Whoa. Wait till they discover he’s no more real than Santa!
Anti-rant follow up from last month’s insane electric bill; they agreed it was an error, and ‘fixed’ it, updating the account today. The account is now £14 in credit. They say it must have been unused credit from when it was prepaid. There was £5 and a few stray pennies on there; I’m on a tight budget, I know how much credit I had.
So yeah, I don’t think I spent -£14 in a month any more than I spent £416. I told them I was sure I should owe 'em about £20-30, but they said if that’s what the system says, they’re OK with it, and I’m not going to argue too much about getting a month’s free power!
I know you would never, but there are idiot customers out there who will tell you they want everything and in the next breath excoriate you because obviously everything doesn’t include banana peppers or pickles or tomatoes. bonus points for “I’m allergic to <food>!” Have sympathy for the poor benighted sandwich worker; they just want one shift where they don’t get yelled at because they couldn’t read the customer’s mind.
Yeesh. TWELVE? I’d think they’d want to get that reveal out of the way a LOT earlier, like before the kid has learned to extrapolate from one case to another (like whether the 'rents have been fibbing about Baby Jesus, too).
Please dive into the trainwreck one more time for us, overly. Find out if this seventh-grader has found out about the Easter Bunny yet.
A 12-year old still believed in Santa Claus?? 
I just wanted to pop in here and say that a game in which the host constantly changes the rules for every round… such a game just doesn’t work and is absolutely no fun.
That’s all. 
Dealer’s Choice poker?
Naw, that can be fun as poker itself has rules. But there’s a current game thread where the person running it changes the rules as the game progresses.
I don’t really want to go further… you can find it if you wish… but the latest rule change today, about ignoring the votes of those who haven’t played in the last few rounds, deserved a mini rant.
Close. Dragon Poker.
Just don’t take the Markie.
I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a Calvinball team together at my college.
Now, there’s a game where changing the rules every thirty seconds or so is the whole point.
A game thread where the “dungeonmaster” keeps changing the rules? Crap…
Yes, O.K., you got me – I am a liar. But there are two types of liars – ones who goes about actively spouting falsehoods, and ones who don’t want to truthfully answer your constant, invasive, inquisitions. I’m the second type. Deal with it any way you have to.
Nothing like being told “you’re at that age now” and “it all catches up with you at your age” during a medical appointment.
No, I’m still 30 years old! OK, 40 years old! WTF are you talking about?!?
It doesn’t get any better. The dermatologist told me I have great skin “for a woman of your age.” Gee, now I feel so great about these wrinkles, doc. (On the other hand I am not 40.)
Yeah, that was on the tip of my tongue (or fingers). I had a quick conversation with my kid a few weeks ago just to make sure I knew what he believed and was incredibly relieved when he said, “No - you guys act way too suspiciously around Christmas. Plus, he couldn’t possibly get presents all over the world like that.”
And for the curious, there was LOTS of Jesus talk thereafter - and then things veered into whether it was ever ok for “God’s children” to give or receive gifts at Christmas or believe in Santa when the lord clearly stipulated that Jesus lived in poverty, so we should all live in poverty and be humble as well. And then…Trump. Yes, the post went into how Republicans were all going to save us and the news media was unfairly painting Trump and he was at least going to fight the War on Christmas. So there you have it. From Santa to Jesus to Trump. I give up. :smack:
Is he a special needs kid by any chance? I can’t imagine a kid not learning about Santa Claus sooner than that, even if it’s from friends. It all sounds very strange. If true, the mother sure did her kid a disservice. His peers will be ruthless.
Ever heard of TEGWAR?
Many years ago, some of my cousins got heavily into the idea that “Santa judges, but Jesus forgives!” One cousin’s child (he was about four or five at the time) even scolded an old lady in Target for asking him what he thought Santa would bring him for Christmas. The child’s mother thought this was adorable, and also a sign of The Lord working through her son.
Fast forward a few years…one cousin has established a small business in a large metropolitan area – completely staffed by family members – and now that side of the family is suddenly willing to talk about “the holidays” instead of just “CHRISTmas”. Heck, they even participated in Halloween this year. Can’t imagine what got into them.
Heh, yeah I remember going to the doctor at some point around age 45 for my annual checkup, complaining about some aches and pains, and my doctor just laughed and said “Yeah, getting old sucks.”
Here is my rant of the day: a pox on people who have smartphones and refuse to learn even the SIMPLEST things to do on them.
I realize a smartphone is a zillion times more complicated and powerful than the earliest computers and has a zillion time the memory that my first PC did. And I realize that I will never get around to learning all it can do. Fine. I don’t listen to music or podcasts on mine, and I’m not on Facebook, so I’m probably a pretty elementary user compared to the average 16-year old.
But I’m talking about people who after years of owning a smart phone [del]don’t know[/del] have never bothered to find out how to silence the ringer. Who don’t get emails on their phones. Who don’t know how to text or how to take a picture and send it. Who don’t use the GPS feature. Who don’t know how to add a contact. :smack:
Aren’t they the least little bit curious about all those icons and what they do/mean? Apparently not.
And when they tell you they don’t know how to do something or never learned, they are quite amused at themselves and even humble-brag about their IGNORANCE. “Oh, I still don’t know how to use this phone! It’s way over my head!”
I’m not even going to talk about the ones who own mobile phones but NEVER TURN THEM ON, because they’re only “for emergencies.” Um… what if the emergency is someone trying to call YOU, huh? What about that kind of emergency? These people seem to thing that they’re being billed for time when the phone is just *on *without a call or text being in progress.
Or the ones who say, “I turned my phone off, because I didn’t want to be bothered with any calls.” Well, you can turn your ringer OFF and leave the phone ON and just glance at it later to see if you missed any important calls or texts. Of course, I have a 93-year old mother in assisted living, and a good friend who is in poor health, so I want to know if I got calls from either of them. I often leave my ringer off all day, but I do glance at the phone every now and then. Maybe there are people who really want to be completely unreachable and nobody cares. Whatever.
Thank you and best of luck to you and yours.