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Subject: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/03/09 at 12:22 pm

This is a place to bitch about things in this world that annoy you.

For me, I don't understand why everything has to have a high sodium content.  It seems no matter what you eat, has salt/sodium in it. I understand that humans LOVE salt for the most part-but I am one of those strange people who dosen't like a lot of salt. If I eat something with high levels of sodium, I have to drink about a gallon of water because it makes me super thirsty and then I feel really bloated. And then you have Coca-Cola who puts sodium in their bottled water.  :o :o :o  That's right, Dasani brand water has sodium in it. It is designed to make you MORE thirsty so you will drink more. How nice.At least there are some companies who are FINALLY getting the hint and cutting down on the sodium they put in their products.


Ok, that is my rant for the day. Who is next?


Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/03/09 at 12:42 pm


The officers go to breakfast and order food for me and then ask the people to keep up under the heat lamp until they are ready to leave so my food sits around for 45 minutes while they dine leisurely  >:(  Why can't they just order my meal 10 minutes before they are ready to leave?

oh and I get sunny side up eggs which always arrive upside down because one particular officer just sets my to go container on the back seat and lets it slide all over the friggin place... the officers I worked with last shift rotation always brought me warm food and my eggs were always intact  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/03/09 at 1:20 pm


The officers go to breakfast and order food for me and then ask the people to keep up under the heat lamp until they are ready to leave so my food sits around for 45 minutes while they dine leisurely  >:(  Why can't they just order my meal 10 minutes before they are ready to leave?

oh and I get sunny side up eggs which always arrive upside down because one particular officer just sets my to go container on the back seat and lets it slide all over the friggin place... the officers I worked with last shift rotation always brought me warm food and my eggs were always intact  >:(
That would definitely make me unhappy too!  Cold eggs are more like glue than something edible :( :( :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 01/03/09 at 5:16 pm

:-signature banned as well

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/03/09 at 5:31 pm


:-signature banned as well



Oops.  :-[



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/06/09 at 8:12 pm

OK, I'm sick and tired of this!  Why is it nowadays everybody has to bring their f**king lunch everywhere!  No, I don't mean brownbagging it and eating in the lunchrooom on break like the old days, I mean "the world is my picnic table" attitude.  Look, don't eat your goddam take-out noodles over the control bord in the studio.  You risk thousands of dollars in damage, and then I gotta come in and breathe in the ginger and garlic whether I like or not, and maybe deal with grease on the levers and switches.  And I don't want to see you in the lobby chowing down on burritos and tossed salad!  I don't bring my work to your dining table, do I?  It's just that freaking narcissitic sense of entitlement!  Me stuffing my face is of paramount importance and never will it cross my mind that you don't like dealing with my crumbs and wrappers and rancid residuals!  Oh, and our parents used to teach us something called "table manners."  That's over now; it's some Victorian relic, like courship (why court when you can just hook-up?)  Watching these on-the-go chowderhounds fetch it down their greedy gobs is like going down to the sty and watching the hogs oinking around a load of festering garbage!!!!

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PHEW! Thanks, I needed that.  I feel better now.
:)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/08/09 at 11:02 am

My rant for today is about UPS. They just put the packages on the porch, don't bother to knock or ring the doorbell and we are here most of the time. We don't notice that we have a package until the next day when we go out to get the morning paper-so the package sits on the porch all night.

Yesterday we got a package (a snowblower-and just in time too  ;) ) which we happened to see the UPS truck as it pulled up-which is good. However the company who sent it (which this is my rant #2 for the day) just put the shipping label on the box so everyone in the world can see that we were getting a new snowblower. This really sucks as it sits on the porch (if we didn't see the truck) and anyone walking by can see that we have a brand new snowblower and if they wanted, they could just go up and take it home with them. Of course they could do that with our regular packages, too. They just wouldn't know what was in the package until they opened it.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/12/09 at 3:52 pm

My rant for the day:

Everyone knows that I have a Flickr account. I pimp a lot of my photos-the ones I think are GOOD and send them to group after group after group and hardly get any comments. One photo has 649 views but only 23 comments. WTF!!?? It looks like I will NEVER get on Explore.  :\'( :\'( :\'(



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/13/09 at 11:05 am

Ok - here's my rant:  I work in a male dominated industry (residential construction) have been in the industry for over 20 years, I have extensive parctical knowledge in all aspects of the industry and have been rewarded for my knowledge by being paid well and have worked my way up to management.  I hire and fire subtrades on a regular basis, anyone who knows me know this.  In a recent conversation between a "general contractor" and myself a dispute arose.  The general contractor was going to do some work on a friend's bathroom and they (the wife) had asked me to check him out as no one had seen any of his work.  So I asked him some qualifying questions (I won't bore you with the details) which I use when hiring new contractors at work.  The fellow didn't demonstrate sufficient knowledge and actually began to argue with me about something that is common knowledge with regard to the work he was to be hired to do, so I advised my friend and her husband (privately) that I wouldn't hire him and explained the reasons why.  Her husband, who had listened in on the conversation (it was at a party at the home of another friend) disregarded my opinion and hired him to do the work anyway.  Needless to say, they need to hire Holmes on Homes to fix the work, that's how bad it is.  Had I been a man, they would have listened and not hired the contractor.

This happens all the time.  I have boobs and smell good.  Therefore I cannot possibly know anything about construction and manly stuff.  I deal with it at work, and I deal with it at home.  At work, I have power and don't have to tolerate the dismissal of my opinion, at home (mostly with friends) I either keep my mouth shut or become frustrated - during these economic times more and more of our friends are doing their own home renos and they constantly ask my Husband for tips (as we obviously do our own).  He always brings me in on the conversation as I am the knowledgable one and as soon as that happens, the men get a glazed look in their eyes and I can tell, it's a waste of breath to say anything.  So for the most part I refuse to discuss home renos and have become quite verbal about the chauvinism running rampant throughout our social circle.

I recently had the opportunity to socialize with a female heavy duty mechanic, she experiences the same thing.  On a larger scale.  I am so sick of Chauvinism and that is my rant.

I may have spelled Chauvinism wrong, I don't care!  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 11:08 am

I like people who have boobs and smell good.

I have lived long enough (not that I'm OLD or anything :P ) to realize that there are plenty of women in the world who are smarter, stronger, and better at stuff than I am, so I've developed a sense of impartiality where I research every opinion given to me and try to assess which one is best. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/13/09 at 11:11 am


I like people who have boobs and smell good.


I laughed out loud when I read that!

That being said, are you sure, in all situations, that the gender or physical attributes of the person providing the information do not influence the findings of your research?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 01/13/09 at 11:13 am


I laughed out loud when I read that!

That being said, are you sure, in all situations, that the gender or physical attributes of the person providing the information do not influence the findings of your research?


I make sure of that.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 11:14 am


I laughed out loud when I read that!

That being said, are you sure, in all situations, that the gender or physical attributes of the person providing the information do not influence the findings of your research?


I think there's some inherent bias even if we try not to let it affect our objectivity.  I have noticed nowadays that there are a lot more women than men in the sciences, though, and that's probably not due to some kind of affirmative action program for females, they are actually very intelligent and can argue their positions very well.

I don't care what gender the person is as long as they can do the job satisfactorily :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 4:50 pm












um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 










Ok - here's my rant:  I work in a male dominated industry (residential construction) have been in the industry for over 20 years, I have extensive parctical knowledge in all aspects of the industry and have been rewarded for my knowledge by being paid well and have worked my way up to management.  I hire and fire subtrades on a regular basis, anyone who knows me know this.  In a recent conversation between a "general contractor" and myself a dispute arose.  The general contractor was going to do some work on a friend's bathroom and they (the wife) had asked me to check him out as no one had seen any of his work.  So I asked him some qualifying questions (I won't bore you with the details) which I use when hiring new contractors at work.  The fellow didn't demonstrate sufficient knowledge and actually began to argue with me about something that is common knowledge with regard to the work he was to be hired to do, so I advised my friend and her husband (privately) that I wouldn't hire him and explained the reasons why.  Her husband, who had listened in on the conversation (it was at a party at the home of another friend) disregarded my opinion and hired him to do the work anyway.  Needless to say, they need to hire Holmes on Homes to fix the work, that's how bad it is.  Had I been a man, they would have listened and not hired the contractor.

This happens all the time.  I have boobs and smell good.  Therefore I cannot possibly know anything about construction and manly stuff.  I deal with it at work, and I deal with it at home.  At work, I have power and don't have to tolerate the dismissal of my opinion, at home (mostly with friends) I either keep my mouth shut or become frustrated - during these economic times more and more of our friends are doing their own home renos and they constantly ask my Husband for tips (as we obviously do our own).  He always brings me in on the conversation as I am the knowledgable one and as soon as that happens, the men get a glazed look in their eyes and I can tell, it's a waste of breath to say anything.  So for the most part I refuse to discuss home renos and have become quite verbal about the chauvinism running rampant throughout our social circle.

I recently had the opportunity to socialize with a female heavy duty mechanic, she experiences the same thing.  On a larger scale.  I am so sick of Chauvinism and that is my rant.

I may have spelled Chauvinism wrong, I don't care!  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 4:56 pm


um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 


Methinks it's a former member who deleted but has resurrected her account, though I'm sure the modz are on the case.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/13/09 at 4:59 pm


Methinks it's a former member who deleted but has resurrected her account, though I'm sure the modz are on the case.


Nah - I was never deleted, I just got a job with a lot more responsibility and couldn't get on for a long time, then i forgot about the web site, then I was googling something one day at my new slacker job and found you all again!  I have never beened banned from anything in my whole life!  If that's what you meant!  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 5:00 pm

Ah...forgot your original password? 

That happens to me sometimes :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tia on 01/13/09 at 5:03 pm












um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 









i dont want this to sound mean to the person you're talking about -- i want to say it in pig latin but how would you do it? dria-andray? well, crap, that's rather obvious, isn't it? -- but the writer is too smart to be the Big A.  ;D anyway, yeah, i think i remember a barefoot robin from back in the day...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/13/09 at 5:05 pm

YES!  Thank you!  Whew, I was almost having an emotion for a minute there!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 5:05 pm

I've never actually seen a robin with shoes before...unless you're talking about Robin Williams or something :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 5:06 pm




um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 






Warning - while you were reading 7 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.


wow... okay I stand corrected... barefootinrobin I truly apologize for the mistaken Identity... you have a similar writing style to someone who was around a couple months ago but I know know who are separate people so I say welcome...er... WELCOME BACK.

Hope to get to know you as others do..

Q

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 5:09 pm

I should probably rant too...where should I begin?

I'll figure out something later, but for now the only rant I have is that biology takes so long :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 5:11 pm


i dont want this to sound mean to the person you're talking about -- i want to say it in pig latin but how would you do it? dria-andray? well, crap, that's rather obvious, isn't it? -- but the writer is too smart to be the Big A.  ;D anyway, yeah, i think i remember a barefoot robin from back in the day...



you got it... I'm glad its not whatsherface seriously...

Sorry again Robin... I saw the story about working with men and then the mention of boobs and lept to a conclusion...plus the neatly typed paragraphs.

you don't find that often around here  ;D


Welcome back and congrats on your new slacker job!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 5:13 pm

But even though you're at a slacker job now, can you still tell me how to fix stuff around the house?  :-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/13/09 at 5:15 pm


But even though you're at a slacker job now, can you still tell me how to fix stuff around the house?  :-[


LOL!  Unfortunately, YES! ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/13/09 at 5:17 pm

Cool!  I might have some questions for you, which may be the subject of another rant :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/13/09 at 5:59 pm

topic split

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/13/09 at 6:12 pm


oh sure! split the topic! YOU'RE the moderator! YOU'RE the GOD and we're just lowly little thread-dwellers who can't even decide what thread our posts will appear in! just split threads willy-nilly! see if I CARE!  ::) i don't care! i can take it! you think that bothers me?!? lots of people like me and they will defend me and...

oh, hell, i totally ran out of energy for that.



I know this was meant in jest but for the record, it was MY idea to split the thread.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 6:31 pm



I know this was meant in jest but for the record, it was MY idea to split the thread.



Cat


who's spliting what....  please do explain for I do not understand this language you all are speaking  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/13/09 at 6:44 pm


who's spliting what....  please do explain for I do not understand this language you all are speaking  ;D
There is a board rant thread now (look in TTT a couple down from this thread) ;)

I just got here, quite interesting so far

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 6:46 pm


There is a board rant thread now (look in TTT a couple down from this thread) ;)

I just got here, quite interesting so far


oh thanks!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/13/09 at 7:00 pm


oh thanks!


But you have already been there - surprise surprise ;)

;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 7:28 pm


But you have already been there - surprise surprise ;)

;D


funny I could have sworn at the time I was somewhere else

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/13/09 at 7:29 pm


funny I could have sworn at the time I was somewhere else
and maybe you were ;)

;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/13/09 at 7:47 pm


and maybe you were ;)

;D



wait I just read my posts and now I sound like someone else here..


for the record I didn't know about thread splitting but once I found the other thread I got it..

and I know exactly how my other posts made it into that thread... just so we're all clear...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: whistledog on 01/13/09 at 9:08 pm


Nah - I was never deleted, I just got a job with a lot more responsibility and couldn't get on for a long time, then i forgot about the web site, then I was googling something one day at my new slacker job and found you all again!  I have never beened banned from anything in my whole life!  If that's what you meant!   :)


I can vouch for barefootrobin because I remember when she was a member before with the same name

a) I never forget a fellow Canuck
b) Her old avatar was Betty Cooper, the girl to me that Archie Andrews should be with (if he wasn't such a brainless moron LOL)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/14/09 at 9:39 am

Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/14/09 at 3:25 pm


Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!


I like you- you just made me laugh!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/14/09 at 4:40 pm


Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!



For what it's worth, I remember you, too. I believe you used to play at the arcade.

In fact, Carlos in the car today asked me if I remembered you.  ;) 



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/14/09 at 4:44 pm



For what it's worth, I remember you, too. I believe you used to play at the arcade.

In fact, Carlos in the car today asked me if I remembered you.  ;) 



Cat


I did - and I remember you and you and you!  Just kidding, how strange of a feeling though.  Tell Carlos I said Hi!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/14/09 at 4:52 pm


I did - and I remember you and you and you!  Just kidding, how strange of a feeling though.  Tell Carlos I said Hi!



You can tell him yourself. He will be visiting these parts tomorrow morning.  ;)




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/14/09 at 5:12 pm

And now I would like to vent about myself.  Why is it that when I am confronted with a conversation about religion I go way to deep and get way to involved in the conversation when I know better?  Why! Why! Why?  I have a whole sidebar conversation with myself about how I should shut up now but I can't stop it, it continues and away I go.

And advice, what is it going to take to stop myself from giving my grown up daughter advice???  The poor thing, I see the glazed over look in her eye, and still I go on.

I swear I really irritate the crap out of myself sometimes!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/14/09 at 5:13 pm


Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!


I remember you, too. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 01/14/09 at 5:14 pm


I remember you, too. :)


Thanks!  I remember you too!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/14/09 at 5:20 pm


Thanks!  I remember you too!


was she froggy back then too?

@ Dag  :P

;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/14/09 at 5:33 pm


was she froggy back then too?

@ Dag   :P

;)


You better be nice to me or I may send you a frog.  I still have your address. :P ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/14/09 at 5:37 pm


You better be nice to me or I may send you a frog.  I still have your address. :P ;)


If I get something from your neck of the woods I'm gonna squash it then open it.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa235/snozberries44/smileys/nahnah.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/14/09 at 5:50 pm


If I get something from your neck of the woods I'm gonna squash it then open it.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa235/snozberries44/smileys/nahnah.gif


I could have a friend send it from another state.







What you gonna do then? ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/14/09 at 6:01 pm


I could have a friend send it from another state.







What you gonna do then? ;D


sue for harassment? 


oh and I know where sami lives too.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/14/09 at 6:05 pm


sue for harassment? 


oh and I know where sami lives too.
;D ;D ;D

I was tempted to chime in, Q must have sensed it ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/14/09 at 6:14 pm

;D ;D ;D

You crack me up, Q.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Don Carlos on 01/16/09 at 11:28 am


I did - and I remember you and you and you!  Just kidding, how strange of a feeling though.  Tell Carlos I said Hi!


Hi yourself ;) Welcome back!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MLB on 03/01/09 at 3:22 pm

My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.  Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 03/01/09 at 3:46 pm


My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.   Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!



long time no see.....


I'm sorry that sounds like a bitch to be going thru right now.  change is difficult and moving someone new into a place where all the nuances are known routines are established... I don't have the patience for it... more power to you for being to still refer to her as 'nice enough' that's kinder than I would be....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/02/09 at 1:41 am


My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.   Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!


Gosh.  I remember when my dad got remarried and my stepmother moved into the house.  That was 27 years ago to the week!  She didn't bring bugs, just an annoying stepbrother (who later became my best friend in the whole world and still is), and a bunch of austere Victorian furniture and endtables topped with lace doilies and cheesy lamps from the 1940s!  Oh, and we had to keep her German Shepherd separated from my Springer Spaniel because they'd fight all the time and Sparky, my dog, would get the worse of it!  So that bugged me a lot.  She also started making up new rules as soon as she moved in, and I was like, "Excuse me, who TF are you?"  Then dad was all, "If Marilyn says it, it's the same as if I say it, so you just better not give her any lip!" 

Then Stu broke my telescope and my bike and stole half my Star Wars figures the first week he was there, but dad told me, "Hey, I don't wanna hear your whining.  You be nice to that boy, or else!"

Plus, you know how it is when there's newfound love in the air!  I didn't.  I would find out.  I could hear the two of them down the hall every night, you know, going at it like the horniest newlyweds east of the Mississippi!  I mean, it was like somewhere between an earthquake and a primate primal scream therapy session!

I think I got permanent psych damage from that sh*t!
8-P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 03/02/09 at 1:48 am


;D ;D ;D

You crack me up, Q.


One of you is cracked...and it ain't you Dag!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 03/02/09 at 1:51 am


Gosh.  I remember when my dad got remarried and my stepmother moved into the house.  That was 27 years ago to the week!  She didn't bring bugs, just an annoying stepbrother (who later became my best friend in the whole world and still is), and a bunch of austere Victorian furniture and endtables topped with lace doilies and cheesy lamps from the 1940s!  Oh, and we had to keep her German Shepherd separated from my Springer Spaniel because they'd fight all the time and Sparky, my dog, would get the worse of it!  So that bugged me a lot.  She also started making up new rules as soon as she moved in, and I was like, "Excuse me, who TF are you?"  Then dad was all, "If Marilyn says it, it's the same as if I say it, so you just better not give her any lip!" 

Then Stu broke my telescope and my bike and stole half my Star Wars figures the first week he was there, but dad told me, "Hey, I don't wanna hear your whining.  You be nice to that boy, or else!"

Plus, you know how it is when there's newfound love in the air!  I didn't.  I would find out.  I could hear the two of them down the hall every night, you know, going at it like the horniest newlyweds east of the Mississippi!  I mean, it was like somewhere between an earthquake and a primate primal scream therapy session!

I think I got permanent psych damage from that sh*t!
8-P


Sorry Max...but you made it sound funny!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: adagio on 03/02/09 at 10:02 am

You DID make it sound funny.    ;D ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 03/02/09 at 11:08 am


My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.   Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!


Bugs?  Good hell.  That's just awful.  I'm sorry you have to deal with that.  :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 03/02/09 at 11:11 am


Sorry Max...but you made it sound funny!  ;D



Yeah...the telescope/bike/star wars figures part made me giggle too.  Not that I don't feel for you.  But it's still kinda gigglesome.



Except for the sex part.  That is completely horrifying to a kid.  :\'( :o :\'(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/03/09 at 10:39 am



Yeah...the telescope/bike/star wars figures part made me giggle too.  Not that I don't feel for you.  But it's still kinda gigglesome.



Except for the sex part.  That is completely horrifying to a kid.   :\'( :o :\'(


Oh, I meant to make it sound funny.  It is funny!  A lot of things are funny with the passage of time.  Ironically, our crazy parents are what made my stepbrother and me so close.  Sure, we fought quite a bit, but in the end all we had was each other. 

I thought my dad and my stepmother cornered the market in the loud sex dept., but Barbara Dafoe Whitheead specifies the phenomenon in her book "The Divorce Culture."  Things the Brady Bunch never taught us!

Stu and I laugh about it now...but at the time, YEESH!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nervous.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 03/03/09 at 10:50 am

My sister in law called at 7:25 this morning to 'make sure everything was okay'. Everything was okay until the phone BLARED INTO MY SLEEPING EARDRUMS. And thank you, honey, for leaving your cell phone on DEAF PERSON VOLUME RIGHT NEXT TO MY HEAD.

Since I'm already here, I might as well give a condensed version of last week's work cluster****: One big job was delayed due to materials not being there and money not being here. We have other work to do, so I head to a *somewhat* local site to work... mainly to pick up my check, 1099, and train a few new monkeys. I get to the site - the materials aren't there, monkeys aren't there, 1099 isn't there, money isn't there, and the site wasn't even properly prepped by the last set of monkeys. 0 for freakin' 5. Last Friday amounted to little more than a 118 mile joyride, when it was BEAUTIFUL outside and 70*. Now it's 20* and sheeshty.

At the moment I'm basically on strike until I get paid in full, get my 1099, and all of the materials are on these jobsites.

signature banned as well

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 03/03/09 at 11:05 am




At the moment I'm basically on strike until I get paid in full, get my 1099, and all of the materials are on these jobsites.

signature banned as well


Good for you Jack!
I know it must suck not actually working, but you needed to take this stand my friend! 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 03/03/09 at 12:19 pm


My sister in law called at 7:25 this morning to 'make sure everything was okay'. Everything was okay until the phone BLARED INTO MY SLEEPING EARDRUMS. And thank you, honey, for leaving your cell phone on DEAF PERSON VOLUME RIGHT NEXT TO MY HEAD.

signature banned as well


That "deaf person volume" comment made me snort milk up into my sinuses.  Ow. ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 03/03/09 at 2:04 pm


Good for you Jack!
I know it must suck not actually working, but you needed to take this stand my friend! 8)


It really sucks. Not only am I not getting paid on time, I'm not getting any time in to not get paid on time next week (wow, a quadruple negative!). Sitting around the house is driving me nuts.

I think the 1099 is coming this week, but it's really the last thing I want to see right now. No word on the rest, but yeah, I've got to turn this crap around or leave - it's too frustrating to deal with on a daily basis anymore.


That "deaf person volume" comment made me snort milk up into my sinuses.  Ow. ;D


Sorry... lol.

signature banned as well

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 07/05/09 at 11:30 pm

I am about to blow!

First, I have this freakin headache! It is killing me and has been for the better part of today! After a weeks worth of rain, it decided to get real nice out today, except it stayed chilly only to warm up later in the day, thus causing my headache! My Advil isn't working and it is too late to take my tension headache medicine - so I am SOL.

Second.... I am so sick and disgusted by the Celebrity Outpouring over Michael Jackson's death!
Why?
Where were these so-called loyal celebrity fans when Michael needed them for support 4 years ago? Where were these normal civilian fans when he needed them 4 years ago? Why is it now that they are all coming out of the woodwork, claiming to have been best friends with him, always by his side etc. etc.?? They want their dang 5 minutes more of fame that's why!!! It makes me sick to watch people sit around, mourning his star on the walk of fame!! Some of these people were probably the ones spitting on his star when he was on trial! They had tried and convicted him even before the case was heard! But now - OY VEY! 'The loss is so great.... my heart bleeds.... Michael was the best...' It does nothing but display the sheer hypocrisy of society on the whole!Even after he was acquitted, people still claimed he was guilty! Now they are claiming he was wronged and never should have been tried! Seriously. I am so pissed at mankind right now. It is disgusting!

And Larry King!!!! Scrounging up guests he could interview.... Cory Feldman??!!! C'mon - the kid hadn't even talked to Michael in 7 years!!!! And you know Larry's ass was one of the ones saying Michael was guilty - behind closed doors of course! Gah! And he has the empathy and understanding of a brick wall! And seriously - interviewing some nurse who claims that Michael asked for stuff?! Why didn't she say something sooner than after his death? She researched what the drug was, but did nothing to alert anyone to his request? Gimme a break! 5 minute fame wanting b!tch!

Yep.... I'm pissed and disgusted! >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/05/09 at 11:48 pm



you vented very well... did it help?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 07/05/09 at 11:49 pm


And Larry King!!!! Scrounging up guests he could interview.... Cory Feldman??!!! C'mon - the kid hadn't even talked to Michael in 7 years!!!! And you know Larry's ass was one of the ones saying Michael was guilty - behind closed doors of course! Gah! And he has the empathy and understanding of a brick wall! And seriously - interviewing some nurse who claims that Michael asked for stuff?! Why didn't she say something sooner than after his death? She researched what the drug was, but did nothing to alert anyone to his request? Gimme a break! 5 minute fame wanting b!tch!

Yep.... I'm pissed and disgusted! >:(


Oh yeah, I watched that Larry King last night.  The nurse made me roll my eyes.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: adagio on 07/06/09 at 7:56 am


I am about to blow!

First, I have this freakin headache! It is killing me and has been for the better part of today! After a weeks worth of rain, it decided to get real nice out today, except it stayed chilly only to warm up later in the day, thus causing my headache! My Advil isn't working and it is too late to take my tension headache medicine - so I am SOL.

Second.... I am so sick and disgusted by the Celebrity Outpouring over Michael Jackson's death!
Why?
Where were these so-called loyal celebrity fans when Michael needed them for support 4 years ago? Where were these normal civilian fans when he needed them 4 years ago? Why is it now that they are all coming out of the woodwork, claiming to have been best friends with him, always by his side etc. etc.?? They want their dang 5 minutes more of fame that's why!!! It makes me sick to watch people sit around, mourning his star on the walk of fame!! Some of these people were probably the ones spitting on his star when he was on trial! They had tried and convicted him even before the case was heard! But now - OY VEY! 'The loss is so great.... my heart bleeds.... Michael was the best...' It does nothing but display the sheer hypocrisy of society on the whole!Even after he was acquitted, people still claimed he was guilty! Now they are claiming he was wronged and never should have been tried! Seriously. I am so pissed at mankind right now. It is disgusting!

And Larry King!!!! Scrounging up guests he could interview.... Cory Feldman??!!! C'mon - the kid hadn't even talked to Michael in 7 years!!!! And you know Larry's ass was one of the ones saying Michael was guilty - behind closed doors of course! Gah! And he has the empathy and understanding of a brick wall! And seriously - interviewing some nurse who claims that Michael asked for stuff?! Why didn't she say something sooner than after his death? She researched what the drug was, but did nothing to alert anyone to his request? Gimme a break! 5 minute fame wanting b!tch!

Yep.... I'm pissed and disgusted! >:(


Touche! Tam. Made me feel like a turncoat for saying 'enough already.' Karma

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 07/06/09 at 9:49 am



you vented very well... did it help?


I feel much better! Thank you ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 07/06/09 at 9:50 am


Oh yeah, I watched that Larry King last night.  The nurse made me roll my eyes.


He normally doesn't bother me but in this instance he is getting on my last nerve! >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 07/06/09 at 9:51 am


Touche! Tam. Made me feel like a turncoat for saying 'enough already.' Karma


Thanks Pat! It just irks me to no end! :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 07/06/09 at 9:59 am

since I don't feel like typing it twice.....see the lose weight/get healthy thread for my latest rant. :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 07/08/09 at 12:30 am

My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 07/08/09 at 1:22 pm


My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P


I feel ya.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 07/08/09 at 2:08 pm


My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P


I can relate girl.  :(  I'm sorry.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/08/09 at 10:34 pm


My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P


So does mine.  Toxic, the whole bunch of 'em.  As the years go by, I see them less and less, and that's okay with me.  I wish I didn't have the craziest family in the western hemisphere, but what can you do?
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 07/10/09 at 1:06 pm

So, I am having this huge party Saturday, 25 women, my house - it's an annual thing.  My husband and I started installing hardwood a couple of months ago and it's not finished - the stairs and 2 feet of the upper landing are subfloor.  I can't get an installer out to finish (my husband won't because it will interrupt his golf)  prior to Saturday so i run into somone I used to know and she knows an installer whose been doing it "for years".

I mention $75.00 per stair - he says (on the phone) sounds good.  THen he comes to my house to do it and I realize that he thinks I am desperate.  He looks everything over, starts talking about floor prep (there is none) bullnose issues (there are none) rebuilding stairs (yeah right) and basically I can tell he doesn't have a clue what he's doing just by his answers to my other questions ( he thought the floor needed to be glued?).  I am now disappointed because there is no way I am letting him do it - just as I am trying to figure out a way to get rid of him he tells me he is going to have to charge me more because of all the "issues" $120.00 per stair and $150.00 to finish 2 square feet.  I said nothing exept I can get someone for $75.00 per stair and thank you anyway.

My house is ugly.

What a loser.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tia on 07/10/09 at 1:16 pm


So, I am having this huge party Saturday, 25 women, my house - it's an annual thing.  My husband and I started installing hardwood a couple of months ago and it's not finished - the stairs and 2 feet of the upper landing are subfloor.  I can't get an installer out to finish (my husband won't because it will interrupt his golf)  prior to Saturday so i run into somone I used to know and she knows an installer whose been doing it "for years".

I mention $75.00 per stair - he says (on the phone) sounds good.  THen he comes to my house to do it and I realize that he thinks I am desperate.  He looks everything over, starts talking about floor prep (there is none) bullnose issues (there are none) rebuilding stairs (yeah right) and basically I can tell he doesn't have a clue what he's doing just by his answers to my other questions ( he thought the floor needed to be glued?).  I am now disappointed because there is no way I am letting him do it - just as I am trying to figure out a way to get rid of him he tells me he is going to have to charge me more because of all the "issues" $120.00 per stair and $150.00 to finish 2 square feet.  I said nothing exept I can get someone for $75.00 per stair and thank you anyway.

My house is ugly.

What a loser.
you should have killed him and stashed him under the floorboards. for free.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 07/10/09 at 1:54 pm


you should have killed him and stashed him under the floorboards. for free.


But what about the smell?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/10/09 at 2:22 pm


So, I am having this huge party Saturday, 25 women, my house - it's an annual thing.  My husband and I started installing hardwood a couple of months ago and it's not finished - the stairs and 2 feet of the upper landing are subfloor.  I can't get an installer out to finish (my husband won't because it will interrupt his golf)  prior to Saturday so i run into somone I used to know and she knows an installer whose been doing it "for years".

I mention $75.00 per stair - he says (on the phone) sounds good.  THen he comes to my house to do it and I realize that he thinks I am desperate.  He looks everything over, starts talking about floor prep (there is none) bullnose issues (there are none) rebuilding stairs (yeah right) and basically I can tell he doesn't have a clue what he's doing just by his answers to my other questions ( he thought the floor needed to be glued?).  I am now disappointed because there is no way I am letting him do it - just as I am trying to figure out a way to get rid of him he tells me he is going to have to charge me more because of all the "issues" $120.00 per stair and $150.00 to finish 2 square feet.  I said nothing exept I can get someone for $75.00 per stair and thank you anyway.

My house is ugly.

What a loser.



I hear ya. I can't tell you the time we had/are having trying to find someone to redo our kitchen. Now we have another issue-the hose from our dishwasher to the drain sprung a leak and needs to be replaced. We just called someone. We didn't realize that we called him once before when we were going to redo our bathroom and he wanted WAY too much $$$$ to do it. Hopefully, this is a small job and he won't charge us too much.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tia on 07/10/09 at 3:23 pm


But what about the smell?
Febreze!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/11/09 at 11:44 am

so..... some idiot called me today to report vandalism to his vehicle. He told me the vehicle was parked outside of his apartment.
I asked him if he lived in Goleta or Santa Barbara....he said "I don't know"
I said well whats your address? he gave me the street number and street name only.
I said is this Goleta or Santa Barbara... he still didn't know.
I said what address do you put on your mail? He said he doesn't mail anything.  ::) 

I told him he needed to find out which city he lived in so he could report it to the proper agency.....  ::)


I'm sorry but how do you not know the name of the town you live in???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 07/11/09 at 11:51 am


so..... some idiot called me today to report vandalism to his vehicle. He told me the vehicle was parked outside of his apartment.
I asked him if he lived in Goleta or Santa Barbara....he said "I don't know"
I said well whats your address? he gave me the street number and street name only.
I said is this Goleta or Santa Barbara... he still didn't know.
I said what address do you put on your mail? He said he doesn't mail anything.  ::) 

I told him he needed to find out which city he lived in so he could report it to the proper agency.....  ::)


I'm sorry but how do you not know the name of the town you live in???


Was he drunk or got into the wacky tabaki?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/11/09 at 11:53 am


Was he drunk or got into the wacky tabaki?


no stone cold sober...... and stupid...  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 07/11/09 at 11:55 am


no stone cold sober...... and stupid...  ;D

Years ago when I worked in a "lost and stolen" credit card place, late at night, we had lots of odd phone calls, made me laugh

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/11/09 at 12:00 pm


Years ago when I worked in a "lost and stolen" credit card place, late at night, we had lots of odd phone calls, made me laugh


if not for the humor this job would be too hard to take!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 07/13/09 at 2:30 pm


Febreze!


Do they sell Febreeze with Lime?  It would be a hit with certaindemographics I'm sure, you know kill the odor and erode the body to nothing all at the same time.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/13/09 at 5:40 pm


so..... some idiot called me today to report vandalism to his vehicle. He told me the vehicle was parked outside of his apartment.
I asked him if he lived in Goleta or Santa Barbara....he said "I don't know"
I said well whats your address? he gave me the street number and street name only.
I said is this Goleta or Santa Barbara... he still didn't know.
I said what address do you put on your mail? He said he doesn't mail anything.  ::) 

I told him he needed to find out which city he lived in so he could report it to the proper agency.....  ::)


I'm sorry but how do you not know the name of the town you live in???



Wonder if it was even his car.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/13/09 at 8:11 pm


Wonder if it was even his car.


probably not...  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: loki 13 on 07/19/09 at 4:51 pm

I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 07/19/09 at 5:31 pm


I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.


That was a damn fine rant....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: coqueta83 on 07/19/09 at 7:48 pm


I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.


I see a lot of this when I drive around town, unfortunately.  :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 07/19/09 at 11:27 pm


I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.


My dad used to let our Labrador do this until I chewed him out.  We do open the window a crack for our mutt, but not enough that he can stick his head out.  Besides, he's usually strapped into his seatbelt (yeah, he's got his own seatbelt), so he can't even reach said crack.

What's even worse than Loki's example is the people who put their dogs in the back of a truck.  I don't care if they are tied up or not, it is dangerous and just damned sad to see a dog like that.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/20/09 at 10:39 am


My dad used to let our Labrador do this until I chewed him out.  We do open the window a crack for our mutt, but not enough that he can stick his head out.  Besides, he's usually strapped into his seatbelt (yeah, he's got his own seatbelt), so he can't even reach said crack.

What's even worse than Loki's example is the people who put their dogs in the back of a truck.  I don't care if they are tied up or not, it is dangerous and just damned sad to see a dog like that.


tied up is just as bad as not tied... many dogs have been strangled because they were tied in the back of a truck and they jumped out because they had just enough rope to get over the side of the truck... :\'(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tia on 07/20/09 at 11:03 am

my childhood dog jumped out a window of a car going about 35 miles an hour once. of course he was painfully stupid.  ;D we loved him anyway.

weirdest part? he was totally fine.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 07/20/09 at 11:39 pm

Well, I've spent the better part of the past 4 hours restoring my computer due to "System Security 2009" trojan/virus/whateverthefukkitiz getting past my antivirus program. I hope whomever made that t/v/w dies an incredibly slow, excruciatingly painful, agonizing, horrible, gruesome and public death. Twice.

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 07/21/09 at 12:41 am

Saw a live cat in the back window of a car yesterday, it wasn't looking too happy.  Should have put it in a pet carrier imo. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gemini on 07/22/09 at 6:05 pm


I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.

Thanks for speaking up for all the innocent doggies out there. When I was a little girl, we were driving behind a truck with a dog in the back and we saw the dog jump out and get dragged down the road right in front of us. My dad honked the horn like crazy to get the driver to stop. It was horrifying for me. The driver finally stopped and the dog was ok miraculously. I'm crazy about dogs and I hate to see owners doing stupid things like that. I had to yell at a guy at the flea market once for having a pen of puppies outside to sell, on the hot blacktop and NO WATER! I was so mad. I said, you need to give those dogs some water, which he replied, my wife just went to get some they've been drinking it like crazy. NO SH*T, it was blistering hot outside. Ok, rant over.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 07/23/09 at 2:55 pm


My dad used to let our Labrador do this until I chewed him out.  We do open the window a crack for our mutt, but not enough that he can stick his head out.  Besides, he's usually strapped into his seatbelt (yeah, he's got his own seatbelt), so he can't even reach said crack.

What's even worse than Loki's example is the people who put their dogs in the back of a truck.  I don't care if they are tied up or not, it is dangerous and just damned sad to see a dog like that.


I saw once someone get pulled over in a parking lot, the officer was losing his mind on the guy for having his dog in the back of the truck. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/24/09 at 9:52 am

You can read my rant in "What are you doing" thread.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 07/24/09 at 10:54 am


You can read my rant in "What are you doing" thread.



Cat
Read it and KARMA to you Cat!

Extra Karma if you make it through the weekend  ;)  Hope it all goes as planned well 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/24/09 at 11:45 am


Read it and KARMA to you Cat!

