# You May Share Your Mini-Rants Here! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2014, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431 "2014-05-01T12:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/41 "2014-05-05T00:22:26Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Anti Rant (since I’ve bitched about it more here than anywhere else): I may have a new shiny, gently used kidney!! My best friend’s daughter has passed all of the hurdles, tissue matching is the only thing left. She was told my numbers for tissue match are VERY good (basically, I could take spare parts from a junk yard, my body is not picky). > Considering I go on the 21st to have the fistula done, the timing couldn’t be any better. > > Please cross your fingers, cross your toes, cross your eyes for me. Ooh, I am glad to see this! I remember your posts in my kidney donation thread. My tiny, related rant: I have been approved for my kidney donation for three months now, and a surgery date has not been set. If it gets pushed back too much, it will interfere with other travel plans. Grr. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/42 "2014-05-05T05:44:42Z")
I have a coworker/friend. Talking to him is absolutely crazy-making. In the course of conversation, he mentioned recently that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia many years ago, but he thinks that diagnosis was complete bunk and besides, the mineral prescribed (that would be lithium) just made him a zombie. So now, regardless of issues he experiences, he avoids doctors in all cases. If he has some troubling symptom he tells me about (like fell asleep while driving, several times), I encourage him to seek medical attention but I am blown off. I am not the most sane chica out there, but damn. Having a conversation with him makes me think I am crazy. He doesn’t have a lot of friends, so I would feel bad just cutting him off, convo-wise, but damn, I am just so stressed whenever my caller id lights up and it is him. He can be quite marvelous to chat with, until it 't turns weird. I honestly don’t know how to deal with his level of interaction anymore. Here’s an example - he referred himself as a gay man recently. It sparked this whole thing where he was shocked that I didn’t know his sexual preferences/experiences- but frankly I don’t care either way. Do what makes you happy, dude. But later conversations have included statements like “if i were gay, i would totally hit on him” (didnt you tell me you are?) and statements about a coworker that he thinks is homophobic (but doesnt seem to be to me- if that makes sense - said coworker has made antihomophobia comments to me) I know all the above seems trivial but I wanted to vent. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2014, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/43 "2014-05-05T10:24:21Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I have a coworker/friend. Talking to him is absolutely crazy-making. In the course of conversation, he mentioned recently that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia many years ago, but he thinks that diagnosis was complete bunk and besides, the mineral prescribed (that would be lithium) just made him a zombie. So now, regardless of issues he experiences, he avoids doctors in all cases. If he has some troubling symptom he tells me about (like fell asleep while driving, several times), I encourage him to seek medical attention but I am blown off. The mother of a good friend of mine had schizophrenia and she would do the same thing. She’d take her lithium until she felt better and then quit. From what I’ve heard, that’s pretty common. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/44 "2014-05-05T14:09:19Z")
I need the cootie spray. John Scudamore himself, creator of Whale to, is now posting on my book’s Facebook page. Ew. I’m half torn between a sense of triumph and a literal feeling of wanting to throw up. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/45 "2014-05-05T15:53:04Z")
I figuratively saw red because of my stupid coworker today. Again. She is regularly infuriating, but my hands were literally shaking. There is no way to disengage from her because my boss won’t put his foot down. I’m at my wit’s end and am going to start applying for other jobs yesterday. I can’t take this level of manager-sanctioned office dysfunction any fucking longer! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/46 "2014-05-05T16:07:30Z")
I have mild-ish schizophrenia myself but I do take meds and I realize they help me, and I haven’t stopped taking them. I’m getting other help as well. I’m not dangerous… I promise. 🙂 My rant: without going into too mmany details, a family member was being annoying yesterday. Luckily I was going out that afternoon/evening anyway so I didn’t have to hang around at home for long. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/47 "2014-05-05T16:49:54Z")
My prescription expenses have gone up. Wegmans had to remove almost 75% of the prescriptions they had on pricing special recently, as their costs had gone up. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/48 "2014-05-05T18:28:49Z")
I had to get my boobsquish today, which I did. The tech was one of those people who spend their whole workday giving instructions but apparently running into every moron in the area, because none of us understand them. She does things like not lower the platform as much as she should, thus forcing patients to stand on our toes; now, if every tech did that, I might believe it’s necessary - but since some do and some don’t, I’ll assume it’s not needed except to make the sadistic ones happy. From there I went to the supermarket and to Mom’s. Then when I got to Mom’s, as soon as I opened the main gate to the building I could hear some dude ranting (I couldn’t understand him) and two women telling him “we know, let us go!” “let go of my arm!” “we’re in a hurry! BYE!”