I just got a new apartment-mate. She seems like a very nice sort of person. However, she seems to not be well versed in the mystical ways of the doorknob. For example, if you turn it as you go to shut your door, IT WON’T MAKE THAT FUCKING LOUD AND ANNOYING tlllock-SLAM NOISE!
Also, you don’t need to lock yourself in your goddamn room all the time! Note how everyone else leaves their door open a little, or if they shut it, they don’t ostentatiously lock the door? We aren’t going to molest you OR steal your shitty stuff.
ANOTHER THING. It’s winter. Yes, it was 60 degrees earlier this week. However, it is now 30. The heat is on. We may have a flat rate, but opening your window all the way up and leaving it that way as you go about your merry business is fucking wasteful.
I’ve noticed this trend in a few other glurge emails recently. I guess that the morons who send this sort of shit around are tired of constantly being embarrassed when someone calls them on their bullshit. The claim to have checked Snopes is an attempt to head off those who might actually check out the facts for themselves.
A coworker scheduled a meeting for 1:00, right after I usually take lunch. Thus, at 1:00, I had a notebook and was ready to go. Since I was vaguely aware of her getting up and going somewhere, I went over to the conference room where we were supposed to meet. She wasn’t there, but I turned on the lights, figuring she’d just gone back to the bathroom or something. When she didn’t show, I wandered back to my cube. After several minutes, the third coworker who’d been invited to the meeting told me she’d gone for a drink at about a minute to 1:00. This left me unwilling to start doing anything, since she should be coming back shortly, but not able to start the meeting without her. When my coworker finally got back a little before 1:15, she asked if I was ready. I told her “Yes” and pointed out I’d been ready since 1:00. She replied that she was cancelling the meeting because she didn’t want to deal with attitudes like mine. Now, I could be wrong here, but scheduling a meeting, then going on an errand which you know will take several minutes immediately before the meeting, leaving the other people who are supposed to attend the meeting hanging is just plain rude. If I’d known what she was up to, I probably could have taken an extended lunch or worked on something that could be knocked off before she got back.
What the hell is up with my internet? I pay more than $50 a month for my connection, now that I finally live somewhere where I can get some fucking high-speed, and my download speed has suddenly dropped to roughly what it was back when I lived in rural Oregon and internet only CAME in dial-up. And it wasn’t even 56k dial-up! It was 26.4k TOPS and I’m pretty sure I was still downloading shit faster than this piece of shit connection is managing now. My IP phone isn’t working either, so I’m sure there’s some kind of fuck up somewhere. Of course, that means I can’t talk to my family or anyone in America without paying roughly 5 zillion dollars per minute. Amazingly enough, sending me a brand new modem didn’t do anything (since there was, you know, nothing wrong with my old one), although the prompt service was kind of amazing. God bless Japan’s door-to-door delivery services.
Seriously, this pisses me off. At least I have internet, but I want to download some… uhh… important and very serious nature documentaries. Yeah. And at any rate, 2kbps is not fucking cutting it!
Oh, hell yeah. What kind of driver’s fucking ed leaves out the part about how on-ramps are for ACCELERATING so that when you get to the actual fucking highway and want to merge into fucking traffic you don’t cause a fucking 50-car pileup. Today this dipshit in front of me does 35 the entire length of a reasonably long and straight on ramp. There is clearly no one in front of him holding him up.
Then, after I get on and pass the dangerously ignorant motherfucker, he climbs on my ass in the passing lane until I get over, and proceeds to do 85 in a 55 speed zone for about 5 minutes until he disappears off the horizon. WTF?!?!
My stupid cat has a new hobby - knocking over cups. I put water in his water cup, and within five minutes, he’s knocked it over and there’s water all over the floor. And of course, this lovely new hobby coincides with the time where I have no running water and all water must be carried in from the village fountain by yours truly. YOU’RE WELCOME, RETARDED CAT FROM HELL.
Also, I think I’m getting sick. I was just sick like, two weeks ago! Fucking hell.
Nah, I’ve been there. What usually works for me is a combination of the below;
Reset the router to default settings. Some routers are just kinda screwy, though probably understandable enough to technically educated folks with them there bachelors. But give it a shot.
