# September's shot already (mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577 "2019-09-02T02:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/41 "2019-09-05T14:36:33Z")
“Python is an incredibly easy language to learn” I see this everywhere as I research. Why is it easy? Because EVERYTHING in Python is an object. So easy that my local JUCO only offers classes in Python to 10 to 15 year olds. Except my old brain resists Object Oriented Programming like it was death itself. Try as I might, any progress I gain into understanding it fades away with the next sleep cycle. So, as I happily try to understand any nuance of this fun language I am constantly reminded that “it’s OK, … xxxx is also an object”. Get it?..NO ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/42 "2019-09-05T16:08:20Z")
The buzzer system in my condo building has been broken for over a month. I work from home and still can’t receive my packages because the delivery people can’t get into the building. What on earth is taking them so long? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/43 "2019-09-05T16:54:13Z")
I pit two people. One is the person who took a crap right outside the side door I usually take out of the parking garage. I know the homeless are people too, and everyone has basic biological needs, but I just thank god I didn’t step into any of it despite the surprise. The other is… me. I’m borrowing a much larger and higher vehicle overnight, and had to park it in the aforementioned parking garage. I always shake my head at cars not parked between the lines, but just now I left that large vehicle not quite pulled as far in as I could, and nudging one of the lines, so I could make my bus. OTOH, I wasn’t used to the car, and regular drivers should be, so… ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/44 "2019-09-05T19:47:49Z")
I pit the VA eye care clinic at Mather Air Base. I just had cataract surgery, and don’t get me wrong, they did an excellent job with the surgery (as far as I can tell). But they put me and another guy in the same pre-op room with two nurses prepping us and asking questions and checking our vitals prior to surgery. They repeatedly violated HIPAA regs by reporting his and my blood glucose levels, our medications (I didn’t need to know that this stranger is on prostate meds), and what and when we ate last. That should have all been done in private. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/45 "2019-09-05T20:29:24Z")
Okay fam. We’re not dating any more, but the person who came to visit came to visit you and me, so okay, fine, come over and see him. But don’t make a huge mess I then have to clean up when I get home late at night. And do not, do not, DO NOT smoke all my shit! Seriously, the level of disrespect here is unbelievable. And it’s not like I’m super eager to spend time with this person to begin with - I’m doing him a favor. _Lesson fucking learned_, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/46 "2019-09-05T20:33:51Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > (Side note: I’m pretty sure she’s getting engaged tomorrow! I know he bought a ring and it’s their three year anniversary. She is hoping for something romantic. She also sprained her ankle today AND hacked up her hand today, along with dealing with severe allergies. Her boyfriend’s notion of romantic is putting his dirty laundry in the hamper, sooo…) Instead, they ended up arguing most of the evening. They drove an hour to a restaurant that she likes, but it was not worth the hour drive. Then, instead of doing anything else, they turned around and drove home. Got home and he immediately started gaming. Love, true love… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/47 "2019-09-05T21:52:21Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Instead, they ended up arguing most of the evening. They drove an hour to a restaurant that she likes, but it was not worth the hour drive. Then, instead of doing anything else, they turned around and drove home. Got home and he immediately started gaming. > > Love, true love… Ain’t that the truth. The lil’wrekker has accepted an engagement ring from her long time boyfriend. We like the kid. I just want her to finish her degree. I think I have convinced them of the correctness of this plan. Here’s the rub: Now that boyfriend is officially in the family I’m getting texts of every meal he eats. Stupid pix of his dog. A series of pix of his new shoes. And a picture of his car he just washed. WTF? I am not a Facebooker, but I’ve gotten reports from the rest of the family he’s blowing up their Facebook whatevers. I told the lil’wrekker to not get offended if people start blocking him. I’ve blocked his number from 2 phones myself. I ain’t got no time for that crap. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/48 "2019-09-05T22:37:57Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Ain’t that the truth. > Here’s the rub: Now that boyfriend is officially in the family I’m getting texts of every meal he eats. Stupid pix of his dog. A series of pix of his new shoes. And a picture of his car he just washed. WTF? Send him pics of your every bowel movement. That’ll get him off the grid! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/49 "2019-09-05T22:40:46Z")
Are personal mobility scooters considered to be street-legal vehicles now? The two wrecks I almost witnessed today had me wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/50 "2019-09-06T03:05:10Z")
Sucky enough commute that I couldn’t even bother with therapy nachos, and kinda needed them. Forget the Dry Pool Dive Team, I had some callers today who couldn’t find the pool. Then, a couple of my phone games are unable to deal with sending in-game gifts to other players. Apparently, Facebook needs to do something about this, but we know how that goes. Breaking things that are working is higher priority than fixing things. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/51 "2019-09-06T06:24:04Z")
> [@slalexan](#): > > Speaking of poop… > > You all already know that my daughter has autism. Part of her specific needs include issues with sensory integration. Specifically, she’s not potty trained. Now, before you start telling me all your magical tips on how to potty train a stubborn child, please know that we have tried it, it didn’t work, it’s mostly like sensory and, hopefully, she’ll get better with therapy. > > Anyway, she started school yesterday. Yesterday was a short like orientation day for all the new kindergarteners. Today is the first day of real school. And it started poorly. She needs a harness on the bus because she can’t sit still and will wander if given the opportunity, even on a moving bus. We had this put in her IEP, which we went over at the end of May. Transporation has had it since the end of May and they responded that they would be able to accomodate her. Last week, we went to transportation and got her harness, reminding them of her needs. Of course the bus showed up and was not equipped to handle her harness. Transportation called me and told me they would send another bus and then called me about 10-15 minutes later asking me to just take her to school, with the assurance that they would fix the issue for the afternoon bus. > > So I did. Then, I went to work, angry, but sure things were getting better. I’m