Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
Wednesday Whinge: Got SCREAMED at today by a do-gooding high-horse riding health & safety crusading purple-haired busybody hippie woman today as I was trying to do my job. I'd just climbed down from my ladder on Victoria Rd in Thornbury after changing out a component on the Optus network when she approached me ranting & raving about how she was going to call Worksafe on me because I wasn't wearing a harness (I was) and because I didn't have a 'spotter' with me (I don't need one because I'm not a linesman). I politely asked her what organisation she was with and she snorted loudly and yelled "THE GENERAL PUBLIC BUDDY, I KNOW THAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE IS WRONG AND UNSAFE AND THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY GOT SOMEONE AT HOME THAT NEEDS YOU TO GET HOME SAFELY AND LOOK AFTER THEM" (as if she actually gave a fuck about me and wasn't just on some crazy deluded power trip). Then she continued yelling about not having a spotter and all the rules I was breaking. I tried to tell her that I'm an Optus tech and not a linesman and she snarled at me like a wild boar and started going a dark red colour. Bits of spittle were now forming at the edges of her mouth as she yelled. Nothing I was saying could possibly interrupt the crazed frenzy of good work she was doing for humankind. I asked her if she actually knew any of the regulations regarding being an Optus tech and she abruptly stormed off, only to return a minute later to write down my rego number and prance around looking at my ladder a lot. It took all my strength not to chase after her as she raced back to her car looking like she'd just won at Bingo and bludgeon her to death with my ball peen hammer.