# Waiting for Bob: A placeholder MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355 "2010-09-20T01:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/121 "2010-09-23T20:50:38Z")
Hateful McBitchalot arrived Tuesday afternoon–before the official checkin time of 3 p.m. I might add–with her silent, long-suffering husband. They are the prime example of stereotypical Floridiots. (There are fine upstanding people in Florida. They do not often come to Hippy Hollow.) Right off the bat, Hateful wants to move to the suite (notice the singular) with the roll-in shower. Why? We do not have rubber mats in the bathtub. I would like someone to tell me where there is a hotel that has rubber mats in the bathtub so I can kick her there. She does not want to slip-n-fall in the tub. So Detailed AGM, who can see the good in anyone, moved her to that room. This entailed calling the person who was assigned to that suite (again, notice the singular) over the weekend to see if they really needed the roll-in shower. I don’t know the details of that decision since GM was the one who called and I was up front running interference while the managers did their thing. An hour later, Hateful calls to see if we have a cooshy armchair for the living room of her suite. WTF? Apparently, The Homewood In Columbia has such a beast. The Homewood In Columbia can do no wrong. (Why doesn’t she just stay there, everyone who hears her talk about it says. You probably just thought the same thing.) Detailed AGM informs Hateful that her suite does not have an armchair in the living room because it’s supposed to be wheelchair accessible. Well, this just will not do! So she ends up getting moved to the suite she was supposed to go into in the first damn place. Detailed AGM forcefully hung up the phone after this conversation and expressed his desire to introduce an icepick to her facial structure, declaring “I will go across the street (there’s a Big Lots across the street) and get her a damn rubber mat if it will shut her the hell up!” My shift was up at this point and I had to run back to clock out. You have to work hard to piss off Detailed AGM. The next morning Hateful descended upon the desk again to declare that the pool heater was broken. Squirrel AGM had checked the temperature last night and it was set to the proper 84 degrees Fahrenheit, but that was clearly wrong. You see, Hateful has a heated pool (in _Florida_?) and she knows what 84 degrees Fahrenheit feels like. Our pool does not feel like that, hence we are all lying to her about the temperature. Even the thermometer. She expressed doubts as to its proper calibration. Yes, this really happened. GM pulled one of his disappearing acts on me so I couldn’t push him up there to deal with her. That would have been a fun conversation to watch–he does not suffer fools gladly. I got him back, though. The Owner came in yesterday afternoon when GM was playing a song that had gotten stuck in his head for Squirrel AGM and I didn’t warn them The Owner was on his way to the back. 😃 This morning Hateful and Long-Suffering were nice. They just wanted directions to Flat Rock Playhouse. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/122 "2010-09-24T00:21:04Z")
I may actually have a day off tomorrow. and there is a hockey tailgate. Congrats, **FCM**! **MBG** , every had a dog scoop earwax out of your ear, while you’re doing a bench press? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/123 "2010-09-24T00:45:04Z")
**doggio** joins the ever growin’ list of those with disgustin’ doggy stories that will assist me whenever I start to jones for a doggy. **MBG** I would find a sandpaper tongue upon my face disgustin’ anytime of day or night. \ Butts \ are rubbed and wrapped and in the fridge. Tomorrow \ butts \ get smoked. Who will be keepin’ count of the number of times I post \ butt \ this time? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/124 "2010-09-24T02:30:11Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > If a BlackBerry is blue, shouldn’t it be a BlueBerry instead? Hee. > [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > At irk, busy day today. Sadly my point-and-click training has been cancelled for this afternoon so I can’t boast about any more accomplishments with regard to box-ticking and suchlike. > > Six days until my office move and I still don’t know exactly where I’m moving to. I just love the management in this place! I am deeply disappointed at the lack of point-and-click progress. And sorry about the moving confusion. > [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Honest to God, a dull life would be ok with me. Yeah, sometimes excitement is overrated. **FCM** : Yay for the sold van! I’ve had a fun evening dealing with family drama. The drama queen niece is being allowed to be dramatic. Poor delicate child is stressed. (And therefore must not spend time with her father - who, by the way, is my brother.) And because I want to spend time with my niece I get to be stuck between her parents’ differing opinions on how to handle the niece. (Both are wrong, IMNSHO.) Where’s Augony Aunt Ryl when you need her??? (Dear AAR: how can I effectively knock some common sense into both my brother and his ex?) 