about 1/3rd of the way to work when the school called me again, telling me that my daughter has pooped her pants and that I must come and change her. And I’m like, wut? This is our plan? I told them she wasn’t potty trained in May. I was upfront about it. We put a “potty plan” in place. But now every time she has an accident, I need to come in and change her? That’s just absurd. Her teacher seemed genuinely surprised that my daughter has issues with this, as did the principal and her IEP coordinator. > > And as the icing on the cake, when I got there to change her, she wasn’t even poopy. She just has the farts. (She was wet and does have the skills to change herself as long as someone prompts her.) > > I sent emails, I tried not to be emotional, just concerned and with an attitude of teamwork on solving the problem. I feel so out of my depth. Ugh. SOOOOO frustrating. The school can abso-fucking-lutely deal with cleaning her up if needed. Our Dweezil, also autistic, was not potty trained when he went to kindergarten. To be fair, we sent him in pullups, not regular underwear, but still, they handled it if needed. I think we did get him into underwear by some time in first grade (by buying a scooter, telling him he had to get dressed to play with it, then whoopsie, we had run out of his daytime pullups)… which resulted in a couple of “sock-drenchers” as the teacher put it before he really got it during the day. Of course, then he developed encopresis which was a treat in and of itself. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/52 "2019-09-06T08:04:05Z")
> [@Swampwolf](#): > > Send him pics of your every bowel movement. That’ll get him off the grid! Very good idea.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/53 "2019-09-06T14:28:37Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Ugh. SOOOOO frustrating. > > The school can abso-fucking-lutely deal with cleaning her up if needed. Our Dweezil, also autistic, was not potty trained when he went to kindergarten. > > To be fair, we sent him in pullups, not regular underwear, but still, they handled it if needed. I think we did get him into underwear by some time in first grade (by buying a scooter, telling him he had to get dressed to play with it, then whoopsie, we had run out of his daytime pullups)… which resulted in a couple of “sock-drenchers” as the teacher put it before he really got it during the day. Of course, then he developed encopresis which was a treat in and of itself. I’m glad I’m not crazy. We did (are) sending her in pull ups. I also have her bag stocked with extra changing supplies as needed. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/54 "2019-09-06T15:13:18Z")
One of the things that come with running an eCommerce business is having to deal with international orders that are damaged by customs/postal inspectors. I approach those as an opportunity to show off my excellent customer service. At the same time (and not shown to my customers) it irritates the heck out of me. I understand that sometimes they need to open the box to check for illicit goods or drugs or whatever. I’ve even started taping the shipping label to the side of the box instead of over the flaps so they can cut the box open without damaging the label. But can they please NOT randomly throw parts of the products willy-nilly into the shipment box like total apes when they’re done? (Just got a complaint that a charging cord was missing and the customer also said that the product didn’t arrive in the retail packaging that I know I shipped it in.) ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/55 "2019-09-06T15:17:20Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I pit two people. > > One is the person who took a crap right outside the side door I usually take out of the parking garage. I know the homeless are people too, and everyone has basic biological needs, but I just thank god I didn’t step into any of it despite the surprise. > . I used to manage a small warehouse in downtown Memphis. we had a homeless guy who made a sort of nest in the back of the garage out of pallets and cardboard. I allowed him to stay there since he didn’t seem to be disturbing anything. then I found out my warehouse guy who arrived early had been cleaning crap off the steps every morning without telling me. I was devastated. 1) that my warehouse guy was cleaning up poop every damn morning and 2) that this guy I took pity on repaid us in such a callous manner. I apologized to my warehouse guy and had the nest dismantled and everything tossed out and continued to dismantle any attempt to build a shelter in the back. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/56 "2019-09-06T20:47:25Z")
Amazon is beginning to piss me off. One of their main distribution warehouses is not far from here (easily overnight for priority mail or Amazon’s own delivery service), and it wasn’t so long ago that I would get really fast deliveries. One time shortly before Christmas, I ordered a last-minute gift on Friday night with the free delivery option and, despite the Christmas rush, it arrived on Sunday! But ever since they started introducing their pay-extra fast delivery options and Amazon Prime, the free service has gone to shit, and it has gone to shit because they deliberately sit on the order – lately for nearly a week! I ordered something on Sunday and if they had shipped on Monday I would easily have received it by Tuesday. But in fact I just got the shipping notice today, five days later, and of course it will arrive tomorrow. The problem, from Amazon’s POV, is that if they had shipped immediately, I would have got it so fast that there would be no incentive to pay the bastards extra for fast delivery. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/57 "2019-09-06T21:18:29Z")
Emergency room “hurry up and wait around” is very annoying. Granted, it’s “just” a broken leg (DH’s, not mine), but one would think it wouldn’t take at least 2 hours just to get the patient through X-ray. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/58 "2019-09-06T21:19:33Z")
I ordered something early on Tuesday and selected the free delivery option. As of Friday it still has not shipped. It used to be that it was pickedand shipped the same day or the next. that is apparently not the case anymore. SMH ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/59 "2019-09-06T21:32:07Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > I ordered something early on Tuesday and selected the free delivery option. As of Friday it still has not shipped. It used to be that it was pickedand shipped the same day or the next. that is apparently not the case anymore. SMH Exactly. I used to joke that I could order something from Amazon on the computer in my study, then walk downstairs and it would be sitting on the front porch, which was only a slight exaggeration. Today, they still have the same fast service, but only if you pay through the nose for it! Fucking money-grubbing Bezos apparently feels he still isn’t rich enough. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/60 "2019-09-07T03:18:23Z")
My face is breaking out, and I just cut myself shaving my legs, for the 1st time in years. I dunno about “young at heart” but apparently I’m an awkward 14-year-old tonight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577.md?page=4)