# February Bitching- Please Start here **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028 "2013-02-01T13:38:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/141 "2013-02-07T01:58:54Z")
> [@](#): > > This day has been completely worthless so far. Really, really slow data entry for our new donor database. I’m talking like 30-60 minutes per file and I have at least 100 files. My coworker said she wanted to take us to see her parents’ new business at lunchtime. I assumed it was a restaurant. > > So it turned out to be a store selling Herbalife nutrition shakes. It was like being in an infomercial. And I drank the stuff and looked at their catalogs in order to be polite. Then they told me I should come to work early every day so I can drink their shakes. I currently get up at 5:30am to be at work by 8am. I’m not getting up earlier than that for pretty much any reason, much less something stupid like a diet shake. Do not engage this co-worker in social conversation again. Because she WILL try to sell you shakes, no matter what, until she wises up. You’re going to have to nod to her and say hi, but don’t speak to her except on work related subject. Though you might mention, once, that the shake made you feel sick, so you’re never drinking another one. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/142 "2013-02-07T03:54:24Z")
> [@slalexan](#): > > So today, after my boss told me I’m awesome, I feel worthless. Can someone knock some sense into me? _grabs one of the soft, large pillows from the hotel bed and hits **slalexan** with it_ There’s another soft, large pillow, so if you want - pillowfight! Are you having the depression treated? I hope that part gets better soon. As for the rest, reviews are one of those great ideas which tend to suck mightily - congratulations on passing this last one with flying colors! (I once got a negative from an internal customer for “refusing to participate in a celebration”. My boss was stunned when I was able to tell him who that came from: the dude who’d refused to believe me when I said gastrenteritis and pizza do not mix; everybody else knew I hadn’t eaten solids for the last two weeks). ---
**Author:** ![Pacific420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Pacific420](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pacific420)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/143 "2013-02-07T04:39:15Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Mine are in their early 20’s and are all that now too but the key word is now. > > There were definitely times in their toddlerhood that I considered what they might be worth on the open market and lets not even discuss the teenage years or **LavendarBlue** might faint. > > I’ve often said that kids are cute because that’s the only thing that keeps humans from killing their young. It’s not just that they need to be taught, it’s also that their brain just doesn’t work right until they finish growing. There are key pieces missing that primarily deal with forethought and anticipating the results of their actions. When they say “I don’t know why I did something so incredibly stupid” they’re not lying they really don’t know but that doesn’t make it any less stressful for a tired parent. > > **LB** might blow off steam more than some others but I guarantee it doesn’t mean she loves her kids any less. Point taken…I do recall my son at about 4yrs old dumping out his lego bin, every morning at about 0530 or so…it was a large bin and he took his time emptying it :smack: ---
**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:** [February 7, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/144 "2013-02-07T04:43:25Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My own brain sucks sometimes. I swear to god I had the most wonderful idea for a series of books last night . . . right at midnight when I was trying to get to sleep. Stupid brain. psst! – it was the high school science teachers who turn into unicorns if you feed them after midnight, so when they want to fight crime they meet at the corner diner at 12:01 am and they eat blueberry pancakes and then they all rush into the men’s room quick before they start to change and they become fluorescent unicorns with wings as a bonus and fly out this one little window in the rest room in proper spectrum order with CGI sparkly streaks behind them and off they go to fight the megalomaniacal doctor penn sylvanius and his twenty-first century style death ray and that’s just book one. I had the same dream! ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/145 "2013-02-07T05:03:06Z")
February sucks, and it cannot possibly end soon enough. In addition to the toe I broke on Friday, I got a screw in my tire last night and it was flat this morning. Just the thing to be dealing with with my foot in a boot. Of course my husband was out of town again and I was on my own with two kids and a flat. At least AAA hadn’t expired yet. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/146 "2013-02-07T15:59:02Z")
I didn’t see any kind of “bitch about taxes” thread, so I’ll put this here. Fuck taxes. I mean…I’m getting a decent refund, but I hate the process of doing them, especially through TurboTax with it’s MASSIVE “bait and switch” scheme. I KNOW that I clicked on the “Free federal tax filing!” option, but obviously at some point in the process, I clicked on something, or attempted to claim some sort of deduction that made it switch to the $60 version. Does it tell me what this was? Nope. I don’t even have many deductions, just the standard deduction, and then student loan interest deduction, and a small health expenses deduction. I think it was the health expenses one, because I had thought that student loan interest deduction was part of all the “Free federal filing” packages out there. At this point, even if I remove that small health expenses deduction, it won’t “flip over” back to the free edition. I’d have to remove all my info, log out, and then start back and just enter everything all over and see if I can keep it as the free edition. I decided that if I was going to enter everything over, I’d try H&R Block’s system, just to see if they could get me a bigger refund, or if they stayed “free” like they promised. Well, H&R Block’s online system sucks ass. I entered the info from my first 1098-E just fine, but when I go to add a second it gives me this dumb error: [![](https://i.imgur.com/BCsJtOJ.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/BCsJtOJ.png) THERE ISN’T ANY SPACE TO PUT THE BORROWER’S INFO, YOU JACKASS! When I entered the info for the first loan, that never came up. I had the exact same screen, put in the lender’s name and the interest paid, and then it sent me to a second screen where I entered the borrower’s (i.e., my) info. But no matter what I do, any time I try to enter info for a second lender, I get that error. Looks like I’m paying TurboTax $60. :mad: (Yeah yeah, I’m getting a decent refund, so I still come out ahead, but it’s just the principle of the thing.) ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/147 "2013-02-07T17:19:40Z")
