# April glowers bring May flowers (minirant thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576 "2018-04-01T08:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/301 "2018-04-30T14:24:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > My suggestion - make some brownies, heat up your fudge goo into hot fudge sauce, and make a dessert with a warm brownie, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and hot fudge sauce over top. This combination is truly magic. ������ Does sound very good! But I’ve already made the cookies. 🙂 And half the batch when to a get-together yesterday – and vanished! – and hubby and I’ve made significant inroads in the other half. > [@](#): > > Way to live up to your username! Damn straight! ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/302 "2018-04-30T14:33:43Z")
I love it when I do something I know is wrong and end up hurt from it :smack: Dumped out a bag of mulch while holding it out at arms length instead of walking around the bush to dump it. Surprise, I pulled a muscle in my back :smack: Maybe if I hit myself in the head a bunch I’ll forget how bad my back hurts :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/303 "2018-04-30T16:05:07Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Your spouse told me that you drink a special mixture to cleanse your body of the toxins built up through chemotheraphy. Again, I don’t know about chemotherapy, but whenever I hear the words “cleanse” and “toxins” in relation to health, I suspect woo. Especially when the idea comes from your acupunturist. Aren’t toxins the whole point of chemotherapy? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/304 "2018-04-30T16:23:51Z")
Back to the Doctors office. Stitches are out of my hand. Just one butterfly bandage. The scar is gonna be nasty. I have been dizzier than usual, I woke up yesterday with a stabbing pain in my ear. The Dr looked and I have a bad infection. How is that possible? I have been on antibiotics for a week or so. And I had a steroid shot. So I have a z-pack now. I am really sick of pills. The pain in my ear is now hurting my jaw and I don’t want to chew. Soup for me. Oh, woe is me! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/305 "2018-04-30T16:27:35Z")
Maybe your antibiotics killed the good ones in your ear? Feel better. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/306 "2018-05-01T00:28:31Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > \ > Then, I had the joy of taking my mom vehicle shopping on Saturday. Big Blue (1997 Ford F150 with 225k miles) is finally nickel and diming her to death. Needs a rear U-joint right now and will need a new head gasket this summer. She thought $5k would buy her a decent runaround. I was glad she put it as she didn’t know how much longer she would be driving, as I would like to take her damn license away from her now. But, she’s had no accidents or tickets, so I really can’t do anything about it. However, $5k doesn’t buy much of anything. She will not buy from a private seller. She is set on only two makes of vehicles. She was irritated that the vehicles under $7k had rust and high miles. The lot guys we dealt with on Saturday were so very patronizing. Yesterday we went looking again, when the lots were closed. > She ended up with a list of 6 cars/trucks she liked. > Last night, when we spoke, I suggested she take her “not a boyfriend” out today, as he can out talk the worst used car salesman and he is quite knowledgeable about cars (so is my mom, but being and elderly woman, she gets shot down.\ The last time I was looking for a car, I got really tired of the patronizing car salesmen, too. It’s shocking that they still treat women that way, but they do. On the other hand, though, I used to use their misogyny against them - I’d go test-drive a bunch of cars with no intention to buy anything that day, and tell them I had to talk to my husband before making a decision. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/307 "2018-05-01T02:42:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The last time I was looking for a car, I got really tired of the patronizing car salesmen, too. It’s shocking that they still treat women that way, but they do. On the other hand, though, I used to use their misogyny against them - I’d go test-drive a bunch of cars with no intention to buy anything that day, and tell them I had to talk to my husband before making a decision. 😃 Ha! If you start a “Mansplain Me A Car” site/blog/show/podcast, I’ll watch every undercover video you post. My Tin Can Car got T-boned by a huge truck, and shopping for a new car was painful. I couldn’t believe how stuck in the 1950s some dealers were: “Wait, don’t leave. What would it take to get you to drive this little beauty home?” Oh, we got the “I’d love to give you a deal. But let me check with my manager…” And one salesman pulled the reprehensible “(Now that I’ve avoided dealing with your pricing questions, and I’ve isolated you in a tiny conference room)… I’m going to write down a figure on this piece of paper. Then you’re going to turn it over and tell me your first reaction to it.” The price was laughably high. So I said “Are you serious?” and walked out. “But, sir! This is just an initial figure! We’re not done yet!” “Well, I am…” [slam] ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/308 "2018-05-01T02:57:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > The deer are back eating our newly growing plants. This year, my mother finally resorted to deer repellent, since bars of soap were just getting too expensive. The stuff smells like manure from some animal that ate at Taco Bell. (Fortunately it fades. But oh god, the only thing I ever smelled that was worse than this was road kill on a hot summer day. That’s how bad this stuff is) Sorry, but I think the title of “worst smell ever” is a contest between heated cat urine or week-dead human body. