I’ve seen a trend developing recently. A very appalling trend. I laughed it of at first. It kept on happening though. I just want to yell at them to man up. For the past week I have met several weak men. Though they hardly deserve to be called men. Not only in their weakness but laziness. They display no traits of manhood. They are sad disgraces to our cavemen ancestors. They need to learn to man up now while times are good.
Man Up
I was at work one night when a co-worker, Gary, told me about what just happened to him. He said a customer came and asked him for help loading up a fridge. Gary was thinking maybe it was a special deep freezer in stock. Normally we only carry small college fridges. He has him show him over to it. The customer ask if he needs a cart or to get help for it. Gary is bumfuzzled when the customer, a towering man in an under armour sports shirt, needs help with this tiny fridge. It could not have been over 50 pounds. He easily picked it up and placed in their shopping cart. While the customers wife smirked. Ladies if your man can not lift a college fridge You Have a girlfriend. I thought obviously he exaggerated the story. Good one Gary. Yeah OK. Since Hearing that story It happened to me. Twice. And Gary One more time. In a week. A WEEK. Man Up!
When I was asked to help with a fridge I thought It MUST be a big chest freezer. The customer stated I needed a cart. I was like I don’t think we have any too big for the shopping carts. He just looked at me like I was crazy. The customer was an average built man in his early 40’s. I had him point to it and was disappointed. Though it was not one of the small ones it was not big. As in maybe you could hold 2 two liters coke bottles vertically. I picked it up and gently put in his cart. Then helped him carry it out. Hiding my desire to yell at him to man up.
Try It!
None of these “Men” tried to pick it. They immediately went for help. They believed they could not do it. Obviously neither lift weights. They have no strength. Although these fridges were so light they probably could have lifted them up. They did not even bother to try. I think it’s two-fold why. They do not take pride in their strength. I have never bought anything I could not pick up in a store. I have snatched up big futon boxes and put in carts. I have carried out heavy pool tables. I always try to pick it up. If I have something awkward shaped or just that heavy I ask for help. Not someone else to do it. I don’t feel entitled to make someone else do it for me. I want it and if needed I will ask for help. That means that I’m still lifting my half. None of these people even though to do that. Or offered. I doubt that the men of the 50’s would act like that. I know any real man would not. SO I yell it here. Man Up. Since I can’t at work. Please Man up. Your children need you to man up. Your wife wants you to man up. This is James from Survivalpunk saying MAN UP!
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I spent over 4 years with a guy who refused to shovel snow, carry his own grocery bags or even push our daughter’s stroller. It disgusted me then and it disgusts me even more now. If TSHTF they’ll be easy pickings for the zombie horde, and good riddance!
I’m surprised you put up with that for 4 years. Figured youd have killed him lol.
I’m a 5’4 135lb woman and I regularly carry 50lb bags of goat feed (sometimes two at once) and 60-70lb bales of legume hay. I load my own order at the feed mill. Those guys need to wash the sand out of their vaginas.
Oh, the temptation was there. Wait, did I say WAS…?
BE GLAD THEY WUSSED OUT! These are just the kind of people that would attempt to put it in the cart and then SUE the business out of existence due to a “back injury”.
Well I’ve never had a back injury report in 8 years with the company and it’s a big store not going to go out of business from a law suite. We have probably thousands of people suing us right now.
Well, the way I see it. If TSHTF does occur, then on the brighter side Darwin did have a point about the necessity of Natural Selection in that all these weak ass wusses will inevitably be wiped out. This is the downside of Modernization and probably why civilizations rise and fall in the first place. Just food for thought….
I kinda feel sorry for them. Mostly though just want to slap them.
OMG, you hit one of my rules to live by right on ther head. “Don’t buy anything you can’t lift.” Apparently these individuals shouldn’t be buying even smaller sized fridges.
I have the same rule with a few exceptions. Like a car, homestead equipment and stuff. In those cases though I will bring my help with my.
wiandiii, reminds me of the J. Kliban Cartoon “Never eat anything bigger than your head”.
I’m a 66 year old female and I can carry one of those fridges. How sad for the ladies attached to those wusses!
There was more than one time when I was working in garden center that these guys would stand there and watch me load 10 to 20 bags of mulch or dirt into their vehicles, smirking at me the whole time. Guys like that just get off on watching a woman do their dirty work. Often they did not think I could do it and would look very surprised when I was done. Occasionally though another guy customer would come over and help, glaring at the other guy while doing it. Its not just that they are lazy but it is a power trip. Like “see what I can make you do”
just part of the fun world of retail.
Describing these men as ‘women’ is first of all unkind to women and secondly it is complimentary to these men. Women in the paleolithic era performed most of the daily tasks of survival while the men supplied only 20% of the peleo diet by hunting. The remainder of the diet was supplied by the “gatherers” which were the women. The women in the paleolithic era were the strong ones that ensured survival. The women were the first to make tools, pottery, etc., to make there tasks easier. So… in keeping with the paleo concept, women should be the ones loading ‘fridges’ in the cars and not the men and besides what man doesn’t like watching a fit, muscular woman get sweaty. 😉
The proper title of this post should be… “Woman up men: Don’t be weak”
I’ve seen these incidents a number of times and it drives me nuts. Here I am with a permanent disability (spinal) mowing my yard, carrying heavy things, and so forth. And there are males, I won’t call them “men”, that will not perform simple acts of manual labor? Pathetic. Both my neurosurgeon and primary care physician give me grief for lifting anything over 15 pounds. And what do I tell them? “I know the limits of my body. You don’t.”
What it boils down to is “If I can do it, you sure as Hell can do it too.”