NaNoRantMo (November Mini Rants)

WHERE are the Pumpkin Spice Oreos!!! It is CRUEL TO MAKE ME WAIT!!!

I’m with everyone on no paint on the woodwork or brick. I HATE that. I also hate clutter when looking at houses. People, put your personal crap in storage! We saw some disasters where we couldn’t see the house for all the clutter. I don’t care if it’s neat-get it out of sight!

We saw them at Target over the weekend. Try online.

10 bucks a package on Amazon. Ouch.

They were $11 yesterday.

Dear lovely relative:

I graduated summa cum laude. I do believe I know how to operate a clothes dryer. I am fully aware that the setting was on “delicate air fluff” and that said setting means the air is “cold”.

I had those clothes in the dryer on that setting because they are… wait for it… delicates!

I do not appreciate you waiting until I was occupied with something else to crank that shit up to “regular”, subjecting my delicates to almost 200 degree heat for almost an hour.

Said delicates included my expensive favorite pair of underwear, an authentic Nuggets jersey, several other pairs of expensive underwear, and several pairs of athletic shorts.

Note that I used the past tense. “IncludED”. That is because you melted them.

Thanks a heap.

I realize the need to conserve water. I like saving money on water. But I just wish there were a way to make it so low flow toilets could still have enough water in the bowl to cover my usual morning, ah, evacuations without anything sticking out into the open air. I know that’s the whole POINT, but still.

Get a better toilet, designed specifically for low flow. The bowl design should be different from the old high-flow toilets, they narrow down so that the part containing the water is narrower and therefore deeper. This leaves more of the bowl exposed rather than under water, so when the water is flushed, it cyclones around and down in force to wash away any stray particles. Toto seems to have this pretty well designed.

What did I get for November?
Bronchitis.

Ugh, I have figured out what I did wrong. I just came off knee surgery and was told to do 200 leg raises per.day to help in the recovery. That was stressing the muscles in my (already problematic) back in a new way. Now it’s finally given out entirely.

It’s funny, I knew that my back was going to derail my recovery and really did try to preempt that possibility by making sure that it was exercised frequently leading up.to the surgery. It never occurred to me for a second that I would be doing different exercises post-surgery and that could cause a problem. Ugh, it’s so frustrating to know that I easily could have prevented this.

Turns out that my area didn’t have anything to vote for on “election day,” so they didn’t hold an election.

(((( ))))) <---- That’s a virtual air hug. Because a real virtual hug would probably cause pain.

That’s nice, but seeing as how I rent, my toilet isn’t going to change anytime soon. But if I ever do ghad in such a position, I’ll keep it in mind.

Dear Kmart: I just want to buy this pack of undershirts.

NO I don’t have my Rewards Card.

NO I don’t want to contribute to St Jude’s today.

NO I don’t want my receipt emailed. Please print it up and can’t I just get it without a mile long strip of coupons I’ll never use?

Please just let me check out these undershirts so I can move on with my life. I didn’t come here to play 20 Questions with your cashier.

Thank you for correctly directing your ire. I can assure you the cashier hates the 20 Questions as much as you do, but could easily lose his/her job for not doing it. Many mentions of such over on Customers Suck.

The last (as in final) time I shopped at Penny’s, the cashier asked if I would be paying with my Penny’s charge. Nope, cash.

So she got all worked up about how she could get me signed up and I’d save 20% on my purchase. Nope, cash I repeated.

So, she totaled up my purchase and figured out what my 20% savings would come to. Nope, cash.

And she started all over again about how it would only take a few minutes and I would be saving money and there was no downside. I patiently pointed out that even if my purchase would be free and Penny’s would throw a parade in my honor, I’d still rather pay cash for my stuff.

When I got home I discovered a pair of jeans I’d purchased still had the anti-theft device clipped to it.:mad:

At least you HAVE a K-Mart. The one that was a mile away from my home just closed so my choice is Sprawl-Mart through 4 miles of bad traffic, or Target through 5 miles of bad traffic. At least Target has more than clothes.

I pit the GODDAMNED CELL PHONE PROVIDERS!! My two-year contract with Sprint expired this month. My phone is now paid for. No, I do not want to upgrade. My curent phone is just fine, thank you. Of course, since the contract has ended, Sprint immediately increased my monthly rate by $10.

I don’t need the uber-expensive plan I have with Sprint but they don’t offer any other options for those of us without multiple phones in the household. So, I’ve looked into Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, and StraightTalk. Not a single one of them will accept my phone (a Samsung Galaxy S4). So now I have a phone I can only use with Sprint.

FUCK THEM ALL!!

I understand you have other patients. I understand the office manager has screwed up the schedule so (somehow) three of us need to come off our machines within 15 minutes - pretty impossible. But, dammit, when you know I HAVE to be out the door by 10:15 at the latest, don’t fucking drag your feet. They are retired. I have to get to work. Fix your damn schedule so I can get the fuck out of here on time!
And no, I don’t have time to chat on my way out, Ms Nutritionist, I have to leave. You always give me incorrect information, anyways.

:confused: Why is the model relevant? I’m used to the question being “is your phone bound or free?” (if it’s bound the people who work in phone stores either can release it themselves or know some pirate nearby who can), not which model.

Nava, the problem is the 4 major carriers in the US have 3 incompatible standards between them. Verizon uses CDMA, The DeathStar, er, excuse me, AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM, and I forget what Sprint uses. IPhones are agnostic, but Android phones only work with one carrier.

jayray, your best bet may be seeing who will toss in some cash for your old phone to bribe you to switch.