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| Campbell County 4-H Council raises funds through annual Chili Bingo |
| Posted on Monday, September 28 @ 00:01:42 PDT (10 reads) | |
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Gillette, wyo. — Campbell county 4-h council members and volunteers came together saturday at the cam-plex central pavilion for the annual 4-h chili bingo fundraiser.
the event raised money for local 4-h programs, trips and scholarships.
food service started at 5:30 p.M., With chili, soups and desserts available for a donation. Bingo started at 6 p.M., With the cost depending on how many cards people wanted to play.
money from the fundraiser helps pay for 4-h club activities, county classes, competitions and end-of-year celebrations. It also helps provide scholarships for members who attend local, state and national 4-h events.
the 4-h council also gives scholarships to graduating seniors who submit their 4-h record books. Students can apply for another scholarship after they start college.
deana maul-ferman, president of the campbell county 4-h council, said the scholarships can help young people take part in events they might not otherwise be able to afford.
“when kids go to state events or national events, even local events, they can come to us and ask for like a small scholarship or something like that to help fund part of that trip,” maul-ferman said.
the council also wants to help students continue their education.
“we actually give out scholarships every year for seniors to go to college,” maul-ferman said. “After they get in college, they can reapply and can actually get a scholarship again.”
maul-ferman said many of the students who receive scholarships go on to graduate college and start careers.
older 4-h members also helped run the fundraiser. Young leaders, members ages 14 and older, helped serve food, assist people and keep the event moving.
for 12-year-old casey jackson, being involved in 4-h is about helping the community.
“i’m a part of my 4-h club to make the world a better place and to have a better community,” jackson said.
aubrey shepard, 14, vice president of the wild west 4-h club, spends much of her time showing livestock.
“i’ve had like a dying passion to show and i love being in the barn and i just really enjoy being with my animals and my livestock,” shepard said.
shepard said she enjoys showing animals because it gives her a chance to focus on her own work.
“in my opinion they’re better than sports,” shepard said. “Better than sports at school because you don’t have to deal with people in your personal space all the time. You can like do your own thing and you can learn your own tricks.”
she also said spending time with her animals helps her relax.
“i personally feel like showing animals it’s kind of like calming and it’s also like really relaxing and it’s just fun to be in the barn and listen to your music, jam out, mess with the animals,” shepard said.
claire jackson, 14, is a young leader and rodeo competitor who shows steers, pigs and goats. She said she has won a rodeo buckle for the past three years.
jackson joked that her mom was the reason she came to volunteer at the fundraiser, but said she enjoys being part of 4-h. She likes meeting other kids and taking part in activities, including a trip to the university of wyoming.
kellen kellebrew, 14, serves as treasurer for the wild west 4-h club, where he keeps track of the club’s finances and helps determine whether it has enough money for activities.
kellebrew also participates in shooting sports and puts the money he earns from competitions toward future expenses, including a car and equipment. He said he volunteered at the fundraiser while taking a break from doing schoolwork.
the fundraiser gave the community a chance to support 4-h while giving young members a chance to take on leadership roles and help with the event. |
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| David Goldney |
| Posted on Monday, September 28 @ 00:01:42 PDT (11 reads) | |
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Vale david goldney
adjunct professor david charles goldney am, doctor of science (honoris causa), charles sturt university, iscast fellow, passed away on thursday 15 august 2024.
david was the youngest of six children born in adelaide, south australia. His father was a methodist minister, and his mother was actively involved in fledgling women’s movements. Growing up in a house filled with music and books, david developed a love for learning early on.
significant contributions to science and education mark david’s career. He completed his science degree at adelaide university in 1962, majoring in botany and biochemistry, and later earned a graduate diploma in education. After teaching for a year, he accepted a lectureship at wattle park teachers’ college.
in 1965, he married joan chapman. David and joan are survived by two children, alex and jodie; their partners, sandra and stuart; and four grandchildren, jenna, finlae, ben, and jesse.
david’s academic journey led him to the university of queensland, where he earned first-class honours and a commonwealth postgraduate scholarship for his doctoral studies. In 1972, he joined mitchell college of advanced education (mcae) in bathurst as a science lecturer, initiating various research projects and involving student teachers in field ecology programs.
when mcae became charles sturt university (csu), david collaborated with postgraduate students and staff from various disciplines, forming research teams to explore the links between nature conservation and agriculture. He supervised numerous postgraduate and honours projects, led research teams, and engaged in major educational initiatives, conferences, and seminars.
throughout the 1980s and beyond, david focused on the relationship between nature conservation and production agriculture, raising awareness about land degradation and biodiversity loss. His work led to the ‘save the bush toolkit’ in 1997. He conducted defining studies on the conservation values of the central western region and set up long-term vertebrate studies, including for platypus populations in diverse regions.
david was a great collaborator, working closely with various individuals and groups, and served as deputy chair of the central west catchment management committee. He received several accolades, including an outstanding contribution to environmental education award from the nsw government in 1996. He was a member of many learned societies, served on editorial boards, and was the foundation head of the environmental studies unit and an associate director and later director from 1997–1999 of the johnstone centre. His extensive research and community engagement earned him a travelling fellowship to investigate the integration of nature conservation and production agriculture in north america, the uk, and northern europe.
in 2018, david was named in the queen’s birthday honours list and made a member of the order of australia (am) for his significant service to tertiary education in environmental science and conservation. He was also a fellow of iscast and initiated the local chapter, inviting speakers from iscast to present at local events.
david was remembered fondly at his memorial service for his deep christian faith, humility, and involvement with community groups like the uniting church, national trust, and amnesty international. He was praised for his significant contributions to ecological research in the central west of nsw, collaborating closely with farmers, landcare groups, and aboriginal custodians.
david was described as a generous educator with a great sense of humour, and his ability to reconcile science with his faith was particularly noted. The bathurst campus of csu flew their flags at half-mast on the day of his funeral to acknowledge his dedication to science and religion and his generosity and support for the community.
greening bathurst chair, ashley bland, said: “prof. Goldney was ahead of the mainstream in his ability to reconcile science and religion. While his faith was highly important to him, so was his defence of proper science and the value of research, data testing and peer review.”
“the environmental and faith-based communities in bathurst will miss david. He was generous with time, knowledge, and financial support, and many of us will feel his absence a lot for a long time.”
this tribute was written by dr brian stone, iscast associate, colleague, friend, and phd student of prof. David goldney.
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photo credit: chris seabrook 080310cwater2a
david’s page at charles sturt university can be found here. |
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| Renasant Stadium - Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles |
| Posted on Monday, September 28 @ 00:01:42 PDT (12 reads) | |
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Renasant stadium - southern mississippi golden eagles
photos by matt colville, stadium journey
stadium info fanfare score: 3.43
m. M. Roberts stadium 118 college dr hattiesburg, ms 39406
year opened: 1932
capacity: 36,000
welcome to the rock
a lot has changed around southern miss football in the last few years. The move to the sun belt conference in 2022 ended a 27-year run in c-usa and placed southern miss in a league filled with regional opponents, familiar names, and shorter road trips. Four years later, the sun belt no longer feels new, but change has continued around the program.
that change now extends to the stadium itself. In september 2026, southern miss announced a 10-year naming-rights agreement with tupelo, mississippi-based renasant bank, officially changing the name of m. M. Roberts stadium to renasant stadium. It is the latest name for a building that has stood in the middle of the southern miss campus for nearly a century. But regardless of what name appears on the outside, generations of golden eagle fans have always known this place by a much simpler name: the rock.
for a mid-major football program at a university of roughly 14,000 students in the pine belt of southern mississippi, southern miss has built a pretty storied football history of its own. Since the program began in 1912, the golden eagles have won eight conference championships, including five during their time in conference usa. Southern miss has also made more than two dozen bowl appearances and won back-to-back small college national championships after undefeated seasons in 1958 and 1959. In addition, the program has produced more than 100 players who went on to play in the nfl, including two pro football hall of famers, quarterback brett favre and punter ray guy.
southern miss football was born in 1912 when the college was known as mississippi normal college and its teams were known as the normalites. In those early years, southern miss played its football games at kamper park, a public park just south of campus where hattiesburg zoo is located today.
like the stadium, the university and its athletic teams have gone by several names over the past century. The school became mississippi state teachers college in 1924, with its teams eventually known as the yellow jackets, before becoming mississippi southern college and adopting the southerners nickname. The school became the university of southern mississippi in 1962, and its athletic teams remained the southerners until finally adopting the golden eagles nickname in 1972.
since 1932, southern miss football has been played on campus at the stadium everybody calls the rock.
the original stadium was known as faulkner field, named for local businessman l. E. Faulkner. Much of that original structure was built with the help of southern miss students and football players, who helped haul materials and pour concrete during construction, which is how the venue got its nickname, the rock. The stadium later underwent a massive renovation and expansion during the 1970s; it was dedicated m. M. Roberts stadium in 1976 in honor of southern miss alumnus and longtime supporter m. M. Roberts.
for the next 50 years, m. M. Roberts stadium was the official name attached to one of the most recognizable buildings in hattiesburg. In 2026, another chapter began when it became renasant stadium.
the name has changed. The conference has changed. The stadium itself has changed considerably over the last four years. But the rock is still the rock.
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the main concession stands throughout the rock are branded “eagle bites,” and the selection remains fairly basic. Depending on the stand you choose, youll find hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken tenders, foot-long corn dogs, french fries, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, candy, and other snacks.
prices have increased quite a bit since my last visit. Chicken tenders are $10; hamburgers and nachos are $8; a foot-long corn dog is $7; and hot dogs, roasted peanuts, and french fries are $5. A 32-ounce souvenir coca-cola cup costs $10 and includes free refills, while bottled water and powerade are $6 and smartwater is $7.
alcohol is also available throughout the stadium. A 16-ounce domestic beer such as miller or coors costs $10, while premium beer runs $12. Southern miss also offers southern sky, a southern miss-branded beer from hattiesburgs southern prohibition brewing, available at select stands. Alcohol sales end after the third quarter, and purchases are limited to two alcoholic beverages per person.
the selection here isnt anything particularly elaborate, and most of what youll find is standard stadium food. However, southern miss has made improvements to the concession experience in recent years, including renovated stands, additional points of sale, and grab-and-go locations designed to keep the lines moving.
for the best value, the $10 souvenir cup with free refills isnt a bad option, especially during an early-season game when temperatures in hattiesburg can still be well into the 80s and 90s. Overall, the concessions get the job done, but expect typical modern stadium prices.
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college football saturdays in hattiesburg begin long before kickoff. Tailgating is scattered throughout campus, with alumni and longtime fans generally setting up on the south side, while students and fraternities congregate around spirit park on the north side of the facility. Spirit park serves as one of the centers of pregame activity, with food, music, and other events leading up to kickoff.
about two and a half hours before the game comes one of southern misss best traditions, the eagle walk. The football team makes its way around the rock toward the locker room accompanied by the cheerleaders, dixie darlings, fans, and the pride of mississippi marching band.
known simply as the pride, the band provides much of the soundtrack during a saturday at the rock. After the eagle walk, the band makes its way through spirit park before entering the stadium, where the fight song, stand tunes, and a halftime performance remain a major part of the southern miss game day experience.
the east side of the stadium also serves as something of an outdoor southern miss football museum. Banners recognize past players, coaches, championships, and bowl appearances.
another longtime tradition is the painting of the little rock on the south side of campus, which students decorate with messages relating to that weeks opponent. Seymour, the golden eagle mascot, is also a constant presence around the stadium.
one of the biggest additions in the last few years has been dj kujho, who has become a familiar part of southern miss games and now serves as the in-stadium dj for football games. Located right in the east side student section, kujho keeps the music going during breaks, as well as frequently calling for the rock to get loud. Combined with the pride of mississippi, his presence gives the stadium a nice mixture of traditional college football and a more modern game day atmosphere.
once inside, it is easy to understand how the stadium got its nickname. The rock is a massive concrete structure that rises almost straight into the air. Two-level grandstands line both sidelines, with the upper and lower decks separated by concourses underneath the bleachers. However, most of the stadium has traditional aluminum bleacher seating, giving it the feel of an older stadium.
the biggest change to the stadiums appearance came in 2008 when southern miss enclosed the south end zone with nearly 4,000 additional seats, suites, and premium areas. The touchdown club provides a climate-controlled space with televisions, food, a full-service bar, and covered chairback seating overlooking the field. The north end zone is anchored by the football operations facility and video board. And while the east side has the eagle club, on the west side the press box also provides premium seating, a full spread of food and drinks, and more.
southern miss football history is visible throughout the stadium as well. The retired numbers of brett favre (#4), ray guy (#44), and reggie collier (#10) are recognized inside the rock, while the program continues to embrace the nasty bunch nickname made famous by some of its great defenses.
the stadiums biggest drawback is also a product of its design. Because the grandstands are so tall, an average crowd can make the rock look half-empty. Fans also tend to scatter throughout the stadium, leaving entire pockets of bleachers empty even when attendance is respectable.
but put more than 30,000 people inside and the building changes considerably. The golden eagles game against mississippi state drew 33,485 fans in 2025, while the game versus jackson state brought another crowd of more than 32,000 the following week. The concrete holds sound surprisingly well, especially at night.
with the pride playing, dj kujho working the student section, seymour roaming the sidelines, and fans packed into those steep concrete grandstands, a full rock remains one of the better atmospheres among college footballs mid-major programs.
