# July mini rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887 "2016-07-01T20:38:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/161 "2016-07-10T23:53:17Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Pitting myself. I wasn’t paying attention. I thought the dog was inside. Instead, he got out of the fence and went walkabout. And he found the highway. And it’s all my fault. Poor sweet JO. Poor Tony. I haven’t told the little girls yet. The teen girl is destroyed. I am so so sorry. ☹ ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/162 "2016-07-11T00:59:39Z")
**{{{Family Matata}}}** ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/163 "2016-07-11T03:48:40Z")
I’m freaking out. The Mountain Villagers are freaking in: anybody who can avoid leaving the house, does. After 10 years of thinking it was funny when I heard the women moan “oh my God, it’s almost 30!” when we never broke 30, and after last year finally breaking 30, yesterday we maxed at 34 and it looks to be as hot today. This is the mountains, we’re not supposed to need A/C! (figures above are ºC) My plans for today involve going to an air conditioned store to look at miniPCs, as Mom’s box is right now in the shop and it wasn’t looking good; then again, the poor thing has been subject to beastly shutdowns for seven years (what do you mean, we should shut the computer down completely before shutting down the power strip?). {{{{{}}}}} to those who can use some, specially **horseshoe** and the **Lacunaes**. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/164 "2016-07-11T05:48:58Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I don’t mind getting older, but what the fuck? 40 just kicked my ass. My whole body was like “Ok, we can give up now!” Even exercise is like 100x harder suddenly. Just do what I do: don’t exercise! :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/165 "2016-07-11T09:48:02Z")
Special note to “Subway” worker: When someone says “no peppers,” that means no peppers of any kind. And when your mistake is pointed out, it doesn’t mean you should dig through everything, picking out all the peppers that are underneath everything else, then stuffing the remains back in. And it doesn’t help when you ask “What do you have against peppers?” I didn’t say anything to your face, because you’re not paid enough to have to deal with shit like this. I suppose it’s my own fault for not watching what you were doing more closely. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/166 "2016-07-11T10:30:52Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Special note to “Subway” worker: When someone says “no peppers,” that means no peppers of any kind. And when your mistake is pointed out, it doesn’t mean you should dig through everything, picking out all the peppers that are underneath everything else, then stuffing the remains back in. And it doesn’t help when you ask “What do you have against peppers?” I didn’t say anything to your face, because you’re not paid enough to have to deal with shit like this. I suppose it’s my own fault for not watching what you were doing more closely. My problem with Subway is the opposite. I say, “everything”, then go back to answering a text. “Hot peppers?” Yes. Hot peppers are a subset of everything. Put every goddamn thing you have on there. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/167 "2016-07-11T13:07:21Z")
“Is meat Something or Nothing?” (can’t find the clip, but businessman orders ‘a Goodburger with nothing on it!’, then is flummoxed when he gets just a bun…) ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/168 "2016-07-11T14:44:08Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Thanks everyone. I am going to buy some Vionics. Thankfully I won’t need glasses to find my glasses, since I need glasses just to get around, so I put them on first thing in the morning. BUT last time I went to the eye doctor she mentioned something about bifocals and chortled and I kind of wanted to kick her (she’s like 13 years younger than me.) > > I don’t mind getting older, but what the fuck? 40 just kicked my ass. My whole body was like “Ok, we can give up now!” Even exercise is like 100x harder suddenly. I remember seeing an eye doc when I was 40 and she looked like she was 13. Looking back from my mid-50, 40 was pretty sweet. Enjoy it! I was teaching tonight and one [del]girl[/del] woman there was talk about when she was “young.” She’s 25, what the hell does she mean by when she was “young.” She meant, like, you know, when she was 23. Get the hell of my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/169 "2016-07-11T21:43:45Z")
Why does my insurance company insist on using faxes? By sheer coincidence my printer is a fax machine, and due to ridiculous telecommunications pricing games I have a phone line, but I don’t know how to use the damn thing and I shouldn’t have to learn. And FFS if you don’t accept color faxes, don’t send me color forms. Maybe you got like 15 copies of the damn thing, maybe you didn’t get any. I don’t even know how I can verify because you won’t tell me how to contact the faceless entity who receives faxes. Come on, this is the 90’s! Email is the future! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/170 "2016-07-11T22:21:02Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Looking back from my mid-50 . . . > > Get the hell of my lawn. No, _you_ get the hell off _my_ lawn. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/171 "2016-07-11T22:46:02Z")
