# It's time for June mini rants. Be the second... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953 "2011-06-01T13:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/381 "2011-06-30T20:20:50Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Driving home I got hit from behind while waiting at a red light, someone else in front of me, having been sitting there for about 90 seconds. Got out of the car pretty hot. Walked to the back of the car. > > No damage. > > Ok, maybe there was one scratch. But there are other, older scratches on my POS 16 year old car. > > But no dent, no cracks in the plastic, nada. I was purely astonished and stood there checking it out in detail, pulling on the hatch to see if it was ok, etc. Not a fucking thing. The other driver was a middle aged black woman who immediately admitted fault, she was trying to put her purse down, it slipped out of her hands onto the floor and when she bent down to grab it, her foot came off the brakes. She kept asking me if I wanted to file a claim. Nope. I’m good. I’m astonished there is no damage, I expected the plastic rear bumper to be destroyed, but…nothing. So I said I was good, shook her hand and went on my merry way. I had the same sort of accident, but since it wasn’t even a _week_ after I’d bought the car, I had it checked out by the dealer… even if there’s no visible damage, those plastic bumpers have crumple zones – they’re designed to break and prevent worse damage. So you probably should check to make sure everything _under_ the plastic cover is still in good shape. (it was $1000 damage on mine, a few years ago.) ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/382 "2011-06-30T20:25:56Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > I am not a mean-spirited person. I’ve never hit anyone in my life. But if you (or anyone) had said that in my presence just now, instead of just online, I would have punched you in the face. :3 > > Clearly, anger management class is in order. Or, a large rum and coke when I get home. It’s cheaper! > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Sometimes I can’t read my own writing. ☹ > > You got it. Quick, **MOL** Get her a rum and coke! Save us both! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/383 "2011-06-30T20:54:19Z")
It won’t be long until I am no longer separated from my rum. One hour and 6 minutes… 55 seconds… _drone_ ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/384 "2011-06-30T22:03:58Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You didn’t get her information? The things people decide and say on the scene of an accident have a bad habit of changing when people get home and talk to other people who have big ideas about what your insurance should pay. Rule #1: Always call the police, always exchange info Rule #2: No, seriously, always call the police, always exchange info Rule #3: Repeat rules no. 1-2 until you truly understand them No matter how little damage there appears to be, no matter how nice the other person seems, it is always possible for you to get fucked after the fact. My coworker learned this lesson a couple of months ago, when another woman backed up into her car, immediately admitted responsibility, etc., and then started making all kinds of ridiculous claims, starting with my coworker being at fault, then including whiplash, and finally working her way up to accusing her of being drunk at the time of the accident. The insurance companies ended up believing my coworker, fortunately, but it was still a huge amount of stress and hassle for her. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Today sucks. People who can’t move at a reasonable speed should all be shot until they can rush properly. This applies both to pedestrians and service job employees. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/385 "2011-06-30T23:03:17Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > I am not a mean-spirited person. I’ve never hit anyone in my life. But if you (or anyone) had said that in my presence just now, instead of just online, I would have punched you in the face. :3 > > Clearly, anger management class is in order. Or, a large rum and coke when I get home. It’s cheaper! Holy crapple - is this in response to some other thread here? Now _I_ want a rum’n’coke. (Why yes, I am the easily suggestible type.) No rum in the house, and I’m out of moolah till tomorrow’s paycheck. Luckily there’s whiskey in the house. Happy birthday, **Chimera**! (I named my boobs, too, but not very creatively: Lefty, and Righty. I’m careful not to mix them up and call them by each other’s moniker, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/386 "2011-06-30T23:11:49Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > I had the same sort of accident, but since it wasn’t even a _week_ after I’d bought the car, I had it checked out by the dealer… even if there’s no visible damage, those plastic bumpers have crumple zones – they’re designed to break and prevent worse damage. So you probably should check to make sure everything _under_ the plastic cover is still in good shape. (it was $1000 damage on mine, a few years ago.) Yup, I was at fault in a fender bender - punched in her front left fender, my car appeared to only have a little wheel-well-shaped semicircle on the front, maybe an eighth of an inch indented. Except for the metal bumper part bent and pushed against the radiator, not visible underneath the mostly undamaged outer shell of the car. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/387 "2011-06-30T23:40:19Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > . . . Clearly, anger management class is in order. Or, a large rum and coke when I get home. It’s cheaper! I prescribe a vacation and a massage. Rum and cokes (rums and coke?) can be added at will. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/388 "2011-07-01T00:14:21Z")
It is a 16 year old piece of shit with 160,000 miles on it and more pressing issues than that a piece of metal under some plastic might be dented. There is absolutely no value in getting that cosmetic damage repaired, let alone dealing with a $500 deductible. Hell, if I had the $500, I’d be fixing other issues. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/389 "2011-07-01T01:06:25Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > People who can’t move at a reasonable speed should all be shot until they can rush properly. This applies both to pedestrians and service job employees. I have this lovely mental image of people moving faster because they’re being shot repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/390 "2011-07-01T01:39:00Z")
I know it hasn’t been long but I really need to get this off my chest. Dear Employer, I do NOT work for free. That was our agreement. I work and you pay me. So why have you shirked your responsibility? My paycheck was supposed to arrive last Friday, though most people got theirs the Tuesday before that. Why doesn’t all the payroll people know the actual procedures? I do not like being promised my paycheck tomorrow only to find out that they can’t reissue it until after they are done with the next pay cycle. I’m tired of this and I really need to pay rent. Sincerely, Your new engineer ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/391 "2011-07-01T03:04:05Z")
