# Let your mini-rants march on! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747 "2020-03-01T12:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/21 "2020-03-03T13:30:25Z")
A co-worker just came and “confessed” to me that she had taken a paper clip off my desk, and she wanted to come clean before I noticed. She isn’t literally serious, she just needs to make a certain amount of mouth noises per hour and today, this is all she had to work with. Yesterday, a different co-worker brought me a stack of papers that had been left by the printer for about a week. She didn’t recognize any of the names in the paperwork and neither did I. She wrung her hands for a few moments, trying to decide what to do about getting the papers to their rightful owner. I dropped the papers into the recycle bin for her. Ugh, these people exhaust me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/22 "2020-03-03T16:34:10Z")
Sent email: “What is your availability to Skype or phone call today? If not today, when is your availability tomorrow?” Recieved email: “I don’t have a camera on my computer.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/23 "2020-03-03T20:53:27Z")
We’ve been traveling around the U.K.as well as Boston USS and haven’t seen one gender neutral toilet yet:confused: ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/24 "2020-03-03T20:57:37Z")
I always thought USS went in front of the ship’s name. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/25 "2020-03-03T21:15:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I always thought USS went in front of the ship’s name. Typo received that 505 Gateway thingy when posting,😃 ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/26 "2020-03-03T22:03:41Z")
I understand taking reasonable precautions regarding COVID-19; hand washing, making sure the pantry is stocked, avoiding travel, etc. However, my Dear Husband has gone off the cliff. We now have over $200 worth of non-perishables (on top of what we already had), in addition to water, and he’s thinking of getting a shotgun - in case of civil unrest or looting. Yes, we’re both diabetics over 50, and he’s a smoker, but we’re not anywhere near any current cases. We are both relatively healthy overall, we have both had our flu shots, we have medical insurance, etc., etc. Yet DH is become a germaphobe suddenly and is afraid to go anywhere. He sits and watches the Johns Hopkins’ tracking website. I’m actively worried about him, and more than slightly annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/27 "2020-03-04T11:57:58Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I understand taking reasonable precautions regarding COVID-19; hand washing, making sure the pantry is stocked, avoiding travel, etc. However, my Dear Husband has gone off the cliff. We now have over $200 worth of non-perishables (on top of what we already had), in addition to water, and he’s thinking of getting a shotgun - in case of civil unrest or looting. Yes, we’re both diabetics over 50, and he’s a smoker, but we’re not anywhere near any current cases. We are both relatively healthy overall, we have both had our flu shots, we have medical insurance, etc., etc. Yet DH is become a germaphobe suddenly and is afraid to go anywhere. He sits and watches the Johns Hopkins’ tracking website. I’m actively worried about him, and more than slightly annoyed. There we are in Northern Italy. We’ve seen a handful or so of masses about. Bringing our land lady sanitizer. Left Heathrow , the plane was almost empty. Grocery stores still have products. Yeah, there have been there are noticeable security, but there alway is here. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/28 "2020-03-04T13:47:06Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Perhaps you have an unusual artistic holder design. I do have that problem with paper towels. My house is only 13 years old, but the toilet paper holders have small escutcheons that protrude just enough to prevent installation of mega-rolls. No worries, though – my mother found a single grocery store in the area that carries regular-size rolls and proceeded to buy five packs of her favorite brand, along with a couple of other brands just to give them a try. (She also made sure to let staff know that she wasn’t panic buying.) And I have that same problem with my paper towel holder – the guide dowel on the base is fixed, so it will only accommodate a standard roll. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/29 "2020-03-04T14:40:07Z")
March is Gripe About Co-workers Month, it seems. Today (and actually every day, he does this all the time), a co-worker is walking around singing under his breath, “Too doo, bum bum ba ba ba de bum, da da da da da de dum”, et cetera, ad infinitum. I am grinding my teeth to powder. Am I just really bitchy this month or have they at last succeeded in DRIVING ME MAD???!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/30 "2020-03-04T15:56:29Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > There we are in Northern Italy. We’ve seen a handful or so of masses about. Bringing our land lady sanitizer. Left Heathrow , the plane was almost empty. If she was wandering around the cabin randomly spritzing things with Lysol, it’s no wonder most passengers disembarked before takeoff. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/31 "2020-03-04T16:08:05Z")
I’m still seeing Bloomberg ads and anti Bloomberg attack ads, even though Bloomberg has dropped out of the race. Granted, he just made his announcement this morning, but hopefully everyone gets the memo and starts pulling the ads. ---
**Author:** ![Kovitlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/32 "2020-03-04T17:10:17Z")
I’ve made a post about this before, but not in the Pit, and I really want to mini-Pit the asshole lady who hit my car and doesn’t think she should take even the slightest bit of responsibility for it. Let me count the ways she done fucked up: 1. Scratching up the bumper of my car 2. Being drunk off her ass 3. Not telling me about it, even though apt neighbors pointed her to my fucking door. Since I wasn’t aware until the next afternoon, no cop can prove she was drunk at the time of the accident 4. Not having insurance / lying to the cop about not having insurance Having initially heard from the cop that the lady had insurance, I got my car fixed and paid my $500 deposit (total cost was about $750). After that was when I found out, oopsie, she isn’t insured after all. I’d been debating whether I want to even bother taking her to court, since she likely won’t show up, and even a court order to pay won’t magically fix anything. I’m tempted to get a court order, but then I’m out the cost of filing, the time of going, and she’ll still likely never pay. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/33 "2020-03-04T19:48:21Z")