Extra Karma if you make it through the weekend  ;)  Hope it all goes as planned well 8)



Thanks. I have to say, that she (Carlos' ex) has never been anything but nice to me but she just drives me insane. I feel really bad for my step-son-in-law (if that is the right word  :D ). Every time she goes to visit, she just takes over HIS house and everything he does is totally wrong. It is like he doesn't have a say in his own house. Carlos' daughter really should speak up but she doesn't. It is like all his kids just let her take over. We (Carlos & I) are basically chopped liver and sometimes it seems that they only come to us when they want something (which usually has to do with $$$). I'm sure I will have more rants by the end of the weekend. lol



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 07/24/09 at 11:55 am



Thanks. I have to say, that she (Carlos' ex) has never been anything but nice to me but she just drives me insane. I feel really bad for my step-son-in-law (if that is the right word  :D ). Every time she goes to visit, she just takes over HIS house and everything he does is totally wrong. It is like he doesn't have a say in his own house. Carlos' daughter really should speak up but she doesn't. It is like all his kids just let her take over. We (Carlos & I) are basically chopped liver and sometimes it seems that they only come to us when they want something (which usually has to do with $$$). I'm sure I will have more rants by the end of the weekend. lol



Cat
Rant away - you deserve it, and better here than in-front of everyone at an inappropriate time :D

8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/24/09 at 12:00 pm


Rant away - you deserve it, and better here than in-front of everyone at an inappropriate time :D

8)



The problem is, I am really extra bitchy right now because of these damn hot flashes that are just non-stop (and have been for at least a month now). I TRY very hard not to have "displaced anger" but she does get on my nerves. I told Carlos last night, I try VERY hard not to judge her but... He said "What can I say?" I told him he could either say that he agrees with me or disagrees with me and that I am wrong in my observations of her. He said that he did agree with me. I asked him if she was always like that. He said not as much but she has gotten worse over the years.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 07/24/09 at 12:05 pm



The problem is, I am really extra bitchy right now because of these damn hot flashes that are just non-stop (and have been for at least a month now). I TRY very hard not to have "displaced anger" but she does get on my nerves. I told Carlos last night, I try VERY hard not to judge her but... He said "What can I say?" I told him he could either say that he agrees with me or disagrees with me and that I am wrong in my observations of her. He said that he did agree with me. I asked him if she was always like that. He said not as much but she has gotten worse over the years.



Cat
Hopefully you can step back and stay as far away from her as possible in the situation.  Do not volunteer for anything that puts you right in direct contact with her, just do what people ask  (the bride) and that is all.. If possible let Carlos handle any direct contact 8)  Take care!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/24/09 at 12:11 pm


Hopefully you can step back and stay as far away from her as possible in the situation.  Do not volunteer for anything that puts you right in direct contact with her, just do what people ask  (the bride) and that is all.. If possible let Carlos handle any direct contact 8)  Take care!



The bride is almost as bad. We are kindred spirits but yet, she has WAY TOO much of her mother's influence in her. The bride was the one that said something about the cups we got and was all pissed because we didn't "listen" to her. When I was bitching about the comment about the cups, Carlos just said, "Let it go." He is right. Have no fear, I'm not going to spoil this day for my step-daughter. I will let her mother do that. lol




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 07/24/09 at 12:19 pm



The bride is almost as bad. We are kindred spirits but yet, she has WAY TOO much of her mother's influence in her. The bride was the one that said something about the cups we got and was all pissed because we didn't "listen" to her. When I was bitching about the comment about the cups, Carlos just said, "Let it go." He is right. Have no fear, I'm not going to spoil this day for my step-daughter. I will let her mother do that. lol




Cat
Cheers 8) and have some fun, if possible :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/26/09 at 1:48 pm

This weekend was a nightmare. It is a long post and a long rant. If you don't want to read it, I don't blame you.


We were told to be at the rehearsal dinner by 5:30 at the latest. So, we checked into the hotel and I figured we needed to be there, so we were there by 5. There was only 1 car in the parking lot with this woman who asked us if we were the "key". Charlie told her he was the bride's father. She told us that she was the bride's step-father's mother. I was thinking that they were invited but not my parents? I didn't say anything because it would have been a BIG hassle (well a bigger one) if my mother came but that isn't another story. Anyway, the mother of the bride shows up with the key. When they opened the the building, the smell of mold and mustiness hits you. The building was basically falling down but it was kind of interesting because there was a lot of history to it. I could feel the ghosts of the past lingering in the place. I felt them VERY strongly. Little did I know that things needed to be set up-I'm talking EVERYTHING needed to be done. I helped Charlie's ex with setting up tables & chairs. Every time I walked by the woman who was there before us, she was trying to recruit for do something during the wedding. Yeah, right! Other people starting showing up. No one knew what they were doing, nothing was organized, it was one big headache. I was thinking that it was one major camel (reference: What do you call a horse that is built by a committee? A camel.). It really wasn't much of a rehearsal dinner-just setting up and the dinner was pizza & subs. The ex hired a photographer and she told us that we could make arrangements with him to take photos of "our" side of the family. We had enough by this time. So, Charlie, his dad, sister, & myself went back to the motel. The next day, everyone was wondering why we left before the photos were taken.

The next day, we were told to be there by 1. We get there only to wait & wait & wait. The wedding was supposed to start at 2 but we were told that a few people were stuck in traffic and asked for some more time. So, it started at 2:30. Charlie & his ex walked their daughter down the aisle. After the bride & groom had their first dance together, then it was bride & father dance-followed by groom & mother dance. Then the groom danced his step-mother while the bride danced with her step-father. I was thinking, well her mother wasn't recognized either, so ok. But then she had a dance with her mother. I was NOT recognized at all when all the other step-parents were! I felt like someone stuck a knife in my stomach. I was fighting back the tears because I was so hurt it was unbelievable. Out of all of Charlie's children, she is the one I am closest to. We are kindred spirits-and she is always the one who calls on Mother's Day & on my birthday. I asked Charlie to come outside with me. I took him around the back of the building away from everyone, crying and telling him exactly what had happened and how I felt. I asked him if he thought that I had a legitimate gripe or if I was making too much out this. He agreed with me.

He did go up to his daughter and said something to her. He wouldn't tell me what she said at first just "I'll tell you later, it is not important." He did finally tell me that she started crying. Then his son came up and said that it was not about me but about the bride. Charlie said, "No! It is about family." I have always struggled with how I fit into this family and this just adds to my issue with that.

Other things that really sucked: The roast beef was over done and they only gave a tiny piece. I had to ask for a little bit more. The pork wasn't cooked-it was raw. The lighting was poor. We were dancing and TRYING to enjoy ourselves and they were putting the chairs & tables away. WTF?? It was truly the WORSE wedding I have ever been to.

Back at the motel, we were talking to my SIL about it. She does agree that I have reason to be hurt but thinks that I need to work it out with my step-daughter-Charlie agrees with that and will confront his son about the issue, too. But I am extremely hurt and I'm not too sure how she can make it up to me-even if she wanted to.



Cat 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Michael C. on 07/26/09 at 4:36 pm

Cat...I'm so sorry that a happy ,joyous day was ruined for You .The lack of planning seemed to be overwhelming...I'm not surprised they didn't plan out how to include all family members......Hopefully You'll work it all out & at least feel You let them know how You felt slighted.
This weekend was a nightmare. It is a long post and a long rant. If you don't want to read it, I don't blame you.


We were told to be at the rehearsal dinner by 5:30 at the latest. So, we checked into the hotel and I figured we needed to be there, so we were there by 5. There was only 1 car in the parking lot with this woman who asked us if we were the "key". Charlie told her he was the bride's father. She told us that she was the bride's step-father's mother. I was thinking that they were invited but not my parents? I didn't say anything because it would have been a BIG hassle (well a bigger one) if my mother came but that isn't another story. Anyway, the mother of the bride shows up with the key. When they opened the the building, the smell of mold and mustiness hits you. The building was basically falling down but it was kind of interesting because there was a lot of history to it. I could feel the ghosts of the past lingering in the place. I felt them VERY strongly. Little did I know that things needed to be set up-I'm talking EVERYTHING needed to be done. I helped Charlie's ex with setting up tables & chairs. Every time I walked by the woman who was there before us, she was trying to recruit for do something during the wedding. Yeah, right! Other people starting showing up. No one knew what they were doing, nothing was organized, it was one big headache. I was thinking that it was one major camel (reference: What do you call a horse that is built by a committee? A camel.). It really wasn't much of a rehearsal dinner-just setting up and the dinner was pizza & subs. The ex hired a photographer and she told us that we could make arrangements with him to take photos of "our" side of the family. We had enough by this time. So, Charlie, his dad, sister, & myself went back to the motel. The next day, everyone was wondering why we left before the photos were taken.

The next day, we were told to be there by 1. We get there only to wait & wait & wait. The wedding was supposed to start at 2 but we were told that a few people were stuck in traffic and asked for some more time. So, it started at 2:30. Charlie & his ex walked their daughter down the aisle. After the bride & groom had their first dance together, then it was bride & father dance-followed by groom & mother dance. Then the groom danced his step-mother while the bride danced with her step-father. I was thinking, well her mother wasn't recognized either, so ok. But then she had a dance with her mother. I was NOT recognized at all when all the other step-parents were! I felt like someone stuck a knife in my stomach. I was fighting back the tears because I was so hurt it was unbelievable. Out of all of Charlie's children, she is the one I am closest to. We are kindred spirits-and she is always the one who calls on Mother's Day & on my birthday. I asked Charlie to come outside with me. I took him around the back of the building away from everyone, crying and telling him exactly what had happened and how I felt. I asked him if he thought that I had a legitimate gripe or if I was making too much out this. He agreed with me.

He did go up to his daughter and said something to her. He wouldn't tell me what she said at first just "I'll tell you later, it is not important." He did finally tell me that she started crying. Then his son came up and said that it was not about me but about the bride. Charlie said, "No! It is about family." I have always struggled with how I fit into this family and this just adds to my issue with that.

Other things that really sucked: The roast beef was over done and they only gave a tiny piece. I had to ask for a little bit more. The pork wasn't cooked-it was raw. The lighting was poor. We were dancing and TRYING to enjoy ourselves and they were putting the chairs & tables away. WTF?? It was truly the WORSE wedding I have ever been to.

Back at the motel, we were talking to my SIL about it. She does agree that I have reason to be hurt but thinks that I need to work it out with my step-daughter-Charlie agrees with that and will confront his son about the issue, too. But I am extremely hurt and I'm not too sure how she can make it up to me-even if she wanted to.



Cat   

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/26/09 at 4:54 pm



aw Cat I'm sorry... it sounds like a horrid fiasco...  and I can only imagine how hurt you were.... perhaps...and I'm just playing devil's advocate here... she wanted to include you  because you are so close but it was going to put her in an awkward position with her mother.... you know..

That's all I can think of. I hope you guys can have a good conversation and some tears and lots of hugs and then move forward.



((((((hugs))))))

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/26/09 at 5:00 pm



aw Cat I'm sorry... it sounds like a horrid fiasco...  and I can only imagine how hurt you were.... perhaps...and I'm just playing devil's advocate here... she wanted to include you  because you are so close but it was going to put her in an awkward position with her mother.... you know..

That's all I can think of. I hope you guys can have a good conversation and some tears and lots of hugs and then move forward.



((((((hugs))))))



Something that Charlie said just a few minutes ago. We all know that his ex dictated this whole fiasco. It was probably her who left me out. His daughter probably didn't think about it. When Charlie mentioned it to her, at first she was defensive and then she started crying. At that point, she could have come over to me and apologized for the oversight. But, being the little girl that she still is, she didn't know what to do so she didn't do anything. Thinking about it, I'm sure it really wasn't HER fault but I'm still VERY, VERY hurt. And yes, I have been crying about it-and I will probably cry some more about it. Like I said, I thought that I meant more to her than that.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/26/09 at 5:06 pm



Something that Charlie said just a few minutes ago. We all know that his ex dictated this whole fiasco. It was probably her who left me out. His daughter probably didn't think about it. When Charlie mentioned it to her, at first she was defensive and then she started crying. At that point, she could have come over to me and apologized for the oversight. But, being the little girl that she still is, she didn't know what to do so she didn't do anything. Thinking about it, I'm sure it really wasn't HER fault but I'm still VERY, VERY hurt. And yes, I have been crying about it-and I will probably cry some more about it. Like I said, I thought that I meant more to her than that.



Cat


and you are completely entitled to your pain I know you say the ex has been nothing but nice but I'm beginning to think she's kind of a bitch.... sorry Carlos I know that's the mother to your children but my loyalties lie with Cat  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: coqueta83 on 07/26/09 at 7:45 pm

((((((((((HUGS))))))))))

I'm really sorry you had to go through that nightmare, Cat.  :\'(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 07/26/09 at 8:50 pm

Cat

I'm sorry to hear you had a rubbish day

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Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 07/26/09 at 10:14 pm

Sorry to hear of your ordeal Cat. You deserved much better...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 07/27/09 at 7:33 am

Everyone has said it all, Cat. {{{hugs}}}

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/27/09 at 10:27 am

Thanks everyone. I can't tell you how much all your support means to me.



and you are completely entitled to your pain I know you say the ex has been nothing but nice but I'm beginning to think she's kind of a bitch.... sorry Carlos I know that's the mother to your children but my loyalties lie with Cat   ;)



You are right, she is a bitch-and a half.  I knew that before all of this happened-which is why I have always said that I could never be friends with her. And you don't have to worry about Charlie. He KNOWS she is a bitch-which is part of the reason why they are divorced. I asked him last night if she could be that petty to do this deliberately and he said, "Yes!" Or, he said that she was just so insensitive that she didn't even think about it. You should hear some of the horror stories that our son-in-law has told us. (I told him that he is welcomed at our house and I hoped he feels that. He said he does.)

His daughter just called. We are going up to her place on Thursday. That means that I have until then to figure out how to confront her about this issue. Charlie said last night that we shouldn't mention to any of the kids that the wedding was just a total mess-he is sure they realize that. He also said that he feels bad for his daughter & his new husband because it was supposed to be their day and his ex just screwed it up totally for them. I had said that already myself. I really hope this wedding isn't a reflection of what the marriage is going to be like.

I have said all the negatives, there were a few positives. The ceremony itself was very nice-but a bit too religious for our tastes but it wasn't ours. And the rice & beans were good.  ;)  (My SIL made the beans and of course Charlie made the rice-which there were TONS left over.) They also had a bit a memorial table that had a photo of the groom's father, and Charlie's mother. But then it included her uncle, her grandparents, great-grandparents, his great-grandparents-people neither one of them had ever met-yeah, that got out of hand, too. I was told that she said just the photo of his father and her grandmother would have been enough.


Yeah, I am aware that I am referring to my husband my Charlie rather than his on-line name of Carlos. I figured everyone already knows that his name really is Charlie so what the hell.


Again, thanks everyone for all your support. I always know that when life becomes very sh!tty, I can always come here to get strength.

((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) to you all.




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Gis on 07/27/09 at 10:30 am

have a hug from me too sweetie.  :-*

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/27/09 at 11:42 am


Thanks everyone. I can't tell you how much all your support means to me.



You are right, she is a bitch-and a half.  I knew that before all of this happened-which is why I have always said that I could never be friends with her.



whenever you mention her you always preface it by saying something about how she's always been nice to you.....so I thought, you know, Cat just doesn't like her cuz she's the ex.... now if you'd start saying "that bitch who totally deserved to get dumped by Carlos" I would completely understand!  ;D


And you don't have to worry about Charlie. He KNOWS she is a bitch

BTW you know I know his loyalties where the ex is concerned completely lie with you... I just made that notation because the involvement of his daughter might make him feel a little torn....you know.. divided camps...he loves you both so how can he chose?  or soemthing  :-\\  did that make sense?



His daughter just called. We are going up to her place on Thursday. That means that I have until then to figure out how to confront her about this issue.

good luck!


Charlie said last night that we shouldn't mention to any of the kids that the wedding was just a total mess-he is sure they realize that. He also said that he feels bad for his daughter & his new husband because it was supposed to be their day and his ex just screwed it up totally for them.

He's right about this.... in the end its about the couple not the chintzy, horribly cooked roast beef  ;)  - go figure.... I focus on the food in that whole ramble of yours  ;D




I had said that already myself. I really hope this wedding isn't a reflection of what the marriage is going to be like.


I thought the exact same thing but wasn't going to  be the first to say it.... maybe its like "bad dress rehearsal; good play"  maybe...
although I think it may say alot about how they work thru their problems  :-\\



I have said all the negatives, there were a few positives. The ceremony itself was very nice-but a bit too religious for our tastes but it wasn't ours. And the rice & beans were good.  ;)  (My SIL made the beans and of course Charlie made the rice-which there were TONS left over.)


Oohhh...... that's why Charlie was making rice... like (Patty I think) I thought they were going to have cooked rice thrown at them after the ceremony... you know how uncooked rice is bad for birds.... I thought- how odd....why not use bird seed?  :-
Yeah, I am aware that I am referring to my husband my Charlie rather than his on-line name of Carlos. I figured everyone already knows that his name really is Charlie so what the hell.



I wondered about that....  :D




Again, thanks everyone for all your support. I always know that when life becomes very sh!tty, I can always come here to get strength.



CUZ WE LUUUUUUVVVVVVVVVVV U!!!! :-* :-* :-* :-*



Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/27/09 at 12:03 pm


whenever you mention her you always preface it by saying something about how she's always been nice to you.....so I thought, you know, Cat just doesn't like her cuz she's the ex.... now if you'd start saying "that bitch who totally deserved to get dumped by Carlos" I would completely understand!  ;D


BTW you know I know his loyalties where the ex is concerned completely lie with you... I just made that notation because the involvement of his daughter might make him feel a little torn....you know.. divided camps...he loves you both so how can he chose?  or soemthing  :-\\  did that make sense?




good luck!


He's right about this.... in the end its about the couple not the chintzy, horribly cooked roast beef  ;)  - go figure.... I focus on the food in that whole ramble of yours  ;D



I thought the exact same thing but wasn't going to  be the first to say it.... maybe its like "bad dress rehearsal; good play"  maybe...
although I think it may say alot about how they work thru their problems  :-\\




Oohhh...... that's why Charlie was making rice... like (Patty I think) I thought they were going to have cooked rice thrown at them after the ceremony... you know how uncooked rice is bad for birds.... I thought- how odd....why not use bird seed?  :-CUZ WE LUUUUUUVVVVVVVVVVV U!!!! :-* :-* :-* :-*







The thing is, Charlie didn't dump her-she dumped Charlie. She had a "dry affair" and rubbed it in Charlie's face. Then she kicked him out. That was when he started dating me-and THEN she wanted him back. It was like, "I don't want you but I don't want anyone else to want you either." I have mixed feelings about what she did to him. I hate her for doing that to the man I love but on the same token, if she didn't, I wouldn't have what I have now. I think she is a total fool for throwing away such a wonderful guy. At his other daughter's wedding many years ago, he pointed the guy out to me. I said (probably a bit louder than I should) "She gave you up for THAT??!!" Yeah, Charlie has his faults-but he treats me like a Goddess and I'm sure he treated her the same. He was so trying to make up for my pain on Saturday-not just talking to his daughter about it but making sure that the DJ would play a waltz that we could dance to (because he knows that I love to waltz with him) and we stayed up that night in the motel room talking about it.


His ex's mother-in-law asked Charlie if we were going to take the left over rice home. He said no. She said something about that it can't be left there. Charlie basically told her that it wasn't our problem. He did go up to his ex and said this whole thing could have been done so much easier and probably wouldn't have cost that much more if we had it catered. She said, "But would it have been organic meat?" A YEAH!!!! You tell the caterer that you WANT organic meat and it will be done. And we wouldn't have had such a fiasco on our hands. He said last night that he is sure that his ex will say that we were so "uncooperative".


I will go back to calling him Carlos on the boards. It is just that this issue is VERY personal.

BTW, I do feel the love here-and the feeling is SOOOOO mutual.




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/27/09 at 2:04 pm

on the bright side.... I'm so glad you two found each other!!!  O0

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Michael C. on 07/27/09 at 5:04 pm

Charlie's THE MAN !!!!!!!!
YOU said it best,Cat.........Her loss......and She probably realizes it.....
Send Her a "Sympathy" card..."Sorry for Your loss"....."He's Mine now.....Beotch!!!!!!"  :D ;D

The thing is, Charlie didn't dump her-she dumped Charlie. She had a "dry affair" and rubbed it in Charlie's face. Then she kicked him out. That was when he started dating me-and THEN she wanted him back. It was like, "I don't want you but I don't want anyone else to want you either." I have mixed feelings about what she did to him. I hate her for doing that to the man I love but on the same token, if she didn't, I wouldn't have what I have now. I think she is a total fool for throwing away such a wonderful guy. At his other daughter's wedding many years ago, he pointed the guy out to me. I said (probably a bit louder than I should) "She gave you up for THAT??!!" Yeah, Charlie has his faults-but he treats me like a Goddess and I'm sure he treated her the same. He was so trying to make up for my pain on Saturday-not just talking to his daughter about it but making sure that the DJ would play a waltz that we could dance to (because he knows that I love to waltz with him) and we stayed up that night in the motel room talking about it.


His ex's mother-in-law asked Charlie if we were going to take the left over rice home. He said no. She said something about that it can't be left there. Charlie basically told her that it wasn't our problem. He did go up to his ex and said this whole thing could have been done so much easier and probably wouldn't have cost that much more if we had it catered. She said, "But would it have been organic meat?" A YEAH!!!! You tell the caterer that you WANT organic meat and it will be done. And we wouldn't have had such a fiasco on our hands. He said last night that he is sure that his ex will say that we were so "uncooperative".


I will go back to calling him Carlos on the boards. It is just that this issue is VERY personal.

BTW, I do feel the love here-and the feeling is SOOOOO mutual.




Cat


Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/27/09 at 5:06 pm


Charlie's THE MAN !!!!!!!!
YOU said it best,Cat.........Her loss......and She probably realizes it.....
Send Her a "Sympathy" card..."Sorry for Your loss"....."He's Mine now.....Beotch!!!!!!"  :D ;D



You should see who she is married to now.  8-P



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Michael C. on 07/27/09 at 5:15 pm

My EX did the same thing....At Court...My Lawyer said to Her..."You left Michael for that?....Honey...You're supposed to trade up....not down.........{Ok ...So I've known My Lawyer since We were 12.....She still rocks !!}My

You should see who she is married to now.  8-P



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 07/27/09 at 8:40 pm

Sorry Cat - what a horrible thing! But everyone is right... you got THE MAN! 8)

My rant:

I purchased a Nvidia GeForce graphics card the first of June. I started about 3 weeks ago making this horrible noise. The fan is about to konk out. It squeals then it groans then it sounds fine. Stupid thing. So anyway, I contacted PNY, who is the distributor for Nvidia, and thankfully I registered it when I bought it - 1 year warranty! I get an email from them today with a pdf file for postage that I am supposed to print out and put on the box when I ship it back... thing is - I HAVE TO PAY FOR SHIPPING!!! I know, I know, it really isn't that big of a deal, but the warranty says shipping is free of charge! I am going to ship it to them no matter what, because video cards are not cheap - but I am! ;D

Ya, not much of a rant but there ya go.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/28/09 at 12:41 am



I wanted to destress a little thinking I'd fire up the Wii... haven't used it in month due to my messy apartment and screwed up schedule.... just found out the damn AC Adapter stopped working... so no wii until Aug.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/04/09 at 10:06 pm

It's getting to the point in my crazy family where I'M the sane one, and that's pretty crazy in itself!
:D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/08/09 at 1:13 pm

My rant for the day is the fact that contractors do not send written estimates. We interviewed 5 and only got ONE written estimate (and of course that is the guy on the high end). Granted one we interviewed yesterday. We told him that if we don't get a written estimate, we are NOT going to hire him. He didn't want to give us one at first until we told him that we need it to compare with others rather than trying to remember what anyone says. How hard it is to give a written estimate? Don't these people NEED the work?



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 08/08/09 at 4:05 pm


My rant for the day is the fact that contractors do not send written estimates. We interviewed 5 and only got ONE written estimate (and of course that is the guy on the high end). Granted one we interviewed yesterday. We told him that if we don't get a written estimate, we are NOT going to hire him. He didn't want to give us one at first until we told him that we need it to compare with others rather than trying to remember what anyone says. How hard it is to give a written estimate? Don't these people NEED the work?



Cat


There is talk (in Australia) of contractors charging for quotes in future. Not impressed ...  Contractors are usually talented/skilled people who, outside their trade, have zero organizational skill and are notoriously unreliable!  Thye are not interested in any instructions you may give them (e.g. that you don't want them starting too early) ... they will turn up whenever it suits them! They also will drive like maniacs in the utility vehicles. .. which is not smart as they have their business name and number plastered all over the side of the vehicle!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 08/08/09 at 5:34 pm


It's getting to the point in my crazy family where I'M the sane one, and that's pretty crazy in itself!
:D

Hey, I'm right there with ya. I am the sane one in my crazy family, and that's really scary.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: anabel on 08/08/09 at 7:22 pm


Hey, I'm right there with ya. I am the sane one in my crazy family, and that's really scary.




You know, the craziest ones always say they're the only sane ones.... ;D ;D :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 08/08/09 at 7:31 pm




You know, the craziest ones always say they're the only sane ones.... ;D ;D :D

You must be one sane woman.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 08/08/09 at 8:54 pm


There is talk (in Australia) of contractors charging for quotes in future.


Here in VA, most contractors charge for quotes. Free estimates are rare. Most contractors will subtract their estimate cost from the job if they get the job. My estimates are not free, nor do I subtract the charge for them from the job price: it helps eliminate the deadbeat and "might-do-it" customers.


My rant for the day is the fact that contractors do not send written estimates. We interviewed 5 and only got ONE written estimate (and of course that is the guy on the high end). Granted one we interviewed yesterday. We told him that if we don't get a written estimate, we are NOT going to hire him. He didn't want to give us one at first until we told him that we need it to compare with others rather than trying to remember what anyone says. How hard it is to give a written estimate? Don't these people NEED the work?


Odd... we always do a written estimate, but it is completely lacking in details (X work will cost ~Y dollars). The details are in the contract, if we get it. With shopping 5 or more contractors, the best anyone has is a 20% chance of getting the job. With commercial work that rate can drop to 5% or less.

Anyway, my two cents' worth: be careful with whom you pick. I'd estimate that 1 in 5 contractors will take a job at a loss just to keep busy, and another 1 in 5 will take the job at or near 0% profit. You do not want either doing any work for you. Check for licensing and insurance. Don't try to "reverse auction" bids.

Not sure what work you want done, but if it's of an odd, extreme, or custom nature, you may have a hard time getting fixed estimates: jobs like those are often T&M.

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/09/09 at 12:13 pm


Here in VA, most contractors charge for quotes. Free estimates are rare. Most contractors will subtract their estimate cost from the job if they get the job. My estimates are not free, nor do I subtract the charge for them from the job price: it helps eliminate the deadbeat and "might-do-it" customers.

Odd... we always do a written estimate, but it is completely lacking in details (X work will cost ~Y dollars). The details are in the contract, if we get it. With shopping 5 or more contractors, the best anyone has is a 20% chance of getting the job. With commercial work that rate can drop to 5% or less.

Anyway, my two cents' worth: be careful with whom you pick. I'd estimate that 1 in 5 contractors will take a job at a loss just to keep busy, and another 1 in 5 will take the job at or near 0% profit. You do not want either doing any work for you. Check for licensing and insurance. Don't try to "reverse auction" bids.

Not sure what work you want done, but if it's of an odd, extreme, or custom nature, you may have a hard time getting fixed estimates: jobs like those are often T&M.

Ant



The job is pretty straight forward-replacing existing cabinets, building a new set of cabinets, & redoing the floor (striping it down to the original hard wood floor and depending on the condition-either refurbishing that or putting in a slate floor).



Cat 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 10/03/09 at 8:06 pm


Well, I've spent the better part of the past 4 hours restoring my computer due to "System Security 2009" trojan/virus/whateverthefukkitiz getting past my antivirus program. I hope whomever made that t/v/w dies an incredibly slow, excruciatingly painful, agonizing, horrible, gruesome and public death. Twice.

Ant


This sort of thing happened to me on Sunday, except it was called Antivirus Pro 2010, except I didn't have to restore(I went into safe mode yesterday to deal with it). Needless to say, I still need a reload, which I plan on doing this month. That was a good way to ruin my parody writing week. I need to finish that one, I only have the two verses left.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 10/04/09 at 12:40 am

I am Canadian, most people here know that. I also have an Umbrella, it's of the American Flag.
I get so many negative looks, comments, on the street when I use it. My ex-manager hated it and threatened to throw it on the garbage several times.

I've had people boo me, yell at me to get out of Canada, go back to America, Tell me I'm in the wrong country, mumble things and look at me as if I just threw eggs at their car.
Why? It's only an umbrella.

I am not getting rid of it.  ;)

8) I feel better now...


Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/04/09 at 12:58 am


I am Canadian, most people here know that. I also have an Umbrella, it's of the American Flag.
I get so many negative looks, comments, on the street when I use it. My ex-manager hated it and threatened to throw it on the garbage several times.

I've had people boo me, yell at me to get out of Canada, go back to America, Tell me I'm in the wrong country, mumble things and look at me as if I just threw eggs at their car.
Why? It's only an umbrella.

I am not getting rid of it.  ;)

8) I feel better now...





and I give you crap for being Canadian....you just can't win.  ;D

honesy tho I admire your tenacity.  Give hell Harry ... Uh I mean Frank!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 10/04/09 at 10:23 pm


and I give you crap for being Canadian....you just can't win.  ;D



If anyone ever declared war on Canada (who would anyone, really  :D), it would take about 2 seconds for us to turn to America for help. Maybe less.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 10/13/09 at 5:55 pm



My rant:

I purchased a Nvidia GeForce graphics card the first of June. I started about 3 weeks ago making this horrible noise. The fan is about to konk out. It squeals then it groans then it sounds fine. Stupid thing. So anyway, I contacted PNY, who is the distributor for Nvidia, and thankfully I registered it when I bought it - 1 year warranty! I get an email from them today with a pdf file for postage that I am supposed to print out and put on the box when I ship it back... thing is - I HAVE TO PAY FOR SHIPPING!!! I know, I know, it really isn't that big of a deal, but the warranty says shipping is free of charge! I am going to ship it to them no matter what, because video cards are not cheap - but I am! ;D

Ya, not much of a rant but there ya go.

Aargh! I am so frustrated!

I had to send my video card back to the manufacturer yet again!

At the end of September, it decided that it didn't like my motherboard and went kaput!
So I got in touch again through my warranty and sent it back to them asking for a refund. Haha! I should have known better! I received my new video card today, installed it in the computer, and the stupid thing gave me the BSOD!!! (Blue screen of Death) It works fine if I load in safe mode, but doesn't want to work at all in regular mode. So now I have to go and uninstall the old drivers, upgrade my computer security software, because it seems the firewall doesn't like the video card either, and try to see if it will work. If all else fails, then I believe my PCI-e slot might be fried. If that is the case then I have to go and try to find the motherboard online, and buy it, then resetup my entire computer.

I am so tired of technology right now. It would be better if this were someone else's computer, because then I could make a little money - but it is mine and so it sucks!!!

Laptop down, now my desktop acting the fool!!! >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 10/13/09 at 6:46 pm


Aargh! I am so frustrated!

I had to send my video card back to the manufacturer yet again!

At the end of September, it decided that it didn't like my motherboard and went kaput!
So I got in touch again through my warranty and sent it back to them asking for a refund. Haha! I should have known better! I received my new video card today, installed it in the computer, and the stupid thing gave me the BSOD!!! (Blue screen of Death) It works fine if I load in safe mode, but doesn't want to work at all in regular mode. So now I have to go and uninstall the old drivers, upgrade my computer security software, because it seems the firewall doesn't like the video card either, and try to see if it will work. If all else fails, then I believe my PCI-e slot might be fried. If that is the case then I have to go and try to find the motherboard online, and buy it, then resetup my entire computer.

I am so tired of technology right now. It would be better if this were someone else's computer, because then I could make a little money - but it is mine and so it sucks!!!

Laptop down, now my desktop acting the fool!!! >:(


And now, 4 and a half hours later... it was a faulty driver!!!

All is well now on my desktop. 8)

Thanks for letting me vent!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/13/09 at 7:03 pm


And now, 4 and a half hours later... it was a faulty driver!!!

All is well now on my desktop. 8)


Thanks for letting me vent!



um you're welcome  ;D

glad you're back up and running...  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 10/13/09 at 9:00 pm

Glad your computer is acting better now.  I know how utterly frustrating that can be.  You are a good detective (in searching for what is wrong with your computer)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 10/13/09 at 9:06 pm



um you're welcome  ;D

glad you're back up and running...  :)

Glad your computer is acting better now.  I know how utterly frustrating that can be.  You are a good detective (in searching for what is wrong with your computer)


Thank ya Ladies!!!
I definitely feel better that's for sure!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 11/06/09 at 3:04 pm

I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 11/06/09 at 3:10 pm


I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(




even if you are not registered with a particular political party (which I think most people do in the US?) you must still be on the electoral roll as eligible to vote.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/06/09 at 3:16 pm



I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(




A few years ago they stopped pulling from registered voters and started using DMV records.... if you have a driver's lic then you are in the pool... 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/06/09 at 3:40 pm


A few years ago they stopped pulling from registered voters and started using DMV records.... if you have a driver's lic then you are in the pool... 



That is what I was thinking.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/06/09 at 4:25 pm


I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(




Ummm...it's called civic duty!  I've been called up in Australia 3 times and served on 3 trial duties. I had my work write a letter the third time as it was a particularly inconvenient time (for my company).

However, serving was a very interesting process and quite daunting (depending upon the severity of the crime). I don't believe I'd like  a major murder or rape rtial though. The prosecution always makes the suspect sound 100% guilty and then the defence makes them sound like they could be innocent. Then you have to come to grips (as a group) with that little 'benefit of the doubt' clause  :-\\ ...and, hey I just realized someone's been messing with the smiley faces again! ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 11/06/09 at 5:56 pm

I'm the only one in my place with a job and it's a part time one. So I'll get behind on rent if I have to go on a day that I usually work.(even if it's just to see who qualifies, even if I don't get picked)

My rent takes around 2/3 of my check every week, so that would hurt abit.

I'm going to see if I qualify for deferral, mainly because my hours are alittle over 20 and my rent is 121 per week.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 11/06/09 at 7:07 pm

Doesn't your company pay you if you are on jury duty?  I'm sure that's what happened to me.  Or I claimed daily expenses.  :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 11/06/09 at 7:09 pm


A few years ago they stopped pulling from registered voters and started using DMV records.... if you have a driver's lic then you are in the pool... 


That must include handicap plaques.  They'll have to hire a sign language interpreter if they want me.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 11/06/09 at 7:41 pm


Doesn't your company pay you if you are on jury duty?  I'm sure that's what happened to me.  Or I claimed daily expenses.   :-\\


I'm in retail, I highly doubt it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/06/09 at 8:19 pm


Ummm...it's called civic duty!  I've been called up in Australia 3 times and served on 3 trial duties. I had my work write a letter the third time as it was a particularly inconvenient time (for my company).

However, serving was a very interesting process and quite daunting (depending upon the severity of the crime). I don't believe I'd like  a major murder or rape rtial though. The prosecution always makes the suspect sound 100% guilty and then the defence makes them sound like they could be innocent. Then you have to come to grips (as a group) with that little 'benefit of the doubt' clause  :-\\ ...and, hey I just realized someone's been messing with the smiley faces again! ;D



I've been called twice... the mere mention that I work in law enforcement gets me out of there before I can put my butt in a chair  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 11/06/09 at 8:53 pm

I envy you. ^ :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/06/09 at 8:56 pm


I envy you. ^ :D


tell them you think everyone arrested is guilty otherwise why would they be arrested?  that should do it!  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 11/06/09 at 9:16 pm


tell them you think everyone arrested is guilty otherwise why would they be arrested?  that should do it!  :D


A George Carlin style line, don't know if that'll work.

I'll be trying to get a deferal though.

Usually due to the amount of people that get called for that, the odds remain low for actually being picked for a case person by person.(12 are, of course, picked, unless the case is cancelled)

I'm concerned that I'd have to go on what is normally a workday, like Wednesday or Thursday(I don't know what that week will be like though, it's the week before Christmas) for the part where they question you. Weekends are safe.(I almost always work those) Also the chance that I'll be picked is kind of unnerving too.

Edit: A co-worker told me that full time employees get pay while on jury duty. He doesn't know about part time employees though.

Edit: I can't find any specific info either. Although I doubt that I have it.

Final Edit: It isn't mentioned in my employee handbook, but the summons(which I didn't notice until looking yesterday) says the amount I'd get for showing up is $15(which is still not high enough when to compared to even my short days). The amount for actually being apart of a jury is $40, which is abit better and closer to what I make. So I'm only alittle concerned(if I don't get deferred) about the having to show up on a work day for the summons.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 11/19/09 at 5:18 pm

The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/19/09 at 6:36 pm


The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\


Eek


I have never been called.  If I were, it wouldn't be much of a problem.  Since I work at home, I can arrange my schedule so I wouldn't lose money...unless it was a long, drawn out trial in which I may be screwed.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 11/20/09 at 12:24 am

Too bad I don't have that sort of situation. ^

I sent in the deferal for hardship(due to low hours and earnings) last week. Hope they don't send anthing back basically telling me tough luck.

My situation makes a summons(which pays little for the time sitting down there, unless I were picked) too much of a financial problem if I had to go on a work day.


The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\


Oh man... :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/21/09 at 2:04 pm


The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\


was that in Chicago or CAli?  in Cali there was probably enough warning so that you wouldn't have had to go...  or did you go anyway?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/23/09 at 2:44 pm

As many of you know, we are having our kitchen redone. The guy we hired was supposed to build new cabinets. That never happened. We decided to have the cabinets built by Home Depot. When we signed the contract with the guy back in Sept(?). We were under the impression that he was starting to build the cabinets at that time. He even had us go out and buy the hood which we did and we gave it to him. The work was supposed to start on Oct. 19th. Well, that didn't happen because of the fact that we went down to Puerto Rico & the fact that we needed a new roof. (The same guy did our roof.) We asked him if we could use the $$$$ we gave him as a down-payment for the kitchen towards the roof and we would do the kitchen at another time. He informed us that the $$$$ was already used to buy materials & such. So, we scrounged to get him the $$$$ for the roof.

Then the day came when the work began. He took out all the old cabinets & tore up the floor. That was a Friday. Then he took the weekend off. That Monday, his kid was sick so he didn't come in. That Tuesday, we went to Home Depot & got the flooring. I can't remember what was going on that Wednesday but he didn't come in. That Thursday he FINALLY started to put in the new floor-but only got a little way. Then Friday we went out of town-but he hadn't come in before we left. When we got home on Sunday, the floor wasn't complete but it was further along. We found out he didn't come in on Friday but he did on Saturday.