Why must the fucking low battery chirp on the smoke detector ALWAYS fire up at night? And why when I put a new battery in does the fucking thing not shut the fuck up? Perhaps because the battery I put in is not one of the approve models that is listed on the battery compartment - but if your device is so freaking sensitive that not any old 9V will work then you have truly succeeded in producing a piece of shit. Hmm…ten minutes after I put the new battery in the beeping stopped. That’s it. New detectors are on the list for this weekend. I have no faith in these pieces of crap. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/392 "2011-07-01T03:21:23Z")
I have a friend I’ve known for more than twenty years. When we first got acquainted, he was a pretty cheery guy, but for more years than my teenage son has been ALIVE, he’s been a pint of depression-flavored ice cream with just a swirl of sardonic humor running through it – usually because of women. There was the woman who moved back to France, breaking his heart in the process, and it took him YEARS to get over her, and in the meantime literally ANYTHING could get him onto the subject of “god, I miss French Girl.” Now he’s married to a doctor who’s in the residency part of her career arc and therefore doesn’t have time for him, blah blah fishcakes. We live in different cities, but he calls me from time to time and the calls are just so goddamn _exhausting._ it’s all about what’s going wrong in his life, with really nothing on the upside to leaven the conversation. I mean, shit, my acting career is going nowhere and I feel trapped in the house by my on-vacation children, but I don’t just use those topics to crap all over everyone I TALK to. (to be fair, I don’t know that he does this to everyone – it may just be ME. Which does NOT make me feel any better.) The latest call: her career is making them move across country, he just lost his job (actually kind of good timing if you think about it), he was about ready to leave her… but she’s pregnant. AND he’s driving to their new town, his path takes him through MY town, and he’s planning to stay for a week. I feel like a horrible friend, but the thought of a whole week of face-to-face conversations with him where I can’t pretend I need to get off the phone after a while is just making me want to turn off all the lights and hide until he drives away. Oh, and in other news, my acting career is going nowhere and I feel trapped in the house by my on-vacation children. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/393 "2011-07-01T04:29:07Z")
Well this is minor but irritating. I have an appointment with the Melanoma surgery for a check upin October. They ring today and say they would like to change it as the doctor would be on leave and would December be fine? That is great and I agree and we are about to set a date and then the line drops out for whatever reason. I wait for them to ring back. They don’t. I wait 10 minutes, dig out their and ring them back. “Oh thanks for ringing back and where were we?” No sorry for not calling me back, or kiss my arse or anything. It’s not as though I was driving the change. Anyway, it is July so this post is in the wrong thread anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/394 "2011-07-01T15:44:07Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I have this lovely mental image of people moving faster because they’re being shot repeatedly. Isn’t it beautiful? I think I’m tearing up a bit. > [@Cicero](#): > > Anyway, it is July so this post is in the wrong thread anyway. Ooh, good point. [New\*\* July minirants \*\*thread here!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=614661) ---
**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:** [July 1, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/395 "2011-07-01T17:19:21Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > It is a 16 year old piece of shit with 160,000 miles on it and more pressing issues than that a piece of metal under some plastic might be dented. There is absolutely no value in getting that cosmetic damage repaired, let alone dealing with a $500 deductible. Hell, if I had the $500, I’d be fixing other issues. You don’t get their insurance information to necessarily fix YOUR car - you get it to cover your ass so they don’t do to you what happened to **Shot From Guns’** co-worker. I had a fender-bender years ago, too, and I had a little dent on my old car that wasn’t worth worrying about, so I didn’t go to the police. Next thing I know, the police are knocking on my door and charging me with a bullshit charge even though the other car had hit ME. It cost me $400 to make the charge go away (it was so bullshit that it was just dismissed). The next play was that the owner of the car who had hit me was going to sue me personally. > [@slalexan](#): > > I know it hasn’t been long but I really need to get this off my chest. > > Dear Employer, > > I do NOT work for free. That was our agreement. I work and you pay me. So why have you shirked your responsibility? My paycheck was supposed to arrive last Friday, though most people got theirs the Tuesday before that. Why doesn’t all the payroll people know the actual procedures? I do not like being promised my paycheck tomorrow only to find out that they can’t reissue it until after they are done with the next pay cycle. I’m tired of this and I really need to pay rent. > > Sincerely, > > Your new engineer That’s crap. I’ve worked in many accounting departments in many companies, and the policy was always, if we screwed up your paycheque, we will fix it pronto. There are always procedures to cut a manual cheque. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/396 "2011-07-01T18:30:10Z")
Exactly. The point is not so much to get them to pay for your potentially nonexistant damages as it is to \*cover your ass \*in case they decide to accuse you of causing the whole thing and try to get you to pay for their damages, “injuries,” pain and suffering, children’s orthodontia, etc. This person may \*seem \*sweet and responsible. _ **You do not actually know them.** _ There is a distinct possibility that they are lying to you, or that they will change their mind later. … We should probably have this thread locked, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/397 "2011-07-02T06:44:30Z")
Fuck, it’s July; stop posting in June mini-rants. Yes I recognize the irony of posting in this thread to decry posting in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/398 "2011-07-02T15:04:26Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > Fuck, it’s July; stop posting in June mini-rants. You first. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/399 "2011-07-04T01:52:23Z")
People who misspell the name of someone famous to show just how much they can’t be bothered with a two-second Google search. See: Cilene Dionne ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/400 "2011-07-04T02:06:16Z")
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