. The two women managed to escape the ranter before I’d been able to manouver my bags up the slope. I get to the lift, and it’s the idiot brother of the moron who lives in the 7th floor (aka Mr “Cologne by the Gallon Man”, whose superpower consists of the uncanny ability to clear any large room just by entering it) ranting about how there’s a sign on the lift’s door saying “it’s going to be unusable for 24h” (not logical, since it’s on the bottom floor, the light is clearly on and everything I can see including the poor neighbor inside indicates it’s working). Since the gent inside had several packages and so did I, I indicated that he should just go up, but no, the ranter insisted that I had to go up too. No thank you, I’ll just wait a little. He grabbed my bags and shoved them inside, at which point I followed them, mostly to keep the poor neighbor who was trying to squeeze himself into a corner from getting bathed in fresh egg. He then proceeded to rant some more about the injustice of it all, and how it had been so rude of me not to want to go up when he wanted me to, blahblah… Eventually we were able to go up. I never saw the sign on the lift, but since the mechanics were running its yearly inspection, the phrasing would most likely have been along the lines of “we are working on the lift. There may be some interruptions to service within the next 24h, for which we apologize in advance”. These signs are supposed to keep people from banging on the door of a clearly-disengaged lift; with most people, it works. Most neighbors know it’s rare to have to wait for more than half an hour, so they’ll either walk up or go to the café across the street. I don’t know whether moron-brother’s baseline is like that, he’s got some form of dementia (his brother is in his 80, so this one can’t be too far) or he was off his meds, but he obstructed the lift for a lot longer than the mechanics ever have :smack: TLDR: sometimes the worst part of life is other people. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/49 "2014-05-06T00:50:59Z")
My entire schedule for the next two weeks is completely screwed up. Here’s what I sent to the Rogers escalation email after phone calls to 6 different people today. > [@](#): > > 4 to 6 weeks ago we called to arrange for service at our new home which we took possession of May 2nd. The housing development has a deal with Rogers so we we’re put through to the major accounts department. Our preferred install date was May 3rd or 4th. We were dealing with Anthony. > > Anthony indicated that there were no open time on the weekend and the earliest he could do was the Monday (May 5th) so we agreed to that time. Anthony did promise he would continue to try and get us a time, and that he would call back when he had the weekend time. We called back to confirm the time the week of April 21st to confirm as Anthony had not yet called us back. We were told there were no available times so the 5th was to be the day. > > Today, May 5th, I took the day off work as a vacation day to await the arrival of the Rogers installer. When I hadn’t heard any thing by 3:30 I called Rogers to get an estimated time, and was informed that someone would be here between 10 and 11am on the 6th. > > After a number of calls where we explained the problems and tried to get an acceptable time to have someone come over (not during working hours) it became apparent that Rogers was not able to accommodate any of our available times until well after our move date of May 15th. The problem being that both me and my husband work and for me to be here at the house I require internet access. Therefore, to wait at the house for Rogers to arrive, I would have to take another day off work. > > We asked if Rogers would be able to provide a rocket hub while we waited for the installer (he could be here beTween 4 and 6pm on the 9th) to arrive so I could work, and we’re informed that it was not possible. > > So now, because of this situation, we are going to have to look to an alternate provider for home phone, cable, internet, and cellular service. I was very surprised by this as we have been customers of Rogers for 20+ years! > > I guess loyalty is expected to only go one way these days. > > I thought you would like to know why you are losing a customer. Ticket XXXX is what we were given as a reference. We dealt with (me and my husband) customer service, escalated to sr. Support people and management, customer retention, and major accounts. No one was willing (able) to help us remain with Rogers. Essentially they are offering me the same timeslots available as they would if I just called today. They acknowledge that they screwed up the appointment time but are willing to do nothing at all to fix it. The only way I can continue to use their services is if I take a vacation day because the first non workday appointment available is May 21st. I even tried for a daytime appointment on May 15th (our moving day and a sure recipe for insanity) and May 16th which I already have booked off and neither of those are available. I’m totally screwed. I had the AC install scheduled for Wednesday, security system for Friday and blinds next Monday and I have to cancel/rebook ALL of them because I can’t sit at the house and wait for them unless I can connect to the office and work. One screwup takes my carefully planned out schedule and throws the entire thing out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/50 "2014-05-06T02:21:45Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] The mother of a good friend of mine had schizophrenia and she would do the same thing. She’d take her lithium until she felt better and then quit. From what I’ve heard, that’s pretty common. [/QUOTE] My former BIL would do this. Meds helped his schizophrenia to the point where he felt “normal” and he would decide he didn’t need them any more because why would a normal person need drugs? Then he would spiral down and start hearing voices again, have to be hospitalized and convinced to take the meds. Rinse and repeat. My mini rant: Last week I got in trouble for being home late from work. Today I’m in trouble for being home early. I’m so fucking mad at myself for getting stuck in this relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/51 "2014-05-06T03:11:41Z")
