So give your mother an invoice for the items the kids took. If you’re buying your own food, she doesn’t get to let other people take it. Seriously, if you can’t confront your *mom *about this kind of shit, you may as well just move into a closet and never come out.
Hey Green Rosetta, I was about to suggest putting all your stuf into a bag and stapling it shut when the neices and nephews come over, but I think **Shot From Guns **has a better short-term solution.
And if your mum can’t or won’t make your sister’s kids stay out of your food, a beer fridge is not a bad compromise. If you can afford to go halvos, you can pick up a decent model. It seems on the nose, I know, having to pay for a lack of others’ good manners, but if you don’t want to go to the mat over it, it’s not a bad solution.
Alternatively, go to the mat: if these kids are old enough to know not to touch your stuff, they need to be told to stop. Do they get pocket money/have after school jobs? They can fork over the cash to replace your food. If they’re little kids, it’s your mum or whoever is watching them’s job to remind them to keep their hands off.
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Place liberally over the top of your food items
Well, if he enjoys peddling so much, he’s probably a peddle-phile.
Even if he enjoys it, all that walking probably makes his feet tired. Maybe he’s just stopping in to give his peds a rest.
A friend of mine was applying at a similar government jobs website, and as part of the pointless resume-redo process you needed to select your degree, college, etc, from dropdown menus. And the dropdown menu for “college” clearly did not contain the names of every accredited college, including his. And there was no way to leave it blank or skip the question. Hee hee. What was he supposed to do, pick the closest college alphabetically?
I’m assuming he looked for “Other” or “Miscellaneous” or “Not listed”?
It’s still freaking snowing.
Are you my cousin?
No, she lives with her father, but she has the exact same problem. I am infuriated both on your behalf and on hers. My first cousins once removed (i.e., the kids who do it to her) regularly clean her out, even though the food she keeps in the common area of the kitchen is all marked with her name, and even though she is on a restricted diet and is under doctor’s orders not to eat the stuff her father does. And her siblings thinks she is being mean to say " No, you cannot eat my food" to the kids, though every one of those siblings makes more money than she. :mad:
Qatari Fried Chicken?
What’s pissing me off today?! EVERYTHING…FARKING EVERYTHING AND EVERBODY!
I am very, very stabby today. The bullshit in this office needs to fucking stop or I’am going to say and do some very unprofessional and very unlike me stuff.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
What’s the biggest thing annoying me today? My practice group is short-handed. One admin person left, they fired one admin/paralegal-type person, and they just hired a new person. The new person is very nice, and has tons of experience. However, how the hell am I supposed to do large chunks of the work that the two departed people used to do, plus my own work, plus the work of my colleagues when they call in sick, plus stuff that the attorneys think I could do more efficiently instead of them, plus train the new person? Oh, and make everything “top priority” all at the same time? For three partners and two associates?
I haven’t had an actual vacation in more than a year. And in the past year, I got engaged and married and bought a condo and moved into it, and am not quite done unpacking yet. Vacation is at the end of the month, and let me tell you, it can’t come soon enough.
Yes, it is a fucking quiz when the time comes and you don’t remember whether it was Batman or Robin or Captain America that you entered the first time. It’s also an FQ when they ask you for your “school” and the validation software isn’t good enough to allow variants such as HS, H.S. College, University, etc. (I think “Cattledew”, “Cattledew HS”, “Cattledew High”, and so on, should be accepted as equivalent by the validation routine, if the user entered any one of those when they registered.)
I do try to work around this by using consistent answers for any registration process of this type, but it doesn’t always work. Not being able to get past the validation page means having to call some 800 number, waiting for help, and so on. My RL name is a difficult one, both because of its rarity and also because the letters of the name may sound like different letters unless I state a word for each letter–"S as in Sam, C as in Cat, "… So it’s not like I don’t have a reason for objecting to the hassle.
:eek:
Makes mental note not to complain about 89 degree heat here in NJ the other day.
Yeah, well about that. We’re going to need you to come in those days, m’kay? All that work isn’t going to do itself. We’ll make it up to you someday (somewhere around the year 31,302), I promise.
It’s STILL freaking snowing.
I hate the ones that are so marriage-dependent: “What is your/your wife’s maiden name?” “Where was your honeymoon?” “What was the first song you danced to as a married couple?” “Where did you get married?” Sometimes, more than half the list of available questions consists of crap like this…the questions don’t do any good if you’ve never been married!
Jeep’s Phoenix, I get non-relevant questions too, but they are usually about my oldest child’s name. I respond to those with FuckYou and since I can remember it, it works just dandy.
Most stores seem to deal with those sales as “instantaneous rebates”; this is in part because not everybody wants to take advantage of “3 for the price of 2” type schemes, and in part because anyway they need to scan the items for the stock-control system.
Not like you need me to tell you the dude’s a douche (with my apologies to douches), you already noticed it firsthand…
Eva Luna, I need you to have some chocolate ice cream; Ben and Jerry’s will suffice, if you can’t obtain Haagen-Dazs. Top priority, of course!