> [@digs](#): > > psst! – it was the high school science teachers who turn into unicorns if you feed them after midnight, so when they want to fight crime they meet at the corner diner at 12:01 am and they eat blueberry pancakes and then they all rush into the men’s room quick before they start to change and they become fluorescent unicorns with wings as a bonus and fly out this one little window in the rest room in proper spectrum order with CGI sparkly streaks behind them and off they go to fight the megalomaniacal doctor penn sylvanius and his twenty-first century style death ray and that’s just book one. > > I had the same dream! It had cats in it damn it. That’s all I remember. In other news weather forecasting apparently has as much accuracy as flipping a coin and guessing: > [@](#): > > [http://gawker.com/5982121/nyc-will-get-either-3-or-30-inches-of-snow-this-weekend?tag=Snowpocalypse](http://gawker.com/5982121/nyc-will-get-either-3-or-30-inches-of-snow-this-weekend?tag=Snowpocalypse) > > NYC Will Get Either 3 or 30 Inches of Snow This Weekend I’d sort of like to know if we’re in for a blizzard or just a dusting. That would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Chris2011](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Chris2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chris2011)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/148 "2013-02-07T17:25:31Z")
(At my current job) people assume I am new because they have never seen me. I have been with this company 9 years. Pay attention dickwads!!! ---
**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:** [February 7, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/149 "2013-02-07T17:27:50Z")
Oohhh taxes. Ugh. I attempted to use the free H&R Block version. I made $100 more this year than last year, paid $100 more in taxes, bought a house… went from a refund last year to owing big time this year. The only thing different, really, was that TheKid turned 19. She’s in school FT, still dependent on me. The program also irked in that it provided no where to add the house buying costs. I logged out, cried for a little bit, will try TurboTax this weekend. My car crapped out. This, less than a week after getting it out of the shop. Went to look at beaters last night - I can’t even afford a beater. Feh. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/150 "2013-02-07T18:40:10Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > \*\*So injections of Avastin into the eye \*\* \*\*injections into the eye \*\* \*\*injections into the eye \*\* \*\*injections into the eye \*\* \*\*injections into the eye \*\* :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: I can’t even wear contacts and it usually takes three tries to administer the glaucoma air-puff test. If my choices were \*\*injections into the eye \*\* or going/remaining blind, you’d better sign me up for a SE dog! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**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 7, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/151 "2013-02-07T19:35:20Z")
Ugh. The other day, a cashier was taking a while with the customer she was serving, so another cash opened up. I got there first, but a stupid idiot woman rushed in front of me and proceeded to buy about 5 or 6 lottery tickets. :mad: Damn fucking gamblers! ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/152 "2013-02-07T20:03:16Z")
My wife and I are sick. First me, then her. We both try and sleep, but cough and hack and snore the whole time. Apparently my wife got sick of hearing me snoring so she started repeatedly poking me in the face so i’d wake up and stop snoring. Then she fell asleep and I couldnt sleep because SHE was snoring. I didnt know why she woke me up at the time (I assumed she was still angry at me for an arguement we had earlier) so I got my grumpy ass up 4 hours earlier and killed time on the computer till it was time to work. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/153 "2013-02-07T20:04:40Z")
> [@Mauvaise](#): > > \*\*injections into the eye \*\* > \*\*injections into the eye \*\* > \*\*injections into the eye \*\* > \*\*injections into the eye \*\* > > :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: > I can’t even wear contacts and it usually takes three tries to administer the glaucoma air-puff test. If my choices were \*\*injections into the eye \*\* or going/remaining blind, you’d better sign me up for a SE dog! > > :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Once you have to face that decision, you’d be surprised what you can handle. Seriously. Besides, they numb up the eye and you look up and away. I’ve heard numerous patients say the betadine cleansing solution was the worst part. I’ve even had patients prefer the monthly injections over 4-times-a-day eyedrops as the alternative. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/154 "2013-02-07T20:19:14Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I didn’t see any kind of “bitch about taxes” thread, so I’ll put this here. > > Fuck taxes. > > I mean…I’m getting a decent refund, but I hate the process of doing them, especially through TurboTax with it’s MASSIVE “bait and switch” scheme. > > I KNOW that I clicked on the “Free federal tax filing!” option, but obviously at some point in the process, I clicked on something, or attempted to claim some sort of deduction that made it switch to the $60 version. Does it tell me what this was? Nope. I don’t even have many deductions, just the standard deduction, and then student loan interest deduction, and a small health expenses deduction. I think it was the health expenses one, because I had thought that student loan interest deduction was part of all the “Free federal filing” packages out there. > > At this point, even if I remove that small health expenses deduction, it won’t “flip over” back to the free edition. I’d have to remove all my info, log out, and then start back and just enter everything all over and see if I can keep it as the free edition. I decided that if I was going to enter everything over, I’d try H&R Block’s system, just to see if they could get me a bigger refund, or if they stayed “free” like they promised. > > Well, H&R Block’s online system sucks ass. I entered the info from my first 1098-E just fine, but when I go to add a second it gives me this dumb error: > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/BCsJtOJ.png) > > THERE ISN’T ANY SPACE TO PUT THE BORROWER’S INFO, YOU JACKASS! > > When I entered the info for the first loan, that never came up. I had the exact same screen, put in the lender’s name and the interest paid, and then it sent me to a second screen where I entered the borrower’s (i.e., my) info. But no matter what I do, any time I try to enter info for a second lender, I get that error. > Looks like I’m paying TurboTax $60. :mad: > > (Yeah yeah, I’m getting a decent refund, so I still come out ahead, but it’s just the principle of the thing.) I use TaxACT (no I don’t know why the caps) It was under $20.00 for filing federal and state online, and I believe I could’ve gotten it done for free if I went for the non-efile option. ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/155 "2013-02-07T21:29:03Z")
To the people who pick up the recycling: When you are done, could you put the box and bags back where you found them rather than in the middle of the driveway? ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/156 "2013-02-08T00:36:54Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > You haven’t been fired yet. So good for you. Sometimes it takes a while to find the right job. It sound like you’ve made a good start there so far. Keep up the good work! > [@drew870mitchell](#): > > You ever hear of mind over matter? You’re going to have to practice some mind over mind. You want to _irrationally_ feel shitty about your review because of a bad prior experience. The first thing your brain did today was just assume it was going to be like last time and pull up the default emotional response. > > But you know better than that and you’ve said as much. So for once tell the shitty part of your emotions to take a hike. You are in an _awesome_ position to be in right now. You earned it. Don’t let primitive mental directives, left over from the days we were getting eaten by lions, ruin your day. > [@Yllaria](#): > > Ask yourself if it’s possible that Present Slalexan might be empathizing with Past Slalexan. Empathizing involves feeling what another person is feeling, even if it’s your own past self. If you think you might be doing that, you might be able to pull back from the feeling if you deliberately address sympathy to your past self. > > Imagining giving hugs could help. Saying out loud, Past Self, “you had a shitty time, but you were never a bad or incompetent person, it’s going to get better” could help. Writing your past self a sympathy letter could help. Don’t worry about it sounding odd or silly. You’re trying to out-support an automatic urge to support your(past?)self, so that it knows the support is under control and it can cut it out. > > And just in case your present self could use it: {{{ **slalexan** }}} > [@Nava](#): > > _grabs one of the soft, large pillows from the hotel bed and hits **slalexan** with it_ > > There’s another soft, large pillow, so if you want - pillowfight! > > Are you having the depression treated? I hope that part gets better soon. As for the rest, reviews are one of those great ideas which tend to suck mightily - congratulations on passing this last one with flying colors! Thanks everyone. Your support was a bright spot in a gloomy day. So mini rant… Uhmm… Oh! I wish my pregnant friend would quit complaining about pregnancy related things. It is definitely TMI. I’m afraid to have babies now. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/157 "2013-02-08T01:03:21Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Once you have to face that decision, you’d be surprised what you can handle. Seriously. Besides, they numb up the eye and you look up and away. I’ve heard numerous patients say the betadine cleansing solution was the worst part. > > I’ve even had patients prefer the monthly injections over 4-times-a-day eyedrops as the alternative. It took longer for them to numb him up than it did for the actual injection. He says that either it’s starting to work, or he’s getting used to the blind spot! I think the sclera is clearing up a bit; it was completely red the day after. ---
**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 8, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/158 "2013-02-08T01:33:00Z")
I didn’t want to make two trips into the house with groceries, so I carried them all in one go. Now my left hand has a big knot on the back and I can’t use it for anything that needs any strength - crap. That’ll learn me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/159 "2013-02-08T01:33:59Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > I use TaxACT (no I don’t know why the caps) It was under $20.00 for filing federal and state online, and I believe I could’ve gotten it done for free if I went for the non-efile option. Huh…I’ll look into it. TaxACT always seemed a little “ghetto” to me. Like…TaxACT is to TurboTax what Liberty Tax is to H&R Block. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028/160 "2013-02-08T03:45:05Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > It had cats in it damn it. That’s all I remember. > > In other news weather forecasting apparently has as much accuracy as flipping a coin and guessing: > > I’d sort of like to know if we’re in for a blizzard or just a dusting. That would be nice. Well, you know what they say… snow is like sex. You never know how many inches you’re going to get or how long it will last. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-bitching-please-start-here/649028.md?page=9)