21 People That Abused The Smallest Amounts of Power

13.

At my friend’s job they rent out motorized scooters to people with mobility issues. At least once every few months, my friend gets purposefully run into or over by some old fart with an overinflated sense of their own power and worth because they’ve got a vehicle and she’s wearing a uniform and therefore they’re allowed to abuse her.

14.

I once worked at the aquatics area of a summer camp. Whenever the director left, his assistant became the working director, & behaved like the Emperor of the Lake. One time I made a mistake, & he ordered me to swim out to a buoy & back. That meant an eighth-mile of swimming in open water. When I questioned the punishment, he immediately doubled it for “talking back.” When I questioned that, he added another eighth-mile, and another. Half a mile of swimming, over almost nothing. I refused, betting that when the director returned, he would decline to enforce something so excessive. Fortunately, I was right, but the assistant continued to be a pain in the ass until he was fired a month later.

15.

There’s a school bus driver in town that stops the bus (with the flashers going) to talk with people she knows. It doesn’t matter how much traffic gets backed up behind the bus. She just talks away as if she owns the road – and to heck with the long line of cars and delays her lengthy “chat sessions” create.

16.

In elementary school, I got sent to the office for recess for misbehaving. While I was sitting there, the secretary asked how I was enjoying missing recess. I said, “It’s OK.” So she made me come back the following day because I didn’t hate it enough.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.