After a week there, I wanted to photoshop a traffic sign:
Welcome to
San Francisco
– restrooms for paying customers only –
One creampuff shop had that sign, but also a “Restroom out of order” sign. I asked (hopping up and down with my legs crossed) and the owner said “Oh, we’ve always had that sign up. Bathroom works fine.”
Well, I thought that I had lost my driver’s license on Monday. Was pretty sure it fell out of my pocket while I was running, or fell out of my hydration pack when I took my phone out to check mileage. So that sucked.
Then Wedesday, I put my debit card in my pocket in the morning. Went for lunch and it was gone. I suspect that I pulled it out on accident while digging in my pocket for something else. Gr.
Nobody has used it, so I guess that’s good. But now I have to wait a week for a new one.
The bright side to the story is that while I was looking for my debit card, I found my DL hiding ninja-like between the seat and seat belt in my car. Slipped out of my pocket, apparently.
Now that I’ve cancelled my debit card, I expet it to surface sometime in the next 2 hours.
Sicks Ate, that’s an almost-foolproof method for getting something lost to show up again - replace it. Works every damned time. 
I dunno. I thought $15-$17/hour was pretty reasonable.
Current mini-rant. The nice appliance delivery guy would not install my new stove in the location of the current stove. Apparently it’s too close to the wall and therefore not up to code. Sigh. Option 1: Install a big chunk of stainless steel on the wall. I’m sure that would be beautiful. Option 2: Put in a tile backsplash. I’m sure that would be affordable. Option 3: Continue to live without a functioning oven. Sigh. We’ll probably pony up for the backsplash, but I was all excited about having a working oven again soon.
Aargh, you just made me realize I’ve lost my debit card too. D’oh!
Micro-mini rant…
Dammit Taste of Home magazine, quit sending me these** urgent!!! **subscription renewal notices every damn week! My subscription doesn’t expire until October 2014!
I wonder how many people don’t realize that their subscription doesn’t expire for a while and renew every time they get a notice? There’s probably some little old lady out there who has paid through 2025 or something.
Annoying and a waste of paper. I love the magazine, but geez give it a rest already.
Please, do not worry too much about hurting your Mom. You apologized. It’s over. Make a date with her and treat her to lunch or something.
I slapped our now adult son across the mouth one time. He was doing important 11-year-old things with his buddies and I called him in to eat, and he shouts “Fuck you!”. Without any warning, my hand just struck him across his filthy mouth. Hard. Upside: It never happened again. Downside: It bothered me for years. A swat across the bum is one thing but the face slap is not very cool with me. Last year, when he was 25, I apologized for slapping him across the mouth. He said, “You slapped me? I don’t remember that Mom.”:smack:
Raising kids is harder than you can ever imagine. Especially if you are blessed with a strong willed child.
Olive, don’t sweat it.
This happens to me sometimes on the way to or from the gym. My gym shorts are some sort of synthetic fabric, and somewhat slippery. I only take my DL and my membership card, not my whole wallet, to the gym, and occasionally they slip out of my pocket in the car.
The worst is when they not only fall out, but slide down the small gap between seat and center console. Sometimes i have to get a pair of tweezers to get them out again.
Anaamika, Sicks Ate, sucks about your debit cards. I know right where mine is, but that didn’t stop someone from charging $1600 worth of Zynga credits to it. Luckily my credit union is awesome and gave me all the money back.
I think they are owned by the same folks as Reader’s Digest. My dad died in 2007 and my mom in 2008. I’m still getting their copy every month because they apparently renewed every time they got a notice.
The parking lot is huge and empty. Why in the world would you pull in right next to (and really, too close to) another trailer when you have the entire parking lot to choose from ??
Probably for the same reason people hover at your quarter panel when driving on the highway…
First of all, I’m glad you were able to have a reconciliation moment with your mom.
Secondly, I thank you for sharing with us about it.
Third (and arguably most important), THANK YOU for using “…things that led me down that path” and not “things that lead me down that path.”
You get 100 kaylasdad99 points. Collect 400 more and you will have earned the right to one instance of using “loose” in place of “lose” (if you make it to 1000, you get to say “alot” for “a lot”. ONCE).
Is it okay to use alot ironically?
Sure.
Just make sure you have 1000 kaylasdad99 points handy…
The whole hotmail became outlook and they decided to start threading my messages almost cost me a nice apartment.
Yeah, we found a (its rather small but it will do, location is awesome, and everything other than size is terrific) condo for rent this week, did the references thing, then heard nothing all day. I almost called the landlady but she has a 6 week old baby and I figured dealing with everything through email, as we have been doing until now was probably for the better.
Today I discover that my email somehow swallowed up the one email in the thread and I would have missed the “you got the place, lets get together and sign papers” email. Also the “Can you get back to me? I want to know if you want it.” email
Good thing I called at 9 am. At 10 am she was going to notify her next choice for the rental.
But the good news is, a standing room only party chez the Simpsons. Sometime in October.
Can you make it “ATM Machine” or “PIN Number” instead? I’ve given up on those ones, but I still haven’t given up on “alot.” 
Dammit lady, the dressing room attendant just said “any room with an open door”. My door is closed and locked. Stop trying to turn the damn handle already.
How hard can it be to find a rolling laptop case that does NOT include space for a spare change of clothes? The answer, apparently, is pretty damned hard.
Look, I want the equivalent of a briefcase with space for a laptop, on wheels. I do NOT want an overnight bag. I have a really hard time believing these don’t still exist.
I think the local librarian is trying to censor me. He won’t let me speak about my pro-vaccine book and then buys the library nearly every bad anti-vax vaccine book out there.
Jerk.
Three times today:
Friend/family
“Blah blah my life blah blah me me blah - what’s going on in your life?”
Me: “Well…”
Friend/family: “Oh! Got to go!”
Fnarg.