Well, I was grumpy, too. And I’ll see Doc next week. 
Well, fuck you! 
[grats! :D]
Mothercongratufuckinlations!
When I went out for a part in a SAG movie and got it, I thought it was something to be happy about.
Only it’s shooting in San Antonio and I’m in Dallas (a ten-hour round trip), and I’ve already had to drive down twice (once for the audition, once for the table read), plus hotel room the first time. I’m in two scenes, and originally they were both scheduled for next Thursday overnight, so I was going to drive down, shoot all night, take a nap in my car and drive back.
Did I mention I booked a voiceover gig on Wednesday with someone I’ve long wanted to work with, on the assumption that I wouldn’t be leaving for the film shoot until the following day?
And I’ve now just received an e-mail from the film’s producer with a call sheet for TUESDAY? For only ONE of my two scenes?
I’m not really even entitled to be too upset, because a) I did agree to work as a local hire (i.e., don’t expect travel or hotel to be paid for by the production company), b) at least this means an extra day’s pay, and c) shooting schedules get shifted all the time. But god, this sucks. Either I have to throw down multiple shots of espresso, drive back lickety split WITHOUT napping first and do the voice gig all tired, or beg the guy to reschedule it, or (comedy third option). When all is said and done, even with the extra day’s pay on the film (and we’re talking only $100 per day - it’s an ultra low budget SAG production), when all is said and done I will have spent more than I earned on this movie.
I really should have turned the part down. I see that now.
Usually it’s because the parents don’t want to pay a sitter. Last time I checked ticket prices, kids up to the age of 2 got in free. Now, if you figure that just going out to a movie will take two and a half to three hours, and going to dinner and a movie will take up to five hours, and multiply that by whatever a babysitter charges per hour, and it can get pretty expensive. It’s also hard for a breastfeeding mom to not nurse for over 3 hours, at that age. Yeah, the baby can take a bottle, but mom is going to have to express milk, or it’s going to be painful.
The cost of a babysitter is also usually why preschoolers are in a movie theater, unless the movie is targeted towards little kids. Even if the parents have to pay a child’s price, it’s cheaper than a babysitter.
It may be cheaper than a babysitter, but it is checks to make sure this is the Pit fucking rude. Probably #1 on the list of reasons I do not go to movie theaters is crying children, who are usually up too late or in a movie not appropriate for them. If you can’t afford a babysitter, stay fucking home and wait until the movie comes out on DVD.
Having children involves making choices - preferably the choice should be what is best for your child. I doubt very seriously (not having children I don’t know for use) that it is good for a 4-month old to be up after midnight in a dark room with loud noises and lots of strangers.
I am sorry for the parents of the child; the baby getting shot is not something a parent should have to worry about when taking their child to a movie, even if if I think it’s inappropriate for the child to be there.
/rant
My heart hurts for the families of the dead and injured; this is just unimaginable. I am also heartsore for the parents and sister of the shooter; I am sure their grief and confusion knows no bounds.
Grins. There is a very good reason this ex-Air Force lady rides with Marines 
As a childfree person, this is outraging me for you. WTF were the parents thinking? That is beyond the pale. I thought that when kids or animals (thinking about dogs that have play time with other dogs) are infested, the polite thing to do would be to warn about lice or fleas.
I can explain this. The scores go to corporate and bonuses and jobs depend on them. The high level managers depend on those scores for their bonuses and the actual workers can be fired for low scores. My friend who works in the industry (mid-level management) had to call someone about the score his shop got from a customer. According to the customer, the service was good and friendly. The work was good. He wouldn’t recommend the shop to his friends.
During the phone call, my friend learned that the reason the customer wouldn’t recommend the shop to his friends is because he lives in Wisconson. (the accident and work happened in Arizona) The customer wrote that on the survey, told the corp person who called and was annoyed that my friend called him to kiss his ass over that.
FUCKING A!!! You fucking rock!!!
I don’t know much about the acting industry. I would think that the more people who know you as someone who is willing to go above and beyond would be helpful. Unless you get the rep as someone who is always willing to lose money just to get you 3 seconds on film.
My rant: My car doesn’t seem to like windshields. Less than a month ago, I got hit by a rock and my windshield cracked. I had it replaced. The very next day, I got a chip in my line of sight…like right in front of me…and my insurance company rep said that it had to be replaced again. It was replaced on Wednesday. Today, I was following a truck that didn’t have its load covered and something flew out and hit the windshield on the drivers side and now I have a dark smudge of paint or something that I can’t get off.