Mini-Rant: I swear to God, If my fucking wife says ‘Corona Virus’ _one more fucking time…_ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/34 "2020-03-05T01:33:59Z")
Came home from work, the step-cat\* was at the back door and wanted in. I opened the door to let her in, and there was a dead robin on the doorstep. :mad: At least she didn’t drag it inside with her. - My stepdaughter’s cat. She moved in with us temporarily a few months ago, has since moved out, but her cat is still here. We have a step-dog too! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/35 "2020-03-05T01:36:48Z")
Did she possess a ladder when she moved in? ‘Cos that would make it a - - OW! WHO THREW THAT? ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/36 "2020-03-05T06:28:06Z")
Oh, my people… I’ve just seen this on the internal Facebook page for the hotel I work at, from the head housekeeper: > [@Head Housekeeper](#): > > Hi guys please take Note > > Due to this run on toilet rolls guest have been taking and asking for extras ������ > So just so you know all rooms have 1 extra one in cupboard rooms get serviced everyday so there’s no need to give them more ok I was just at the IGA to pick up some coffee, and I swear about one in four of the shoppers had at least one nine-pack of TP - if not more. Seriously, people? Yes, the COVID-19 is worse than flu, and there’s some uncertainty and all, but…toilet paper?!? What do you think is going to happen? If these people also had stocks of nonperishable foods, bottled water, I can get that, but they don’t. Just big packs of toilet paper, and maybe a few other items. ---
**Author:** ![Mom-of-Andrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@Mom-of-Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mom-of-Andrew)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/37 "2020-03-05T06:44:04Z")
Dammit, I was this close, thissssssss close I tell you, to being ‘fever free’ for an entire day and able to rejoin humanity. No temp over 100 for an _entire_ day. Then I get a reading of 100.3. Wanting to avoid cabin fever 2.0, I think ‘Hey, maybe the magic number is 100.5. Maybe I can get away with a paltry 100.3. I’ll call the free insurance nurse phone line and ask’ Except there is no more insurance nurse line. As with all else these days, there’s an app for that. Which connects you to an actual doc, for merely a $10 co-pay. I bite the bullet and tap connect. But before I can ask my teensy question, Karen-the-triage-bot has a few dozen queries of her own about my symptoms. Question nine was: Is your fever mild (below 99), moderate (99 to 100.5) or severe (100.6 or above) No parole for me. Stuck inside the house another day. Meanwhile the newspaper is at the edge of the yard, mocking me, because I promised the doc Monday I would not leave the house. I guess I should be grateful I could back out of the app before it charged me ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/38 "2020-03-05T09:12:34Z")
Oh, holy (fill-in-the-blank)… Just got this email because I’ve got a rewards card for Woolworth’s > [@](#): > > An important update on toilet paper and other essential items > > Dear (galen), > > I’d like to update you on the shortages we’re seeing in toilet paper and other essential items. > > As you may have read, or seen for yourself, these are unusual and challenging times. We know it can be frustrating when we don’t have the products you need, or when delivery or Pick up windows are filled more than usual. > > We’re working very closely with our suppliers to get products onto shelves as quickly as we can. The makers of Kleenex, Sorbent, Quilton and Woolworths own range of toilet paper have all increased their production to meet this very unusual demand. > > For example, the makers of Kleenex are now manufacturing 24 hours, 7 days a week at their Millicent, SA factory, as are Sorbent in their NSW and Victorian facilities. And the makers of Quilton have tripled their normal production across their factories in Queensland, NSW and WA. > > It’s worth noting that the vast majority of products aren’t affected and most stores aren’t seeing significant shortages. But to make sure everyone has access to essential items, we’ve introduced some common-sense limits to a few products. _We’ve limited toilet paper to 4 packs per transaction and large packs of rice (2kg and over) to 1 per transaction. Where available, hand sanitiser is now at the Customer Service Desk and limited to 2 per transaction._ > > We’re constantly monitoring the situation and will do our best to keep all products freely available to everyone. However, if we see new shortages, we may introduce other limits. We’ll only do this if we think it’s absolutely necessary and to help make sure all customers can access the products they need. We’ll keep you updated in our stores and on our website as things change. > > Our team members are doing the very best they can, so please support them, and each other. > > Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through this together. > > Brad Banducci > CEO Woolworths Group _{emphasis mine}_ Woolworth’s Australia is one of the largest, if not the largest, grocery chains here in Australia. This shit has gotten _way_ out of hand. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/39 "2020-03-05T12:04:42Z")
**galen ubal** , you’re making me very nervous about my weekly grocery trip tomorrow. I may have to take my hiking stick in with me to knock hoarders away from the things I legitimately need because I’ve run out. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/40 "2020-03-05T14:06:17Z")
> [@Mom-of-Andrew](#): > > Meanwhile the newspaper is at the edge of the yard, mocking me, because I promised the doc Monday I would not leave the house. I am not your doctor, nor a doctor at all - but I’d bet an extremely small amount of money that your doctor meant “don’t go anywhere with other people”, not “don’t walk to the edge of your yard and right back inside”. Especially if you have a bell you can ring while calling out “unclean! unclean!”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747.md?page=3)