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hattiesburg, or the burg as its often called, is a city of about 50,000 people, so it has most of the amenities of a larger city while still retaining some of the feel of a college town. One notable difference from places like starkville or oxford is that hattiesburgs restaurants, bars, and entertainment arent concentrated in one district, but instead are spread throughout midtown, downtown, and other parts of the city.
several popular spots are located close to campus, including brewskys and 4th street bar. If youre looking for a hole-in-the-wall filled with vintage southern miss memorabilia, 4th street bar is worth a stop. Alternatively, about a mile down 4th street youll encounter a few local restaurants such as stricks bbq, mercury pizza, patio 44, and art of roux, a favorite new orleans-themed po-boy stand in a gas station. Other options include keg & barrel, porter, and hattiesburgers, which are local hangouts closer to downtown.
hattiesburg also has no shortage of local restaurants. Crescent city grill, chesterfields, eds burger joint, and murky waters bbq are among the longtime favorites, with plenty of additional options scattered around midtown and downtown.
there is also quite a bit to do away from football. The hattiesburg zoo is only a few minutes from campus, while downtown youll find one of the citys quirkiest attractions, the hattiesburg pocket museum. Tucked inside an alley near the historic saenger theater, the tiny museum changes themes throughout the year. Visit during october and both the pocket alley and hattiesburg zoo usually get into the halloween spirit.
for shopping, turtle creek mall has most of the familiar chain stores, but a more unique hattiesburg stop is the lucky rabbit, located downtown. This massive vintage and antique marketplace is filled with just about everything imaginable, including old southern miss shirts, signs, and memorabilia.
outdoor enthusiasts also have the longleaf trace, a 44-mile paved trail that runs directly beside the southern miss campus and is popular for biking, running, and walking. In addition, just south of town is paul b. Johnson state park, which offers camping, fishing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation.
hattiesburg doesnt have one traditional strip where everything revolves around the university. Instead, southern miss is part of a larger city with several distinct areas to explore, giving visitors plenty to do before and after a game at the rock.
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southern miss has a dedicated fan base that has experienced some of the highest highs and lowest lows imaginable over the years. Older fans remember the glory days when players like brett favre and reggie collier suited up for the golden eagles, when southern miss regularly played programs like alabama, auburn, ole miss and florida state, and when jeff bower led the program through 18 consecutive winning seasons. Those same fans also endured the 2012 and 2013 seasons, when southern miss went a combined 1-23, including a school-record 23-game losing streak.
there is also a strong connection between the university and hattiesburg itself. Unlike many smaller college towns, hattiesburg is large enough that plenty of southern miss graduates remain in the area after graduation. The university also draws heavily from south and central mississippi, putting a large portion of the alumni base within an easy drive of the rock.
the move to the sun belt conference in 2022 has also been a good geographic fit. Instead of a conference filled with far-flung opponents, southern miss now shares a league with regional programs such as south alabama, louisiana, troy, and louisiana-monroe, making it much easier for visiting fans to make the trip to hattiesburg.
attendance still fluctuates considerably depending on the opponent and how the golden eagles are playing, but there is little question the fan base will show up for the right game. In 2025, mississippi state drew 33,485 fans to the rock, the eighth-largest crowd in stadium history, and jackson state brought another crowd of 32,011 the following week. The 2026 home opener against alcorn state drew 26,246 despite temperatures reaching 90 degrees.
the golden eagles student section remains one of the more energetic areas of the stadium, especially when southern miss is playing well. One of its most recognizable traditions comes after halftime, when students unveil a giant here comes the nasty bunch banner across the section, paying tribute to the famed southern miss defenses that helped define the program during some of its best years.
southern miss may not fill its 36,000-seat stadium every saturday, but there remains a loyal core of golden eagle fans who have stuck with the program through conference changes, coaching changes, winning seasons, and some historically bad ones. When southern miss gives them something to get excited about, the rock can still fill up in a hurry.
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there is a reason hattiesburg is nicknamed the hub city. Located roughly 90 minutes from the mississippi gulf coast, new orleans, jackson, and mobile, the city is one of the more accessible college football destinations in the region. Southern miss is also easy to find, sitting at the busy intersection of highway 49 and hardy street, with the rock rising above the north side of campus.
getting to campus is easy; parking once you arrive can be the frustrating part. Southern miss has paid and permit lots scattered throughout campus, and most of the spaces closest to the rock are reserved on game days. Parking regulations are also enforced around campus, including areas near the longleaf trace, where cameras and signage make it clear that trail parking should not be used as a way to access campus for football games.
there are still some free options if youre willing to walk. Free parking can usually be found south of the sorority houses. Several businesses along highway 49 across from the stadium also offer paid game day parking.
driving around campus can also be a little confusing for first-time visitors, as several streets are one-way and also because traffic patterns change around the rock before and after games. The good news is that southern miss has a relatively compact campus, so once youre parked, getting around on foot is fairly easy.
the rock itself is also easy to navigate for a stadium of its age. The concourses are wide, and recent concession upgrades have added more points of sale, such as grab-and-go locations, helping with some of the congestion during bigger games.
overall, getting to hattiesburg and finding southern miss couldnt be much easier. Just have a parking plan before you arrive, because finding somewhere to leave your car without paying can sometimes be the most difficult part of the day.
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tickets generally arent difficult to find at the rock, although buying directly through southern miss can be a little pricey depending on the opponent and seat location. For many games, the secondary market can offer cheaper options, sometimes in the $15-$25 range, though rivalry games and games against big-name programs will naturally cost more.
to someone unfamiliar with things, southern miss might look like a lower-tier fbs program based solely on some of its recent seasons. Nil, the transfer portal, conference realignment, and the widening financial gap in college football havent necessarily been kind to programs like southern miss. But judging the golden eagles only by the current college football landscape ignores a lot of history.
for a mid-major program, southern miss has a tradition that few comparable schools can match. This is a program that won consistently for decades; produced players such as brett favre, ray guy and reggie collier; won conference championships; regularly appeared in bowl games; and wasnt afraid to play some of the biggest programs in the country. There was a time when packing the rock was an every-week occurrence.
you can still see attempts to preserve that history throughout the stadium, from the retired numbers and nasty bunch references to the banners recognizing former players, bowl teams, and championships.
add in generally affordable tickets on the secondary market, a relatively inexpensive city to spend the weekend in, and more than 90 years of history inside the rock, and southern miss remains a worthwhile college football experience for the price.
the golden eagles may be trying to find their place in a rapidly changing sport, but a saturday at the rock still gives you a glimpse of what made southern miss football matter long before nil and the transfer portal changed the game.
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the southern miss campus is worth exploring before kickoff; its small enough you can see most of the major landmarks in less than an hour, while still having the oak trees, brick buildings, and green spaces youd expect from a traditional southern college campus.
some of my favorite stops include the all-american rose garden and the giant golden eagle sculpture near the front of campus. Also check out the historic roberts schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse dating back to the late 1800s, or walk through the center of campus through the hub and see where a young jimmy buffett could once be found playing guitar during his days as a southern miss student in the 1960s. A historical marker stands there now.
my favorite part of campus, however, remains the eagle walk, and its deserving of an extra point all by itself. Come through about two and a half hours before kickoff and youll see the golden eagles make their traditional walk into the stadium behind the pride of mississippi. The walkway they follow along the east side of the rock is lined with banners honoring former southern miss players and coaches, along with the programs bowl appearances and championship history, including the undefeated 1958 and 1959 small college national championship teams.
another plus goes to the football history associated with the rock. Not many programs, especially outside of college footballs traditional powers, can claim two players who became two of the most influential ever at their respective positions. Brett favre went from southern miss to a 20-year nfl career that included three consecutive mvp awards, a super bowl championship, and induction into the pro football hall of fame.
then there is ray guy – the former southern miss punter spent 14 seasons with the oakland/los angeles raiders, won three super bowls, made seven pro bowls, and became the first pure punter inducted into the pro football hall of fame. Guy remained a familiar presence around southern miss football until his death in 2022, and his legacy remains everywhere around the rock, including ray guy way on the north side of the stadium.
southern miss may not have the sprawling campus or endless monuments found at some larger college football destinations, but there is plenty of history packed into a relatively small area. Take some time to walk around before kickoff; much of the story of southern miss football can be found just outside the rock. |
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| Daily Calendar for Monday, Sept. 28, 2026 | Community | thedailytimes.com |
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Classes offered
chair volleyball: everett senior center offers chair volleyball at 10 a.M. Every friday and also on the first, third and fifth wednesdays. Cost is free. It’s played indoors, players sit in chairs and the ball is a beach ball. The center is located at 702 burchfield st., Maryville.
street kung fu classes: are offered on tuesdays and thursdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.M. At clear’s silat, street kung fu & tai chi, 113 e. Broadway ave., Maryville. For more information, call 865-379-9997 or visit www.Streetkungfu.Com.
music, dancing
weekly ukulele jam sessions level i/ii: meeting at highland presbyterian church, 721 e lamar alexander pkwy, maryville (next to dunkin donuts), every tuesday, 1 — 2:30 p.M. For more information contact garland sprinkle (bsprinkle68@gmail.Com)
clubs, organizations
blount county habitat for humanity: is now accepting applications for new loan packaging and homebuyer education programs. Application assistance is available. Call 865-233-9110 or go to the website www.Blounthabitat.Org.
networking today international: meets from 9 to 10:30 a.M. On tuesdays at tn bank, 1311 w. Lamar alexander parkway, maryville. No categorical exclusivity, no attendance policy. Focus is on relationships. For more information, visit networking today maryville on facebook, networkingtodayintl.Com or contact lana samples at 865-681-9444.
friendsville citizens for community improvement: meets at 6 p.M. The first tuesday of month (march through december) at friendsville united methodist church fellowship hall, 204 e. College ave., Friendsville. The club is open to new members. For more information, call 865-661-0292 for more information.
maryville kiwanis club: meets at noon on the first and third tuesdays of each month at green meadow country club, 1700 louisville road. For more information, visit www.Maryvilletnkiwanis.Org.
rotary club of maryville: meet noon wednesdays at airport hilton. For more information, visit maryvillerotary.Org.
networking with a purpose: meets from 8:45-10 a.M. Wednesdays at vienna coffeehouse, 212 college st.Maryville. For more information, call angel scott at 865-661-2015 or michelle bingham at 865-567-7691.
maryville business network international: a business referral organization whose primary purpose is to increase a small business customer base, meets 7 a.M. Wednesdays at green meadow country club.
maryville lions club: meets 11:30 a.M. On the first and third tuesday of month at shannondale community center, 1507 new providence road, maryville. Visitors welcome. For information, visit maryvillelions.Org or email maryvillelions@gmail.Com.
maryville business share: maryville’s free small-business referral group meets 8 a.M. The second thursday of month at 2724 e. Broadway, maryville. For more information, contact petula at pcroyallady@iglide.Net.
self-help, support groups
editor’s note: for a listing of alcoholics anonymous, al-anon and al-ateen meetings, please see this section every wednesday.
tops no. Tn 0390, east alcoa: meets tuesdays at east alcoa baptist church. Weigh-in at 8:30 a.M. Program at 9:30 a.M. For information, call 865-249-8063 or 865-660-4927.
tops no. Tn 0334, maryville: meets thursdays at partnership christian church. Weigh-in at 5:15 p.M. Program at 6 p.M. For more information, call 865-209-5803. |
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| Plane Crash; Caledonia Gunfight; Party-on-the-Pavement Partial Re-Do; Mahone Fou |
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from wgtd news:
a small plane crashed in a cornfield near the east troy airport sunday afternoon. The pilot and three passengers survived the crash. According to a news release from the east troy police and fire departments, one person was treated and released at the scene while three others were taken in for check-ups. Wisn tv reported that the plane had taken off 20 minutes earlier from the airport and appeared to be circling back when it crashed. The federal aviation administration is investigating.
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caledonia police are investigating what appears to have been a shoot-out between two groups that occurred early sunday morning on an i-94 frontage road. The driver of a honda accord initially claimed he was injured in a hit and run. But police officers quickly determined that the 28 year-old greenfield man was suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his back. A closer inspection of his vehicle uncovered multiple bullet holes, and there were numerous shell casings in the road. Investigators later traced the shoot-out to an altercation that occurred earlier in the evening at a location outside of the village.
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its not exactly a party on the pavement redo, but the downtown racine corporation wants to help vendors and merchants who lost money when the popular downtown festival was rained out two weekends ago. The first friday promotion--coming up this friday the 2nd--will be an expanded event thatll include vendors and food trucks lining a two-block stretch of 5th ave. Between wisconsin and lake. The night will have an octoberfest theme, with live german music and a ceremonial keg tapping on monument square at five with free beer while it lasts.
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kenosha firefighters have donated $15,000 from their annual golf outing to the mahone foundation, the non-profit that funds scholarships and a college and career readiness program for first-generation and low-to-moderate income high school students. The firefighters created their community charity in 2007 after a firefighter was injured on the job. According to a news release, the firefighters have a history of supporting the mahone foundation.
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| 33 Satisfying Petty Revenge Stories From Vacations That Prove Getting Even Can H |
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After vacations, we often leave with photos, videos, postcards, souvenirs, and memories that are absolutely worth keeping. However, sometimes, a trip also gives people just the perfect opportunity to settle a tiny score, especially when someone has already pushed their patience too far.
these stories come from travelers who decided that a little vacation-related annoyance deserved an equally petty response. From small acts of revenge to perfectly timed payback, these moments show just how creative people can get when they decide to get even.
