The expression "we live in a society" is so vague and commonly-used it has become a sort of meme in recent years. But it's nonetheless true! We do live in a society, and we're expected to behave like polite and civilized people. Yet, many don't. Some people are so rude and self-centered they are making it hard for the rest of us to keep up with their attitude without feeling nauseated.
Whether it's out of sheer stupidity or blatant disregard, the rude people on our list love to behave as though they're alone in the world. While not much is expected of each one of us, we can at least try to make our actions count and minimize the damage we may or may not do to our fragile and convoluted society. Today, let's take a look at some of the most shocking things rude people have done in the past and try to make a lesson out of it: no matter what, try not to replicate what you're about to see.
"The World's My Chair"
Going to the store can be tiring, especially if you're overweight or suffer from other health issues. Yet, there's no excuse for doing what this lady has just done. Feeling the need to sit for a while, she picked the worst possible place: a basket of fresh produce.
She's not only ruining some perfectly-fine food, but she's also making us consider how disgusting buying things from the store can be. The next time we're buying fruit, we will have no other option but to think: "has someone sat on this apple I'm about to eat?". This is the kind of rude attitude that makes us lose our appetite.
A Tornado? A Robber? No, It Was Just a Client
We cannot look at this picture without thinking of disaster sites, hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. After all, this is the store equivalent of surviving a tornado, and we're not fully sure the people who live there will ever recover from the tragedy.
In our modern society, there's this idea that "the client is always right." But how is making such a mess "right"? We know it's not easy to find your ideal new pair of shoes, but there should be limits to what you can do during your search for footwear perfection.
Good Luck Selling the House!
First, we have to say it: being rude in the privacy of your own home is not as bad as being rude in a public place, where your actions will surely impact someone else's life. But there are limits to what you can do, even in the sacred place you may call "home."
Just take a look at this lazy homeowner. He spilled something on the carpet once and, instead of cleaning it, he decided it was okay to make a tradition out of it. Now his living room looks like a crime scene location. We wouldn't enter this house unless we were wearing a full-body hazmat suit!
Social Media is Making Us Ruder
Once upon a time, tourists stayed away from places that were effectively considered to be forbidden. "No entry allowed" used to be a sentence that meant something. But now, it's like it's okay for tourists to only respect the rules that don't get in the way of a new profile picture!
Yes, social media is making us ruder, and it's now common practice to do all kinds of inconsiderate, dumb, and even dangerous things just to get the perfect Instagram snap. Few things are more disrespectful than traveling to a foreign country and disrespect their monuments, culture, and history, regardless of how cool it looks on the Internet.
"That's What They're Paid For"
You may have heard this excuse before: "I don't mind making a mess in public places because I'm helping people to keep their jobs." But the argument is highly flawed. If you truly want to help the shopping cleaners, the best thing you can do is keep your surroundings clean!
No, you're not fighting unemployment with your bad habit of blatantly throwing little pieces of candy wrap on the floor. You're simply ruining someone's day. And come on, man, did you really had to tear the wrap into 100 tiny, hard-to-catch pieces? That's just disrespectful!
Horror Movie, Right?
Eating popcorn at the movies is a fun tradition, but it's also the origin of some shockingly disrespectful behavior. You have your loud chewers and noisy slurpers, and then you have this... People who get so scared with the horror movie they end up dropping half of their popcorn on the ground.
And since we're talking about horror flicks, what can we say about the poor guy who's going to have to clean this mess? His heart must've skipped a beat when he saw this nightmarish scene. Now that's a real scary movie for you to consider!
From Bad Parker to Inadvertent Killer?
Next time you're about to park in a prohibited location, just think of this picture. It's a great reminder for all bad parkers out there. Sometimes, you don't know exactly how daunting the consequences of your rude actions will turn out to be.
This car is in the way of an emergency team, who's clearly in a rush while trying to take a patient to a hospital helicopter. The few minutes or even seconds that the emergency team will lose just to get around this inconvenient car can have a huge impact on this life-or-death scenario.
A Bad Joke's Not Funny
This street artist thinks he's going to be the next Banksy with his clever graffiti. But his poor attempt at making a joke is as fun as going to the dentist. The irony is clear, and we get what he was trying to do, but we're not so sure the person in charge of cleaning this wall will be as understanding.