I have full glass coverage, so this isn’t going to cost anything. It just ticks me off that trucks aren’t required to cover their loads…and as a treehugger, I don’t want to replace something that can be fixed or repaired.
I’m guessing that if someone were to start a Pit thread about driving rants, it would take legs like the workplace rants did.
I just realized something today.
A year or more ago, the wife of a man I know who is the XO of a National Guard unit was getting downright hysterical in her anti-Obama rhetoric. Just off the wall insane shit about how we were all going to be forced to become Muslims or be second class citizens, Sharia would be the Law of the Land, etc (how exactly this was supposed to get past Congress was never explained). With the whole gays in the military thing it was that, before we knew it, homosexuality would be mandatory in the military. It was so bad that I put a rule into my mail program to automatically delete anything from her, and I got so irritated about the stupidity of the forced conversion bullshit and insistence that Obama was a Muslim that I put something on my facebook page (knowing that she would see it) basically saying it was insane and anyone pushing that idea was a complete fucking moron.
Then there was one big push, so hard, so bad, so grievously insulting to the President that I openly wondered how this could not hurt her husband’s career. The next time I ran into him, I asked him about it and he kinda rushed off obviously upset about it.
I realized today that I have not seen a single thing like that posted on her facebook page since shortly after that. I changed mail programs around the same time, didn’t put the rule back into place and haven’t seen any of the insane forwards either.
Now I’m really curious. Was something said by his superiors? Was something said by friends and family members? Some combination of the two? Because man, she was really off the deep end and it stopped cold.
Taking infants to movie theaters:
Oh, I completely agree that it’s rude. I quit going to theaters partly because of this, too. I’m just saying, this is why a lot of parents do it, and also why parents take infants to restaurants even though the infants are too young to eat anything at the restaurant.
Some parents are considerate, or maybe they just want some time away from their kids. Other parents think that everyone else is just going to have to put up with their perfect child when s/he gets overloaded and starts screaming.
I’m turning into one of those old “get off my lawn” bitches, I guess. When I was growing up, it was a special treat to go to a resturant - and I knew I’d damned well be on my best behavior or it would be a long time before I saw the inside of another one. Of course my mother had been giving me lessons in table manners since I was old enough to understand them. I still put a napkin in my lap, even if I’m eating alone. Children were to be seen and not heard in the company of adults.
Where did my generation go wrong? So many of the young adults I see now have horrible table manners - never mind a napkin in the lap, they don’t even chew with their mouths closed.
And I understand babies get fussy - but I don’t understand the parents who can just ignore a screaming child. Maybe you’re used to it, badmom, but I’m not and it bothers me.
Then again, I have absolutely no maternal instinct toward human babies whatsoever. I was 18 before I ever held a baby and over 30 before I ever changed a diaper. When I hear a baby crying, I have no interest in finding out why, I just want to get away from the noise. But if I hear a kitten in distress I have to find out why and fix it!
The only reason I don’t place a napkin in my lap is that my lap is not the part of my body that will be hit by falling food. 
I tend to place the napkin just in front of my plate; I can discreetly hold the edge of the napkin so as to provide coverage when taking a bite of food.
And I understand that there are “good” babies…I just never seem to encounter them in public. 
I don’t hit my lap, either - it’s just an ingrained habit. The girls are large enough that any spillage is going to hit them - especially if I’m wearing white!
Today’s rant - one of my best friends has a father in law who is a hoarder. A BAD hoarder, worthy of being on the TV show. When he passes it is going to take several large dumpsters and a two truck to clear his house and yard.
I haven’t been over there in a while and just found out from a mutual friend that my friends are going down the same hoarder path. I am so sad. I need to go visit but I’m afraid of what I will see…
IMO, hoarders and animal collectors have a mental disease. Tony comes to mind right away. He can’t put his dishes in the cabinets because they are full of plastic ice cream and maragine containers. He keeps broken stuff because he might need a part to fix something. He has piles of empty pet food bags and cat litter containers.
He would probably become an animal collector, but I keep taking them away. It helps that he knows that he is fostering them.
Its just really sad.
An old schoolmate of mine posted an “anti-liberal” pic on FB comparing protection of endangered birds to abortion.
WTF?
When I mentioned that humans were unlikely to become extinct, I was jumped upon, of course. What else do I expect from FB? So I apologized to my friend for engaging in a debate on his wall and tried to disengage.
I get a notice that someone has responded to the post and read “Yeah you’d better quit while you’re a head, I hope you don’t have kids who can read this on fb”
WTF?