#1 try to threaten and con a tourist? Well good luck!
so this one is actually about my late mother. Who wasn’t one for putting up with other people’s stupidity.
i was around 7 or 8 at the time. We had gone on summer holiday to italy and were going to venice for the day.
my parents hadn’t travelled much and it was actually my father’s first trip abroad.
so we get to venice in our car and park up. My parents are trying to find a place where they can buy tickets for a ferry or boat across. Nobody speaks a lot of english.
a man sees them looking around and approaches them and guides us towards this small boat. There’s another couple in the boat and he gives a decent quote for sailing us across.
my parents accept. However once on the boat the price changes drastically and the man and his two partners become quite threatening and are refusing to let anyone of the boat if they don’t pay.
after a very long discussion my parents and the other couple end up just having to pay. They basically all pay all the money they have in cash (which when travelling in the 80ies was quite a lot).
the boat docks in a small passage and at the end of it you can see the saint mark’s square. My mother makes sure that she is the last one to leave the boat.
as she prepares to get off the boat she quickly grabs all the money from the man’s back pocket (yes he was stupid enough to put it there and it stuck up a bit), jumps off the boat and because the men on the boat are so surprised that anyone would dare to do that they don’t immediately react and we all manage to make it to the square. And so they can’t follow.
my mother of course gives the other couple their money back. And my parents have their money back and the trip actually ended up costing them nothing.
thinking back i have to say i am still impressed that she had the courage to do so.
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#2 i took away all the ‘towel seat reservations’ at the resort
i was on holidays in an all inclusive resort. First day, we couldn’t find any lounge chairs by the beach or by the sea, fair enough – we arrived in the afternoon. Next day, we go to find a spot.. But most of the spots were ‘taken’ by towels. We find an empty seat and to our surprise – many of the chairs stay reserved almost the whole day or never get used..
third day, we decide to take some towels off two loungers, and enjoy our day. Four (!!) Hours in, an older couple shows up that they had towels there, and kick us off with help from an attendant.
that pissed me off, so every following day i went to take the towels off of every unattended lounger after breakfast, and then went to watch the chaos from my balcony. Many many people complained and by the end of the week there was a sign that unattended towels would be removed. Success!
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#3 apparently booking a seat on a train is not a real booking if someone else decides to sit there
i was travelling from edinburgh to london by train and had a booked window seat with a table.
i got on the train to find 4 guys sitting at the table, the one in my seat that was clearly marked as booked, refused to move as he was with his friends and the train was packed. The ticket collecter passed and i asked him to help.
he asked the guy to move but he refused and somehow that was that.
“so what now?” I asked
“you can find another seat but i have no power to move him, only the police and move him and they will not turn up just to move someone out of a seat.”
there were no seats free in the carriage and probably not many free on the train so standing to london was a possibility.
“i’m going to take a seat in first class” – better surroundings, power sockets and free tea and coffee.
“you can’t sit there, you don’t have a booking”
“well, you could call the police to move me but apparently they won’t turn out to move someone out of a seat”
i had a lovely trip with power for my laptop and a wide comfy seat.
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travel can make people surprisingly less tolerant of minor inconveniences. The established explains that being away from home creates a constant stream of background stressors, including unfamiliar surroundings, time pressure, fatigue, and the need to make dozens of small decisions.
finding the right platform, keeping track of luggage, navigating unfamiliar roads, watching the time, and dealing with money or reservations all require mental effort. That leaves less cognitive space for brushing off something irritating, so a delayed connection, a slow queue, or another traveler behaving inconsiderately can feel much more significant than it normally would.
#4 revenge against the couple who stole out spot on vacation
wife and i were on vacation at a caribbean resort. It wasn’t very crowded. We picked out a couple of nice loungers and spent most of the week there with no issues. Another couple showed up a few days before we were scheduled to leave. Wife caught them looking at us a few times over a couple of days. Our last morning, they put their stuff on our loungers before we got there then didn’t show up until noon. The spot was nice because it was in the shade when it got hot and it was close to the bar. We found another spot.
later, after they arrived and we saw who it was, my wife said they stole our spot on purpose. Confirmed when my wife was in the water and saw then walk by me in our new, less awesome spot. They looked at me and started laughing. We were leaving the next day. We went down very early, spread fresh towels on the loungers, put fresh folded towels down, and left our leftover suntan lotion and our inflatable floats on the loungers. Hope they spent all day waiting to see who stole their spot.
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#5 first vacation without kids in five years looking forward to uninterrupted sleep, awoken by party girls next door, gave them an unwelcome early rising
i’m a 41 year old father of 3 kids under 9. I have never been able to afford a vacation let alone one without kids. Saved up for a very long time to take my wife on her dream trip to bar harbor maine (we live in kansas city), first night after a day of amazing hikes and boulder climbing to scenic peaks in acadia national park we fell sound asleep, until 3am. That’s when i hear the two 25-30 year old women next door squealing in the hallway and constantly opening and slamming their door. I was young once, partied very hard well into my 30s, and i have a ton of patience, i gave them some grace at first. Didn’t say anything. Fell back asleep and 45 minutes later they are even louder through the wall and in and out slamming doors again. I get up to say something and miss them as they are going back in the room. Fully awake, i noticed the please do not disturb sign on their door, which i promptly snatched. Spent 4am-7am reading in the lobby until my wife texted me asking where i was. After we got ready and went out for breakfast i was there to see the maid knock and enter their room to wake them up and heard their reactions… miserable and hungover. I gave the maid a tip of $50 bucks and apologized for their rudeness. It’s the least i could do for making her catch a stray bullet.
tl/dr: woke up by rude chicks while on vacation, took their do not disturb sign and tipped the maid for waking them up.
*edit: some people taking this way too seriously. It was petty and an entertaining story. I was annoyed and inconvenienced not furious. I ended up going downstairs and reading a new book by the fire in the lobby. It ended up being enjoyable.
also, i budgeted for the trip and sacrificed part of the $50 i was going to use to buy clothing or a memento from the trip for myself and gave the money to the maid.
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#6 sending a bag on vacation
so this happened a good 5 or 6 years ago, but i remembered about it now, so i thought why not tell you all the story
i was 12 or 13 at that time and was travelling with my dad from vadodara to bhubaneshwar, as part of my 3 day journey to delhi (am indian). And somewhere in between a family of 4 boarded the train. They immediately gave me the ick. The family consisted of a young couple, their toddler and an older woman who was apparently the girls mil. Boy, she was a b!T*h. At every possible instance she would swear at her dil, who was struggling with their toddler and all their hefty luggage and the husband did not give a flip about his wife. The haranguing continued on the train too, where the mil forced the young woman to clean the water their kid had dropped on the floor with her own sari. What pained me was nobody cared to respond to this poor woman’s distress as she looked around teary eyed, humiliated by all the profanities her mil hurled at her.
so finally when the train stopped at our destination, the self important mil got down clutching her blue travel bag, placed it on the platform, ever ready to mistreat the dil all over again. My dad helped that young lady with a few of her bags, for which she looked ever grateful, but the mil now began to taunt my father for helping her allegedly ‘useless’ dil. Mind you, all this while the husband had not bothered so much as to look his wife’s way.
this is when i realized that the train was bound back to vadodara from where we had boarded, within another 5 or 10 minutes. From their conversation, i had to come to understand that mil’s blue bag had her phone and all her other belongings. In that bustling crowd, i noticed that were no cameras to monitor any movement whatsoever, so i was nice enough to discreetly put the mil’s precious blue bag back into the homebound train.
i went home, happy to have seen the horrified mil and her son search for the bag, while the dil stood there, satisfied in her family’s new found distress. That was the most i could do for the poor young lady.
ps: for those who might say its somewhat criminal, no its not. The bag could have have just as well been forgotten on the train, and the railway staff will house the belongings and return it to the owner, if contacted. I mean that bag needed a vacation, so i gave it one.
edit: the woman won’t blame the dil for her misgiving because my dad made it a point to inform officials that the woman had carried the bag outside with her. Her son testified to the same.
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the physical side of travel can make that shorter fuse even shorter. Poor sleep, jet lag, dehydration, unusual meal schedules, and long periods spent sitting or standing can leave the body already strained before anything goes wrong. Crowded airports, noisy transport, uncomfortable temperatures, and constant stimulation add another layer of pressure. At home, familiar routines provide a sense of predictability and control, but vacations remove many of those small comforts.
when something unexpected happens, it can therefore feel as though the carefully planned trip is beginning to slip out of the traveler’s control. High expectations can make the reaction stronger still, particularly when someone has spent significant money and time planning what was supposed to be an enjoyable experience.
#7 no pictures in the museum
just came back from vacation where i was at a european art museum where pictures are forbidden (don’t care to be more specific). My gf and i were really enjoying the art as we both try to be art geeks. It was really packed since the weather was bad and this one jerk was ruining it for us. George costanza’s doppelganger was just pushing between packs of people that were standing in front of paintings and at one point, pushed past my gf to stand directly in front of us.
but then he pulls out his camera and i see my chance at revenge. I make and hold eye contact with the security employee standing not too far from me and make an arc with my head to clearly point at him and his forbidden camera with my eyes. Security hustles over, tells him to stop taking pictures, and presumably made him flip through other pictures he had taken (not too sure; i didn’t keep watching but security stayed with him for a while).
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#8 petty revenge at the beach
a couple of years back i was on vacation with my grandparents, cousins, etc… now my family and i, like i assume most people reading this, enjoy to play at the beach. Our entire family got up at 6 am, headed down to the beach, and set up our spot. We left for an hour to get lunch, and this shit happens. A woman and her husband, probably mid 60’s 70’s, were sitting on our spot… not to the side, not on separate chairs, on our darn towels and in our tent. My cousins and i began to disassemble the tent (keep in mind this is more of an open tent, not camping tent) and the woman began screaming, “what do you think your’e doing?” And my cousin, being the non confrontational type said calmly, “ma’m, we have been here since 6 am, this is our tent, and we would like to bring it back to our room.” Now this crazy lady goes “you cant do that.” Excuse me, we cant take our own property to our own room?
after everything was settled down, we packed up the tent up and brought it back to the room. We go back to toss a football and have some fun, just in time for the woman to go, “i don’t want you getting sand in my drink.” She took our spot, complained at us for being “unreasonable” and then proceeds to tell us we cant play football in her vicinity.
here is where the sweet sweet revenge comes in. My cousin purposefully threw a long ball, i went after it, and as the ball approached the whiny lady, i gathered as much sand in between my toes as conceivable possible. Jumped over her, sprinkling her martini with sand. I felt so satisfied, and what made it even better was the fact that i caught the ball too!
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#9 ruin my mini vacation? Goodnight!
i was bullied all through my school years. They went after my weight, clothes, adhd, taste in music, complexion, eyebrows, etc. You name it, they bullied me over it. One girl in particular, we’ll call her jane, held a grudge against me for years because when we were in the girl scouts (elementary school), she claimed that my mom called her mom telling her jane was bullying me. Jane denied bullying me, of course. First, yes, she was bullying me. Let’s be honest here! Second, i had asked my mom repeatedly about this alleged phone call and she swears she never did. My mom is an amazing, supportive person and i’m obviously going to believe her over jane. Third, even if this phone call had happened, it was years ago!
fast forward to junior year of high school. Jane and i are both in drama club, she’s still hanging on to this alleged phone call, and we’re stuck sharing a hotel room for a 3-day high school theatre festival. Whenever i’m around her, she’s constantly nagging me. I tried to be kind and stay out of her way, but she essentially bit my head off every chance she had. It’s the last night and i’m watching tv in my bed feeling angry and mentally exhausted. Theatre fest was something i looked forward to every year and she had ruined it for me over a phone call that never happened. Jane comes out of the bathroom in her swimsuit and announces that she’s going to the hotel pool. Jane reaches for her room key, but stops and asks me if i’m staying in for the night. In that moment, inspiration struck and i heard angels singing! I smiled sweetly and said yes. With that, jane left for the pool without her room key. Knowing that she assumed i’d just let her back in later, i locked the door and went to sleep.
apparently, jane spent an hour or so pounding on the door and having kids call my room. I’m a sound sleeper so i didn’t hear any of this wink. Keep in mind that our teacher was just down the hall and could easily help jane get a new room key. Finally, jane and our teacher got a new key and she was able to get back in.
the next morning, jane growled at me for falling asleep and locking her out. I acted (theatre kid) mortified and told her and our teacher that i must’ve been more tired than i thought. I know jane suspected i did it on purpose, but she couldn’t do anything about it because there was no proof. After all, jane was the one who chose to go to the pool without her room key.
when i got home, i told my mom everything. She told me “any other person, i would’ve been upset with you, but she had that coming!” We still laugh about it every now and then.
jane never mentioned the alleged phone call again so…mission accomplished!!
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that feeling can become particularly intense when the problem is interpreted as disrespect rather than simple inconvenience. Research discussed by the american psychological association suggests that being dismissed, humiliated, betrayed, or treated contemptuously can feel like a violation of dignity and fairness. The emotional response is not necessarily about the practical inconvenience itself; it can be about what the behavior appears to communicate about a person’s value or social standing.
public incidents may feel especially uncomfortable because embarrassment can add a perceived threat to reputation. Instead of thinking, “that person was rude,” someone may begin to feel that they were deliberately treated as though their needs or boundaries did not matter.
