"This woman smiled and made a sheep sound."

[Demovictory9]

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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I heard a gross old man say something mean about a little girl's mask.

I was in line behind them at the grocery.

I told her I thought it made her look smart. Her mom said “Thanks”.

[DENVERPOPS]

26. Perfect

your reply was awesome.....

[milestogo]

2. She should have made a gasping for air sound that ends in death.

[IcyPeas]

3. Baaa Baaa?

[C_U_L8R]

4. Every time a magat cries, an angel gets a giggle

Really, just fcuk their feelings. Fcuk em. They bring all the shame and ridicule upon themselves. Idiots.

[XanaDUer2]

5. MAGA tears, sweet nt

[Busterscruggs]

19. Delicious

Aren't they?

[peacefreak2.0]

6. I'm so tired of arrogant, irresponsible people.

A woman was walking down the aisle coughing the other day. I looked her in the eyes and said loudly “put a mask on!” I’m not being polite anymore.

[pazzyanne]

9. + 1 nt

[SCantiGOP]

16. Masks are a sign of tyranny

Children dying in school shootings, and making a 14 year old girl carry her rapist’s baby are merely the costs of freedom.
This message brought to you by USA USA USA

[paleotn]

7. Sounds like when Ralphie had had enough.

Make them look like morons. It's not hard.

[BigmanPigman]

35. Ha, I'm watching A Christmas Story right now...

for the 1,000,001 time.

[IronLionZion]

8. Iliza Schlesinger does a great sheep sound

meeeh baaaa

[NJCher]

17. that IS a great sheep sound

wonder how she does that tiptoe thing.

[TreasonousBastard]

36. En pointe. Ask a ballerina,

[forgotmylogin]

50. Iliza is great!

I didn't know she could stand on her toes. She's never mentioned dance training on her podcast, but she is very into fitness and I wonder if it's just a thing she does or maybe part of a yoga regimen.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

33. Funny!

[SeattleVet]

10. And yet, they are ones that think a livestock dewormer will save them.

[GopherGal]

18. Yes. Maybe should have suggested to her

... that she may have OD'ed on sheep medicine and should get that looked at.

[shrike3]

11. They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

A defining trait with those people.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Another response:

You should really wait until your medications kick in before you leave the house. You are under psychiatric care for those animal noises you're making, aren't you?

[Ziggysmom]

13. That's a good come back!

[GoCubsGo]

22. You gotta throw it right back at them.

If one of them says, "Fucking sheep," the correct reply is, "Nobody wants to hear about your perversions, you creep." Although, sometimes, "Mind your own goddamn business" is all you really need.

[soldierant]

30. Or "Oh, is that what you were doing before you came here?"

[duhneece]

43. Living in red, fundie country, I WILL get a chance to use this...

and I'm ready. I will.

[soldierant]

60. **

[NJCher]

15. that's funny

too bad I'll never get to use it in my blue area.

I did have to travel to a work meeting with a r-winger, though, and when we went to the meeting she put on a mask with sheep on it. I associate with so few of that ilk, however, that I was clueless and remarked, "Oh what cute little sheep."

Whoooosh.

[GoCubsGo]

20. That was actually a fine response.

I suspect she was not happy that it didn't get a rise out of you over it. Even more so that you were oblivious to her intent at the time. She probably though she was being smart wearing it.

[NJCher]

45. good point!

My reaction shows I'm oblivious to her rant with the political situation. Indifference: one of the best weapons, ever.

[Lonestarblue]

52. I would have been tempted to respond with "how cute that you align with sheep."

[yardwork]

48. Perfect response, especially at work.

[raccoon]

63. Beautiful! I was thinking to look at them with concern,

And say, „are you all RIGHT?“

[GoCubsGo]

64. That's a perfect response!

It's a great way to throw it back at them for acting like a weirdo. Walking around, bleating like a sheep is not normal behavior, after all.

[Rocknation]

14. I would have informed her that sheep live longer

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than lemmings.


Rocknation

[Texaswitchy]

21. Good for you.

I did the same thing.

To hell with the anti mask crowd.

[634-5789]

23. Good on you!

[Mr.Bill]

24. I would have asked her what kind of men does

she attract with that call?

[soldierant]

31. Now that's a zinger!

[NJCher]

46. oh man

that is a zinger!

[questionseverything]

25. In the Bible, the sheep are the good ones

The goats are the bad ones

Personally I would not engage but that’s just me

[Sympthsical]

27. I give this a 1% chance it actually happened.

But I do enjoy Twitter story time whenever it comes up.

Did the cashiers applaud?

I bet the cashiers applauded.

[MineralMan]

28. Nice snark, Dude...

Please don't imply that other people are liars. That's just rude...

[Sympthsical]

29. I wasn't implying n/t

[whathehell]

56. Yes, actually, you were.

[Sympthsical]

59. It was more blatantly saying.

Implying connotes a degree of furtiveness in my total disbelief of the story.

