There are a couple of people at my workplace who go like clockwork at least twice per day. They aren’t familiar with the concept of the courtesy flush though. XP Seriously, how hard is it to check before you leave the stall???
Regarding Amazon…my mom once purchased several lip balms, and received one that had been used many, many times. I think that was a seller issue instead of a problem with Amazon itself though.
Ew. And ew! I love Amazon but do make sure to order items that are fulfilled by Amazon and not coming from some little seller’s house or something. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just not my cuppa - and usually not part of Prime anyway.
I hate upgrades. :mad: Every time an upgrade is forced on us, the new features are useless and something that I use all the time is taken away. I’m so tired of it. Nothing ever gets better. It seems like the people making the decisions never use their own products, or they would know that it’s a bad idea. I’m looking at you, Adobe–stop adding useless crap and fix all the problems that you’ve known about for years. Thanks!
I trust Amazon’s judgement. Maybe the kid really needs humidification.
You most defiantly do NOT suck! You are learning how to write. Most writers have trunk books from their early days. Think about it, you are like Stephen King in that regard 
Sometimes new concepts aren’t recognized right away. The “father” of my favorite genre wasn’t recognized until after his death. Which was penniless and alone. Perhaps you should find a rich patron and get a cat so that you can write in comfort until your post mortem fame.
I’m here ranting so I don’t strangle my husband. I’m way to mad to use a gun or poison, this needs to be personal and face to face.
We planned a small Thanksgiving dinner with his Mom and some of our friends.
The menu was planned, holiday decorations were planned, place cards were printed. Plans were firm, 8 people were going to celebrate the day with us.
On Monday, something happened on a site in BFE and he had to fly out but promised to be back today. Not really trusting that would happen, I made up a new seating plan.
Yep, he wasn’t able to fly in tonight, he hopes to be home sometime next week. That is understandable. Its part of his job and I knew it going in. I made the new seating chart because this is not the first time this has happened, so that’s not why I’m so furious with him.
He doesn’t want to be alone in BFE on Thanksgiving and wanted me to fly out tomorrow morning. “What about our dinner guests?” says I? “Oh, Karen will let them in and serve them, they won’t even notice that you aren’t there.”
Strangling might be too good for him. Maybe suffocation by turkey carcass?
So you’re gonna stuff him with the carcass? Isn’t that supposed to be done from the other end?
flatlined, would it help if a random stranger from a suburb of the internet said “that might be the most selfish thing I’ve ever heard”?
He’s already piling stress on you to host alone. Your leaving would just add more. Heck, just asking you is adding to your tension level.
I’m hoping that if you treat it like the joke it is, he’ll come around to see that he was an ass.
My daughter is the same way about eggs. We’ve found that it’s fairly simple and effective to remove the frozen egg from the sandwich before zapping it.
Unless your problem is with the principle of buying food that you know you’re going to throw away; then I can only ask if you have a cat or a dog who would gladly dispose of it for you.
Wether he left his car in long term parking or your driveway, you should go key it now.
I snorted out loud at this and scared the cat. Priceless!
Sound advice, if I had read this last night, it might very well have happened!
digs, not only is it selfish, its really immature and breathtakingly rude. I thought he was joking at first because that was so not like him, but he was serious.
I’m not stressed about hosting alone. We throw a couple of rather large parties a year, I’ve learned that the most important part is to plan well and remember that as long as our guests have a comfortable place to enjoy a good meal…they aren’t going to notice if the floral arrangements are lopsided.
Besides, I’m not allowed in the kitchen when Karen is preparing a feast as she is doing now. My responsibilities are to dress the table, decorate the room, keep the critters corralled and walk the hounds before they go into lock-up for the night.
I’m going to fly out to BFE tomorrow afternoon. I haven’t yet decided if he is going to survive the encounter.
Actually, this has turned out not to be the case.
I wrote/texted him to ask what was going on.
He apologized profusely, then claimed that he wanted to quit his high-paying job due to stress but then would have no savings for his daughters’ (ages 19 and 17) college education or their health insurance. [He was making $185K a year…] Said he had high blood pressure and thinks he might die of a heart attack.
He reconnected with his new wife, “Shelly,” whom he had broken up with three times in five years. [ she wanted to be together; he didn’t.] Says she’s financially stable and can support him and the girls even if he doesn’t work. He moved across the country since Shelly works in another state.
He says he “had to do it” for the sake of his girls.
I don’t get it. Got high b.p. and a family history of heart attacks? Get some medications and monitoring. Got job stress? Get a different job with less stress. Manage your money better. And don’t just marry someone and move 1,700 miles away because she’s a gravy train. Does she even know that?