#10 got a rude traveling companion lost in a strange city
people commented that my previous post didn’t have enough petty revenge in it, so i’m posting this to make up for it.
i travelled to hong kong with my fiancee and a few friends. One of our companions was a class a jerk the whole trip. He complained about everything, and took much of his frustration out on his gf, who was a good friend of mine. I tried to play peacemaker a couple of times and he told me to mind my own business.
our first night in kowloon, we all decided to split up and sightsee as couples and meet for a group dinner at a local chain restaurant. When we met up, my friend was alone because the bf had decided to linger in the market and shop for cameras. Nobody was eating yet because my friend wanted to wait for her bf before starting the meal. I stepped out to smoke while we waited.
i was out there for about five minutes when i saw the bf run up the street and head into the wrong restaurant. He didn’t know the language and probably got the names confused. He was maybe twenty feet away. I could’ve waved at him and called him over, but instead i kept smoking and waited to see if he’d notice me standing there. He didn’t.
he got frustrated, tried to text, and then ran back up the street where he came from. I finished smoking and went inside. They asked me if i saw the bf and i said no.
eventually my fiancee convinced my friend to start the meal and leave some food for the bf, who arrived drenched in sweat an hour later. It turned out that he’d visited every single branch of the chain restaurant in the area (four places) until someone finally pointed him back to where we were. He of course tried to blame it on my friend and her directions, but the others wouldn’t let him.
they had a royal argument that night, and the bf wasn’t with us when we went sight seeing the next day (grounded?) They broke up a year later.
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#11 the airplane cleaner stole my airpods
about six months ago, i had a layover in houston. After deplaning and going through security, i realized my headphones had fallen out of my pocket. I submitted the lost item claim with united and gave the description of the color of the silicon case they had on them, plane info, seat number, the whole thing. I also set it to lost mode and included my phone number to call me. I emailed united a few times, stating i could see they had moved from the plane to what seemed to be the united office space. I now realize, it was probably employee lockers.
after about 24 hours, i saw them go to an apartment building. I watched them go from the apartment building to the airport, back and forth, and tracked the schedule. I gave united the address of the employee, their schedule, and what days they had worked. Surely the home address and schedule was enough to pinpoint who it was, so they could at least deal with it internally. Wasn’t exactly excited to get the airpods back if they had been wearing them.
united told me that because the airpods had left the property, they wouldn’t do anything and i had to file a police report with houston pd. I live in arizona. They closed my claim.
i use “find my” a lot for various airtags and things. So, for the last few months, whenever i see my lost headphones with the earbuds out, i hit “play sound” on the earbud and blast the wearer’s ears out. I see them quickly go back into the case.
if they would have called me when they found them, i happily would have sent them a reward, even enough to buy their own basic pair. I understand they are expensive and not everyone can swing a pair.
i am slowly working toward making them go deaf, so no one else loses a set of headphones to them. I think this is the pettiest thing i’ve ever done…
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#12 a barmaid laughed at my drink order
i was on holiday with my son (14) and we were watching the football in a bar in the evening. I don’t really drink but do enjoy a cocktail while on holiday. The server came by and asked if we wanted drinks, i asked for a pina colada and she sniggered a little at the order and kind of laughed out an “okay” then walked off to make it.
this annoyed me a little, i’m just a grown man wanting to drink a tasty cocktail what’s wrong with that? When she brought the drink back i got my petty revenge. As she was placing the drink on the table i said, “my mum loved these, god rest her. I always have one on the anniversary of her passing to remember her.” She looked horrified and tried to shuffle off quickly, so i asked her for a cocktail stirrer so she had to come back again. When she came back i took a sip from the straw, kissed my hand and pointed to the sky trying to look sad. She was so visibly uncomfortably i had to stifle my own laughs.
she noticeably avoided our table multiple times after this.
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once an incident is interpreted that way, anger can become more action-oriented. People may start thinking about what would restore a sense of balance after feeling that someone else has imposed an unfair cost on them. That does not mean retaliation is always the response, but it helps explain why a seemingly small slight can turn into a desire to make the other person experience some kind of consequence.
there is also an element of control involved: after being placed in the position of the person who was inconvenienced, embarrassed, or ignored, taking action can temporarily make them feel less powerless. Replaying the incident can keep the sense of injustice active, making the original offense feel increasingly worthy of a response.
#13 let your teenager kick me for a 9 hour flight, get stuck on the plane extra long
yesterday i was flying to america from the uk, and a mother and apparent 18 y/o daughter were sitting next to me. She looked younger but the mother gave her alcohol during the flight that she had ordered, so who knows.
the whole flight the daughter had her shoes off and kept elbowing and kicking me with her stinky sock feet while talking loudly. At one point i was asleep and the daughter kicked me awake and slapped me with her jacket. Right before landing the two of them were physically fighting, play or not, i got hit a few times and told them to be civilized.
now for my pettiness. As soon as the fasten seat belt sign came off, they got up and obviously were trying to force their way off the plane early (we were in 37g-j, very back of plane). I threw down my table and kept watching my programme, trapping them, and told them “patience is a virtue, we’ll be last off anyway.” They were not pleased. When the rows in front were clearing out, i waited til the last second to close up and as i got my bag out of the overhead i put it on my seat blocking them again and “accdentally” hit the daughter with my jacket on the way out of the overhead keeping her back. There was a very large family behind us that made their way behind me in the aisle blocking them in again. I didn’t see them at baggage til five minutes after i made it.
didn’t affect them a lot but sure made me feel good, it’s the little things.
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#14 a kid kept kicking my sandcastle, so i built the next one with a rock
so i was about 11 or 12 at the time and on vacation. We were staying at a lake in alberta, and it was honestly a good time.
i built an amazing sandcastle, it had walls, towers, and even a drawbridge made out of driftwood. Plus i built it on a platform made of rocks, halfway into the lake, like a little island. I mean come on, i even made decorative trees out of seaweed. Then the teenagers struck. This one kid went and kicked the sandcastle to bits, and even before i got a picture.
my next sandcastle, i buried the heaviest, most jagged rock in the base. The teenager went up to it and kicked it again. Let’s just say, the castle lasted longer than his foot. My castles didn’t get knocked down ever again.
now, as a teenager myself, i still vividly remember this event and it makes me laugh. Don’t ruin people’s work, kids.
edit: by base, i meant like the bottom – middle of the castle, not under it.
edit 2: stop commenting about seaweed. It was probably something else, but i called it seaweed because i don’t know any other water plants besides maybe kelp.
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#15 you don’t want to sell to the american? Meet my french husband and waste your time
so i’m (38f) vacationing with my mother (71f) in europe right now and she just told me this epic story that i must now pass down to all of you.
some background: my mother is a very nice person to strangers, especially salespeople. Aggressive salespeople will back her into a corner for an hour until i come rescue her because she doesn’t want to be rude. My father passed a few years ago at age 81 and he was born in egypt and was schooled in both french and arabic and considered both to be his native languages, and then learned english as an adult when he moved to the us.
a few years after they got married in 1976, but before they had kids, they took a vacation to paris. My mother collects stamps, and she wanted some french plate blocks to add to her collection. She left my father napping in the hotel room and went to the post office a block away planning on spending $300-$400 on stamps.
she got to the post office and waited in a very long line. When she finally got to the front, the woman behind the counter told her in perfect english that she didn’t speak english, so my mom waited for another post employee to become free. The second employee finally became available but was very rude to my mother, telling her that she couldn’t help her, couldn’t sell her this, out of stock of that, etc while rolling her eyes and being otherwise nasty and rude, nearly bringing my mother to tears.
my mother was so upset that she decided to get some revenge. She went back to the hotel room and woke up my father and brought him to the post office. My mother waited until the rude woman was available and had my dad translate in perfect french, telling the woman that my mom wanted the plate block of every set of stamps she had, watching her remove the plate block from each sheet.
for those of you that don’t know, when you remove the plate block from a sheet of stamps, the remaining stamps must be counted by hand.
after the nasty woman had a nice stack of plate blocks for my mother, one of every stamp design they had, my mother turned to my father and said, “tell her i’ve changed my mind”
not only did that woman miss out on a huge sale for being mean and nasty, but she also had to spend a good 30-60 minutes after closing to hand count each individual stamp after they closed for the day.
i am just so proud of my very polite mother right now.
edit: those of you saying my mom is a “karen” you have serious reading comprehension issues. Also the nasty woman spoke english, as most people do in france. So chill.
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vacations also create plenty of opportunities for arguments over scarce resources, which can make fairness particularly visible. Psychology today notes that travelers often have to divide limited amounts of time, money, space, and access to experiences. A group might have to decide who gets the better hotel room, who chooses the restaurant, who gets the preferred seat, or who gives up an activity for everyone else.
because trips are often expensive and relatively rare, people may attach greater importance to these decisions than they would during an ordinary weekend. Losing out on something can feel like more than an inconvenient compromise when the person believes they have already invested heavily in making the trip happen.
#16 you’re going to bully a little girl and spit water in her face at the water park? Prepare for the tempest
so i took my two young sons to the local water park yesterday. They had a blast. I stayed in the lazy river most of the time with them. I tend to stay about 10 to 20 yards behind them. Close enough to keep an eye on them, far enough for them to have fun.
i’m minding my own business, floating in the lazy river when suddenly a wild bully appears. Cue 10 year oldish husky boy who’s following around a much smaller girl. I’m observing over the course of a few laps of the river as this little turd boy is constantly teasing and intimidating this little girl that’s like half his size.
i lap them. I’m now right behind victim and bully, my own sons constantly in my view and i get close enough to hear bully talking trash to his victim, trying to get her to leave the pool. She’s visibly scared and trying to get away from him. There are no accompanying adults with these children. This is when i see the bully take a mouthful of water and flat out spit in the girl’s face.
at this point i’m like you did not and i go into action. Things are crazy and hectic because we’re surrounded by people in a loud water park so i know i can get away with this.
just loud enough for him to hear me, i say to the bully from behind him, “hey!” Bully turd turns around i proceed to go full e. Honda palm splashing right in his face. After about 6 seconds of spashin blastoise level water in his face, bully is coughing and girl is 10 yards ahead near my sons. My work here is done.
i proceed to say nothing and pretend nothing has happened. Bully stands shocked, catching his breath in the lazy river as the hapless watergoing masses float past, oblivious. Ten minutes later bully is gone and victim has returned to merriment.
i think the life guards saw me and just didn’t care.
10/10 would recommend.
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#17 if you’re going to cut the line, be sure to pay
yesterday had just about the most amount of fun it’s possible to have on the london underground. I was travelling for work with suitcase and laptop bag so made for the wider gate entering the tube. There were a couple of people ahead of me with similar baggage loads, when a girl cut in front of me; not particularly out of the ordinary for london, but then quickly moved in and tail gated the person in front, without tapping in (paying). I dint think tool much of it, as sadly it’s a relatively common occurrence, but noticed the pretty distinctive turquoise trolley case she had in tow.
i didn’t particularly pay much attention to where she went as i tapped in myself, and by the time i looked up she was out of sight in the melee which is the london underground, so i did the only reasonable british thing of tutting and grumbling about the brazen theft, increasing everyone’s fairs under my breath.
a few stops later as i got to my destination i approached the similar wide barrier to tap out i noticed the same girl, and her turquoise suitcase, matching her pace to mine slightly behind me.
knowing what had happened on entry i knew it was my time to shine; i approached the wider exit gate again, tapping in with aplomb as she closed the gap to mere millimetres behind.
it was only right for me to stop on exiting the gate to pat down my pockets and make sure i had the wallet, passport and ticket from my onward trip. The gate slammed shut on her, unable to shove past me and my baggage in time, she was left half in, half out of the gate, quite obviously having no not paid her way, with a tube worker heading her way to ‘help’ untangle her.
having confirmed the contents of my pockets and not wanting to be late for my eurostar connection i moved away without seeing if the young lady got her just deserts, but i did learn a few new words as i moved out of earshot.
stupidly petty yes, would i do it again, absolutely.
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#18 here is to sand in your eye
we normally travel about 1000 miles to a sleepy town for an annual beach holiday.
the beach we use is just down the road. The thing about this beach is that it is very windy until about 9:00. After that there’s virtually no wind until about 13:00.
we arrive at the beach at our usual time, about 8:40 and setup. The beach is usually quite empty at this time.
this family arrives about 5 minutes after we have finished setting up and sets up, right behind us and so close that you would think that we are all the same group. The mom says that we would make a great wind shield. There seems to be no understanding of personal space.
i let it be and ignore them. Wind drops as usual and we have a great day at the beach.
almost to the minute the wind starts to pick up again after lunch.
normally we would pack up and return to the apartment, on this occasion i decided to spend a bit longer on the beach.
while we are waiting, i take all the towels and anything that could have sand stuck to it and roll them around in the beach sand.
we now start to pack up and i start with the back of our beach setup. Once i could feel the full force of the wind, i move to be directly in front of these people and start to remove the sand from all those sandy items, the sand starts going everywhere towards the family behind us. They start making all sorts of comments about the sand flying in their direction and how we could be so insensitive to their personal space.
i just keep on cleaning everything and packing them up. Sand was going everywhere and i heard mom complaining about sand in her mouth and eyes.
i’m not sure if this is petty but i sure felt vindicated.
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those comparisons become even sharper when people feel their contributions and rewards do not match. Someone who paid more, organized the itinerary, gave up their preferred dates, or made other compromises may expect that effort to be reflected in what they receive. Equity theory describes how people judge fairness by comparing what they put into a situation with what they get out of it. On a vacation, those calculations can become surprisingly concrete.
a person who feels they made the biggest sacrifice but ended up with the smallest room or least desirable option may see the disagreement as evidence that their effort is not being respected. What looks like a trivial dispute over a seat or reservation can therefore become a much larger argument about consideration and whose preferences matter.