It was during this time, we discovered that Home Depot would make cabinets for us with the look we want. He told us that they would do it cheaper than he could and quicker. Ok. So we went BACK to Home Depot to discuss things. We decided to go with them on the cabinets above and next to the stove. Not once did the guy say that he had already started to build them-which we were under the impression. Those cabinets came in last week and he did put them up. I am a bit disappointed with them but they are still better than what we had before.

Last week, I can't remember how many days he was here. He does have other projects & jobs that he works on, also. On Friday, he was asking for the remainder of the $$$$ we owned him. We told him to refigure everything out. He wanted to go with the figure from the original contract minus what we paid Home Depot. WTF?? We said, NO! We were going to pay him for his labor and his labor alone because the original contract stated that he was going to build the cabinets which he didn't.

Well, guess who didn't show up again today.  >:( >:( >:(

This is really starting to get ridiculous. The problem is that I do like him, I think he is a nice guy. However, as I told Carlos, I think the work he does do is a B. He is a competent carpenter-not outstanding but decent. But the WAY he does things I give him a C-, and that is being generous. After Carlos gave him the check on Friday, he was thinking that maybe he should have only given him half and say that he would get the other half when the work is done. I am curious when he was going to build these cabinets like he was originally supposed to do.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Don Carlos on 11/24/09 at 9:59 am

So that was yesterday.  Today the e3lectrician is SUPPOSE to show up to connect the range hood and move a light fixture, and the builder is SUPPOSE to come in to do some of the finishing touches.  We'll see.  You would think that with this economy these guys would be falling all over themselves to do a good job.  Angie's list here we come.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 11/24/09 at 11:33 am


You would think that with this economy these guys would be falling all over themselves to do a good job.  Angie's list here we come.


The opposite is true: with so much unemployment in construction trades, supply greatly exceeds demand, and wages have plummeted - so has the quality of work for the average job. People know they aren't going to make squat, so there's a lot of hack work and "get in, get out" mentality. Skilled people are still there, but they are charging the same if not more for their services than before. Angie's list is slam full of those who are offering bottom bin prices, with quality to match.

My rant for the day: I've had a pretty nasty sinus infection since Wednesday, and with all that coughing I noticed a bulge in my abdomen. I'm thinking hernia - joy. I was putting off seeing the doctor since I no longer have health insurance, but this weekend was too much. I went to OTMC (free clinic) yesterday. Turns out they no longer do walk-ins, and of course I don't have the paperwork necessary to fill out the forms and for them to copy. So I go to First Med. I don't have a hernia (good), but the doctor can't tell if I have a strain or possibly appendicitis. His recommendation - go to the emergency room and get an ultrasound done. Yeah, like I got 3k laying around. Bastard doesn't even prescribe me anything for the pain or my cough. 15 minutes later my wallet was $125 lighter. I fudgeing hate doctors. If I needed Motrin I know where to get it - it's OTC you dipsheesh. I don't go to the doctor to be recommended OTC meds.  >:(

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Silver Power on 11/24/09 at 4:35 pm

I have a rant.

Red Ant may not be who he claims to be!

Let's look at the facts:

How come rant sounds like someone new to the English language trying to say 'Red Ant' quickly. Is this a conspiracy?

My snooping has led me to discover that our beloved 'Red Ant' is neither red, nor is he an ant. Further investigation is required to find whether Tommy Turtle is actually a parody writing turtle with impeccable pacing and syllable matching. Slow and steady, indeed, Mr. Turtle.

Red Ant is a moderator. Moderators sometimes help calm hysterical members who, very often, rant, and blame moderators for everything, from technical problems on the site to not being able to cure cancer fast enough.

Outside of the White House, on the presidential lawn, there are many ant-hill. These ant-hills contain, none other than, yes, RED ANTS.

The folks in the White House have been blamed for many problems that slowly defile the USA. But could it be that it isn't the politicians? Read on.

'Red Ant' was alive during the USA's most tragic terrorist plot, the events of 9/11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Using the help of a master of the Afghan language, Cloris Leechman, I've deciphered that Al Qaeda roughly translates to "Red Ants quite enjoy terrorizing countries, and also enjoy the occasional ice cream."

My super-masterful detective research has helped me find that this 'Red Ant' character has indeed eaten ice cream multiple times in his lifetime.

Lactose intolerant? Or lactose intolerANT?

The average terrorist uses the bathroom multiple times per week. As does Red Ant.

Now Mr. Ant, where were you on the morning of September 11th, 2001? Were you in New York City? Of course you weren't. The mastermind doesn't need to be near the crime scene. He gets his evil cronies to do that.

Which brings me to my next point...

I have reason to believe that Red Ant has been in a body of water before. If you hear someone say "Oh my word, those dastardly Somali pirates are taking people hostage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives", it sounds like an innocent enough exclamation, right? But read between the lines:

"Oh my woRd, thosE Dastardly Somali pirates are tAkiNg people hosTage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives". But maybe Red Ant would like us to believe that this is another coincidence, eh?

So if these are all coincidences, how do you explain these?:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof1.pnghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof2.png

There's no denying this now! Come clean, Mr. Ant!

lol i wuz bored lulz

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/24/09 at 5:51 pm


I have a rant.

Red Ant may not be who he claims to be!

Let's look at the facts:

How come rant sounds like someone new to the English language trying to say 'Red Ant' quickly. Is this a conspiracy?

My snooping has led me to discover that our beloved 'Red Ant' is neither red, nor is he an ant. Further investigation is required to find whether Tommy Turtle is actually a parody writing turtle with impeccable pacing and syllable matching. Slow and steady, indeed, Mr. Turtle.

Red Ant is a moderator. Moderators sometimes help calm hysterical members who, very often, rant, and blame moderators for everything, from technical problems on the site to not being able to cure cancer fast enough.

Outside of the White House, on the presidential lawn, there are many ant-hill. These ant-hills contain, none other than, yes, RED ANTS.

The folks in the White House have been blamed for many problems that slowly defile the USA. But could it be that it isn't the politicians? Read on.

'Red Ant' was alive during the USA's most tragic terrorist plot, the events of 9/11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Using the help of a master of the Afghan language, Cloris Leechman, I've deciphered that Al Qaeda roughly translates to "Red Ants quite enjoy terrorizing countries, and also enjoy the occasional ice cream."

My super-masterful detective research has helped me find that this 'Red Ant' character has indeed eaten ice cream multiple times in his lifetime.

Lactose intolerant? Or lactose intolerANT?

The average terrorist uses the bathroom multiple times per week. As does Red Ant.

Now Mr. Ant, where were you on the morning of September 11th, 2001? Were you in New York City? Of course you weren't. The mastermind doesn't need to be near the crime scene. He gets his evil cronies to do that.

Which brings me to my next point...

I have reason to believe that Red Ant has been in a body of water before. If you hear someone say "Oh my word, those dastardly Somali pirates are taking people hostage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives", it sounds like an innocent enough exclamation, right? But read between the lines:

"Oh my woRd, thosE Dastardly Somali pirates are tAkiNg people hosTage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives". But maybe Red Ant would like us to believe that this is another coincidence, eh?

So if these are all coincidences, how do you explain these?:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof1.pnghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof2.png

There's no denying this now! Come clean, Mr. Ant!

lol i wuz bored lulz





Hmmmm....methinks somebody may be about to be bitten by an angry ant!  ;D    ...or somebody is simply on too much medication!  :o

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Silver Power on 11/24/09 at 5:53 pm



Hmmmm....methinks somebody may be about to be bitten by an angry ant!  ;D    ...or somebody is simply on too much medication!  :o


..or too little.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 11/24/09 at 8:22 pm

You can't spell "Conspiracy Theory" without Red Ant, well, except for the missing "d", but that's part of the coverup.  :D

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Silver Power on 11/24/09 at 8:55 pm


You can't spell "Conspiracy Theory" without Red Ant, well, except for the missing "d", but that's part of the coverup.  :D

Ant


Aha! The mastermind is here! I've created a thread for you in PPP.

...And what about 'Da Conspiracy Theory'? You thought you had me fooled, you sneaky critter!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 11/25/09 at 9:06 am


I have a rant.

Red Ant may not be who he claims to be!

Let's look at the facts:

How come rant sounds like someone new to the English language trying to say 'Red Ant' quickly. Is this a conspiracy?

My snooping has led me to discover that our beloved 'Red Ant' is neither red, nor is he an ant. Further investigation is required to find whether Tommy Turtle is actually a parody writing turtle with impeccable pacing and syllable matching. Slow and steady, indeed, Mr. Turtle.

Red Ant is a moderator. Moderators sometimes help calm hysterical members who, very often, rant, and blame moderators for everything, from technical problems on the site to not being able to cure cancer fast enough.

Outside of the White House, on the presidential lawn, there are many ant-hill. These ant-hills contain, none other than, yes, RED ANTS.

The folks in the White House have been blamed for many problems that slowly defile the USA. But could it be that it isn't the politicians? Read on.

'Red Ant' was alive during the USA's most tragic terrorist plot, the events of 9/11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Using the help of a master of the Afghan language, Cloris Leechman, I've deciphered that Al Qaeda roughly translates to "Red Ants quite enjoy terrorizing countries, and also enjoy the occasional ice cream."

My super-masterful detective research has helped me find that this 'Red Ant' character has indeed eaten ice cream multiple times in his lifetime.

Lactose intolerant? Or lactose intolerANT?

The average terrorist uses the bathroom multiple times per week. As does Red Ant.

Now Mr. Ant, where were you on the morning of September 11th, 2001? Were you in New York City? Of course you weren't. The mastermind doesn't need to be near the crime scene. He gets his evil cronies to do that.

Which brings me to my next point...

I have reason to believe that Red Ant has been in a body of water before. If you hear someone say "Oh my word, those dastardly Somali pirates are taking people hostage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives", it sounds like an innocent enough exclamation, right? But read between the lines:

"Oh my woRd, thosE Dastardly Somali pirates are tAkiNg people hosTage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives". But maybe Red Ant would like us to believe that this is another coincidence, eh?

So if these are all coincidences, how do you explain these?:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof1.pnghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof2.png

There's no denying this now! Come clean, Mr. Ant!

lol i wuz bored lulz




Mr. Mister, is that you?  :o  :D

Subject: Masters of the Obvious

Written By: Red Ant on 12/07/09 at 9:49 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_bi_ge/climate_epa



"Greenhouse gases harm humans" - why, thank you for that informative title. That earns a big, fat "No Sh*t" award from me.

Given that the title of that article is so incredibly stupid, I don't put much faith in the article itself.

"..there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health." So burden us with a lot of regulations, meanwhile other countries like China will continue to pump toxins into the land, sea, air, and exports of toys to the US. Perhaps the Administration FAILED to notice that the air over America doesn't always stay in one spot.

The only things that are endangering my health are stupidity, unemployment, and crappy healthcare. Unfortunately there is an overabundance of all three.


Ant

Subject: Re: Masters of the Obvious

Written By: Silver Power on 12/07/09 at 10:20 pm


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_bi_ge/climate_epa



"Greenhouse gases harm humans" - why, thank you for that informative title. That earns a big, fat "No Sh*t" award from me.


Ant


;D Karamel

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/08/09 at 12:50 pm

Went to the store last night. Got $40 so I'd have cash today.
I remember having the reciept and cash as I walked out the door.
I remember having trouble getting the car door open- delaying some guy trying to park next to me.
I them went straight home and put my wallet and keys down and putting the groceries in the fridge.
This morning I cannot find the receipt nor the cash.  >:(

I must have dropped it in the parking lot cuz it's not in my apt or car.

Now I am at Dennys. I have been waiting for 20+ minutes for service.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 12/08/09 at 12:56 pm


Went to the store last night. Got $40 so I'd have cash today.
I remember having the reciept and cash as I walked out the door.
I remember having trouble getting the car door open- delaying some guy trying to park next to me.
I them went straight home and put my wallet and keys down and putting the groceries in the fridge.
This morning I cannot find the receipt nor the cash.  >:(

I must have dropped it in the parking lot cuz it's not in my apt or car.

Now I am at Dennys. I have been waiting for 20+ minutes for service.  ::)

It's not in the car somewhere?
Denny's breakfast special?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/09/09 at 3:32 am


It's not in the car somewhere?
Denny's breakfast special?


Nope not in the car nor the apartment... >:(


breakfast not so special....by the way- right after typing that line is when I decided to make that call  8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 12/23/09 at 10:32 pm

So, I spent the better part of my afternoon restoring my computer, which was corrupted by the Internet Security 2010 malware. Thanks Tam for all the help. Merry Christmas Happy Holidays to all, except to the person(s) who made IS2010, who, for starters, should be slowly impaled on rusty tomato plant stakes.

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/23/09 at 10:49 pm


So, I spent the better part of my afternoon restoring my computer, which was corrupted by the Internet Security 2010 malware. Thanks Tam for all the help. Merry Christmas Happy Holidays to all, except to the person(s) who made IS2010, who, for starters, should be slowly impaled on rusty tomato plant stakes.

Ant


I have a friend that just had her computer destroyed by that one.  Do you know how you got it?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 12/24/09 at 12:23 pm


I have a friend that just had her computer destroyed by that one.  Do you know how you got it?


No idea, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't through an email attachment or anything I intentionally downloaded. All I got was a warning from Norton that some high risk .exe file was attempting to access the internet - I don't remember what I was browsing at the time. I blocked it and about a minute later the whole thing crashed when I went to a web page in my favorites, which had always been safe before.

IS2010 locks out virtually every function except web browser. No regedit, no tskmgr, no restore, no add/remove programs, no control panel, no access to squat, even in safe mode. All I could do was F10 on startup and reload all the original (outdated) software, and bring everything up to speed again. 4 hours to fix it all.

Nicole got one last week almost as bad, fortunately I was able to restore her PC from a three day old auto backup. Took less than 5 minutes to fix that one.

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 12/26/09 at 2:35 pm


I have a friend that just had her computer destroyed by that one.  Do you know how you got it?


I got it again! This time I'm pretty sure I know where it came from : Facebook family invite/verification. As soon as I clicked the link, the computer went nuts again. This time I was able to back up to a save point before it corrupted everything again. Nicole was thinking that is where she got her virus as well. Only took two hours to fix this time, and 20 of that was spent deleting the original (and horribly outdated version of) Norton AV.

Got AVG now. Hopefully I won't get IS2010 again.

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/26/09 at 3:24 pm


I got it again! This time I'm pretty sure I know where it came from : Facebook family invite/verification. As soon as I clicked the link, the computer went nuts again. This time I was able to back up to a save point before it corrupted everything again. Nicole was thinking that is where she got her virus as well. Only took two hours to fix this time, and 20 of that was spent deleting the original (and horribly outdated version of) Norton AV.

Got AVG now. Hopefully I won't get IS2010 again.

Ant



No kidding.  Scary stuff.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/28/09 at 3:29 pm

Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!  ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/28/09 at 3:58 pm


Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!   ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!




Cat


you should get one of those rechargeable streamlites like the cops use...those things are expensive but give off awesome power!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/28/09 at 6:15 pm


Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!   ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!




Cat
You can't beat MagLites ... They are expensive, but they always work.  Even when out in extreme conditions, or left out in extreme conditions.  And you can use them as weapons if it is necessary to do so.  I now have the new LED one and it is bright enough to check cattle by it at night. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Foo Bar on 12/28/09 at 11:22 pm


You can't beat MagLites ... They are expensive, but they always work.  Even when out in extreme conditions, or left out in extreme conditions.  And you can use them as weapons if it is necessary to do so.  I now have the new LED one and it is bright enough to check cattle by it at night. 


A mini-MagLite plus a headband, equals win.  One in the car, one in the emergency supplies bag, and one at home.  Hands-free lighting, pointed exactly where you want it, when you want it.  Absolutely bulletproof; you will never need to replace anything on it other than the batteries.

I second the LED recommendation - not quite as easy to focus as the incandescent, but in a real emergency, you'll want longevity over ease of use.  My compromise was an LED insert for the one in the emergency bag.

(The other cool thing about LED flashlights is that you can now get blacklight/UV replacement LEDs, or just buy a UV flashlight.  Turn out the lights in your home, and be prepared to recoil in horror no matter where you shine it.  No substitute for a blacklight for area lighting, but a hell of a lot more useful... albeit disturbing.)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 01/06/10 at 11:16 am

This is just a very minor one.

Don't you hate it when you get a cut on your thumb near the top of it?

This is mainly because of the fact that you can accidently break the scab partially if you use that thumb carelessly for the first couple of days.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Red Ant on 01/06/10 at 5:37 pm

They make LED lighted gloves now too - very handy, especially this time of year. Look in Home Depot or Lowes for them.


A mini-MagLite plus a headband, equals win.  One in the car, one in the emergency supplies bag, and one at home.  Hands-free lighting, pointed exactly where you want it, when you want it.  Absolutely bulletproof; you will never need to replace anything on it other than the batteries.

I second the LED recommendation - not quite as easy to focus as the incandescent, but in a real emergency, you'll want longevity over ease of use.  My compromise was an LED insert for the one in the emergency bag.

(The other cool thing about LED flashlights is that you can now get blacklight/UV replacement LEDs, or just buy a UV flashlight.  Turn out the lights in your home, and be prepared to recoil in horror no matter where you shine it.  No substitute for a blacklight for area lighting, but a hell of a lot more useful... albeit disturbing.)


lol, nice.

Ant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: loki 13 on 01/06/10 at 6:21 pm

Coming home from work today I was trapped in the sea of stupid. I caught up to traffic on the highway,
a semi in the right lane was doing about 45 MPH in a 55 zone. The guy in the center lane was afraid to
pass the truck and the guy in the left lane was afraid to pass the car in the center. This was rush hour,
cars started stacking up to the point that it looked like caution laps at Daytona. After about two miles
of highway crawling I was finally able to get by the dopes. It was a two car breakaway, me in the left
lane and a Mustang in the center, problem was the freaking Mustang wouldn't get off my rear fender.
My exit was approaching and I needed to move over but the damn Mustang wouldn't let me. I sped up,
he sped up; I slowed down, he slowed down. Like a freakin' goose he just stayed there off my rear fender.
I had to fake him out just to move over to exit. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 01/11/10 at 5:05 pm


Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!  ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!




Cat
The kids got wind-up ones for Christmas last year and those suckers are BRIGHT and STILL WORKING!  I think they were a whopping $5-6 apiece as well ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/15/10 at 12:58 pm


Coming home from work today I was trapped in the sea of stupid. I caught up to traffic on the highway,
a semi in the right lane was doing about 45 MPH in a 55 zone. The guy in the center lane was afraid to
pass the truck and the guy in the left lane was afraid to pass the car in the center. This was rush hour,
cars started stacking up to the point that it looked like caution laps at Daytona. After about two miles
of highway crawling I was finally able to get by the dopes. It was a two car breakaway, me in the left
lane and a Mustang in the center, problem was the freaking Mustang wouldn't get off my rear fender.
My exit was approaching and I needed to move over but the damn Mustang wouldn't let me. I sped up,
he sped up; I slowed down, he slowed down. Like a freakin' goose he just stayed there off my rear fender.
I had to fake him out just to move over to exit. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!


Related topic --

There are a lot of fargging icehole drivers around here who don't give a crap about road safety and think you shouldn't either.  There are intersections where you need to exercise extra caution because of blind curves.  You need to come to a full stop and check to make sure there isn't a car flying around the curve, but when you do this, the jackass behind you starts flashing his lights and honking.  One over here in Florence really needs a stoplight because you can't see who is coming around the curve.  So the other night I stop, and then I crawl to give leeway in case some maniac is rounding the corner at 60.  So the guy behind me in the pickup truck starts honking and flashing, then he tailgates me with his high beams on.  Third time that sh*t's happened to me at that intersection.  I have never had a major collision and there's a reason for that -- caution.  Well, caution and a fair amount of luck.  Knock on Naugahyde!

Related topic -

Pedestrians in New York City pride themselves in having no regard for traffic signals.  I got a $50 citation sent to me because I ran a red light on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn back in November.  Why did I run the light?  Well, the light was GREEN when I started into the intersection, but some hoodlums jumped into the intersection jaywalking diagonally.  What was I gonna do, run 'em down?  So I had to stop.  When they passed, the light turned RED, but I was in the intersection, so I had to hit the gas before the cars on the perpendicular street started coming at me!  If I sat there, there would be a lot of honking and gridlock or I could have gotten t-boned by that frikkin' furniture truck!  BUT the little camera got my plate numbers.  They sent the ticket with the pictures.  What am I going to do, fight it from Massachusetts?  Yeah, right.  Cost-benefit analysis does not favor such action.  I'm wondering how much revenue New York gets from the fact that pedestrians and drivers don't obey traffic signals and thus force other drivers to run red lights for safety's sake.  Now, if a patrol cop had seen the situation and stopped me, I would have told him about the jaywalkers...and he would have written me the $50 citation all the same!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 01/15/10 at 3:08 pm



Related topic -

Pedestrians in New York City pride themselves in having no regard for traffic signals.  I got a $50 citation sent to me because I ran a red light on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn back in November.  Why did I run the light?  Well, the light was GREEN when I started into the intersection, but some hoodlums jumped into the intersection jaywalking diagonally.  What was I gonna do, run 'em down?  So I had to stop.  When they passed, the light turned RED, but I was in the intersection, so I had to hit the gas before the cars on the perpendicular street started coming at me!  If I sat there, there would be a lot of honking and gridlock or I could have gotten t-boned by that frikkin' furniture truck!  BUT the little camera got my plate numbers.  They sent the ticket with the pictures.  What am I going to do, fight it from Massachusetts?  Yeah, right.  Cost-benefit analysis does not favor such action.  I'm wondering how much revenue New York gets from the fact that pedestrians and drivers don't obey traffic signals and thus force other drivers to run red lights for safety's sake.  Now, if a patrol cop had seen the situation and stopped me, I would have told him about the jaywalkers...and he would have written me the $50 citation all the same!
::)
Really?  Here in IL, if you're already IN the intersection when the light turns red, you have the right to continue out of the intersection.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 01/15/10 at 3:48 pm


Pedestrians in New York City pride themselves in having no regard for traffic signals.  I got a $50 citation sent to me because I ran a red light on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn back in November.  Why did I run the light?  Well, the light was GREEN when I started into the intersection, but some hoodlums jumped into the intersection jaywalking diagonally.  What was I gonna do, run 'em down?  So I had to stop.  When they passed, the light turned RED, but I was in the intersection, so I had to hit the gas before the cars on the perpendicular street started coming at me!  If I sat there, there would be a lot of honking and gridlock or I could have gotten t-boned by that frikkin' furniture truck!  BUT the little camera got my plate numbers.  They sent the ticket with the pictures.  What am I going to do, fight it from Massachusetts?  Yeah, right.  Cost-benefit analysis does not favor such action.  I'm wondering how much revenue New York gets from the fact that pedestrians and drivers don't obey traffic signals and thus force other drivers to run red lights for safety's sake.  Now, if a patrol cop had seen the situation and stopped me, I would have told him about the jaywalkers...and he would have written me the $50 citation all the same!
::)


I would guess NYC makes quite a bit of money off situations like yours.  :P  In Phoenix we have stationary and mobile speed cameras on every freeway that flash if you're traveling 11+ MPH over the posted limit.  So everyone slows down for the camera well below the speed limit until passing them then they travel at 10-15 MPH over until the next one.  ::)  We have red light cameras also but I don't ever really see them now that most of my driving in the Valley is on the freeways.

I'll be hitting the East Valley Autobahn in about 2.5 hours.  Wish me luck.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 01/15/10 at 4:56 pm


Really?  Here in IL, if you're already IN the intersection when the light turns red, you have the right to continue out of the intersection.


You just have to dodge the cars that pay no mind to you and continue on as if you weren't there. :P

God, I hate that....which is why I don't drive in the city! :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/19/10 at 12:37 pm


Really?  Here in IL, if you're already IN the intersection when the light turns red, you have the right to continue out of the intersection.


"The light was yellow, officer." 

That one always goes over real well! 

I had to hit the gas and goose it through the intersection for my own safety because you never know what New York drivers are going to do, so even if the cameras figured in the speed of the vehicle, they would still detect my acceleration.  The camera can't replace human judgment.  Those guys just darted diagonally across the intersection.  They should have been ticketed for jaywalking; however, it's much easier for revenue's sake to photograph a license plate and send a citation to the registrant's address.  I've been stuck in bottlenecks for a half hour at a time in NYC because some a-holes start gridlock by disobeying traffic signals.  Fortunately, my brother and sister-in-law just moved upstate.  If I need to go into the city, I can park at their house and get the commuter rail.  When you factor the costs and benefits, it is not cheaper for me to take mass transit into NYC than to drive from Western Mass.  Anyway, I only drove in Brooklyn and Queens.  I have driven in Manhattan, but I wouldn't do it again unless somebody held a gun to my head and forced me!
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Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/21/10 at 5:04 pm

So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 01/21/10 at 6:23 pm


So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!


I could go to IKEA and get if you pay the shipping

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 7:12 pm


So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!



hmmmm who lives just 90 miles from an ikea? and it going to be in that area in a month? I don't know..

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 7:12 pm


I could go to IKEA and get if you pay the shipping


or karen can do it.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 01/21/10 at 8:35 pm


or karen can do it.  ;D


I'm just wanting an excuse to wander around IKEA!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 9:39 pm


I'm just wanting an excuse to wander around IKEA!



being in the area is excuse enough for me...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 01/21/10 at 9:48 pm



being in the area is excuse enough for me...


It's about a 40 minute drive for me, so not really on my way anywhere!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 9:50 pm


It's about a 40 minute drive for me, so not really on my way anywhere!


ah yeah I usually fit my visits in with my trips to LA...

I'll vent that Ikea really needs more locations!!!! Particularly one closer to Santa Barbara, one closer to Tam and one closer to karen.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 01/21/10 at 10:30 pm

IKEA IKEA
IKEA IKEA
Much to far from my home
Out of the way where I would roam
IKEA IKEA IKEA

There's one in Sacramento.  Think mom and I went there once and thought it sucked.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 10:30 pm


IKEA IKEA
IKEA IKEA
Much to far from my home
Out of the way where I would roam
IKEA IKEA IKEA

There's one in Sacramento.  Think mom and I went there once and thought it sucked.


well we've already established your mom is kinda nuts right  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/21/10 at 10:45 pm


ah yeah I usually fit my visits in with my trips to LA...

I'll vent that Ikea really needs more locations!!!! Particularly one closer to Santa Barbara, one closer to Tam and one closer to karen.
and me ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 10:48 pm


and me ???


you know... right after I hit post I thought I should add sami too... but then I got a call and forgot.

sorry....




and sami needs an Ikea, and a Target, and a Costco and every other store there is. 


better?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 01/21/10 at 10:52 pm

Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.   ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)   :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 10:55 pm


Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.   ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)   :D




LUCKY!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/21/10 at 11:10 pm


Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.   ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)   :D


Am wondering if Mexico has Ikea

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 01/21/10 at 11:13 pm


Am wondering if Mexico has Ikea


Am not sure.  But um  Pittsburgh is nowhere near Mexico, so I'm not understand the corrolation.  lol

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 11:27 pm


Am not sure.  But um  Pittsburgh is nowhere near Mexico, so I'm not understand the corrolation.  lol


maybe cuz sami's sick of snow...and doesn't want to chance catching snow in PA... or maybe cuz sami wants to do her booze run vacation and her Ikea in the same trip? 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 01/21/10 at 11:29 pm


maybe cuz sami's sick of snow...and doesn't want to chance catching snow in PA... or maybe cuz sami wants to do her booze run vacation and her Ikea in the same trip?   


Ah...thanks for the 'splaining.  I couldn't figure it out, but then, I AM a bit dizzy tonight.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 11:31 pm


Ah...thanks for the 'splaining.  I couldn't figure it out, but then, I AM a bit dizzy tonight.


well I don't know if I'm right- I'm just speculating.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/21/10 at 11:32 pm

and to answer the question no- no ikea's in mexico...


Europe

België | Belgique (Belgium)
Česká republika (Czech Republic)
Danmark (Denmark)
Deutschland (Germany)
España (Spain)
Ελλάδα (Greece)
France
Ísland (Iceland)
Ireland
Italia (Italy)
Κύπρος (Cyprus)
Magyarország (Hungary)
Nederland (Netherlands)
Norge (Norway)
Österreich (Austria)
Россия (Russia)
Polska (Poland)
Portugal (Portugal)
România (Romania)
Schweiz | Suisse | Svizzera (Switzerland)
Slovensko (Slovakia)
Suomi (Finland)
Sverige (Sweden)
Türkiye (Turkey)
United Kingdom
North America

Canada
United States

Middle East


(Kuwait)

(Israel)


(Saudi Arabia)


(United Arab Emirates)

Asia Pacific

Australia

(China)

(Hong Kong)

(Japan)
Malaysia

(Taiwan)
Singapore

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 01/22/10 at 12:04 am


So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!


There is one like, 8 minutes from me.  Show me what you want, I will go get it, and ship it to you.  Done!  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/22/10 at 7:08 am


maybe cuz sami's sick of snow...and doesn't want to chance catching snow in PA... or maybe cuz sami wants to do her booze run vacation and her Ikea in the same trip?   
O0  both could apply 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/22/10 at 7:10 am


and to answer the question no- no ikea's in mexico...


Europe

België | Belgique (Belgium)
Česká republika (Czech Republic)
Danmark (Denmark)
Deutschland (Germany)
España (Spain)
Ελλάδα (Greece)
France
Ísland (Iceland)
Ireland
Italia (Italy)
Κύπρος (Cyprus)
Magyarország (Hungary)
Nederland (Netherlands)
Norge (Norway)
Österreich (Austria)
Россия (Russia)
Polska (Poland)
Portugal (Portugal)
România (Romania)
Schweiz | Suisse | Svizzera (Switzerland)
Slovensko (Slovakia)
Suomi (Finland)
Sverige (Sweden)
Türkiye (Turkey)
United Kingdom
North America

Canada
United States

Middle East


(Kuwait)

(Israel)


(Saudi Arabia)


(United Arab Emirates)

Asia Pacific

Australia

(China)

(Hong Kong)

(Japan)
Malaysia

(Taiwan)
Singapore

hmmm I hear that Turkey is beautiful this time of year ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/22/10 at 7:11 am


There is one like, 8 minutes from me.  Show me what you want, I will go get it, and ship it to you.  Done!  :)
No fair - Utah has an Ikea - Iowa sucks

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/22/10 at 7:47 am

Am I the only one who has never been to an IKEA?  :-[



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 01/22/10 at 11:53 am

I think I might have developed an allergy to caffeine.  I'm doing a series of daily "tests" to try and figure it out since I can't get into the allergist until the 2nd of Feb.  :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/22/10 at 1:53 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!  That would suck the big one.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/22/10 at 5:04 pm

I hate my job.

I have no life.

Not seeking pity, just venting.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: loki 13 on 01/22/10 at 7:21 pm


Am I the only one who has never been to an IKEA?  :-[



Cat


Nah, there are 2 IKEA's within 30 minutes of me and I've never been to either.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Fairee07 on 01/22/10 at 7:37 pm

I know I should be thankful that I'm at least working during a major recession...but I really can't stand another day at my job.

I know what you're thinking. That I should just quit. If I was rolling in money I would but unfortunately I am just getting by.

I work in a bank and it's making me mental. First of all, my co-workers are lazy and pile work for me to do and try to hide or avoid serving clients. These clients have requests that are becoming more and more bizarre, but not only that, they are becoming more obnoxious.

Today I have a classic case--I was serving this 50-something year-old man who had missing teeth. He didn't seem to speak English very well and he was trying to tell me this lame joke. Finally he was asking me questions about my marital status and then he went on about there was something not right with the way I looked! Well do you want to be the pot or the kettle, sir?!

To be honest I was (still am obviously) in a very bad mood and I became a little snappy towards my lazy co-worker who would refuse to co-sign a document because she kept saying I didn't do it right. Anyway, today I left work in a huff and have decided to just veg out in front of the Net.

My long-distance boyfriend has called me a couple of times since I've been home but I can't even talk to him! I'm still venting and I'm also totally wiped that I don't think I'll be on here much long. I am seriously thinking about getting ready for bed before 9 on a Friday night!

I was thinking about going back to school full-time to study nursing but maybe I should go into computer science because I'm really losing patience with people!

I guess that's it for now (whew!)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 01/24/10 at 9:04 pm


So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!


So what's the verdict on who is picking the stuff up for you?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/24/10 at 9:18 pm

I thought that I had replied to this thread already... my fault for not double checking ;)


I could go to IKEA and get if you pay the shipping


You are too sweet!



hmmmm who lives just 90 miles from an ikea? and it going to be in that area in a month? I don't know..

or karen can do it.  ;D


Just 90 miles? lol You are awesome as well!!


I'm just wanting an excuse to wander around IKEA!


Any excuse is a good excuse right! 8)


Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.  ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)  :D




Patty! You are devious! ;D


There is one like, 8 minutes from me.  Show me what you want, I will go get it, and ship it to you.  Done!  :)


You are awesome as well!


Nah, there are 2 IKEA's within 30 minutes of me and I've never been to either.


Blasphemy!!! Kevin I order thee to get your butt to an Ikea NOW!!! ;D


So what's the verdict on who is picking the stuff up for you?


Sorry Mum. I didn't mean to leave y'all hanging!

I actually talked to Ash today and she and I have rigged a plan.

I do so completely thank all of you for your willingness to help little 'ole me out!
I will admit though, that when I was ranting I was afraid that I was coming across as "poor me, who will help me??" and I hate to sound that way.

The outpouring of help makes me feel so blessed and I love y'all so much! :-*

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/24/10 at 9:21 pm


I thought that I had replied to this thread already... my fault for not double checking ;)

You are too sweet!

Just 90 miles? lol You are awesome as well!!

Any excuse is a good excuse right! 8)

Patty! You are devious! ;D

You are awesome as well!

Blasphemy!!! Kevin I order thee to get your butt to an Ikea NOW!!! ;D

Sorry Mum. I didn't mean to leave y'all hanging!

I actually talked to Ash today and she and I have rigged a plan.

I do so completely thank all of you for your willingness to help little 'ole me out!
I will admit though, that when I was ranting I was afraid that I was coming across as "poor me, who will help me??" and I hate to sound that way.

The outpouring of help makes me feel so blessed and I love y'all so much! :-*


no worries... besides... going to ikea with a plan would've been a first for me... usually i just go and buy on impulse.  ;D


BTW I haven't forgotten about my contribution but we've had a weeks worth of rain that would've made Noah go grab another hammer  ;D
so I'm just waiting for the beaches to dry out some!  ;D 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/24/10 at 9:22 pm


no worries... besides... going to ikea with a plan would've been a first for me... usually i just go and buy on impulse.  ;D


BTW I haven't forgotten about my contribution but we've had a weeks worth of rain that would've made Noah go grab another hammer  ;D
so I'm just waiting for the beaches to dry out some!  ;D 


It's all good Girl! I love ya for even thinking about me for real! 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 01/24/10 at 9:23 pm

rats, no excuse to go now.

It's a long way to go just for a picture frame (the other thing I was going to buy there).

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/24/10 at 9:28 pm


rats, no excuse to go now.

It's a long way to go just for a picture frame (the other thing I was going to buy there).


I am sure I can come up with other things that I might *need*! ;) :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 01/24/10 at 9:57 pm

See, y'all need to come over here.  I'm 40 miles away from the (allegedly) biggest IKEA in the US.  Three stories of shopping goodness.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/25/10 at 5:50 am


I know I should be thankful that I'm at least working during a major recession...but I really can't stand another day at my job.

I know what you're thinking. That I should just quit. If I was rolling in money I would but unfortunately I am just getting by.

I work in a bank and it's making me mental. First of all, my co-workers are lazy and pile work for me to do and try to hide or avoid serving clients. These clients have requests that are becoming more and more bizarre, but not only that, they are becoming more obnoxious.

Today I have a classic case--I was serving this 50-something year-old man who had missing teeth. He didn't seem to speak English very well and he was trying to tell me this lame joke. Finally he was asking me questions about my marital status and then he went on about there was something not right with the way I looked! Well do you want to be the pot or the kettle, sir?!

To be honest I was (still am obviously) in a very bad mood and I became a little snappy towards my lazy co-worker who would refuse to co-sign a document because she kept saying I didn't do it right. Anyway, today I left work in a huff and have decided to just veg out in front of the Net.

My long-distance boyfriend has called me a couple of times since I've been home but I can't even talk to him! I'm still venting and I'm also totally wiped that I don't think I'll be on here much long. I am seriously thinking about getting ready for bed before 9 on a Friday night!

I was thinking about going back to school full-time to study nursing but maybe I should go into computer science because I'm really losing patience with people!

I guess that's it for now (whew!)


I've been more irritable than usual over the past couple of weeks.  I chalk some of that up to being on Adderall, which I knew was not going to be the right medication for me, but my shrink thought it was worth a shot.  I guess I take it for granted that people are going to be silly and oafish so I try not to respond in kind.  I have been unemployed since I don't know when.  In this economy, once you're out, it's hard as hell to get back in. I don't have the right aptitudes for cutting it nowadays, so I've resigned myself to a marginal existence.  Nursing and computer science are reliable fields.  The trick with computers is to find a niche they can't outsource...but I don't know enough to say more.  I can say that if you don't have patience with people, nursing is about the worst field you could go into other than perhaps special education!  I get real dumb around nurses.  I don't know why.  I think a lot of people feel awkward around medical professionals and then if the clinician is impatient, we get more awkward and it snowballs!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/25/10 at 8:35 am

I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/25/10 at 9:02 am


I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(



Download AVG-it is free. You can also download Spybot which is also free.

Then you can go into your control panel to change programs and delete out whatever security you have that you don't want anymore.

You might also want to delete cookies on your browsers. I use Firefox all the time. On top of the page, it will say "Tools". Go down to the bottom where it says "options". Then click on "privacy." In the middle it will say "Remove individual cookies." You want to do that.  I never use IE so I'm not sure how to remove the cookies from there.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/25/10 at 9:52 am



Download AVG-it is free. You can also download Spybot which is also free.

