# Ranting like March Hares - or somesuch **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705 "2013-03-01T06:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/442 "2013-03-23T16:29:27Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > I’m in a mood. I had weird dreams, my son is acting up unusually for him after many months of good behaviour and I’m not sure how to deal with it except my initial reaction of wanting to smack him and tell him to smarten up probably isn’t the best so I managed to not do so. > > I’m done with this week, I just want to hide out in the woods with nothing but Netflix, knitting and a roaring fire and all the food I need. > > Can I? Can I come with you? I’m good company for Netflix watching, honest. > [@Chimera](#): > > Walking back from lunch in the Minneapolis skyway. Woman darts out from behind a mob about 30 feet in front of me, coming straight at me. I’m already brushing the right wall, there’s nowhere for me to go. I give her a raised eyebrow :dubious: and keep moving. She gives me the “I’m not interested in you” look and moves over. :smack: > > Wasn’t the slightest bit interested in you, you stupid duck faced stick figure plastic surgery looking bitch. > > Had just been hoping you wouldn’t walk your 80 pounds into my 240 and then claim it was my fault that I didn’t phase through a wall or something to get out of your way. That drives me a little crazy - here in Canada (and I assume the US as well), it’s walk on the right, pass on the left, just like driving. I’m on the right, where I’m supposed to be - you are on the left, therefore you are in the wrong, therefore I am not moving for you. I suggest next time you ( **Chimera** you, that is) get into the athletic stance, slightly bent at the waist, and put one shoulder forward for them to hit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/443 "2013-03-23T17:48:44Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Can I come with you? I’m good company for Netflix watching, honest. I have the woodstove cranking with some chicken stew bubbling away, a loaf of bread just about finished rising and ready to bake, and am working on [Doc Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Martin) on Netflix. I don’t know what the weather system rolling in has in mind for eastern COnnecticut, perhaps it is just a malicious sprite here to trash out my knees and make it practically impossible for me to find a comfortable position. ☹ I swear, I have barely watched anything on cable since getting the tablet - it is so damned convenient to watch netflix on it. I can prop it up and lie on either side to watch or use it to play the music I popped onto its SD chip. I am thinking of getting one of those articulated arm tablet holders and attaching it to the headboard! I could see the ubiquitous crappy TV/radio setups in hospitals being replaced by tablets. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/444 "2013-03-23T18:26:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That drives me a little crazy - here in Canada (and I assume the US as well), it’s walk on the right, pass on the left, just like driving. I’m on the right, where I’m supposed to be - you are on the left, therefore you are in the wrong, therefore I am not moving for you. I suggest next time you ( **Chimera** you, that is) get into the athletic stance, slightly bent at the waist, and put one shoulder forward for them to hit. 🙂 It’s supposed to be that way, yeah. I hate it when people are walking 2+ abreast down a hallway/sidewalk and chatting obliviously while they’re taking up the whole space. If I’m coming the other direction and facing one of these groups, I usually just stop dead and watch them approach, eyebrow raised ( :dubious: ) if they’re nearly at me before they figure out the issues with physics that are raising complications with their plan. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/445 "2013-03-23T18:40:21Z")
**Ferret Herder** , I like your use of the :dubious: smiley in the above post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/446 "2013-03-23T22:42:08Z")
Two minutes toddler. A lousy one hundred and twenty seconds to make you breakfast. How the hell did you find the time to decorate the cat with blue marker and lime green nail polish? And why the hell is that idiot cat still purring at you and licking your hands? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/447 "2013-03-23T23:30:08Z")
Went to the doctor yesterday…I have a sinus/ear infection, along with a cough so severe that I’ve pulled muscles. Went to pick up my prescriptions, and found that I had been prescribed cough pills instead of cough syrup. Huh. I looked them up online – benzonatate, which is apparently some pretty strong stuff. Damn things don’t do jack shit for me. :mad: They ease the coughing for about 4 hours, and make me sleepy enough to doze for 2 hours…that’s it. I got no sleep last night, and I’ve pulled a neck muscle so severely that I can’t turn my head. I also made the mistake of checking my work email…one of my projects has had a potentially serious problem crop up, so now I feel like I have to go in Monday whether I’m feeling better or not. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/448 "2013-03-23T23:56:44Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Two minutes toddler. A lousy one hundred and twenty seconds to make you breakfast. How the hell did you find the time to decorate the cat with blue marker and lime green nail polish? And why the hell is that idiot cat still purring at you and licking your hands? I am so cracking up here. Lucky is still feeling wrong to my hands, so he went to the vet for more blood work. I’m guessing he’s in kidney failure now. I’ve done the sub-q thing for kidney cats before and what I’ve learned is that when they go into kidney failure, they will never get better and that they don’t like to get stuck with needles. Its palliative care for Lucky now. I’ll treat his hyperthyroid problems, I’ll stuff as much food in him as I can, but I’m not going to force him to live when he’s having more bad days than good ones. And I will cry when we have the visiting vet come out to put him down. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/449 "2013-03-24T00:41:45Z")