😃 Also, arghhhhhh. Anyway…tomorrow is Firday. Yay!!! I should be asleep by now. Off to try for some shut-eye. Hugs. GT ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/125 "2010-09-24T02:35:21Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > (Dear AAR: how can I effectively knock some common sense into both my brother and his ex?) 😃 Also, arghhhhhh. Dear **gt** , hie thee to Lowes, and buy a Clue by 4. ``` Batter up! AAR ``` ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/126 "2010-09-24T02:42:42Z")
Dear AAR, In which aisle will I find the Clue by 4s? Do they come in different colors? How do I know if I’m buying the right size? Hugs. GT ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/127 "2010-09-24T02:57:11Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > Dear AAR, > > In which aisle will I find the Clue by 4s? Do they come in different colors? How do I know if I’m buying the right size? > > Hugs. > > GT Dear **gt** , they are located on the far right side. A 4 foot length makes a nice compromise between heft and velocity. Most of them are natural color. ``` AAR ``` ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/128 "2010-09-24T04:15:09Z")
3, 2, 1 … . **HAPPY FIRDAY!!!** And yes, I’ve been waiting for midnight in my time zone just to be able to do that! 🙂 OMG, **Spaz** , that was a McBitchalot! My Dad, back in the day, was a major complainer in many settings, unfortunately. It would almost always embarass the heck out of the kids, and it has to be something really major for me to complain, let me tell ya. At least it’s Friday now, and the weekend is nearly here. Now if only the temps would move to a more fall-like level. LOL It’s too hot!!! Happy Friday all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/129 "2010-09-24T05:50:41Z")
Why am I still extremely awake? Anyone know anything about [People to People](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=579396)? Forgot to ask that in here earlier. Can someone sing me a lullaby, please? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/130 "2010-09-24T06:26:21Z")
Duerme mi niña, duérmete ya que si no el coco te comerá… Just disregard the lyrics and my total off-keyness (is too a word). Fall asleep, my girl, fall asleep now otherwise the monster that takes babies away will eat you A friend of mine is having to take a college class to get MSOffice certified. She’s only been using MSOffice in its myriad incarnations for 20 years and, being a certifiable geek, that includes 2010. But she doesn’t have a paper to show for it and her employers want one. She is Not Happy about it. Once I was waiting to check into a hotel when a woman charged down the elevator and through the short line, jumping the people at the desk (two receptionists and the shift manager) with some ridiculous complaint about the décor - I mean, I hate it when hotel rooms are too tight, I can understand agoraphobia, but this was about something like the color of the wallpaper. The shift manager said calmly “that’s too bad, ma’am, I’m afraid all our rooms are like that.” &%&/)&/=!!! "I'm afraid all our rooms are like that". /&/&·/&/%!!! “Sorry ma’am, all our rooms are like that.” &/%(%!!! and stomps back up. The manager explained to the receptionist who apparently was new (the other one hadn’t lifted an eyebrow during the whole exchange) that the woman in question has been in the hotel before and always makes some kind of complaint like that, but she was from a corporate client. Ah, the joys of customer service. Speaking of clients, my agent is a moron whose knowledge of involved laws is so slim I wonder whether he managed to pass the written test for his driving license, because if he knows traffic laws as well as he knows the laws about billing… And the security people from the client have decided that accesses will be “need to do” only, so they’ve pretty much chopped off our hands at the wrist. We need to ask for access item by item, and the requests aren’t applied to people with the same role, only to the person asking. Yesterday I made 45 requests. Fun fun. As one of the supervisors put it, “this is how you end up in postitland” (meaning, password sharing). ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/131 "2010-09-24T09:35:45Z")