Then you can go into your control panel to change programs and delete out whatever security you have that you don't want anymore.

You might also want to delete cookies on your browsers. I use Firefox all the time. On top of the page, it will say "Tools". Go down to the bottom where it says "options". Then click on "privacy." In the middle it will say "Remove individual cookies." You want to do that.  I never use IE so I'm not sure how to remove the cookies from there.



Cat

I tried doing the cookies thing and I lost everything, it won't even let me add or remove programs on the control panel >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/25/10 at 9:56 am


I tried doing the cookies thing and I lost everything, it won't even let me add or remove programs on the control panel >:(



What kind of computer do you have and how old is it? What is your OS?



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/25/10 at 10:01 am



What kind of computer do you have and how old is it? What is your OS?



Cat

It's a dell and it's at least 3 years old, What is a OS?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/25/10 at 10:30 am


It's a dell and it's at least 3 years old, What is a OS?


Operating System. My guess, it is either Vista or Windows XP. If it is Vista-there is your problem right there.


Cat



Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 10:46 am


See, y'all need to come over here.  I'm 40 miles away from the (allegedly) biggest IKEA in the US.  Three stories of shopping goodness.


Well then Jess... prepare for a visit from me! Actually, I am just going to move in with you! ;D ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 11:20 am


I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(


ninny - you have a virus.
My guess is that it is either MSAntiVirus or DesktopAntiVirus.
Hard suckers to get rid of.

Both hijack your computer.
It will make IE do whatever the virus wants, and will disable your control options.
They are buried in your operating system now.

Your best bet is to take it to someone who fixes computers, but please do not go to Geek Squad. All they will do is ask you for your restore disk and you will lose all of your pictures, music etc, and they will charge you an arm and a leg! You could try to use a restore point, but I am positive that the virus will have infected that as well.

In the past month, I have fixed close to 7 computers with this virus. Currently working on one right now as well.

I can try and tell you how to fix it yourself, but without knowing how badly infected you are - I am not sure my remedies would work:  Print this before you start anything ;)


Boot the computer into Safe Mode
restart the computer
Once the screen starts coming up, continually press F8 until you get the black boot options screen
choose "Safe Mode with Networking"
If it asks you to log in as yourself or Administrator, just log in as you

Once it loads, there will be no desktop picture, it should be a black screen with only a few of your desktop icons, and they will be bigger in size
Click start>run and type in msconfig hit ok or enter (if you are using Vista or Windows 7, if it asks you to continue, please click continue or yes)

a new window should open
across the top of it, click the startup tab
click "disable all" then click apply, then click ok.

*Do not restart the computer yet.*

open your IE and go to www.download.com
in the search bar, type "avast free"
(you are going to downlaod an awesome Anti-virus program that will clean your computer completely - to include fixing the registry keys!)
Click the first option that pops up, should be Avast Free Antivirus with big orange blotch next to it.
On the next page, click the download now button.
Click run and then run again, or give it permission in there somewhere if your security asks you to

Once you have installed it, run the program. It will start a scan, find the virus and then it should produce a pop up asking you if you want to do a boot time scan. Say yes!
It will shut down and the computer will restart. The boot time scan will eventually start, blue screen, white writing, and when it finds the virus, it will ask you what you want to do with it. Click the number for "Move to Chest". Don't click delete!!! Moving it to the chest is putting it in quarantine and Avast will break the virus. It might ask you a few more times what to do with files, keep telling it to move them to the chest. ;)

After the scan, windows will load up properly, and once it does, I want you to restart the computer and boot into safe mode again! (I know, a giant pain!)

So after hitting F8 and choosing Safe Mode with Networking, when the computer loads, I want you to double click the icon for Avast
The program will pull up. You are now going to do a full scan of your entire system.

On the right hand side of the panel, you will see three boxes. One is the locations to search. Click this one and make sure ALL of your hard drives are checked. Include the back up hard drive, because the virus could and probably did go in there! ;)  click ok.

Next, at the top of the Avast panel, you will see a bar kind of barely sticking out. Click it and a little window will pull out. Drag the bar all the way to the right so that it will scan super deep and find even the smallest thing that might have been there for years! ;)

Once you have done all of that, on the left side of the panel, there is a "play" button.  one of these ►
Click it and let the program go!

It will find stuff, and so when it does, just always tell it to move to the chest! ;) The scan may take a few hours, so be sure to keep an eye on it. If it finds something, it won't continue scanning until you tell it what to do! ;)


Now, this is the pain in the butt part.
Depending on how badly you are infected, you might have to boot into safe mode a bunch of times and rescan the entire system! I had one computer where I had to boot 10 times into safe mode!!! Yes, this is the only way to actually get rid of the virus! A technician can do it for you, but 9 times out of then they are going to reformat your computer. That's all. Going through Safe Mode saves all of your pictures, documents, music... all of your files! And it makes sure they are clean as well.

If you don't want to do it the way I laid out, it's cool! I don't blame ya! But make sure when you take it to someone that you tell them you want to keep all of your files and not to reformat the hard drive. I can't guarantee how much they will charge you. Some have a diagnostic fee, which they will waive if you have them fix it. Some are $10 an hour, others can be up to $85 an hour. I would say a good price and good work would be around $40 an hour, or if they give you a flat rate, do not let them charge you any more than $100 total.

If I lived closer Girl - I would be there in a heart beat and fix it for you! 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 11:29 am



Download AVG-it is free. You can also download Spybot which is also free.

Then you can go into your control panel to change programs and delete out whatever security you have that you don't want anymore.

You might also want to delete cookies on your browsers. I use Firefox all the time. On top of the page, it will say "Tools". Go down to the bottom where it says "options". Then click on "privacy." In the middle it will say "Remove individual cookies." You want to do that.  I never use IE so I'm not sure how to remove the cookies from there.



Cat


AVG will not find these viruses.
Spybot will find them but won't be able to do anything with them.


I tried doing the cookies thing and I lost everything, it won't even let me add or remove programs on the control panel >:(


Right, because the virus has hijacked your controls.



It's a dell and it's at least 3 years old, What is a OS?


The info I gave you ^ is for a Dell.


Operating System. My guess, it is either Vista or Windows XP. If it is Vista-there is your problem right there.


Cat



If it's 3 years old, it should have XP on it. But even if it has Vista, the walk through I gave you ninny is still the same.
Vista isn't the problem. Yes, some people have had problems with Vista, but I can attest that Vista is not the crap that Tech's have said it is. If that was the case then Windows 7 would not be available yet! Why? Because Windows 7 is Vista, they just added tweaks to it! I run Vista on my desktop and 7 on my laptop. I have read the specs on both and pretty much know them inside and out - I have to, it's what I do - most times Vista errors are user errors, because people are used to XP and Vista doesn't run like XP did. Anyway, as I was saying - whether you have Vista or XP - the instructions I gave you work for both! ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/25/10 at 11:35 am


AVG will not find these viruses.
Spybot will find them but won't be able to do anything with them.

Right, because the virus has hijacked your controls.


The info I gave you ^ is for a Dell.

If it's 3 years old, it should have XP on it. But even if it has Vista, the walk through I gave you ninny is still the same.
Vista isn't the problem. Yes, some people have had problems with Vista, but I can attest that Vista is not the crap that Tech's have said it is. If that was the case then Windows 7 would not be available yet! Why? Because Windows 7 is Vista, they just added tweaks to it! I run Vista on my desktop and 7 on my laptop. I have read the specs on both and pretty much know them inside and out - I have to, it's what I do - most times Vista errors are user errors, because people are used to XP and Vista doesn't run like XP did. Anyway, as I was saying - whether you have Vista or XP - the instructions I gave you work for both! ;)



You know more than I do.


Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 11:52 am



You know more than I do.


Cat


Sorry Cat - I wasn't trying to shut you down or anything. I sometimes get overly passionate about computers! lol

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/25/10 at 11:57 am


Sorry Cat - I wasn't trying to shut you down or anything. I sometimes get overly passionate about computers! lol



I didn't think you were shutting me down. I mean what I said-you know more about computers than I do. I was just trying to help ninny out but I bow to you knowledge. 



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 12:06 pm



I didn't think you were shutting me down. I mean what I said-you know more about computers than I do. I was just trying to help ninny out but I bow to you knowledge. 



Cat


Heehee!
I have never had anyone bow to me before! ;D ;D

Thanks Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/25/10 at 12:57 pm


Heehee!
I have never had anyone bow to me before! ;D ;D

Thanks Cat



Not even Nasty?  ;)



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 1:10 pm



Not even Nasty?  ;)



Cat


Well, I wasn't going to get into that can of worms! ;D ;D

8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/25/10 at 1:16 pm


ninny - you have a virus.
My guess is that it is either MSAntiVirus or DesktopAntiVirus.
Hard suckers to get rid of.

Both hijack your computer.
It will make IE do whatever the virus wants, and will disable your control options.
They are buried in your operating system now.

Your best bet is to take it to someone who fixes computers, but please do not go to Geek Squad. All they will do is ask you for your restore disk and you will lose all of your pictures, music etc, and they will charge you an arm and a leg! You could try to use a restore point, but I am positive that the virus will have infected that as well.

In the past month, I have fixed close to 7 computers with this virus. Currently working on one right now as well.

I can try and tell you how to fix it yourself, but without knowing how badly infected you are - I am not sure my remedies would work:  Print this before you start anything ;)


Boot the computer into Safe Mode
restart the computer
Once the screen starts coming up, continually press F8 until you get the black boot options screen
choose "Safe Mode with Networking"
If it asks you to log in as yourself or Administrator, just log in as you

Once it loads, there will be no desktop picture, it should be a black screen with only a few of your desktop icons, and they will be bigger in size
Click start>run and type in msconfig hit ok or enter (if you are using Vista or Windows 7, if it asks you to continue, please click continue or yes)

a new window should open
across the top of it, click the startup tab
click "disable all" then click apply, then click ok.

*Do not restart the computer yet.*

open your IE and go to www.download.com
in the search bar, type "avast free"
(you are going to downlaod an awesome Anti-virus program that will clean your computer completely - to include fixing the registry keys!)
Click the first option that pops up, should be Avast Free Antivirus with big orange blotch next to it.
On the next page, click the download now button.
Click run and then run again, or give it permission in there somewhere if your security asks you to

Once you have installed it, run the program. It will start a scan, find the virus and then it should produce a pop up asking you if you want to do a boot time scan. Say yes!
It will shut down and the computer will restart. The boot time scan will eventually start, blue screen, white writing, and when it finds the virus, it will ask you what you want to do with it. Click the number for "Move to Chest". Don't click delete!!! Moving it to the chest is putting it in quarantine and Avast will break the virus. It might ask you a few more times what to do with files, keep telling it to move them to the chest. ;)

After the scan, windows will load up properly, and once it does, I want you to restart the computer and boot into safe mode again! (I know, a giant pain!)

So after hitting F8 and choosing Safe Mode with Networking, when the computer loads, I want you to double click the icon for Avast
The program will pull up. You are now going to do a full scan of your entire system.

On the right hand side of the panel, you will see three boxes. One is the locations to search. Click this one and make sure ALL of your hard drives are checked. Include the back up hard drive, because the virus could and probably did go in there! ;)  click ok.

Next, at the top of the Avast panel, you will see a bar kind of barely sticking out. Click it and a little window will pull out. Drag the bar all the way to the right so that it will scan super deep and find even the smallest thing that might have been there for years! ;)

Once you have done all of that, on the left side of the panel, there is a "play" button.  one of these ►
Click it and let the program go!

It will find stuff, and so when it does, just always tell it to move to the chest! ;) The scan may take a few hours, so be sure to keep an eye on it. If it finds something, it won't continue scanning until you tell it what to do! ;)


Now, this is the pain in the butt part.
Depending on how badly you are infected, you might have to boot into safe mode a bunch of times and rescan the entire system! I had one computer where I had to boot 10 times into safe mode!!! Yes, this is the only way to actually get rid of the virus! A technician can do it for you, but 9 times out of then they are going to reformat your computer. That's all. Going through Safe Mode saves all of your pictures, documents, music... all of your files! And it makes sure they are clean as well.

If you don't want to do it the way I laid out, it's cool! I don't blame ya! But make sure when you take it to someone that you tell them you want to keep all of your files and not to reformat the hard drive. I can't guarantee how much they will charge you. Some have a diagnostic fee, which they will waive if you have them fix it. Some are $10 an hour, others can be up to $85 an hour. I would say a good price and good work would be around $40 an hour, or if they give you a flat rate, do not let them charge you any more than $100 total.

If I lived closer Girl - I would be there in a heart beat and fix it for you! 8)


Thanks Tam & Cat, Missy & I both tried different things but got no results, to bad you girls didn't live cloder. Tim is going to see if the guy he works with will fix it. Because it is a virus should i stay off this site..I don't want to affect other members.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 01/25/10 at 1:54 pm


Thanks Tam & Cat, Missy & I both tried different things but got no results, to bad you girls didn't live cloder. Tim is going to see if the guy he works with will fix it. Because it is a virus should i stay off this site..I don't want to affect other members.


It won't affect us at all Girl!
But I would advise against you sending any email or paying bills online or anything else that uses your personal information until it is fexed. 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/25/10 at 2:27 pm


It won't affect us at all Girl!
But I would advise against you sending any email or paying bills online or anything else that uses your personal information until it is fexed. 8)

Ok, that's good to know I think Tim was secretly hopeing i would have to get off for a while ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/25/10 at 3:20 pm


I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(


So does mine...but then again, I keep asking it to!
:-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 01/25/10 at 3:41 pm


Heehee!
I have never had anyone bow to me before! ;D ;D

Thanks Cat


That's cuz yer an Under Secretary, not an Over one :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/25/10 at 9:12 pm


So does mine...but then again, I keep asking it to!
:-[

;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 01/25/10 at 9:39 pm


So does mine...but then again, I keep asking it to!
:-[


You mean...you can get porn on the internet?  :o  I had no idea.... ::) ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/25/10 at 10:53 pm


In the past month, I have fixed close to 7 computers with this virus. Currently working on one right now as well.




can you come move all my crap from my c drive to my drive so my stupid computer will stop telling my drive is full I mean my d drive is empty but it doesn't care it just wants to do everything on c.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/26/10 at 8:27 pm


You mean...you can get porn on the internet?  :o   I had no idea.... ::) ;)


Are you kidding?  That's why Al Gore invented it!
;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/29/10 at 7:58 am

My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/29/10 at 8:04 am


My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 



I know this is easier said than done but you have to chalk it up to the alcohol. People who consume too much alcohol do not think rationally.  My first husband was an alcoholic and he blamed me for his addiction.  ???



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/29/10 at 8:06 am



I know this is easier said than done but you have to chalk it up to the alcohol. People who consume too much alcohol do not think rationally.  My first husband was an alcoholic and he blamed me for his addiction.  ???



Cat


True.  Maybe I am being too sensitive, too.  I'm just glad she is quitting drinking.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/29/10 at 12:44 pm

There's a lot of alcoholism in my family too.  With it comes lies and denial.  Often times the alcoholic will announce she is going sober, and then hide it from the others when she relapses.  Last year my sister "fired" her AA sponsor because she said the sponsor was being too judgmental.  Then I found out my sister was drinking again.  The woman sponsoring her has 30 years of sobriety under her belt, she could tell my sister was drinking again, and confronted her.  That's the first and most important rule in AA: You can't drink.  My sister, call her N., felt ashamed of herself, while the sponsor, call her K., just wanted N. to get back on the wagon.  If you've been in AA for 35 years, you know people relapse.  However, shame and its twin, pride, are big factors in alcoholism.  N. was shaming herself more than anyone else was.  She tried to quell the shame with more drinking until she bottomed out again last summer and had to get emergency help.  I don't really know if N. is back to drinking.  I suspect she is, but the decision to stop has to be hers.  I'm not going to intervene. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/30/10 at 6:03 am


My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 


you've been vocal about your religion but never judgmental of me....and I embrace you for that!  :)

(((hugs)))  sorry your mom and sis can't figure out what I did and we've never even met! 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/30/10 at 9:37 am


you've been vocal about your religion but never judgmental of me....and I embrace you for that!  :)

(((hugs)))  sorry your mom and sis can't figure out what I did and we've never even met! 


Thanks, Q, I appreciate that. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 01/30/10 at 4:04 pm


My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 
(((((((Hugs))))))))  I am sure your mother is being overly "defensive" about her situation.  Her drinking problem (or not) is out in the open, the cirrhosis of the liver sorta confirms it.  She may have been telling her doctor (and others) for years, that she only drinks "one glass of wine a day" or "on occasion".  So the fact that it is now confirmed that she has been "lying/hiding" her drinking - she thinks people are judging her, because she has been "lying".  Probably as she herself judges people who say one thing and do another, or have been caught in a lie.  She never thought she would get caught, proof by the hiding the fact for years, and she is now caught red handed.  Keep your faith, she is going to have some huge hurdles to jump over as she tries to embrace sobriety, and I pray for all of you that she does.  Prayers are with you Dagny!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/30/10 at 4:23 pm


(((((((Hugs))))))))  I am sure your mother is being overly "defensive" about her situation.  Her drinking problem (or not) is out in the open, the cirrhosis of the liver sorta confirms it.  She may have been telling her doctor (and others) for years, that she only drinks "one glass of wine a day" or "on occasion".  So the fact that it is now confirmed that she has been "lying/hiding" her drinking - she thinks people are judging her, because she has been "lying".  Probably as she herself judges people who say one thing and do another, or have been caught in a lie.  She never thought she would get caught, proof by the hiding the fact for years, and she is now caught red handed.  Keep your faith, she is going to have some huge hurdles to jump over as she tries to embrace sobriety, and I pray for all of you that she does.  Prayers are with you Dagny!


She hasn't been hiding the fact from me just the amount.  My sister knew because she drinks too, I am still not supposed to know about the problem.  I am just going to keep praying for her to have strength to get past it.  I know it isn't easy for her, she has been a bear the past week. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 01/31/10 at 6:34 am


My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 

I hope all goes well for your mother and your family. You are the lucky one for having strong religious values. Unfortunately some find it easier to hide an addiction than to face it head on.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 02/01/10 at 11:43 pm


First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.


Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 02/02/10 at 6:31 am


Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)

That's cool 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: barefootrobin on 02/02/10 at 2:10 pm


Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)


And that Folks, is a decorating WIN!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 02/02/10 at 2:24 pm


Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)



WTG!!!



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 02/02/10 at 10:03 pm

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.  Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 02/02/10 at 10:32 pm


Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)


YAY!!! *runs to facebook*

O0!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 02/02/10 at 10:55 pm


Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


That is annoying! And my mom used to do that exact thing! If I was invited somewhere, my sister would always get upset and cry and have a fit until my mom called to see if she could go too!! Sad thing is - my sister is seven years younger, so it always turned into me babysitting her! >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 02/03/10 at 9:19 am


Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


Jeez.  Be firm with the mom and tell her there are no more spots available.  And if she doesn't let her eldest daughter go neither, her loss is your gain.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 02/03/10 at 10:35 am


Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.  Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


Stand firm. You are the front line of defense, hand in hand with those of us who won't be bullied, and that is just what it is, bullying.  If her youngest wants a makeover let her do it, let her have the party.  Dollars to donuts she wouldn't have any problem saying no to you if you tried to inject yourself or you daughters into similar plans.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 02/03/10 at 2:29 pm


Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


That is just bad manners on the mom's part.  I'm actually kind of horrified that she called and asked you.  What nerve!  >:( ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 02/03/10 at 2:31 pm


That is just bad manners on the mom's part.  I'm actually kind of horrified that she called and asked you.  What nerve!  >:( ::)


Yeah!  Don't you have to pay so much per person for one of those parties? 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 02/03/10 at 2:54 pm


Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???



At least she called and didn't just drop the young sister off with the invitee. But still...



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 02/04/10 at 4:35 pm


That is annoying! And my mom used to do that exact thing! If I was invited somewhere, my sister would always get upset and cry and have a fit until my mom called to see if she could go too!! Sad thing is - my sister is seven years younger, so it always turned into me babysitting her! >:(
Poor Tam, do you and your sister do anything together at all now?  I can see were there might be some "issues" there.  Our girls (20 months apart) do "a lot" together, but if one goes to their friends, I do not expect the other to go.  Like I said, eldest is having the party, and she set the invites (and we ended sending them to all the girls in her classroom - because she only had 1 girl left - and we decided we would hate to leave someone out).  Not sure if the youngest will be included in this party...  SHe will be included in "our family party" and the "extended family party".  I do not want to force the girls to be together "ALL" the time.  I would like them to get along at an older age as well.

I am not sure as a parent if I would have the balls to do that.  I have 2 girls, but they do not have the same friends.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 02/04/10 at 4:41 pm


Poor Tam, do you and your sister do anything together at all now?  I can see were there might be some "issues" there.  Our girls (20 months apart) do "a lot" together, but if one goes to their friends, I do not expect the other to go.  Like I said, eldest is having the party, and she set the invites (and we ended sending them to all the girls in her classroom - because she only had 1 girl left - and we decided we would hate to leave someone out).  Not sure if the youngest will be included in this party...  SHe will be included in "our family party" and the "extended family party".   I do not want to force the girls to be together "ALL" the time.  I would like them to get along at an older age as well.

I am not sure as a parent if I would have the balls to do that.  I have 2 girls, but they do not have the same friends.


We never allowed the younger ones to tag along to the older kids parties etc. They could show movies that we would not necessarily allow the younger to watch ...but were okay for the older etc. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 02/04/10 at 4:50 pm


Jeez.  Be firm with the mom and tell her there are no more spots available.   And if she doesn't let her eldest daughter go neither, her loss is your gain.
Problem - it is my daughters best friend....  and we have included the youngest daughter (she is in between the girls) in shopping trips, and play dates, as she and the youngest get along.  So perhaps it is my fault, for not automatically including her.  But this is Addison's birthday party and not just another playdate....
Stand firm. You are the front line of defense, hand in hand with those of us who won't be bullied, and that is just what it is, bullying.  If her youngest wants a makeover let her do it, let her have the party.  Dollars to donuts she wouldn't have any problem saying no to you if you tried to inject yourself or you daughters into similar plans.
I believe I will....  but perhaps I am crazy for not thinking my youngest does not have to be a part of my eldest daughters birthday party (this is a friends on and not family)....
That is just bad manners on the mom's part.  I'm actually kind of horrified that she called and asked you.  What nerve!  >:( ::)
Yes - much gutsier than me.  Actually my youngest has never done anything with this family, unless it is us doing the asking.  We invite both girls over (as they are similar age) or shopping.  Our youngest has never been to their house, or to their daughter's party...

Yeah!  Don't you have to pay so much per person for one of those parties?  
Yes we are... Surprisingly the shop just opened, and it was REALLY reasonable.  The girls get a hair piece and an "up"do and some light makeup, and then they get to pick a couple things to "take home" (a boa and something else).  Then we get use of their "Party/Tea" room for cake and etc...  I hope it is fun.


At least she called and didn't just drop the young sister off with the invitee. But still...



Cat
OH MY YES :o  I had to put on the invitation to make sure that they RSVP'd by Feb. 10th as I had to have a definite head count to ensure that each girl had an "appointment" and the party place was not left scrambling because of too many girls and not enough help - we pay out the yin yang for too many girls scheduled and not enough showed up.  (Last year Addy had a bowling party - we had 3 rsvp - we had 14 show up)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 02/04/10 at 4:53 pm


We never allowed the younger ones to tag along to the older kids parties etc. They could show movies that we would not necessarily allow the younger to watch ...but were okay for the older etc.   
Good Point 8) I think it is also good for each to have their own identity.  My girls are close in age (20 months), but they are their own character.  They are not one in the same!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 02/10/10 at 1:21 pm

Another rant...

I hate getting infected with phony antivirus crap.... Especially ones that seem to replicate themselves.

>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 02/10/10 at 2:25 pm


Another rant...

I hate getting infected with phony antivirus crap.... Especially ones that seem to replicate themselves.

>:(


I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 02/10/10 at 4:30 pm


I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.


Good catch!  That happened to my boss at work last week and it almost creamed him.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 02/10/10 at 10:40 pm


I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.


happened to me today... .at work  :-[  at least I was doing a work related internet search at the time so if it comes back to haunt me I won't get banned from the computer  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 02/11/10 at 8:04 am


I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.



What I do when I get those things, I run my scan and usually nothing comes up-so I know it wasn't legit.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 02/11/10 at 9:08 am


Another rant...

I hate getting infected with phony antivirus crap.... Especially ones that seem to replicate themselves.

>:(

Don't get me started I had problems for over a week, now all of the sudden it has disappeared for over a week, I'm not sure why :-\\ because I never fixed it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 02/11/10 at 5:26 pm


happened to me today... .at work  :-[  at least I was doing a work related internet search at the time so if it comes back to haunt me I won't get banned from the computer  ;D


our IT person ran a scan today and said I was okay! WHEW!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 02/11/10 at 6:02 pm


our IT person ran a scan today and said I was okay! WHEW!


Double WHEW!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 02/12/10 at 9:56 am

I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 02/12/10 at 10:32 am

^Reminds me of all the doctors that didn't know what to do with me ( and probably didn't want to deal with me anyway) .

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 02/12/10 at 12:48 pm


I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.
Metal or latex allergies???  I have both - and unfortunately latex is in anything with elastic (and lots of foods...) and it causes hives sometimes, when I am not aware that I have been "overly" exposed (banana's do it).....  And I have metal allergies, unfortunately antiperspirant is full of metal - so my underarms itch chronically almost daily (but I am not willing to go without - I may use my husbands deodorant, but it smells so strong, I hate to wear it all the time; until I have to)....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 02/12/10 at 12:54 pm


I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.
Here is another good site... perhaps it will help you to know - you are not abnormal

http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases/urticaria.html

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 02/12/10 at 3:33 pm


I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.


What about changing your washing powder to one of those 'non-chemical' types.....like Melaleuca or something? That probably comes under contact allergies though... :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 02/19/10 at 2:12 pm


Metal or latex allergies???  I have both - and unfortunately latex is in anything with elastic (and lots of foods...) and it causes hives sometimes, when I am not aware that I have been "overly" exposed (banana's do it).....  And I have metal allergies, unfortunately antiperspirant is full of metal - so my underarms itch chronically almost daily (but I am not willing to go without - I may use my husbands deodorant, but it smells so strong, I hate to wear it all the time; until I have to)....
I have a nickel allergy and am sensitive to latex, but they are wary to call it a full blown "allergy."  I've never had a problem with deodorant/antiperspirant, though....

Well, I've now seen an endocrinologist, who told me my thyroid function is "normal" despite the right lobe being larger than the left, and a dermatologist, who has me on an "elimination diet" to rule out food allergies (all I have been eating since Tuesday is chicken breast, white rice, and drinking water)--which isn't really having much effect on the hives so it's not looking like that is the case.  I'm supposed to go in today for a biopsy of the hives, but the problem is none of them are big enough to biopsy.  So, I guess I'm just going to have to reschedule.....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 02/19/10 at 2:13 pm


What about changing your washing powder to one of those 'non-chemical' types.....like Melaleuca or something? That probably comes under contact allergies though... :-\\
I've never heard of that, but I already use one that is fragrance and dye free. :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 02/20/10 at 6:12 pm

I really hate the bus system in my city. There are certain routes that don't have the amount of runs they should. The busiest one goes every 1/2 hour most of the time.(This might sound like alot per hour, but it isn't if you just miss your bus like I did today)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 02/20/10 at 6:32 pm


I've never heard of that, but I already use one that is fragrance and dye free. :(


The problem with fragrance/dye free laundry detergent is that in order to make it that way, they have to add more of the harsher chemicals.
I have super sensitive skin and I tried Tide Free - broke out, used the baby stuff - broke out, used Suavital free - broke out!

Now I use Purex with color safe bleach and I have no problems at all. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 02/20/10 at 6:56 pm


The problem with fragrance/dye free laundry detergent is that in order to make it that way, they have to add more of the harsher chemicals.
I have super sensitive skin and I tried Tide Free - broke out, used the baby stuff - broke out, used Suavital free - broke out!

Now I use Purex with color safe bleach and I have no problems at all. :)


Yep...they're the chemicals I was alluding to.  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 02/22/10 at 11:30 am


The problem with fragrance/dye free laundry detergent is that in order to make it that way, they have to add more of the harsher chemicals.
I have super sensitive skin and I tried Tide Free - broke out, used the baby stuff - broke out, used Suavital free - broke out!

Now I use Purex with color safe bleach and I have no problems at all. :)
Oh!  I see what you're saying.  I'll try switching for a load or two and see if that makes a difference.

Since my first post, my doctor has clarified a few things....the scratching/welting up thing is actually called dermatographia.  I guess it's a somewhat rare condition that affects <10% of the population and there's usually no known cause.  It's sometimes related to allergies, but not necessarily.  And, it can come and go, but not always.  In other words, they don't really know much about it  :-\\

They also did a biopsy of one of the hives to see if they could determine if there was something other than IgE (histamine, what causes allergic reactions) causing the hives.  Sometimes they can be caused by bacteria or some other pathogen.  Before this could be done, I was put on a strict "food elimination" diet where I could only eat plain chicken breasts, white rice, and bottled water.  Talk about SUCKING!!!!

On the plus side, I am FINALLY off the prednisone!!!  Now, to just get rid of the acne I acquired and extra weight I gained from being on it for 3 weeks >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 02/23/10 at 7:23 am


Metal or latex allergies???  I have both - and unfortunately latex is in anything with elastic (and lots of foods...) and it causes hives sometimes, when I am not aware that I have been "overly" exposed (banana's do it).....  And I have metal allergies, unfortunately antiperspirant is full of metal - so my underarms itch chronically almost daily (but I am not willing to go without - I may use my husbands deodorant, but it smells so strong, I hate to wear it all the time; until I have to)....


Ditto above, try Soft and Dri antiperspirant.  It is the only one I have found that doesn't make me itch or break out.  Cortaid is the only thing that relieves the itching, I used to dig holes in my pits before I finally used that.  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 02/23/10 at 3:53 pm

Gah

trying to order something online.  choose two day shipping and it says it will arrive in about two weeks time!  How is that two days shipping?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 02/23/10 at 7:17 pm


Gah

trying to order something online.  choose two day shipping and it says it will arrive in about two weeks time!  How is that two days shipping?


weird..... I'd call customer service and see if you can get them to pick up the shipping charge.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 02/23/10 at 8:18 pm


Gah

trying to order something online.  choose two day shipping and it says it will arrive in about two weeks time!  How is that two days shipping?


The only way I think this happens is if the item you are trying to order is on backorder... :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/24/10 at 10:46 am

TO HELL WITH BLUE CROSS!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/04/firedevil.gif

My office co-pays under Network Blue have TRIPLED in the past three months to $50.00 a pop.  Here's the rub.  I'm collecting unemployment.  If you collect unemployment in Massachusetts, you have to take the Blue Cross plan.  You don't get a choice.  That's called fascism.

I'm not looking for advice or suggestions here.  I just wanted to blow off steam!
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 02/24/10 at 12:26 pm

That bites Max! >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 02/24/10 at 1:43 pm


The only way I think this happens is if the item you are trying to order is on backorder... :-\\


that must be the case.  Though I'm sure it said in stock, because I tried ordering the items (ten compasses) from another company and they only had 5 in stock.  That's why I tried to check.  Anyway, I think REI have them - slightly more expensive but we'll get the members rebate!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 02/24/10 at 11:02 pm

I HATE YOU, FOOT.

That is all.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Fairee07 on 02/26/10 at 8:17 pm

This recession is getting to me. I was close to being offered a government job but now I'm stuck in customer service due to the economy going downhill. I should actually be thankful that I have a job but these customers are making me mental. I actually try hard to be nice and friendly to customers but it doesn't work. For example, today I was wishing a couple of clients a happy new year but they laughed for no apparent reason and walked away.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 02/26/10 at 9:11 pm


This recession is getting to me. I was close to being offered a government job but now I'm stuck in customer service due to the economy going downhill. I should actually be thankful that I have a job but these customers are making me mental. I actually try hard to be nice and friendly to customers but it doesn't work. For example, today I was wishing a couple of clients a happy new year but they laughed for no apparent reason and walked away.


:-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 02/28/10 at 11:47 pm

I don't particularly like to vent/whine/complain about my dialysis treatment, but this is just something that's bothering me and I have to get off my chest.
I have what's called a fistula in my left arm and it's basically an enlarged vien that they use to put the needles in to filter my blood. That being said, I know my arm, I know my body. It' b een attatched to me since May 8, 1986, So why is it that every time I go into dialysis the nurses want to stick the needles farther and frther up my arm, when every time it does that, the needle infiltrates--goes through the vein--and swell and bruises and hurts!

I begged the nurse yesterday to not go up to far on my arm--prime pricking skin is about 4-5 inches from my wrist--and she went further up and right away, my arm puffed up like a pastry!  >: So that needle had to be pulled and another put in which worked and was where i was originally telling them to put it.

Now I know I don't have the sort of training to be a doctor or in the medical field, but I do think I know where the hell a needle should go on my body! I've had dozens of IVs and blood drawn and always told the nurses where to put the needle for the best shot. I dont know why they don't listen in dialysis.  :(

I just try to tough it out as best I can.
That's why I feel kinda bad about complaining because I know everything is being done for my benenfit and to help me, it's just when I get deaf ears it frustrates me.


That's all.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 03/02/10 at 3:19 pm


I don't particularly like to vent/whine/complain about my dialysis treatment, but this is just something that's bothering me and I have to get off my chest.
I have what's called a fistula in my left arm and it's basically an enlarged vien that they use to put the needles in to filter my blood. That being said, I know my arm, I know my body. It' b een attatched to me since May 8, 1986, So why is it that every time I go into dialysis the nurses want to stick the needles farther and frther up my arm, when every time it does that, the needle infiltrates--goes through the vein--and swell and bruises and hurts!

I begged the nurse yesterday to not go up to far on my arm--prime pricking skin is about 4-5 inches from my wrist--and she went further up and right away, my arm puffed up like a pastry!  >: So that needle had to be pulled and another put in which worked and was where i was originally telling them to put it.

Now I know I don't have the sort of training to be a doctor or in the medical field, but I do think I know where the hell a needle should go on my body! I've had dozens of IVs and blood drawn and always told the nurses where to put the needle for the best shot. I dont know why they don't listen in dialysis.  :(

I just try to tough it out as best I can.
That's why I feel kinda bad about complaining because I know everything is being done for my benenfit and to help me, it's just when I get deaf ears it frustrates me.


That's all.



I had a similar situation. They can only find a vain to take blood on my left arm. One day I had a blood test done (on the left arm) which I can't remember why. Anyway, the very next day I was told that I had to take an AIDS test (I hate when that happens because I didn't even have a chance to study for it  :D ;D ;D). I told the woman who was going to take blood out of me, that I had blood drawn the day before and my left arm was the only arm she was going to get anything out of me. She told me not to worry. So, she went to my RIGHT arm-stuck me and of course she didn't get anything out of me. Then she went back to my left arm, stuck me again and she must have gone all the way through my vain because she old got a little bit out. I made a comment to her, "That is because they took it all out yesterday." For 3 weeks afterwords, my arm was just killing me. Pissed me off that she didn't even listen to me in the first place.




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/04/10 at 11:16 pm

Money + Bills = Here today gone tomorrow!
:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 03/17/10 at 7:56 pm

I live in a 4-plex style building... on Post.
The contractors that run the Community Homes are arse wipes!

With 4 units, we are ALL supposed to shovel in the winter, clean the common grounds etc.
I own a dog. Her name is Daisy.
Daisy has to go outside in order to do her business - I do not have a fenced in area, as I live upstairs.
I take her out, but when it is below freezing, I am not fitting to go and try to find her 'business' in the dark.
I wait until the next day and go pick it up and dispose of it accordingly.
Every morning there are 3 dogs that come parading into the yard to do their business. No one with them means no one to clean up after them.

This past Fall, we had 2 new sets of people move in downstairs.
They refused ALL WINTER LONG to shovel, save for a little bit around their cars in order to get out.
So my next door neighbor and I did it all!!! Ice breaking, salting and shoveling constantly.
We of course complained, because we are all responsible for it.
The Community Managers did nothing about it.

There was a knock on my door today...
I answered and it was one of the Community Managers.
Conveniently, she came to advise me about picking up all of the dog business in the common yard.
I explained very politely that not all of it was my dogs business, and that I should not be responsible to clean it up.
She advised I had better because I am the only dog owner in the building, so if I am cleaning up after my dog, it shouldn't hurt me to clean up after someone elses!!
I then told her that there is also deer business in the yard, that the "stray" dogs like to poop on top of and of course that my stupid dog likes to eat.
I asked what was to be done by them about that...
She advised that I could also pick that up.
I advised her that she was out of her Rabbit Assed Mind!!!

I will give that there are probably a few of the 'businesses' out there that I may have overlooked as being my dogs. I am not perfect.
But I'll be damned if I am going to pick up after other people's animals and the Deer. Nah! Not gonna work for me.

I suggested that she don some rubber gloves and come pick it up for herself.
Of course, she gave me a disgusted look.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 03/17/10 at 8:42 pm

Maybe you should put a solution in your dogs food that makes it colored or glows in the dark  .... so you can identify it easily!!!    ;)  The rest can be shovelled into the community manager's yard!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 03/17/10 at 8:55 pm


:-\\


that's what I was thinking...  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 04/03/10 at 1:49 am


I don't particularly like to vent/whine/complain about my dialysis treatment, but this is just something that's bothering me and I have to get off my chest.
I have what's called a fistula in my left arm and it's basically an enlarged vien that they use to put the needles in to filter my blood. That being said, I know my arm, I know my body. It' b een attatched to me since May 8, 1986, So why is it that every time I go into dialysis the nurses want to stick the needles farther and frther up my arm, when every time it does that, the needle infiltrates--goes through the vein--and swell and bruises and hurts!

I begged the nurse yesterday to not go up to far on my arm--prime pricking skin is about 4-5 inches from my wrist--and she went further up and right away, my arm puffed up like a pastry!  >: So that needle had to be pulled and another put in which worked and was where i was originally telling them to put it.

