You will find them everywhere. The worst thing about a scum bucket is that you don’t have to find them. They will crash into you in every conceivable situation – in the office, in a movie theater, the grocery store, in the pool, on the airplane – everywhere. They make their presence felt with their loud actions and irritating antics. You can tell in an instant that these are not ordinary people. They hate being normal. They do what they are doing deliberately – to stand apart. And most of the time, they succeed.
It isn’t easy to control them as it always is because they behave unpredictably. You can never guess what their next dirty move will be. These are some types of scum buckets you will likely come across.
The Loud Braggart
This is a common type of scumbucket. You will find loud braggarts around you easily. They are experts at offering unsolicited advice on doing things right and why they are the best at it. No matter what you have to say, the braggart will always better it with their boastful claims. Bragging comes from being insecure, so you must deal with it on that scale. Let them make all the tall claims they want to. You and others listening to the yarn will know what it really means.
The Gossiper
You will find gossiping scumbuckets mostly in the office. They might even be the fellow in your next cabin who will come running to you in the midst of a deadline job to feed you with the latest hot happenings. They love to talk, but most conversations revolve around their adventures and conquests. They are not averse to sharing personal life details even when you show scant interest. The best way of dealing with such gossipers is to ignore them and carry on with what you do. They will leave you in peace and go hunting for the next pair of receptive ears.
Mobile Motormouths
Mobile motormouths are fast becoming the most irritating of all scumbuckets. They don’t care where they are or with whom they are. They carry on their candid conversations at full volume without a hint of care for others. This type of scumbucket doesn’t even shy from talking about their private lives in full public glare. It’s annoying and downright embarrassing, but it hardly matters to them. If the culprit is a known person, you can try to break the blabbering by commenting on their conversation. If it does not send the message across, simply move away.
The Expert Advisor
According to Christopher Rapp, this type of scum bucket is a person who believes they know everything and want to thrust that information down everyone’s throat. They claim to have gone through every situation that comes up for discussion and hence believe they have a solution for everything. The only way of dealing with these loudmouths is to ask them to shut up. If you can’t do that, get a pair of earplugs.
Follow these tips to get out of the uncomfortable situations created by scumbuckets. Most of them will work for you.