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/309 "2018-05-01T02:58:31Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > My suggestion - make some brownies, heat up your fudge goo into hot fudge sauce, and make a dessert with a warm brownie, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and hot fudge sauce over top. This combination is truly magic. 😊 [draining drool from my keyboard] I love the way you think. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/310 "2018-05-01T05:50:27Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Ha! > > If you start a “Mansplain Me A Car” site/blog/show/podcast, I’ll watch every undercover video you post. > > My Tin Can Car got T-boned by a huge truck, and shopping for a new car was painful. I couldn’t believe how stuck in the 1950s some dealers were: “Wait, don’t leave. What would it take to get you to drive this little beauty home?” > > Oh, we got the “I’d love to give you a deal. But let me check with my manager…” And one salesman pulled the reprehensible “(Now that I’ve avoided dealing with your pricing questions, and I’ve isolated you in a tiny conference room)… I’m going to write down a figure on this piece of paper. Then you’re going to turn it over and tell me your first reaction to it.” > > The price was laughably high. So I said “Are you serious?” and walked out. > “But, sir! This is just an initial figure! We’re not done yet!” > “Well, I am…” [slam] My car is 13 years old -we’ll be shopping again some day. 🙂 They really do pull out all the cliches. When we look for a car, it takes us a couple of months of research and test-driving and price comparisons and spreadsheets - then the salesman just wants to show me the vanity mirrors. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/311 "2018-05-01T13:19:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > My car is 13 years old -we’ll be shopping again some day. 🙂 > > They really do pull out all the cliches. When we look for a car, it takes us a couple of months of research and test-driving and price comparisons and spreadsheets - then the salesman just wants to show me the vanity mirrors. :rolleyes: Ah, but there’s hope. A new generation of sales guys… We finally got smart and got pricing over the internet. Firm price within seconds. But we still had to deal with a salesperson when we got to the dealer to test drive the car. [Le sigh…] Until I had the brilliant idea to get the name of the person I was emailing, and then I got to enjoy walking past the sales force (the coifed-and-aftershaved 50 yr olds) and asking for Jason Jablonsky. "Waaall, he’s in our… Intern-Net Sales, yuh sure ya really want _him?"_ Turns out, I really did. Jason was in his twenties and gave straight-forward answers. And when they didn’t have a stickshift on the lot, he found a used car of that model, with a manual, that we could test drive! So after weeks of pain, it only took ten minutes of dealing with Jason, and a fun test drive, to buy a car. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/312 "2018-05-01T20:36:24Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Aren’t toxins the whole point of chemotherapy? ye gods and little fishes, in my intro to chemo session this morning I was very specifically warned of interactions with herbal and home remedies. I can pretty much say her oncologist would flip his shit to find out she is cleansing. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/313 "2018-05-06T01:43:10Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > ye gods and little fishes, in my intro to chemo session this morning I was very specifically warned of interactions with herbal and home remedies. I can pretty much say her oncologist would flip his shit to find out she is cleansing. Yep. I did have strong words on the subject for her husband, but I’m afraid they didn’t really penetrate. Not my place to interfere otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/314 "2018-05-07T03:50:45Z")
I love the fact I have a new computer. I hate the fact I have to set it up. PITA. First world problem, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/315 "2018-05-07T04:23:22Z")
Why are we using the April thread? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/316 "2018-05-07T06:31:56Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Why are we using the April thread? It would appear that a May rant thread does not yet exist, and I’m feeling too rotten to come up with a good title, so I’d be grateful if someone did. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/317 "2018-05-07T06:34:58Z")
Please allow me to correct myself. May thread [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=854030) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576/318 "2018-05-07T12:37:38Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Why are we using the April thread? This one was the first I saw on the page and it had May in the title, I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-glowers-bring-may-flowers-minirant-thread/811576.md?page=15)