Now I know I don't have the sort of training to be a doctor or in the medical field, but I do think I know where the hell a needle should go on my body! I've had dozens of IVs and blood drawn and always told the nurses where to put the needle for the best shot. I dont know why they don't listen in dialysis.  :(

I just try to tough it out as best I can.
That's why I feel kinda bad about complaining because I know everything is being done for my benenfit and to help me, it's just when I get deaf ears it frustrates me.


That's all.


I had a similar situation. They can only find a vain to take blood on my left arm. One day I had a blood test done (on the left arm) which I can't remember why. Anyway, the very next day I was told that I had to take an AIDS test (I hate when that happens because I didn't even have a chance to study for it  :D ;D ;D). I told the woman who was going to take blood out of me, that I had blood drawn the day before and my left arm was the only arm she was going to get anything out of me. She told me not to worry. So, she went to my RIGHT arm-stuck me and of course she didn't get anything out of me. Then she went back to my left arm, stuck me again and she must have gone all the way through my vain because she old got a little bit out. I made a comment to her, "That is because they took it all out yesterday." For 3 weeks afterwords, my arm was just killing me. Pissed me off that she didn't even listen to me in the first place.




Cat
Since we're bithcing about the medical profession....last week, I go to the doctor for some knee pain....she looks at my knees, takes x-rays, I tell her I've been trying vicodin (2 at a time) and they've done nothing and what does she want to prescirbe for me?  Vicodin....but she wants me to ALSO take 800 mg of ibuprofen.  When I ask her for vicoprofen (which is 7.5mg hydrocodone/200 mg ibuprofen instead of 10mg hydrocodone/800 mg ibuprofen) she initially refuses.  She finally agrees, but only after a slight battle.

Then, I go to the allergist, he orders some blood work and it take 3 phlebotomists to find a vein....1 in training, 1 "overseer," and 1 "veteran" (who finally finds it."  I told the trainee where to find the vein but she couldn't "feel it."  DUH!  You can see the dammed thang popping out of my arm almost the second you tourniquet it!!!  How hard is it to feel it?  If my "untrained eye" can see it, you surely shoudl be able to "feel it"!!!!!  After 3 pokes, the 3rd person finally "found" the original vein I pointed out and got the 6 vials of blood the allergist requested ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/06/10 at 11:28 am

I'm sure everyone remembers about a month ago when Carlos ended up in the hospital. If you remembered my long, drawn-out story how we went to the ER in Rutland and then went up to Burlington by ambulance in the middle of the night because Carlos' urologist is in Burlington and Carlos REFUSES to see the urologist in Rutland. Well, the ambulance company said that since it wasn't "necessary" and that it was our "choice" to go to Burlington, we had to pay for the service up-front-over $1000  :o :o :o :o . First we were told "cash," as if we carry that amount of cash on us. I asked if they took a check and then we were told they take credit cards (which isn't cash but that is beside the point). Anyway, I put it on my credit card thinking that the insurance company will reimburse me later. About a week later, they sent me a check for $44 saying that I was overcharged by that amount. I wanted to tell them that I was overcharged by a lot more than just $44. My credit card bill came in, and I paid it and I am still waiting to hear from the insurance company about reimbursements. Carlos called the ambulance company. Come to find out that they didn't even submit the claim!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(  It is bad enough overcharging someone when they are down but not even submit the claim so we could get reimbursed for their overpricing? REALLY PISSES ME OFF!!!!



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 04/20/10 at 12:23 pm

Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/20/10 at 12:27 pm


Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 



My thoughts go out to him. Please keep us informed of the progress.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 04/20/10 at 12:35 pm


Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 

Hope Justice is served and he keeps his baby, and she goes for help.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 04/20/10 at 2:04 pm



My thoughts go out to him. Please keep us informed of the progress.



Cat


Will do.  Court is tomorrow so we should know more then.  Thankfully she was keeping the baby from him so they can't try to say he did it.  I can see this girl trying that one.


Hope Justice is served and he keeps his baby, and she goes for help.


Thanks, Frank.  Thankfully she is young so it should be easier for her to heal.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 04/20/10 at 4:10 pm

Talked to my friend...tomorrow is to see if there is enough evidence to remove her from the home. 

Her boyfriend turned himself in.  He said he was high on spice and beat her up because she didn't want to be held and was crying.  The part that sucks is she knew what happened and still lied to the doctor.  I am thinking it should be enough.  She proved that she is willing to lie to protect him and not tell the truth and protect her baby.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Jessica on 04/20/10 at 5:16 pm


Talked to my friend...tomorrow is to see if there is enough evidence to remove her from the home. 

Her boyfriend turned himself in.  He said he was high on spice and beat her up because she didn't want to be held and was crying.  The part that sucks is she knew what happened and still lied to the doctor.  I am thinking it should be enough.  She proved that she is willing to lie to protect him and not tell the truth and protect her baby.


I'm ready to beat some ass:  the boyfriend's AND the mother's.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 04/20/10 at 5:16 pm


I'm ready to beat some ass:  the boyfriend's AND the mother's.


Sic Charlie on them!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 04/20/10 at 5:18 pm

That's really horrible dag!  I hope they get the whole damn library thrown at them.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/20/10 at 5:31 pm


Sic Charlie on them!



My husband?  :o :o :o



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 04/20/10 at 5:37 pm



My husband?  :o :o :o



Cat


That's not who I meant, but sure!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 04/20/10 at 6:22 pm


I'm ready to beat some ass:  the boyfriend's AND the mother's.


Same here.   She claims she was asleep when it happened.  That doesn't explain the lie.  


That's really horrible dag!  I hope they get the whole damn library thrown at them.


me too.



On the positive side, the case worker is going to arrange a visit between her and her daddy tomorrow after court.  He loves his little girl so much.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 04/20/10 at 8:37 pm


Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 
Someone should take the boyfriend and her to a dark alley and beat the snot out of them - leaving in their own petrid pools of pus....

I hate violence against children, baby's cry and they should be able to cry (laugh at them for throwing a tantrum - don't beat em).  How disgusting!

I hope daddy get's his wish and that all works out for the little girl in the end

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 04/20/10 at 9:35 pm


Talked to my friend...tomorrow is to see if there is enough evidence to remove her from the home. 

Her boyfriend turned himself in.  He said he was high on spice and beat her up because she didn't want to be held and was crying.  The part that sucks is she knew what happened and still lied to the doctor.  I am thinking it should be enough.  She proved that she is willing to lie to protect him and not tell the truth and protect her baby.


neither of then can be good parents at this time. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 04/20/10 at 9:47 pm


neither of then can be good parents at this time. 


Thankfully the boyfriend isn't her dad.  Her dad is trying to get custody.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ninny on 04/21/10 at 7:56 am


Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 

I hope all works out in the end and he gets custody of his daughter.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 04/21/10 at 8:23 am

Thanks, Ninny.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/04/10 at 1:03 pm

AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


My husband went to some website and "signed up". Now we are receiving mega porn spam.  >:( >:( >:( Now, I'm trying to put in filters. Yeah, they do go to the junk e-mail file but they STILL come in and I still have to delete them. I went to the comcast website (our server) and put some filters in there. Hopefully, that will cut some of them down from coming in. The thing is, they all come in from different addresses and there isn't too many things that I can use as a filter.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/04/10 at 6:27 pm


AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


My husband went to some website and "signed up". Now we are receiving mega porn spam.  >:( >:( >:( Now, I'm trying to put in filters. Yeah, they do go to the junk e-mail file but they STILL come in and I still have to delete them. I went to the comcast website (our server) and put some filters in there. Hopefully, that will cut some of them down from coming in. The thing is, they all come in from different addresses and there isn't too many things that I can use as a filter.



Cat


There's so much free pr0n on the 'net nowadays, it's not worth signing up for anything.  If they say it's "free" but they want a CC# for age verification, then they're phishing, or possibly worse!  The junk mail boxes on my email accounts are always filled with porn spam, but I just let 'em come and go.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/04/10 at 6:30 pm


There's so much free pr0n on the 'net nowadays, it's not worth signing up for anything.  If they say it's "free" but they want a CC# for age verification, then they're phishing, or possibly worse!  The junk mail boxes on my email accounts are always filled with porn spam, but I just let 'em come and go.



I gave that guy I live with a bitching out. It's not that mind him looking at porn. In fact, I have looked at it with him. I do mind all the spam we are now getting.  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/04/10 at 6:44 pm



I gave that guy I live with a bitching out. It's not that mind him looking at porn. In fact, I have looked at it with him. I do mind all the spam we are now getting.  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat


I notice couples tend to have his and hers computers.  That way she doesn't have to deal with porn spam and viruses!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catsmiley.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/05/10 at 11:46 am


I notice couples tend to have his and hers computers.  That way she doesn't have to deal with porn spam and viruses!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catsmiley.gif



We now have his & hers computer but one email.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 05/05/10 at 11:55 am



We now have his & hers computer but one email.

Cat

Our family shares 1 computer. It's OK, no one in our household ever looks at porn.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 05/05/10 at 11:56 am


Our family shares 1 computer. It's OK, no one in our household ever looks at porn.


at least not on the computer  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 05/05/10 at 2:43 pm


AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


My husband went to some website and "signed up". Now we are receiving mega porn spam.  >:( >:( >:( Now, I'm trying to put in filters. Yeah, they do go to the junk e-mail file but they STILL come in and I still have to delete them. I went to the comcast website (our server) and put some filters in there. Hopefully, that will cut some of them down from coming in. The thing is, they all come in from different addresses and there isn't too many things that I can use as a filter.



Cat


At the bottom of each email, there should be an "unsubscribe" link. As long as you use it, your email will be taken out of their lists. Of course, that means you have to do every single email, and it takes up to about 2 weeks for some of them to remove the email address, but eventually they will no longer show up! ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/05/10 at 2:48 pm


At the bottom of each email, there should be an "unsubscribe" link. As long as you use it, your email will be taken out of their lists. Of course, that means you have to do every single email, and it takes up to about 2 weeks for some of them to remove the email address, but eventually they will no longer show up! ;)



They are not from a business. They are basically a bunch of gibberish from either hotmail or yahoo addresses.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/05/10 at 3:22 pm



They are not from a business. They are basically a bunch of gibberish from either hotmail or yahoo addresses.



Cat


Tam is right if the emails come from any kind of legit business, but as you see, porn spam gives no such indication.  In fact, the worst thing you can do with porn spammers is reply.  Even if you tell them to f**k off, the spammers know they found a working email address with an actual person on the other end.  It's like bottom-feeding collection agencies, better not to talk to them at all.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/06/10 at 11:17 am


Tam is right if the emails come from any kind of legit business, but as you see, porn spam gives no such indication.  In fact, the worst thing you can do with porn spammers is reply.  Even if you tell them to f**k off, the spammers know they found a working email address with an actual person on the other end.  It's like bottom-feeding collection agencies, better not to talk to them at all.



I know. I'm just trying to put in a whole bunch of filters. Hopefully, I can get most of them.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/07/10 at 1:16 am



I know. I'm just trying to put in a whole bunch of filters. Hopefully, I can get most of them.



Cat


You can filter them, or just wait until the start disappearing by attrition. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 05/07/10 at 9:48 pm

I HATE I HAVE TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY IN DIALYSIS... >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 05/07/10 at 10:24 pm

Sorry to hear that, apollonia. :(



Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 05/08/10 at 12:52 am


I HATE I HAVE TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY IN DIALYSIS... >:(


that sux! I'm sorry...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/08/10 at 1:37 am


I HATE I HAVE TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY IN DIALYSIS... >:(


But the dialysis will help you have many more birthdays to come!

Happy B'day, Appolonia!
:)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 05/08/10 at 6:02 am

www.parentdish.com/2010/05/05/mama-mia-u-s-ranks-28th-in-best-place-to-be-a-mother/



It's almost Mother's Day, but it turns out moms in the United States may not have a lot to celebrate -- at least when it comes to Save the Children's annual "Mothers' Index."

According to the organization's 11th annual report, which ranks the best and worst places to be a mother, Norway and Australia are the top spots, while the United States places at just number 28 -- down from 27 in 2009. The reason? America's maternal mortality rate -- one in 4,800 -- is one of the highest in the developed world, according to Save the Children. Also factoring in: The U.S. ranks behind many other wealthy nations in terms of maternity leave policies
.


Yeah!  No sheeshe!  And if anyone suggests care and treatment for the mothers and babies the Teabaggers will shout socialistmarxistcommunistdictator.  We have turned into a nation of mean spirited, selfish, self-centered a$$es who can't even look at ourselves and decided we deserve to be treated as well as the rest of the world.  KOOL AID!  The Kool-aid is that anyone could, or should, do it themselves, that it doesn't happen here, that the mothers and children, not matter what their situation, "brought it on themselves" so they can take care of it themselves.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/10/10 at 1:09 am


www.parentdish.com/2010/05/05/mama-mia-u-s-ranks-28th-in-best-place-to-be-a-mother/



It's almost Mother's Day, but it turns out moms in the United States may not have a lot to celebrate -- at least when it comes to Save the Children's annual "Mothers' Index."

According to the organization's 11th annual report, which ranks the best and worst places to be a mother, Norway and Australia are the top spots, while the United States places at just number 28 -- down from 27 in 2009. The reason? America's maternal mortality rate -- one in 4,800 -- is one of the highest in the developed world, according to Save the Children. Also factoring in: The U.S. ranks behind many other wealthy nations in terms of maternity leave policies
.


Yeah!  No sheeshe!  And if anyone suggests care and treatment for the mothers and babies the Teabaggers will shout socialistmarxistcommunistdictator.  We have turned into a nation of mean spirited, selfish, self-centered a$$es who can't even look at ourselves and decided we deserve to be treated as well as the rest of the world.  KOOL AID!  The Kool-aid is that anyone could, or should, do it themselves, that it doesn't happen here, that the mothers and children, not matter what their situation, "brought it on themselves" so they can take care of it themselves.


That's what you get when you make money, and getting more of it for yourself, the highest virtue in the country.  Give us your huddled greedy, immature, over privileged, sadistic, and smug...
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 05/10/10 at 5:47 pm


I notice couples tend to have his and hers computers.  That way she doesn't have to deal with porn spam and viruses!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catsmiley.gif


Or he doesn't...   :-[  ;)  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 05/11/10 at 5:16 pm

I had watching my boyfriend eat a rare/medium rare steak.

It just kind of plucks my nerves. I prefer mine well done and he likes his best when you can still hear it go MOO!  >:(

Isn't that why we have fire? To cook food and ward off botulism and e Coli!

http://yellowallpaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow.jpg

This is an Animal.

http://www.omahasteaks.com/gifs/big/tb013a.jpg

This is a meal! (Pass the Heinz 57!)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 05/11/10 at 5:45 pm


I had watching my boyfriend eat a rare/medium rare steak.

It just kind of plucks my nerves. I prefer mine well done and he likes his best when you can still hear it go MOO!  >:(

Isn't that why we have fire? To cook food and ward off botulism and e Coli!

http://yellowallpaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow.jpg

This is an Animal.

http://www.omahasteaks.com/gifs/big/tb013a.jpg

This is a meal! (Pass the Heinz 57!)


Totally agree with you. In fact...I might want a little more charcoaled effect on mine!  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 05/11/10 at 5:53 pm

I like mine mooing, too.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/11/10 at 6:03 pm

Carlos likes his raw and mooing, too. I keep telling him that I like mine pink but not bloody. I don't know how else to say it. He is under the impression that I like it well done. But many times he gives it to me with blood pouring out. What is so hard about understanding what pink but not bloody means?  ???



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 05/11/10 at 6:51 pm


I had watching my boyfriend eat a rare/medium rare steak.

It just kind of plucks my nerves. I prefer mine well done and he likes his best when you can still hear it go MOO!  >:(

Isn't that why we have fire? To cook food and ward off botulism and e Coli!

http://yellowallpaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow.jpg

This is an Animal.

http://www.omahasteaks.com/gifs/big/tb013a.jpg

This is a meal! (Pass the Heinz 57!)
Ok - there are a few things in this comment, that as a rightful Iowa Ag. teacher I can not let pass.  I am not criticizing, I am just doing my rightful duty to educate - it is what I do all day, everyday.

Number one - botulism occurs in canned foods.  Ecoli - is not with in the meat fiber (it would occur on the cut surface- where a tainted knife would touch it).  So on a steak that is only on the 2 cut surfaces (and perhaps the edges if they were stripped of fat) - so as long as it was placed near a heat source (flame, pan, etc) the bacteria on those surfaces would be killed. 

Number 2 - the cow is not a beef animal (that is an old Dairy Cow)... The beef from steak come from animals around 18 months of age (and not sexually mature - which a Dairy Cow has to be, as she has to have a calf before she can produce milk.  Note the large udders, used to produce milk).  A Beef animal is either a Steer (castrated male - testicles removed to prevent testosterone from being released) or heifer (female who has never had a calf).  And this is a beef heifer (underdeveloped udder showing) that is ready for market (and yes this is one at a cattle show - we have beauty pageants/dog shows for cattle). 
http://www.showsteers.com/Kupke/Kupke_E-Mail%200871.jpg


Number 3 - the steak you showed was a Rare cooked T-bone... Note the shallow grill marks, and the fat on the edges is barely singed (fat cooks at a much lower temp than the meat), plumpness of meat, and glistening juices on the surface.    The steaks below are all similar ribeyes and cooke rare, medium and well.  Notice how the steak shrinks, the juices are cooked out of it.  Steak is suggested to be ate at Rare to Med. Rare  http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2008/03/steak.jpg
And a well done t-bone - no juices on the surface, not as plump, and the fat is almost non existant (charred and cooked away)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QqjY_EEKwFY/S6MyO1LLivI/AAAAAAAAC9Y/XhrZ3PO7LSc/s320/DSCN0488.JPG





Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 05/11/10 at 7:06 pm



wow.... that's like Sami's version of the History of the Chevy V-8 engine!  ;D 


on number two you sound like me everytime I try to explain on a TV show message board why robbery and burglary are not interchangeable terms... neither are jail / prison  and parole / probation.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 05/11/10 at 7:32 pm



wow.... that's like Sami's version of the History of the Chevy V-8 engine!  ;D   


on number two you sound like me everytime I try to explain on a TV show message board why robbery and burglary are not interchangeable terms... neither are jail / prison  and parole / probation.   ::)
Precisely - everyone thinks a cow is a cow, but really a cow is a sexually mature bovine/cattle that has had a calf. Much like the difference between a female horse that has had a foal is a mare and a filly is an immature (that has not had a foal). 

Let me give it a try

Robbery (another person is involved)  Burglary (got into something/ broke into something and stole something without another person/victim present)???
Jail - (time spent till proven guilty or no trial involved - example intoxication) Prison (proven guilty and you are someone's biatch)
Parole (the rest of your prison term is spent out of jail, get out of jail on good behavior you are on parole)  Probation (given instead of prison terms - rapist was sentences to 5 years probation - have to follow rules or else going to jail...)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 05/11/10 at 7:38 pm


Precisely - everyone thinks a cow is a cow, but really a cow is a sexually mature bovine/cattle that has had a calf. Much like the difference between a female horse that has had a foal is a mare and a filly is an immature (that has not had a foal). 

Let me give it a try

Robbery (another person is involved)  Burglary (got into something/ broke into something and stole something without another person/victim present)???
Jail - (time spent till proven guilty or no trial involved - example intoxication) Prison (proven guilty and you are someone's biatch)
Parole (the rest of your prison term is spent out of jail, get out of jail on good behavior you are on parole)  Probation (given instead of prison terms - rapist was sentences to 5 years probation - have to follow rules or else going to jail...)



pretty good...

robbery not just another person present but "take thru force or fear" 

If I say to you gimme your purse or i'll kill you... I robbed you.. but if you are in the grocery store and left your purse in your cart and I took it while you bent down to get an item off the bottom shelf then it was a theft.... if I went into the store because I knew it was a good place to find an unattended purse then it was burglary because I entered the structure with the intent to commit the theft...

that's why if you're ever caught shoplifting always say you decided to steal it when you saw the item... never say you came to the store with the intention of stealing it...  ;) 


Jail you got pretty spot on but there are people who've been convicted of misdemeanors in jail.  Jail is typically where you do your time if you get less than a year (or maybe its 18 months...) and prison is where you go if you get more than that.


you got prob. / parole perfect tho...


I just hate it when they get this stuff wrong on cop shows... its basic stuff and yet they always have police and detectives calling break-ins robberies...  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 05/11/10 at 7:49 pm



pretty good...

robbery not just another person present but "take thru force or fear" 

If I say to you gimme your purse or i'll kill you... I robbed you.. but if you are in the grocery store and left your purse in your cart and I took it while you bent down to get an item off the bottom shelf then it was a theft.... if I went into the store because I knew it was a good place to find an unattended purse then it was burglary because I entered the structure with the intent to commit the theft...

that's why if you're ever caught shoplifting always say you decided to steal it when you saw the item... never say you came to the store with the intention of stealing it...   ;) 


Jail you got pretty spot on but there are people who've been convicted of misdemeanors in jail.  Jail is typically where you do your time if you get less than a year (or maybe its 18 months...) and prison is where you go if you get more than that.


you got prob. / parole perfect tho...


I just hate it when they get this stuff wrong on cop shows... its basic stuff and yet they always have police and detectives calling break-ins robberies...   ::)
I will have to watch for this more....  I am sure I flub it up  8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 05/11/10 at 7:49 pm

moo

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/11/10 at 11:30 pm

When I was a kid, I knew expert shoplifters.  I stole a few things in my childhood (toys, candy) but never felt good about it.  I remember my friend Nathan stealing an entire video game set.  He just put the box under his arm and coolly walked out of K-Mart.  He got away with it too! He said he did that a lot.  He said all you had to do was be cool and look like you were supposed to be doing what you were supposed to be doing. The next week, Nathan tried to filch a pack of baseball cards from Stop & Shop, and got his ass busted!  Gamble long enough, the house is gonna win.  One lousy pack of baseball cards.  Well, he had it coming karmically speaking. 

The deed of stealing breaks down trust.  That's my real problem with the crime.  Beyond personal loss or property damage, it comes back to breach of trust.  That's why security cameras watch every store now.  Because a few can't be trusted, we must now all be treated like we can't be trusted either!
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 05/11/10 at 11:45 pm


I will have to watch for this more....  I am sure I flub it up  8)


Your Signature pic looks like udder nonsense... :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 05/12/10 at 3:53 am


Your Signature pic looks like udder nonsense... :D


speaking of which.... Back to the Barnyard... that kids show (first a movie) on Nick about the farm animals who talk and stuff...
Otis is the lead animal... Otis is a cow*.... Otis is a boy cow.... Otis has udders  ::)




*sorry sami for the purposes of this discussion I'm using cow the way we use kleenex to say tissue or coke to say soda...  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 05/12/10 at 4:52 am


speaking of which.... Back to the Barnyard... that kids show (first a movie) on Nick about the farm animals who talk and stuff...
Otis is the lead animal... Otis is a cow*.... Otis is a boy cow.... Otis has udders  ::)




*sorry sami for the purposes of this discussion I'm using cow the way we use kleenex to say tissue or coke to say soda...  ;)


It's all so messed up!!!  :o  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 05/12/10 at 5:23 am


speaking of which.... Back to the Barnyard... that kids show (first a movie) on Nick about the farm animals who talk and stuff...
Otis is the lead animal... Otis is a cow*.... Otis is a boy cow.... Otis has udders  ::)




*sorry sami for the purposes of this discussion I'm using cow the way we use kleenex to say tissue or coke to say soda...  ;)
Sorry Otis is a male ( supposedly). He is a dairy cattle, that I will agree !  He should not have udders, he should either have testicles ( but less than 5% male dairy cattle go as bulls) or else a cod ( the tissue left, after the testicles are removed) in which case he would be a bull!  And it is this reason- the fact that they show black and white uddered animals to kids and say cow!  Blah.  Don't get me started!  I would rather they call them moo's!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/12/10 at 9:24 pm


Sorry Otis is a male ( supposedly). He is a dairy cattle, that I will agree !  He should not have udders, he should either have testicles ( but less than 5% male dairy cattle go as bulls) or else a cod ( the tissue left, after the testicles are removed) in which case he would be a bull!  And it is this reason- the fact that they show black and white uddered animals to kids and say cow!  Blah.  Don't get me started!  I would rather they call them moo's!


How 'bout: "Otis, the Transsexual Bovine!" 
:D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 05/12/10 at 9:35 pm


How 'bout: "Otis, the Transsexual Bovine!" 
:D
Well then he has some money spent in his udder implants!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/21/10 at 11:46 pm

Listen up, MSNBC!  You gotta knock it off with this "Life Behind Bars" bullshirt.  The fact that it remains the bulk of their weekend's programming is evidence for a sadistic streak in the American public.  It's pornographic.  They advertise Cialis at the same time.  Says something about the viewership.
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/22/10 at 2:44 pm


Listen up, MSNBC!  You gotta knock it off with this "Life Behind Bars" bullshirt.  The fact that it remains the bulk of their weekend's programming is evidence for a sadistic streak in the American public.  It's pornographic.  They advertise Cialis at the same time.  Says something about the viewership.
::)



Don't watch MSNBC on the weekends because they usually show crap.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 05/22/10 at 6:24 pm

I am literally a second from having a conniption here. I have a writer's block that won't quit. Everytime I sit to work on my friggin' story, I clam up and nothing comes out. It's incredibly distressing to me.
I mean for the fan fic story I write for fun for the MJ fanclub I'm in, I can bump out a 20 page chapter easily in a couple hours.(And the fans absolutely rave about it)  It comes to my novel, nothing.  ???  I'll try harder.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 05/22/10 at 7:08 pm

If nothing is coming to you then there's a reason.  Put it aside if you can.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/22/10 at 10:53 pm



Don't watch MSNBC on the weekends because they usually show crap.



Cat


They sure do, but showing crazy dudes in penal institutions is crap masquerading as news/public interest.  It wasn't crap the first couple of times they did.  Now it's crap.  At least Andy Griffith is honest about it!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/25/10 at 11:29 am

Because of the problem that I mentioned earlier (the rash of spam), I had put a lot of filters on my email hoping to diminish the amount of spam that I received. Now, I can't receive ANY of my email!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(  I can send but I can't receive. And the emails that I am not receiving are not getting kicked back. They are somewhere out there in cyberspace. I contacted Comcast last night via IM. I was "chatting" to some chick named "Mary" and when I asked her where she was located, her response was "Offshore." My guess India and she didn't have a f***ing clue as to what she was doing. She kept trying to tell me it was a problem with my Windows mail but it isn't. It has to do with Comcast-my email is NOT going to Comcast-at all. It is like everything is working but the email isn't coming in. After two hours-the problem still isn't solved!  I realized that I can put a forward on my email so I did that to my yahoo address-which is working (and yeah, I got all those f***ing spam, too) but I still haven't gotten any of the emails that were sent before I put on the fowarding-and I KNOW that I had some emails because I sent them myself! I would really like to someone at Comcast who knows WTF they are doing. I just may have to open a new email-which will cut down on the spam but it is such a pain in the @$$ to contact EVERYONE about the new email address!


F***ING COMCAST!!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/25/10 at 11:35 am

Oh sure, just as soon as I posted the above post, I start getting email in Windows mail (including all the spam  ::) ). I still didn't get all those emails that were sent yesterday. Why is it that spam ALWAYS gets through but all the legit email do not? I just don't get it.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/02/10 at 7:49 pm


Oh sure, just as soon as I posted the above post, I start getting email in Windows mail (including all the spam  ::) ). I still didn't get all those emails that were sent yesterday. Why is it that spam ALWAYS gets through but all the legit email do not? I just don't get it.



Cat


Maybe ALL the spam doesn't get through either, there's just so much more of it!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/03/10 at 6:34 am

I'm tired of this cartguy telling a friend of his that I don't take out the garbages all the time but now since I have a new stratgedy,I started taking out the garbages with every round of carts I do and it's been working well for me.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/03/10 at 3:56 pm


I'm tired of this cartguy telling a friend of his that I don't take out the garbages all the time but now since I have a new stratgedy,I started taking out the garbages with every round of carts I do and it's been working well for me.


When I was a cart guy, they made us wear a shirt and tie and the apron even when the sun was beating down on the pavement making the parking lot 100 degrees F.  I'm not saying Market Basket should have let me do my job in a pair of swimming trunks, but a little mercy on the attire would have helped!  Then they had the nerve to complain about me drinking on the job...water that is!  Buncha sadists!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/03/10 at 7:03 pm


When I was a cart guy, they made us wear a shirt and tie and the apron even when the sun was beating down on the pavement making the parking lot 100 degrees F.  I'm not saying Market Basket should have let me do my job in a pair of swimming trunks, but a little mercy on the attire would have helped!  Then they had the nerve to complain about me drinking on the job...water that is!  Buncha sadists!
::)


Hey Max,I wear a shirt,tie and dress pants and no one says a thing to me,I enjoy being professional even if it's the most crappiest job out there.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/03/10 at 8:10 pm


Hey Max,I wear a shirt,tie and dress pants and no one says a thing to me,I enjoy being professional even if it's the most crappiest job out there.



I beg to differ..... THIS is the crappiest job in the world.


http://spots.azcompuguy.com/images/pottySolution1.jpg

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/04/10 at 5:34 am



I beg to differ..... THIS is the crappiest job in the world.


http://spots.azcompuguy.com/images/pottySolution1.jpg


That's crappy,alright.  8-P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/04/10 at 10:28 am

Guess my yahell email got hacked.    ::)  >:(  I'll probably be deleting that account when I get home since I've been trying to use the gmail more.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/04/10 at 2:55 pm

Customers have to stop using the parking lot as a garbage dump,I'm seeing more and more bags of old clothes almost every day,It's disgusting and it has to stop!  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 06/04/10 at 2:59 pm


Customers have to stop using the parking lot as a garbage dump,I'm seeing more and more bags of old clothes almost every day,It's disgusting and it has to stop!  ::)


And what are you doing about it?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/04/10 at 3:13 pm


And what are you doing about it?


Venting about it here!  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 06/04/10 at 3:22 pm

Is there a thrift store charity bin near where these clothes are found?

I know here in Pittsburgh there are alot of yellow metal bins for Planet Aid that collect used clothes to distribute in poorer regions of the world.  Alot of times people don't actually put their donations inside the bin (Maybe they sorta throw their donation in the general vicinity of the bins as they drive by?) 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/04/10 at 3:59 pm


And what are you doing about it?


let the next cartperson handle it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/04/10 at 4:00 pm


Is there a thrift store charity bin near where these clothes are found?

I know here in Pittsburgh there are alot of yellow metal bins for Planet Aid that collect used clothes to distribute in poorer regions of the world.  Alot of times people don't actually put their donations inside the bin (Maybe they sorta throw their donation in the general vicinity of the bins as they drive by?) 


There was a clothesbin,someone must've taken it away for some reason! ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/04/10 at 4:05 pm


let the next cartperson handle it.


Way to delegate!

















































::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/04/10 at 9:19 pm

Not a big letdown, but I went to a fleamarket out in east Indianapolis. I mainly went there to try and find a video game shop that sold NES games. They didn't have any. But I also wandered around to this one place that sold postes. I saw one I wanted, but they only had the one in it's frame. A poster by itself is 18 dollars, but the ones in the frames were 60. It a cool goth girl one too....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/05/10 at 5:37 am


Way to delegate!

















































::)


I wouldn't know what to do with a bag of clothes.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 06/05/10 at 12:41 pm


I wouldn't know what to do with a bag of clothes.

Lost and found?
Give it to the poor?
Bring it to a 2nd hand store? (Oh, you don't have a car..OK)
Ask your boss if they can deliver it to a 2nd hand store.
Throw it in the garbage?
Is there a bin for used clothing around your workplace?
There are more possibilities...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/05/10 at 2:38 pm


Not a big letdown, but I went to a fleamarket out in east Indianapolis. I mainly went there to try and find a video game shop that sold NES games. They didn't have any. But I also wandered around to this one place that sold postes. I saw one I wanted, but they only had the one in it's frame. A poster by itself is 18 dollars, but the ones in the frames were 60. It a cool goth girl one too....

it was a flea market... you should have tried to negotiate them down or ask if they would remove the poster from the frame.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/05/10 at 2:41 pm


I wouldn't know what to do with a bag of clothes.


donate it to a thrift shop or throw them away

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/05/10 at 2:51 pm


donate it to a thrift shop or throw them away



There used to be a thrift shop a long time ago but where I work,there is none.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/05/10 at 2:53 pm


There used to be a thrift shop a long time ago but where I work,there is none.



then throw them away---- or if you pass a thrift store on your way to the bus stop drop them off there.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/05/10 at 2:54 pm


Lost and found? possibility

Give it to the poor? or homeless,that could be done

Bring it to a 2nd hand store? (Oh, you don't have a car..OK) I don't know any around there

Ask your boss if they can deliver it to a 2nd hand store. I could talk to him about it

Throw it in the garbage? Yeah,then you have bums digging thru the garbage at 2,3 in the morning.  ::)

Is there a bin for used clothing around your workplace? there used to be one but I don't know what happened to it
There are more possibilities...


Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/05/10 at 2:55 pm



then throw them away---- or if you pass a thrift store on your way to the bus stop drop them off there.


throwing it away would be an option.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 06/05/10 at 4:28 pm

One of my suggestions was "Throw it in the garbage"
First you say at 12:54PM
Throw it in the garbage? Yeah,then you have bums digging thru the garbage at 2,3 in the morning.  Roll Eyes

And less than 1 minute later, you write
throwing it away would be an option.


You change your mind fast, don't you..

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/05/10 at 5:09 pm


it was a flea market... you should have tried to negotiate them down or ask if they would remove the poster from the frame.


I've never had any experience in trying to do that.

I did ask if they would remove it, but they said they couldn't.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/05/10 at 5:31 pm


I've never had any experience in trying to do that.

I did ask if they would remove it, but they said they couldn't.



that's too bad...


the dickering is easy.....  basically just ask them if that's best they can do.... or "can you go any lower" or just offer them a price...but- you have to be willing to walk away if they say no..

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/05/10 at 5:38 pm

Yeah, you right. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/06/10 at 7:09 am


One of my suggestions was "Throw it in the garbage"
First you say at 12:54PM
Throw it in the garbage? Yeah,then you have bums digging thru the garbage at 2,3 in the morning.  Roll Eyes

And less than 1 minute later, you write
You change your mind fast, don't you..


Wow,I didn't see that,thanks for pointing it out Frank.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/06/10 at 7:14 am

You have some cartguys who need help taking out the garbage,one guy John who seems to be a germaphobic doesn't want to go near the garbage he claims it made him sick one time and another guy who's in his own little world passes by the garbage and should dispose of the bins whenever he has the time.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/06/10 at 9:40 am


You have some cartguys who need help taking out the garbage,one guy John who seems to be a germaphobic doesn't want to go near the garbage he claims it made him sick one time and another guy who's in his own little world passes by the garbage and should dispose of the bins whenever he has the time.  ::)


Then you have some cartguys who vent about other cartguys' job performances on a forum when really there's nothing they can do about it unless they're the supervisor of the other cartguys.  :D

Howard:  Do your job, and do it better than anyone else.  Don't worry about how others do the same job.  If you kick ass at your job, your supervisor(s) will pick up on that and hopefully reward you accordingly.  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/06/10 at 11:44 am

Our hot water heater has a leak that we noticed several weeks ago. The hot water heater & the furnace are connected. We were scheduled for our annual furnace cleaning a week later so we didn't bother to call about it. When the guy came to clean the furnace, we told him about the leak. He couldn't fix it then but made arrangements with someone else to fix it the following week-which was Friday. So, Friday morning, the guy shows up, went down into the basement-did whatever it was he did and then told us it was fixed. YAY!  Friday afternoon we went up north and didn't get back until yesterday (Saturday). Last night, we went to take our shower/bath only to discover there was NO HOT WATER!!!!  >:( >:( >:(  Carlos went down into the basement to see if the guy just forgot to turn it back on and found out not only was the hot water NOT turned on but the d@mn thing is STILL leaking!!!  >:( >:( >:( 

Today, the guy who cleaned the furnace came out. He did turn the hot water back on but couldn't fix the leak. He said he will be back tomorrow.  We have a wood floor that Carlos & his ex put in a few decades ago. We noticed that the water has gotten under that wood. Short of taking out that wood flooring, we have no idea how we are going to dry it out before mold starts growing (if it hasn't already).  >:( >:( >:( >:( 



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/06/10 at 11:38 pm


You have some cartguys who need help taking out the garbage,one guy John who seems to be a germaphobic doesn't want to go near the garbage he claims it made him sick one time and another guy who's in his own little world passes by the garbage and should dispose of the bins whenever he has the time.  ::)



you have also complained about a garbage bin making you sick so.... you know...turnabout is fairplay.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/07/10 at 6:50 am

Then you have some cartguys who vent about other cartguys' job performances on a forum when really there's nothing they can do about it unless they're the supervisor of the other cartguys

I wish I was Supervisor of Cart Collection.

you have also complained about a garbage bin making you sick so.... you know...turnabout is fairplay.

Ok,Snoz you got me there.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/07/10 at 5:18 pm


You have some cartguys who need help taking out the garbage,one guy John who seems to be a germaphobic doesn't want to go near the garbage he claims it made him sick one time and another guy who's in his own little world passes by the garbage and should dispose of the bins whenever he has the time.  ::)
Howard - you really should stop referring to yourself in the third person...  It makes me confused :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/07/10 at 5:18 pm


Our hot water heater has a leak that we noticed several weeks ago. The hot water heater & the furnace are connected. We were scheduled for our annual furnace cleaning a week later so we didn't bother to call about it. When the guy came to clean the furnace, we told him about the leak. He couldn't fix it then but made arrangements with someone else to fix it the following week-which was Friday. So, Friday morning, the guy shows up, went down into the basement-did whatever it was he did and then told us it was fixed. YAY!  Friday afternoon we went up north and didn't get back until yesterday (Saturday). Last night, we went to take our shower/bath only to discover there was NO HOT WATER!!!!   >:( >:( >:(  Carlos went down into the basement to see if the guy just forgot to turn it back on and found out not only was the hot water NOT turned on but the d@mn thing is STILL leaking!!!  >:( >:( >:( 

Today, the guy who cleaned the furnace came out. He did turn the hot water back on but couldn't fix the leak. He said he will be back tomorrow.  We have a wood floor that Carlos & his ex put in a few decades ago. We noticed that the water has gotten under that wood. Short of taking out that wood flooring, we have no idea how we are going to dry it out before mold starts growing (if it hasn't already).  >:( >:( >:( >:( 



Cat
Legit RANT there 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/07/10 at 5:29 pm


Legit RANT there 8)



Thanks. We had hot water-but not VERY hot (like I like it) and the pressure is not as strong. The guy still hasn't come back out yet. But, at least there is hot water to bathe in.