There's a thin line between street art and vandalism, and this guy has just crossed it. If you're going to dedicate your life to paint messages on the street walls, please try to make something beautiful, inspiring, or genuinely funny out of it. Otherwise, you'll just be another punk with a spray paint can on his backpack.
Nighttime Vandals
We all know kids get crazy when they go out at night with their friends. But while doing some dumb things is part of being a teenager, there's really no excuse for this sort of blatant vandalism. A trash bin dropped in the middle of the street is not only ugly to look at... It can also be very dangerous and cause a traffic accident!
And the real tragedy here is how nonsensical it all seems. Is it fun to do bad things just because? Is there some sort of pleasure in the act of ruining a street cleaner's day? "It's just a phase" should no longer be an excuse for this type of rude behavior.
The Office Fridge
We've seen it in comedy movies and sitcoms, but the whole deal is a lot more serious when it happens in real life. Imagine it: you put your delicious sandwich in the office's fridge only to find out that someone ate it before lunch hour.
That's when you know you gotta open Microsoft Word and make a sarcastic chart for your rude co-workers to see. Hopefully, this simple graphic explanation will enlighten the guys at the office. Even if it's a thing as simple as a sandwich, taking something that's not yours without permission is still considered stealing!
The Need For Attention
Nobody loves waiting rooms, but we can all agree that a silent waiting room is better than a loud one. That's why it's so unpleasant when someone decides to put his/her phone on speaker and have a noisy conversation for everyone else to hear.
We're not sure about what these people are thinking. But we have no doubts nobody is interested in what they have to say to their friends and family during a supposedly private phone conversation. If the point is not holding your cellphone next to your ear, please keep in mind we have invented a little thing called headphones!
A Rude Man's Tradition
It's impossible to justify rude behavior, but some people out there do the stupidest things because they're always trying to get ahead. Some people are so afraid of being "fooled" they never miss a chance to be inconsiderate and make the most out of any situation.
This includes cutting in on traffic, which is a rude man's tradition as old as driving itself. We've all seen it, and we've all felt enraged by it before. But while we continue to allow these rude drivers to get away with it, people will cut in anytime they get the chance.
Fantastic Parenting
College exists for a reason: that's when you're supposed to learn you can't ever fall asleep at a party! But to this poor young girl, college lessons are coming a little bit too early, with the likely culprits of this dismal scene being her "very mature" parents.
We get it; your daughter is a super-heavy sleeper. But that doesn't make it okay for you to stack a whole bag of bread on top of her face just to take a funny picture. This is the kind of thing that ends up traumatizing your kid forever!
Running Away From the Problem
It's happened to everyone. You get distracted, and you end up dropping the toilet paper in the toilet bowl. It's not the end of the world, but it normally means you're going to have to go through the unpleasant experience of removing the wet TP from the toilet and putting it on the trash. Unless...
Unless you have no respect for your fellow human beings. When that's the case, you can simply ignore the situation and whistle your way out of the bathroom as if nothing had happened, just like this extremely rude person did.
A Rainbow of Disrespect
There are certain products you're supposed to try before you buy. For instance: you shouldn't get a new car without a test-drive, and you shouldn't buy a new dress without putting it on first. But spray paint cans?
For some enigmatic reason, someone decided to go to the store and try out every single spray paint can available, even though you don't have to. The worst part? This obscene person tried the spray paint cans on the store's floors and shelves, making this stroke-inducing mess that will probably take hours to clean.
Entitled To The Spot
We love bikers. They don't cause traffic jams, they don't pollute, and they get anywhere on time, just like the rest of us. Yet, not all bikers are absolved from making it to our list. This particular biker has an ego so big he has mistaken his two-wheeled vehicle with a proper motorized car.
Feeling entitled to the spot, he robbed someone else of the chance of parking there, when he could've just left his bike anywhere else! We wouldn't be surprised if this bike happened to be run over by a car 5 minutes after this picture was taken.
A Weird New Style
"Kids these days are wearing the strangest clothes," things an older passerby while looking at this new cap design. Sadly, this cap with a piece of gum on it it's not part of a new crazy fashion trend, but rather another example of some sad, censorable, and utterly disrespectful behavior.