#19 i “accidentally” spilled tea on a girl who kept shoving past me in a crowded concert line
ast weekend, my friends and i (all late 20s) were stoked to attend a concert we’d been hyping up for weeks. The line to get into the venue was absolute chaos, think sardines in a can, everyone freezing in the chilly evening air. To stay warm, we grabbed some hot tea from a vendor nearby and were sipping it while chatting and waiting our turn like civilized humans. Enter this group of girls (also 20s, i’d guess), who decided lines are optional. They weaved through the crowd, elbowing their way toward the front. One girl in particular zeroed in on our spot, shoving past my friends and me without so much as an “excuse me.” I’m usually chill, but after 45 minutes of waiting in the cold, i was over it. I gave her a gentle nudge back to hold my ground, but she just scoffed and kept pushing, practically stepping on my toes in the packed crowd. Fed up, i saw my moment. As she squeezed past me, still shoving like she owned the place, i kinda “lost my balance” and tilted my cup of tea just enough for a small splash to land on her jacket. Nothing scalding, just enough to make her yelp and shoot me a death glare. I played it off with a quick, “oh no, im sorry, it’s super crowded!” She muttered something under her breath and scurried back to her group, suddenly less eager to cut ahead. The best part is my friends saw the whole thing and were stifling laughs as we finally got into the concert, feeling just a tiny bit warmer from my petty victory. No harm done ig, just a little tea-stained justice. Tl;dr: a girl kept shoving past me in a crowded concert line, so i “accidentally” spilled some tea on her jacket when she pushed by, and she stopped trying to cut ahead.
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#20 be entitled over a free plane ticket home? Enjoy the multi-stop and bus ticket home
so this happened during covid. For some context i was based in hong kong at the time and the lady involved was in china ( beijing) trying to get home to south africa to avoid lock down.
so the destinations are south african.
so my wife and i are good at saving and were planning to go home for the easter holidays but unfortunately due to lock down we couldn’t.
now i was part of an expat group and many people were stuck as they had just arrived in china often with little money and now needed to get back home.
so my wife and i decided to help some people get home. We helped 10 people get back home. We didn’t expect to be paid back, however most people did over time
now there was one lady let’s call her mel. Mel was stuck in beijing and needed to buy a ticket home. But she had no money due to circumstances etc.
so i contacted her and offered her a ticket home. She gladly accepted. I told her this is my budget and i will work within that budget.
now one thing to note is that rather than send money, i would book the ticket for the person.
mel demanded that i book a direct flight from beijing to johannesburg and then book a regional flight to east london. Now both are very expensive.
i offered to book a cheaper indirect flight via dubai or ethiopia. So the flight would be 3 legs instead of 2.
now mel was having none of this and basically said it’s direct as possible or nothing.
so i ignored her for a week or so and helped someone else who was extremely greatful.
with a week before lock down happened mel frantically contacted me and said she would take any flight
now the petty revenge.
i obliged with a 3 stop itinerary ( think 40 hours) with the final stop in johannesburg the main city.
the kicker? I booked a bus ticket ( 20 hours) for the leg from johannesburg to east london.
mel kept me updated and was livid the whole time. I didn’t get paid back but the messages i got after her trip were gold. When she found out that i had booked her a bus ticket for the final leg she was broken at this point.
tldr: good samaritan made entitled traveller take the long way home.
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#21 crowded paris airport seating
a few years back my sister and i were traveling through paris to rome with my 7 and 4 year old nephews for a trip to italy. When we landed in paris there was a very long walk from the landing gate and customs to our gate. When we finally got to our gate area it was very crowded. My 7 year old nephew at the time needed to sit. He has blade prosthetics and they were getting tight and needed replacing soon. Plus, the air travel makes his legs swell a bit. Anyway, we get to the gate and he needs to sit and we’re trying to contain the wild 4 year old too. I approach a women seated between 2 empty seats and ask her politely if she could please move one seat over so the boys could sit together, pointing at my nephews legs telling her he needs to sit. She absolutely refused and i think she thought we would look elsewhere for seats together, but i turned to my sister and sis proceeds to sit one of the boys on each side of her. The boys were really excited and bouncing all over the place. I ran to the restroom and by the time i got back my sister was seated between the boys. I think it took only about 1 minute for the woman to realize her mistake of sitting between 2 excited little boys. My sister said she left pretty quickly. I saw the woman again as we boarded the plane and she wouldn’t make any eye contact with me.
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that can also help explain why someone might retaliate rather than simply complain. Neurolaunch notes that retaliation can feel more immediate because it puts the person who was wronged back into an active position. A complaint requires reporting the problem, waiting for someone else to respond, and trusting that the outcome will be fair. If a traveler believes a hotel, airline, tour operator, or another authority will dismiss the issue, taking matters into their own hands may seem more satisfying.
retaliation can also serve as a form of deterrence in the person’s mind, particularly when they believe the offending behavior was deliberate and could happen again. The response may therefore be less about solving the original inconvenience and more about making the boundary feel real.
#22 filthy airbnb and arrogant host
this was quite a few years ago, we went to our first airbnb and arrived late in the evening, the facilities were horribly dirty. In the bathroom, across from the toilet was what looked like vomit on the wall. There was old food in the kitchen/refrigerator. There were dirty fingerprints all over the cupboards, fridge, stove, etc.. The bed was unmade and the sheets looked used. The second bed frame squeaked loudly every time you moved so bad that i had to put the mattress on the floor to sleep.
we complained to the host and she said that she pays a cleaning service to do that and grudgingly brought over new sheets and towels. When we complained about the vomit, she said it was a paint stain which it wasn’t because i cleaned it up. Because it was late at night, we stayed the night then asked for our money back as we had originally planned on staying a week. She told us that we had to cancel the booking when in fact she was supposed to. When we cancelled we found out that we were docked an extra day penalty because we had cancelled early. If she had cancelled, then we wouldn’t receive the extra day penalty.
we left the next day. When we discussed it with the host about getting a refund for the extra day she refused then told airbnb that we were difficult and that she had kicked us out. We argued with airbnb for months to no avail as they believed the host even though we had sent them pictures. Their policy was that since we cancelled, we were penalized.
i happened to notice that the city where the airbnb was had an online registry of licensed secondary suites. I looked up the airbnb address and it was an unregistered suite which meant that it was never inspected and hadn’t paid the city licensing fee. I made a complaint to the bylaw officer with details of the suite and pictures showing the rear entrance. The airbnb host received a $2000 fine plus had to go through the inspection procedure for another junk of change. All for not refunding $150 for the extra day.
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#23 cheat on me and no one goes on vacation
my ex and i used to go to a cancun resort every year with a bunch of our mutual friends. I found out my ex was cheating on me when i accidentally got a flight confirmation email that he booked tickets for himself and the other girl. It was rough. Tried to have a civil breakup but he refused to pay me for the cancun vacation that i had already prepaid. I tried to get my money back but he refused. After our breakup it took me several weeks to find a new place to live and move my things out of his house. On the last trip to the house i asked him one last time for the money and he again refused. So i “accidentally” packed his current passport in my last box of things and left my expired passport in its place. Since he has already booked the tickets he apparently didn’t check the passport until he was at the airport and was denied the international flight because he didn’t have a current passport. I never did get my money but i did get immense satisfaction that he didn’t get to go on vacation.
updated: i gave the passport back a couple weeks later when i discovered it in a box of things to unpack…so weird, right?! He asked for a refund for the flights and i told him i would be happy to if he refunded me for the resort (which was much more expensive). He declined.
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#24 petty revenge on obnoxious hotel guest
so, i’m staying at this hotel in rome. I had already been there for one night, but thing is, you had to hand in your room key when you went out to avoid losing it.
anyways, i’m returning from some sightseeing, about to pick up my key from the reception and head up to the room when two disgusting, sweaty hamplanets push me (!) Away from the line and starts shouting at the receptionist. They had ordered a room, but turns out they want one with a view to the street outside, a larger bed, extra refreshments and this and that. The receptionist is as puzzled as i am, as it is a rather low-budget hotel that gives you the essentials and that’s about it. No extras, breakfast doesn’t last for too long, cleaning is early etc.
anyways, after some time the finally shuffle away. They actually got transferred to the room they wanted, but they still didn’t look very pleased. I make eye contact with the receptionist, we both sigh and roll our eyes and i ask for my room key, 203. Turns out the fatties are staying in room 204 so i brace myself for further annoyances.
i take the stairs, and get up to the room approximately at the same time as the couple does. And, sure enough, the woman turns to me and says “we need our sleep and we sleep very lightly, so you better stay quiet tomorrow morning, or you’re gonna face some unpleasant consequences.”
cue next morning, i wake up early, and to my delight they have put one of those “do not disturb” signs on their doorknob. I flip it so it instead says “please clean my room”. As i mentioned earlier, they cleaned the rooms earlier than usual (noon is normal, 10 am in this hotel). I left, knowing that the hamplanets would have a shitty morning, without any proper breakfast, smiled to the receptionist, and had a fantastic day in amazing rome.
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of course, getting even does not necessarily restore the lost vacation time, money, or peace of mind. What makes petty revenge so compelling is that it can provide a temporary feeling that an imbalance has been corrected, even when the original problem remains. A person who felt ignored can regain a sense of agency; someone who believed they were treated unfairly can feel that the other person finally faced a consequence.
at the same time, both sides of a disagreement can interpret their own actions as justified, particularly when each focuses on what the other person did first. That is part of what makes vacation conflicts so easy to escalate: a trip already packed with limited time, high expectations, fatigue, and shared resources can turn one small act of rudeness into a dispute that becomes far more memorable than the inconvenience that started it.
#25 being petty over a summer vacation spot!
not my story, a friend, after graduating college got a chunk of land as a graduation gift from his grandfather. Lake front property, so with help from friends, myself included and family we helped him clear bush, trees and built a nice driveway and small cabin (my contribution was just clearing forest). He had a great little completion weekend party when everything was mostly done, meet some of his neighbors that weekend which warned him about the “karen” on the adjacent property to the right. Anyways fast forward to a year later his neighbor to the right shows up and tells him that he had missed surveyed his land and built illegally, that his driveway is on their land and part of his cabin is on their land as well. In order to rectify this he had to remove his driveway, replant the trees removed and either move his cabin or pay a grand a month as land rental if he doesn’t move his cabin. My friend did the surveying of the land himself so at the time he thought maybe he made a mistake, and tried to make a more beneficial agreement with the neighbor about sharing the land since it’s northern canada and the properties are only usable in the summer for camping and weekend getaways. But the guy wouldn’t budge and told him if he didn’t agree to the original terms he’ll see him in small claims court. My friend realizing he couldn’t afford to go to court but could afford a couple hundred bucks to get a government survey done went with that option. Turns out the neighbors cabin was a foot on my friend’s land and the neighbor very nice walkway, stairs to the lake, the beautiful boat launch and dock where all in my friends property. So what did he do… he resorted to pettiness, told the neighbor that he built illegally on his land, and in order not to go to court over this the walkway, stairs, dock and boat launch were his now, if he saw the neighbor using them he’d call the rcmp for trespassing, also that the neighbors cabin had to be moved or a payment of a thousand dollars a month for land rental would be acceptable. A month later his neighbor moved the cabin moved and had a large fence built splitting their properties.
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#26 cruise to nowhere
hubby and i moved into a new house in 2018. When we were buying the house, we asked his brother and his sister and her husband to cosign on our mortgage. In return, we said we’d take them on a cruise. In 2019 we were going to go on the cruise but bil couldn’t get work off and sil got pregnant. Then there was a pandemic. During the pandemic we were made aware of some problematic dynamics between sil/her husband and their kids, so we filed a report with child protective services. They are now, understandably upset with us. However, our report was completely justified. Sil keeps telling us we owe her for “intentionally messing with her” and every time we talk with her (it has been very, very infrequent) she tries to get us to give her money. She has also been doing things to sabotage my husband’s company and is systematically turning mutual friends against us. She now wants us to pay her the money we would have spent on a cruise for her. I’m not trying to change the terms of our initial agreement but she’s insistent that we have to do it to “make amends.” So now i’m shopping for a one night cruise to nowhere. Absolutely the cheapest cruise i can find. She won’t even be able to go because she’s not vaccinated but hey, at least i will have followed through.
edit: the loan was paid off within 6 months of initiation. Details on the child mistreatment that was happening were left out due to group rules about felonious activity.
edit again: i don’t want to get my post removed but there was physical mistreatment towards my son and towards their own children. Also neglect. So far, in order to “make restitution” we’ve been told to get individual therapy, attend family therapy, pay for her to go to therapy, pay for the family therapy, give them cash equal to the cost of a cruise, etc. Every time we jump through one hoop there’s something more she wants from us. She and my husband’s other sister were working for my husband and started up a competing business and stole clients and never serviced them, which cost us around $12k. She has threatened several other forms of retaliation as well. We tried several times to take them on the cruise before this all blew up but they always had other things preventing them. Still, they literally can’t cruise due to current guidelines. In all reality i’ll probably just send them on a decent cruise but i really, really want to just book them a one night cruise to nowhere, with all 3 of them in the same stateroom.
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#27 changed seats when i checked in for our flight
i’ve been on vacation with my best friend this week…and she’s been horrible to me, despite me paying for most of the trip. I’d offered to bring her along because i knew she was having a really tough time in several areas of her life and knew she could use a break – but i definitely learned a new grownup lesson the hard way to leave messy people at home (unless you want them to bring their mess!).
anyway, we leave tomorrow. The vacation i saved and paid for was trash. The least i could do was to rebook her seats away from me so that she’s in the center seat, last row, right next to the toilet on a longish flight. I pray she also has a couple screaming toddlers in her ear and frankly, it’s gonna be a long time before i’m interested in seeing her again.
it’s not great revenge, but it’s definitely petty.
