# Unjust August (Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** monthly-mini-rant\ **Created:** [August 1, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570 "2025-08-01T05:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/282 "2025-08-25T19:55:56Z")
I have norovirus! Really sucks because my son is starting kindergarten tomorrow and we were supposed to meet his teacher tonight. My husband is taking the boy without me. This is such a big deal. I’m bummed. I’m also going to miss taking him to his first day of school. I’m also hungry AF. I have a real hard time not eating even though I know it’s gonna make me sick. But right now I can’t even hang onto water. So I sent my husband for Gatorade (electrolytes if nothing else) and crackers. Trying to make the best of it. Playing the shit out of Slay the Spire today. Still getting my ass handed to me. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/283 "2025-08-25T20:51:03Z")
that is weird, can you visit another eye dr for a second opinon? My cataracts were pretty bad…i could no longer read street signs but i could always read my books and computer. Maybe you are farsighted? Now I am farsighted and have to wear glasses to read anything but man the street signs and even planes are very clear especially since the corrected for my astigmatism. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/284 "2025-08-25T20:57:57Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > A Chewy box delivered by Fedex showed up at my apartment, addressed to the previous tenant (I’ve been here 10 months). Assuming the previous tenant ordered something but forgot to update the address on their account, I tried to be a good citizen and called Fedex so they could pick it up & return it to the shipper. I menu’ed my way through to “misdelivered” package, finally got to a live person, and first had to tell them, that no, I will not provide my email and the last 4 of my social security. I explained my issue, the following ensued: > “Could you please contact the previous resident and ask them to come pick up the package?” > “No, I have no way to contact them.” > “Could you please drop off the package at one of our convenient Fedex locations?” > “No I will not, there’s nothing convenient about me having to drop off a package that I didn’t order.” > “Ok, we will have a driver pick up the package. Could you please provide your email ?” > “No, I will not provide my email, but I will put the package outside.” If FEDEX (with whom the USPS does have an ongoing commercial relationship) hands the package to the USPS then the Change of Address system can fine a more current address most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/285 "2025-08-25T21:02:58Z")
TBH, I don’t care if they return it to Chewy, contact USPS to get a better address, or throw it away. I just don’t want to do any of their work for them. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/286 "2025-08-25T21:30:17Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’m also hungry AF. I have a real hard time not eating even though I know it’s gonna make me sick. But right now I can’t even hang onto water. So I sent my husband for Gatorade (electrolytes if nothing else) and crackers. Trying to make the best of it. Playing the shit out of Slay the Spire today. Still getting my ass handed to me. Sigh. I’m very sorry that you are suffering through this. Our household had this earlier this summer and it Sucked. “Hey, you want to lose that 20 lbs that you’ve always wanted to..? Watch this neat Norovirus Trick… and then… blow it out your ass…!” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/287 "2025-08-25T21:56:34Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > that is weird, can you visit another eye dr for a second opinon? My cataracts were pretty bad…i could no longer read street signs but i could always read my books and computer. Maybe you are farsighted? I second this opinion. While I’ve heard of lots of people having to wait for their cataracts to “ripen”, that doesn’t make sense if they are impairing your vision. Mine were impairing the vision in one eye and I was scheduled for surgery immediately after diagnosis. And I was in my 50’s, which I gather is relatively young for a cataract patient….i gathered that based on the fact that everyone else in the waiting room was way older than me, and when I went to check in they told me I couldn’t check in for my mother. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/288 "2025-08-26T00:52:34Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > I am trying to hold onto my 2013 Chevy Impala for another year but man she makes some unpredictable noises that always need attention. I’ve got a 2003 Olds that’s in “could strand me on the side of the road any day now” mode. (I’ve joined AAA just for the towing…) I often drive 2 hours to my mom’s to take her to appointments. But now we’re down to ZERO cars that we can depend on to make the trip… … because the other car, the one we could count on, suddenly had Check Engine (and Traction?!?) lights come on, and started misfiring, and now the brakes are acting weird. The code reader says it’s the turbocharger. Which is a “Known Problem” with Buicks, and those newer than ours have had recalls. We trust our local mechanic a lot more than the dealer, but it’s a three week wait for either of them… and a thousand or two “depending how much needs to be replaced”. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/289 "2025-08-26T03:30:26Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Really sucks because my son is starting kindergarten tomorro First day of school here was today. I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of the Geneva Convention! I could see _maybe_ if Labor Day was the 6th or 7th but it’s the freakin’ first of the month; it can’t possibly come any earlier. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/290 "2025-08-26T10:41:48Z")
