# Stop the world. I wanna get off here. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747 "2010-10-01T17:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/21 "2010-10-02T06:32:05Z")
Paramedic here, I know this EXACT feeling all too well. Just this month I was thinking about “starting over” but I’ll never truly get back to not knowing the actual horrors that exist in this world. ---
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/22 "2010-10-02T07:50:36Z")
Fuck my life, why did I even post in this thread and bring this upon my self… Seriously just had a call that was horrible. No words Oakminster I hope you feel better soon! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/23 "2010-10-02T07:59:03Z")
I’m sorry to hear it. Remember that you are doing God’s work, but you are only human. There will be a time to stop, recover and move on to something new and to take this experience with you. You will know when that will be. ---
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/24 "2010-10-02T08:01:12Z")
Its really close. Im going to ask for a little time off after my next shift tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/25 "2010-10-02T08:07:37Z")
**Oakminster** , I’ve noticed that you and I tend to fall on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, and I’m the daughter of a small-town attorney who tended to defend those on the other side of what you do. That having been said…hang in there. The system, and the world, needs good-hearted people fulfilling all the roles of the legal system. Do what you have to do to take care of yourself and keep yourself sane, and know that in ways great and small that you don’t even notice, you are making a difference. **ajb867** , you too. Do what you need to do to keep yourself safe. ---
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/26 "2010-10-02T08:12:55Z")
The Second Stone I wanted to thank you for your post. Your statement causes both feelings of comfort and conflict, mostly comfort though. Its hard for someone to imagine what just happened and I’m not in a position to talk about it openly. Some days I just don’t know why I chose to do this, and other days its all I want to do. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/27 "2010-10-02T12:06:36Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > While the mother does have her priorities screwed up, her father has probably been diddling her forever, which does tend to skew a person’s priorities. It’s a pity that she didn’t give that child up for adoption, and ask for a tubal. Her father probably needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot even more than she does. When did he start screwing her? When she was still a child, or did he wait until she was actually a teen? > > The more I see of humans, the more I’m convinced that some people are just permanently broken, and can’t be fixed. And I don’t know what the answer is. Can’t we shoot both of them? Hell her father’s parents were probably abusive nightmares themselves so can we shoot them too? Dad–I mean Gramps is probably a crack addict too. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/28 "2010-10-02T13:33:27Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Thanks for the encouraging words, all. > > And thank…er…the void I guess…it’s Friday. Two glorious days of football, World of Warcraft, and maybe a couple of those BBQ sammidges from the place up the road with some beers. > > But I’ll be back at work on Monday. Those windmills ain’t gonna tilt at themselves. It’s Saturday morning. Find yourself a soccer or pee-wee football game. Stand on the sidelines and watch the 8-10 year-olds try their best, fall down, get up, do it again, try harder, and then walk away laughing when it’s all over. It will go a long way toward restoring your faith in the future of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/29 "2010-10-02T14:13:27Z")
Thanks for doing what you do, **Oakminster**. Even if I had the brains and the wherewithal to be a lawyer I wouldn’t last five minutes doing your job. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/30 "2010-10-02T17:16:48Z")
> [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > > [@Oakminster](#): > > > > Thanks for the encouraging words, all. > > > > And thank…er…the void I guess…it’s Friday. Two glorious days of football, World of Warcraft, and maybe a couple of those BBQ sammidges from the place up the road with some beers. > > > > But I’ll be back at work on Monday. Those windmills ain’t gonna tilt at themselves. > > It’s Saturday morning. Find yourself a soccer or pee-wee football game. Stand on the sidelines and watch the 8-10 year-olds try their best, fall down, get up, do it again, try harder, and then walk away laughing when it’s all over. > > It will go a long way toward restoring your faith in the future of humanity. As long as he doesn’t get fingered as a pedophile stalker by a helicopter parent (which has happened to me). I’m not sure whether this says more about the prevalence of pedophiles or the paranoia of parents, but whatever it says about our society, it ain’t pretty. **Oakminster** , do you have an art museum or something similar available? I’ve always found art, music, etc. helpful when I get the feeling that the bulk of humanity consists of Morlocks who were kicked out for being too brutish. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/31 "2010-10-02T17:30:05Z")
**Oakminster** , keep it up. As a CPS / Foster Care worker, I can completely sympathize with your day. Most of our days are the same or worse. Just remember, every day you’ve made it a little better for someone. Also, booze helps. ---
**Author:** ![Redpill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Redpill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redpill)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/32 "2010-10-02T17:44:28Z")
For every bad person out there, there’s a good person somewhere. It’s just nature’s way of balancing out things. Of course some occupations deal with doing society’s dirty work. If meet a few nice people in a day, I know I’m overdue to meet an asshole. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/33 "2010-10-02T17:56:35Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Part of the problem is that there is no one else. \ For you and everyone else who is doing a necessary job that is eating away at your humanity, you need to stop telling yourself this - it isn’t true. When you’ve had enough and you quit, life will go on. Maybe if enough people quit and they can’t find someone to do a dirty job for no money, maybe things will change (probably not, but you never know). When you’ve done enough time in the trenches and you need to move on or your own quality of life suffers, know that you did what you could and it’s more than most people do. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/34 "2010-10-03T00:48:16Z")
> [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > > [@Oakminster](#): > > > > Thanks for the encouraging words, all. > > > > And thank…er…the void I guess…it’s Friday. Two glorious days of football, World of Warcraft, and maybe a couple of those BBQ sammidges from the place up the road with some beers. > > > > But I’ll be back at work on Monday. Those windmills ain’t gonna tilt at themselves. > > It’s Saturday morning. Find yourself a soccer or pee-wee football game. Stand on the sidelines and watch the 8-10 year-olds try their best, fall down, get up, do it again, try harder, and then walk away laughing when it’s all over. > > It will go a long way toward restoring your faith in the future of humanity. Just make sure you pick a team from the bottom two thirds of the league. At the top, all you’ll see are budding competetive jerks. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/35 "2010-10-03T00:49:58Z")
> [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > It’s Saturday morning. Find yourself a soccer or pee-wee football game. Stand on the sidelines and watch the 8-10 year-olds try their best, fall down, get up, do it again, try harder, and then walk away laughing when it’s all over. > > It will go a long way toward restoring your faith in the future of humanity. At least until someone calls the cops to report the strange man staring at kids in the park. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/36 "2010-10-03T00:59:04Z")
People are stupid and cruel. Or as I say; The Story of Humanity is the story of man’s inhumanity to man. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/37 "2010-10-03T02:22:58Z")
Oakminster, Qadgop, and all others with stressful jobs that support others no matter what the income level is: Thank you, and best wishes for continuing what you do. Yeah, life is awful sometimes, and you see that most often. Anything you see that the rest of us can do to make it better, either for you or the system? In any case, I hope you keep all your marbles polished and intact while going through the system to get an admirable job done. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/38 "2010-10-03T07:54:34Z")
Oh yeah, you think you got it rough? I teach English to Japanese schoolchildren! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/39 "2010-10-03T13:29:27Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Oh yeah, you think you got it rough? I teach English to Japanese schoolchildren! Yeah, at least law clients don’t try to poke their fingers into your butt. (I think. IANAL.) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747/40 "2010-10-03T13:54:54Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > > [@Autolycus](#): > > > > Oh yeah, you think you got it rough? I teach English to Japanese schoolchildren! > > Yeah, at least law clients don’t try to poke their fingers into your butt. > > (I think. IANAL.) Well, if you’re anal, you should know about these things. KANCHO! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-wanna-get-off-here/555747.md?page=3)