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a vacation can already come with enough delays, cramped spaces, unexpected expenses, and personality clashes without someone adding an extra reason to lose your patience. And while some travelers choose to complain or simply walk away, others decide that a little payback is the most satisfying way to handle a person who crossed the line.
sometimes the revenge is so small that it barely changes anything, while other times it becomes the part of the trip everyone remembers. Have you ever gotten petty revenge on someone while traveling? Or have you ever been on the receiving end of some unexpected vacation payback? Share your most ridiculous travel revenge story in the comments, the pettier, the better!
#28 your seat?
this happened to me back in the early 2000s. I used to travel a lot and always booked an aisle seat. This very large man had the middle seat next to me. He said his travel department messed up and didn’t give him an aisle, and i needed to switch with him. He was a large man, and i’m sure he really did need the aisle more than me. Thing was he was a true jerk about it. Had he asked nicely, i would have gladly switched with him. He was blocking the aisle so no one could get past him, so i relented. After i moved, he turned to the crowd behind him and said, “sorry, i had to wait for this lady to move out of my seat.” Your seat??
my revenge: every 10 minutes or so, i made him get up so i could get out of my seat. I’d stand in the aisle just a few rows behind my row. Just as he settled back in, i came back and made him get up to let me back in. After he got a drink, time for me to get up. Just as he opened food he brought with him, time for me to get up. Closed his eyes, time for me to get up. I did this the whole 3.5 hour flight. It was obviously really inconvenient for him, because he would have to pick up his things, put the tray up, take off his seatbelt, get out, let me out, then put everything back.
i still smile when i think about that.
edit: this happened right before 9/11, so about 25-26 years ago. Today, i wouldn’t move. This happened before seats were different prices, before phones had camera and everybody recorded everything, and flying wasn’t near as irksome as it used to be today.
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#29 free breakfast for a limited time this morning for loud hotel neighbors
a few weeks ago our family was staying at a hotel resort for a relaxing weekend. Unfortunately we got roomed underneath a heard of buffalo, or a family of six, i couldn’t tell which. As we put our kids to bed, we “hushed” them and reminded them we were in a hotel with other guests, so we could be as courteous as possible. Not the buffalo family above us. For hours into the night, until well after midnight, they were banging and slamming things in the room above. And while i can sleep through almost anything, and the kids were exhausted and asleep, i knew it was steaming my wife. And that was making me more and more angry – unhappy wife, unhappy life.
anyway, we all managed to finally fall asleep. However my super power is needing little sleep. I get up every day at 5:00a without an alarm clock. Sure enough, the next morning a few 4 hours later, i woke up like clockwork, and instantly i had my revenge.
going down to the elevator core, i located a house phone and dialled their room: 6 and the room number – the room directly above ours. It rang five or six times with no answer. I hung up, and was feeling a little guilty and about to give up, when i remembered i wasn’t getting laid today because of these clowns, said “f it” and rang back again. This time, a groggy female answered the phone – like barely – “heelllllooo???” She croaked into the phone.
in my most chipper voice i said “good morning! This is the front desk with your morning wakeup call! Are you awake?” — I hear confusion on the other end.
“we have a special thank you gift for families staying with us today – free breakfast buffet and admission to the waterpark today, however it is first come, first served, and you and your guests must claim your award at the front desk in the next 30 minutes.” — More confusion. And i thank her and hang up.
next i camped out in the lobby to wait and see what happened. Sure enough about 20 min later, a train of groggy half-dressed family members come down to the front desk, looking annoyed, sleepy and … did i see hope their eyes? As soon as they hit the front desk, it got heated – the mom demanding to see the on-duty manager, and the manager trying to explain they didn’t call and don’t offer that. It must have taken 5 minutes for them to figure out it was a prank, and sulk back to their room.
i left and went to get some coffee and enjoyed the rest of my morning.
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#30 it was international waters
i was middle seat on my first overseas flight from sydney to san fran and woke several times with the guy in the aisle seat next me elbows literally in my ribs. I gently pushed them back a few times over the course of 10 hours but it was clear he dgaf.
with 2 hours left the cabin crew turned the lights on and the coffee cart came around and i asked for a coffee. I stood up and reached over to grab it and don’t know,must have hit some mid air turbulence or something and accidentally dumped half the hot coffee in his lap.
as the cabin crew helped him clean up i sat back down and put my earphones in and went back to sleep. His elbows somehow managed to stay over his side for the rest of the flight.
funniest thing was watching him go through customs with a damp brown stain on his beige khakis.
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#31 want to party in the hotel room next to me? Enjoy your wake up call
a few years ago i was staying in a hotel room in suburban detroit. I was a navy reservist on my drill weekend. On saturday night, this couple shows up in the adjoining room with a buddy and their probably 6 year old kid. I think nothing of it until it’s about 10 pm and two more people show up. Now it’s a party. They’re being obnoxious, so i knock on the door and ask them to keep it down, that i have to work in the morning.
“we’re not even being loud. How can you hear us?”
“bro, i’m in the room next to you, there’s a door between our rooms. I can hear you clearly.”
“yeah ok.” Door closes.
45 mins later, they’re just as loud as they had been. I call the front desk. I hear the neighbors phone ring. He hangs up and says “if he thinks we’re loud, wait til later.” They continue to party and are obviously being loud on purpose to spite me.
eventually i got tired enough and fell asleep at about 1 am. I wake up at 5:30 to get ready for work.
petty revenge: i plug the alarm clock in to the socket near the adjoining door, put the speaker against the door they can’t open. I put the radio between stations, crank the volume to max, and set the alarm for 5 minutes after i leave the room.
i picture them panicking and furious at not being able to stop it. I would’ve given anything to see their reaction.
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#32 want to charge us extra for something that didnt happen? Have fun with your reviews tanking.
this happened a few years ago. My gf at the time (now wife) and i used to vacation in asheville, booking cabins through a rental company. She grew up there and loved it, plus she had friends/family in the area that we would visit while there.
one of the rules the company had was that no extra guest were allowed to stay overnight, or there would be a fee. This rule never bothered us, as we never planned on having that. But, we did invite a couple of my gf’s friends over to hang out for a little while. They got there around 7-8 and stayed until about 11pm before heading home. We finished the trip, had a great time and went home thinking all was good.
a couple days after we got home, i got an email from a woman in the rental company who claimed that their maintance guy saw that we had people stay over and we were being charged an extra $200 for breaking “occupancy” rules! Next came a back and forth between her and i where i told them noone stayed overnight, and that they left around 1030-11pm. But she claimed to me that “occupancy” is anyone being in the cabin at all, which made no sense i looked up the legal definition of occupancy which did not side with her, but she told me it didnt matter and they would charge me the extra 200. Cue the revenge.
between my gf and i, we got about 8 people with 20 different google accounts all leaving 1 star reviews on the company’s google page. This took their rating of around 4.4 all the way down to the mid 3 stars (it was a local company). Well someone higher up must have gotten wind of this and they knew exactly who did it. Within a couple hours, i got several emails from the original woman and her supervisor apologizing for the misunderstanding and asking how they could get us to take down the bad reviews.
after telling them it was clearly not a misunderstanding, i told them to kick rocks since they wanted to treat us that way, and long story shorter than it could be, we ended up getting an offer of 200 off our next visit if we took the reviews down (and they obviously refunded me that extra 200 plus another 100 off that stay). Karen, i hope you understand what occupancy means now, if you still have a job.
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#33 be nice to your camping neighbours
not me but my parents. They love camping for long trips because it’s cheap and easy. They were travelling in eastern canada and were to depart early in the morning so they got to sleep early. At around 10pm, two cars arrived to camp in the site next to them. Headlights directly on my parents tent. Open the door. Close the door. Bang. Open the door. Close the door. Bang. I don’t know if you camp a lot but a car door closing next to a tent is pretty loud when you try to sleep. They were also talking loudly and not caring at all about people sleeping around.
so the next morning comes, my parents get up silently, closing the car door only once they are ready, being very considerate to other people.
and at the very last, my mom writes on a big sticker (like 3inx3in) “we left silently, jerk” and stuck it in the center of their windshield.
and they drove away.
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source & more 13. William shatner played a prank on the set of the twilight zone while shooting the nightmare at 20,000 feet episode. Shatner staged a fake fight on the plane and had a dummy fall off the wing to the concrete below. Richard donner, the episodes director, thought shatner had died.
source & more 14. Nasas longest-serving female employee since january 1958, sue finley, has been an engineer and programmer for space missions since explorer 1, for missions to the moon, sun, all the planets and many other solar system bodies, and recipient of nasas exceptional public service medal.
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source & more 17. In rwanda, people go to milk bars to socialize and drink milk.
source & more 18. A juice company named del oro dumped 12,000 tonnes of orange peels on virtually lifeless soil and 16 years later, it turned into a lush forest.
source & more 19. Because of calibris status as the default font in ms office, there have been many instances of forged documents being identified because this font was used. A canadian business owner facing bankruptcy typed 2 trust documents dated before calibris release in 2007, exposing them as forged.
source & more 20. In 2012, american singer demi lovato did an mtv documentary about her sobriety and how she overcame addiction. 5 years later, she admitted she was on cocaine while filming it.
source & more 21 mark roberts an english man named mark roberts has streaked at more than 565 international events. He has his own set of rules for streaking: dont interrupt the play of a game, be prepared to spend an evening in jail, have a good lawyer on hand, and dont eat spicy food the night before a streak.
source & more 22. French soldier of fortune and mercenary bob denard was hired in 1975 to overthrow ahmed abdallah, president of the comoros. 3 years later abdallah hired denard to kick out his replacement, mad dictator ali soilih. 10 years later soilihs half-brother paid denard to remove abdallah again. All coups succeeded.
source & more 23. Avocados evolved alongside extinct megafauna like giant ground sloths whose digestive system could pass the intact pit. When these giant creatures went extinct, human cultivation saved the avocado.
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| So I took my newly-15-year-old to her first concert last night. I could complain |
| Posted on Monday, September 28 @ 00:01:42 PDT (12 reads) | |
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So i took my newly-15-year-old to her first concert last night. I could complain (hideous weather, long outdoor line, music was not made for me in any way), but i want to share the good stuff.
the audience was a lot of teen girls (many with their parents in tow, as i was towed by my kiddo), young adults (like young young, college aged), probably 2/3 young women and girls, 1/3 young men and boys, most (but not all) of whom gave baby-queer vibes. They were cute as fuck, all of them.
and let me tell you. Even as i sat with my aching knees in my rainsoaked clothes, listening to music that was weirdly not loud enough for the venue?, Played by a bunch of t-shirts-and-dickies-pants broccoli-hairs, sung by a kid who–i am not making this up–was introduced as “the wholesome rock star!” I looked around and down and all over that venue (we were in the last balcony, off to one side), i got a little emotional!
those (i’m going to say girls because it was mostly girls, and because it triggered my “i was also one of these girls” feels) girls were all smiles, dancing, dressed in their cutest outfits or their red shirts “because his new album–the colour is red” or so i was told, pressing their prayerful hands to their hearts, hugging their best friend, wiping away tears, singing their hearts out (this crowd several times drowned this guy all the way out)…it made me really emotional! Because i’ve been those girls. I know that exquisite, completely unique set of feelings. The idol is right there, singing those songs that touch yr heart, and you’re singing along, and so are hundreds of other people. It’s an experience you can only have at a gig played by yr favourite, and it has weight and meaning that exists at no other time, in no other place. I know how that feels. Oh, i know it.
those girls–blissful, buoyant–singing their songs…it made me cry. It made my heart soar. |
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| New Book Releases: September 28th to October 4th, 2026 |
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Sometimes there’s just some things you want to shout.
like – pizza’s here! Can’t you learn how to flush? It’s lake ontario
or how be my new fave ? Nearly 700 new books this week!
i’ll fill ya in on 5, and vince’ll handle a further 10 on our podcast .
the widow nora by j.L. Hyde this wednesday, mark your calendar for the second installment in the “westridge cove mystery” series when j.L. Hyde drops the widow nora !
this halloween, iris and nancy have found their home becoming a mecca for true crime enthusiasts as they remain the two remaining family members after the disappearance of nancy’s twin sisters. And as iris taps deeper into her special abilities, she turns to the westridge cove resident witch, nora, for help. In return, she’ll receive more than she could have bargained for.
the crimson veil by jennifer kropf book three of the “songs of the adriels” by jennifer kropf arrives wednesday with the crimson veil !
for xerxes and ryn, it’s been weeks since his abduction and now he’s a war hostage in a foreign land. And while ryn holds hope that he’s still alive, she’s suffered tragedy and has spiraled to where nothing will satisfy her. When the pair find their way back to one other, they’ll find themselves in a situation where xerxes will have to choose between what may be his demise, or following the god of his childhood enemies.
offside possession by mayra statham get ready to be excited for a monday. This september 28th, mayra statham drops offside possession – book 5 in the “houston lonestars” series!
one hookup. One night. One wild encounter and that was supposed to be it. But not if he has his way. And when he finds her to rekindle the heat, there’ll be a twist of fate that will have him challenging bro-codes.
falling for the maverick by rochelle alers on september 29th, rochelle alers releases the third in the harlequin romance series “montana mavericks: hidden gems ranch,” with falling for the maverick !
michelle has fallen for the rancher, lucas. But with their siblings marrying one another, their chance at romance is quashed. However, fall has arrived in their small town and through the bustle of the season change, a stolen kiss occurs. Can they continue to keep things flirty and secret from everyone? Especially now that michelle has feelings that are causing her to want more?