Hey, you young’uns whinin’ about fifty, wait’ll you turn 60 and you start really living… Seriously, my BIL turned 60 and I said "Welcome to the decade of Not Giving a Shit What Anyone Thinks. Ignore those kids on your lawn, walk down to the 7/11 with that old ripped t-shirt on, sipping a Scotch, get a Coke Slurpee and pour the last of your booze over it, singing to yourself (oldies, loud ‘n’ proud). ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/172 "2016-07-11T23:42:11Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Pitting myself. I wasn’t paying attention. I thought the dog was inside. Instead, he got out of the fence and went walkabout. And he found the highway. And it’s all my fault. Poor sweet JO. Poor Tony. I haven’t told the little girls yet. The teen girl is destroyed. So very very sorry. Lost Georgie a few years back the same kind of way. Still kicking myself that I didn’t double check the temporary fence the stupid construction guys put up. Won’t ever forgive them or myself. (((( **Lacunae Matata** )))) ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/173 "2016-07-12T09:23:49Z")
Thanks all. We are all coming to grips with guilt - The Boy noticed a loose paver and figured he’d fix it after the sun dropped behind the trees, Girl 2.0 meant to go check JO’s water and play a bit, but was consoling a friend through a break up, etc. Littlest Miss - JO’s favorite “puppy,” is a bit young to grasp “dead.” She wants to call the vet, so Dr. Wolfe\* can make him better. The 6-year-old understands dead, because she remembers her great-grandmother and our dog Sebastian. She’s just gutted. And the poor stupid big dog is searching everywhere for her friend. Meanwhile, Tony is already talking about a puppy. A German Shepherd, at that. I put my foot down. Not yet, no puppies, and rescue only - not purchased from a breeder. I swore off puppies 15 years ago, thanks to a German Shepherd rescue - I just don’t have the energy. And, on principle, I don’t buy from breeders. The next dog will find us. But not yet. - Yeah, our veterinarian really is Dr. Wolfe. And I’ve known him since seventh grade - it’s still weird to call him “doctor.” ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/174 "2016-07-12T10:12:09Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Hey, you young’uns whinin’ about fifty, wait’ll you turn 60 and you start really living… > > Seriously, my BIL turned 60 and I said "Welcome to the decade of Not Giving a Shit What Anyone Thinks. > > Ignore those kids on your lawn, walk down to the 7/11 with that old ripped t-shirt on, sipping a Scotch, get a Coke Slurpee and pour the last of your booze over it, singing to yourself (oldies, loud ‘n’ proud). When my MIL turned 60, she decided that she no longer had to do things she didnt feel like doing, particularly social events. She said it was very freeing. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/175 "2016-07-12T10:16:39Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > When my MIL turned 60, she decided that she no longer had to do things she didnt feel like doing, particularly social events. She said it was very freeing. I’m a dick, I made that decision at 50. When I turn 60 in a couple years, I’ll need to come up with something else. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/176 "2016-07-12T12:54:26Z")
I noticed a strange rash on my arm last night. Then I went downstairs to rescue my aloe from the constant afternoon thunderstorms and got to talking with my roommate. He mentioned that he had to get some Benadryl because he had brushed up against some poison ivy when he was weeding the side yard. I had helped him weed, so I showed him my rash. Yep. Poison ivy. And now that I know what it is, it’s starting to itch. :mad: I put a band-aid over it so I don’t scratch it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/177 "2016-07-12T15:09:50Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > When my MIL turned 60, she decided that she no longer had to do things she didnt feel like doing, particularly social events. She said it was very freeing. If you think 60 is freeing, wait till you’re 70! Now if I could only stand up or walk without pain. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/178 "2016-07-12T16:38:50Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Are you sure that lady was really an employee at that store? I know this shocks some people, but sometimes retail people shop at other stores. Some people just see the “retail look” and assume that that person works at that store. > > My rant: Our old sick cat went to the vet today. He has a tumor somewhere in his belly. X-rays happened, but where it is could be on the liver, intestine or kidneys. According to our vet, the only way to really know would be exploratory surgery. I don’t know what to do. We love our old guy, and want his quality of life to be good. > > If it is something that can be fixed, we would want to do it, but we don’t want to have him cut open and then deal with the recovery time if all they are going to tell us is “I’m so sorry, your cat is going to die.” What about an ultrasound? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/179 "2016-07-12T16:55:15Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > What about an ultrasound? Our veterinarian charges around the same fee for ultrasound vs exploratory surgery. With surgery there is the chance to improve the situation. With ultrasound you may get a diagnosis, but then would have to come up with another pile of cash if the situation is surgical. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/180 "2016-07-12T18:48:40Z")
I can’t decide what’s worse: being surprised by the death of a loved one, or seeing it coming. ☹ Either way, I pit death. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887.md?page=10)