Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants

[Cat_Whisperer]

@DianaG

My daughter has devised the perfect murder, using nothing but hair conditioner and patience. She knows that inevitably, one sleepy morning I’ll momentarily forget her villainy and attempt to shower without cleaning the tub first.

When it happens, y’all will know the truth. Contact the authorities. And Nancy Grace, that’ll serve the brat right.

I keep one foot on a washcloth while showering - it has surprisingly good not letting me fall on my ass properties, and it just gets wrung out and tossed in the wash - no cleaning hassles.

I Pit my stupid Luxxor game for having one particular level that is leaps and bounds harder than any levels around it - I’m playing away, having a good time, then I hit this stupid level. I think I lost 16 lives trying to get through that level last night, and I’m still stuck on it. It doesn’t help that my laptop is extremely touchy about the right click - it fires balls when I’m trying to change colours.

(Yeah, if this is the worst thing in my life, I’m doing pretty damned good. )

[Dr.Girlfriend]

Lady in the lime green VW Bug, where the hell did you learn how to drive? I lost count of the moving violations you managed to commit in a 10-minute time frame. First you run a four-way stop and nearly hit me. Then you drift into the other lane and nearly hit someone else head-on. Then you stop in the middle of an intersection for no good reason when you had a green light and nearly got rear-ended. Finally you panicked when you realized the lane you were driving in was ending and swerved over into my lane, nearly taking my back bumper off. For God’s sake lady, do the rest of us a favor AND STAY HOME!

[kaylasdad99]

Can you get a mouse to plug into your laptop when you’re playing?

[Moonlitherial]

@Shot_From_Guns

Who in their right mind brings pre-pubescent children who would be frightened by even a *preview *for an R-rated movie to a **PG-13 **one?

To be fair to the kids the trailer kind of freaked me out too.

[Morgyn]

I just got back from a job fair that took me twice as long to drive to (about 20 minutes) as it did to walk around the dozen or so tables. Of the tables there, 1 was a “resume writer helper” looking for customers, 2 or 3 were universities looking for students, and with one exception, every single last one of the other tables were companies looking for people willing to work commissioned sales of one sort or another. Mostly insurance, but there was also a home decorating catalogue vendor, a “competitive” energy provider (show your friends and relatives how much they can save by switching!), a real estate agency or two, and a radio station (sales & marketing).

The one exception was actually looking for real employees, including a technical writer, so I left a resume with them and called it a day.

Fuck this economy.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@kaylasdad99

Can you get a mouse to plug into your laptop when you’re playing?

(I assume you’re talking to me and my computer game whining) - yeah, I do actually. I forgot about it. Time to dig it out again!

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Dr.Girlfriend

I lost count of the moving violations you managed to commit in a 10-minute time frame.

This sounds to me like someone who’s on some sort of drug (which includes alcohol) or having a stroke (of the literal or euphemistic sort). Either way, I’d have called 911 on the ass. (Granted, I passenge, which means I’m free to haul out a phone any time I’m in a car.)

@Moonlitherial

To be fair to the kids the trailer kind of freaked me out too.

It’s a trailer. They give those ratings just like everything else, and it would be appropriate for a PG-13 audience. The kids were too fucking young/immature to be in the theater.

@Morgyn

Fuck this economy.

Yes. Very yes.

[Dr.Girlfriend]

@Shot_From_Guns

This sounds to me like someone who’s on some sort of drug (which includes alcohol) or having a stroke (of the literal or euphemistic sort). Either way, I’d have called 911 on the ass. (Granted, I passenge, which means I’m free to haul out a phone any time I’m in a car.)

I thought about that later, but the phone was in my purse. I think she was just too damn old/scared to be on the road. She had a passenger too! :eek:

[Shot_From_Guns]

People incapacitated by mental problems also deserve to be pulled over and have their licenses revoked. There’s enough revocation for everyone!