If you don't like it, don't buy it, that's the correct attitude. But rude people will go the extra mile and do something horrible, like leaving an old piece of gum in there, just because they're not fans of the item.
They Fought For You!
This monument is meant to be a place people can visit to reflect on the many lives lost during the brutal World War I. In a way, it's a sacred location, and it should be treated as such. But some utterly rude people have no respect for Humanity's history.
In one of the most nauseating moves on our list, someone decided to throw an empty bottle of ice tea on top of the little pine tree that was right next to this WWI monument. In doing so, he/she disrespected not only the many lives that were affected by the war but also that particular pine tree, which was just an innocent plant trying to make some photosynthesis.
"Plants Are Just Things"
We still remember when we found out plants were living beings, just like humans and other animals. It's an epiphany moment for most toddlers because plants don't usually look like sentient beings. They never move, speak, or complain.
But that's no reason to do some dumb and cruel things, like writing something on a plant just for the sake of it. Can you imagine being a plant and having your existence ruined by a bunch of knife-carving kids who feel like writing their names on stuff? We need to start raising awareness of plant cruelty as soon as possible!
She Just Froze
When people say technology is bad, what they really mean is that technology can be used in the wrong way. Take automatic doors, for instance. They open when someone is coming, and they close when nobody's there. They normally work wonders, unless people use them in the rudest possible way.
This lady was about to leave the hospital when she got a phone call. Instead of taking it outside, she froze right next to the automatic doors, which are now permanently open! Now the sick patients will get even sicker due to the cold, simply because this lady hasn't even noticed she's making a mess!
Bad Knees & An Even Worse Behavior
We all have one or two health sores that make us curse life and hate on God. But having a weak back, joint pain, or bad knees is no excuse for acting like a real scoundrel. Just take a look at this lady: so she could protect her knees, she decided to ruin 3 bread bags that she's not even buying!
Nevermind the food waste. This is downright offensive to the people running this store and trying to make a living out of it. Couldn't she just ask someone else to grab her the bread?
The Aftermath
When you eat at McDonald's, you're supposed to pick up after yourself and leave your trash in the bin. But some people simply don't. Instead of doing the most honorable thing, they leave all of their trash on the tables for the poor fast-food workers to clean, as if they weren't busy already.
Can you imagine working for 8 hours straight, serving hundreds of hamburgers to hungry people, and still have to deal with this mess of epic proportions? While some rude people seem to believe otherwise, fast-food workers are humans like the rest of us and deserve more respect.
Traffic Hazard
Sometimes, the smallest decisions we make are the ones that best reveal our true nature. For instance, this driver is clearly a self-centered and inconsiderate person because a well-balanced human being would never choose to affix a ladder in such an inconvenient way!
Instead of affixing the ladder vertically, which would've been okay, he decided to turn his car into an effective traffic hazard just to ruin everyone else's day. Now he's virtually occupying two lanes of the highway, which is not only dangerous but will probably result in some delays.
Ruining Shoes... Just Because!
People do rude things for all sorts of reasons: maybe they're lazy, maybe they're self-centered, or maybe they need to show-off. But sometimes, people end up doing offensive things for no reason whatsoever. And that might be even worse.
Imagine you're the manager at this shoe store. How angry would you be after seeing this? A rude customer simply entered, grabbed his keys or any other pointy object, and scratched one of your products, rendering it useless for absolutely no purpose. Unless we're talking about a sadist here, this is the opposite of a win-win situation.
When Two Rude Guys Share an Apartment...
Living with a rude person is horrible. But what happens when two rude guys decide to share an apartment? Well, that's when you may get to see horrifying scenes like this one. One of the tenants is too lazy to clean the shower's drain, but the tenant who does clean the house may be even ruder.
We understand it's frustrating to clean someone else's mess. But when you do, is it necessary to make a fuss about it? If we were about to shower in the morning and saw this, we would be packing and moving within the next 30 minutes. Some horror movies are less scarier than this!
The Rude Men's Radar
Airplanes are a great place for identifying people who are just too rude to consider everyone else's feelings. The best radar for rude people is the airplane seat: if it's all the way back, to the point of almost crushing the other passenger, that's when you know someone really rude is sitting there!
