Tempers are fraying

 It's late April, it's already hot in a lot of places, and some people are losing it.

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant refused to let the plane take off until the passenger(s) who spilled rice in the aisle cleaned it up.  This followed an incident where a woman on a United flight was forced to pick up her children's spilled popcorn.  Flight attendants have finally had it with post-covid fistfights and general rudeness and have decided they are Not Your Mother.

In Republic, Missouri, Larry Gene Gay wanted some steaks from Price Cutters but the meat counter was closed.  As is now standard procedure in the Show Me Your Weapon state, he pointed a semi-automatic pistol at a clerk and requested service.  The clerk complied, and Mr. Gay was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action.  It is not clear if he got the steaks.

There was a similar impasse in Warren, Michigan, where Jobul Hussain had come to the Desi Fruit Market in search of a nice piece of fish.  The fish counter had closed early because of Ramadan, so Mr. Hussain took out his frustration on a store employee, clobbering him with a frozen hilsa, a four-pound herring.  The employee was treated at the hospital and the would-be customer was charged with assault.

In a non-food-related case, a couple booked an Airbnb stay at a villa in Seoul but were dismayed to find it was far from the central city.  They had already paid for twenty-five days and the host, a Mr. Lee, refused to return their money.  So they left the water running and the gas on for the entire time, saddling Mr. Lee with a utility bill of $1,570.  Then they traveled around the country, presumably staying somewhere more accommodating.  It's hard to pick a side in this one.

Governor-in-her-own-mind Kari Lake was leaving the airport in West Palm Beach, probably on her way to share stolen election stories with Trump, when she spotted Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.  She turned around and went back down the escalator to berate them and demand time on their MSNBC show to refute their reality-based comments about the Arizona gubernatorial election.  Lake described Brzezinski as "not very nice" because she began to record the encounter.  Earlier this year Lake claimed she was offered a bribe from "some powerful people back east" to drop out of politics.  Could they have been Mitch McConnell and Rupert Murdoch?

Nathan Pelham was about to go on trial on four misdemeanor charges stemming from the January 6 coup attempt, and was at home in Greenville, Texas.  At the request of a relative who said Pelham had a gun, the Hunt County Sheriff's Office carried out a welfare check.  The house was dark and Pelham came out twice to fire at the deputies before eventually surrendering.  Now he faces four misdemeanor charges and a felony gun charge carrying up to fifteen years in prison.  But will he get a visit from Margie Greene like the other "political prisoners"?

The World Snooker Championship in Sheffield became exponentially more interesting when a Just Stop Oil protester poured orange powder paint on one of the tables this week.  The match between...two blokes had to be postponed.

Oh, that's a bad mess.