# Febrantary (February Minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286 "2014-02-01T17:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/441 "2014-02-24T17:29:12Z")
Almost noon on a Monday, and nobody’s found anything to bitch about? In almost 24 hours? Wow! ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/442 "2014-02-24T17:34:10Z")
> [@Jeep's Phoenix](#): > > Why did everyone in front of me at the car wash insist on getting the super-mega-awesome option that takes so damn long??? There’s a much faster car wash across town, but its undercarriage wash isn’t very good Fuck, you’re even in North Carolina…Were you behind me? ☹ It was my first time using a car wash EVER, so I went full package. I got glared at for quite a while by the lady behind me. Next time I swear I’ll do express. I conquered my fear of the car wash! I started a new job last week, delivering pizzas, and tips on Saturday were lousy. I made more on Tuesday, ffs. What gives? ---
**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:** [February 24, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/443 "2014-02-24T17:54:04Z")
I have to make an important phone call, and I haven’t been able to get through all morning. And I had to skip class and go to the employment office. They had a phone there that automatically connected to the place I was trying to reach. Still wasn’t able to get through. Groan. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/444 "2014-02-24T18:05:12Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > Anybody else affected by the massive data breach at University of Maryland this week? Me! Sucks, eh? I probably will take them up on the credit monitoring. My only mini-rant for today is that that I left my glasses at home and staring at the computer all day is going to kill my eyes. Of course, I also left my motivation at home, so it’s not like I’m staring at anything particularly important on my computer. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/445 "2014-02-24T18:47:43Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Here we go with another round of this never-ending winter. We got two nice-ish days where the temperatures were actually above freezing and some of the two feet of snow on the ground has started to melt. And then it’s right back into the deep freeze again this week. The long range forecast is saying another two weeks before it “warms up” again. Sigh. Yeah and all that melted snow is now a 3" thick slab of ice all down the drivers side of my driveway. I have not QUITE been a victim yet but it was only the fact that I’d just grabbed the door handle that saved me. I salted the hell out of it during the melt but apparently enough froze over the top to counteract all my preparation. I dumped another half bag on the driveway this morning as I left. Lake? what lake? At this point I’m more worried about killing the mailman. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/446 "2014-02-24T19:14:04Z")
One of the dogs in my program succumbed to kennel stress and had to be euthanized over the weekend. I was out of town and just found out today. I really liked him and though he was making progress. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/447 "2014-02-24T19:15:22Z")
Big black plastic frames. I get it. They’re trendy. They should still fit your stupid face. Your giant black frames shouldn’t be wearing you. Shouldn’t extend out beyond your ears, shouldn’t sit on your cheeks. People shouldn’t look at you and wonder where the face is behind those glasses. You shouldn’t look like you lost the draw in Chem class and got stuck with the broke ass safety glasses that don’t fit anybody but Andre the Giant. Then somehow forgot to take them off. There’s taking to the trend enough to look up to date, then there’s a fashion victim who looks like a dumbass. Three of my co-workers fit in this category. I want to say this to them every day. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/448 "2014-02-24T19:21:23Z")
Stupid long haired kitty knocked over an orange juice container and then managed to get it all over her fur. She hissed at me as if I did it. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/449 "2014-02-24T19:27:15Z")
In kitty think, it’s never their fault. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/450 "2014-02-24T20:13:43Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > One of the dogs in my program succumbed to kennel stress and had to be euthanized over the weekend. I was out of town and just found out today. I really liked him and though he was making progress. ☹ What is “kennel stress”? I’ve never heard of this. I’m sorry to hear about your dog. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/451 "2014-02-24T20:28:32Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > In kitty think, it’s never their fault. lol so true! Ugh. I have to wait until my husband get home so he can bathe her. Because right now, in order to bathe the cat, I’d have to bathe the toddler. While the toddler might like that, I think Miss Lucy Cat would see that as adding insult to insult. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/452 "2014-02-24T20:32:29Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > What is “kennel stress”? I’ve never heard of this. > > I’m sorry to hear about your dog. ☹ Thank you. He wasn’t actually my own dog. He was a dog in a program I run at our local shelter. I really liked him, though. Some of the dogs at the shelter don’t do well in a kennel environment. The noise of the other dogs, the close quarters, the lack of exercise and mental stimulation take their toll on some dogs and they can redirect that stress onto other dogs or humans. In this case, one of the dogs was overly stressed and lashed out against one of the staff members. Bowman had been at the shelter for nearly 2 months, which is a relatively long time. He was becoming increasingly agitated. One of the reasons we were working with him, training and socializing him, was to reduce this stress and make him more adoptable. He was only in our program a little over a week, but I felt he had great potential. We hoped we could get some of that energy out and get his mind focused on training. It appears we were too late. I have run this program a little over a year and have been part of it for more than two years. We’ve help lots and lots of dogs. Thankfully we’ve only had 2 or 3 that were too far gone to save. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/453 "2014-02-24T21:13:19Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Big black plastic frames. I get it. They’re trendy. They should still fit your stupid face. Your giant black frames shouldn’t be wearing you. Shouldn’t extend out beyond your ears, shouldn’t sit on your cheeks. People shouldn’t look at you and wonder where the face is behind those glasses. You shouldn’t look like you lost the draw in Chem class and got stuck with the broke ass safety glasses that don’t fit anybody but Andre the Giant. Then somehow forgot to take them off. There’s taking to the trend enough to look up to date, then there’s a fashion victim who looks like a dumbass. > > Three of my co-workers fit in this category. I want to say this to them every day. Heh - [check this out.](http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/5671383_700b.jpg) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/454 "2014-02-24T23:51:39Z")
My 20 year old daughter has been called for jury duty tomorrow. (This isn’t really a rant, more of a gloat, but I wanted to say something and she can see my Facebook.) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/455 "2014-02-25T01:10:20Z")
20 minutes stuck behind a semi on a freeway exit ramp. Fuck. MNDOT pickup truck shows up, connects up a chain and tries to pull him free. Not a chance. He gives up and drives off. Our bus driver decides ‘to hell with this’ and chance going around it. Clipped the back end, took off one of her side lights and scraped the paint a bit. Will probably be punished for it. The alternative of course, would have been to sit there another 20-30 minutes waiting for the big tow truck to show up and get it free. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/456 "2014-02-25T03:33:17Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Big black plastic frames. I get it. They’re trendy. They should still fit your stupid face. Your giant black frames shouldn’t be wearing you. Shouldn’t extend out beyond your ears, shouldn’t sit on your cheeks. People shouldn’t look at you and wonder where the face is behind those glasses. You shouldn’t look like you lost the draw in Chem class and got stuck with the broke ass safety glasses that don’t fit anybody but Andre the Giant. Then somehow forgot to take them off. There’s taking to the trend enough to look up to date, then there’s a fashion victim who looks like a dumbass. > > Three of my co-workers fit in this category. I want to say this to them every day. Heh. Did they come from the [Far Side](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KvZNS3vpL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/457 "2014-02-25T04:32:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Heh. Did they come from the [Far Side](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KvZNS3vpL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)? Those actually fit her cartoon face. [More like a good many (but not all) from this google image search.](https://www.google.com/search?q=big+black+hipster+glasses&client=firefox-a&hs=q5&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=5xgMU5CiBYXd2QXL7oHAAQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1152&bih=711) Specific examples, [this guy](https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNQOyScLZcKscwBPCTJHkbGFA54y0rldQFrdwVx-VIa2t0KZXYcA) (don’t fit his bridge and sit on cheeks, plus up past eyebrows, looks like a douche), [and this girl](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o_7y25z00Mo/UKKi-Cd9tQI/AAAAAAAAD2s/uQEEq3yi0ok/s1600/Firmoo+Glasses+Hipster+Frames+Oversized+glasses+Frame+Firmoo+Glasses+review+2+%28683x1024%29.jpg) (just - no. Too big, up, down, and sideways). They both look stupid, and think they look great. Dumbasses. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/458 "2014-02-25T05:34:28Z")
> [@LibrarySpy](#): > > Fuck, you’re even in North Carolina…Were you behind me? ☹ > > It was my first time using a car wash EVER, so I went full package. I got glared at for quite a while by the lady behind me. Next time I swear I’ll do express. 😃 I took another vehicle to that other car wash across town…it was down to a single bay due to mechanical issues. However, it has attendants, so it moves at a fairly decent clip regardless of what package is selected. I did get to see someone who bought the top package; at that level, the car wash puts on a mini-light show. No kidding…bright, colorful lights illuminate the various fluids as they rain down on the car, and sound effects play too. I’m pretty sure this is for the benefit of the people in line… On a different note, my driver’s side headlight apparently has a crack in the casing. \>.\< Nothing like a car wash to help you figure out why one headlight is getting slightly cloudy and the other isn’t. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/459 "2014-02-25T05:42:52Z")
I hope you’ll all be happy to hear that my husband and I are still alive, no thanks to one particular driver today. We were driving along on a high-speed road, and got behind a half-ton going about half the speed limit. We were just about to go around the road hazard, when another half-ton merged into the lane we were about to get into. We slammed on the brakes and managed to not hit anybody. First person to guess what the road hazard driver was doing while driving gets a cookie. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/460 "2014-02-25T06:39:27Z")
Talking on the phone! Texting! Talking on the phone and texting and drinking a beer! I want a cookie! I’m having a crappy night at work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286.md?page=24)