# I'm sick and tired of... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350 "2013-05-14T22:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/81 "2013-05-16T21:39:03Z")
My main experience with kale was as garnish when I worked as a hotel banquet server. I tasted some, and it was dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/82 "2013-05-16T21:41:11Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > My main experience with kale was as garnish when I worked as a hotel banquet server. I tasted some, and it was dreadful. I’m beginning to sense that the kale-clad Emperor is, in fact, naked. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/83 "2013-05-16T21:49:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m beginning to sense that the kale-clad Emperor is, in fact, naked. MY EYES!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: 😃 ---
**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:** [May 17, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/84 "2013-05-17T00:46:34Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > As someone who has to park in handicapped parking, I often must park way off to the side, far off over the actual lines for the space, due to the fact that many handicapped spaces only have the extra space allotted on the right side of the space. This is well and good if you are driving a van with ramps that come out of the passenger side of the vehicle; or if you are a handicapped _passenger_ being driven by someone else. But if you are a handicapped driver who is driving a car and exit out of that car on the driver’s side with a wheelchair, you have no choice but to park well into the ‘extra space’ off the right side of the handicapped space. Or back up into the space. But that is often a pain in the ass. I can certainly understand it in a situation where space surrounding the handicapped spots might be limited. What I’m talking about is something like at the grocery store where I shop, which has a couple of handicapped spots in front, with about three extra feet of space on the outside each and about six feet of space between the two. Cars parked in those spots are invariably halfway into the extra space, and usually at an angle, even though if they pulled into the parking spot straight there would be plenty of room on either side. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/85 "2013-05-17T01:20:55Z")
Another one: What, “Thank You” isn’t _active_ enough for you? You have to say “Thanking you”? Something about that just sets my teeth on edge - it’s like they feel they’re doing me a favour. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/86 "2013-05-17T01:45:10Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > Another one: > What, “Thank You” isn’t _active_ enough for you? You have to say “Thanking you”? Something about that just sets my teeth on edge - it’s like they feel they’re doing me a favour. What about when you say thank you and the other person says “No problem”? That seems to have replaced “You’re welcome.” It’s like what you said, namely that whatever they did that you’re thanking them for was such an onerous burden that they have to assure you it was _no problem_. Makes me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/87 "2013-05-17T02:50:08Z")
How about stores where the employees have to memorize a script? Kohl’s is the worst WRT to this that I’ve encountered. And a couple years ago, Walgreens, which I had to call many times a day because of my job, answered the phone with a script that must have taken 15 seconds to recite. :smack: I’m sure the employees hated it even more than I did. I don’t get the “artisan foods” craze, either. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/88 "2013-05-17T03:12:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What about when you say thank you and the other person says “No problem”? That seems to have replaced “You’re welcome.” It’s like what you said, namely that whatever they did that you’re thanking them for was such an onerous burden that they have to assure you it was _no problem_. Makes me nuts. This! I hate it! I’m always tempted to say, “I hope not, it’s your job.” ---
**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:** [May 17, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/89 "2013-05-17T06:13:54Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > It’s a health-fad vegetable that needs to be cooked to death in ten-times its weight of butter and oil to be digestible, and then mixed in with 20-times its weight of gravy and potatoes to be choked down without gagging. > > I haven’t lost any weight on this fad diet yet, no matter how much more potatoes and gravy I add to it. Of course you haven’t lost weight. You forgot the cheese! > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I just cannot comprehend why anyone would want to join the military nowadays, for a multitude of reasons. (grabs flameproof suit) > > The following people are not deserving of worship just because this describes them, either: > > Mothers of autistic children > GLBT teenagers > Breast cancer survivors > > And I’m sure I can come up with some others if I think about it long enough. Teen moms/single parents. Yeah, they face additional challenges, but just being a single parent, or a teen parent, does NOT make a person eligible for all sorts of free passes and worship. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/90 "2013-05-17T14:58:32Z")
Soldier/child reunion stories. Daddy is dressed up as the umpire at a ball game. Daddy is dressed like Santa Claus. Enough of them already. I’m glad the family is back together, but I don’t need to know about it unless it affects me personally. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/91 "2013-05-17T15:13:39Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Kale is the answer to all of mankind’s woes. It cures baldness, impotence, fleas, acne, restores hearing, muscle tone, makes your hair curly and your teeth brilliant white. It improves gas mileage, eliminates crabgrass, will level the foundation of your house, makes your neighbor’s dog stop barking, and ensures that your cell phone calls are never dropped. If we would only ship cases of it to the Middle East, the Syrian uprising would go away, the world price of oil would level off at a reasonable amount, all the prisoners at Gitmo could be repatriated with no problem, and the Israelis and Palestinians would sit down at the negotiating table in good faith… over giant bowls of…yes: kale. It would end global warming, the destruction of the ozone layer, and the melting of the polar ice caps. We must put our faith in the God Kale. I thought the answer to that was “more guns”. Maybe this is too incendiary for this thread, but let’s face it: the only reason this is even being discussed is because the Sandy Hook kids were middle class and almost all white. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/92 "2013-05-17T15:15:49Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Of course you haven’t lost weight. You forgot the cheese! > > Teen moms/single parents. Yeah, they face additional challenges, but just being a single parent, or a teen parent, does NOT make a person eligible for all sorts of free passes and worship. True, especially if the single parenthood was the result of a long string of bad decisions. Some people think that single fathers, regardless of how they became that way, get worshipped. My experience is that they do not, and in fact are generally vilified. If he’s divorced, he just didn’t want to pay child support. If he’s a widower, he was probably responsible for her death on some level, and hired a staff to care for the kids anyway. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/93 "2013-05-17T15:17:20Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Soldier/child reunion stories. Daddy is dressed up as the umpire at a ball game. Daddy is dressed like Santa Claus. > > Enough of them already. I’m glad the family is back together, but I don’t need to know about it unless it affects me personally. And let’s face it, it will probably only be a matter of months before Daddy’s out of the picture anyway, because of his addiction issues, PTSD, and abuse. This is the main reason why I don’t find these stories all touchy-feely. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/94 "2013-05-17T15:21:15Z")
People who think “no problem” is some type of insult. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/95 "2013-05-17T16:09:43Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > …People weaving in and out of their lanes or doing 45 in a 55 because they are using their phones. Plus a google plex ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/96 "2013-05-17T21:56:14Z")
Since I mentioned being a redneck from rural Illinois, let me mention something about that that I’m sick of. People who insist that those of us who live in the country and small towns are “stuck here”, or “can’t do any better”. If you want to live in a city and like it better there, more power to you. I don’t have a problem with that. I happen to like rural life. I am not an ignorant bumpkin, contrary to some people’s (that I went to high school with and subsequently moved away) opinion. Closely related is my irritation when people tell me “you’ll move up with time” or “have you ever looked for a better job?” Guess what? I suck at office work. I had an office job once, and it lasted 3 weeks. I happen to enjoy physical work. I’m a nervous type, and working hard helps me burn off that energy. The company I work for is quickly growing and stable, I’m respected and well liked, and my pay has increased steadily since starting. All things many people would love to have in their occupational career. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/97 "2013-05-17T22:56:49Z")
I’m sick and tired of spending an hour a day pulling up dandelions in my yard, and looking across the street at the rentals with dandelions all over their yards. Hey, assholes! Dandelions spread, you know! We do actually have a bylaw regarding this; I may call the 311 number and bust their asses for noxious weed growth. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/98 "2013-05-18T02:07:41Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > People who think “no problem” is some type of insult. +1. Or, to get a little more general, people who feel insulted by any number of common phrases they happen to not like, regardless of tone or context. I think there was a thread here once about people who don’t like to hear, “Feel better!” when they’re ill, because it sounds like an order. Give me a break. Sobriety. It’s 9:00 pm on a Friday night, and I’m sitting at home, by myself, doing nothing interesting or productive. This is no different from my usual Friday, except that a few months ago, I would have also been drunk off my ass by now, and everything would’ve seemed interesting and productive. I’ll also jump on the politics = team sports bandwagon. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/99 "2013-05-18T02:25:06Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I’m kind of tired of gluten free, but I know a lot of people who really have it, and it is great they have more options for eating. The people who are on the GF bandwagon because it is trendy should have their heads examined. “Wheat makes me burp” vs “Wheat makes me have the feeling I am stabbed in the guts and I have rocketing diarrhea” are two totally different things. I was just at the store looking at frozen meals and the gluten-free ones are two or three dollars more expensive than the “regular” ingredient ones. It really sux that the people who need the gluten-free meals don’t necessarily have more affordable options. I’m sick of my college constantly rearranging its home page. I just want to check my email but there’s no clear indicator of how to access it and I have to hunt through all the menus in it or use the search, which never brings up what you are looking for. Then when I figure it out, they change the page again. Apparently having a website that looks the same for more than three months somehow deters prospective students? I don’t understand this logic. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-and-tired-of/658350/100 "2013-05-18T09:35:32Z")
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