# Auld Lang Whines (January Mini Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038 "2019-01-01T13:02:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038/181 "2019-01-31T00:29:25Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Don’t let her put a guilt trip on you! When **kaylasmom** was carrying Kayla, the nurse who came over to do well-fetus checks would sometimes find that Kayla was sleeping curled up in the corner of the uterus (or something) and would tap on **kaylasmom** ’s fundus with the back of a soup spoon until Kayla woke up and moved. If they knew to do that twenty-three years ago, they surely knew twenty-four years ago. > > You ARE twenty-four, right? Yeah, sure I’m 24, thanks! Turn that around and you’d be a lot closer. 🙂 Pitting myself today for nearly wiping out trying to get my car door open this morning. No garage, -15F this morning. Driver’s side door was frozen shut but passenger side door would open. Got in the passenger side and started the car. Went back inside for a few minutes because -15F. Came back outside and tried to open the driver’s side door again. Grabbed the door handle with both hands, braced myself, and pulled. Door popped open so easily I nearly fell on my ass. I can already feel my back and shoulders tightening up. Oughta be nice and sore tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038/182 "2019-01-31T07:08:34Z")
Tapatalk has changed its format and has more ads in it, which appear in the middle of the threads. When scrolling, it’s almost impossible to not click on them with your finder. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038/183 "2019-01-31T14:51:42Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > No teen. And no skirt (not hippie, just a basic skirt with a really cool space age pattern). I took everything out of the closet and inspected it as if the skirt somehow had attached itself to another piece of clothing. It hadn’t. Then I took everything out of the party clothes closet since maybe for some reason I had put it in there. I also moved everything on the floor of both closets in case it had fallen to the floor. Not there either. Then I went through the work pants and tops closet. Nothing. Then the casual clothes closet. Nope. I even looked through the coats and jackets closet in case I had lost my mind when I put it away. (Yeah, I have a lot of clothes, but I know everything I have and everything has its place.) > > I’m going to stop looking now. As Einstein said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. Of course, maybe he never had something inexplicably disappear. Hell, maybe someday it will inexplicably reappear. Interesting. On Thanksgiving of this year I found a dress in my closet that I could swear I’ve never seen before. And I had been through that closet thoroughly a month before when I was cleaning up after a water leak. And it’s a really great dress and it looks really great, but it’s not the kind of thing I would buy for myself. Black sweaterdress, turtleneck, loose through the top and tight through the hips. Not at all my loose boho hippie style. And it’s from Mandee and I don’t recall every having been anywhere near one of those stores. And I live alone. I’m puzzled, does this sound like anything anyone here has lost? Is my closet the other end of some portal? And a quick weather related rant. I neglected to check the weather yesterday as I was home all day. But I did have an errand to run, on foot. Right as I left it started to snow. By the time I got to the corner it was snowing so hard I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. Plus I was walking right into an icy 50 mph wind. It was a miserable 2 block walk, a little better on the way back because the wind was at my back, not in my face. I made it home. 15 minutes later I looked out the window and it wasn’t snowing, the sun was out. Then I saw the hour old alert on my phone. Well, now I know what a snow squall is. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038/184 "2019-02-01T03:28:33Z")
Some kind of skunk action has gone dowm in the general vicinity and the smell has wafted its way into my apartment. Blech! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038/185 "2019-02-01T03:40:13Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Interesting. On Thanksgiving of this year I found a dress in my closet that I could swear I’ve never seen before. And I had been through that closet thoroughly a month before when I was cleaning up after a water leak. And it’s a really great dress and it looks really great, but it’s not the kind of thing I would buy for myself. Black sweaterdress, turtleneck, loose through the top and tight through the hips. Not at all my loose boho hippie style. And it’s from Mandee and I don’t recall every having been anywhere near one of those stores. And I live alone. I’m puzzled, does this sound like anything anyone here has lost? Is my closet the other end of some portal? > > And a quick weather related rant. I neglected to check the weather yesterday as I was home all day. But I did have an errand to run, on foot. Right as I left it started to snow. By the time I got to the corner it was snowing so hard I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. Plus I was walking right into an icy 50 mph wind. It was a miserable 2 block walk, a little better on the way back because the wind was at my back, not in my face. > > I made it home. 15 minutes later I looked out the window and it wasn’t snowing, the sun was out. Then I saw the hour old alert on my phone. Well, now I know what a snow squall is. Maybe you got someone’s dress accidently from the cleaners. Altho’ I like the closet portal. Maybe I could visit you through my ‘the-floor-is a-blackhole’ portal. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038/186 "2019-02-01T04:40:41Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Back on the subject of things going missing… In my house, when something goes missing, I usually blame my wife. She has a habit of picking things up and putting them somewhere else – not put _away_, just somewhere other than where I set them down. Then she will either (a) deny that she ever touched it, or (b) remembers moving it but doesn’t remember where she put it. It’s only very rarely that I eventually find what I’m looking for and then remember that _I_ was the one who put it there. > > And as for clothes, I have a pair of dark gray slacks that I can’t seem to find. They are my “dressy” slacks that I usually keep on the same hanger with my sport coat, but they’re not there, or anywhere in my closet. in that regard me and your wife are soulmates…im not allowed to touch certain things cause they’ll disappear forever… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038.md?page=9)