[PJMcK]

37. That's not very nice

Why are you so cynical?

[Sympthsical]

41. Because humans don't behave this way

When you're around the internet long enough, you get a nose for the obvious made up story. It's like watching a child lie.

If I insult someone so hard and so relentlessly that they're crying in public, I am sharing what insults I used. I'd also probably get kicked out of the store. There'd at least be surrounding commentary.

Someone with "RESIST!" in their profile (i.e. looking for attention from fellow partisans on Twitter) meets a perfect stereotype of the enemy du jour. That other party does the perfectly stereotypical thing we expect of them (no mask, sheep sound). And then our protagonist, who is super awesome, let land a devastating riposte, perfectly articulated and spoken, until the enemy fled the field, vanquished with no hope of recovery.

They're common trade on the internet. I love them, because they're so clearly made up for attention.

What probably happened is maybe this person saw someone without a mask. Maybe - maybe - thought they got a dirty look. Bought their stuff. And during the drive home they concocted this fantasy story about what they wanted to happen in the encounter. Got home. And boom, there it is.

Receive appropriate applause.

My favorite ending to these stories is when the encounter is over, and then some random character in the background silently gives our protagonist a knowing nod of agreement and solidarity.

They're great. But yeah, 99% of the time, these stories ain't happening in real life. Is the teller the perfect hero with the perfect reaction that perfectly fits your political worldview, and you wish you had thought to do that to someone? Yeah, they wish they had done it, too. That's why we got the creative writing session.

[PJMcK]

44. Thanks for taking the time to write a thoughtful response

I may not agree with your assessment even though I've been on the internet since the early 1990s.

Regardless, I appreciate the time you took to respond. Have a good week, Sympthsical.

[Sympthsical]

51. You too!

I'm not mad about the story or anything. I just think they're really funny.

[PTWB]

49. Top comment right here.

[radius777]

61. Alot of these type of interactions do happen as proven by video

that is often also posted online. We do in fact live in a very divided society and these type of events happen daily.

You seem to be spinning a right-wing narrative that these events are hoaxes or false flags.

[Sympthsical]

62. There are crazy people out there.

First off, can we stop with the "right-wing" stuff any time someone says something that's disagreed with? Words have meaning. I don't limit my enjoyment of these stories to one part of the political spectrum. Right-wingers do it, too. Narratives about that one time where they totally owned a lib (who is invariably from a city somewhere and weird in appearance in some way).

It's not a Left/Right thing. It's a social media thing. "Look at me, guys. Look how awesome I am!"

There are crazy instances. Such are humans. But this story hits all the marks of a George Costanza fantasy. "Jerk store!"

[oldsoftie]

38. Glad i'm not the only one suspicious of all these stories.

We seem to see a ton of the "tough guy" posts. Yes, i'm a natural skeptic.

[Sympthsical]

42. I'm a big fan of them, though

https://www.reddit.com/r/thathappened

It's one of my favorite subreddits.

[oldsoftie]

47. Oh wow. What a site!

[Beartracks]

53. Darn, I always forget Reddit locked itself down to accounts-only.

Any disadvantage to setting up an account, like maybe spam email or web trackers?

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[Sympthsical]

57. Not that I've ever noticed

They have notification settings and things. But I don't get e-mails from them, and I have phone notifications turned off.

[Beartracks]

58. That you don't notice anything just means it's working!

Lol

J/k, thanks for the reply.

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[ecstatic]

66. Hilarious! nt

[Sugarcoated]

32. My response style:

"Yes, you are"

[JHB]

34. Ever notice how when someone accuses other people of being "sheep"...

...they've been prompted to do it by someone they listen to? Y'know, following some piper's tune like a lemming.

[Vinca]

39. Bravo Peggy B!

[The Conductor]

40. Had It With Them...

I'm a 70-yer-old with a serious heart condition and my bride is a cancer survivor. You bet we wear masks.

After a week where my wife fell and broke her leg, and I got sick with severe bronchitis, I was in a supermarket trying to keep us in supplies when the maskless Trumpette behind me started making stupid sounds. Operating on so little sleep, I had zero patience and zero fucks to give. I could feel myself going purple in the face as I turned to him an said quietly, but shaking with rage, "Pal, after the week I've had, you are taking your life in your hands."

Typical Trump bucket, he cowarded out and ran off.

[ConstanceCee]

54. Good for You

I'd appreciate if you could post what you said when you lit into this person. I need ideas.

[Demovictory9]

65. read the twitter thread... lots of people post what they have said

[nvme]

55. It's SAD!

That you can't even do your own thing without some horse-ass starting shit. I know that it is going to take us standing up to these "bullies". I just hate that my fellow Americans are becoming so emboldened in their "hate anything that is different then me" stances.