I think I am speaking for everyone when I say EWWWWWW!
I hope you never have to do that again. I also hope I never have to do it at all cause what a PITA.
Thanks, me, too, on both counts.
And my reaction was exactly the same!!! What’s especially irritating is how careful I was to ensure that lid was on securely each time. Each. Time. And still it leaked.
So gross!!!
A friend did that for pay (a drug study) during college. He brought his one gallon milk jug to a party with him. When he left, very drunk and with a cast on one arm (from an earlier mishap) he fell going up steep steps.
Face first onto concrete, smashing his face up and smashing his urine container. He then had to walk home wet, bloody, and stinking of piss.
We’ll agree my mishap wasn’t as bad as that. 
It’s been raining all day, but not REALLY raining, just enough to make doing things outside unpleasant. If yer gonna rain, RAIN dammit. I’ve dusted, washed windows, vacuumed and mopped the exercise loft, cleaned the kitchen. All out of ideas other than the Dope and maybe a book.
EWWWWWWW!!!
(yes discourse, that is indeed a complete sentence that says everything needed)
I think I’m going to have to break down and ask my doctor for a GI referral. Over the past year, I’ve been having a lot of gastric upsets, and I’ve been blaming them on things like eating too much or too late in the evening. But it’s getting clearer and clearer that certain of my favorite foods trigger it - I can’t drink red wine anymore, chile and curry tear up my stomach, and I’m currently sitting up uncomfortably instead of going to bed because the moderate portion of spaghetti pomodoro I ate at six o’clock is threatening to make a reappearance. But I don’t want food restrictions!
I keep some work papers in a 3-ring binder, and bought a set of those Avery section dividers with little tabs to slip labels into. The label sheet suggested using Avery template #whatever, which the last time I did that 20 years ago, was easy and worked well. This time, Avery made me sign up with an account – the saving grace here is it let me use my go-to account email JoeBlow@hotmail.com, password Password123.
I get the template going in Microsoft Word; of course it is clumsily created so that the tab key doesn’t work to move between table cells, and you have to click in the exact center of each cell to type, lest you select the wrong element. I get half a page of labels typed in and looking good, put the sheet in and printed it, and — of course the template is wrong. It’s for labels almost twice as big as the ones on the sheet saying right on it, “use Avery template #whatever” which I carefully did.
I want my 20 minutes back. Screw you, Avery.
That must have been Avery frustrating experience.
Well, I got my wish. Now it’s really raining!
Here’s my ongoing pet peeve:
Amazon customers who rate but don’t bother to review.
I routinely check out amazon reviews when shopping for different things-- not just books, but appliances, makeup, clothes, electronics, vitamins, etc. I’ll go to the page for an item and there will be, say, 45 ratings with at least a third being one-star (unsatisfactory), but NO REVIEWS with the one-star ratings. 
Or just a one-word review: “crap” or “not good.” Thanks a whole fuck of a lot.
Geez, Louise, people, help a fellow shopper out!
OTOH I very much appreciate amazon reviewers who take the time to write out long, literate critiques of the product or book, noting the pros and cons, and spelling out exactly why they find the item satisfactory or not. There is a special place in heaven for those people. 
The husband of a friend believes that ALL amazon reviews are bogus and computer-generated. I guess now that ChatAI is everywhere, his skepticism will get cranked up a few more notches. I know this isn’t true, because my reviews have appeared on amazon.
There is a site (with a browser extension) called https://reviewmeta.com/ that uses an algorithm to screen amazon reviews. But it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to identify blatantly bogus reviews. Anyway.
Ah College, the best years of your life.
I concur. Really annoying.
Yeah, I am a “top” Amazon Reviewer, and I like and count on well done reviews. I often check out the 4* and 2* reviews, as like you say “crap” or “not good.” reviews are useless.
You are welcome.
Altho even I admit that when I get a cheap item I am supposed to review for Amazon, the review will general be short and pithy.
Funny - another of my little frustrations is the unending requests for reviews. The tiniest thing you buy or the most fleeting customer service experience leads to someone pestering you for a full review, and I’ve gotten sick of it. That’s a lot of writing no one’s paying me to do (so is this, but you guys are special). I bought your doodad, and unless it’s exceptional in some way, good or bad, I don’t feel compelled to write a blurb for you.
I know people get those requests, but for some reason, I never do. I do a boatload of online shopping-- I sometimes get two or three Amazon deliveries in a week-- but I can’t remember the last time I got a request to review something.
Why doesn’t anyone like me?
I bought edibles from the weed store and before I got home, I had a text and two emails asking me how I rated their service. I…pointed to what I wanted and she gave it to me correctly? There’s not a lot to say. I go to the dentist for cleanings twice a year and almost always see the same hygeinist I’ve been seeing for the past 15 years, and they email me asking for a review. Now, I absolutely love her, and I enthusiastically recommend the practice every chance I get, but it gets really old writing a heartfelt paragraph about her twice a year. Google, creepily enough, tells me it’s noticed that I’ve gone to businesses it lists and asks for full reviews. I finish a library book on Kindle and “Goodreads” (aka Amazon) wants my thoughts. I never finished my English degree; I’m rarely in the mood to write a book report now.
Reviews and/or surveys.
No, I’m not going to do a survey for every business I bought something from and every medical appointment I went to. Especially since, in my experience, there’s never any way to say what I’d actually want to say on the survey (which is all too often something like ‘the person(s) I spoke with appeared to do the best that they* could, but you appear to have your organization structured so that nobody communicates with anybody else. And while we’re at it, your phone tree is horrible.’
*Note how convenient it is to have a singular ‘they’! The same word also works when the referent could be either singular or plural!
Heh, I do many reviews for Google and Google Maps. I especially enjoy doing restaurant reviews and Google says I’m in the top 5% of restaurant reviewers.
I’m currently working on helping answer their questions about each place I visit. So the other day I stop at the local farm market. I answered about a dozen questions: Can you buy oranges here? Did you have to wait to get in? Is this place trendy? Is there a handicapped entrance?
Google sent me a cute pin.
A few months ago the hinge for the lid on my toilet seat broke off. The hinge for the seat still worked, so I put off buying a replacement until I could get a friend to give me a ride to Lowe’s. I had installed the original toilet seat myself, so I figured I could handle installing the new one without any problem.
So this afternoon I decided to tackle this project. The first step, of course, was to remove the old seat. When I went to do this, however, I ran into a problem. The old seat was mounted to the toilet with a plastic nut underneath, and I could not get a grip on it with my wrench to loosen it. This was complicated by the fact that I’m not as flexible as I used to be, so I couldn’t get under the toilet to see what I was doing. (When I finally gave up and tried to get off the floor, I literally had to crawl out of the bathroom to be able to get support to get my knees under me so I could stand.)
I really don’t want to hire a plumber or handyman to remove the old seat and install the new one. From past experience, this will require paying a minimum service call fee of at least $50 for what will be less than thirty minutes’ work. I posted a request on NextDoor in hopes of finding a helpful neighbor, but I’m really irked that what should have been a minor repair has turned into a major project.
I had that problem once. This is complicated by the toilet always being tucked into a corner or squeezed between the vanity and tub. I’m a very handy person with lots and lots of tools. This simple job turned into a giant pain in the ass. I think I ended up drilling the entire nylon bolt out from the top.