That’s the only thing I’ve ever heard that made ANY sense as to why that dance even exists, much less why it’s continually perpetrated upon the innocent.
Apparently, one of Swampy’s relatives is ahomewrecker.
Aww Tao you know you lurve a good [url-Number One Chicken Dancer - YouTube]chikin dance! 
Apes appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed.
StickyBuns yet another reason why AD sucks. You don’t want your grandmother to do the dishes but yet don’t want to fuss at her because, well, she’s your grandmother and is doing something to be helpful even though it’s kinda anything but helpful. Maybe she’ll forget that she likes to be helpful. Yeah, big help that right?
On the homefront, I am at war with the Lee County Jawja Department of Public Utilities over trash pickup. My pickup day is Wednesday. Last Wednesday my neighbor’s trash can which was settin’ right next to mine at the road got picked up but mine didn’t. So I called Thursday mornin’ to complain and was told it would get picked up Thursday. Didn’t happen. I called Friday and well, lather, rinse, repeat, no pickup. I called this mornin’ to state that since I did not get trash pickup I expect a credit on my bill as da bear ain’t real thrilled about payin’ for services he does not get. First thing out of the fool’s mouth was “we’ll have somebody from the garbage company (pickup is contracted out) call you to get your trash picked up.” :dubious: I said, “Ummm it’s now a new week. My complaint is I didn’t get pickup last week. I expect to get my trash picked up on Wednesday this week but since I did not get service last week, I expect to be credited on my next bill.” I swear I heard droolin’ as fool said, “Well, we can get it picked up twice this week.” :rolleyes: “No,” says I, “You will give me a credit on my next bill for a missed pickup. I don’t pay for what I don’t get. You can either do that or I’ll figure out how much credit I should get and deduct it myself. Either way, I will have a credit for not getting trash pickup last week like I was promised would happen.” More droolin’ and I hear, “Someone will have to call you back about that.” It is now almost three p.m. In six hours time no one has called. I shall wait until four o’clock and call again. It will not be a pleasant call for them. Da bear will not be blown off. Well, only if I say it’s ok and I like who’s doin’ the blowin’ off that is. Levity aside, the war is on!
So how’s everybody else doin’ today?
Yesterday I kept clicking the unlock button on the fob wondering why the sound wasn’t going up on the TV.
You’d never guess sitting on your ass all day answering the phone could be such exhausting work.
Take that Lee County Jawja Department of Public Utilities! HAH! Bear 1 Them 0! I got my credit and an abject apology about not bein’ called back. Don’t mess with da bear.
Howdy Y’all! Home from irk and enjoyin’ a celebratory beerverage. 
Home, exhausted. If **FCD **hadn’t called me, I might still be in the office - I get engrossed and lose track of time. But I do get a lot done. So there’s that.
Supper will be leftover pot roast. And I’ll glaze a couple more penguin spoon holders. Or not. We shall see.
I am impressed with da bear’s assertiveness - do you use a growly voice and everything??
Yeah, but you’re on a LIST now. A mark on your Permanent Trash Record, as it were.
One should be gracious in victory, not crush your defeated enemies under your chariot wheels and listen to the lamentations of their women.
Class starts in 20 minutes… Why am I so totally ready for a nap right now?
Who listens…?
Bad Noonie. Bad Noonie!!
Glad to oblige.
Last December my sister and bil, aka house guests from hell, moved in.
I’m sure you’ve seen my other rants, but this is just a mini-rant.
They came up from Florida, so I know these freezing :rolleyes: MD winters have to be hard on them.
In the winter time we keep the heat on 68-70, comfortable in winter clothes and in the summer we keep the AC at 78-80, comfortable in summer clothes.
Last winter she kept bitching about the cold, kept turning the heat higher and higher, running around in her sweats and Granny sweater, wrapped up in blankets because she was so damned cold. She had the heat pushed up to 80, the dog’s panting, the rest of us are wearing shorts and tee shirts around the house. I got heat rash.
All summer long she keeps pushing the temp lower and lower. WTF? You’d think the damn heat would make her happy. Nope, she wasn’t happy until she got the AC down to 76.
Now today she comes home, nice beautiful fall weather and she’s bitching about the heat. It’s a nice comfy 77 degrees inside, windows are open, nice little breeze coming in. It’s not hot, it’s NICE!
Very cool.
I’m waiting for the day we have to start paying for our trash pickup directly, instead of indirectly.
We’ve gone from 2x a week to once, and lucky us, our pickup day is Friday.