Hugs to {{{{{ **Flatlined** }}}} I think I will have to give up the bunny. I cannot even look after myself at the moment. She is still not litter trained and her tail is always wet. I cannot afford any more vet bills and I am in a state where I just cannot look after her. I had a really bad fall last night and am covered in bruises I just want ton cry but my sinuses are so just so full of tears my face hurts and I think I may be getting a sinus infection. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/450 "2013-03-24T01:40:20Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Two minutes toddler. A lousy one hundred and twenty seconds to make you breakfast. How the hell did you find the time to decorate the cat with blue marker and lime green nail polish? And why the hell is that idiot cat still purring at you and licking your hands? That reminds me of a cartoon (For Better or For Worse? I think so) my mom had on the refrigerator. A chocolate-smeared toddler was playing in the middle of a chocolate-smeared living room while the mom stared forlornly thinking “One cookie. I only gave her one cookie.” ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/451 "2013-03-24T01:58:50Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Well, I took my vacuum apart today to clear out the **clog**. The C and the L ran together in my eye and I thought, “that dog must have been REALLY small to get sucked into a vacuum cleaner.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/452 "2013-03-24T03:05:25Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Lucky is still feeling wrong to my hands, so he went to the vet for more blood work. I’m guessing he’s in kidney failure now. I’ve done the sub-q thing for kidney cats before and what I’ve learned is that when they go into kidney failure, they will never get better and that they don’t like to get stuck with needles. > > Its palliative care for Lucky now. I’ll treat his hyperthyroid problems, I’ll stuff as much food in him as I can, but I’m not going to force him to live when he’s having more bad days than good ones. > > And I will cry when we have the visiting vet come out to put him down. So will we. Make sure you come around here for the support. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/453 "2013-03-24T06:27:54Z")
Every time I have to use LAX, I’m angry and irritable for the following 24 hours. Because that airport just sucks that much. Today, the security line for Terminal 7 was _in the breezeway to the parking garage_. You know, outside, on top of the street, with all the belching shuttle buses and taxis roaring by right underneath us. Accessible only by one elevator, with only one ID checker and two open lanes, for everybody flying United out of that terminal. Brilliant! Oh, and then it turned out my boarding pass was wrong and my gate was actually in Terminal 6. Last time I learned that apparently they just never bothered to put up any screens in American’s baggage claim telling you what carousel your luggage is coming to. They just mumble flight numbers rapid-fire over the PA system every 5-10 minutes. I don’t understand how the hell an airport of this size doesn’t have that, but then again, it’s LAX. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/454 "2013-03-24T14:01:52Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > The C and the L ran together in my eye and I thought, “that dog must have been REALLY small to get sucked into a vacuum cleaner.” Damn teacup Chihuahuas. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/455 "2013-03-24T14:13:41Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Also, if you’re gonna cheap out on the condiments, then at least ASK if the customer wants ketchup/mustard/whatever. Nobody gives you ketchup anymore! In the past three months we’ve been to McDonalds and Wendy’s drive-throughs and gotten home to find ZERO ketchups in the bag. We’ve usually got ketchup at home, so it’s not a huge problem, but come on, people - if we’re ordering fries, we probably want ketchup. I shouldn’t have to ask for it. The default should be ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/456 "2013-03-24T14:47:46Z")
No, it shouldn’t. It should be catsup. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/457 "2013-03-24T15:30:25Z")
I dunno. When I eat fries in a restaurant or at home, I use plenty of the red stuff. But when I get drive-through, unless I’m taking it home, I tend to eat them plain. I hate the little packets of catsup because there’s almost nothing in them, and a lot of the time unless you squeeze it back and forth to mix it up, you squeeze out separated stuff which is nasty. Then for my usual amount of ketchup, I would need 7-8 packets! Also, if I’m eating them in the car while I’m driving, it is rather difficult to use the packets. So don’t give me any packets at all. If I need it, I have it at home. It I want it, I’ll be eating inside, not going through the drive-through. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/458 "2013-03-24T17:21:32Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Hugs to {{{{{ **Flatlined** }}}} > > I think I will have to give up the bunny. I cannot even look after myself at the moment. She is still not litter trained and her tail is always wet. I cannot afford any more vet bills and I am in a state where I just cannot look after her. I had a really bad fall last night and am covered in bruises I just want ton cry but my sinuses are so just so full of tears my face hurts and I think I may be getting a sinus infection. Hugs you back. I’m so sorry about the bunny, I know you love her. Life just keeps dumping on you ☹ Please try to take care of yourself. You are a good and kind person who deserves good things to happen. Thanks **kaylasdad99**. Lucky’s a young kitteh, I think he’s only 8 or so. I might have him for many more years to come. The last time I ordered pizza from Domino’s, I asked for extra packets of cheese and peppers and was told that they didn’t have them anymore. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/459 "2013-03-24T23:44:10Z")
Why won’t it fucking stop snowing already?? I just barely got home with the kids this morning before we got about 10 inches of snow dumped on us. So glad I left early, but shit - stop already!! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/460 "2013-03-25T03:22:11Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Thanks **kaylasdad99**. Lucky’s a young kitteh, I think he’s only 8 or so. I might have him for many more years to come. From your [del]lips[/del] keyboard to God’s [del]ears[/del] monitor. Whatever and whenever, though, we’ll still be here. Hell, I’ve been here for over thirteen years… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705/461 "2013-03-25T05:51:26Z")
I can’t fucking sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranting-like-march-hares-or-somesuch/651705.md?page=24)