# Okay, that's the last straw **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594 "2005-12-29T17:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/1 "2005-12-29T17:31:14Z")
Grumble grumble grumble – I’m not having a good week. People have been pointing out my imperfections (all things I’ve actually done or failed to do, so it’s not that I’m being attacked without cause, not that that helps any), I’m tired and cranky and overworked and underpaid and my birthday is coming up and I’m going to be 51, which isn’t a nice round number I can freak out about, like last year, it just means I’m middle-aged, plus I’ve been eating crap so I’m fat and middle-aged, and, oh, BTW, I’ll probably never get laid again, so I’m fat and middle-aged and unattractive. And I was just eating a mini Butterfinger (sugar will make me feel better, right? – see above for “eating crap”) and I broke a filling on it. And it’s two weeks till I can get an appt. with the dentist so I’m going to spend the next two weeks compulsively prodding the rough spot on the inside of that tooth with my tongue. Plus it’s raining. Grumble grumble grumble. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/2 "2005-12-29T17:39:01Z")
Just remember I love you, and it’ll be all right. OW! Hey! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/3 "2005-12-29T17:41:13Z")
Rain is good. It makes stuff grow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/4 "2005-12-29T17:43:24Z")
Boy, there’s a couple of different ways to approach a post like this, isn’t there? We could do a virtual group hug, or basically dump good-natured abuse on **Twickster**. Show of hands for the group hug? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/5 "2005-12-29T17:49:18Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > Boy, there’s a couple of different ways to approach a post like this, isn’t there? We could do a virtual group hug, or basically dump good-natured abuse on **Twickster**. > > Show of hands for the group hug? Nah, go ahead and do the abuse thing – the group hug would just piss me off in my current mood. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/6 "2005-12-29T18:23:07Z")
Would purrs from Lily and Herman piss you off? ::puuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:: ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/7 "2005-12-29T18:24:38Z")
Here ya go twix. Have a cookie. I made them fresh this morning. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/8 "2005-12-29T18:25:30Z")
Who the FUCK took all the straws!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/9 "2005-12-29T18:25:35Z")
Sid down, shaddup and qwityerbitchin’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/10 "2005-12-29T18:30:58Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > Here ya go twix. Have a cookie. I made them fresh this morning. **eyes cookie suspiciously** There’s nothing in there I could break a filling on, is there? And **NoClueBoy** , I actually have a couple of straws in my drawer – if I weren’t in such an evil mood I’d give you one. So there. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/11 "2005-12-29T18:33:46Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **eyes cookie suspiciously** > > There’s nothing in there I could break a filling on, is there? > > And **NoClueBoy** , I actually have a couple of straws in my drawer – if I weren’t in such an evil mood I’d give you one. So there. Shoot! I forgot about the walnuts… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/12 "2005-12-29T18:34:25Z")
_tars and feathers **twickster** _ Look! Look, everyone! Isn’t she funny. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/13 "2005-12-29T18:35:37Z")
Two weeks? What are the chances they can get you in earlier if you call daily complaining about it? Two weeks is way too long. :mad: Personally I’ve found myself loudly singing [Life’s Gonna Suck When You Grow Up](http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/51414/Life's_Gonna_Suck) when I’m in the car or alone at work, doesn’t change anything but it’s perversely fun. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/14 "2005-12-29T18:35:41Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Nah, go ahead and do the abuse thing – the group hug would just piss me off in my current mood. OK, fine – Ya want something to kvetch about? I’ll give you something to kvetch about! {{{{{noogie!}}}}} ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/15 "2005-12-29T18:38:40Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > Personally I’ve found myself loudly singing [Life’s Gonna Suck When You Grow Up](http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/51414/Life's_Gonna_Suck) when I’m in the car or alone at work, doesn’t change anything but it’s perversely fun. Hmph. My favorite (because I’m middle-aged, etc.) is _Will I Make It Through the '80s_, by Julie Brown – “Nothing in the fridge, nothing on TV, Sylvia Plath has nothing on me!” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/16 "2005-12-29T18:40:17Z")
**gives Daithi Lacha a look that can cause blood to freeze** ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/17 "2005-12-29T18:42:09Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Hmph. My favorite (because I’m middle-aged, etc.) is _Will I Make It Through the '80s_, by Julie Brown – “Nothing in the fridge, nothing on TV, Sylvia Plath has nothing on me!” Hmmm. Were you a homecoming queen too? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/18 "2005-12-29T18:49:23Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Hmph. My favorite (because I’m middle-aged, etc.) is _Will I Make It Through the '80s_, by Julie Brown – “Nothing in the fridge, nothing on TV, Sylvia Plath has nothing on me!” I once stuck my head in the oven and turned it on a la Ms. Plath. I forgot it was an electric range and almost burned myself. I was feeling suicidal but I was damned sure not going to feel suicidal and in be in pain also. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/19 "2005-12-29T18:54:25Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > . . . People have been pointing out my imperfections (all things I’ve actually done or failed to do, so it’s not that I’m being attacked without cause, not that that helps any) . . . Happy Festivus. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/20 "2005-12-29T18:56:03Z")
Could be worse - you could live with me and you’d be further pissed off because I just finished the last of the chocolates in the house. But since you don’t live with me, there’s no reason for that to piss you off. Right? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594.md?page=2)