All the extra stinky party, steamed crabs, etc trash gets to hangout for a week.
some folks just need something to bitch about - has she ever communicated with you without bitching about something? or perhaps this is something she picked up from her s.o.
eta - in response to sahirrnee’s post (damned simulpostings)
I’ve never understood some people and temperatures - gotta keep the house like a walk-in-freezer in the summer and a sauna in the winter. :rolleyes:
My cube neighbor bitches about how cold it is and she runs a space heater under her desk - and stands there barefooted! She and her fellow space heater users don’t seem to care that they overload the circuits, leading to computer crashes. Idiots. I can’t believe management doesn’t do something about it.
I get cold, and I wear layers. Easy-peasy.
You sister is an idiot. But you know that, don’t you?
flytrap but, but, but, I like the sound of my defeated enemies crunchin’ beneath my chariot wheels!
MOOOOOOM I am the sweetest, kindest, butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth little angel you ever did see or hear when I do that kinda stuff. Never raise my voice, keep an even tone and explain in no uncertain terms why whatever has irked me should or should not be and what will be done to rectify said irksomeness. Works like a charm everytime. I am goooooooooood at it too!
sari what others have said. Some folks just wanna bitch and whine. Next time she gets on it, offer her some cheese to go with the whine. You also have my permission to chop her hands off for messin’ with the thermostat. The thermostat at da cave is set on 78 when it’s hot out and 68 when it’s cold out. Right now,it is set on OFF. Wonderful, money savin’ OFF. I like OFF.
Just so y’all know I am not always an evil, enemy crunchin’ meanie, I just got back from a trip over to JDD’s parent’s place. They messed up their teevee. Again. I swear I do not know how they do what the do to the remote sometimes. Anywho, JDD called and asked me pretty please with a cherry and chawklit sprinkles on top would I go work my magic. Now how can one refuse a pretty please like that I ask you! So I did. JDD 'rents are happy, JDD is happy, the teevee, for all I know is happy. It’s all happy times!
WTG, Bear!
I got an e-mail from a rewards program advising me that my membership had expired (it does have an annual fee, which I more than make back in rewards). Problem is I paid for the renewal 3 weeks ago, according to my checking account. I’ve advised them that my records show they got that payment on 10/1 (the date my account shows), and I will if necessary involve my bank in this. My position is that if they can’t be bothered to process my renewal in less than three weeks, I want my money back.
Sic 'em Sean! Let 'em know, politely but firmly that they will reinstate you and you will be compensated for their dumbassedness. Except don’t say dumbassedness. Find a nice word.
Dindin is et. Bear is happy.
The kids next door just came over to ask me if they could get a ball they hit over the fence into my back yahd. I told ‘em they didn’t even need to tell me, just come get it. I wish the worst problem in my life would be a kid hit a ball in my yahd. Heck, I’m glad they’re outside playin’.
I’d much rather fight over trash pickup.
Got back the school portraits for the twins. So cute!
Well, I had a weekend unlike most, and need to let some of it out. Little Halloween kitty spent a full week with us, but she had been cold and hungry for too long and she slipped away while she was sleeping on Friday night. Who knew that she had wrapped herself around my heart in just seven short days? In related news, two of my dogs are just not doing well and the time has come to put them down. Fawn and Zoey are both 13 years old, blind (cataracts) and deaf, arthritic (Fawnie’s knees are shot) and while these have been factors for the last two years they have progressed to the point where they are not wanting to go outside to do their business. Zoey spends her days bumping into things with her face, and Fawn has been collapsing and needs help standing again. This is tearing my heart out, but it is the responsibility of owning pets. (Stupid eyes won’t stop leaking.) So I have talked with the vet and I will be saying goodnight to them for the last time in the very near future.
My sister had her first public belly dancing performance on Saturday night, my son had to work but daughter #2 and I went. Our parents have not been encouraging or supportive, at one point dad asked her if she was “dancing for all of her friends at the mosque” which is just bizarre, so I fully expected that my kid and I would be the only family she had in attendance. I was so pleased to see our parents and our aunt and cousin come in. I was proud of the older people putting aside their issues and supporting her. My mom was gooned on morphine, sitting next to me she kept asking me to verify if what she was seeing was real or a hallucination. Mostly they were hallucinations. sigh
It really wasn’t a bad weekend, just some emotional upheavals, but hey! I am used to that. I am looking forward to getting some punkins and taking out some stress carving them up!