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@flatlined

Sierra Indigo, I feel your pain. People come over to do things like clean gutters and look at my now dead car because they know I have no money. While they are in the middle of helping me, they will say that I need some random thing that has nothing to do with the repair, but because its cool and only costs $30.

Your car is dead? Well, now it’s time for you to call up Shredder Guy and inform him that since you’d ferried him back and forth to work, it’s his turn to repay the favor for the days that he works. And since he never sprung for gas, why no, you won’t be able to spring for gas for him, because you gotta save up your money for a new car.

Somehow, I don’t think he’s going to be able to accommodate you, though. Even if you do pay for gas.

[anya_marie]

Fuck This Economy +1000. I’ve been seeing a lot of ads for sales help too, and I’m not a good fit for my experience.

I could use the $200 too, instead of fighting over cash we need a thingamajig that will pot $200 in dopers’ jeans pockets.

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@Morgyn

I just got back from a job fair that took me twice as long to drive to (about 20 minutes) as it did to walk around the dozen or so tables. Of the tables there, 1 was a “resume writer helper” looking for customers, 2 or 3 were universities looking for students, and with one exception, every single last one of the other tables were companies looking for people willing to work commissioned sales of one sort or another. Mostly insurance, but there was also a home decorating catalogue vendor, a “competitive” energy provider (show your friends and relatives how much they can save by switching!), a real estate agency or two, and a radio station (sales & marketing).

The one exception was actually looking for real employees, including a technical writer, so I left a resume with them and called it a day.

Fuck this economy.

It should be illegal to advertise such an event as a job fair unless at least 75% of the tables are offering actual jobs that offer a real paycheck. Even if the event is free to the job seeker, there’s the time spent going to the fair, and there’s also the chore of getting there. If you’re looking for a better job, you have to find a way to get off work. And if you’re a parent, you have to arrange for child care.

[interface2x]

Thanks to the big storms yesterday, I’m officially on hour #25 with no electricity. It’s hot in there and now I have to throw away everything in my freezer. This sucks.

And my car is making a rattling noise now, less than a month after I replaced the brakes. And my cat needs a tooth fixed. Fuck.

[SurrenderDorothy]

This is one of those situations where I’m not really sure I have any right to be annoyed, but I am.

My new roommate was supposed to be moving in with me today. I took off work to help move in, cleaned the house, asked my mom to watch my big dog so he wouldn’t be in the way, asked another friend who had a day off if he’d mind coming to help us out… was all ready.

Saturday, she was going to come along to an adoption event to meet my dogs and just help and hang out a bit. I called and texted Friday night to confirm and no response. I texted early Saturday morning and she said she was sick and asked when she could call. I responded that any time before 4 was fine and then called her a few minutes later. No answer. Okay. Called her again Sunday, just to check in and see what-all was going on. No answer. I mean, whatever, but we had plans on Monday, too, to let her dog meet my big dog and I kind of wanted to know if she’d be showing up for that. I had planned for that, too- arranged other stuff around it and so forth.

Monday, I called and left a message and texted to say that I just needed to know what was going on and that the house was ready for her to move in. Everything is clean, rooms cleared out, spaces cleared for her furniture… And so far, nothing. I mean, maybe I’m just kind of anal and rigid or something, but I kind of think when you tell someone you plan on moving into their home on a certain day, maybe you should like… let them know if you’re not going to make it.

Thing is, too, it’s not like I begged her to move in. I’m pretty okay living here with my dogs. She needed a place to go. And we discussed this a few months ago and she did the same thing, but at an earlier stage. That is, she disappeared and wouldn’t answer texts or anything, but that time it was before we had a move-in day. And then she wanted to move in ASAP, but the problem was the dogs (I actually bitched about that here) and so I asked her to wait a couple days so I could find another foster for them. Nobody would take my bitey little gremlin, so we discussed it and the little beast will just stay in my room and not be allowed out when her son is around.

Anyway, my guess is that she’s still sick, which means I’m an asshole for being annoyed. But I mean, she could have called. Or left me a message on facebook. Or something. And not left me waking up this morning with no idea at all whether or not I would be sharing my home with another person by dinnertime.