galinda by gregory maguire #1 new york times bestselling author gregory maguire brings galinda to shelves on september 29th, all part of “the wicked years” series!
who was galinda (glinda with a “ga”) in the years before she became elphaba’s magnetic roommate at shiz university? The youngest of four, the equally pampered and ignored galinda is enamored with dance. Her natural grace points her to a promising future but with it, an ignorance of her father’s business competitors who disapprove of his strategies.
new book releases for september 28th, 2026 to october 4th, 2026 manage author title series date alexandra hale all tied down ironwood #1 sep 28th alida miranda-wolff into the flood gods of tellus #3 sep 28th ann glimmer sundered sun the sun & moon saga #1 sep 28th anna-marie morgan the black ink murders di giles #27 sep 28th annee jones mountain man in my patch fall for a mountain man 2026 #1 sep 28th aria ray sabres guard savage legion mc #18 sep 28th beck lewis he waits in the window novella sep 28th blair howard the last casualty the roscoe benteen mysteries #2 sep 28th blake pierce girl, remembered ella dark #34 sep 28th blake r. Wolfe heartflame widdershins supernatural academy #8 sep 28th c.S. Berry their wicked secrets untouched #5 sep 28th caitlin crews the tortured marines sunshine girl wild rose point #9 sep 28th carol hellier the enforcer the legacy #1 sep 28th casey cox my one obsession standalone sep 28th dianne harman last words the comedian cozy mystery #3 sep 28th elisa leigh the krakens forbidden touch creature university #4 sep 28th elise faber one night with number nineteen grizzlies hockey #4 sep 28th eva lyndale the duke in her margins the secret trades of london #4 sep 28th jack bryce ascension chronicles of a retired war mage #7 sep 28th jack gatland field of stones hunter & chase #2 sep 28th jessie rose case kyle galactic cyborg heat #91 sep 28th john walker last light dawn of mankind #5 sep 28th julia stone oops! I fell for the biker next door oops i fell for the...Next door #15 sep 28th k.E. Osborn reckless the las vegas defiance mc #4 sep 28th kate anslinger borrowed lies mckenna mystery #9 sep 28th kate bold get close heather king suspense thriller #12 sep 28th kaz hunter reborn mercenary 2 reborn mercenary #2 sep 28th kel summers finding eden book 5 sea glass island #5 sep 28th keleros wild lands ajaxs ascension #7 sep 28th l.A. Mcginnis devoted the dimmortali vampire dynasty #3 sep 28th lincoln cole the widening veil last light #6 sep 28th lisa freed fanged on fright night monster lovers carnival #1 sep 28th manning wolfe lawyer by proxy proxy legal thriller #4 sep 28th mayra statham offside possession houston lonestars #5 sep 28th neil s. Plakcy k-pop double life have body, will guard #15 sep 28th olivia boothe a dream of frost and midnight spirit marked #2 sep 28th p.A. Vasey the watchers standalone sep 28th p.G. Allison missy takes command missy the werecat #17 sep 28th portia macintosh when sparks fly standalone sep 28th r. Cody carver fannies merry xmas novella sep 28th roxy collins omega uncaged standalone sep 28th sierra cartwright theirs to tempt titans captivated #7 sep 28th suzanne goldring the baby in her arms standalone sep 28th t.J. Nichols blades and bone hunting hearts #4 sep 28th tayloranne worley of bones and lilac standalone sep 28th tiffany shand spell keepers spell keepers #2 sep 28th victoria paige inked in devotion marriage ink #2 sep 28th warwitch academy 6 warwitch academy #6 sep 28th yasuaki mikami looks like a job for a maid! The tales of a dismissed supermaid volume 4 looks like a job for a maid! The tales of a dismissed supermaid (manga) #4 sep 28th the drone lord 4 the drone lord #4 sep 28th a.R. Witham drop dead dave dont die dave #2 sep 29th aaron blabey the boy who knew too much game of pets #1 sep 29th aashna avachat mischief girls mischief girls #1 sep 29th actus return of the runebound professor vol. 1 graphic novel sep 29th adam cohen a wolf among wolves standalone sep 29th kiss him bloody cuore family #1 sep 29th alex gonzalez the man of wind and moss standalone sep 29th alex hay the midnight guests standalone sep 29th alexis morgan to trust a rancher heroes of dunbar mountain #9 sep 29th alice winters clean slates and checkmates fanged mistakes #4 sep 29th alyssa milani its not over yet standalone sep 29th amanda mariel a waltz into wickedness courting ruin #5 sep 29th andrea penrose murder on threadneedle street wrexford & sloane #10 sep 29th angela burke kunkel snow geese season childrens book sep 29th ann cleeves the dying light matthew venn / two rivers #4 sep 29th annie barrows the lost three ghost guild #1 sep 29th asagi orikawa the dragon knights beloved vol. 10 the dragon knights favorite #10 sep 29th ashley herring blake take a chance, sasha sinclair clover lake #3 sep 29th ayad akhtar the radiance standalone sep 29th b.J. Daniels setup in montana dry gulch, montana #4 sep 29th bel banta the court of venus the court of venus #1 sep 29th the darkness bites back the shadows have teeth #1 sep 29th ben shepherd blood drunk standalone sep 29th beth hale riot act hells horsemen mc #4 sep 29th bobby finger i want to be famous non-fiction sep 29th c.P. Rider last witch effort the smokethorn paranormals #5 sep 29th c.W. Farnsworth gold rush kensingtons: the next generation #4 sep 29th caleb wygal coastal vendetta myrtle beach mystery #11 sep 29th carin hart phoenix the turning #2 sep 29th carol j. Post defending the innocent target canine defense #5 sep 29th carol moncado falling for the queen mother dynasties of the sargasso sea #5 sep 29th carrie talick the alibi club standalone sep 29th catherine leroux republic of glass standalone sep 29th cecelia mecca ruthless, but for her black sails of the border #1 sep 29th celia skye hard cider mountain man autumn harvest in silver ridge #6 sep 29th charlie holmberg lady of uncanny charms whimbrel house #5 sep 29th charly cox three days gone detective alyssa wyatt #7 sep 29th chloe kent three suave billionaires and a fake chauffeur three guys and a girl volume 2 #17 sep 29th chris hammer full circle standalone sep 29th christine glover protecting tamara select protectors security squad #7 sep 29th christy barritt veil of silence fog lake: homecoming #2 sep 29th ciara hartford fated to the frozen prince fated to the enemy #5 sep 29th cindi myers k-9 in pursuit k-9 avalanche rescue #4 sep 29th cindy stark bound by the divine moonlight divine #2 sep 29th cleo coyle the ghost and the dead librarian haunted bookshop mystery #10 sep 29th constance barker the clue at the old fountain the dead days of summer #2 sep 29th cp ward the christmas miracle delightful christmas #11 sep 29th d.D. Webb this town aint big enough the gods are bastards #3 sep 29th d.K. Hood whisper through the pines detectives kane and alton #33 sep 29th danielle steel ruthless standalone sep 29th danny meyer what could possibly go right? Non-fiction sep 29th darcy van poelgeest the cutting garden graphic novel sep 29th david hobbs emperors rise 3 imperial crown #3 sep 29th david mccloskey london station standalone sep 29th deesha philyaw the true confessions of first lady freeman standalone sep 29th denise derya brandt istanbul dreaming standalone sep 29th denise grover swank it runs in the family iris gardner mystery #1 sep 29th diane c. Mcphail the french innkeepers daughter standalone sep 29th dianne freeman a christmas guide to family and murder countess of harleigh mystery #10 sep 29th django wexler the only way out is up the sigilist #1 sep 29th donna hay kids baking donna hay cookbooks #23 sep 29th drucie anne taylor the rift between us billionaires row #2 sep 29th e.J. Lindell crowns of darkness the darkness trilogy #2 sep 29th eden robinson the sorceress of sky serpents standalone sep 29th edmund richardson alexander non-fiction sep 29th elaine manders a covert courtship mail-order brides undercover #10 sep 29th the spare affair the crown jewels #2 sep 29th ellen l. Ekstrom the city george of grasmere #2 sep 29th ellie alexander the pumpkin vice cafe bakeshop mysteries #24 sep 29th emily st. James every time a bell rings non-fiction sep 29th emma r. Alban happily ever afterlife standalone sep 29th evan gershkovich this cursed beautiful land non-fiction sep 29th fern michaels a season of secrets standalone sep 29th g.E. Smith prince of the phantom sky the azarian saga #2 sep 29th gavin ortlund why christianity makes sense non-fiction sep 29th george mann mother of mourning dark souls #6 sep 29th grace harper the second glass the perfect pour #2 sep 29th grace meyers the maplewood house 2 the meredith bay #2 sep 29th gregory maguire galinda the wicked years sep 29th hannah france to obsess standalone sep 29th hannah fries a forest language non-fiction sep 29th heidi eljarbo the resistance art club soli hansen mysteries #5 sep 29th truth in the treme bourbon street shadows #4 sep 29th hernan diaz ply standalone sep 29th i.V. Ophelia florescentia the luminary #1 sep 29th iman christians meet me on greenwood black wall street #1 sep 29th isabel cañas the house of gardenias standalone sep 29th j.R. Ward lover enthroned black dagger brotherhood #32 sep 29th j.W. Ocker chasing the headless horseman non-fiction sep 29th jacqueline chen bad days aren’t forever collection sep 29th jada fisher battle for kings tower dragons of fire and ice #9 sep 29th jane green the many private lives of missy cooke standalone sep 29th jane maguire once upon a scandalous night a society of scandal #7 sep 29th jaqueline snowe swing and a kiss standalone sep 29th jarrett melendez minecraft: builders feasts jarrett melendez cookbooks #10 sep 29th jasmine webb in the weeds mackenzie owens mysteries #10 sep 29th jb trepagnier malice in e minor blackvale academy #1 sep 29th jeffrey mason veteran, i want to hear your story hear your story #20 sep 29th jen talty hollow state black hollow #4 sep 29th jen williams the dreamless the sleepless #2 sep 29th jenna st. James death of the green fairy kara hilder mysteries #21 sep 29th jennifer d. Bokal coltons inferno the coltons of north dakota #3 sep 29th jennifer thorne newbourne park standalone sep 29th jess richards threads and distortions collection sep 29th jessica marin playing for love chicago phoenixes hockey club #1 sep 29th jiro akagawa a game of cat and killer the casebooks of mikeneko holmes #2 sep 29th john boyne the weight of angels standalone sep 29th john grisham the french illusion french illusion #2 sep 29th john verdon ghost barn dave gurney #9 sep 29th jordyn haart bonds of shame, bonds of lust breaking bonds duology #1 sep 29th joseph nassise angels regret templar chronicles #10 sep 29th joy harjo gathering the light childrens book sep 29th julio anta second generation blues graphic novel sep 29th k.R. Hall moonlight mingle spice-tember #9 sep 29th kate mckinnon the jungle of carabanana the millicent quibb school of etiquette for young ladies of mad science #3 sep 29th kate messner over and under the park childrens book sep 29th katherine battersby candy queen cranky chicken #5 sep 29th katherine garbera secrets she kept price security #6 sep 29th kathleen kaufman beyond the graves waits mist and sea standalone sep 29th kay bratt its only love harts ridge #17 sep 29th kaye ng the villainess is an ss+ rank adventurer, book 15 the villainess is an ss+ rank adventurer #15 sep 29th kaylea cross shallow remains skeleton island #3 sep 29th kelly reynolds serving bunt rose city roasters #6 sep 29th kelly st. Clare final tier demon peaks #3 sep 29th kent holland smokeshow hothead #2 sep 29th kimberly van meter final witness big sky justice #8 sep 29th kristen luciani branded betrayal whiskey creek sinners #1 sep 29th kristin vayden the earl’s marriage of convenience devon legacy #3 sep 29th kristy tate peppermint poison apothecary shop mysteries #1 sep 29th kyle winkler the ship of death standalone sep 29th l.J. Thomas the ghosts of gunflint bay standalone sep 29th l.M. Chilton i think we should kill other people standalone sep 29th pathfinder rachel hatch #16 sep 29th la robbins pistol whipped the preaching pistols #1 sep 29th lance bass the legend of mrs. Claws scary street #2 sep 29th lara london rocket ride moon u #2 sep 29th lars anderson brady non-fiction sep 29th laura briggs feathered friends at wrightstuff farm call the devondale vet #8 sep 29th laurien berenson peg and rose deck the halls senior sleuths mystery #4 sep 29th lee hollis death of a grill master hayley powell food and cocktails mysteries #23 sep 29th leif roder broken reality relative reality #1 sep 29th leslie meier countdown to christmas murder lucy stone #43 sep 29th lilac mills christmas at honeycombe bay standalone sep 29th liliana hart done dirty j.J. Graves mystery #19 sep 29th lily zante enzo knight empire #6 sep 29th lindsay straube kneel before me split or swallow #3 sep 29th lisa carter a very merry christmas k-9 k-9 companions #45 sep 29th liz ireland mrs. Claus and the fatal figgy pudding mrs. Claus #10 sep 29th lois lowry building 903 standalone sep 29th lorna barrett a critical conjunction booktown mystery #20 sep 29th lydia gregovic the false vow the weaver bride #2 sep 29th lynn painter trust fall standalone sep 29th lyra mishon wolf unseen moonfall academy #1 sep 29th m.L. Knight sleep monster demon saint duet #1 sep 29th mac flynn true loves curse king of monsters #2 sep 29th madeline miller mestra novella sep 29th maggie k. Black uncovering explosive secrets colorado k-9 unit #7 sep 29th maggie wells arkansas abduction arkansas special agents #5 sep 29th maisey yates the ranchers one and only three brothers ranch romance #1 sep 29th maisey yates christmas valley rustler mountain #4 sep 29th malcolm gladwell the american way of killing: the invention of an epidemic non-fiction sep 29th manda collins ghost me, maybe standalone sep 29th mara perry the hard freeze riley marsh k-9 search & rescue mysteries #2 sep 29th mara webb potions and commotion wicked witches of lavender lake #1 sep 29th marcia chatelain how bright the path grows non-fiction sep 29th marina pirlimpou