I just had coffee with the most total douche canoe I have ever met in real life

[actourdreams]

He was all like

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[erunamiryene]

So ... a liar or a sociopath, judging by the first two? o.O

Just ... wow. WOW.

[actourdreams]

He's ex-Army - Iraq, Afghanistan, and apparently Guantanamo, so the first could possibly be true, although it seems totally stupid to be talking about your ~secret intelligence job~ to two people in a coffee shop. I've had a lot of former/current military people in my classes and they've all been pretty awesome folks, so it was... sort of disappointing that he was so stereotypically horrible.

I spent a lot of time going "Oh my god, are you for real" in my head. And trying not to yell at him (which my other classmate did on two occasions within a one-hour timespan).

[erunamiryene]

Guys that brag about shit like that generally, in my experience, have done nothing. They either didn't deploy at all, or they sat on a FOB (the base) and didn't do shit. People who have gone through shit don't brag about it, because it's nothing to brag about.

[actourdreams]

...that's actually pretty nice to hear. And the second part totally matches up with the people I've known, so yeah. Makes sense.

[lyssie]

EW. You have my sympathies.

Occasionally, I am a bit like, "People like that don't exist in real life." AND THEN I FIND OUT THEY DO and idek, man. ugh.

[actourdreams]

I was totally shocked when I got into a really serious argument with a friend about torture, because I needed to come to grips with the fact that people like that A) existed off the radio and the Internet, and B) were actually nice and cool individuals who I wanted to have a good relationship with.

[rockychristine]

People like this make me wish I could actually Force-lightning people. Instead, you're welcome to borrow the Frying Pan of Doom and the Smacking Tentacle.

[actourdreams]

I actually kept wanting to go for the traditional method and kick him in the balls. But maybe I could dual-wield the Smacking Tentacle and the Rubber Smacking Haddock.

[sophronia_chaos]

Bloody hell! May I ask how you even ran across this assmonkey, let alone ended up having coffee with him?

[actourdreams]

He's (well, was) in my class. He knows another guy I know, and we went for coffee, and he tagged along. X_X God only knows how they started talking, because the other guy finds him really obnoxious.

[soda_and_capes]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: EW

[actourdreams]

BASICALLY.