[Shot_From_Guns]

If she’s so sick that she can’t pick up a fucking phone, she belongs in a hospital. You are making every effort to accommodate this woman while she acts like an entitled bitch. You offered a hand twice and she yawned and looked the other way. Let her fix her own damn life.

Speaking of entitled bitches!

Yesterday, I was walking along the sidewalk toward the door of my apartment building, when I looked up and saw a runner coming towards me. I was all the way over on the right side of the sidewalk, and she was on the same side, running right at me. I assumed she would move over to the left (her right) when she got closer. And closer. And closer. At the last second, I stepped even further to my right, off the sidewalk and onto the grass. She hadn’t budged an inch, so to add insult to, um, insult, she ended up smearing her arm all over mine, coating my arm in her own sweat.

The thing is, I was so stunned I couldn’t even do anything. My brain literally could not comprehend what had just happened. I stood there for a moment in pure shock, my mouth gaping open. By the time I could move again, she’d run far enough past me that to turn around and go after her to tell her off would have been pretty creepy, so I just wiped my arm off on my shirt and kept going.

Gross, gross, gross.

I will admit that I really hoped to run into her (heh) again when I was out for my own run after that, just so I could rub my sweaty torso all over her and shout, “LET’S SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT, BITCH!”

[rockle]

Stupid jagoff in another department just crashed my group’s Tasty Tuesday BBQ. He’s a total vulture and nobody likes him. If anybody liked him, he’d have been INVITED.

[Typo_Negative]

This favor requires your time and possibly labor.

Let’s further say that you really, really do not want to do this favor.

THEN DO NOT AGREE TO DO THE FAVOR!!!

My GF had several people lined up to help with something over the weekend. One depended on a friend showing with her big SUV. This was planned weeks in advance.

Morning of the favor, friend calls up with lame-ass excuse why she cannot make it. One other person also bailed, with lame-ass excuse.

I see this all the time. People either want to be seen in a good light by appearing helpful in the short term, or simply have trouble saying no. **I want to state for the record that I have no problem with anyone who refuses a favor. I respect the position and the honesty. **I have a great big hairy problem with people who bow out at the last second and leave others hanging.

I sometimes get asked to help with things, as I did last weekend. Didn’t really want to, but I said yes. In saying yes, that means I have committed. That means that I will be there to do what I said I would do. In this case, it meant compensating for a couple of weak-willed lollygaggers who I have a lost a great deal of respect for.

[Catamount]

My neighbor and his loud monotone girlfriend were outside till all hours again last night. I don’t have a problem with my neighbor because he can keep his voice down. His girlfriend, though, I’m wishing a very nasty case of laryngitis on her.

[alice_in_wonderland]

I have a suspicious mole. I have to have a dermatologist inspect it. Ugh.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Shot_From_Guns

If she’s so sick that she can’t pick up a fucking phone, she belongs in a hospital. You are making every effort to accommodate this woman while she acts like an entitled bitch. You offered a hand twice and she yawned and looked the other way. Let her fix her own damn life.

Yup.

Speaking of entitled bitches!

Yesterday, I was walking along the sidewalk toward the door of my apartment building, when I looked up and saw a runner coming towards me. I was all the way over on the right side of the sidewalk, and she was on the same side, running right at me. I assumed she would move over to the left (her right) when she got closer. And closer. And closer. At the last second, I stepped even further to my right, off the sidewalk and onto the grass. She hadn’t budged an inch, so to add insult to, um, insult, she ended up smearing her arm all over mine, coating my arm in her own sweat.<snip>

What you do when you encounter someone who can’t figure out the incredibly difficult concept of “Walk on the right, pass on the left” is spread your feet to about shoulder’s width apart, bend your knees to get your centre of gravity low, and put your shoulder forwards. As they bounce off of you, growl, “Walk on the right. Pass on the left.”