# Beware the mini-Rants of March (4th or otherwise) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431 "2012-03-01T08:33:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/401 "2012-04-01T06:17:40Z")
> [@SnakesCatLady](#): > > Still stressed out…I’m actually thinking about going to the doctor and asking for drugs. I already have insomnia and I haven’t slept more than 2 hours at a time since Wednesday. > > And how in the world does ONE page of a scrapbook go missing? I had the pages all neatly stacked, ready to be put in the sleeves and into the book. One of the Christmas party pages has vanished. Grrrr…I do not need more stress right now. Of course you are still stressed out. How could you not be? I tried the legal drugs while I was so stressed out and all they did was make me sleepy but didn’t help me sleep. Now I’m self medicating. The good news about that is that I work for the government, so don’t have to worry about taking a pee test and getting fired because I smoke pot. I lost my snowbrush. I took it in with me and put it on my filing cabinet. (it took me years to learn that the snowbrush is better kept inside than in the car) Thats the last I saw it. Now that SG is gone, nobody else would take it. We’ve searched the warehouse, we’ve searched my car, and my clerk went out and inspected the parking lot and the road for fragments of plastic. Its not as bad as losing a work of art like you did, but its still all WTF? How the heck did I manage to disappear something that big? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/402 "2012-04-01T15:11:41Z")
Okay, this is incredibly minor but I have to ask: why do Baptists and fundamentalist Christians constantly confuse Catholics and Lutherans? I am not Catholic. I am Lutheran. There’s a few minor distinctions 'twixt the two, mainly involving the fact that the Lutherans were the first to be not Catholic. I only get this confusion from fundies and Baptists. Apparently a formal liturgy = Catholicism. ---
**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 1, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/403 "2012-04-01T15:11:54Z")
I saw similar advice in a book once. It said you should never kill yourself if you were any of (or any combination of): tired, cold, wet, hungry, or in physical pain. Makes sense. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/404 "2012-04-01T20:09:00Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I saw similar advice in a book once. It said you should never kill yourself if you were any of (or any combination of): tired, cold, wet, hungry, or in physical pain. > > Makes sense. Well, then, y’all are stuck with me. I’m usually at least three of those. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/405 "2012-04-02T06:08:40Z")
Aren’t we done YET with this corn-everything corny bullshit ??? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/406 "2012-04-02T07:34:18Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > The atmosphere at work today is very sad, indeed. Our new CEO keeps strategically shrinking the company. Several people I would call, if not friends, then very friendly co-workers, are being shitcanned. One guy was on my training team. He was recently promoted from the job I have to a new position, and now he’s getting the boot. He just bought a house last year. I wish I could volunteer to be laid off instead of him and let him take back his old job, but it doesn’t work that way. ☹ > > Another woman, who used to be a manager, has been a fixture in this department for nearly 2 decades. And now she’s being escorted off the premises. I have difficulty believing this is really happening. :(☹ [Dilbert: Here comes leadership!](http://www.dilbert.com/2012-04-01/) We’re currently experiencing leadership where I work, and moral is somewhere between torches and pitchforks. Everyone is updating Monster and LinkedIn. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431/407 "2012-04-02T20:05:27Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > **Olives** , I hope the job offer comes in and that the stress will go away. > [@digs](#): > > Any word yet? [See here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14928117&postcount=22) 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-mini-rants-of-march-4th-or-otherwise/614431.md?page=20)