Breaking Bad: 16 Examples Of Obnoxious Behaviour That Didn’t Involve Murder Or Cooking Meth

15. I'll Do It My Way, Bitch

Breaking Bad Acid Death Jesse didn't learn shinola in Mr. White's Chemistry class. (Remember the "F" on the test he found in his childhood bedroom?) After (barely) graduating high school and later hooking up with Mr. White in the meth bidness, Jesse seems to have decided that he would continue his Quest for Ignorance by arrogantly and repeatedly refusing to follow Mr. White's directions. He thought he knew better than his old stick-up-his-butt teacher. Plus he insisted on not being told what to do. Ah, immaturity, thy name is Jesse Pinkman. "Get this plastic tub, the one with this symbol on the bottom," Mr. White told him. But did he? Of course not. What did Jesse buy? Nothing. Because after all, why should he drive all over town getting exactly the right tub for their purposes when he had a perfectly good bathtub in his very own upstairs bathroom? So he dragged Emilio's body up the stairs, placed it in the tub, and poured hydrochloric acid all over it. And then we all know what happened. One of the consequences of Jesse's immature actions was the tub, along with pieces of Emilio, ending up on the first floor, via a very large hole in the bathroom floor. And another consequences was, of course, a lot of (very disgusting) clean-up.
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