# Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239 "2010-06-23T14:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 54
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1061 "2010-09-08T20:50:35Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You don’t get to just post something like that and leave it at that, **purplehorseshoe**. Stories! > > 😃 Aaaahhh, if I had anything juicy, I totally would. She’s just … annoyingly incompetent, y’know? She’s been here less than two months and already blown through much of her time off. She was hired to be an executive admin, and she’s already fallen asleep in not one, not two, but _three_ of the meetings she attended. She argues back with her superiors when told to do something a certain way. I had to sit next to her during a rather grueling 3-day training session, and she asked the most inane questions possible. (And I found out she got the equivalent of a C- on the test.) She’s twice the age of anyone else in my office, and half as reliable. Seriously. We can do better. Oh! Oh! Okay, I thought of one: She went to her car to take a nap on her lunch break. And was AWOL for the next THREE HOURS. Technically, she was in the office. Verrrrry technically. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1062 "2010-09-08T21:15:09Z")
Holy shit. If they haven’t fired her for that, then I doubt they’d ever fire her. Yay, ball-less management! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1063 "2010-09-08T23:38:04Z")
And now for a little humor. I’m talking to someone on my support job. I’ve been on the phone with her a while and we’re waiting for something to finish; Me: One moment, I have to step away from my desk to throw something in the garbage can. Her: Oh, I have a trash can right here! I almost needed a new keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1064 "2010-09-09T13:14:28Z")
The minute that I decide to walk to M&S and buy myself some sort of delicious lunch, the skies opened. So now I’m having tomato soup and scowling at the window. Damn rain. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1065 "2010-09-09T13:59:32Z")
Dammit, people, if you want to arrange a parentage test, the least you could do is make your own damn phone calls! I am sick of trying to talk to your friend or your mama. Ten times out of ten, they either don’t know the true situation or they forget to tell you not to show up here chomping on a wad of gum. Who the fuck doesn’t set up _their own appointments_?! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1066 "2010-09-09T14:19:57Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ten times out of ten, they either don’t know the true situation or they forget to tell you not to show up here chomping on a wad of gum. Who the fuck doesn’t set up _their own appointments_?! Does chewing gum screw up DNA tapes? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1067 "2010-09-09T14:51:37Z")
We want to scrape the cells off their inner cheeks, and chewing gum (as well as eating, drinking, brushing teeth, etc.) tends to wipe those cells away. If given a chance, I ask people to abstain for an hour before their appointment. We can use blood, but we don’t have a _procedure_ in place to collect it at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1068 "2010-09-09T15:07:22Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Who the fuck doesn’t set up _their own appointments_?! A bastard, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1069 "2010-09-09T15:10:26Z")
Why the hell can’t I find men’s cargo pants in a decent color - say, you know, black? I want a couple of pairs for our upcoming trip, but every store (both brick & mortar and online) only seems to have awful ‘earthy’ colors. Eddie Bauer was the worst. Two colors: Avocado Green and Mustard Yellow straight out of your 1970’s kitchen. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1070 "2010-09-09T15:19:14Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > > Who the fuck doesn’t set up _their own appointments_?! > > A bastard, apparently. Well played. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1071 "2010-09-09T15:38:59Z")
Well, technically it’s the parents (or alleged parents) of said bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1072 "2010-09-09T16:36:22Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Well, technically it’s the parents (or alleged parents) of said bastard. In which case, “The same kind of people who are the right combination of promiscuous and careless enough with their birth control that they need to test parentage.” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1073 "2010-09-09T17:12:39Z")
I think I’ll just call 'em bastards anyway. It’s snappier. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1074 "2010-09-09T18:12:12Z")
Bastard makers! ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1075 "2010-09-09T18:19:54Z")
Its buggy today - inside my office. We just moved in to this building in the summer, and have had lots of crickets, skeeters, moths etc in the office, and a few millipedes crawling around the floor. This morning, as I am by the coffee maker, making my tea, and chatting with a colleague, he squishes two bugs, and cleans up the remains. I go back to my office and there are several millipedes crawling around on the floor - so I kill them, that’s about 5 in my office. I happen to glance up and there’s 5 of the fuckers on my ceiling! :eek: I leave my office, head to the front desk, have the receptionist call for pest control, but I know its not happening today. I get back to my office and now there’s only 3 on the ceiling, but I kill 3 more on the ground. I am at this point completely squicked out, cannot concentrate to save my freakin’ life. I email the boss to see if he’ll let me use his office while he’s out (after peering in through the window to inspect his ceiling). Before I can even hit send #3 falls onto my desk, like 6 inches from my drink. I moved to the conference room, until I had his ok to move into his office for the day. No more bugs in my immediate vicinity that I can see, but I have a good case of the heebie jeebies, probably for the rest of the day. Fuck I hate bugs! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1076 "2010-09-09T18:32:18Z")
My skin is crawling just reading that. Euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1077 "2010-09-09T21:24:24Z")
Sometime overnight I turned into a snot machine. It needs to stop now. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1078 "2010-09-09T21:34:23Z")
Why the hell can’t any of my DVD players just pop out the DVD when I press the eject button, instead of spinning the disc around 200 times making all kind of stupid whirling beeping sounds, and make me wait twiddling my thumbs?! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1079 "2010-09-09T22:13:23Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > Why the hell can’t I find men’s cargo pants in a decent color - say, you know, black? > > I want a couple of pairs for our upcoming trip, but every store (both brick & mortar and online) only seems to have awful ‘earthy’ colors. > > Eddie Bauer was the worst. Two colors: Avocado Green and Mustard Yellow straight out of your 1970’s kitchen. Blech. L.L. Bean has some “Pathfinder” pants in navy and gray…I don’t think they have black though, and they may not be “cargo” enough to suit camping needs. I would also like to know what the deal is with that horrible yellow that everyone thinks is going to be so popular this year. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1080 "2010-09-09T23:40:36Z")
I’m 43. I have an 18-month old baby boy. Out shopping with the wife and baby last weekend, I was sitting on a bench while Mrs. Yankee was in a store. An older (60-ish) Southern gentleman sat down on the bench and asked me, “Is thatchyour gran’ baby?” Harmless enough, but it bummed me the fuck out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239.md?page=55)