Its supposed to snow over the weekend. In the middle of April. In the middle of Arizona. I wants the sun, dangit!!!
I like hummingbirds. I think they are pretty and entertaining. I hang feeders close to the windows because my cats like to watch them. I also like my cats. I have a lilac bush next to my bedroom window, I love how my house smells when the lilac is blooming and I have the windows open. I planted it.
All of the above sounds lovely, right? Not at the crack of dawn when the hummingbird who is making a nest about a foot next to the window wakes up. Do you have any idea how noisy those things are? As soon as it gets light, I hear buzz buzz buzz, cheep cheep, buzz buzz. Then my cats start running over me in their hurry to get to the window and try to climb the blinds to get at the hummer.
And, now that we are moving from late spring to early spring, I have to be sure that the feeders are filled because the hummers will need the extra sugar. At least I don’t have to worry about leaving late because I had to fill the feeders…because I’m up at the flipping crack of dawn because of the noise.
For as long as I’ve been taking this bus, the guy has never left the station on time. Bus is supposed to leave at half-past the hour. He’ll just either keep messing with his smart phone as the departure time passes him by, or else just sit there. It’s usually not more than two or three minutes, but it’s annoying and he does it at every transfer station – I’ve started walking home from the last transfer point rather than wait on the bus because I’ve found it actually gets me there a few minutes faster than waiting on his slow ass. Not only that, there have been instances where he’s held the bus up by up to ten minutes because he’ll duck into store or fast-food places for personal errands or to socialize.
In short, he treats the customer’s time like its his own.
Well, it seems that someone made a complaint, because this guy was talking to another driver and pissing and moaning about how someone on the bus reported him for being “two minutes late” when he went into a store to use the bathroom (if it’s the incident I’m thinking of, he’s flat out lying about how much time he took), and that he’s been deliberately leaving the station a few minutes ever since late to piss whoever it is off.
OK, first off, bullshit. This is not a new thing. But way to try and sound like a big man, asshole.
Secondly, so you’re admitting to being a petty dipshit who can’t handle that he got in trouble for not doing his fucking job properly. Nice to know.
Then he tried justifying it to another passenger by saying he liked to give people a few extra minutes to make the bus. Even if this wasn’t an obvious backpeddle, screw that. This isn’t even the last bus of the night. Stick to your damn schedule.
Now I’m seriously considering making a complaint myself.
Toronto is currently being repeatedly reminded of what can go wrong with your kid walking home from school by the Tory Stafford trial.
Yesterday at 4pm my friend and her ex get this email from her kid step mother:
Is H at swimming? He didn’t come home. I don’t have swimming as an event in my calendar… but he’s not here.
H is 10. After sending this email she casually takes a 30 min shower, thus making herself unavailable to answer the frantic phone calls from her husband and my friend.
Turns out H was reading a book in the family room but she didn’t even LOOK before sending this email.
Go for it. He’s not helping anyone by waiting longer than he is scheduled to wait - buses run on tight schedules and being off (early or late) at one point sets everything off down the line. He waits longer at this station, then at the next one, then the next one, then one of his passengers misses a transfer because he showed up too late for them to make it.
My bus driver rant is the bus drivers who stop their bus to catch up to a time-point in a driving lane, instead of sitting the bus for a while at a stop that is off to the side and not blocking traffic. “Shitcock” is a good word for that.
Send it all this way then, we need the moisture and I don’t care how it comes. There was an article in the paper today that said 61% of the lower 48 states are abnormally dry. With statistics like that, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
FUCK frequent urination because of pregnancy! Fuck it with a red-hot poker! It’s a pain to have to be running to the bathroom all the fucking time, and it makes me worry that I’m getting gestational diabetes.
I left my fucking purse at home this morning. Now I’m going to be going through the work day wearing my sunglasses, because my glasses are (guess where?) in my purse. Dammit! I’m so glad this week is almost over, I really am.
