I’ve heard both of those way too many times, too. My responses in my head - “Shove your smile up your ass,” and, “Yeah, I’m quiet - I’m actually working. You should try it.” My external response - a faint, insincere smile.
Especially since my boss feels the need to say something inane every single time she walks past my desk.
“I have to wash my hands - they smell like gasoline!”
“I’ve been sitting so long - my leg fell asleep!”
“I have to go pee-pee!”
“I want another cookie!”
Seriously, now that I type it out it really seems like I’m talking to a five YO. And you can’t really just nod and smile, half the time she wants some sort of validation.
I like being quiet. I am a little chatterbox at home, and I do engage in conversation with my coworkers - when I feel like it. Most of the time I think once, twice, three times before I say anything. They can literally talk the day away, and honestly, I like my job and would rather be working, most of the time.
Stupid fucking freak storm.
No power in my house for over 24 hours. We were huddled under a comforter shivering by candlelight and worried that the power would remain off for a week. Two days of cancelled school because there’s still no power in that part of town. No trick or treaters because the police think it’s too dangerous. Massive downed tree branches on the road everywhere.
I usually love October but this one can go fuck itself. Pick a season and stick to it, damn it. Snow on green leaves is just wrong.
Buddy, if you’re going to use that center turn lane for its intended purpose, i.e., making a left turn, then get your ass all the way into the lane! I nearly took your trunk off because you left it sticking into the traffic lane, and it would have served you right if I had.
On a related note, my semi-irregular admonition to turn your lights on when the ambient light is low or there’s fog. If you can’t figure out on your own when they should be on, then put them on and leave them on. It’s really hard to avoid hitting you when you’re invisible.
Idiots.
And why is it always a silver or gray car driving with no lights in the fog? :mad:
HEY! I drive a grey car, and I put my lights on!
I haven’t noticed a correlation between car colour and lights. It seems a lot of people these days drive cars of a “sober” colour, though, which makes them that much harder to see in poor light.
Yeah great. As Mr Coat was coming home tonight, he saw a bunch of vans parked along the park in our community, unloading kids to go trick or treating. Time to go turn off all the lights at the front of the house.
In my old neighborhood, which was very diverse, it was the Hmong parents who would run the kids in the van over quiet a large area, while the white and black kids would only do a block or two really close to their homes. I thought it was really cool that the Hmong parents were so supportive and active in helping their kids participate.
Back then, I would only do the Halloween thing about every other year. Now that I am in an apartment and my financial situation is different, I don’t participate. Only heard the apartment on the corner (the only one participating at this end on this floor) open for kids 3-4 times, so I may reconsider next year. I don’t recall any participation at this end last year.
Moved the box, cleaned the area, cat peed 6 inches from the box at the new location, right on the carpet.
That’s pretty much it. She needs to go.
Uh, if they want to help their kids participate, they can walk them around in their own general area and not haul them in from who knows where to get as much free candy as they can. I don’t know where these kids come from but if they have to come in by car, they are pushing the limits of decency.
Did you try making the carpet icky to walk on for her? Also, another thought - does she appear to be having any trouble getting around, as in is it difficult for her to get into the box?
I lived in a rural area as a kid. Three houses nearby, one across the street - plus no sidewalks, no street lights, and a rural road with a 45 mph speed limit and poor visibility in spots. For other houses, it could be a half-mile to the nearest house. 
I’m glad my parents drove me around to places where I could actually walk from house to house, and people were welcoming - and that my immediate neighbors always bought a little candy for my sister and I, plus the area kids that did get driven to see these neighbors.
I’m sure it’s not all of the kids, but I suspect many of those kids come from neighborhoods where no one gives out candy, where they don’t necessarily trust their neighbors, where it might even be considered dangerous to walk on the streets at night, or instead of the sounds of ghosts you’re treated to real not-Halloween screaming, fighting, etc.
I live in a nice neighborhood now, but we’re on the edge of a business/office area and my little side street rarely gets trick-or-treaters. As long as the little visitors (and their chaperones) were polite and didn’t smash pumpkins, I’d welcome some to my house.
Um, NO. That was a bad neighborhood and I thought much better of the parents who did this than the ones who just let their kids wander without them. Besides, this is Minnesota, and it gets cold on Halloween. A warm car is a huge perk.
No, she has no mobility issues.
I’ve fought this battle for nearly two years now, after 2 years and 8 months of no similar issues. Last night was the final straw. She goes to a shelter this week. We’re done.
I’ve had no power since Saturday night. I missed both the Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror and House’s Halloween episode.
And while walking home from the bus stop Saturday afternoon, I almost got hit by a big falling branch full of snow.
Time for a new thread: new thread
None of that applies to the kids that were bussed here unless they came from a very long distance away. Also, I’m aware this isn’t the popular attitude here, but no kid has a right to piles of free candy, especially these days when it’s rather counter productive to teach them that demanding stuff from strangers is a good thing. IMO, if the neighborhood is so bad that parents can’t walk their kids around it on Halloween, then they shouldn’t be raising kids there in the first place. Nor teaching them that leaching off others is the way to go.
It doesn’t get cold here, and there are no nearby bad neighborhoods.
She doesn’t need to have mobility issues - most cats don’t like walking on something that feels funny on their feet.
I’m sorry to hear this, but I do understand.