> [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](#): > > My mini rant: Last week I got in trouble for being home late from work. Today I’m in trouble for being home early. I’m so fucking mad at myself for getting stuck in this relationship. That does sound unreasonable. Just how “stuck” are you, or is there a realistic path to getting out if that’s what you feel you need to do? ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/52 "2014-05-06T04:24:57Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > That does sound unreasonable. Just how “stuck” are you, or is there a realistic path to getting out if that’s what you feel you need to do? I’m trying to unstick myself, but keep allowing myself to get emotionally sucked back in. Practically, I’m pretty damn stuck. Two of my paychecks would cover the rent where we’re currently at, that’s not including utilities. A third check covers my car payment and insurance, leaving a the last to get spent on food for me and the dogs, gas, and anything else that comes up. I can move, but from what I’ve found so far, my options are in scary neighborhoods far from work. I dunno, I’ll make it work somehow but it’s going to leave a hole in my heart and a pretty bare existence. Mostly I need to wake up from the fucking trance he has me in and find my (lady) balls again. ETA: “in trouble” means a giant screaming fight with accusations of infidelity and him disappearing for most if not all of the night. Not a “I’m bummed you’re home late because I had dinner waiting for ya”. I’m a grown fucking woman, I don’t deserve to be interrogated when I run late at work. Let alone being done early. Wtf is that? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/53 "2014-05-06T05:12:16Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > I’m totally screwed. I had the AC install scheduled for Wednesday, security system for Friday and blinds next Monday and I have to cancel/rebook ALL of them because I can’t sit at the house and wait for them unless I can connect to the office and work. One screwup takes my carefully planned out schedule and throws the entire thing out the window. Can you get dongle services/use your cellphone as a router? Not the best system, but yours is the kind of situation they’re good for. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/54 "2014-05-06T05:23:51Z")
> [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](#): > > \ > ETA: “in trouble” means a giant screaming fight with accusations of infidelity and him disappearing for most if not all of the night. Not a “I’m bummed you’re home late because I had dinner waiting for ya”. I’m a grown fucking woman, I don’t deserve to be interrogated when I run late at work. Let alone being done early. Wtf is that? That is emotional/psychological abuse. It looks like you already know this - his responses are outrageous and unacceptable for the situation. You don’t deserve to be interrogated or yelled at or accused; even if you were the worst girlfriend in the world (which you’re not), an appropriate response is to end the relationship with you, not act like your boyfriend is acting. I wish you all the best in the world to get out of this bad relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/55 "2014-05-06T05:55:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That is emotional/psychological abuse. It looks like you already know this - his responses are outrageous and unacceptable for the situation. You don’t deserve to be interrogated or yelled at or accused; even if you were the worst girlfriend in the world (which you’re not), an appropriate response is to end the relationship with you, not act like your boyfriend is acting. > > I wish you all the best in the world to get out of this bad relationship. And now I see from other posts that you are indeed ending it with this guy, so I’ll change this post to a supportive, “You’re definitely making the right decision by ending it” post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/56 "2014-05-06T10:46:26Z")
Not a huge rant, but - I’ve got a new zit. A big one. And I really, really hope that my boss won’t keep commenting on it at work this time! ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/57 "2014-05-06T14:45:28Z")
I have become a coughing, phlegm machine. Had two fairly sleepless nights and now I feel like I’m in some sort of haze. I worry that everyone I see today will think it was because I was out celebrating Cinco de Mayo and being irresponsible, when in fact, I spent the evening on the couch watching 24 and other shows. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/58 "2014-05-06T15:36:51Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Not a huge rant, but - I’ve got a new zit. A big one. And I really, really hope that my boss won’t keep commenting on it at work this time! What a dick! May I suggest one of those little round bandaids? They cover warts and noserings, as well as unfortunate pimples that normal people overlook. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/59 "2014-05-06T20:59:19Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Not a huge rant, but - I’ve got a new zit. A big one. And I really, really hope that my boss won’t keep commenting on it at work this time! > [@Rachellelogram](#): > > What a dick! May I suggest one of those little round bandaids? They cover warts and noserings, as well as unfortunate pimples that normal people overlook. Thanks for the suggestion, although if my boss saw that I was wearing a bandaid, she almost definitely would ask me about it. Though she didn’t bug me today, so I think I’m safe. 🙂 And other than that, she is generally a nice person. ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431/60 "2014-05-07T01:35:32Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > And now I see from other posts that you are indeed ending it with this guy, so I’ll change this post to a supportive, “You’re definitely making the right decision by ending it” post. 🙂 Thank you 🙂 I hope I’ve reached my actual line in the sand moment and can keep momentum towards getting the hell out of here. No one can do it but me. Ranty: I love my dogs to death but one of them has developed the INCREDIBLY annoying habit of fussing to go out when she doesn’t really need to. Dramatic moans and whines escalating to high pitched barks when I don’t get up and open the door for her. Knock it off, dog. I know you don’t have to pee, you just went. You just want to go out and bark at people walking by. BE QUIET. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-share-your-mini-rants-here/687431.md?page=4)