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/08/10 at 5:31 am


Howard - you really should stop referring to yourself in the third person...  It makes me confused :P


Sorry about that.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/08/10 at 11:26 am

The continuing saga: When I went to take my bath the other night, I noticed the water was a bit discolored. I thought there might have been some sediment that had gotten into the line that would clear up as the water ran. Last night, I noticed the discoloration STILL!! Needless to say, I didn't really take a bath. I am also afraid to use the water for ANYTHING. Carlos thinks that it is just from the hot water. I don't know. I usually keep a gallon jug of filtered water in the refridge because I am a water-holic. That jug was only half full and we used it for our coffee/tea this morning. There really isn't anything left. However, we have a couple of bottles of water around, but not enough for tomorrow morning's coffee/tea. 

Carlos called AGAIN and someone is supposed to be coming out. That was about 2 hours ago.  :-\\ I am really hoping this issue is corrected-and SOON!!!!



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/08/10 at 11:38 am


The continuing saga: When I went to take my bath the other night, I noticed the water was a bit discolored. I thought there might have been some sediment that had gotten into the line that would clear up as the water ran. Last night, I noticed the discoloration STILL!! Needless to say, I didn't really take a bath. I am also afraid to use the water for ANYTHING. Carlos thinks that it is just from the hot water. I don't know. I usually keep a gallon jug of filtered water in the refridge because I am a water-holic. That jug was only half full and we used it for our coffee/tea this morning. There really isn't anything left. However, we have a couple of bottles of water around, but not enough for tomorrow morning's coffee/tea. 

Carlos called AGAIN and someone is supposed to be coming out. That was about 2 hours ago.  :-\\ I am really hoping this issue is corrected-and SOON!!!!



Cat



that sucks

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/08/10 at 12:04 pm



that sucks



They just arrived so hopefully, they can fix the problem. It seems like it has gotten worse since the problem was "fixed" the first time around.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/08/10 at 3:02 pm

Boy,Pathmark really burns me up!  >:(

Jesus Christ,yesterday one of the workers told me that there was no one on carts from 10am-2pm SO,they called out one of the cashiers to go round up carts for a few hours,I had a day off doing nothing the least they could've done is call me up to see if I wanted to work but NO,they don't have that option anymore!

Man,someone over there needs to get their head out their ass cause right now,something stinks!  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/08/10 at 3:03 pm


Boy,Pathmark really burns me up!  >:(

Jesus Christ,yesterday one of the workers told me that there was no one on carts from 10am-2pm SO,they called out one of the cashiers to go round up carts for a few hours,I had a day off doing nothing the least they could've done is call me up to see if I wanted to work but NO,they don't have that option anymore!

Man,someone over there needs to get their head out their ass cause right now,they're talking out of it!  ::)



Howard....they may have not have the funds to pay you above your weekly hours.
and they may not have wanted to wait for you to get there.  

by using someone already on duty they save money....the economy's still hurting so it makes sense.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/08/10 at 3:05 pm



Howard....they may have not have the funds to pay you above your weekly hours.
and they may not have wanted to wait for you to get there.  

by using someone already on duty they save money....the economy's still hurting so it makes sense.




Oh Ok,I see this situation.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/08/10 at 3:34 pm

The guys came out and worked on the hot water heater but it is STILL leaking.  >:( >:( >:(  They said that they are going to call in to the manufacturer to figure out what the deal is. But, we do have hot water. The guy said that it will be a bit discolored until the pipes get flushed out and it should be harmless (just sediment that was in the pipes getting stirred up) but it is only with the hot water. The cold water should be clear.

At least this guy didn't say that it was repaired when it wasn't and left us without hot water. I trust this guy than the other-but they both work for the same company.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 06/08/10 at 3:48 pm



Howard....they may have not have the funds to pay you above your weekly hours.
and they may not have wanted to wait for you to get there.  

by using someone already on duty they save money....the economy's still hurting so it makes sense.




Why do I get the feeling that if they HAD called him on his day off, he'd be here complaining that they did that and the nerve of them?  ;D



Glad your water heater is sorta/kinda fixed Cat!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/08/10 at 3:52 pm


Why do I get the feeling that if they HAD called him on his day off, he'd be here complaining that they did that and the nerve of them?   ;D



Glad your water heater is sorta/kinda fixed Cat!


I would be complaining either or,there is no equal with me.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 06/08/10 at 3:58 pm


I would be complaining either or,there is no equal with me.  ;D


That's what I figured.  ::) ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/08/10 at 3:59 pm


That's what I figured.   ::) ;D


that's what I do best.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/08/10 at 4:06 pm


Why do I get the feeling that if they HAD called him on his day off, he'd be here complaining that they did that and the nerve of them?   ;D



Glad your water heater is sorta/kinda fixed Cat!



Ha ha ha... you're not the first one to think this!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/08/10 at 4:08 pm


that's what I do best.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/djmidas96/tigger003.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 06/08/10 at 4:49 pm

A Howardish thing and it figures
It figures like Howardish things
His complaints are like none other
It sickens us all to extremes


almost got a whole parody here   

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/08/10 at 5:08 pm


A Howardish thing and it figures
It figures like Howardish things
His complaints are like none other
It sickens us all to extremes


almost got a whole parody here   


I don't know the song but I dig the lyrics O0

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 06/08/10 at 5:28 pm


I don't know the song but I dig the lyrics O0


It's the song that Tigger sings "The wonderful thing about Tiggers"

dJFyz73MRcg

I've watched way too many cartoons/television in my life.  :-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/08/10 at 5:33 pm

HOO HOO HOO!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/08/10 at 5:38 pm


Boy,Pathmark really burns me up!  >:(

Jesus Christ,yesterday one of the workers told me that there was no one on carts from 10am-2pm SO,they called out one of the cashiers to go round up carts for a few hours,I had a day off doing nothing the least they could've done is call me up to see if I wanted to work but NO,they don't have that option anymore!

Man,someone over there needs to get their head out their ass cause right now,something stinks!  ::)
And if they called, would you have complained that they called you in on your day off - and that the manager should have scheduled better (and such and such was a lazy bum, because he called in sick) and so on and so forth :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/08/10 at 5:39 pm


Why do I get the feeling that if they HAD called him on his day off, he'd be here complaining that they did that and the nerve of them?   ;D



Glad your water heater is sorta/kinda fixed Cat!
precisely my thoughts exactly :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/08/10 at 5:47 pm


It's the song that Tigger sings "The wonderful thing about Tiggers"

dJFyz73MRcg

I've watched way too many cartoons/television in my life.   :-[


awesome Patty I would've never made the connection so thanks!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 06/08/10 at 5:59 pm

The thing I don't like about singlongs
Is sing-a-longs cut and paste things

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/09/10 at 7:12 am


And if they called, would you have complained that they called you in on your day off - and that the manager should have scheduled better (and such and such was a lazy bum, because he called in sick) and so on and so forth :P


I would complain either or so it doesn't really matter anyhow.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 06/09/10 at 10:43 am

You know it doesn't matter you know he's got plenty to whine

-
-
-
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help me help me help me
I cant take this rantage



Hold Me- Fleetwood Mac

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/09/10 at 12:52 pm


HOO HOO HOO!



Who you calling a hoo?



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/09/10 at 12:59 pm



Who you calling a hoo?



Cat


Not you!  :D  That was Tigger's laugh...and from something that I shared with Jess awhile back that I vaguely remember :D



My vent:  It's HOT!  I need more A/C vents :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: DJ Blaze on 06/09/10 at 2:41 pm

"Vent" tent? OK.

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/vent_miser.jpg

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm142/you-dee/Ouja%20vent/FinalVentStr.jpg

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/09/10 at 6:54 pm

This afternoon,the store manager told me to help Angulf(maintainence guy) with dumping the garbage into the compactor,I was telling Angulf,I'll do this for a few minutes because the area stinks to high heaven and come back shortly and then when I came back,the store manager says that I'm not needed anymore,you can go back to doing carts!  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 06/10/10 at 12:56 am


This afternoon,the store manager told me to help Angulf(maintainence guy) with dumping the garbage into the compactor,I was telling Angulf,I'll do this for a few minutes because the area stinks to high heaven and come back shortly and then when I came back,the store manager says that I'm not needed anymore,you can go back to doing carts!  ::)

When the store manager told you to do it, why did you leave? (you wrote "come back shortly"). maybe the manager thought you were goofing off and he decided they could do it without you.
There could be several reasons why the manager changed their mind.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 06/10/10 at 6:46 am


You have some cartguys who need help taking out the garbage,one guy John who seems to be a germaphobic doesn't want to go near the garbage he claims it made him sick one time and another guy who's in his own little world passes by the garbage and should dispose of the bins whenever he has the time.  ::)



This afternoon,the store manager told me to help Angulf(maintainence guy) with dumping the garbage into the compactor,I was telling Angulf,I'll do this for a few minutes because the area stinks to high heaven and come back shortly and then when I came back,the store manager says that I'm not needed anymore,you can go back to doing carts!  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/10/10 at 6:46 am


When the store manager told you to do it, why did you leave? (you wrote "come back shortly"). maybe the manager thought you were goofing off and he decided they could do it without you.
There could be several reasons why the manager changed their mind.


I left for a second cause I needed some air,I think the manager knows that I can't stand the stench.One day I must buy some surgical masks just in case the area is pungent.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/10/10 at 6:47 am





Yep,you caught me Karen red handed. :-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/10/10 at 11:26 am





You have some cartguys who need help taking out the garbage,one guy John who seems to be a germaphobic doesn't want to go near the garbage he claims it made him sick one time and another guy who's in his own little world passes by the garbage and should dispose of the bins whenever he has the time.  ::)



This afternoon,the store manager told me to help Angulf(maintainence guy) with dumping the garbage into the compactor,I was telling Angulf,I'll do this for a few minutes because the area stinks to high heaven and come back shortly and then when I came back,the store manager says that I'm not needed anymore,you can go back to doing carts!  ::)






Karen beat me to it...  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/10/10 at 11:27 am

Thank you Karen - and now for my rant.

I just hope people have more respect for the garbage men than this....  It smells, it's hot, is done in all weather, and if it is wet it is heavy.  Think about other's and deal with it Howard - the manager told you to do it (it probably got done, in the time it took you to "get some air" you do not walk away from a job.  THIS RANT is from a former city park employee that had to pick up trash on weekends and dispose of it...  Do you know what people do in parks on weekends????  There is left over food, with maggots; fish guts, bones and heads - from fishing; excrement and all sorts of unmentionables, that one could get sick on.  Let alone needles and other sharp objects, that people carelessly throw around.  But I had a job, and on most days it was great - on my weekend rotations not so hot (had to clean restrooms, and pick up the aforementioned trash), but it was my job - and I wanted things to get done, get them done well and get promoted (I did not have time to watch and complain about the others who didn't do something, and then low and behold I was soo worried about them not doing something, that I forgot to do my job).  If I was your manager (AND I DID GET PROMOTED TO THAT JOB) and you were my summer help - I would have told you that we could get it done without you, so don't worry about doing it at all.

Hold your breath, step back, find some clean air and get over it - you never walk away (not even for a minute)
And that is my rant

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/10/10 at 11:48 am


Thank you Karen - and now for my rant.

I just hope people have more respect for the garbage men than this....  It smells, it's hot, is done in all weather, and if it is wet it is heavy.  Think about other's and deal with it Howard - the manager told you to do it (it probably got done, in the time it took you to "get some air" you do not walk away from a job.  THIS RANT is from a former city park employee that had to pick up trash on weekends and dispose of it...  Do you know what people do in parks on weekends????  There is left over food, with maggots; fish guts, bones and heads - from fishing; excrement and all sorts of unmentionables, that one could get sick on.  Let alone needles and other sharp objects, that people carelessly throw around.  But I had a job, and on most days it was great - on my weekend rotations not so hot (had to clean restrooms, and pick up the aforementioned trash), but it was my job - and I wanted things to get done, get them done well and get promoted (I did not have time to watch and complain about the others who didn't do something, and then low and behold I was soo worried about them not doing something, that I forgot to do my job).  If I was your manager (AND I DID GET PROMOTED TO THAT JOB) and you were my summer help - I would have told you that we could get it done without you, so don't worry about doing it at all.

Hold your breath, step back, find some clean air and get over it - you never walk away (not even for a minute)
And that is my rant


thank you for your service!


In the 20yrs I worked before becoming a dispatcher I:


worked at a movie theater where I had to clean sticky floors, sweep loose popcorn and throw away the crap people were too lazy take with them and dump in a trash can on their way out.... I also cleaned both the men's and women's restrooms... once some one thought it'd be funny to drop their used maxi pad on the floor sticky side down  8-P  I have cleaned up vomit and shyt off toilet seats... and urine spills from dudes who completely missed the urinal.


at barnes and noble I had to clean sticky melted chocolate off the tables in the children's section- and cleaned the bathrooms there... I once found a girlie magazine stuck (use your imagination as to why) to the floor in the men's restroom....


at the grocery store I had to bag groceries and collect carts- we didn't have a maintenance person so I also mopped the floors, emptied the trash and cleaned the restrooms...

these weren't the most glamorous jobs and sometimes the detail sucked but I still did my job with pride and got promoted quickly in every job I had because I never complained about what I had to do and I always volunteered for the crap jobs. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/10/10 at 12:00 pm


thank you for your service!


In the 20yrs I worked before becoming a dispatcher I:


worked at a movie theater where I had to clean sticky floors, sweep loose popcorn and throw away the crap people were too lazy take with them and dump in a trash can on their way out.... I also cleaned both the men's and women's restrooms... once some one thought it'd be funny to drop their used maxi pad on the floor sticky side down  8-P   I have cleaned up vomit and shyt off toilet seats... and urine spills from dudes who completely missed the urinal.


at barnes and noble I had to clean sticky melted chocolate off the tables in the children's section- and cleaned the bathrooms there... I once found a girlie magazine stuck (use your imagination as to why) to the floor in the men's restroom....


at the grocery store I had to bag groceries and collect carts- we didn't have a maintenance person so I also mopped the floors, emptied the trash and cleaned the restrooms...

these weren't the most glamorous jobs and sometimes the detail sucked but I still did my job with pride and got promoted quickly in every job I had because I never complained about what I had to do and I always volunteered for the crap jobs. 
Exactly!  There are THOUSANDS of thankless jobs out there, and All have parts to them that pretty well stink.  I was a golf course superintendent (for a public course) - and no one would think that job could be gross (other than the having to kill skunks-they will rampage a course, by running them over with a no cab cushman; and the chemicals to be sprayed and such) - but oh no, people thought it was funny to defecate into the cups (and yes I had to change them), knock over porta potties, and have sex parties out on the greens after hours, leaving crap everywhere - no one knew it, because I had to have it all taken care of before the course opened at sun up.

And yes, look at a public park and that would not be my idea of a romantic get away for a possible "interlude"  8-P  If anyone knew the shyt smeared around, on those walls, ceilings (yep someone must have threw it there), and floors they would NEVER even consider it. I think most park restrooms, have had everyone of a body fluid on them at some point and time...  ANd never think about using a picnic table without a tablecloth ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/10/10 at 12:09 pm


Exactly!  There are THOUSANDS of thankless jobs out there, and All have parts to them that pretty well stink.  I was a golf course superintendent (for a public course) - and no one would think that job could be gross (other than the having to kill skunks-they will rampage a course, by running them over with a no cab cushman; and the chemicals to be sprayed and such) - but oh no, people thought it was funny to defecate into the cups (and yes I had to change them), knock over porta potties, and have sex parties out on the greens after hours, leaving crap everywhere - no one knew it, because I had to have it all taken care of before the course opened at sun up.

And yes, look at a public park and that would not be my idea of a romantic get away for a possible "interlude"  8-P  If anyone knew the shyt smeared around, on those walls, ceilings (yep someone must have threw it there), and floors they would NEVER even consider it. I think most park restrooms, have had everyone of a body fluid on them at some point and time...  ANd never think about using a picnic table without a tablecloth ::)


oh you had one of them special bathroom decorators too huh?  I don't understand flinging crap everywhere...or taking your crap crusted TP and sticking it to the walls.... yeah that was really funny  ::) 


Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/10/10 at 12:21 pm




oh you had one of them special bathroom decorators too huh?  I don't understand flinging crap everywhere...or taking your crap crusted TP and sticking it to the walls.... yeah that was really funny  ::) 



Oh yeah O0  this is probably where my fear of public restrooms instilled itself in my brain - then when I started teaching and some angels decided to urinate in the bathroom soap dispensers (they were the refillable kind) - and no one really knew  8-P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/10/10 at 12:22 pm


Oh yeah O0  this is probably where my fear of public restrooms instilled itself in my brain - then when I started teaching and some angels decided to urinate in the bathroom soap dispensers (they were the refillable kind) - and no one really knew  8-P


I remember when you posted that... it still grosses me out!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/10/10 at 12:23 pm

Yep - only in case of dire emergency do I use the restrooms at school... Next year we are supposed to have a faculty restroom (probably clear on the other side of the building) - we shall see ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/10/10 at 12:31 pm

When I was in basic training and had to serve KP (yup-the dreaded KP), I was basically the odd-man out so I was the lucky one who got to clean the bathrooms.  ::)  The men's bathroom was REALLY nasty.  8-P 8-P 8-P  I tried to clean it the best I could with what tools I had. Then I said to myself, why should I try so hard when it was obvious that the person before me and the person before him/her didn't do it. Yeah, it was a bit better when I was done but still VERY nasty.  8-P 8-P 8-P 8-P




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/10/10 at 12:44 pm


at the grocery store I had to bag groceries and collect carts- we didn't have a maintenance person so I also mopped the floors, emptied the trash and cleaned the restrooms...


Me too!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 06/10/10 at 4:11 pm

I cant wait to get a job so I can clean the restrooms!        but it does beat doing nothing and being around someone who you don't get along with, so yes I'll take it gladly  I think :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/10/10 at 6:27 pm


Thank you Karen - and now for my rant.

I just hope people have more respect for the garbage men than this....  It smells, it's hot, is done in all weather, and if it is wet it is heavy.  Think about other's and deal with it Howard - the manager told you to do it (it probably got done, in the time it took you to "get some air" you do not walk away from a job.  THIS RANT is from a former city park employee that had to pick up trash on weekends and dispose of it...  Do you know what people do in parks on weekends????  There is left over food, with maggots; fish guts, bones and heads - from fishing; excrement and all sorts of unmentionables, that one could get sick on.  Let alone needles and other sharp objects, that people carelessly throw around.  But I had a job, and on most days it was great - on my weekend rotations not so hot (had to clean restrooms, and pick up the aforementioned trash), but it was my job - and I wanted things to get done, get them done well and get promoted (I did not have time to watch and complain about the others who didn't do something, and then low and behold I was soo worried about them not doing something, that I forgot to do my job).  If I was your manager (AND I DID GET PROMOTED TO THAT JOB) and you were my summer help - I would have told you that we could get it done without you, so don't worry about doing it at all.

Hold your breath, step back, find some clean air and get over it - you never walk away (not even for a minute)
And that is my rant


Wow Sami That's some rant.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/10/10 at 6:29 pm


I cant wait to get a job so I can clean the restrooms!         but it does beat doing nothing and being around someone who you don't get along with, so yes I'll take it gladly  I think :-\\


It's not easy cleaning the restrooms,you have to take the trash out,mop the floor,sweep up,use an air freshener and spot check.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/10/10 at 6:31 pm


It's not easy cleaning the restrooms,you have to take the trash out,mop the floor,sweep up,use an air freshener and spot check.


scrub the toilet, wash the mirror, clean the sink, the faucet and handles, empty the ladies receptacle, check the paper towels, toilet paper and soap.... 

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Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/10/10 at 6:35 pm

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Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/10/10 at 7:10 pm


scrub the toilet, wash the mirror, clean the sink, the faucet and handles, empty the ladies receptacle, check the paper towels, toilet paper and soap.... 


I used to do that long time ago.

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Written By: snozberries on 06/10/10 at 7:12 pm


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Cat


O0

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Written By: gibbo on 06/10/10 at 7:27 pm


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Cat


I'd be aiming for the dart on the poster!  :P  Much more challenging .... hope the poster is high up the wall...or on the roof!  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 06/10/10 at 9:30 pm


It's not easy cleaning the restrooms,you have to take the trash out,mop the floor,sweep up,use an air freshener and spot check.


You call that hard?  or tiring and discusting?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/10/10 at 9:48 pm

Banging head against wall - I think I need a helmet (because I think Howard just complained about his job again) ::)


It's not easy cleaning the restrooms,you have to take the trash out,mop the floor,sweep up,use an air freshener and spot check.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/10/10 at 10:10 pm



You call that hard?  or tiring and discusting?


Well,there's sometimes urine or feces that's left behind or sometimes the stalls leak too.

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Written By: Step-chan on 06/10/10 at 10:28 pm


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Cat


I know that all too well where I work at...

Considering the fact that some don't seem to aim.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/11/10 at 7:36 am


Banging head against wall - I think I need a helmet (because I think Howard just complained about his job again) ::)



That's what I'm best known for. ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 06/11/10 at 10:59 am

I don't understand why I go in the bathroom sometimes and there might be pee on the floor or hair on the toilet, but that seems to be okay.  Anything I might leave anywhere including a little brown color that didn't go all the way down on the first flush and mom gets after me.  I seem to be the only one of us kids that is worthy of cleaning the bathroom.  She hasn't asked me to do it for a while.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/11/10 at 11:16 am

Um...can we please move away from the discussion about what lurks in public bathrooms? We all know they are disgusting but must we go on page after page after page about it? (I know, I'm just as guilty.)

That is my rant for today.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/11/10 at 12:47 pm


I don't understand why I go in the bathroom sometimes and there might be pee on the floor or hair on the toilet, but that seems to be okay.  Anything I might leave anywhere including a little brown color that didn't go all the way down on the first flush and mom gets after me.  I seem to be the only one of us kids that is worthy of cleaning the bathroom.  She hasn't asked me to do it for a while.


why not do it without being asked???



Um...can we please move away from the discussion about what lurks in public bathrooms? We all know they are disgusting but must we go on page after page after page about it? (I know, I'm just as guilty.)

That is my rant for today.



Cat


sorry cat... now I'm done.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/11/10 at 1:50 pm


Um...can we please move away from the discussion about what lurks in public bathrooms? We all know they are disgusting but must we go on page after page after page about it? (I know, I'm just as guilty.)

That is my rant for today.



Cat


I agree Cat,Let's move on.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/11/10 at 2:41 pm


Um...can we please move away from the discussion about what lurks in public bathrooms? We all know they are disgusting but must we go on page after page after page about it? (I know, I'm just as guilty.)

That is my rant for today.



Cat
for the record - I talked about garbage - it was then Q who started the potty talk; which then led us down this road that has no name ::)

Yep I am an angel, that does no wrong -  8)


;)
;D ;D ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/11/10 at 2:57 pm


for the record - I talked about garbage - it was then Q who started the potty talk; which then led us down this road that has no name ::)

Yep I am an angel, that does no wrong -  8)


;)
;D ;D ;D


Except for those horns that hold up your halo.  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/15/toothy9.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/11/10 at 3:43 pm


Except for those horns that hold up your halo.   http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/15/toothy9.gif



Hey, that's my line. I always say that my horns are the only thing holding up my halo.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/11/10 at 3:55 pm


Um...can we please move away from the discussion about what lurks in public bathrooms? We all know they are disgusting but must we go on page after page after page about it? (I know, I'm just as guilty.)

That is my rant for today.



Cat


Geez...I missed again.  I mean, the discussion!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/14/pottytrain3.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/11/10 at 8:02 pm


for the record - I talked about garbage - it was then Q who started the potty talk; which then led us down this road that has no name ::)

Yep I am an angel, that does no wrong -  8)


;)
;D ;D ;D


not my fault either. It's howards fault for complaining about his job....again

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/11/10 at 8:37 pm


not my fault either. It's howards fault for complaining about his job....again


And not listening to our rants....again :-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/11/10 at 8:38 pm


Except for those horns that hold up your halo.   http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/15/toothy9.gif
Not Horns - just unruly curls  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/12/10 at 6:58 am


not my fault either. It's howards fault for complaining about his job....again




HEY HEY HEY! Don't put blame on me!  :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/12/10 at 6:59 am


And not listening to our rants....again :-[


I do read them.  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/14/10 at 10:33 pm


I do read them.  ???


I think maybe he was being ironic or something....
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_scratch.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/15/10 at 5:34 am


I think maybe he was being ironic or something....
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_scratch.gif


Oh Ok.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/28/10 at 4:12 pm

I got a letter from Social Security about my disability claim-yup they denied me. They claim that I am NOT legally blind when I have a letter from the V.A. stating just that! I think I know why they came up with that conclusion. They sent me to some place to have a visual fields done. For those of you who have never had one done or do not know what it is, basically they put an eye patch over one eye. Then you stick your head in a bowl and they flash little lights around and it measures what you can see or can't see. Then, they put the eye patch on the other eye and do it all over again. Each eye takes about 15/20 minutes if it is done thoroughly. I am the pro at having them done because I can't tell you how many times I have had it done. I have had it done both manually & by computer. The computer is more actuate/thorough. This time, it was done manually and the chick who did it didn't seem to know how to do it. In fact, I basically told her, "Um...you missed a spot." And I think I recall asking her about the eye patch.  ::) I am going to appeal and now I am going to find a lawyer to help me with the case. I'm sure I'm gonna have to get another visual fields done.




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/28/10 at 4:24 pm


I got a letter from Social Security about my disability claim-yup they denied me. They claim that I am NOT legally blind when I have a letter from the V.A. stating just that! I think I know why they came up with that conclusion. They sent me to some place to have a visual fields done. For those of you who have never had one done or do not know what it is, basically they put an eye patch over one eye. Then you stick your head in a bowl and they flash little lights around and it measures what you can see or can't see. Then, they put the eye patch on the other eye and do it all over again. Each eye takes about 15/20 minutes if it is done thoroughly. I am the pro at having them done because I can't tell you how many times I have had it done. I have had it done both manually & by computer. The computer is more actuate/thorough. This time, it was done manually and the chick who did it didn't seem to know how to do it. In fact, I basically told her, "Um...you missed a spot." And I think I recall asking her about the eye patch.  ::) I am going to appeal and now I am going to find a lawyer to help me with the case. I'm sure I'm gonna have to get another visual fields done.




Cat



good luck with the appeal

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/28/10 at 5:20 pm


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Have I mentioned I truly hate the bitch Im working with today and its torture being locked in a room with someone you can't stand!  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/28/10 at 5:49 pm


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Have I mentioned I truly hate the bitch Im working with today and its torture being locked in a room with someone you can't stand!  >:(



Wish I could help ya.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/28/10 at 6:32 pm


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Have I mentioned I truly hate the bitch Im working with today and its torture being locked in a room with someone you can't stand!  >:(
LOL - I am chatting with her on the other side ... and her posts say about the same thing ;)



No honestly, I feel your pain - when I was an environmental consultant, I had a "partner" they brought him to me to "show him the ropes" (then I couldn't shake him, one of the reasons why I left).  He had no idea what his trees were (and we had to travel, so we always had to find the trees indigenous to the area) and I constantly had to tell them what trees where (I tried to help him key them out, to make him more independent, but he always came back).  I had to ride in the same vehicle (sometimes 13 hour drives), be in a hotel room next too, and if one took the car to go out to eat, the other was stuck in the room, or had better go with - FORCED TO SOCIALLY INTERACT, not just professionally.  Worst off, I developed a stuttering problem after 3 months working with him (he had a chronic stutter) - and I picked it up like a bad accent.

Have patience, day will end and there will be a tomorrow.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/28/10 at 6:44 pm


I got a letter from Social Security about my disability claim-yup they denied me. They claim that I am NOT legally blind when I have a letter from the V.A. stating just that! I think I know why they came up with that conclusion. They sent me to some place to have a visual fields done. For those of you who have never had one done or do not know what it is, basically they put an eye patch over one eye. Then you stick your head in a bowl and they flash little lights around and it measures what you can see or can't see. Then, they put the eye patch on the other eye and do it all over again. Each eye takes about 15/20 minutes if it is done thoroughly. I am the pro at having them done because I can't tell you how many times I have had it done. I have had it done both manually & by computer. The computer is more actuate/thorough. This time, it was done manually and the chick who did it didn't seem to know how to do it. In fact, I basically told her, "Um...you missed a spot." And I think I recall asking her about the eye patch.  ::) I am going to appeal and now I am going to find a lawyer to help me with the case. I'm sure I'm gonna have to get another visual fields done.




Cat
The gov't is brilliant sometimes....  Hope your appeal goes through!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/28/10 at 7:12 pm


yeah so she's the kind of person who stirs up shyt cuz she sees it in the pot.  ::)

anyway she created a series of problems today. (she complains constantly about insignificant things - if you think it's bad reading it everyday then try being locked in a room with it 10 hrs at a time)

anyway- she has a bajillon vacation hours. Read that as close to 500.
She is asking to take two days off leave without pay because I took leave without pay for three days of Paleyfest.  She seems to think I'm getting preferential treatment.  Nevermind the fact that I had the vacation time at the time I req time off but got sick with sinus infections, flu and back issues and wound up going over my allotted time by three days.  Never mind the fact that I had give back 600 because they pay us on the time they anticipate us working. (basically counting on us to fulfill the 40hr work week by working or using leave).

She went to my supervisor to complain and then to the chief. I think she thinks I just got paid to not show up at work.



There's more but I gotta go.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 06/28/10 at 7:37 pm

Sounds like my co-worker.  I think she bitches just to hear her own voice...and if she doesn't she will explode.

Friday we declared it a drama-free zone and wouldn't let her bitch all day.  Apparently after I left she went nuclear.  Guess she needs to let it out a little at a time.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/28/10 at 8:29 pm


yeah so she's the kind of person who stirs up shyt cuz she sees it in the pot.   ::)

anyway she created a series of problems today. (she complains constantly about insignificant things - if you think it's bad reading it everyday then try being locked in a room with it 10 hrs at a time)

anyway- she has a bajillon vacation hours. Read that as close to 500.
She is asking to take two days off leave without pay because I took leave without pay for three days of Paleyfest.  She seems to think I'm getting preferential treatment.  Nevermind the fact that I had the vacation time at the time I req time off but got sick with sinus infections, flu and back issues and wound up going over my allotted time by three days.  Never mind the fact that I had give back 600 because they pay us on the time they anticipate us working. (basically counting on us to fulfill the 40hr work week by working or using leave).

She went to my supervisor to complain and then to the chief. I think she thinks I just got paid to not show up at work.



There's more but I gotta go.
you have my sympathy.  Even my worst class of students, I only have them for 45 minutes till they change to new pains in the asses angelic urchins  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/28/10 at 8:31 pm


you have my sympathy.  Even my worst class of students, I only have them for 45 minutes till they change to new pains in the asses ;)


yeah more asses in smaller doses still better than one in very long doses.  ;D



Sounds like my co-worker.  I think she bitches just to hear her own voice...and if she doesn't she will explode.

Friday we declared it a drama-free zone and wouldn't let her bitch all day.  Apparently after I left she went nuclear.  Guess she needs to let it out a little at a time.


ugh... I wish I could declare a drama free zone...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/28/10 at 8:38 pm


yeah more asses in smaller doses still better than one in very long doses.  ;D


ugh... I wish I could declare a drama free zone...
I have a sign on my desk  saying -  This is a no Llama Zone!  So save the Drama for your mama!!!

I always wanted to get a drama llama award (I have a little plastic llama from a farm toy) - to give to the worst culprits (but it might scar a child's self esteem, like red pen, so I thought I had better not)

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Written By: snozberries on 06/28/10 at 8:45 pm


I have a sign on my desk  saying -  This is a no Llama Zone!  So save the Drama for your mama!!!

I always wanted to get a drama llama award (I have a little plastic llama from a farm toy) - to give to the worst culprits (but it might scar a child's self esteem, like red pen, so I thought I had better not)

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Ha Ha Ha too bad you didn't that would be awesome.....besides that thing about the red pen scarring a kid's psyche is re-donk-u-lous I mean life is full of correction and disappointment.... isn't childhood supposed to prepare you for and teach you how to handle the real world.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/28/10 at 8:50 pm


Ha Ha Ha too bad you didn't that would be awesome.....besides that thing about the red pen scarring a kid's psyche is re-donk-u-lous I mean life is full of correction and disappointment.... isn't childhood supposed to prepare you for and teach you how to handle the real world.  ::)
That is what I thought, but apparently we are wrong.  You know we have to give all kids an award, they all have to achieve, and none left behind (but they can drag everyone else back, because they get behind and we all have to stay together as a group) - heck our school will not hold students back!  If a kid fails a class, they can make it up by attending summer school (not as harsh as it sounds - 4 days a week, for 3 hours a day, for 4 weeks...  THat should make up for a complete year of school :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/28/10 at 8:52 pm


That is what I thought, but apparently we are wrong.  You know we have to give all kids an award, they all have to achieve, and none left behind (but they can drag everyone else back, because they get behind and we all have to stay together as a group) - heck our school will not hold students back!  If a kid fails a class, they can make it up by attending summer school (not as harsh as it sounds - 4 days a week, for 3 hours a day, for 4 weeks...  THat should make up for a complete year of school :-\\


wow.... life is so much easier now. I wish I could be growing up today. Everything is automated and instantaneous and you get rewarded for putting forth minimal effort.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 06/28/10 at 8:54 pm




ugh... I wish I could declare a drama free zone...


So do I.  Apparently it doesn't work...some people thrive on it and have no clue how life can actually be enjoyable without it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 06/28/10 at 8:57 pm


wow.... life is so much easier now. I wish I could be growing up today. Everything is automated and instantaneous and you get rewarded for putting forth minimal effort.


Till they get out on their own, and find out they have to put forth an effort, get along with person's of authority, and work as groups with people you do not get along with - and basically - LIFE AIN'T FAIR ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/29/10 at 7:08 pm

My upstairs neighbors actually opened a package that came for me while I was at work. They didn't take the item(which is a shirt), but that is a definite report to the office.

>:( >:( >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/29/10 at 7:13 pm


Till they get out on their own, and find out they have to put forth an effort, get along with person's of authority, and work as groups with people you do not get along with - and basically - LIFE AIN'T FAIR ::)


Yeah.... my friend just reminded me that there's a show called You're Cut Off about these precious angels brats who are forced to learn what it's like to live without mommy and daddy's support.... man I wish I'd created that show! I've been complaining about the need for it long enough.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 06/29/10 at 10:02 pm


My upstairs neighbors actually opened a package that came for me while I was at work. They didn't take the item(which is a shirt), but that is a definite report to the office.

>:( >:( >:(


WTF?  Isn't opening someone else's mail a felony?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/29/10 at 10:29 pm


WTF?  Isn't opening someone else's mail a felony?


Not necessarily.  It has to meet certain conditions to be felonious.  Doesn't it?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/29/10 at 11:12 pm

^ yeah it does....it could've been accidental. I know I've been guilty of opening mail that didn't belong to me because I didn't look at the label before actually opening it. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/30/10 at 12:18 am

Well, that depends... I don't know my neighbors upstairs very well. I know they have kids, but considering the fact that the box was in front of my door opened... I don't know.


WTF?  Isn't opening someone else's mail a felony?


I remember looking to make sure something in my neighbor's mailbox wasn't mine(by checking the address, not opening it) and the carrier saw me and said something like that. This was when I was looking out for something that someone from Livenirvana sent me.(Which ended up not in my possession, but my cousin, who lived somewhere else. She ended up giving it to me later)

In the case of the item in question, it's a shirt I won in DQ9 contest. Fed Ex is the one who delivered it, so they just left it there. I still have one more prize coming too, a CD. That better come in tommorrow, since I off. It better not of already came and they took it(I don't know why they would want a CD of game music anyway, especially an import).


Not necessarily.  It has to meet certain conditions to be felonious.  Doesn't it?



Well, I still got the item. I've been broke into twice back in 2006, so my lack of trust is on a hair trigger, understandably.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/30/10 at 11:50 am

When you live alone, you don't necessarily look at who the mail is addressed to because you just assume that everything that is put in your box is for you. When you live with someone else, you look to see who things are addressed to so you are more apt to catch when something gets misdelivered. It happens from time to time. We have gotten stuff for the church next door every so often.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/30/10 at 12:12 pm

I do.

And since one of the prizes I'm suppose to receive is a soundtrack, I definetly don't want it to be taken.

This was a Fed Ex delivery too, not a standard postal carrier.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/30/10 at 12:43 pm


When you live alone, you don't necessarily look at who the mail is addressed to because you just assume that everything that is put in your box is for you. When you live with someone else, you look to see who things are addressed to so you are more apt to catch when something gets misdelivered. It happens from time to time. We have gotten stuff for the church next door every so often.



Cat


yeah I have my PO Box so I almost never look at what I'm opening. Once I got a check delivered to me and I thought wow...who's sending me 900 dollars? But it wasn't mine- *sad face* I gave it back to the post office for re-delivery.



Well, that depends... I don't know my neighbors upstairs very well. I know they have kids, but considering the fact that the box was in front of my door opened... I don't know.

I remember looking to make sure something in my neighbor's mailbox wasn't mine(by checking the address, not opening it) and the carrier saw me and said something like that. This was when I was looking out for something that someone from Livenirvana sent me.(Which ended up not in my possession, but my cousin, who lived somewhere else. She ended up giving it to me later)

In the case of the item in question, it's a shirt I won in DQ9 contest. Fed Ex is the one who delivered it, so they just left it there. I still have one more prize coming too, a CD. That better come in tommorrow, since I off. It better not of already came and they took it(I don't know why they would want a CD of game music anyway, especially an import).