IANAD nor have I ever been pregnant, but I understand that “needing to pee all the time” (you said it so much more prettily!) is a symptom of pregnancy, period. Gets worse as the kid gets bigger and depending on what it’s doing.
Whaa…? I don’t remember ever NOT brushing my own teeth. No way in hell would I let my parents brush my teeth at any age over 5. How stupid do people think kids are nowadays?!
My rant:
Listen you little shits, I’ve lived here for over two years now and you haven’t figured out that I don’t like children yet? I am polite to you, I help you if you need it, but I am not a child-oriented person. Just because I gave you Freezies a couple times last summer in an attempt to be nice so hopefully you’ll respect our house & yard doesn’t mean you can yell at me when I got home from work the other day going “GIVE US FREEZIES! WE WANT SUGAR! SU-GAR! SU-GAR!!” It’s going to make me dislike you, and children in general, even more. Morons.
Fuck you, Tim Moffitt. No, seriously fuck you. You are a failure as a representative for my county in the General Assembly In Its Infinite Wisdom. We have massive unemployment in this county, the roads are crumbling beneath our tires and no one fixes them because it might inconvenience a goddamn tourist, and our schools are seriously underfunded, just to name a few things that need attention. So what are you doing?Fucking with the water system so the rich assholes in Biltmore Forest won’t have to pay city taxes. I didn’t vote for your ass and I’m sure as hell not going to in the next election. Please fall into a smooth, deep hole.
Dear Mazda service manager: you really need to work on your listening skills. Besides doing the 60K service, I specifically asked you to check my alignment and gave you the go ahead to do the work if necessary. So I’m sure you can understand my frustration when the car **still **pulls to the right and I find out that you didn’t check the alignment. And no, I’m not going to wait around (“We’ll have you out of here in an hour!”…yeah right) or come back tomorrow.
Congratulations/Condolences. I’m glad you’re out of there, because I know it’s been making you crazy. Can you keep enough of an eye on them so we know when to bring out the marshmallows when SuperBitch and Minion finally manage to set the place on fire?
Just congratulations from me. I quit a toxic job, and, even though it drained our bank account, it was the smartest thing I’ve ever done (cite: my huge decrease in suicidal/homocidal thoughts from that moment on).
Same here. When I was thinking about throwing myself in front of the commuter train every morning, I knew it was time. This is what bank accounts are for, right?
A gym opened up near my house, and I’ve been going two or three times a week. My body is so much happier when it gets exercise! Thanks to my Viking ancestry, though, the first thing it does is put on a massive amount of muscle. I’ll probably lose body fat eventually, but I’m not overweight (just sedentary), so nothing yet. Which means my jeans are now too tight. :smack: I haaaaate jeans shopping…
Did she say this to you, or was it directed at the kids? Either way, it might not hurt to request a different hygienist when making the next appointments. I’ve been going to the same dentist since elementary school; the receptionists know that there is one hygienist I want no contact with due to her rather abrasive nature. (When I had my braces removed, it was discovered that my teeth were permanently stained; she was quick to tell me how ugly they looked. Bitch. :mad: )
Thanks, everyone for the congrats. I feel soooo much better. My last day is just a week and a half away. This is going to be financially painful for a while, but I think well worth it.
We had one bus driver who would stop in a driving lane on a SIX LANE street. This street had a median, stoplights, a bus stop and all, but it ALSO had a small side street that he could have easily pulled into and out of. The driver usually took a 15 minute break at this stop, even during rush hour, no matter HOW many other people he inconvenienced. I complained and pointed out that this was messing up the traffic flow, causing a lot of people to miss two or three red light cycles, and I noticed that the bus didn’t make an extended stop at that point any more.
I think that the driver was using this place as a rest stop, and if he was entitled to one, yeah, I can understand, if it doesn’t throw off the schedule. However, that was a bad, bad place to park a bus for a quarter of an hour, especially since there was a parking lot about 50 feet from it.