Yesterday I drove past the local elementary school at about 2:30. The line of cars blocking the road to pick up the pwecious dawlings was already 3 blocks long. That school lets out at 3:15. Yep, school’s in session. Uggh. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/291 "2025-08-26T13:23:58Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > My apartment complex just installed new locks on all the apartments that don’t use a key, they can ONLY be opened by a phone app or a 7 digit code… And yesterday I had my first “Locked myself out” event. Keys in hand, but since I was just going to get my mail I forgot I needed my phone, and that after the installation the door locks behind you automatically. I had the 7 digit code written down in my wallet, which was also in the apartment. Had to get a neighbor to call my daughter (thankfully I remembered her number) to give me the code. New code is now in my wallet, in my car, and all my daughters have it as well. It would be so much better if you could pick your own code, but all you can do have them generate a new 7 digit code for you. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/292 "2025-08-26T14:19:58Z")
Tattoo time? If it was me, I’d move out of any place that required my phone to go outside. Most systems that I’ve seen can be either a fob or phone; they won’t/can’t give you a fob? Can you get an aftermarket one made? @LSLGuy, how did you get your ring made? Off topic - what are Naval standards for sobriety? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/293 "2025-08-26T14:28:46Z")
Be glad you don’t live in Tennessee. Schools been in for two weeks. On the bright side, we get out in May, before the weather is sweltering. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/294 "2025-08-26T14:35:04Z")
I actually joked about a tattoo. No fob, you have to use either the app or the 7 digit code. And I am moving in a month, not related to this. It’s a line from one the Aubrey/Maturin novels set in the British navy during the Napoleonic wars. Given that the daily rum ration was 8 ounces, the implication of the saying was “Not very sober.” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/295 "2025-08-26T14:35:42Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Be glad you don’t live in Tennessee. Schools been in for two weeks. On the bright side, we get out in May, before the weather is sweltering. I’ve already answered that… > [@Spiderman](#): > > I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of the Geneva Convention! Schools here traditionally start the Tuesday after Labor Day, when Labor Day was late, they would occasionally start a couple of days before, but still in Sept. There is just _no reason_ for them to begin this week. Even the pool was closed (at least yesterday) between the college-aged lifeguards back & kids in school during the day. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/296 "2025-08-26T14:37:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I am moving in a month, not related to this. The management company doesn’t need to know that; tell 'em the new system sucks & _that’s_ the reason your moving. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/297 "2025-08-26T16:17:53Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > Really sucks because my son is starting kindergarten tomorro > > First day of school here was today. I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of the Geneva Convention! I could see _maybe_ if Labor Day was the 6th or 7th but it’s the freakin’ first of the month; it can’t possibly come any earlier. 😡 Agree. Around here public scools must start after Labour Day, the exact date being up to local boards. Most schools start Sep 2 this year. I think also that the school year ends a little later in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/298 "2025-08-26T16:23:54Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I think also that the school year ends a little later in the US. Last day is June 12th here. They also have this Friday off because having a three-day weekend isn’t enough with Monday’s Labor Day holiday \* if it was any other poster, I’d call you out for the unnecessary ‘u’ in Labor; however, I’m just impressed that a dog has such typing skills. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/299 "2025-08-26T16:32:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Yesterday I drove past the local elementary school at about 2:30. The line of cars blocking the road to pick up the pwecious dawlings was already 3 blocks long. That school lets out at 3:15. > > Yep, school’s in session. Uggh. I am plagued by two public schools (well, “public” and “Catholic”) side by side on the main road between my house and the shopping area. It’s a madhouse of traffic between around 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon as the Little Darlings get picked up. Somehow this always ends up being just the time I’m going to or from shopping. It would be a lot worse except most of the little hellions manage to walk home. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/300 "2025-08-26T17:37:28Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Yesterday I drove past the local elementary school at about 2:30. The line of cars blocking the road to pick up the pwecious dawlings was already 3 blocks long. That school lets out at 3:15. I’m hoping to miss that mess most days as **Wee Weasel** has an after school program and I won’t be picking him up until 5pm. That after school thing is a godsend. I hope when the state radically slashes our education budget, we won’t lose it. It does make no sense to start before labor day. And since he has Friday off and only had a half day today it makes the week super wonky. He is home now, seemed to have fun on his first day. I asked him if he had story time and he said that’s only on full days. At least I know he’s paying attention. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570/301 "2025-08-26T17:44:10Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > I think also that the school year ends a little later in the US. > > Last day is June 12th here. They also have this Friday off because having a three-day weekend isn’t enough with Monday’s Labor Day holiday Apparently I was mistaken. The last day of school in Ontario is, again, determined by school boards, but for most schools it will be June 25 2026. Curiously, this is a Thursday. Perhaps so that teachers can use Friday to clean up after the little hellions before themselves departing for the summer. So this year, at least, schools start one week later than in the US but end two weeks later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570.md?page=16)