Well, I still got the item. I've been broke into twice back in 2006, so my lack of trust is on a hair trigger, understandably.



I was thinking it could've been delivered to the wrong apt- the neighbor opened it, realized it wasn't for them and then left it on your doorstep because no one was home.... or they saw it on your doorstep, opened it and decided they didn't want a t-shirt so they left it there.  Its hard to tell but I understand your distrust.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/30/10 at 1:00 pm

I checked my email and it said that they were sent to be delivered by 28th(shirt) and 29th(CD), this was for Monday and Tuesday. Although I only seen the shirt yesterday... I was at home a decent amount of the time on Monday, so the odds of Fed Ex delivering while I was gone were low.

Tuesday I work until 6, got home around 7. Checked in front of my door. Saw the box opened.

So this better just be a swamped amount of work for Fed Ex... Because I'm starting to get a bad feeling. I did email Golinharris back to tell them I haven't seen the CD yet.

It finally came.... Whew... good.(Fed Ex knocked my door while I typing this post)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/30/10 at 2:00 pm


I checked my email and it said that they were sent to be delivered by 28th(shirt) and 29th(CD), this was for Monday and Tuesday. Although I only seen the shirt yesterday... I was at home a decent amount of the time on Monday, so the odds of Fed Ex delivering while I was gone were low.

Tuesday I work until 6, got home around 7. Checked in front of my door. Saw the box opened.

So this better just be a swamped amount of work for Fed Ex... Because I'm starting to get a bad feeling. I did email Golinharris back to tell them I haven't seen the CD yet.

It finally came.... Whew... good.(Fed Ex knocked my door while I typing this post)


yay.... 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/30/10 at 2:04 pm


yay....   


Blew steam around for almost nothing... almost, the first package being opened by my neighbors... they signed for it... The guy told me who gave me the soundtrack today, I told him I found it opened when I came home, so they knew it was mine... Shame on them.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/30/10 at 2:13 pm


Blew steam around for almost nothing... almost, the first package being opened by my neighbors... they signed for it... The guy told me who gave me the soundtrack today, I told him I found it opened when I came home, so they knew it was mine... Shame on them.


if they signed for it then they should have been aware that it was for you because the fed ex guy would've said can you hold this package for your neighbor who's not home.  I would make sure that you leave a note for Fed Ex asking them to not drop items off with a neighbor. with a tracking number you should be able to contact Fed Ex and get delivery instructions to them so that it won't happen again. Who knows what else has been delivered to you that you didn't get because the neighbors opened it and decided they liked it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 06/30/10 at 3:11 pm

My computer was making some funny noise from the hard drive so I ran a few scans and nothing popped up which is good.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 06/30/10 at 4:08 pm


if they signed for it then they should have been aware that it was for you because the fed ex guy would've said can you hold this package for your neighbor who's not home.  I would make sure that you leave a note for Fed Ex asking them to not drop items off with a neighbor. with a tracking number you should be able to contact Fed Ex and get delivery instructions to them so that it won't happen again. Who knows what else has been delivered to you that you didn't get because the neighbors opened it and decided they liked it.


That's a problem with the contest prizes, I wasn't sure when they were suppose to show up(I hadn't checked my email since Monday to see if I was a Grand Prize winner, which I wasn't). Turns out that they were being shipped alittle sooner than I expected, I'm glad I was off today.

Although I don't have anything else coming by Fed Ex or UPS, I'll keep that in mind for the next time when I do actually have something coming, regardless if it's a prize or something I ordered.

Karma for you. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 06/30/10 at 4:10 pm


That's a problem with the contest prizes, I wasn't sure when they were suppose to show up(I hadn't checked my email since Monday to see if I was a Grand Prize winner, which I wasn't). Turns out that they were being shipped alittle sooner than I expected, I'm glad I was off today.

Although I don't have anything else coming by Fed Ex or UPS, I'll keep that in mind for the next time when I do actually have something coming, regardless if it's a prize or something I ordered.

Karma for you. :)




backatchya! O0

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/04/10 at 12:32 am

Solicitations for games of chance go right in the circular file!
8)

Attention scratch ticket scratchers -- this is a 25-year-old peeve talking:

DON'T THROW SPENT TICKETS ON THE SIDEWALKS! 

They are an eyesore, especially after blowing around in New England weather for a few months!

Thank you.
:)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/04/10 at 7:04 am


Solicitations for games of chance go right in the circular file!
8)

Attention scratch ticket scratchers -- this is a 25-year-old peeve talking:

DON'T THROW SPENT TICKETS ON THE SIDEWALKS! 

They are an eyesore, especially after blowing around in New England weather for a few months!

Thank you.
:)


What if a scratch off ticket hasn't been scratched? ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/05/10 at 1:28 am


What if a scratch off ticket hasn't been scratched? ???


I don't CARE.  I don't do scratch tickets.  I just don't want to see your detritus!
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Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 07/05/10 at 11:33 am

I found winning tickets that way before.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/05/10 at 12:34 pm


I don't CARE.  I don't do scratch tickets.  I just don't want to see your detritus!
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your what?  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/05/10 at 11:19 pm


your what?  ???


The blight caused by your hapless existence, oh he who throweth their scratceth ticketeth!
:D!
:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/06/10 at 5:50 am


The blight caused by your hapless existence, oh he who throweth their scratceth ticketeth!
:D!
:(


on the floorth?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/07/10 at 1:44 am


on the floorth?


Something liketh thateth.

Anyway, I'm at a point in my career where I can't afford to be picking scratch tickets off the street on the off-chance I'll win $20.  Next people will expect me to be hauling around a shopping cart full of cans.  With my luck, they'd repeal the bottle bill!
:o

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/07/10 at 6:53 am


Something liketh thateth.

Anyway, I'm at a point in my career where I can't afford to be picking scratch tickets off the street on the off-chance I'll win $20.  Next people will expect me to be hauling around a shopping cart full of cans.  With my luck, they'd repeal the bottle bill!
:o


scratch off tickets are everywhere around the parking lot of Pathmark.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/12/10 at 2:11 am

I usually like Ralph Nader when he's on TV, but this time I can't watch him. CSPAN has him interviewing a total right wing Fox Newser named Judge Andrew Napolitano.  They guy's a total greeaazzzebal, and Ralph has to keep a straight face!

If Nader is shilling for CSPAN, I'm disappointed.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/17/10 at 3:42 pm

I really wish people will learn what an antique is. I'm sure many of you know that we are in the market for antique table. As I am searching on the internet, I have seen, "Antique table circa 1960s."  ???  Ok, I would give them leeway if they said "antique STYLE." The one that I saw that really cracked me up was "Antique Tables Made Daily."  :o :o :o :o



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/17/10 at 6:42 pm

I have a special shift tomorrow 4-9 but what I don't understand is that why are my hours tomorrow 4-9 when people are still shopping at that time and lockup is sometimes 10pm or 11pm,Am I doing an early lockup tomorrow?  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/17/10 at 8:45 pm


I really wish people will learn what an antique is. I'm sure many of you know that we are in the market for antique table. As I am searching on the internet, I have seen, "Antique table circa 1960s."  ???  Ok, I would give them leeway if they said "antique STYLE." The one that I saw that really cracked me up was "Antique Tables Made Daily."   :o :o :o :o



Cat


Antiques made daily?  Maybe they have a time machine...make the "antique" go back in time and put it in their store so its ready for you to pick up the same day its made just 100 years later  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/17/10 at 8:46 pm


I have a special shift tomorrow 4-9 but what I don't understand is that why are my hours tomorrow 4-9 when people are still shopping at that time and lockup is sometimes 10pm or 11pm,Am I doing an early lockup tomorrow?  ???


maybe someone else has lock up or maybe the store closes early....or maybe you should have called the boss and asked what they planned to do for lock up if you are off at 9pm. It would've showed the boss you had initiative by thinking about things like that... 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/17/10 at 11:29 pm


Antiques made daily?  Maybe they have a time machine...make the "antique" go back in time and put it in their store so its ready for you to pick up the same day its made just 100 years later  :D


If you watched the Home Shopping channel a little more often, and stopped trying to think for yourself, you might not get all sarcastic about it!
:D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/17/10 at 11:46 pm


If you watched the Home Shopping channel a little more often, and stopped trying to think for yourself, you might not get all sarcastic about it!
:D


that ain't never gonna happen!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/18/10 at 12:09 am


that ain't never gonna happen!  ;D


You mean the part about "thinking for yourself"?

Ooooh, I'm neeeasty!
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Well, see, if you watch the Home Shopping channel and continue to think for yourself, deep depression or psychosis might result.  For me, that's called Tuesday.  I'm not a good example. 
:D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/18/10 at 12:14 am


You mean the part about "thinking for yourself"?

Ooooh, I'm neeeasty!
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Well, see, if you watch the Home Shopping channel and continue to think for yourself, deep depression or psychosis might result.  For me, that's called Tuesday.  I'm not a good example. 
:D


yeah...not quite....it's the watching the Home Shopping Channel that ain't gonna happen......however, you seem to be quite the expert on the subject- personal experience perhaps?  :P  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/18/10 at 2:14 am


yeah...not quite....it's the watching the Home Shopping Channel that ain't gonna happen......however, you seem to be quite the expert on the subject- personal experience perhaps?  :P  :D


I've tuned in just to gawk at some of the incredibly hideous articles they would hawk.  I just remember tuning in and being entranced by the inanity and the dumb sales patter.  They showed a closeup and I just thought, "that's the ugliest ring EVER!"  I don't know much about jewelry, but I know that ring is ug-ly!  And people were calling in and paying money for it.  I couldn't believe it.  It's like they were on crack or something!  In my parents' day, you paid fifty cents for that at the carnival.  No matter what it is, some compulsive spender will shell out the dough.
:-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/18/10 at 6:49 am


maybe someone else has lock up or maybe the store closes early....or maybe you should have called the boss and asked what they planned to do for lock up if you are off at 9pm. It would've showed the boss you had initiative by thinking about things like that... 



I think the store is open 24 hours,maybe most of the carts will be locked up but people will still be shopping after 9,they'll just have to use those red baskets instead.
I'll talk to the boss later,she'll be there.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/18/10 at 11:31 am


Antiques made daily?  Maybe they have a time machine...make the "antique" go back in time and put it in their store so its ready for you to pick up the same day its made just 100 years later  :D



What's funny is that Carlos said the EXACT SAME THING!!!!  :D ;D ;D ;D ;D  Great minds think alike?  :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/18/10 at 12:52 pm

Two rants for today:

1. Last night we were sitting in the living room watching t.v. like we do every night. I look out the front window and watch a lot of people walking their dogs as they pass the house. Last night, this one woman's dog squatted down and did his "business" on the edge of our yard-and then she just walked away. I told Carlos to go out and confront her (I'm not good at confrontation) and when he got out there, she was gone. This really p!sses me off. If you are going to have a pet, you should have to clean up after them. I do. I clean my cats' sh!t all the time. And this morning I was even cleaning my cat's barf, too. This woman didn't even have her dog fixed! Ok, to be fair, she may be breeding the dog but still, she should have to clean up after him!  >:( >:( >:(


2. Every year, I want to have Christmas at home. But every year, it just doesn't happen. We were supposed to have it here last year but with all the kids' work and such, it was easier for us to have it up north-AGAIN!  Ok. In a way, it did turn out good because we had just finished having our kitchen done and the place hadn't been put back together yet. With all of us up there, the place is just so cramp and Carlos & I end up sleeping in the dinning room (no joke-on an air mattress). 8 adults (one pregnant) & 3 kids and only one bathroom!  :o :o :o  (One was just an infant so I don't count her.) So, once again I said, "Next year at OUR place!" So, this year the kids are planning to go to Puerto Rico for Christmas-which means we will be going, too. And that means that I will NOT be having Christmas at home. I don't think I am asking too much to just have Christmas at our place at least once every 5 years or so. I can't remember the last time we had it here-I think it was 5 years ago. And it was 5 years before that time, too. I just feel like my feelings on this are being dismissed and if I say anything, I look like I'm just being b!tchy!



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/18/10 at 7:25 pm



I think the store is open 24 hours,maybe most of the carts will be locked up but people will still be shopping after 9,they'll just have to use those red baskets instead.
I'll talk to the boss later,she'll be there.


you think the store is open 24hrs? You've worked there for almost three years....that's something you should know.

Have you locked up the carts before?
is there a closing procedure that you have worked before?

or

are you just making up jobs you think there should be?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/18/10 at 7:25 pm



What's funny is that Carlos said the EXACT SAME THING!!!!  :D ;D ;D ;D ;D  Great minds think alike?  :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat


great minds fer sure!!!   8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/18/10 at 7:29 pm


Two rants for today:

1. Last night we were sitting in the living room watching t.v. like we do every night. I look out the front window and watch a lot of people walking their dogs as they pass the house. Last night, this one woman's dog squatted down and did his "business" on the edge of our yard-and then she just walked away. I told Carlos to go out and confront her (I'm not good at confrontation) and when he got out there, she was gone. This really p!sses me off. If you are going to have a pet, you should have to clean up after them. I do. I clean my cats' sh!t all the time. And this morning I was even cleaning my cat's barf, too. This woman didn't even have her dog fixed! Ok, to be fair, she may be breeding the dog but still, she should have to clean up after him!  >:( >:( >:(





I clean up after my dog when they crap on someone's yard.... or when I'm in a park. We live in an area surrounded by lots o' nature so sometimes if she goes in an area that is not inhabited then I may cover it or take a stick and know it into the ravine....what can I say with the coyotes, feral cats and loose dogs running around I figure I'm not making the problem that much worse....


2. Every year, I want to have Christmas at home. But every year, it just doesn't happen. We were supposed to have it here last year but with all the kids' work and such, it was easier for us to have it up north-AGAIN!  Ok. In a way, it did turn out good because we had just finished having our kitchen done and the place hadn't been put back together yet. With all of us up there, the place is just so cramp and Carlos & I end up sleeping in the dinning room (no joke-on an air mattress). 8 adults (one pregnant) & 3 kids and only one bathroom!  :o :o :o  (One was just an infant so I don't count her.) So, once again I said, "Next year at OUR place!" So, this year the kids are planning to go to Puerto Rico for Christmas-which means we will be going, too. And that means that I will NOT be having Christmas at home. I don't think I am asking too much to just have Christmas at our place at least once every 5 years or so. I can't remember the last time we had it here-I think it was 5 years ago. And it was 5 years before that time, too. I just feel like my feelings on this are being dismissed and if I say anything, I look like I'm just being b!tchy!



Cat



will the house be ready? Maybe you can have Christmas at your other place...  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 07/18/10 at 7:32 pm


Two rants for today:

1. Last night we were sitting in the living room watching t.v. like we do every night. I look out the front window and watch a lot of people walking their dogs as they pass the house. Last night, this one woman's dog squatted down and did his "business" on the edge of our yard-and then she just walked away. I told Carlos to go out and confront her (I'm not good at confrontation) and when he got out there, she was gone. This really p!sses me off. If you are going to have a pet, you should have to clean up after them. I do. I clean my cats' sh!t all the time. And this morning I was even cleaning my cat's barf, too. This woman didn't even have her dog fixed! Ok, to be fair, she may be breeding the dog but still, she should have to clean up after him!  >:( >:( >:(


2. Every year, I want to have Christmas at home. But every year, it just doesn't happen. We were supposed to have it here last year but with all the kids' work and such, it was easier for us to have it up north-AGAIN!  Ok. In a way, it did turn out good because we had just finished having our kitchen done and the place hadn't been put back together yet. With all of us up there, the place is just so cramp and Carlos & I end up sleeping in the dinning room (no joke-on an air mattress). 8 adults (one pregnant) & 3 kids and only one bathroom!  :o :o :o  (One was just an infant so I don't count her.) So, once again I said, "Next year at OUR place!" So, this year the kids are planning to go to Puerto Rico for Christmas-which means we will be going, too. And that means that I will NOT be having Christmas at home. I don't think I am asking too much to just have Christmas at our place at least once every 5 years or so. I can't remember the last time we had it here-I think it was 5 years ago. And it was 5 years before that time, too. I just feel like my feelings on this are being dismissed and if I say anything, I look like I'm just being b!tchy!



Cat
I agree - you should clean up after your dog!  And do not allow a dog on a 20 ft leash to walk up to the landscaping next to the yard and go...  But I also know some people have an absolute fit if a dog pees any where near their yard, sorry people but the world smells like a huge toilet to a dog (every tree, bush, hydrant, light pole, sign, blade of grass, corner, tire....), if a dog has to go, a dog has to go.  I do walk mine so it would be towards the parkway and on a short leash (6ft) so as to avoid problems in peoples "yards", and I always had doggie bags on my leash (except for the few times they were out, and I did not realize it till too late, SOORRRY whoever :-[), but please don't curse at me because my dog walked over to the light pole in the parkway, and pee'd on it (I really am not sure how I can clean this up, without carrying way too much stuff) and I promise, it will not kill the lightpole. 

I feel for you on the Christmas issue, I have issues each year with my husbands family and mine.  SOO much so, that I just want to take vacation and not be home for the day :P  SO we can do OUR thing.  ::)

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Written By: snozberries on 07/18/10 at 7:41 pm


I agree - you should clean up after your dog!  And do not allow a dog on a 20 ft leash to walk up to the landscaping next to the yard and go...  But I also know some people have an absolute fit if a dog pees any where near their yard, sorry people but the world smells like a huge toilet to a dog (every tree, bush, hydrant, light pole, sign, blade of grass, corner, tire....), if a dog has to go, a dog has to go.  I do walk mine so it would be towards the parkway and on a short leash (6ft) so as to avoid problems in peoples "yards", and I always had doggie bags on my leash (except for the few times they were out, and I did not realize it till too late, SOORRRY whoever :-I feel for you on the Christmas issue, I have issues each year with my husbands family and mine.  SOO much so, that I just want to take vacation and not be home for the day :P  SO we can do OUR thing.  ::)


Good plan O0

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/18/10 at 7:58 pm



Oh I agree....let the dog pee where the dog wants to pee....jeez....

Once I walked Carly- I didn't think she was going to poop so I didn't bring anything with me. But she did so I brought her home and then I got a baggie and walked back- it was .5 mile away and up a frigging hill but I did it because I wanted to be a responsible mommy...


Then, when I was in San Diego I got yelled at because I in a dog park with no doggie bags. I mean the park didn't have a supply of dog bags avail - its a dog park...you should supply two things.... grass and bags to pick up poop.  I went to a trash can to see if I could find a bag- like a fast food bag or something to pick up after Effie. A security guard for the park- it's attached to the stadium where the padres play (I have pics on Facebook) he yelled at me... guess he thought I was a transient looking for food  ::)   when I explained to him why I was in the trash he went to an area of the park that was gated off and said  "We do have bags." And I said, "Yeah but that's a locked gate...how am I supposed to get to them?"   Idiot...   ::)   I should've left her poop there...  :P


Good plan O0
Agreed and Agreed 8)  Now if the family would only agree :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/19/10 at 6:44 am


you think the store is open 24hrs? You've worked there for almost three years....that's something you should know.

Have you locked up the carts before?
is there a closing procedure that you have worked before?

or

are you just making up jobs you think there should be?


Yes,the store is open 24 hours but on special occasions and holidays they close early but customers are stupid and want to shop for their one last item. ::)
And yes I have locked up the carts before when my shift ended at 9.

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 10:04 am


Yes,the store is open 24 hours but on special occasions and holidays they close early but customers are stupid and want to shop for their one last item. ::)
And yes I have locked up the carts before when my shift ended at 9.



sooo, if I want to do my grocery shopping at 3am I have to use a basket because the carts are locked up? What if I'm getting all my groceries not just last minute items.


I wouldn't call the customers stupid- sometimes you forget something or run out of something and run in to get it.  I really kinda hate the way you talk about customers howard....without the customers you'd have no job.  >:(

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/19/10 at 10:40 am





sooo, if I want to do my grocery shopping at 3am I have to use a basket because the carts are locked up? What if I'm getting all my groceries not just last minute items.


I wouldn't call the customers stupid- sometimes you forget something or run out of something and run in to get it.  I really kinda hate the way you talk about customers howard....without the customers you'd have no job.  >:(
I have always assumed, stupid me, that grocery stores were supposed to be "convenient". So that when I run in for groceries, I could RUN in and get them, not wait around for carts, or go when it is "convenient" for the workers????  People who work odd hours, grocery shop at odd hours; that is when they can... WHy are they not allowed to use carts??? 

Personally I love Fareway stores!  But they are a "family oriented business" so they close at 10:00 pm and they are not open on Sunday's.  But they still have Butchers behind the meat counter, and wrap your meat as you want it.  They also push the carts out to your car and load it up for you.  This way they do not have cart damaged in the parking lots, cars aren't dinged, no theft, no vandalism, and they all get cleaned as they walk back through the door.  AND their prices are cheap!!!

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 11:02 am


I have always assumed, stupid me, that grocery stores were supposed to be "convenient". So that when I run in for groceries, I could RUN in and get them, not wait around for carts, or go when it is "convenient" for the workers????   People who work odd hours, grocery shop at odd hours; that is when they can... WHy are they not allowed to use carts??? 

Personally I love Fareway stores!  But they are a "family oriented business" so they close at 10:00 pm and they are not open on Sunday's.  But they still have Butchers behind the meat counter, and wrap your meat as you want it.  They also push the carts out to your car and load it up for you.  This way they do not have cart damaged in the parking lots, cars aren't dinged, no theft, no vandalism, and they all get cleaned as they walk back through the door.  AND their prices are cheap!!!


agreed....well with the first part... I have never heard of Fareway until just now  ;) 


I will agree that occasionally you get the annoying or stupid customer but to hear Howard tell it they are all pretty much useless and annoying... it gets old really fast... and its becoming clear why he hasn't gotten to work inside... bad attitudes get you no where.  >:(

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/19/10 at 11:32 am


agreed....well with the first part... I have never heard of Fareway until just now  ;) 


I will agree that occasionally you get the annoying or stupid customer but to hear Howard tell it they are all pretty much useless and annoying... it gets old really fast... and its becoming clear why he hasn't gotten to work inside... bad attitudes get you no where.  >:(
O0 

WOuld you have a job with the public, if you kept spouting out how terrible the people that call in are???  They are stupid for wanting to commit suicide, have a stupid accident (I very seldom ever hear of an emergency accident, that someone completely thought through) or the low lives who allow their houses to get broken into.... etc...  Yes they are out there, and we all spout off about them - but they are what keeps us working as well.  AND There are a lot of positive people out there as well!

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Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/19/10 at 12:30 pm


I clean up after my dog when they crap on someone's yard.... or when I'm in a park. We live in an area surrounded by lots o' nature so sometimes if she goes in an area that is not inhabited then I may cover it or take a stick and know it into the ravine....what can I say with the coyotes, feral cats and loose dogs running around I figure I'm not making the problem that much worse....



will the house be ready? Maybe you can have Christmas at your other place...  :)



The house is ready but it has no furniture. And yeah, that is basically the plan. I was very emotional all day yesterday (when I posted my rants). I do understand that Carlos' son wants Carlos' dad to meet his great-grandson. Who knows how much longer my FIL will be with us and this may be the only chance. I told Carlos last night to make the kids KNOW without a doubt that Christmas WILL be HERE in 2011!!!! NO EXCUSES!!!! NO CHANGES!!!!!

As for the house in PR, we can play it two ways: 1. Go down early to buy the furniture or let my SIL do that. I know my SIL will and she does have good taste but she doesn't have MY taste. Another issue is the fact that Carlos will want to stay through Feb. and that would be 2 & 1/2 months-more time that I really want to spend down there. We will have to work on a compromise.



I agree - you should clean up after your dog!  And do not allow a dog on a 20 ft leash to walk up to the landscaping next to the yard and go...  But I also know some people have an absolute fit if a dog pees any where near their yard, sorry people but the world smells like a huge toilet to a dog (every tree, bush, hydrant, light pole, sign, blade of grass, corner, tire....), if a dog has to go, a dog has to go.  I do walk mine so it would be towards the parkway and on a short leash (6ft) so as to avoid problems in peoples "yards", and I always had doggie bags on my leash (except for the few times they were out, and I did not realize it till too late, SOORRRY whoever :-[), but please don't curse at me because my dog walked over to the light pole in the parkway, and pee'd on it (I really am not sure how I can clean this up, without carrying way too much stuff) and I promise, it will not kill the lightpole. 

I feel for you on the Christmas issue, I have issues each year with my husbands family and mine.  SOO much so, that I just want to take vacation and not be home for the day :P  SO we can do OUR thing.  ::)



I don't have issue if a dog pees in our yard. It seeps into the ground and one rainfall it's gone. But, the poop is what I have issue with. It stays there for months! I have seen another dog go in the exact same place that this woman's dog did and he didn't clean it up, either.  >:( >:( >:(  Even though it is in our yard, I REFUSE to clean up after anyone else's pet but my own!!  The park (which is about 20 yards from where I am sitting right now) has a sign that says "Clean up after your dog." There even is a place that has doggie bags.



Cat

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 2:15 pm



The house is ready but it has no furniture. And yeah, that is basically the plan. I was very emotional all day yesterday (when I posted my rants). I do understand that Carlos' son wants Carlos' dad to meet his great-grandson. Who knows how much longer my FIL will be with us and this may be the only chance. I told Carlos last night to make the kids KNOW without a doubt that Christmas WILL be HERE in 2011!!!! NO EXCUSES!!!! NO CHANGES!!!!!

As for the house in PR, we can play it two ways: 1. Go down early to buy the furniture or let my SIL do that. I know my SIL will and she does have good taste but she doesn't have MY taste. Another issue is the fact that Carlos will want to stay through Feb. and that would be 2 & 1/2 months-more time that I really want to spend down there. We will have to work on a compromise.







go down early/ come back early...that way Carlos gets his time there, you get the furniture you want and you are back in time for some of your *shudder* beloved Vermont winter...





I have seen another dog go in the exact same place that this woman's dog did and he didn't clean it up, either.  >:( >:( >:( 


I hate it when the dogs refuse to clean up after themselves  :D


Even though it is in our yard, I REFUSE to clean up after anyone else's pet but my own!!

At first I read this as I refuse to clean up after anyone's poop but my own....  ;D 

I feel the same way!


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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 2:34 pm


O0 

WOuld you have a job with the public, if you kept spouting out how terrible the people that call in are???  They are stupid for wanting to commit suicide, have a stupid accident (I very seldom ever hear of an emergency accident, that someone completely thought through) or the low lives who allow their houses to get broken into.... etc...  Yes they are out there, and we all spout off about them - but they are what keeps us working as well.  AND There are a lot of positive people out there as well!


I will admit that I have called the suicidal ones stupid but that's because, more often than not, it's nothing more than a plea for attention so a big time waster in my opinion.... 

but, you know, all the people getting stuff stolen, I just consider that job security- even if they did bring it on themselves by leaving their valuables lying around in an unsecured location... 

also all those people having heart attacks, getting drunk or high, or getting beaten up... I figure they're having a bad enough day without my calling them idiots...

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Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/19/10 at 2:35 pm



go down early/ come back early...that way Carlos gets his time there, you get the furniture you want and you are back in time for some of your *shudder* beloved Vermont winter...



I have no idea how Carlos will take to that. I'm sure we are going to be fighting about that.



I hate it when the dogs refuse to clean up after themselves  :D



What I meant was the GUY who was WALKING the dog.  :D ;D ;D ;D  But yeah, you would think that animals would clean up after themselves.  :D :D ;D ;D ;D




At first I read this as I refuse to clean up after anyone's poop but my own....  ;D 

I feel the same way!






That, too.  ;D ;D ;D



Cat

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 2:38 pm


I have no idea how Carlos will take to that. I'm sure we are going to be fighting about that.



tell him that's what you want as one of your christmas gifts....  ;)



What I meant was the GUY who was WALKING the dog.  :D ;D ;D ;D  But yeah, you would think that animals would clean up after themselves.  :D :D ;D ;D ;D


That, too.  ;D ;D ;D



Cat




:D

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Written By: Howard on 07/19/10 at 6:32 pm





sooo, if I want to do my grocery shopping at 3am I have to use a basket because the carts are locked up? What if I'm getting all my groceries not just last minute items.


I wouldn't call the customers stupid- sometimes you forget something or run out of something and run in to get it.  I really kinda hate the way you talk about customers howard....without the customers you'd have no job.  >:(


Some people can find a wagon in the parking lot,I don't know what to say it's a system they have over there.

I'm sorry if I call customers stupid,I just get stressed out. :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 6:35 pm


Some people can find a wagon in the parking lot,I don't know what to say it's a system they have over there.

I'm sorry if I call customers stupid,I just get stressed out. :-\\


It's fine if you do it occasionally Howard we all get fed up sometimes but you seem to always call people stupid and complain about the most insignificant things... wait until the fast driver in the lot actually hits someone or something and then call them stupid or wait til the customer comes up and asks if there are any carts and they are standing next to 50- 

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Written By: Howard on 07/19/10 at 7:06 pm


It's fine if you do it occasionally Howard we all get fed up sometimes but you seem to always call people stupid and complain about the most insignificant things... wait until the fast driver in the lot actually hits someone or something and then call them stupid or wait til the customer comes up and asks if there are any carts and they are standing next to 50-   


there is so much to complain about over there.

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 7:07 pm


there is so much to complain about over there.


there's plenty to complain about in every job. the trick is to let the little things go and save the complaints for the big stuff.

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/19/10 at 9:38 pm


there is so much to complain about over there.
You complain about the same things over and over.... (thrown carts, florist, drivers, garbage, customers, weather)  So spare us, wait for something new to come along and then complain ;)

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Written By: gibbo on 07/19/10 at 9:46 pm

I'm against it all!!!!!  >:(

Sorry...can't be more specific than that!!!

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/19/10 at 9:48 pm


I'm against it all!!!!!  >:(

Sorry...can't be more specific than that!!!
you are such a drama queen  ::)



;)
;D

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 9:51 pm


You complain about the same things over and over.... (thrown carts, florist, drivers, garbage, customers, weather)  So spare us, wait for something new to come along and then complain ;)


here....let me give you an example.


we have an elevator stuck on the third floor....happens occassionally in many of our bldgs.
This time there are 10-15 teenage girls (cheerleading camp) stuck inside... I called the fire dept and the after hours emergency maint. guy.
This is my protocol. 

The maint guy is supposed contact the elevator company.  Usually tho- the maint guy can go out and fix the problem themselves saving them some money... they don't contact the elevator company if the party is out of the elevator and only one of the two elevators is down. this is because it cost too much after hours....

in this case the maint guy couldn't get the elevator open but didn't want to call the elevator repair because one elevator is still working.... there are 10-15 girls still stuck inside!!! its been an hour!!!!!  WTF!!!!

are we supposed to leave them there all frigging night long. Maybe let them out at 0800 hrs?  I mean- come the frack on!!! What kind of thinking is that... are you gonna get in more trouble because you cost the university some money or because you let 15 kids suffer?  ::)  jackass

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/19/10 at 9:57 pm


here....let me give you an example.


we have an elevator stuck on the third floor....happens occassionally in many of our bldgs.
This time there are 10-15 teenage girls (cheerleading camp) stuck inside... I called the fire dept and the after hours emergency maint. guy.
This is my protocol. 

The maint guy is supposed contact the elevator company.  Usually tho- the maint guy can go out and fix the problem themselves saving them some money... they don't contact the elevator company if the party is out of the elevator and only one of the two elevators is down. this is because it cost too much after hours....

in this case the maint guy couldn't get the elevator open but didn't want to call the elevator repair because one elevator is still working.... there are 10-15 girls still stuck inside!!! its been an hour!!!!!  WTF!!!!

are we supposed to leave them there all frigging night long. Maybe let them out at 0800 hrs?  I mean- come the frack on!!! What kind of thinking is that... are you gonna get in more trouble because you cost the university some money or because you let 15 kids suffer?  ::)  jackass


OMG - Heat exhaustion, claustrophobia, and HAVING to relieve ones self  :D  Torture, I shall think a maintenance guy should be finding himself another job :P

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 10:03 pm


OMG - Heat exhaustion, claustrophobia, and HAVING to relieve ones self  :D  Torture, I shall think a maintenance guy should be finding himself another job :P


no shyt... 

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Written By: gibbo on 07/19/10 at 10:28 pm


here....let me give you an example.


we have an elevator stuck on the third floor....happens occassionally in many of our bldgs.
This time there are 10-15 teenage girls (cheerleading camp) stuck inside... I called the fire dept and the after hours emergency maint. guy.
This is my protocol. 

The maint guy is supposed contact the elevator company.  Usually tho- the maint guy can go out and fix the problem themselves saving them some money... they don't contact the elevator company if the party is out of the elevator and only one of the two elevators is down. this is because it cost too much after hours....

in this case the maint guy couldn't get the elevator open but didn't want to call the elevator repair because one elevator is still working.... there are 10-15 girls still stuck inside!!! its been an hour!!!!!  WTF!!!!

are we supposed to leave them there all frigging night long. Maybe let them out at 0800 hrs?  I mean- come the frack on!!! What kind of thinking is that... are you gonna get in more trouble because you cost the university some money or because you let 15 kids suffer?  ::)  jackass




They need someone (much like me) in the lift to calm and soothe them!

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Written By: snozberries on 07/19/10 at 10:31 pm


They need someone (much like me) in the lift to calm and soothe them!


did I mention they were all under the age of 18? You MAP!!!  :P

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Written By: gibbo on 07/20/10 at 12:37 am


did I mention they were all under the age of 18? You MAP!!!  :P


Okay, I understand the issue!    Do they own any dogs or calves?

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Written By: snozberries on 07/20/10 at 2:05 am


Okay, I understand the issue!     Do they own any dogs or calves?

Oh I'm sure some do. I'll totally hook you up!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/20/10 at 6:37 am


there's plenty to complain about in every job. the trick is to let the little things go and save the complaints for the big stuff.


I can't let it go sometimes it just bothers me,I don't know why but it does,maybe that's the way I am.  :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/20/10 at 6:38 am


You complain about the same things over and over.... (thrown carts, florist, drivers, garbage, customers, weather)  So spare us, wait for something new to come along and then complain ;)


I'll try.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 7:41 am


They need someone (much like me) in the lift to calm and soothe them!
LOL - you dirty old man ;D ;D ;D

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 7:43 am


Okay, I understand the issue!     Do they own any dogs or calves?
::)  I think you should stick to your pussy at home  ::)

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Written By: snozberries on 07/20/10 at 10:07 am

hmmm  are we sure Sami didn't wake up in the middle of the night and start the drinking of the wine!!!  ;D

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 11:41 am


hmmm  are we sure Sami didn't wake up in the middle of the night and start the drinking of the wine!!!  ;D
LOL - nope that was me au naturel - just early morning

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Written By: snozberries on 07/20/10 at 12:53 pm


LOL - nope that was me au naturel - just early morning


who can tell the dif any more!  :D

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 2:20 pm


who can tell the dif any more!  :D
Aw come on - you surely can tell the diff.  That above was just polite Gibbo banter ;)

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Written By: snozberries on 07/20/10 at 2:26 pm


Aw come on - you surely can tell the diff.  That above was just polite Gibbo banter ;)





what can I say I'm exhausted... I'm one step away from zombie!!!

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 2:39 pm



what can I say I'm exhausted... I'm one step away from zombie!!!
WHat were you up for??? I didn't think you needed to be into work till 2:00

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/20/10 at 2:58 pm


::)  I think you should stick to your pussy at home  ::)


maybe you should drink your coffee.

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Written By: Howard on 07/20/10 at 3:02 pm

Soon,I might be bringing in my computer,It's been giving me problems,must be the hard drive,I've had it for 2 years now and the previous hard drive died a year ago and that's when I swtched to Vista so when I bring mine in I'll be switched again to IE7 which is better.Now the only thing My father And I have to do is to save my Favorites to disk.

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Written By: gibbo on 07/20/10 at 9:10 pm


Aw come on - you surely can tell the diff.  That above was just polite Gibbo banter ;)




I see I bugged out just when it was getting smutty interesting!  ;) 

BTW...love your Polish cow sig...

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 9:12 pm


I see I bugged out just when it was getting smutty interesting!  ;) 

BTW...love your Polish cow sig...
I have to hear this, why is the cow Polish???

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Written By: gibbo on 07/20/10 at 9:13 pm


I have to hear this, why is the cow Polish???


It's pole dancing.... :P

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/20/10 at 9:26 pm


It's pole dancing.... :P
Hilarious - Thanks for the laugh  ;D ;D ;D

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Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/21/10 at 4:35 pm


I have to hear this, why is the cow Polish???


Cow polish

http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/03/cowsleep.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/21/10 at 6:47 pm

As of August 31st 2010,my Go.com homepage will permanently shut down it's doors,I also want to mention that the corporate assheads Disney owned part of Go which had their links on the bottom that no one clicked or rarely used them but I will have to transfer my addresses and info to my new homepage:  harvey3574@gmail.com

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/21/10 at 6:52 pm


As of August 31st 2010,my Go.com homepage will permanently shut down it's doors,I also want to mention that the corporate assheads Disney owned part of Go which had their links on the bottom that no one clicked or rarely used them but I will have to transfer my addresses and info to my new homepage:  harvey3574@gmail.com


how do you know no one clicked the links? Were you watching what everyone who used go.com did?

I had a go account but with yahoo, google and bing becoming the big names in search engines it was apparent that go wouldn't last very long...in fact they lasted longer than I thought they would.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/21/10 at 7:31 pm


how do you know no one clicked the links? Were you watching what everyone who used go.com did?

I had a go account but with yahoo, google and bing becoming the big names in search engines it was apparent that go wouldn't last very long...in fact they lasted longer than I thought they would.




