# June mini-rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 2, 2016, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294 "2016-06-02T08:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/101 "2016-06-12T19:47:48Z")
Thank you **raventhief. Helena330,** and **ENugent.** Thankfully the universe has a sense of humor, and has seen fit to throw a ‘ceiling in living room just opened up in several spots along the seams where the master bathroom toilet has been leaking for who knows how long’ wrench in my life to distract me from lack of ginger kitty. Soooooooo… yay for unexpected full bathroom remodel and ceiling/wall repair. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/102 "2016-06-13T09:28:42Z")
Hell **bobkitty** , that sucks. Will insurance cover at least part of the repairs? > [@Monty](#): > > I hate the month of June. Why? It’s quite simple, really. June is when the ignorant little bastards who are supposedly in school before that month get to have a lot of free time on their hand and thus trash the Internet with their bigotry. Not bigotry in this case (although we’ve had a few of those too), but extract from a recent conversation among guild officers. (conversation in general, with several guys asking questions which have just been answered or whose answers are reported by the game’s login message) Me - I hate people who don’t read. Sal - heh (more conversation in guild, with several people asking questions which have just been answered by an officer) Gom - they don’t read to save their fucking life, you’re right Kim - how come we’ve suddenly gotten so many morons? Not just in the guild, but all over Sal, Gom, me, all together now - end of school year Kim - oh. Is it bad I’m kind of hoping these particular ones will have flunked the hell out? Sal - nope, it’s perfectly logical ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/103 "2016-06-13T22:48:00Z")
I’m sorry bobkitty. I know that giving up your snugglepuss was one of the hardest things you have had to do. Dang about the ceiling though. Even with insurance paying for it (which it probably won’t because long term pipe leaks are considered to be a maintenance issue), its going to be a total pain to deal with. I hope your other kitty doesn’t freak out with all the noise and strange repair people. I’m losing yet another minion. He’s happy with his boss (or so he says), he’s happy with his pay and the work requirements, he’s just bored with his work. I thought about throwing a crying fit and begging him not to leave…but instead, I’m helping him with his resume and have written him a great letter. I hope that some day he looks back and realizes that he blew off the best job he ever had! My BB thinks that I need to replace him with 2 part-timers. I think this would be a bad idea because 20 hours a week isn’t enough to live on and there wouldn’t be insurance and PTO. I’d probably run through part-timers even faster than full-timers. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/104 "2016-06-14T13:47:27Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > One of my zero-tolerance rules is that I **do not see cold callers**. Period. Ever. > > Yesterday a cold caller salesman stopped at work. My receptionist politely explained my policy, but he insisted that I’d see him. She came back and asked me; I remained calm and explained my rule, and that she was wasting her and my time by even asking. > > She went back out and told him I would not see him. He told her he was in no hurry, and he took a seat and worked on some paperwork. I assume he either figured I’d give in, or that he’d catch me when I left for the day. This was around noon. > > At 1:00 I left for the day, taking my dogs and bird with me and exiting out _the back door_, where I park. I’d totally forgotten about the sales dude. I got a call from my receptionist at 3:15. She was on her way home, having locked up at 3:00. When she told the cold caller we were closing, he asked where **kayaker** was. She explained I had left two hours ago. > > I’m guessing that’s one salesman who will not return. He’s back. My receptionist just came back to tell me. He told her we missed each other last week. She’s laughing so hard she’s choking. Well, I have a busy-ish day but will be leaving, via the back door, at 3:00 pm. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/105 "2016-06-15T00:01:50Z")
A few years ago, a family friend sent some seed packets. It was a bit late in the season, but since it stays warm here well into the fall, I went ahead and planted them. The only ones that grew were the daisies – but they never bloomed. Last year, they grew quite a bit, but still no blooms. I was starting to doubt they were anything but a bunch of weeds; however, they survived the winter, so I left them alone this year. And they finally bloomed! I’ve got oodles of nice-sized, white flowers with fuzzy yellow centers. So why is this in the mini-rant thread, you ask? They smell like ass. Seriously, they’re starting to draw flies. And they’re planted right next to my porch. \>.\< ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/106 "2016-06-15T00:43:19Z")
I don’t know why, but that really made me laugh. The long-awaited blooms that turned out to smell like ass. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/107 "2016-06-15T01:52:18Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > He’s back. > > My receptionist just came back to tell me. He told her we missed each other last week. She’s laughing so hard she’s choking. Well, I have a busy-ish day but will be leaving, via the back door, at 3:00 pm. I’d be getting in touch with his employer and using words like “harassment” and “trespassing”. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/108 "2016-06-15T02:18:57Z")
I spent a very nice afternoon with a friend at a pool. I didnt go into the water and also didn’t think to slather sunscreen on my exposed flesh. ow ow ow. My own damn fault of course, But i have some rather red legs below the shorts line, putting my vneck tee, and on my face. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/109 "2016-06-15T02:56:11Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I’d be getting in touch with his employer and using words like “harassment” and “trespassing”. Have you ever worked in sales? They’d probably give him a bonus for tenacity. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/110 "2016-06-15T03:11:23Z")
Well, if I was that "sales"man’s boss and heard about how much time he’d spent sitting at an office that wasn’t even a possibility of being a “hot prospect”, I’d call him immediately and direct him back to the office (for a reaming). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/111 "2016-06-15T03:38:02Z")