Good Morning Y’all! Up and caffienated. Soon I shall go purtify, though I don’t know for what. I mean do Boston \ Butts \ really care what I look like? 😃 **gt** I posted in the PTP thread about my ursine collegiate encounter with some of their “Ambassadors”. I once reported a co-worker to corporate re his really bad behavior at a hotel we were both staying at. I was embarrassed to be associated with him. Dunno what “corporate” said to him but the next time we traveled together he was ever so nice to everyone at the hotel. AIR his rampage had to do with, among other things, the kind of shampoo in the bathroom. Ummm… bring your own if you don’t want to deal with what the hotel stocks. :rolleyes: Ok, off to brekkify and purty up. Happy Firday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/132 "2010-09-24T10:58:39Z")
Wow…it kinda boggles the mind that people can be that rude. Thanks for the lullaby, **Nava**. It seems to have worked. Despite the lyrics. Gotta get up and take the car to the car doctor. It’s making a noise. Thanks for responding, **swampy**. Oh… **Annie** is responsible for counting butts, AIR. Hee. Happy Firday, everyone! GT ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/133 "2010-09-24T11:28:28Z")
TGIF! I’m off for the first time this month, so I’m going to get my oil changed, then go tailgating. No butts will be smoked, but two chickens will have beer cans up the butt. **gt** , I’ve had people freak out and have epic hissy fits because I said yes to their requests. Some people’s default behavior is “Hateful Bitch” ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/134 "2010-09-24T11:35:59Z")
TVMan is going to be so excited! I just ordered a snazzy new professional grade tent for shows and hamfests. I don’t really need it right now, but it certainly would make my life much easier and I was planning on getting one next season anyways since the roof is wearing a hole in it on the one that we have. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/135 "2010-09-24T13:03:07Z")
[QUOTE=dogbutler] **gt** , I’ve had people freak out and have epic hissy fits because I said yes to their requests. Some people’s default behavior is “Hateful Bitch” [/QUOTE] That’ll teach you to give people what they want. Our weather is broken. The morning news said we’d had 86 days so far of 90+ degree weather. It’s officially fall, but today’s forecast high is 91. \ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/136 "2010-09-24T13:29:49Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Our weather is broken. The morning news said we’d had 86 days so far of 90+ degree weather. It’s officially fall, but today’s forecast high is 91. \ Break the weather like this more often. Especially in February. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/137 "2010-09-24T13:40:53Z")
Howdy Y’all! I’s postin’ via glommin’ on the church house intertoobz. What fun! 😃 The \ butts \ are smokin’ away. Also, my cohort in \ butt \ smokin’ and I drug some biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig ass limbs down to the burn pile. We hooked ‘em on to his truck via tow rope and drug ‘em down to the pile. Apparently there is a vision of havin’ a big ol’ bonfire as a part of the annual Hallowe’en Trunk or Treat thingy. Woo! Right now I’m buy myself. This place makes strange noises when all is quiet. As long as the blessed water does not crawl out of the basin I reckon all will be ok though. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/138 "2010-09-24T13:44:35Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > As long as the blessed water does not crawl out of the basin I reckon all will be ok though. :eek: How do you maker holy water? Boil the Hell out of it. ETA: I’ve been doing the limb dragging, too, since my peecan tree started self-pruning. I’ll bet I have 1/3 of a cord of branch wood waiting to be cut into burner sized lengths, and this will be the third pile I’ve burned this summer. I’ll venture you don’t have the added fun of sinkholes, though. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/139 "2010-09-24T14:55:26Z")
Good morning everyone. I’m up and caffienating. Rude people embarrass me, even when I don’t know them. I’m just amazed at how people can act. I’ve got a load of laundry going and shall soon commence with packing for my trip. We leave around five in the morning. I feel sort of guilty about my son not going, but he’ll be here with the doggies. Oh, I forgot to share this. My son was nominated as Homecoming King. He finds out today if he won the election. It’s cool and rainy here. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355/140 "2010-09-24T15:41:54Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > **MBG** , every had a dog scoop earwax out of your ear, while you’re doing a bench press? No, not while doing a bench press. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-bob-a-placeholder-mmp/554355.md?page=8)