# It's Monday Somewhere-an MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 16, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796 "2015-02-16T05:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/101 "2015-02-17T18:44:42Z")
Had numerous car troubles today, but things seem all right now. (Hope I didn’t just jinx it!) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/102 "2015-02-17T19:14:57Z")
Back from lunch and erranding. This county is amazing when it comes to snow removal. The two main drags are mostly drying, and most of the side roads are plowed. Our driveway is just wet - all residual snow is gone, except for what’s in the shade of the truck. So our hard work has paid off - yay! It’s warmed all the way up to the middle 20s!! Thurs and Fri highs will be in the teens, Weds night low will be -4°. But then it’ll return to days above freezing. So there’s that. Winter sucks - have I mentioned that?? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/103 "2015-02-17T19:19:57Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Day #2 of the ice storm. We didn’t get the amount of snow predicted, but a little and more ice. This is the second morning that I’ve chiseled the truck out and not made it to work. I actually got stuck about 3/4 mile from home and had to call a neighbor with a big Dodge duelly and a winch (thanks Todd!). Tennessee is in a state of weather emergency now. ☹ Meanwhile just over the mountain we were a sheet of ice this morning. I was an hour late coming in today. It’s all melted off right now, at least where the sun hit. Tomorrow shouldn’t be as bad. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/104 "2015-02-17T19:26:13Z")
You are my new hero. I always start giggling when I mess with the “computer techs” who call. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > No, it was Tyson calling about my computer. > > Of course this isn’t the entire conversation, he was talking a lot and I couldn’t understand half of what he said and he couldn’t hear everything I said because we were on speaker phone and I kept moving the phone around. > > So he goes into his spiel about how there are problems with my computer > and I said _really man really?_ > > He says people are trying to get into my computer and > I said _people really do that stuff?! what a bummer._ > > Yes ma’am, the people are tying to break into your computer and do whatever he was yammering on about > . So I said \*you mean these little tiny people are trying to break into my computer? > > - _Wow, that’s so cool, little tiny people trying to get inside my computer._ > > He says no ma’am they aren’t coming to your house or trying to break in, they are trying to get into your computer. > > - Have you ever tried shrooms?\* > > Ma’am we really need to fix your computer, are you in front of it. > > - No, its on the other side of the room\* > Can you go there? > _Yeah but I don’t want to_ > > Ma’am it’s very important, we need to fix your computer, I am not a hacker or a scammer I am trying to help you I am from Microsoft you know that is a big company name and we are a reputable company. > > - Do we have to do this now, you’re messing with my high\* > > Yes ma’am it’s very important. > _Oh okaaaay_ > _wow look at all the pretty colors!_ > > Are you looking at your computer ma’am? What do you see? > > - Do you know how to get all these spots off my screen?\* > > What spots ma’am are they black spots or blue spots? > _They are white spots all over my screen and there’s a fox chasing his tail_ > > I can fix that for you ma’am, I can get rid of the spots for you. So you see the ‘ctrl’ key? > _The what key?_ > The ctrl key c t r l can you see it? > _No I can’t see anything, can you hold on while I turn on the light?_ > > Yes ma’am I can hold on. > _Okay I’m back do you know if it’s snowing?_ > Excuse me ma’am? > > _Do you know if it’s snowing, I looked out the window and saw white spots and when I look at the computer I see white spots, do you think it’s snowing inside my computer?_ \* Or maybe I’m seeing white spots. Do you like shrooms?\* > > Excuse me ma’am I didn’t hear you > > _Do you like shrooms, you know mushrooms Do you like mushrooms?_ > > Yes ma’am I like mushrooms very much now about your computer > _What about my computer?__Can you hold on?_ > Then I set the phone down, waited a while and hung it up. > > That was a lot more fun than cussing him out ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/105 "2015-02-17T20:07:26Z")
**red** I figure if a Man of The Cloth (YP) is encouragin’ this, any lightnin’ bolts would be aimed towards his posterior. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/106 "2015-02-17T20:09:39Z")
If you’re going to have mis-matched shoes, will you go with mis-matched socks too? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/107 "2015-02-17T20:18:13Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **red** I figure if a Man of The Cloth (YP) is encouragin’ this, any lightnin’ bolts would be aimed towards his posterior. 😃 You have different color shoes? Man, you are really stylish. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/108 "2015-02-17T21:20:58Z")
I will soon have to talk to someone about something. Let’s just say I’m not looking forward to it. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/109 "2015-02-17T21:51:38Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Spidey \*\*- I get crap like that all the time. I especially like the ones offering me executive positions in insurance and finance. Because, you know, a resume full of engineering experience just screams PERFECT MATCH for careers in finance… There’s a company that does recruiting for insurance sales. The emails come from @qikmail.com. I know this because I’ve seen enough of them that I recognize their pitch: \*Hello **Spidey** , I have been attempting to contact you after finding your resume on [careerbuilder.com](http://careerbuilder.com) about some open positions within Insurance Co name in the your town area. As of today, I have been unable to connect with you. I understand that you may be busy - so if you can just give me some days/times to contact you, I will be happy to work around your schedule. If you are no longer looking for a new position or are not interested, please let me know. Just to clarify, I’d like to talk with you about some job openings with our company, but I’d also like to learn more about your professional experience and your future goals. Whether you are actively employed or still looking, I’m confident there is a place in our organization for someone with your skill set based on what I know of your resume. There are a few skills we are looking for that don’t always come through in a resume, and we do require.. If you are a self-motivated, hardworking individual that enjoys a self-challenging career, than please give me a call. Please \ to set up a time to have a quick conversation. Hope to hear from you soon.