hart body heat #2 sep 29th marissa farrar prey on her the men of windridge hall #1 sep 29th martha waters spellstruck standalone sep 29th matt goldman the prohibited standalone sep 29th maureen johnson the velvet knife truly devious #6 sep 29th meg mason sophie, standing there standalone sep 29th meg xuemei x hellgold blood and bond #3 sep 29th megan hess the world of barbie barbie #1 sep 29th megan hess barbie: a fashion icon barbie #2 sep 29th melissa anderson sweazy the sisters of crimson house standalone sep 29th mia brody flint cuddle a cowboy #3 sep 29th micaiah johnson the unhaunting standalone sep 29th michael felty honor roll hero heist school #3 sep 29th michael wehunt nightjars standalone sep 29th michele mills crowned by the rogue vampires ravenous royals #9 sep 29th min jin lee american hagwon standalone sep 29th mo willems the pigeon wont pick a color! Pigeon #17 sep 29th monica arya the favorite daughter standalone sep 29th monica mcinerney when sullivan met lola standalone sep 29th moosopp daybreak, vol. 3 daybreak #3 sep 29th nancy thayer nantucket christmas stroll standalone sep 29th necoco reincarnated as a dragon hatchling vol. 9 reincarnated as a dragon hatchling (manga) #9 sep 29th olin lester echoes of dawn impact #4 sep 29th patrick dewitt dodge city standalone sep 29th pip williams the german ward standalone sep 29th r. Barri flowers christmas desert danger criminal case files #3 sep 29th r.K. Lilley when we fell away standalone sep 29th r.K. Lynott deep cut di ryan hale #4 sep 29th rebecca hunter wed to the wrong prince rival royals #1 sep 29th rebecca jenshak taking sides moonshot hockey #3 sep 29th rebecca yarros threshing day the empyrean sep 29th rektok ross salems rise dark seasons thriller #5 sep 29th rick riordan the wild zone camp half-blood #1 sep 29th the blood of olympus graphic novel sep 29th rochelle alers falling for the maverick montana mavericks: hidden gems ranch #3 sep 29th rosanne parry a raven of the rainforest a voice of the wilderness #5 sep 29th ryan cahill the truth the bound and the broken sep 29th ryan douglass night of madness standalone sep 29th s.A. Sizemore whispers of the pale witch beckett coven #1 sep 29th s.F. Baumgartner the lost claim the mercer files #2 sep 29th sadie hunt down to ride blackwell bulls #1 sep 29th sai sumimori am i actually the strongest? Vol.19 am i actually the strongest? Manga #19 sep 29th sally j. Smith haunted hula-ween aloha lagoon mysteries #27 sep 29th sam crescent cruel biker standalone sep 29th sam taplin sing-along christmas songs usborne sound books #35 sep 29th sandra l. Richter the epic of eden: understanding the old testament as your story the epic of eden #10 sep 29th sarah blakley-cartwright heavy cream standalone sep 29th sarah langan trad wife standalone sep 29th sasha summers the texans surprise son crossroads ranch #2 sep 29th scott snyder dark nights: metal dc compact comics #21 sep 29th scott snyder batman: the night of the owls compendium batman #22 sep 29th sean black the removal ryan lock & ty johnson #16 sep 29th sean kennedy the eternal flame ashen legacy #5 sep 29th seanan mcguire a divided duty october daye #29 sep 29th shain rose in the dark kept in paradise #2 sep 29th shanna m. Rogers tempt me the enchanted carolina #4 sep 29th sharon c. Cooper loving her enemy standalone sep 29th sherry blake luca feretti syndicate #14 sep 29th sherry thomas the vanished sister lady sherlock #9 sep 29th sherry turkle artificial intimacy non-fiction sep 29th simon sebag montefiore the cauldron non-fiction sep 29th sonja grey born into fire devils will rise: melnikov legacy #10 sep 29th steffanie holmes youre so vein nevermore murder club and smutty book coven #3 sep 29th stephanie pass a bond written in fire once upon a twisted tale #1 sep 29th susan may warren the story between us maple lake collection #1 sep 29th susie yi realms collide cat & cat adventures #7 sep 29th suzie tullett the christmas star standalone sep 29th sylvester stallone the steps non-fiction sep 29th t. Kingfisher astarion baldurs gate 3 #1 sep 29th tahereh mafi escape me shatter me: the new republic #3 sep 29th tara taylor quinn her luckiest christmas cottages on ocean breeze #5 sep 29th tegan maher dead to me gulf coast reaper mysteries #2 sep 29th terri farley horse girl non-fiction sep 29th tess summers dr. Weaver wounded #4 sep 29th tess thompson rebel moon cowboy christmas at crescent moon ranch #2 sep 29th tessa barbosa isle of teeth standalone sep 29th tif marcelo fortunes baby dilemma the fortunes of texas: lone star windfall #3 sep 29th tikiri herath i know you’re watching tanya stone fbi k9 mystery thrillers #8 sep 29th timothy janovsky the invisible rommate standalone sep 29th tom abrahams rust & ruin wheat #1 sep 29th tom taylor injustice: gods among us: year one dc compact comics #20 sep 29th tomi adeyemi the siren standalone sep 29th v.L. Bovalino the thief and the traitor bride the hand and the heart #2 sep 29th valerie bowman snowed inn honeycrisp orchard romance #2 sep 29th veronica samek bonds and beasts once upon a knot #3 sep 29th vivek shraya the hystericals standalone sep 29th zoé duhaime the lost spectacular standalone sep 29th a. Knightley heat lightning masked men #1 sep 30th a.J. Demas the summer pass lion and snake #2 sep 30th actus return of the runebound professor 10 the return of the runebound professor #10 sep 30th alex maher the hedge wizard 7 the hedge wizard #7 sep 30th alexa michaels hollow forest falling into darkness #2 sep 30th allie katt bones and brews witches of willowbark cozy mystery #8 sep 30th aly beck the unravelings the scorned #2 sep 30th amanda kimberley beautys beast fairly goddess #2 sep 30th amber crewes murder of a curious beneficiary lady margot blackwell mystery #9 sep 30th amy rafferty the pumpkin patch promise fall at harvest hollow #4 sep 30th annabella stone operation strato operation volcano #4 sep 30th anne-marie meyer cowboyland standalone sep 30th annee jones unleashed on fright night monster lovers carnival #2 sep 30th anthony bidulka quant russell quant mystery #9 sep 30th aura rose tempting my mafia monster the temptation #5 sep 30th ava selwyn king of rage price of regret #5 sep 30th beck lewis stone cold murder dominion house #1 sep 30th bilinda sheehan a court of crowns and silver the elemental born #2 sep 30th blaise corvin reincarnator raised by dragons 2 reincarnator raised by dragons #2 sep 30th blake r. Wolfe the panthers edge bathhouse beasts #16 sep 30th candi scott king of monsters desert kings mc #6 sep 30th carly spade whiskey and werewolves the mythical mates of arcane cove #2 sep 30th cassandra featherstone fatality on the field secrets of state u #4 sep 30th celeste raye crash landed with my weredragon weredragon mates #1 sep 30th chani lynn feener his stolen omega beguiled omegas #5 sep 30th cuts and contracts novels and needles #4 sep 30th christina sterling shatter the white envelope #3 sep 30th daken how i became king by eating monsters volume 6 how i became king by eating monsters #6 sep 30th dan ames paid in bullets the joe reacher thrillers #8 sep 30th danny rogan mirror mage 2 mirror mage #2 sep 30th deborah m. Hathaway autumn kissed falling for autumn #8 sep 30th demelza carlton tauros colony: labyrinth #1 sep 30th djuna memoir of a joseon bride collection sep 30th eddie pittman she who warns the stars standalone sep 30th effie campbell death kiss lovesick #1 sep 30th el hoffman later portals, current connections collection sep 30th elise noble hard heart blackstone house #9 sep 30th elizabeth whitmore shadow dominion the guardian files #7 sep 30th elle maldonado vicious temptation the severed heirloom #2 sep 30th emily wright before the encore standalone sep 30th eva devon what a meddlesome duke the marriage managing society #5 sep 30th fel fern bear and book sugarpaw springs #3 sep 30th g.K. 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asu flashes potential in dominant mexican baseball fiesta victory
arizona state brought the party to the mexican baseball fiesta. Matched up against the mexican pacific league’s naranjeros de hermosillo — one of the most historically successful organizations in mexican professional baseball — who brought a hodgepodge roster of college players, current and former american minor leaguers, and veterans of mexican professional baseball, the sun devils didn’t just hold their own; they overpowered their opponent.
asu limited hermosillo to just six base runners — three hits, two walks and one hit batter — over the course of nine innings while recording 14 hits of its own, paving the way for a lopsided 10-0 sunday afternoon victory at the american family fields of phoenix, the spring training home of the milwaukee brewers. A lot can change before the sun devils open the gates at phoenix municipal stadium in the spring, but the early signs for the 2027 iteration of head coach willie bloomquist’s squad are promising.
“great to get out and play another uniform,” bloomquist expressed. “Our guys have been working, working hard against each other, and it’s nice to come out here and play against a different team. A professional team at that. … The atmosphere that our guys got to play in was something different than the stale, mundane atmosphere of fall ball with nobody in the stands.”
one unique wrinkle of the mexican baseball fiesta was its lively atmosphere, with music playing nearly constantly throughout the brewers complex. The noise posed a unique challenge for the sun devils’ arms, telling bloomquist that they couldn’t “hear anything” on the mound.
regardless of whether their ears worked or not, their stuff certainly did. Bloomquist sent 10 different pitchers out to the mound over the course of the nine-inning affair, and all of them produced.
no pitcher allowed more than two baserunners; only one naranjero reached third base, and the 10 asu arms combined for 11 strikeouts, with a three-headed monster of fourth-year left-hander alex valentin, third-year right-hander joey mcmannis, and fellow third-year righty eli buxton leading the way with two each.
“those (are) guys that hopefully we can shape and polish and get them better and get them to the point where they can be very effective, because they got electric arms and we just got to continue fine-tuning things,” bloomquist explained. “Very proud of the job they did. Albeit fall, they came in and threw strikes.”
asu’s fall will operate as something of a tryout for an asu pitching staff that lost seven arms to the mlb draft, including staff ace cole carlon, who was selected by the toronto blue jays with the 39th overall pick. No jobs were won sunday, but everyone who threw, including the seven newcomers who saw the mound, earned themselves another look.
“we’re going to need guys to step up and continue to sharpen up and get better throughout the fall and into the spring when the real lights come on,” bloomquist said.
as dominant as the sun devils’ pitching was, the bats made sure to carve out some time under the spotlight.
the offense made its mark early, starting the game with two runners in scoring position after second-year shortstop davis perkins was hit by a pitch and third-year center fielder landon hairston doubled into left-center field. With an opportunity to open the scoring, first baseman dominic smaldino singled into left field for his first of two base knocks that brought home perkins.
“i had a clear head,” smaldino explained. “I knew what i was looking for, and was picking up offspeed or whatever pitch it was early and just had a clear head and clear focus.”
asu added on in a major way in the fifth inning with a seemingly never-ending conga line of sun devils circling the bases. In total, five singles and three walks led to five runs. Three more runs crossed the plate across the sixth and seventh innings, putting the team at 10 runs on the afternoon.
“people were sticking to their approaches today,” first-year center fielder jet berry said. “We just kept stringing along hits.”
despite the offensive explosion, bloomquist, himself one of the best offensive players in asu baseball’s storied history, wasn’t satisfied with what he saw.
“there were some guys that clammed up with guys in scoring position,” bloomquist sounded. “We like to see guys be a little more aggressive, especially with fastballs. That’s something that we have to clean up and be ready to put bat on ball there and drive runs in.”
even with bloomquist’s report card, the scoreboard read 10 runs at the end of the day, with a combination of veterans and first-year players working together to reach the mark. Among the young players, berry had arguably the biggest impact.
the perfect game 10-grade player arrived on campus after going undrafted out of high school despite being baseball america’s no. 332 mlb draft prospect and gave a sneak peek at the type of steal he could be for the sun devils. The youngster got the fifth-inning rally started with an infield single and showed off his wheels again in the seventh, punching an rbi hustle double into the left-center gap.
“probably the biggest part of my game is my speed,” berry revealed.
the valley native and queen creek high school graduate is just one of 26 newcomers fighting for playing time on bloomquist’s roster. While his performance on sunday was something to build upon, the youngster needs to do just that to earn his skipper’s trust — build upon it.
there’s a long way to go before asu begins playing meaningful games in the spring, but for individual players, there are roles to win and lose — and sunday was just the start. Only time will tell how the sun devils shape up and what their season will look like. Questions such as whether the team will be able to make it past the regional round of the ncaa tournament can’t even begin to be answered.
still, there can be some takeaways from the early fall.
“this new group, a lot of guys work hard, and they’re good people,” smaldino said. “It’s been easy getting to know these guys. We have a good clubhouse.”
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