# April showers bring May glowers (rant thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175 "2013-05-01T05:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**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 24, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/321 "2013-05-24T12:18:46Z")
I’d pay for a video of that, too. Better yet, a video sent to America’s Funniest Videos might win \*\*flatlined \*\*some cash. Bought time the furrballs started paying their way, right? \Poor Steve. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/322 "2013-05-24T16:15:54Z")
Stopping behind a car at a four way stop sign doesn’t COUNT as your stop, you still have to stop at the stop sign, wait your turn! Idiot ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/323 "2013-05-24T16:25:59Z")
Son of a bitch! I presumed (erroneously) that when my husband made lunches last night, he made one for me (since that’s standard practice). Nope. And I did not have time while I was dashing out the door this morning to put one together. I thought this would be no problem and that I could just zip out and grab something at lunchtime. Nope. I forgot that my other compatriots are off today and on top of covering for them, I have a metric shit tonne of other work to do. So hungry… ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/324 "2013-05-24T17:13:09Z")
My birthday’s on Sunday. The universe has decided to celebrate by causing my laptop to have a nervous breakdown and letting the fucking bastards at work declare Monday “tell us why you want a promotion day.” What kind of miserable evil scum decide that Memorial Day is the day the peons get to beg for a few crumbs of bread? Oh and it’s raining for much of the weekend. Grr . . . ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/325 "2013-05-24T17:25:24Z")
Happy Birfday, **LavenderBlue**! Tomorrow is the day I was found under a rock (as my dad used to say). How do I get to spend my day? With my frickin’ ex. It’s the memorial for our friend that passed away. Now, I have no issues seeing his useless ass. I have nothing to say to him. TheKid, on the other hand, is a wreck at the thought of seeing him. I’ve told her she doesn’t have to attend, but she wants to see other friends of our she hasn’t seen in over a decade. I will be spending a decent chunk of my damn birthday picking up my daughter. For shits and giggles, I looked up my ex’s faceook page. Hot rods and naked chicks. He’s 42, has three kids. Grow the fuck up. And pay child support. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/326 "2013-05-24T17:29:40Z")
Waves to **MissTake**. May birthdays are nice but it would be a little nicer if not on Memorial Day weekend. Three of the four members of my family have a birthday on a holiday or near one. My husband’s is on Father’s Day. My eldest was born the day after Christmas. The little one managed a nice birthday on April 21st but only after I talked the OB out of Hitler’s birthday birth day for her. ---
**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 24, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/327 "2013-05-24T17:56:37Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Stopping behind a car at a four way stop sign doesn’t COUNT as your stop, you still have to stop at the stop sign, wait your turn! Idiot One of the finer points of four way stops has been almost completely forgotten here, too - you have to actually _stop_ at the stop, even if you’re making a right turn. The first one who _stops_ is the first one to go, not the first one to roll through the stop and ignore all the other people there, and not the person in the largest vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/328 "2013-05-24T21:54:13Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > One of the finer points of four way stops has been almost completely forgotten here, too - you have to actually _stop_ at the stop, even if you’re making a right turn. The first one who _stops_ is the first one to go, not the first one to roll through the stop and ignore all the other people there, and not the person in the largest vehicle. Preach it!!this also frosts my cookie:D ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/329 "2013-05-24T22:28:26Z")
Why do people call Quebec “la belle provence?” It’s “_province_”, not “provence”! Provence is a place in France. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/330 "2013-05-24T22:39:17Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Why do people call Quebec “la belle provence?” It’s “_province_”, not “provence”! Provence is a place in France. Because anglophones incorrectly think that the way vowels are pronounced in English is the way all languages pronounce them. To an anglophone it sounds like the “i” in “la belle province” should be an “e”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/331 "2013-05-25T02:20:15Z")
Maybe they think it’s _exactly like_ the regular Provence, only it’s the prettier one. Not sure how the frozen wastes of North America being prettier than the south of France is supposed to work, but we can’t rule out the possibility of all of those people being really dumb… ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/332 "2013-05-25T02:28:01Z")
I got totally owned by a Meals On Wheels driver, and I’m cracking up so hard. This might be a stealth brag, but its funny, so I’m going to share. For the past couple of years, I’ve been giving cat food and litter to a MOW driver to take to a shut-in. When I left the state, I made an agreement with the MOW driver that he would buy the food and litter when he went shopping and send me the receipts and I would send him a check. This was what he wanted, I would have been happy to just send him an estimated amount every month, but he was worried that client or pet would die and he would have my money and forget to send it back right away. Whatever. So, because I thought he deserved something for his efforts, but knowing that he wouldn’t accept an obvious tip, I started rounding the amounts up to the next 5.00. My excuse was that it made it easier for my book-keeping. Tonight I got the receipts and the driver had used a red pen to write “Paid in Full” over all of them and there was a copy of a ledger sheet with entries in his shaky old man script that showed dates of my payments, the amount of the payment, what it went for and the balance. I currently have 61 cents in credit. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/333 "2013-05-25T04:03:22Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My birthday’s on Sunday. The universe has decided to celebrate by causing my laptop to have a nervous breakdown and letting the fucking bastards at work declare Monday “tell us why you want a promotion day.” What kind of miserable evil scum decide that Memorial Day is the day the peons get to beg for a few crumbs of bread? > > Oh and it’s raining for much of the weekend. Grr . . . Damn what a coincidence. Mine too! Happy birthday to us! And I’m having computer problems too.. Universe trying to tell us something? ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/334 "2013-05-25T04:14:28Z")
Freakin’ dryer sheets on the floor are SLIPPERY!! Ouch ouch ouch ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/335 "2013-05-25T04:17:42Z")
I was really raging over an [IMHO thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16322348#post16322348)regarding the “silent treatment”, which in my opinion is used by immature pussies. They are posts 16, 20, and 21. For some reason, this is one of those things that really bothers me to hear about. ---
**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 25, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/336 "2013-05-25T04:42:42Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > I was really raging over an [IMHO thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16322348#post16322348)regarding the “silent treatment”, which in my opinion is used by immature pussies. \ By kittens? How adorable! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/337 "2013-05-25T06:04:34Z")
Watching Horders and an episode about a woman hording cats comes on. She has some of their dead bodies in the freezer and sick kittens. I start bawling. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/338 "2013-05-25T14:15:08Z")
The only saving grace for today, the thing I was looking most forward to - going to the cabin tonight - cancelled. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/339 "2013-05-25T22:47:59Z")
Well there’s four hundred and change out the door that I didn’t plan on spending. My computer finally crapped out. Had to go buy another one. Goddamn, I hate Windows 8 so much right about now… ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175/340 "2013-05-26T01:05:35Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Watching Horders and an episode about a woman hording cats comes on. She has some of their dead bodies in the freezer and sick kittens. I start bawling. :smack: Oh geez, the liquid cat episode. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-may-glowers-rant-thread/657175.md?page=18)