We don't even know why airplane seats still have this functionality, but we're sure no classy guy would ever choose to use it. And if you've ever sat behind one of these inconsiderate scoundrels, you know how never-wrecking and uncomfortable it can be!
Nevermind the Environment; It's a Boy!
Gender reveal parties are getting more and more popular, and while some run real smoothly, others can be in the origin of some horrid scenes. Can you imagine taking a walk through the public park, only to find out someone left a thousand tiny blue confetti on the grass? That's bound to ruin your morning jog!
We get it, you're expecting a boy, and you're happy about it. But is there any chance you can let your family know the gender of your baby without ruining the environment? We would appreciate it very much.
Lady, It's Everybody's Train!
The nerve on some people! Public transportation is called "public" because it belongs to everyone, not just you! But some people forget about it and start treating the public train and if it was their private home. This woman is a great example of that.
Another passenger photographed her with her sockless feet up on another seat, and it's disgusting to think how common practice this probably is. You may want to forget this image the next time you're riding the train, or you'll start seeing smelly feet everywhere. Being tired is no excuse for this sort of disrespectful behavior.
A Librarian's Nightmare
Libraries may be running out of fashion, but they still play a huge part in society. That's why there are still so many public libraries out there, even in our Google-dominated world. And normally, a librarian's job is not that complicated; unless someone decides to leave this mess behind...
Taking your kid to the library and keeping him quiet can be a struggle. But if your toddler ends up making this much litter, the least you can do is pick up after him in the end. You don't just leave and drop the "hot potato" on the poor librarian.
A Cup of Disrespect
We've seen some despicable behavior on our rude people's list. And in comparison, leaving an empty Starbucks cup in a random store may not seem that bad. But it is. You're not only shoving the fact you're spending your money on a different store on the clerk's face, but you're also forcing him/her to do some unrewarding cleaning afterward.
Sure, it's not the end of the world. But when this happens once every other week on the store you work at, you may start to see why it's so desperately annoying.
The Levels of Rudeness Are Through the Roof!
Our society is fascinated by cold-blooded criminals who can act cool even after committing the most horrid crimes. And when it comes to being rude in public, this is the serial killer equivalent. This man has made a quite noticeable mess, left it in the middle of the airplane aisle, and shows zero remorse.
He's not even trying to conceal his disgusting actions but rather reading his book peacefully while the rest of the travelers is forced to look at the "crime scene." This guy deserves to get slapped in the face by one of the flight attendants.
The Whole World Is Upside Down
Animal cruelty is always enraging, regardless of the situation. And you gotta know you're not a very good pet owner when your golden fish is about to die and the first thing you do is... take a picture.
We understand it's amazing this fish still has some water in his bowl to continue living. But it speaks volumes when you're not only this clumsy with your fragile pet but also so rudely unconcerned about his survival! This fish's world has literally been turned upside down, but his inconsiderate owner can only think of how funny of an Instagram post this will make.
Following the Bad Example
Imitation is at the very core of society, and it's the one thing that allows us to understand each other perfectly. But there are some good examples of imitation out there, and some that are just horrible! Imitating a good samaritan you've just seen on TV is ideal, but most people would rather imitate the lazy guy who just went shopping before them.
It's sad but true. Just look at this lake: one guy decided to throw his shopping cart in there, and many followed right after. And they made this polluting mess just because they didn't feel like walking a couple of meters back to the store. Shame!
There Was No Need...
The best thing about bikes is how versatile they are, especially in an urban environment. You can park your bike almost anywhere, and you can lock it in about a million different places. That's why this scene is so unimaginably rude.
A biker who wasn't thinking straight decided to lock his bike right on top of another bike that was already there! The result? The other biker will be forced to wait for this rude person to pick-up his bike and leave... Hopefully, he will be saying a few rightful words first, because that rude biker deserves it!
Rude People Pay The Most
The saddest thing about being an inconsiderate person is that you can get away with it most times! That's why so many people stay rude for their entire lives without suffering the consequences.
Fortunately, this coffee shop owner is doing something to change that: he's asking rude people to pay extra for their cups of coffee! We love the idea of living in a world in which disrespectful men and women have to pay extra for their rude personality. Unfortunately, there's still no such thing as a tax for the insolent.