Do the old bug hunt around your computer; check your processes, check for malware, spyware, delaware, etc. Who knows what you might find? (I’m presuming you’re an average user, apologies if I give offense)
Call your ISP and politely question them whether or not there’s a problem with their net at your location, and if there is, when it will be resolved. (Optional question is how you can expect to be recompensed. They might knock you a month free, which is nifty when it’s $50 bucks. So sayeth the student, anyway.)
since you’re not my employee I can not tell you what to do except to transmit my mother’s orders. Her flat has, all counted, a total of 7 rooms, plus the greenhouse and terrace, for a grand total just shy of 200m[sup]2[/sup] - so will you kindly make a choice between cleaning any room other than the one I’m in or shoving the vacuum cleaner’s hose up any of your nether holes? No, you’re not getting Opal as a possible option and letting you choose her cat would count as cruelty to animals.
snort What kind of civil engineer designs an on-ramp with a SHORT merge when you can’t see the highway from the ramp to check and see if there’s room to merge in the first place?
There are a couple of these near where I live that I use, and yes, I’ve had to stop at the end of the ramp because no, I couldn’t see if there was traffic in the lane until I got to the top of the ramp and yes, the merge lane after you get to the top of the ramp is about 50 feet long, IF that, which means there’s not enough room to adjust my speed for merging if there’s anyone at all in the lane I’m supposed to be merging into. You have two choices–accelerate really fast up the ramp and hope you’re up to speed at the top and there’s no one in the lane and be prepared to stop short when there is someone, or creep up so you can get a good look without having to slam on the breaks and merge in at well below the speed limit when there’s room in the lane.
I’m surprised there aren’t at least 3 bad accidents a day at these ramps, I really am.
I know, it’s noon. I know that because I looked at the clock - looking at the sky won’t tell me because there’s intense cloud cover and rain and the sun is completely invisible. The lack of light makes it harder to see things, things like your car.
OTOH, when the headlights are on, your car is more clearly seen. And we’re all less likely to get into accidents when things are clearly seen. Your car is not supposed to be a stealth vehicle. Turn on the damned lights.
Also, no, you weren’t “not so keen” when you volunteered. You said “I’ll do that” in a fairly pleasant (for you, anyway) tone.
“No,” is a good way of displaying unkeenness.
“I would really rather not.” is another good way.
“If I absolutely must, and there are no other options” (which is the way one of the other volunters demonstrated his unkeenness.)
Or, you could have said “I have made future, inalterable plans that make it completely, physically impossible for me to do this job. You need to find someone else.” You know, that whole strange truth thing - because you had made those plans - and I will need to find someone else. However now, I’ve been totally blindsided and I’m going to have to find someone else to do it at the last minute rather than getting someone with more lead time.
I am at a loss to figure out how saying “yes,” full well knowing that you don’t mean it is better in your mind than saying “no.” You couldn’t even have intended to do it (which is different than people who overextend themselves, in my book) you just flat out lied and screwed me over.
So, every driver in Calgary has decided that stopping at stop signs and red lights before turning right is for pussies. I tried for the longest time to follow the law and do as I was supposed to, putting the rear end of my car at risk every time I made a full stop with someone behind me. I finally decided, to hell with it. I don’t want my good car rammed because of all the assholes here. Well, guess who got a $287 ticket for not making a complete stop at a stop sign this morning, about two days after I decided that I’d rather be safe than right? It’s my own damned fault - I know that I can’t get away with anything on the road.
Actually, thinking about it, I’m also blaming the City of Calgary for putting stop signs everywhere that they are not needed. If people can and do get away with a rolling stop all the time, the stop signs could obviously be replaced with yield signs. But nooooooo, then they wouldn’t get their $287 from patsies like me. I also blame the cops for their crapulent enforcement. Everyone’s doing it because everyone’s getting away with it (except me, as already discussed).
To the old hag who almost made me miss my bus this morning: look, there’s a long line of people who want to pay for their coffee and get to work. It’s fucking morning rush hour. So please, if you insist on playing your scratch off tickets, stand to the side, see if you win, and THEN cash them. If I hadn’t already fixed my hot chocolate (with two coffee shots), I would have left. It’s lucky the bus was a little late this morning.
And to the assholes who put their bags on an empty seat in an overcrowded bus-you should be fucking ashamed. If I had been able to move, I would have gotten back and torn you a new one-as it was, I could hardly turn around.
