# I am Upset
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 15, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067 "2007-01-15T14:57:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/1 "2007-01-15T14:57:20Z")
Forgive me, I never really rant well. Nobody is ever fascinated by my ideas and asks to subscribe to my newsletter. Nonetheless, I am very upset and there is nobody around here to yell at except a parrot.
1. I am upset that I had no students today. I sat around the office today memorizing Kubla Khan. I am upset at my scheduling department.
2. I am upset at my company. I have not been on vacation in **Ten freakin’ months**. At night The Voices come and talk about setting fires.
3. I am upset with Saudi Drivers. Having wasted my day at work, I decided to treat myself to a late lunch at Fuddruckers. It was rush hour. Some fool in a black Cressida pulled the hell out in front of me, blocking my way **and then freakin’ stopped**. Brakes squealed. Anti-locks pulsed. The car behind me stopped short. **And this fool looked at me like I was freakin’ nuts! “Sir?” he seemed to ask “Why are you upset? Can I help you?”** (The rules will not let me use the three-letter verb here) , that is how you can help! Then I was trying to calm down and just drive the hell down the overly-crowded street. Some Fool (#2) clipped my wing mirror. Then had the audacity to roll down the window and yell at me! He honestly thought he was in the right to merge into my lane! He was in the freakin’ breakdown lane. He can (can use that verb here, rules) too. Slowly.
4. I am upset with me. What the hell was I doing, taking out my frustrations on Fool 1 by driving aggressively? I know better. Saudis are fools (and the Fools were both Saudis.) but it takes two to make an accident.
5. Then I ate too much. Now i am stuffed and unable to go to the gym to work off my anger. I have a tummy ache. I am upset with me, Fuddruckers or perhaps all the carbon-based life forms on Sol-3.
6. Now I am sitting in an apartment fuming and have no way to work off my frustrations. So I am here. Soon some smart-ass will declare my pitting unworthy. That poster may also (three-letter verb, imperative sense).
Gosh darn it I am angry.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/2 "2007-01-15T15:11:43Z")
Mods, could you please move the to the Pit. I am so angry I cannot even post straight.
Now how do I make myself throw up? That would make me feel better.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/3 "2007-01-15T15:20:01Z")
quote]Now how do I make myself throw up? That would make me feel better.
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Take a ride on the PATH train (Port Authority Trans Hudson lines, between NJ and NYC), although I think that’s not an option for you.
> **[Pardon me, boy, is this the Chuckupnoodle Choo-Choo?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403813)**
>
> So. I’m heading home on the PATH train (goes under the river from NY to NJ), and the young businessman standing right in front of me starts throwing up. Again and again and again. Everyone made a beeline to the outer reaches of the car: we’d...
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/4 "2007-01-15T15:20:38Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Nonetheless, I am very upset and there is nobody around here to yell at except a parrot.
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Because the very last thing you need is a parrot that sits at the back of the classroom and yells “Stupid %&\*$&&@ students! Show up for class some time and maybe you wouldn’t fail! Boy, that really (several word combo)!”
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/5 "2007-01-15T15:25:15Z")
**Paul** , will you feel better if I say that the US has the bestest eddycational system in, on, around, about, above or below Sol 3, or will you do like my Mom and yell “now don’t you go saying I’m right! I’m not crazy, I don’t need you to say that I’m right!”?
(loose translation of “¡deja de darme la razón como a los locos!”)
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/6 "2007-01-15T15:27:13Z")
I thought the best way for fellas to work off their frustrations was to have one off. Have you tried that? 🙂
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### Author:  [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/7 "2007-01-15T15:27:17Z")
Moved. Please note that you cannot report your own posts but you can report others in the thread.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/8 "2007-01-15T15:28:21Z")
Combine two activities and teach the parrot Kubla Khan?
Sorry you’re having a crappy time, **Paul**. To be in a terrible mood and then get into a near-accident where you can’t even yell at the guy who screwed up? I’m not sure of the medical possibility of it, but I _suspect_ my head would explode.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/9 "2007-01-15T15:31:30Z")
I want to know what the three-letter verb is…
sorry you had a bad day.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/10 "2007-01-15T15:37:00Z")
There’s a Fuddruckers in Jeddah?
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/11 "2007-01-15T15:38:12Z")
Die, I believe.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/12 "2007-01-15T15:38:45Z")
Sort of like ‘dye.’
Imperative MOOD not tense. Darn it.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/13 "2007-01-15T15:41:15Z")
Fuddruckers? Just one. The other three stores sit empty, unopened. For reasons that none may know.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/14 "2007-01-15T16:18:23Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Sort of like ‘dye.’
Imperative MOOD not tense. Darn it.
[/QUOTE]
Aha! I can’t tell you how long I stared at that, thinking of all the cuss words I know, and coming up with 4 and 5 and 6 letter words, but no 3…
Cross that off my list.
what is a Fuddruckers doing is Saudi Arabia? Please don’t destroy my illusions anymore. Next you’ll tell me there’s a Chucky Cheese and I’ll have no reason to travel and will live out my life a bitter woman…
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### Author:  [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/15 "2007-01-15T16:27:50Z")
You publish your own newsletter?
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/16 "2007-01-15T17:06:06Z")
“I am fascinated by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter” is a high form of praise in the Pit. The sort of praise my rants never receive. It is time for bed now.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/17 "2007-01-15T17:43:59Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ]
I thought the best way for fellas to work off their frustrations was to have one off. Have you tried that? 🙂
[/QUOTE]
I’ll have to give that a shot (_snort_) when I get home…
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/18 "2007-01-15T17:53:33Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
“I am fascinated by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter” is a high form of praise in the Pit.
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It is? I thought it was a facetious jab implying that your ideas are kooky.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/19 "2007-01-15T18:32:58Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace]
It is? I thought it was a facetious jab implying that your ideas are kooky.
[/QUOTE]
Same thing. 😉
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### Author:  [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-upset/388067/20 "2007-01-15T22:20:00Z")
You have Fuddruckers in Saudi Arabia?
You suck.
-Joe, Mississippi
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