Hey, Pastor Roger Jimenez of the Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, and Pat Robertson of the “The 700 Club”, Go Fuck Yourselves, you [Radical Christian Terrorists.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/06/14/pastor-refuses-to-mourn-orlando-victims-the-tragedy-is-that-more-of-them-didnt-die/) ---
**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:** [June 15, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/112 "2016-06-15T09:56:50Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Well, if I was that "sales"man’s boss and heard about how much time he’d spent sitting at an office that wasn’t even a possibility of being a “hot prospect”, I’d call him immediately and direct him back to the office (for a reaming). At this point I don’t know what company or what they sell. He hasn’t given Stacey the slightest detail. I thought maybe he was trying to serve me legal papers, but as far as I know I’m not due for any. When my divorce happened, I was served at work by a very embarrassed acquaintance who was moonlighting. He told my receptionist he had legal papers for me and I accepted them politely. This sales guy sat around a few hours, then left without a word. Stacey is engaged, but we have started teasing her that he likes her. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/113 "2016-06-15T13:08:09Z")
“Sir, Mr. Kayaker says that if i take your business card in to him, he’ll see you in just a minute.” (Five minutes later: “Ohhh, so sorry, sir. Looks like he left for the day, out his window. He does that…”) ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/114 "2016-06-15T18:00:55Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > He’s back. > > My receptionist just came back to tell me. He told her we missed each other last week. She’s laughing so hard she’s choking. Well, I have a busy-ish day but will be leaving, via the back door, at 3:00 pm. I have to wonder - does this ever work out for the salesman? My rant - most of you won’t understand it but I have to get it out where to guilty party won’t see it. DO NOT harass me about how I walk when heeling WHEN I’M IN THE FUCKING RING. Especially after I tell you that I HAVE to walk this way. You know what? I have decades more experience at this than you and far more accomplishments, just fuck off and leave me alone period, OK? I wish this was a one time thing but sadly, no. :mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/115 "2016-06-15T19:24:36Z")
I think June has it out for me. Last night on the way home from work I had a blowout. A first! It was on the main highway through the city at rush hour, so I just had it towed to the dealership instead of trying to change to the spare (thus avoiding certain death). Insurance covers the tow so no big deal. The ridiculous part is that I’ve needed new tires (they weren’t bad but getting there) but was waiting until next month because we just bought a minivan (Sienna) from that dealership, and we’re picking it up tonight after work. I’m spending a lot of time at that dealership, is what I’m saying to you. Now I don’t have my truck with the car seats, I have a loaner. I wasn’t going to take out the carseats (truckseats in this case?) because it’s a total bitch and I’d just be putting them in the rental to take them out and put them back in the truck anyway. Now after work we have to meet up at home and pack everyone into my wife’s CRV (which we’re selling tomorrow), so we can go to the dealership and pick up the minivan, so I can turn right around and drive home to pick up the rental car, so I can drive right back to the dealership to pick up my truck, pay them $718.00, and then drive home for the forty-seventh time. I stopped to pick up some wine on the way home because FML, and the lady at the store overheard my heavy sighs and commented about it, so I shared my sob story. Then she said, “Hey! Weren’t you the guy with the sick dog?!” (What can I say I’m a regular.) and I was like, goddammit yes, maybe I need more wine. Screw you, June. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/116 "2016-06-15T20:24:16Z")
NM ---
**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:** [June 15, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/117 "2016-06-15T20:24:42Z")
> [@Lowdown](#): > > I stopped to pick up some wine on the way home because FML, and the lady at the store overheard my heavy sighs and commented about it, so I shared my sob story. Then she said, “Hey! Weren’t you the guy with the sick dog?!” (What can I say I’m a regular.)… So, the Mini-Rants thread is really just a bunch of Liquor Store Ladies. That’s nice. I grew up without a good LSL, glad to have y’all around now. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/118 "2016-06-15T20:44:52Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So, the Mini-Rants thread is really just a bunch of Liquor Store Ladies. > > That’s nice. I grew up without a good LSL, glad to have y’all around now. It just so happened that she was working the same day my dog puked on the carpet I had just spent the weekend cleaning. I think she was the first person available for me to bitch to after that discovery. I felt it was a solid tale of woe, and so I shared it! #YOLO #noregrets ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/119 "2016-06-15T20:49:52Z")
Suggestion for the betterment of gyms: No music. None at all. If you want to listen to music while you work out, bring some headphones and listen to whatever you want. There’s only one gym near me, and I’m sick of listening to dog shit on the radio while I’m trying to work out. I _do_ have headphones, but, unfortunately, they’re not very loud. Even more unfortunately, the sound system in my local gym is so loud I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they’d nicked it from Manumission. That means, even when I listen to my workout music, I can still hear the gym’s garbage music underneath it. Now, admittedly, my idea of workout music is a little unorthodox. I’m a big fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, for instance. Especially [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ui2deAKr8) one. If I listen to this while I’m running the minutes just _fly_ by. Imagine my dismay when, while I was running the other day, and just as it approached its glorious crescendo, DJ Cunt on Shitbox FM decided to start playing [THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMSZQ7RacQ) I had to stop running in _disgust_. Fuck this shit. No more music in gyms. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294/120 "2016-06-15T20:54:20Z")
The Gold’s Gym I used to go to played 70s and 80s hard rock. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants/756294.md?page=7)