail the course by the time it's over anyways...

Aww that's rather weird indeed!

I guess it was a better reaction than getting seriously angry at him... Still I would have apologized again and then removed myself and laughed about it later...not sure the palm idea was a very nice thing. And may have been a bit immature. :/

God calls us to love those who hate us, I'm not sure what you did was very loving.

That seems like the harder road to travel, so it's probably the right one... If I hit the situation again (and I really hope I don't) I think I might just try that one.