Maybe I’m missing something, but it all sounds bizarre to me.
Alcoholic sister was absent when we moved Mom from her condo to assisted living.After my older sister, BIL and husband spend four days packing, sorting and cleaning without her help, she tells tell my sister and me via text. Why didn’t we spend more time together?? Why weren’t we more supportive of her problems? WTF.
Didya hear about the Trump Xmas ornament? On Amazon, brass and gold, $149. All sold out. I swear, I am NOT making this up!
Buyers comment: “It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp. Would not buy again.”
A friend of mine posted about this on FB. My first thought (and comment) was, “I bet it was made in China.”
The reviews and Q&A on Amazon are pretty damned funny, though, so there’s that.
Does it arrive with some of Trump’s hair as packing material? That stuff can be used as tinsel, dontcha know.
Well, I just spent 8 1/2 hours in the ER with my elderly mother, who has been in a great deal of pain for two days. After tests and just sitting around waiting, they decided they wanted to admit her to the hospital. The admitting doctor thinks that she might have shingles. 
Bloody hell. A neighbour claims that the damage on her rear bumper was caused by my car. There’s a tiny smudge of red on the bumper.
BUT – it’s on my FRONT bumper, and I was parked IN FRONT of her.
I strenuously denied culpability, took lots of photos and gave her my insurance details. If she wants the adjusters to look into it, so be it.
This has been a bad week.
Yes, my mother has shingles. She is in a great deal of pain, and the rash has started breaking out. She is very weak, and nauseous, but the hospital would not let her stay another night. So we went home Saturday afternoon.
But our furnace, which is old, old, old, stopped working Friday night. It is bitter cold in the house. I called a repair guy Saturday after having spent all morning with mother at the hospital, and they said that just to come out would cost $130, and he knows that he doesn’t have any of the parts necessary to repair our furnace and they won’t have the capability of getting any till Monday, so I said okay, we’ll deal.
I then made reservations for a motel for us to stay at Saturday and Sunday nights, since it’s impossible to stay in the house overnight. We chose this motel because Mother and Dad had stayed there before, and they liked it. But it obviously has gone down hill since then. We got two adjoining rooms, but we could only get rooms on the second floor, which meant my 88 year old mother having to negotiate the stairs up to her room. I got her settle in her room, and then went into mine, next door. First off, the TV didn’t work, all I got was static. And secondly, there were no towels. I tried to call the front desk, but I could find nothing that would tell me what number to call to reach the front desk. So I got an outside line and called the front desk on their outside number, but nobody would answer the phone. My sisters told me that they had tried to call to talk to my mother, and they, too, got nobody to answer the phone.
So I walked down to the front desk and he gave me a key to the next room over, and I took it. Got there and it, too, had no towels. At least the TV worked. But, as I went to call the front desk, I discovered that this room had no phone. So I walked back to the front desk, told them I could live without a phone, but I needed towels. He promised I would get them.
I didn’t believe him, so I went home to check on the house and feed the cat, and picked up some towels from home. When I got back to the motel, there were police blocking off the entrance with lights flashing. I drove to the parking lot next door and drove around to the back to see if there was some entrance to the motel from back there. There wasn’t. But what there was there was a police car sitting in the dark with its lights out. When I drove back there, he shined his spotlight on me, so I got out of my car, hands in the air, and asked if there was some way I could get into the motel since my 88 year old mother was there by herself.
The cop told me no, they were doing an operation at the motel and I would have to stay away. So I drove to a nearby Starbucks, only to find it closed at 7 PM on a Saturday night! I drove around for a while, until the police opened up the parking lot, and I drove in past a long line of police cars.
I went to my room and stayed there for the rest of the night. At one point, after I had gone to sleep, I woke up to the sound of police on their loudpseakers ordering people out of their rooms individually. There were police dogs barking. This went on for about half an hour.
This morning I got up and went to check on my mother. She is not doing any better, says she threw up all night, is in a great deal of pain, and did not sleep.
We went home, but it’s just too cold to stay here in the cold, so I went out and bought two space heaters. I set up one in the kitchen to cover the kitchen and dining room, and set up the other in the living room. While I was fixing lunch in the microwave, the circuit breaker tripped. We can’t run the space heater and the microwave at the same time.
We are planning on going back to the motel tonight to sleep, but we won’t go there till late.
Maybe we can get the furnace repaired tomorrow? Uggghhh
Believe it or not they wouldn’t mind because kids wasting food is the biggest expense an a buffet and the Asian guys groan when they see mom with a gaggle of kids
One that was around here even had a separate buffet just for kids with pizza hot dogs mac and cheese … (it had things for adults too like a roast some small steaks mashed potatoes for picky grandmas too )