# Why July to me? (Mini rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421 "2021-07-01T12:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/182 "2021-07-22T23:57:00Z")
Hey at least they aren’t just giving the answer with an upward lilt to turn it into a question. “St. Francis?” (I expect that wouldn’t be accepted on the show anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/183 "2021-07-23T01:01:51Z")
Is anyone interested in borrowing my slightly used teenaged son for awhile? He eats a lot, doesn’t understand personal hygiene, refuses to admit that having a layer of trash all over his floor is not optimal, and argues about everything. Other than that though, he’s a charmer. I’m sure he’d bring hours of amusement to your home. _whimpers_ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/184 "2021-07-23T01:09:42Z")
I have a teenaged daughter so I’m good thanks. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/185 "2021-07-23T01:27:11Z")
Ahhh, I spent those years rolling my eyes and telling my kids “Damn, if only great-gramma hadn’t sailed to the Plymouth Colony, we’d still be British… and you two would be at a nice dreary boarding school. Where you’d be getting caned for your attitude, while your mother and I would be off playing cricket or some such.” ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/186 "2021-07-23T03:27:17Z")
I’ll take him for a couple of weeks. Just tell him that I’m old, disabled and poor (all true) and I need a strong guy to help me out with things like changing light bulbs and hanging pictures. I’ll feed him and pay him 20 bucks a day. Kids that age are horrible snots to parents, but are often so helpful and polite to other adults that its sickening. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/187 "2021-07-23T03:38:07Z")
Complained about the “What is” guy to my wife today too. What rock singer does he remind you of? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/188 "2021-07-23T06:29:16Z")
Say What one more time! From Pulp Fiction ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/189 "2021-07-23T07:42:26Z")
Attack of the Sciatica, my vax is the J&J and I live in Iowa, I’m middle aged and don’t want to be. Good enough wine? No! I don’t like wine or whining 😃 ---
**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:** [July 23, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/190 "2021-07-23T11:17:10Z")
What ain’t no country I ever heard of? They speak English in What? (That’s my favorite line from that movie. I can’t resist an opportunity to say it. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![deltogre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deltogre/32/5041_2.png) [@deltogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltogre)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/191 "2021-07-23T14:16:18Z")
Rock singer… John Mayer? Also, it’s nice to know I’m not alone. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/192 "2021-07-23T14:33:06Z")
All better now, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/193 "2021-07-23T14:44:52Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > Attack of the Sciatica This morning I woke up and my damn sciatica is back. (No pun intended there.) Ouch. At least I don’t absolutely _have_ to go into the office this morning. I don’t feel like driving in commuter traffic if one of my legs is barely working. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/194 "2021-07-23T18:03:17Z")
I sneezed and my back went out yesterday. Backs suck. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/195 "2021-07-23T18:54:42Z")
Another Lady selling her bike described it as "used bike, seat squeaks, tires may need air " good golly so helpful what an idiot! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/196 "2021-07-24T02:24:49Z")
If you get behind in an online course, before you whine that you did more of the coursework and it must be a computer glitch that caused the work not to show up on your progress report, consider googling first to see if the tech person generating the progress reports can see **when** you did the coursework, not just that you did it. Because the concerned facilitator of one such person in her group asked me to look into the “tech issue,” forcing me to out the person behind as a liar who did the missing work a week and a half after the marking period, which is why it didn’t appear on the progress report. I’m not impressed that this idiot wasted my time, and her facilitator probably isn’t either. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/197 "2021-07-24T10:11:38Z")
You are seriously lucky there!! My former dentist installed a crown in my mouth that turned out to be completely defective – among other things, it sticks out like a little ledge on the cheek side instead of being contoured toward the gum like a real tooth. He retired and left the state soon after, and I didn’t learn that what I was feeling was a problem until I went back to the practice – which he had sold to a local chain – for a routine cleaning. They graciously pointed out that the replacement would be much cheaper for me, since it would essentially be a 3D-printed crown. 🙄 I would later learn that pretty much all of the work this asshat had done on my teeth was complete garbage. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/198 "2021-07-24T12:05:47Z")
😬 Yeek. I’d offer you my dentist if you weren’t halfway across the state from me. The chip is very small and no one would know about it if a) my dentist weren’t a perfectionist and b) hadn’t poked me in just the right spot with the poky hook. I have some time off coming up so I’m going to see if I can get it done then so I’ll have some time to recover. In other Things Breaking News, when I took my car in to be looked at the mechanic moved my seat back and now either the switch or the motor is out and my driver’s seat won’t move forward. This is a problem because I’m a short person. I had to drive home with a roll of paper towels behind me so I could actually reach the pedals. All the way home I was stalling out worse than I ever did when I was learning to drive. (Important note: My car is a manual.) I ended up stalling out on the hilly driveway and had to get my Tall Person roommate to move my car up the rest of the way. I’m taking it in again today to get the spark plugs and wires replaced. The shop is also going to fix my seat. They don’t know this yet but they will in a couple of hours when I give them that news along with a Stern Look. The Resident Tall Person will also be driving my car to the shop because he’s the only one here who can reach the pedals. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/199 "2021-07-24T12:40:40Z")
After this caffeine kicks in, I have to crawl into our crowded closet, find our safe, and drag it out. I need to see if we have a birth certificate for my husband so that he can apply for social security. He says that there’s a “certificate of live birth” in there. I pointed out to him that that’s not the same thing as a birth certificate issued by a governmental entity. The argument will only be solved once I squirm my creaky old body into that narrow space and have a rummage. I seem to remember that, twenty-four years ago, I had this same issue when I applied for a passport. They wanted a birth certificate, and I thought the hospital’s certificate of live birth was the same thing. Nope. If we don’t find a birth certificate for him, we’ll have to try to get one from Los Angeles County. That’s going to be fun. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/200 "2021-07-24T14:35:13Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > If we don’t find a birth certificate for him, we’ll have to try to get one from Los Angeles County. That’s going to be fun. I’ve had to order replacement birth certificates online from several different counties, and each time it was a pretty simple procedure. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421/201 "2021-07-24T19:32:40Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’ve had to order replacement birth certificates online from several different counties, and each time it was a pretty simple procedure. Same here, I had to get mine from across the country and it wasn’t that bad. I needed it to get a passport. Just a short time on a web site, pay some money, and then wait a couple weeks for it to arrive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-july-to-me-mini-rants/945421.md?page=11)