Jeers!

My favorite part of the Star Telegram is the Cheers and Jeers section. It’s often a reminder of how dumb people really are.

Jeers: To the van rental company that substituted a 12-passenger van for a 15-passenger one without notifying us ahead of time. We had reserved a 15-passenger van three months in advance to take kids to summer camp. We had three sad children when there weren’t enough seats and they had to go home instead of to camp.
- Really? You made 3 kids stay at home because you couldn’t fit them in the van? No one had a car they could have put them in? Why didn’t you check out the van before you left the rental facility?

Jeers: To the three bad girls who assaulted me on the 400 block of Freestone Drive in Euless on June 26. While trying to steal my purse, you purposely broke my glasses! Your mothers must have raised you better.
- Ohhh, you bad, naughty girls! Oh, by the way…all you other would be muggers, there’s going to be a lady you can’t see on the 400 block of Freestone Drive in Euless. Should be an easy mark. Enjoy.

Jeers: To the city of Fort Worth for not having a Fourth of July fireworks display. Thousands of people were waiting by the Trinity River. Some traditions should always continue, and this is one of them.
- Yeah Ft. Worth! What are you thinking? You should lay off more city workers so you can pay for a bunch of exploding balls of color. Forget the recession, lets make pretty colors in the sky.
- By the way, ya moron…The advertisement for the fireworks display stated that it would be held after the Ft. Worth Cats game. (See below for more on that.)

Jeers: To Fort Worth’s Fourth for the delayed fireworks display. We left at 11:30 p.m. and still no fireworks. I realize that it was advertised as fireworks "after the Cats game," but why couldn’t the game have been paused? If the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra can play a concert with fireworks going off over it, why couldn’t the Cats continue to play with fireworks overhead?
- Darn you Cats! How come you can’t play baseball with loud bangs and bright lights zig zagging across the sky? What? There’s a hard ball being hit and thrown well over most legel speed limits? Oh, and one of those balls hitting you in the head could possibly kill you? Nevermind. I’m dumb,
- Larry Thompson? Are you my old preacher? Weird.
— Larry Thompson, Fort Worth

Jeers: To the man who set up his laptop in the North Richland Hills Don Pablo’s on July 8. It was disrespectful to those sitting at his table. What was more important than spending an evening out with family or friends? Cheers to the waiter who was creative enough to place drinks and food around this impossible human being.
- What is it of your business what he was doing on the laptop? How was it bothering you? Maybe his family, friends, or even work associates were well aware that he was having to work during dinner. Possibly even to help make money to pay for dinners like the one they were at. Here’s a tip. Eat your own freaken dinner and don’t worry about the guy with the laptop at another table ya dill.

Jeers: To House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her cronies for raising the minimum wage 70 cents per hour, which will increase unemployment, especially among our teenagers, and raise the price of our junk food.
- WHAT?!!!! I don’t even get this one. So if we keep minimum wage lower unemployment will stay down? More importantly, a lower minimum wage will keep the prices of our junk food lower? I’m going to shoot myself over this one. I really hate the person that wrote that.

Jeers: To the KDFW-TV Channel 4 (Fox) weather department. No rain was forecast on July 23 and I got soaked at an outdoor shooting range. No rain forecast on July 24 and I got soaked riding my motorcycle to work. Only weather forecasters can be wrong all the time and still keep their jobs.
- That’s where you wrong Brad…Politicians can be wrong all the time and keep their jobs. The thing is Brad…weather forecasting is educated guessing. It’s not an absolute. It never will be especially in Texas. If you’re over the age of 10, which I assume you are seeing as you own guns and a motorcycle, you know that the weather in Texas is always changing and could change at any given moment. So don’t blame the weathermen and women, blame yourself lack of independent thinking. I hate you.
— Brad Stafford, Burleson