A friend was eating chips in the parking lot of Waldbaums in Southampton.
An old lady comments, “we don’t eat in public in Southampton. That’s for New York City.”
She then goes down the street to her car, and leaves her cart in the middle of the sidewalk.
I had to restrain myself from confronting her. No excuse for rude behavior even if you are old!
- Danny
On a recent Sunday afternoon I was pulling into the Mobil Station on 27 from the north side of North Sea Road.
The only available pump required me to drive around the store island. As I drove around the island, a blond women in a black, CA registered, beat up, 4 Runner pulled onto the gas station, facing the same problem as I did from the other direction, she had to turn around in order to face the pump. She passed the pump preparing to do a turn around, when I pulled up at the pump just behind her after I drove around the store island.
After she saw me, she rolled down the window and gave me a fine sample of her repertoire of “f” and “a” words. I explained the situation to her, that I arrived at the gas station prior to her and moved on to fill my car. She pulled up behind the car at the pump next to me to start a conversation with the driver of the car in front of her, who quickly recommended to release the German Shepherd which was seated in the backside of her car, all of this while eying me.
Believe it or not, the women opened the door to let her German Shepherd out without a leash.
Fortunately I was done filling up my car at this point and left the gas station thinking how that poor dog must listen to that woman’s foul mouth all the time.
-T
So it was a quiet night on the Jitney back to Manhattan on Tuesday night.
In East Hampton a pretty (and clearly pregnant) lady in a flowing white dress gets on the Jitney. She settles in, puts her bags up top, and relaxes. Right before we got to Southampton she went to the rest room leaving her water bottle on her seat. Mind you her luggage was above her seat in the overhead bin.
This was her seat.
This “typical” couple gets on the bus and since we are in Southampton not a lot of double seats are available. Normally 2 people would split up as it’s understood they are on a crowded bus and they are getting on at the last stop OR they would ask someone if they are willing to move so they can sit together. It’s not common or acceptable to just take someone’s seat and toss their water bottle on the floor. This is what happened.
The guy was oozing with “prick” attitude. “Who’s sitting here. Is someone sitting here?” The lady behind said “Yes, someone is sitting there”. “Well where are they?”. “In the bathroom”. He replies with, “Well maybe they should not have left, I can’t tell anyone was sitting here.”
So the couple sits down, puts the water bottle on the floor and the pregnant lady comes back to her seat and calmly says that she was sitting there.
He put on his tough guy prick voice and said, “Hey, are you flying solo”.
She was like, “That’s my seat, you can’t just take it; that’s rude.”
He replied with, well you’re a single and I’m part of a couple and we want to sit together so if you wouldn’t mind moving (as if he gave her a choice).
She was visibly upset and then the blond bitchy other half of the couple responds with, “You are over-reacting. This is not rude. We are trying to sit together so you can just sit somewhere else.” It was so dismissive and condescending.
It was literally the lamest thing I’ve ever seen in my many years of coming to the Hamptons in the summers. People around were shocked about the bastardized and entitled behavior of the couple. They stole a seat from a pregnant lady and then made her feel like she was weird for wanting it back.
And FYI, she wasn’t technically flying solo. She is carrying a baby……….So it’s 2 on 2 - not 2 on 1. And props to the pregnant lady because she was so cool and refined about the whole situation. She asked for her water to be picked up off the floor and she took another seat and made no big deal about it. That’s class and that doesn’t happen often.
Fyi to the couple - what you did was rude. Clearly you checked your conscience with your fake LV luggage under the bus.
I was lucky enough to pick a tweet up from our friends at Guest of a Guest and Doug was kind enough to send me the full story - The Editor
FYI to the couple on the Jitney who took a pregant woman’s seat while she was in the bathroom and then told her to go elsewhere…thats F’ed
I was making a left on Bay Street into a private driveway this past week; I had my left turn signal on.
A contractor truck proceeds to pass me on the LEFT as I was turning. Needless to say there was a serious accident. My car is probably totaled.
What makes this unreal is that when the cop showed up he couldn’t figure out who was at fault for the accident. He said something to the effect that I had New Jersey license plates so maybe I didn’t know what I was doing.
One small problem with his theory, I grew up in the Hamptons.
- Local
In thinking up a title for this one, I’ve coined a new Hamptons term, New Jidiot: New Jersey Idiot. PLEASE NOTE: “Local” is not the idiot in this story.
Every summer my husband and I (and now daughter) take a day trip from our home in Center Moriches to the east end for some beach time, photo opportunities and delicious lobster roll sammies. Last year was no different and part of our trip included an a.m. jolt of caffeine from the Southampton Starbucks. My DH and daughter stayed in the car while I went in and got our drinks. I ordered and went to the counter to receive them when I noticed these 2 men berating the barista while their drinks were being made.
“Is that SOY milk?”
“Did you make that EXTRA HOT?”
Yelling and eye-rolling abounds! I felt so bad for the guy. When they finally got their drinks (and not a thank you to be heard) they stopped at the self serve area. I received my beverages, said my thank you and we shared a momentary I KNOW!! moment about frick and frack.
I wound up leaving the same time as them (and do you THINK they held the door??? Um, NO.) and they saw me getting into our vehicle.
One says to the other. “Look, a Jeep Commander” (they were getting into another Jeep) and the other one goes “Ew, it’s an 06!”
Oh, well excuuuuuse us. I’m not sure if they were rude locals or rude tourists but it was just an obnoxious experience to be a witness to.
- LP
I was driving with my daughter today to meet with our new primary care Dr in Southampton. We’re tooling along the back roads to try & save time & avoid traffic. We’re making great time for like the 1st half-hour. All of a sudden I see this white car with plastic garbage bags sticking out if it’s grille, come zooming up on our butts outta nowhere. The driver and car reminded me of something out of that Beastie Boys video that I can’t remember…Sabotage?
Well, we’re both watching the side mirrors because he just rides my ass thru all the turns even where there’s road construction going on. He would slow down enough to make the road people happy & then floor it right back to my back bumper. By this time, we’ve both seen “Jeepers Creepers”; and are thinking this is some crazed wacko…we don’t dare stop because he’s so close.
I wave him on past me so I could get rid of him. God, he seemed so determined to just get wherever the hell redneck crazy wackos hang out in the summer, but he’s wearing his Deliverance face & continues to stray over the yellow line & then back on my ass. Fine, follow me all the way to my Dr, but I’m gonna have to hurt you if you hit my car. What a jerk! I felt like Karen Silkwood, waiting to be bumped off the road.
It was more than a little unnerving till I related the story to my honey; he said he knew why we’re were being chased down….had to be the Obama ‘08 bumper sticker. How rude! GO OBAMA ‘08
- PB
- A simple way to avoid all of this is to cover your Obama sticker with one of our slick RudeHamptons bumper stickers.
This is a message for all the non drivers that travel on Sunrise (or any other interstate or highway). I would think people should know this but the left lane is intended for passing vehicles on the right.
At no point ever should anyone stay in the left hand lane.
After you pass someone you get back in the right hand lane. The right side of a vehicle is often considered the”blind spot” .
People shouldn’t be passing on the right because it’s not as safe as passing on the left.
If you are ever in the left hand lane and someone just passed you on the right. Take a second; realize that you are the non driver I am referring to and MOVE OVER !!
If you in the left hand lane and you feel someone is tailgating you, MOVE OVER to the right and realize that you indeed are also a non driver.
-SH
