# life just is crap **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487 "2018-12-21T11:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/41 "2018-12-27T12:46:40Z")
'bout the same as yesterday great ideas folks. Small town here and would whoever want food already made? Will have to check it out. thanks again everyone ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/42 "2018-12-27T15:16:46Z")
Can you freeze any of it? ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/43 "2018-12-28T15:27:22Z")
Yesterday, I put a library hold on Dale Carnegie’s [How to Stop Worrying and Start Living](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671035975/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2). Interestingly, the two copies owned by my library are currently checked out. When I was a kid, I read _How to Win Friends and Influence People_ and found it pretty useful although it was outdated even in that long-ago time. If I mine any gold nuggets out of _Stop Worrying_, maybe I’ll have better stuff to post in these kind of threads. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/44 "2018-12-29T14:44:39Z")
Another suggestion: Get out every day, do something, and talk to someone. Why am I still working when I just turned 64? To interact with people. Today I had a conversation with two children while waiting for the library to open. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/45 "2018-12-30T06:08:36Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Another suggestion: Get out every day, do something, and talk to someone. Why am I still working when I just turned 64? To interact with people. Today I had a conversation with two children while waiting for the library to open. Hell, I’m 64 and I’m retiring _SO THAT I can be at the library when it opens…_ I’m getting out and interacting more now that I’m “old” than I did when I was working myself to death. And now that I don’t mind embarrassing myself\*, I can strike up a conversation with almost anyone. \*I just came here from [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=868044), where I quoted a wise old guy who turned 60: **“Welcome to the decade of Not Giving A Fuck What Anyone Thinks Of You”**! ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/46 "2018-12-30T08:32:32Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > It’s been a few days, **WildBlue.** …how are you? > > Note that for every word of support you’ve received here, there are likely dozens and dozens of others who also care but have not posted. > > Wishing you the best, > mmm Count me in here dude. I got no good words, but I wish ya well. It just didn’t seem like enough for a post when others has so much better stuff to say. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/47 "2018-12-31T01:22:11Z")
I try to start to build or find little positives to look forward to - even if they are tiny little positives… It’s not perfect, but life has been rough. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487/48 "2018-12-31T19:58:10Z")
No matter how small your town is, I’m sure they have a Police Department or Fire Department, and those people are always hungry! Sympathy for your migraineur. I battled that dragon in my 40s. My daughter is going through that now. At least the medications are better than they were 20 years ago! I was given pain Rx, and told, “But don’t use them.” I complained about my neck since the Ark went aground. Just a few years ago, I had an MRI of my neck, and a spinal specialist said, “No wonder you have been complaining of pain! You have a pinched nerve!” Far cry from a doctor telling me, “You can’t keep having these headaches!” Well, DUH! Caring for migraines is a lot like trying to nail jello to a tree… ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-just-is-crap/826487.md?page=2)