# Happy Cranks-giving! (November mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** monthly-mini-rant\ **Created:** [November 1, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477 "2025-11-01T14:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/1 "2025-11-01T14:32:21Z")
I didn’t see a new thread created yet so here we go. Since COVID, most of the houses in our neighborhood set up in our driveways to hand out candy rather than having kids come all the way up to the front door. For the first time since we started doing this, my wife joined me outside. And right off the bat, she started in with the anti-Trump comments. One kid came up dressed in an orange DOC jumpsuit and her first comment was “Tr\*\*p should be wearing one of those!” I said, “Can we please keep the politics out of Halloween?” Jeez, not _everything_ needs to be about Tr\*\*p. (I’m avoiding spelling out the name so that the thread doesn’t get auto-tagged.) ETA: Looks like it got auto-tagged anyway. So there’s another mini-rant! ETA2: Oops, look like I missed one. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/2 "2025-11-01T14:39:16Z")
Great title! 🦃 ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/3 "2025-11-01T17:00:11Z")
Yes! And a guy on my soccer team, even in the middle of a game, is relating everything to Da Prez… give it a rest, I’m trying to think about the game (or ANYthing else). ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/4 "2025-11-01T17:02:14Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > ETA: Looks like it got auto-tagged anyway. So there’s another mini-rant! Fixed. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/5 "2025-11-01T17:22:31Z")
Mr. brown also is Trump-fixated. I hate the orange asshole, too, but jeez, not everything is about 'Nam, Walter! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/6 "2025-11-01T17:45:01Z")
Football tomorrow! My team won Thurs so not hyped up. I do like the Vikings though. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/7 "2025-11-01T17:52:08Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Great title! 🦃 Agreed! And at the time I was considering making a November thread I actually considered this exact one so it 100% has the Atamasama stamp of approval (which is not honored by any authority). ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/8 "2025-11-01T18:29:19Z")
My month is off to a great start. Last Friday I managed to fall while getting ready for a doctor’s appointment and ended up being taken to the ER. While I had not hit my head or lost consciousness, the EMTs didn’t like my blood pressure or the fact that when I tried to stand I started feeling dizzy. After the usual battery of tests it appears that I might have a UTI, which is screwing up my systems. It also appears that my anemia had reached the point that they gave me several iron infusions. The hospital released me to a rehab center on Wednesday, where I’ll probably be staying for two or three weeks. I strongly suspect that when I leave I’ll have to have home health care, since I live alone. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/9 "2025-11-01T18:31:42Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I strongly suspect that when I leave I’ll have to have home health care, since I live alone. Will someone be able to arrange that for you? Hope you heal up successfully and all goes well. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/10 "2025-11-01T18:36:10Z")
It will probably be done through a referral from my primary care physician. I had recently gotten one for another recent medical issue, but ended up not needing it. However, I did have a chat with someone from the service who explained what services they do and do not provide. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/11 "2025-11-01T18:39:24Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > It will probably be done through a referral from my primary care physician. I had recently gotten one for another recent medical issue, but ended up not needing it. However, I did have a chat with someone from the service who explained what services they do and do not provide.. It’s good that you have someone to help navigate the systems. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/12 "2025-11-01T18:43:33Z")
My PCP is great! Sometimes when I send him questions through the UNC Health app he will call me instead of just replying online. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/13 "2025-11-01T18:46:49Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > My PCP is great! Sometimes when I send him questions through the UNC Health app he will call me instead of just replying online.. A good PCP is a blessing. I had a good one but he retired a couple years ago, My new guy is OK but I miss my old doctor. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/14 "2025-11-01T18:57:11Z")
Luck of the draw; when I moved to NC one of the first things I did was search for a local doctor (even though at that time I wasn’t having any health problems) and his name popped up. Now I have a stable of doctors for all my health issues, but I rely on my PCP to help me navigate through everything. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/15 "2025-11-01T19:27:32Z")
Hang in there, Lurk, I had just been thinking about you this morning and hoped you were doing OK. You’ve had a rough go lately. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/16 "2025-11-01T19:35:19Z")
The last few months have been a real roller coaster of health issues, some of which I may have ranted about. I had actually started thinking about looking into senior living facilities. Of course, moving into one would necessitate getting rid of most of my library, not to mention all the other crap I]ve accumulated. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/17 "2025-11-01T19:53:31Z")
Depends on which one and whether you’re looking at independent living or assisted living. We’ve looked at one that has independent living homes that are larger than the one we currently live in. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/18 "2025-11-01T20:02:21Z")
Back when I was living in Chicago I got a mailing from some place that had independent living homes with two, and possibly three bedrooms. At the time we weren’t looking for anything like that (this was long before Patti had started having health issues) so I didn’t try to get any info on costs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/19 "2025-11-01T20:16:41Z")
I need a nap! I mean ive only been up for 13 hrs already today…on about three hrs aleep laa night. 🥱 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/20 "2025-11-01T20:33:15Z")
For USians, DST ends tonight, so clocks fall back one hour @ 2am. Cue my semiannual “standard, daylight, split the difference, pick something else altogether, I don’t care, just pick something and STICK WITH IT!!!” rant. I truly do not care what arbitrary artificial label is slapped on what point in the diurnal cycle, so long as we’re all in enough agreement to function with a minimum of confusion, but the changeover is a colossal PITA. Takes a week or more to get the cats sorted out on adjusted meal times, for example, once we got all the non-self-setting timepieces corrected. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477.md?page=2)