I guess I should be happy that I’m “a head”. If I had children, why wouldn’t I want them to know I think all children should be wanted children?
Another woman came on posting about how she had lost her first child to a (I think) genetic disorder. I told her I was very sorry for her loss, and for the loss of all wanted and loved children. Captain Morgan’s (the minature donkey) mom lost her first grandchild to a genetic disorder a year ago. I have felt the pain of my friends as they dealt with that loss.
WTF does that have to do with first triminster abortion?
While I was in Tennessee there was a local case of a couple who strapped their two-year-old son into a car seat in the living room and let him starve to death. His poor body weighed 12 lbs. That makes me sick to my stomach - much more so than a woman who knows - for whatever reason - that she wants an abortion in the first trimenster.
All the idiots at golf tournaments who yell “It’s in the hole!” immediately after *every *shot *every *golfer makes, most of which are not capable or even intended to actually reach the hole. They’re even at the British Open right now. Yes, we all saw “Caddyshack”, very funny film, glad you did too. But you just ain’t Bill Murray, not even close. Now shut the fuck up. Marshals, can you please have a word with them, at least?
I also Pit the Obama campaign for making me hear Mitt Romney sing.
Had a great time at the MC Chris concert last night! Except for the fact that there was no fucking air conditioning! What the fuckety fuck? Is it even legal to cram a few hundred fat guys in Punisher shirts into a bar with no air conditioning and, like, four box fans in South Carolina in July? (And why exactly is there no door on the men’s room?)
I’m amazed beyond belief that I didn’t see anybody faint or vomit. I’m actually amazed that I didn’t see myself throw up and faint, and I wasn’t even down there in the “shirtless guys jumping up and down” front section. We took our shirts off and threw them in the bathtub when we got home and they went “splork”.
Thank you - I may wuss out and do it by text/email, and more or less quote your paragraph below, and say I’d be happy to assist, but I’m not taking over organising activities all by myself. Hmm, maybe not even offer to assist, that would probably still end up with me doing all the work!
I should carry this about with me, and sneak a quick look when anyone tries to sign me up for stuff 
My problem is I’m a bit power-hungry and suffering from empire-building syndrome, so I want to take on all the projects and be seen as Supermum™ but at the end of the day, I’m not as super as I think I am and get stressed out when I suddenly realise I’ve overscheduled myself!
She’s mine too. I still miss hearing about Shredder Guy though
Oh, and olivesmarch4th? Fuckin’ ace!
Why are there five people running for Clerk of Superior Court in DeKalb County, Georgia? It’s a contested election! There are yard signs and everything!
I mean, I understand why five people might want the job. I imagine it’s a pretty nice job, probably pays OK I guess, it’s an office job so it’s not like you’re out digging ditches in the summer heat. But I don’t know who any of these people are. Shouldn’t the Chief Judge of the Superior Court or the “DeKalb County CEO” (the head of our county government has the title “CEO”) or somebody be hiring these people??? You know, collect the resumes, read the cover letters, check for misspellings and grammar errors, a couple rounds of interviews, maybe a typing test or something.
I mean, what the hell are the issues in an election for Clerk of Superior Court?
“If elected, I favor filing records in alphabetical order by the last name of the person concerned.”
“Well, there you go again with your same tired old ‘alphabetical order by last name’ mantra. That’s your solution to every question about filing! Isn’t it time we try some new solutions? What about Chinese people? Their last name is actually like their first name, and vice versa!”
“I’m not opposed to filing records in alphabetical order by last name, but we do need someone who can handle the tough calls. Like, what if the person is named ‘Mc-’ something? Do those go before the ‘Ma-’ names, or in between the ‘Ma-’ names and the ‘Me-’ names? Do ‘MacDonald’ and ‘McDonald’ get treated as the same name? I have a plan in place to deal with these tough questions, so if the people elect me, I’ll be ready to start filing stuff on day one.”
“I pledge that everyone will be in strict alphabetical order–I won’t let the rich fat cats and the One Percenters jump to the head of the line at the expense of the ordinary hard-working taxpaying citizens of this county, unless, you know, they’re named ‘Aable’ or something like that.”
“We’ve got to eliminate this socialistic filing system and return to a filing system based on chiseled slabs of rock, the way the Founding Fathers intended!”
Whoa! Job descriptions of Court Clerks And this is an elected position? So presumably any jackass can get the job? That’s scary.
… oh wait…
The president and the congress are also elected positions… (as well as Mayors, council-members, school board members etc etc.)
Nevermind.