\* The problem is that this is their default & I’ve received the Same. Identical. Email. from at least 10 different insurance firms trying to guilt me into calling them because they haven’t heard back from me. The only thing that is different is the three underlined fields. :smack: Iffn I find the company who sends them **Swampy** will be safe at the ceemint pond as there won’t be enough sharks left in the world’s oceans to come tumbling out of the sky into a Jawjan backyard! :mad: > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You have different color shoes? > Man, you are really stylish. 🙂 [Like](http://www.amazon.com/Bolano-Two-Tone-Wingtip-Smooth-Ostrich/dp/B00OM96V5S/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1424209652&sr=8-14&keywords=two+tone+wingtips) [this](http://www.amazon.com/Bolano-Two-Tone-Wingtip-Oxford-Dress/dp/B00FAVDBSM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1424209573&sr=8-4&keywords=two+tone+wingtips)? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/110 "2015-02-17T22:54:07Z")
I’m seriously considering the idea of having a picnic outside when the temperature finally reaches above freezing. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/111 "2015-02-17T23:06:41Z")
That adventure in shoveling really kicked my butt! I’s tahred, and it’s just 6PM!!! \*\*FCD \*\*will be going to work tomorrow, so I need to remember to turn the alarm back on. And I need to run to the grocery store tomorrow - we’re down to half a loaf of bread! OH NOES!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/112 "2015-02-18T00:06:38Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’m seriously considering the idea of having a picnic outside when the temperature finally reaches above freezing. Canadians should spend September through March in Florida or somewhere warm. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/113 "2015-02-18T00:31:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Canadians should spend September through March in Florida or somewhere warm. Many of them (especially older people) do. They’re called “snowbirds.” I’m not in favour of it, though - I say, if someone’s not tough enough to spend all year in Canada, they shouldn’t live here. (Or else I’m just jealous of people whose finances and jobs or lack thereof allow them to spend a few months in warmer areas.) I wish I could just take the next plane to Vancouver, where I heard it’s really warm. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/114 "2015-02-18T00:39:32Z")
Time to recline. _ **MWAH!** _ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/115 "2015-02-18T00:48:58Z")
[QUOTE=EmilyG;18141916 I wish I could just take the next plane to Vancouver, where I heard it’s really warm.[/QUOTE] [50s for highs, 40s for lows.](http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=CAXX0518) dammit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/116 "2015-02-18T00:56:42Z")
If only the weather was the biggest of my problems, though… ☹ tomorrow I’m going to try to talk to a friend. Someone I did consider a friend, but who now just causes me a whole lot of anxiety. A fellow orchestra musician in my theatre group. I’ll try to talk to her at a party that we’re apparently both attending. I imagine she’s attending because I said I might be there. Yes, she has, shall we say, a thing for me. And I’m getting freaked out by all her, uh, attention towards me. (I’m not imagining this - she did straight-up admit her feelings for me, to me.) I talked to my conductor about it the other day. He offered the information that this musician dates men too. I told my conductor that I’m perfectly fine with people of all sexual orientations. that’s not the issue, really. (The issue is that the things this musician has been doing to me have been freaking me out.) Mr. Conductor suggested I talk to this musician in person. So tomorrow at the party, I need to think of what I should say to this girl. Maybe that I’m flattered, but I’m not romantically interested in women (not that there’s anything wrong with that), or some such thing. I’m so bad at talking to people. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/117 "2015-02-18T01:25:06Z")
That pretty much sounds like a bummer. You have my best wishes, for whatever they are worth. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/118 "2015-02-18T01:54:34Z")
Howdy Y’all! Home from the big Shrove Tuesday doin’s over to the church house. We had a great crowd with lots of pancakes, bacon, and snausages. We gave out even but not before everybody got some and seconds even. Looks like around eighteen hunnert bucks got raised for the Deacon’s fund. YAY! Also, a lot of mismatched shoes. 😃 **flytrap** I have brown, black, beige, and blue (canvas) shoes. If’n you count sneakers, white as well. **Spidey** no one should ever have those shoes. :eek: **Midget** that’s not the way I swing or words to that effect is all you need to say. Please don’t add “not that there’s anything wrong with that”, because that’s a given, ok? Really though lettin’ her know she’s barkin’ up the wrong tree should not offend her. That way she can go bark up somebody else’s tree who might be interested. And on that note I shall betake myself beddy bye. Da bear is tahrd! Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/119 "2015-02-18T01:56:28Z")
More PD on the street tonight, but only because they come out to all FD calls. Neighbor blew a pipe so FD is helping to dewaterfy (is too a word) their basement. It’s good to live it the better part of greater suburbia, where the _volunteer_ FD will come out & do such things. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-an-mmp/712796/120 "2015-02-18T01:58:36Z")
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