Gee, thanks mom, for ruining my day and making me not want to see or speak to you for a long while.
I drive my niece home from school every day because she’s a special ed student and I’m available, while her parents are at work. I arrive at their house, both their cars are there and my mother’s car.
I walk into the house, realize that they aren’t there and say "Oh, are they still in <other state>? My 80 year old mother starts snapping about it, clearly not having understood what I said. :mad: Two minutes later she asks why I’m in a bad mood. <eye twitch> Then she says my nephew arrived home just after her. I ask “where is he?” She tells me he’s in another town. So I ask how he got there when both of the cars are in the driveway. She starts snapping at me again.
I walked out the door and texted her that I will NOT be going to dinner tomorrow with her and my niece, why I won’t be doing it and closing with “I don’t need this in my life. I’m not going to tolerate you snapping at me because you can’t listen.”
I’m in a lot of physical pain today and didn’t need this crap. Being snapped at twice in 5 minutes? Oh fuck no.
The road flooded, closed, and then reopened again while I was at work. It’s still raining. We’ll see what happens tonight. We live on top of a hill so if the road floods again I ain’t leaving.
4th. Why don’t you have a videographer on hand 24/7 to document these hijinks? That sounded like it would have been hilarious to watch.[/QUOTEAfter it settled down I did laugh at my acrobatics trying to catch them rascally cats. They snubbed me the rest of the day til treat time when they were all sunshine and smiles.
Thanks for the link to that other thread, Chimera. Interesting reading and links. I now have much more nagging fodder! My BB does have a doctor appointment next week, but that was mostly just to shut me up. Now he’s actually thinking about how serious this could have been.
Holy cow, **Flutterby **, that was a whole bunch of stuff to have happen all at once. I’m glad there are no broken bones and no cast. Use the handrails when you are going up or down stairs or consider buying a cheap cane for help.
I am very happy that I was there to help my BB at the time he really needed help. I have told this story to others and about half of them said they wouldn’t have known what to do. That is because they didn’t sit through countless first aid and cpr classes like I did. At the time, I didn’t really pay attention because I didn’t need to. Nothing that bad would ever happen around me, right? I just went because someone signed me up, or it was work required.
Well, something that bad really did happen around me so now I am converted and preaching the “Update your first aid and CPR NOW!” sermon to anyone I can make listen.
Spoke with my father yesterday, and we started discussing politics, like we usually do. He is Republican, but he’ll jokingly go to the extreme because he knows it gets a rise out of me.
Yesterday, the Roseanne tweet was discussed. He either took things way too far or is not nearly as intelligent as I believed.
He said that the “Planet of the Apes” thing wasn’t a slur, because liberals believe we descended from monkeys. So, how could that be offensive, when it is merely reinforcing evolutionary theory. After a lot of discussion (“Are you fucking serious?”, “I doubt most people who would use that slur believe in evolution, as opposed to creationism”, “I heard one of my black friends referred to as a monkey by a racist bouncer”, etc.), he refused to back down.
The conversation ended in a very tense mood, and while I hate it, I’m honestly not wanting to talk to him for a while, barring some apology where he said he was just joking and took the joke way too far…
I got a spam email today. The subject line read “GREETHINGS FROM THE DESK OF JP MORGAN CHASE.” While I wouldn’t fall for that, there are people who could. I would be more mad, though, if I weren’t laughing so hard about being “greeth-ed.” It’s like an space alien trying to pass has a human but poorly.
A family friend’s son was in a car accident on a farm where they were learning to drive a stick shift. He was hurt really badly, two skull fractures and other incidental injuries. He’s going to live but they don’t know what all he will lose. And it just fucking sucks, you know? He hasn’t even graduated from high school. It just isn’t fair.
So sorry to hear that, slalexan. The year before I became legal to drive, a girl who was one year older than me died in a car wreck. They determined that her car stalled out while she was trying to change gears in a precarious intersection. My mom required that whatever car I drove would have an automatic transmission.
I was offered to be taught how to drive a stick twice in my life - once while in the mountains of Colorado (with a friend and his father, who were both adventurous and saw nothing dangerous about it), and once by my ex in an empty church parking lot on a Sunday afternoon, not realizing that we would soon be swarmed by people coming for the evening services.
Never had any incentive to add that to my skill-set.
Damn lawn mower will not start. Had a friend over last week to work on my truck, wanted to go over the mower - I said “Nah, it’s fine”. Dumbass self.
If I don’t get it mowed SOON I’m going to get a nastygram from the city and today / tomorrow are the only non-rainy/hot as balls days in the near future.
My daughter needed a car for nursing school (they sprung it on her that she’d be “doing rotations” in small town hospitals, putting hundreds of miles on “her car”… only problem, she was the ONLY student who didn’t have a car, or could borrow one of Daddy’s fleet).
I biked for an entire school year, and she got to borrow my car… my stick shift. Which she knew how to drive, but it meant NONE of her friends could borrow it!
(Win Win – more acceleration, more fun to drive, fewer dents from college kids!)
That’s both the upside and a downside of stick shifts - no one can borrow them, but it’s also harder to get someone to drive your car home for you after, for example, you’ve had a few drinks.
My dad insisted my sisters and I learn to drive a stick before he let us look at an automatic. It made us pay more attention to what we were doing while we were driving.
The downside is manuals are becoming harder and harder to find. It’s why I’m driving a 17-year-old car: it’s got a stick shift.
Could someone versed in Microsoft obscurity, security, and other obscenties explain to me why, on my personal, brand-new, no-bloatware computer, I have to go into security settings for three quarters of the files I personally with my own user account placed on this computer and change the settings to allow that self-same account to even bloody READ the files, much less anything else? Just had this happen with some mp3 files that I retrieved from my backup drive that I used to transfer files from the old computer to the new one. I couldn’t play any of them until I changed the security settings. I was so irritated, I changed the settings on the entire disk drive, but why in hell is that even NECESSARY???
My husband and I and just about everyone we hang out with can all drive stick; I think we are a bunch of oddballs, though. As far as I know, driving stick is not all that common any longer.
I think it had something to do with the last update, which installed last night. That update also partially broke FrameMaker’s ability to create PDF files. If I didn’t need Windows to run all the software I use on a regular basis, I’d wipe this fucker and install Linux.