I've had go.com for almost a decade. It was good while it lasted.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/21/10 at 8:14 pm


I've had go.com for almost a decade. It was good while it lasted.


and that's about 8 years longer than I expected them to last

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/22/10 at 6:42 am


and that's about 8 years longer than I expected them to last


and all those years Go has had problems with log in,doing maintainence and server problems.I wonder why Go has to shut down,Was it because Disney and Go were in a financial war over money or something like that?  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 07/23/10 at 2:07 am


and all those years Go has had problems with log in,doing maintainence and server problems.I wonder why Go has to shut down,Was it because Disney and Go were in a financial war over money or something like that?  ???



or everyone but you left them because "all those years Go has had problems with log in, doing maintenance and server problems"

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/23/10 at 6:49 am



or everyone but you left them because "all those years Go has had problems with log in, doing maintenance and server problems"




I remember a few years after we got our computer in 1997,I think it was in 1999 or 2000,I wanted my very own home page and Go.com was simple and easy and used it for almost 10 years but then a couple of years ago Disney took over and started putting less and less on the go.com page and now it's gone,Now I have to start moving all my adresses and info to another email.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Step-chan on 07/23/10 at 1:25 pm

I just found out that Chuggaaconroy(among others) has been suspended on Youtube for their Let's Plays. Let's Plays of video games are part of fair use.

Vandels have been doing this under false claims of copyright infringment.

>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 07/23/10 at 6:45 pm

Wow,When I came in this afternoon,there were 2 cartpeople on the 10-2 shift,I mean it wasn't that busy this morning and I haven't seen that in quite a while there.I think they have to pay both people since they both had the same morning shift.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/02/10 at 10:20 am

My rant for the day is WHY whenever there is any updates, they want you to have a new toolbar? I use ONE toolbar-I don't need a gazillion of them. I turn them off and they pop up AGAIN!!!! And they always want to add more and more on. AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!





Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: wildcard on 08/02/10 at 12:40 pm

^ I hear you      and all this other great stuff we want to offer you

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 08/02/10 at 6:45 pm


My rant for the day is WHY whenever there is any updates, they want you to have a new toolbar? I use ONE toolbar-I don't need a gazillion of them. I turn them off and they pop up AGAIN!!!! And they always want to add more and more on. AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!





Cat


I hear ya Cat,I have the Google Toolbar,The Roboform Toolbar,It's relentless. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/02/10 at 11:27 pm

I swear there is a stop sign at Bradley International that the cops roll out to some random spot every morning.  State pig pulled two cars over at once (one of them was mine) for a stop sign that happens to be placed where there are no intersecting points of traffic.  I was observing oncoming traffic, not looking for no-reason stop sign half-obscured by vegetation!  Officer Capps (yeah, that's his name) gave me a $125.00 ticket for running that dumb stop sign.  I think the lady behind me got the same.  We sat there for 15 minutes while he's writing the tickets and my buddy's busting his gums about some broad who wanted to have sexual intercourse with him on his business trip.  I kept saying, "Jesus, I know he's writing me a ticket."  Paul kept saying, "Nah, he won't give you a ticket!"  Of course, Officer Capps gave me a ticket.  SO **** HIM!

Then my buddy kept prattling on about how I should challenge the ticket in court and how he challenges all his.  Well, I'm not going to go to drive to frikkin' Hartford and back only to have Judge Mental rule in favor of the cops and dump additional court costs on me (at least that's what they said they could do on the back of the ticket, maybe it's a scare tactic).  So I just wrote the check and sent it in as soon as I got home.  I ran a stop sign.  The cops have it on tape.  The fact that it was a no-reason stop sign in the perpetrator's view don't make no nevermind!  If they found me guilty, I could appeal, but that would take two years and several more trips to Hartford.

Quit whining and pay the ticket.  Yeah, I paid the ticket, I'm just saying that fine is nasty.  Some of us ain't exactly rich, you know!
::)

IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL, WINDSOR LOCKS, CT, WATCH OUT FOR STOP SIGNS!!!

There.  That feels better.
:)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 09/02/10 at 4:53 pm

I wish that DVDs would be consistent with their sound volume. We put in one DVD and the is BLASTING so we turn the volume down. Then we put in another DVD and you can't hear it so up goes the volume. What really gets me is the fact that the music is so loud that you can't hear the dialog.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/02/10 at 6:43 pm


I wish that DVDs would be consistent with their sound volume. We put in one DVD and the is BLASTING so we turn the volume down. Then we put in another DVD and you can't hear it so up goes the volume. What really gets me is the fact that the music is so loud that you can't hear the dialog.



Cat


or when you're watching television and you change the channel,some channels are loud and some are quiet that you have to raise the volume.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 09/03/10 at 10:48 am


or when you're watching television and you change the channel,some channels are loud and some are quiet that you have to raise the volume.



You don't have to even change the channel. The commercials are super loud. You turn the volume down, then the show comes on and you can't hear it so you have turn the volume up again.  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: nally on 09/03/10 at 10:54 am



You don't have to even change the channel. The commercials are super loud. You turn the volume down, then the show comes on and you can't hear it so you have turn the volume up again.  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat

Of course they are. I just hit the mute button when the commercials come on.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/04/10 at 1:52 am


I wish that DVDs would be consistent with their sound volume. We put in one DVD and the is BLASTING so we turn the volume down. Then we put in another DVD and you can't hear it so up goes the volume. What really gets me is the fact that the music is so loud that you can't hear the dialog.



And neither the dialog nor the music is worth hearing in the first place!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 09/04/10 at 11:44 am


And neither the dialog nor the music is worth hearing in the first place!
::)



I'm not talking about porn flicks here.  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/04/10 at 1:02 pm



I'm not talking about porn flicks here.  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat


;D HAHA!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/07/10 at 12:36 am


;D HAHA!


Some of those old flicks had orchestrated music and pop songs written just for the movie.  Not many, but a few high-budget ones (the ones including $50 a pop and free beer for the guys) had soundtracks scored by a composer.*  Then the software to program a computer-generated soundtrack got cheap.  Nowadays they don't use music at all.  They use extra sensitive miking (don't ask mike who) to record sound from things you never new had sounds!
8-P

* Crappy composers.  Maybe the composers from CalArts don't list porno music in their C.V.'s.  No institute of higher learning is going to want to hire you if you've got porno music on your resume.  And don't even think about teaching flute at the local elementary school!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/07/10 at 6:58 am


Some of those old flicks had orchestrated music and pop songs written just for the movie.  Not many, but a few high-budget ones (the ones including $50 a pop and free beer for the guys) had soundtracks scored by a composer.*  Then the software to program a computer-generated soundtrack got cheap.  Nowadays they don't use music at all.  They use extra sensitive miking (don't ask mike who) to record sound from things you never new had sounds!
8-P

* Crappy composers.  Maybe the composers from CalArts don't list porno music in their C.V.'s.  No institute of higher learning is going to want to hire you if you've got porno music on your resume.  And don't even think about teaching flute at the local elementary school!



How about those 70's early 80's porn flicks that used that funky disco music to make love to? ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/07/10 at 10:31 pm


How about those 70's early 80's porn flicks that used that funky disco music to make love to? ;D


Isaac Hayes was the best porno music composer never to write music for porn.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/15/walk.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/08/10 at 6:50 am


Isaac Hayes was the best porno music composer never to write music for porn.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/15/walk.gif


All that thrusting in and out,listening to Issac Hayes.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/11/10 at 9:35 pm

I think my hairline is receding...I think, but I don't know, so I'm anxious about it.

Why?  There's nothing I can do about it if it is.

Because...I always find SOMETHING to be unhappy about!
::) ::) ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/12/10 at 7:19 am


I think my hairline is receding...I think, but I don't know, so I'm anxious about it.

Why?  There's nothing I can do about it if it is.

Because...I always find SOMETHING to be unhappy about!
::) ::) ::)


My hairline is receding too but it runs in the family,My father has it too.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/12/10 at 7:21 am

I'm never going to buy over ripe bananas anymore,It was nice and yellow in the bag at first but a day later,it was all brown gunky smelling and dripping liquid. 8-P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 09/12/10 at 12:13 pm


I think my hairline is receding...I think, but I don't know, so I'm anxious about it.

Why?  There's nothing I can do about it if it is.

Because...I always find SOMETHING to be unhappy about!
::) ::) ::)



I can't verify this but I heard if you have a cow lick your head, it will regrow hair.  


http://www.baldingblog.com/2009/02/09/not-a-cowlick-but-an-actual-cow-licking-your-scalp-to-regrow-hair/


http://animal.discovery.com/videos/weird-true-and-freaky-show-lifts-cow-cures-balding.html



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/12/10 at 1:04 pm

Just about an hour ago,My Father And I were in Waldbaums checking out for our groceries and this guy who was off his shift,fooling around with the cashier,throwing stuff back and forth,My father just belted out "Cut This B U L L S H I T or I'll effin report you,OK" ! >:( Guy quietly walked away thought he was the manager or something.

You wanna fool around,don't fool around on customer's time. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Foo Bar on 09/15/10 at 12:39 am

For the sake of a bunch of half a dozen rats, even though the 2-year clinical data don't show a damn thing in humans, I lost about 3 months' after-tax salary today. That sorta thing comes with the territory, but this is the first time that I actually felt the FDA's concerns about the clinical data were complete BS.

I've already ranted in the weight loss thread, but song parodists (or even people who might want to enjoy in some schadenfreude at my expense :) might want to pick up on my complete rant with Family Guy parody about the fellas at the freakin' FDA.  First time in living memory that I've ever been dead serious about a parody.

Fark the FDA.  Fark it and everyone who works for it.  They turn a blind eye to the most rabid forms of quackery, but waste no time in shutting down drugs that might actually work.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/15/10 at 7:00 am

workers and customers over at Pathmark are starting to get an "I don't give a crap" attitude,I guess when they heard about it closing in one month they figured "Who Cares,I'll do whatever the hell I want".

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/17/10 at 9:09 pm

You watch the Rachel Maddow show on Friday night.  You space out, leave it on mute, and before you know it, images of a sadistic hellhole prison in Alabama have been filtering into your personal space.  It's a bring-down, baby!
8-P

MSNBC has some of the most lame-ass programming on the weekends, I does sweeeeaarrr to Jupiter, I does indeed!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/10/uhoh3.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 09/17/10 at 10:10 pm


I think my hairline is receding...I think, but I don't know, so I'm anxious about it.

Why?  There's nothing I can do about it if it is.

Because...I always find SOMETHING to be unhappy about!
::) ::) ::)


Don't sweat it Max.  Honestly.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Ashkicksass on 09/17/10 at 10:11 pm



I can't verify this but I heard if you have a cow lick your head, it will regrow hair.  



Cat


Ok, that just struck me really funny.  Max, if you try this you have to post pictures!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/18/10 at 12:32 am


Ok, that just struck me really funny.  Max, if you try this you have to post pictures!


The cow said she didn't go for that kinky stuff!
:-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: ADH13 on 09/18/10 at 12:42 am


I think my hairline is receding...I think, but I don't know, so I'm anxious about it.

Why?  There's nothing I can do about it if it is.

Because...I always find SOMETHING to be unhappy about!
::) ::) ::)


I wouldn't worry about it, if it even is... people turn themselves bald intentionally these days!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/18/10 at 6:53 am


Don't sweat it Max.  Honestly.


Hey I got it too so I don't care,I'll still have half my hair when I'm 40.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/18/10 at 6:57 am

I'm looking forward to my week off from work,this should be the last week off then in just a couple of weeks later Pathmark will be shutting down getting ready to have sales of 50% off and they will be closing at 9pm starting next week so hours will be cut even more,Man this will be a sad closing,I'm going to miss my favorite customers. :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 09/18/10 at 8:00 am


You watch the Rachel Maddow show on Friday night.  You space out, leave it on mute, and before you know it, images of a sadistic hellhole prison in Alabama have been filtering into your personal space.  It's a bring-down, baby!
8-P

MSNBC has some of the most lame-ass programming on the weekends, I does sweeeeaarrr to Jupiter, I does indeed!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/10/uhoh3.gif



I agree. We NEVER watch MSNBC on weekends. Of course we are not watching it this week because my SIL doesn't have it. I will probably catch Rachel & Keith on-line when we have a bit more time. Gotta watch Fridays with Thurber.  ;)



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 09/18/10 at 8:25 am

I would like to b!tch about the hot & humid weather here but I guess that wouldn't help. In a few weeks we will be back to the cool autumn weather of New England.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 09/18/10 at 6:49 pm


I would like to b!tch about the hot & humid weather here but I guess that wouldn't help. In a few weeks we will be back to the cool autumn weather of New England.



Cat


I like Autumn,cooler weather and you can leave your window open all night.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/15/10 at 1:48 pm

AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!


After fighting with my old computer everyday, I FINALLY had enough and bought a new computer a few months ago. Now, I'm trying to print something and keep getting a "trouble communicating with the printer" notice. WHY, WHY, WHY??  I guess I am going to have to take the sledgehammer back out!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/15/10 at 3:27 pm

I wish people would stop evading fares and just pay already,I know it's raining and yes you're soaken wet and the bus is very crowded,either you pay the fare and get on in the front of the bus or don't get on at all.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Foo Bar on 10/16/10 at 4:52 pm


Some of those old flicks had orchestrated music and pop songs written just for the movie.  Not many, but a few high-budget ones (the ones including $50 a pop and free beer for the guys) had soundtracks scored by a composer.*  Then the software to program a computer-generated soundtrack got cheap.  Nowadays they don't use music at all.  They use extra sensitive miking (don't ask mike who) to record sound from things you never new had sounds!
8-P


Required listening: Pornosonic: Unreleased 70s porno music collection that was released in 2004.  No fake moans, just funky grooves with lulzy introductions from the Hedgehog himself.  There's a SPOT where some guy named Bruunski is BLOGging.  I agree with his assessment of the music: it stands on its own - if you didn't know where it came from, you'd swear it was on a par with Parliament or George (or is it Bill :) Clinton.


After fighting with my old computer everyday, I FINALLY had enough and bought a new computer a few months ago. Now, I'm trying to print something and keep getting a "trouble communicating with the printer" notice. WHY, WHY, WHY??  I guess I am going to have to take the sledgehammer back out!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(


Wrong tool for the job.  Sledgehammers went out with the 70s and Pornosonic.  You need an aluminum baseball bat and some Geto Boys.

(If you don't recognize it from the first frame of the video, NSFW language.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5orss3fAEU

...damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.  (Even with the language, if you were to play this at work, everyone at work would be smiling too.)

Obligatory Rant:  Dear Steve Ballmer, please buy Adobe.  The combined gravitational suck of your companies' respective product suites would implode you both into a black hole, never to been seen nor heard from again, and I'd make a small fortune off it.  I win, the whole world wins with me.  So just do it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/17/10 at 7:16 am

People on line have to stop taking their sweet time ordering what they want and just order already and have the guy behind you wait so damn long! ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/19/10 at 3:08 pm

After going to my mother's party on Saturday, I put the photos that I took up on a private Photobucket album complete with a password so no one could see them except family. My brother who is super-paranoid was all upset by it. The thing is, he went to our FATHER and cried to him. He didn't say anything to me directly.  ::) He did say at the party about them not being on FACEBOOK which I did not do. I thought having a password protected album he wouldn't have a fit. I was wrong.  ::)  The thing is, I didn't include any names-any tags, nothing. If anyone saw any of these photos they really wouldn't care. But because my brother had to have a fit, I took them all down. Next time I just won't include him on the distribution and what he doesn't know won't hurt him. After I took down that album, I noticed that I also had the pics from our family reunion several years ago-and yes, there were a few pics of him.  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/08/saevilw.gif



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/19/10 at 4:14 pm

First!  There's someone more paranoid than you  :o  ;)

Second. How annoying that your brother just couldn't talk to you instead he had to run to your dad. I don't know why people can't be adult enough to approach you and tell you how they feel.  If we were still in grade school I could see running to the teacher because at that age you don't have the maturity to handle conflict amounts yourselves. But as adults we should be able to settle differences without running to someone outside of the conflict.
If the conflict can't be resolved then you can seek a mediator but you should at least attempt to resolve the conflict on your own instead of whining to someone else.

Good plan not including your brother in your next set of pics.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/19/10 at 4:29 pm


First!  There's someone more paranoid than you  :o  ;)

Second. How annoying that your brother just couldn't talk to you instead he had to run to your dad. I don't know why people can't be adult enough to approach you and tell you how they feel.  If we were still in grade school I could see running to the teacher because at that age you don't have the maturity to handle conflict amounts yourselves. But as adults we should be able to settle differences without running to someone outside of the conflict.
If the conflict can't be resolved then you can seek a mediator but you should at least attempt to resolve the conflict on your own instead of whining to someone else.

Good plan not including your brother in your next set of pics.



Are we talking about my brother or someone else?  ;)




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/20/10 at 1:48 am



Are we talking about my brother or someone else?  ;)




Cat



a little of both I think!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/22/10 at 10:22 pm

Whenever I bitch about something, some wiseass always offers solutions to my problem that I already thought of.  When I explain why the solutions won't work, they call me a pessimist.  They tell me stories about some guy who beat cancer with a happy can-do attitude.  I tell them about my brother-in-law who had cancer AND a happy can-do attitude, and he died.  Then they have the gall to call me a cynic!
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/23/10 at 6:50 am

These cartkeys that looks like a remote control annoy me sometimes,It's like you assume it's unstuck but then it gets stuck again,then you have to keep on clicking the green button till it frees itself.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 10/23/10 at 2:53 pm


Whenever I bitch about something, some wiseass always offers solutions to my problem that I already thought of.  When I explain why the solutions won't work, they call me a pessimist.  They tell me stories about some guy who beat cancer with a happy can-do attitude.  I tell them about my brother-in-law who had cancer AND a happy can-do attitude, and he died.  Then they have the gall to call me a cynic!
>:(
Damn problem solvers  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/23/10 at 4:52 pm


Damn problem solvers  >:(


at least that's what they like to think they are.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/25/10 at 10:43 pm


at least that's what they like to think they are.  ::)


Yeah, they know all about how to solve YOUR problems, but never their OWN problems...so there!
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/26/10 at 7:05 am

I wish Pathmark made the parking lot a bit better,it doesn't seem straight enough.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/26/10 at 3:11 pm


I wish Pathmark made the parking lot a bit better,it doesn't seem straight enough.


Pathmark didn't make the parking lot howard.

The real estate developer did,  then he or the company leased Pathmark the building that sits in the parking lot

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 10/26/10 at 3:46 pm


I wish Pathmark made the parking lot a bit better,it doesn't seem straight enough.

Aw, c'mon Howard, aern't being a little too picky?

Pathmark didn't make the parking lot howard.

The real estate developer did,  then he or the company leased Pathmark the building that sits in the parking lot

Exactly.
( And Howard, don't say that Pathmark should hire a new developer to strighten out the parking lot)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/26/10 at 4:24 pm


Aw, c'mon Howard, aern't being a little too picky?Exactly.
( And Howard, don't say that Pathmark should hire a new developer to strighten out the parking lot)



;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/26/10 at 4:27 pm


Aw, c'mon Howard, aern't being a little too picky?Exactly.
( And Howard, don't say that Pathmark should hire a new developer to strighten out the parking lot)


someone should invent a conveyor belt that the cart guys push the carts onto and then it carries the carts to the front....
of course then howard would complain that the conveyor belt moved too fast.......    or too slow.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 10/26/10 at 5:07 pm


someone should invent a conveyor belt that the cart guys push the carts onto and then it carries the carts to the front....
of course then howard would complain that the conveyor belt moved too fast.......    or too slow.

or not straight enough  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/26/10 at 7:48 pm


Pathmark didn't make the parking lot howard.

The real estate developer did,  then he or the company leased Pathmark the building that sits in the parking lot


Sorry I just complain a lot. :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/26/10 at 7:51 pm


someone should invent a conveyor belt that the cart guys push the carts onto and then it carries the carts to the front....
of course then howard would complain that the conveyor belt moved too fast.......    or too slow.



Well I did use a small bungee cord with a metal S on the end which you keep the carts straight so they don't wind up falling down the little hill.http://www.paragonsports.com/images/medium/5303-p450_bungee13_pd.jpg

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/26/10 at 8:32 pm


Sorry I just complain a lot. :(


instead of focusing on the negative all the time you should come tell us about all the good things that happened.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/27/10 at 7:00 am


instead of focusing on the negative all the time you should come tell us about all the good things that happened.



I should talk about the good rather than focus on the bad.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/27/10 at 3:12 pm



I should talk about the good rather than focus on the bad.


exactly!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/28/10 at 6:53 am


exactly!!!


I'll try.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/29/10 at 11:01 pm

Look here, if Lois Griffin is supposed to be from an R.I. WASP family, why does she talk like Fran Drescher?  My friend's wife also talks like that, and she's a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn! 

And don't say "fowah" instead of "four," hurts my eardrums!

>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/30/10 at 7:10 am

Why does Pathmark give me a tattered pulley that looks like a dog chewed on it on the end? ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 10/30/10 at 7:45 am


Why does Pathmark give me a tattered pulley that looks like a dog chewed on it on the end? ::)
:-X

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/30/10 at 7:53 am


:-X


cat got your tongue eh Sami?  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 10/30/10 at 7:56 am


cat got your tongue eh Sami?  ;)
nope - jumping rope with barbed wire

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/30/10 at 12:15 pm


cat got your tongue eh Sami?  ;)



I do not have her tongue.




Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 10/30/10 at 1:11 pm



I do not have her tongue.




Cat
hella no... I just did not see anything worth my breath to display :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/30/10 at 8:03 pm



I do not have her tongue.




Cat


;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/30/10 at 8:05 pm

They finally gave me a pulley with a loop,thank god! ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 10/30/10 at 10:44 pm


They finally gave me a pulley with a loop,thank god! ::)


I think I might have shed a small tear of thankfulness just now. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/30/10 at 11:45 pm


I think I might have shed a small tear of thankfulness just now.   


I think I owe you more karma!!!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/31/10 at 7:12 am


I think I might have shed a small tear of thankfulness just now.   



and one of the guys put fresh batteries in the cartkey yesterday.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 10/31/10 at 12:49 pm



and one of the guys put fresh batteries in the cartkey yesterday.


I'm astounded!  Flabergasted!  (but not worried... I'm SURE you'll find something else to complain about Pathmark with ease.)  How are the drivers in this lot?  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 10/31/10 at 1:46 pm


I think I owe you more karma!!!  ;D


Got her for ya! ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/31/10 at 1:48 pm


I'm astounded!  Flabergasted!  (but not worried... I'm SURE you'll find something else to complain about Pathmark with ease.)  How are the drivers in this lot?   ;)


Oh Man It's quite horrendous over there,some of them drive off as fast as Garden City Park and you got people walking back and forth but drivers have to drive slow cause people are walking out their car and into the store.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 10/31/10 at 2:00 pm

walking from their car into the store in a parking lot outside a store?  Imagine the nerve of some people!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/31/10 at 2:34 pm


Got her for ya! ;D


thanks!!! got you for me!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 10/31/10 at 2:47 pm


walking from their car into the store in a parking lot outside a store?  Imagine the nerve of some people!


I'm waiting for the drive-through store, where you get to drive your car through the aisle (some of those warehouse stores are big enough that you almost could.  lol)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/31/10 at 2:52 pm


walking from their car into the store in a parking lot outside a store?  Imagine the nerve of some people!


I know,It gets so crowded out there,people just don't know when to slow down. ::)
There were times when I almost got run over.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 10/31/10 at 2:53 pm


I'm waiting for the drive-through store, where you get to drive your car through the aisle (some of those warehouse stores are big enough that you almost could.  lol)


I wish it could happen in Pathmarks.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/31/10 at 3:05 pm


Oh Man It's quite horrendous over there,some of them drive off as fast as Garden City Park and you got people walking back and forth but drivers have to drive slow cause people are walking out their car and into the store.


I think, Howard, maybe your perception of fast driving is a little skewed.... perhaps it just feels like people are driving fast because they are in a car and you aren't but they are probably driving the appropriate speed for a parking lot. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/31/10 at 3:05 pm


walking from their car into the store in a parking lot outside a store?  Imagine the nerve of some people!


;D  I was gonna say something like that!  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 10/31/10 at 3:08 pm


I know,It gets so crowded out there,people just don't know when to slow down. ::)
There were times when I almost got run over.


that's not what karen said howard  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/31/10 at 3:16 pm


I'm waiting for the drive-through store, where you get to drive your car through the aisle (some of those warehouse stores are big enough that you almost could.  lol)



I have seen drive-thru liquor/convenience stores.


http://www.photo-globe.de/assets/images/db_images/db_Cairns_Drive_Through3.jpg

http://a865.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/36/l_a1f63cbcac884f23ee9182d5ec1198f8.jpg



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/01/10 at 7:10 am


I think, Howard, maybe your perception of fast driving is a little skewed.... perhaps it just feels like people are driving fast because they are in a car and you aren't but they are probably driving the appropriate speed for a parking lot. 


and sometimes it's like The Indianapolis 500.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/01/10 at 7:15 am


and sometimes it's like The Indianapolis 500.  ::)
Last time I checked, but the typical mom's grocery getter's get up and go does not allow for 185 mph speed needed to qualify for Indy 500....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/01/10 at 7:54 am


Last time I checked, but the typical mom's grocery getter's get up and go does not allow for 185 mph speed needed to qualify for Indy 500....


you don't know this parking lot.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/01/10 at 9:20 am


Last time I checked, but the typical mom's grocery getter's get up and go does not allow for 185 mph speed needed to qualify for Indy 500....


exactly...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/01/10 at 9:20 am


and sometimes it's like The Indianapolis 500.  ::)


that's not what I said Howard.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/01/10 at 9:21 am


you don't know this parking lot.


I don't think people drive as fast as you think they do howard.


you said somewhere that you don't drive... that means you don't really know speeds 

I think people drive the way they are supposed to and it just FEELS  fast to you.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/01/10 at 1:44 pm


that's not what I said Howard.  ::)


Well FYI you have never seen the parking lot over here at Pathmark,It's quite dangerous at times.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/01/10 at 1:50 pm


Well FYI you have never seen the parking lot over here at Pathmark,It's quite dangerous at times.


I don't know if I believe that Howard...

you complained about people speeding at the other one... now you complain at this one. 


Everyone can't be speeding every day


the only common denominator is you.


therefore I think what you think is a safe speed and what is allowed in a parking are two very different things.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/01/10 at 2:36 pm


I don't know if I believe that Howard...

you complained about people speeding at the other one... now you complain at this one. 


Everyone can't be speeding every day


the only common denominator is you.


therefore I think what you think is a safe speed and what is allowed in a parking are two very different things.


ok.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/02/10 at 12:30 am


I think, Howard, maybe your perception of fast driving is a little skewed.... perhaps it just feels like people are driving fast because they are in a car and you aren't but they are probably driving the appropriate speed for a parking lot.  


I used to be a cart man myself, and I gotta agree with Howard on this one.  When you spend three solid hours patrolling the lot for shopping carts you see all kinds of maniacs.  You see drunks rocketing down the aisles at 30 mph and spaced-out geezers lurching backwards out of spaces without so much as a glance over the shoulders, and then there were the dingbat suburban moms screaming at the brats in the backseat while they zigzag down the fire lane in their nasty station wagons (that was the '80s, now it's all SUVs, mind you).  If I had a nickel for every time I nearly got run down, I'd have...a lot of nickels!  Rednecks would park their jacked-up monster trucks sideways taking up four spaces (bumper stickers: "You toucha my truck, I breaka you face" and "If I wanted to hear from an a**hole, I would have f*rted!").  Same practice as guys named Vinnie and Tony who with their spit-shined Irocs.  We had one customer, I s**t  you not, who must have been the doppelganger of Phil Silvers.  The guy used to park his '79 canary yellow Cadillac IN THE MIDDLE of the parking lot beltway itself.  He'd wheel his cart out of the store and screech, "Hey, hey, you kid, git over here and put my bags in da gaddam cah!  What are you, retahded or sumpin?"  I swore the day would come I'd put the 80-pound No Parking sign right through his windshield, but I never did...

Meh, it was so much fun to hate people back then!
:-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/02/10 at 1:45 am

I bagged groceries and collected carts in a college town for two years. College kids are dumb and careless but the amount of cars I saw speeding never amounted to the total Howard complains about.

To hear him tell it averages out to about  every third car or something.

Howard is impatient and intolerant.

If he complained less about the same things over and over again
And if he respected the fact that he got the jobwith almost no effort I'd give his complaints more credence. Right now, in my eyes, he's like the boy who cried wolf.

He comes in everyday with the negative comments and it got old over a year ago

New store and, except for that stupid remote, it's the same old complaints. I repeat. The only common variable in Howards complaints is Howard. Methinks that someone who has the same complaints over and over again should start to examine himself and see if he's not the issue.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/02/10 at 3:33 am


I bagged groceries and collected carts in a college town for two years. College kids are dumb and careless but the amount of cars I saw speeding never amounted to the total Howard complains about.

To hear him tell it averages out to about  every third car or something.

Howard is impatient and intolerant.

If he complained less about the same things over and over again
And if he respected the fact that he got the jobwith almost no effort I'd give his complaints more credence. Right now, in my eyes, he's like the boy who cried wolf.

He comes in everyday with the negative comments and it got old over a year ago

New store and, except for that stupid remote, it's the same old complaints. I repeat. The only common variable in Howards complaints is Howard. Methinks that someone who has the same complaints over and over again should start to examine himself and see if he's not the issue.



Yes...Howard needs a girlfriend to complain about!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/02/10 at 6:59 am


Yes...Howard needs a girlfriend to complain about!
I am sure we would all get tired of him complain about her as well, but hey at least it would be something new... I missed it the first time around...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/02/10 at 7:05 am


Yes...Howard needs a girlfriend to complain about!


Nah,not right now,I HAD a girlfriend and they don't need to hear my complaints,they'll probably think I'm a tape recorder. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/02/10 at 7:07 am

Howard is impatient and intolerant.

I guess a lot of things bother me. :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/02/10 at 7:08 am


I am sure we would all get tired of him complain about her as well, but hey at least it would be something new... I missed it the first time around...


I'm sure Sami you remember that time in 2007-08.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 11/02/10 at 9:39 am


I'm sure Sami you remember that time in 2007-08.


Sami wasn't a member then. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/02/10 at 5:00 pm


I'm sure Sami you remember that time in 2007-08.
Nope notta - I got here for the after math ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/02/10 at 5:00 pm


Sami wasn't a member then. 
8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/02/10 at 6:56 pm


Sami wasn't a member then. 


It was that certain girl (and I'm not mentioning any names) that caused me stress.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Tam on 11/02/10 at 8:39 pm

I am beyond frustrated with the Disney Movie Rewards website.
Toy Story 3 came out today and they have a coupon for members for $8 off the 3 Disc Edition.
So, I go to the website, takes about a minute or 2 to load the page - literally.
I sign in because, yes, I am a member.
It sends me to a page that says it can't find the page I am looking for.
All other links are either semi working, or can't be found.
I try again - I then get an internal server error.
Fabulous!

So it seems that the reward website is not designed to handle a shyt ton of people hitting it in order to get their coupon!

They probably shouldn't have waited until today to send out the reminder email about the coupon! A week earlier and I bet the site would be operating fine tonight!
Stupid People!
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/02/10 at 11:46 pm


I am sure we would all get tired of him complain about her as well, but hey at least it would be something new... I missed it the first time around...


Been there done that... dare I mention the "R" word?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/02/10 at 11:48 pm


I'm sure Sami you remember that time in 2007-08.


sami wasn't here in 2007 nor was she here for the first 8 months of 2008

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/02/10 at 11:48 pm


Nope notta - I got here for the after math ::)


LUCKY!!!  :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/02/10 at 11:49 pm


It was that certain girl (and I'm not mentioning any names) that caused me stress.


WE KNOW...  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/02/10 at 11:49 pm


I am beyond frustrated with the Disney Movie Rewards website.
Toy Story 3 came out today and they have a coupon for members for $8 off the 3 Disc Edition.
So, I go to the website, takes about a minute or 2 to load the page - literally.
I sign in because, yes, I am a member.
It sends me to a page that says it can't find the page I am looking for.
All other links are either semi working, or can't be found.
I try again - I then get an internal server error.
Fabulous!

So it seems that the reward website is not designed to handle a shyt ton of people hitting it in order to get their coupon!

They probably shouldn't have waited until today to send out the reminder email about the coupon! A week earlier and I bet the site would be operating fine tonight!
Stupid People!
>:(



bummer!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/03/10 at 6:56 am


Been there done that... dare I mention the "R" word?


No,let's keep this person dead and buried. ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/03/10 at 12:42 pm

When they say: You're entitled to your opinion.

They mean: Take your opinion and shove it up your wazoo!

::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/03/10 at 1:18 pm

I hate it when I'm on line in a small drugstore and I have 3 items and this woman is talking about her medication for a long time and they keep me waiting,Can I please pay for my items already?  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/03/10 at 2:36 pm


I hate it when I'm on line in a small drugstore and I have 3 items and this woman is talking about her medication for a long time and they keep me waiting,Can I please pay for my items already?  ::)


If you'd gotten there earlier you could have paid for your items but you didn't get there earlier the woman got their first and she has a right to get her questions answered.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 11/03/10 at 3:18 pm


I hate it when I'm on line in a small drugstore and I have 3 items and this woman is talking about her medication for a long time and they keep me waiting,Can I please pay for my items already?  ::)

This medication might be life saving, or more important to her than a can of coke and bag of chips you bought.
Their plan is not to keep you waiting. Instead of thinking how long you have to wait, browse through a magasine, book, think of ways you can do your job better, the time will pass without you getting irritated. Try it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/03/10 at 11:21 pm


This medication might be life saving, or more important to her than a can of coke and bag of chips you bought.
Their plan is not to keep you waiting. Instead of thinking how long you have to wait, browse through a magasine, book, think of ways you can do your job better, the time will pass without you getting irritated. Try it.



Older folks tend to take more medications than younger people, so it's statistically more likely the person ahead of you is going to be old.  However, Americans have such a messy patchwork of private/public insurance plans that sometimes the questions don't have anything to do with the meds but the co-pay for the meds!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/04/10 at 6:46 am


If you'd gotten there earlier you could have paid for your items but you didn't get there earlier the woman got their first and she has a right to get her questions answered.   >:(


How did I know she was going to be there? I just went in and she was there.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/04/10 at 6:32 pm


How did I know she was going to be there? I just went in and she was there.


Howard, she didn't ask questions to purposely hold you up.  She was doing what she had the right to do.  It is important when taking meds to ask any questions you may have.  If you don't and you have a reaction, you could die.  You need to have a little patience.  Lines are a part of life.  DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/04/10 at 7:55 pm


Howard, she didn't ask questions to purposely hold you up.  She was doing what she had the right to do.  It is important when taking meds to ask any questions you may have.  If you don't and you have a reaction, you could die.  You need to have a little patience.  Lines are a part of life.  DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!


And she had the nerve to say "Poor Boy". ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/04/10 at 7:57 pm

I was in the parking lot this afternoon and this nice elderly woman wanted a shopping cart then this kid snatches the cart that the elderly woman wanted out of my hands. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/04/10 at 7:59 pm



I always thought this was a great saying.


There's more to reality than your perception.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/04/10 at 8:23 pm


And she had the nerve to say "Poor Boy". ::)


Why are you being so mean about a lady who happened to be in line in front of you?  Seriously, Howard...there is more to life than having to stand in line.  If that is all you have to gripe about then you should count your lucky stars that you have such a good life. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/04/10 at 8:25 pm


Why are you being so mean about a lady who happened to be in line in front of you?  Seriously, Howard...there is more to life than having to stand in line.  If that is all you have to gripe about then you should count your lucky stars that you have such a good life. 


Maybe I need to work on my patience,I get uptight sometimes.  :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/05/10 at 6:44 am


Maybe I need to work on my patience,I get uptight sometimes.  :(


That would be a good thing, Howard.  Life is so much more enjoyable when you are not angry. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/05/10 at 7:00 am


That would be a good thing, Howard.  Life is so much more enjoyable when you are not angry. :)


Also it happens in Dunkin Donuts where I just want to order a coffee and donut(s) and someone on line is taking 20 million years to figure out what he/she wants,just ORDER SOMETHING ALREADY for crying out loud!  >:( ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/05/10 at 7:07 am


Also it happens in Dunkin Donuts where I just want to order a coffee and donut(s) and someone on line is taking 20 million years to figure out what he/she wants,just ORDER SOMETHING ALREADY for crying out loud!  >:( ::)
HEY THAT's me you are talking about...  You can just relax, or go when it is not busy...  I will take an extra 5 now that I know I annoy people like you >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/05/10 at 7:10 am


Why are you being so mean about a lady who happened to be in line in front of you?  Seriously, Howard...there is more to life than having to stand in line.  If that is all you have to gripe about then you should count your lucky stars that you have such a good life. 


karma paid! O0

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/05/10 at 7:11 am


Maybe I need to work on my patience,I get uptight sometimes.  :(


there is no maybe about this...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/05/10 at 7:12 am


Maybe I need to work on my patience,I get uptight sometimes.  :(




Also it happens in Dunkin Donuts where I just want to order a coffee and donut(s) and someone on line is taking 20 million years to figure out what he/she wants,just ORDER SOMETHING ALREADY for crying out loud!  >:( ::)


well that lasted approx 10 hours and 35 minutes  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/05/10 at 7:12 am


HEY THAT's me you are talking about...  You can just relax, or go when it is not busy...  I will take an extra 5 now that I know I annoy people like you >:(



Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 24 hours.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/05/10 at 7:14 am



well that lasted approx 10 hours and 35 minutes  ::)
and he is talking about me....  I never know what I want, I have to decide - what do I feel like... I don't like donut's but I love their coffee and perhaps a sandwich...  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/05/10 at 7:16 am


and he is talking about me....  I never know what I want, I have to decide - what do I feel like... I don't like donut's but I love their coffee and perhaps a sandwich...   ::)


yeah but he's complained about the line at subway too...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/05/10 at 7:18 am


HEY THAT's me you are talking about...  You can just relax, or go when it is not busy...  I will take an extra 5 now that I know I annoy people like you >:(


I don't know if Dunkin Donuts was ever not busy.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/05/10 at 7:19 am


and he is talking about me....  I never know what I want, I have to decide - what do I feel like... I don't like donut's but I love their coffee and perhaps a sandwich...   ::)


take your time I have all day.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/05/10 at 7:20 am


yeah but he's complained about the line at subway too...


I'm just never satisfied.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/05/10 at 7:28 am


I'm just never satisfied.


we know

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 11/05/10 at 10:57 am


I'm just never satisfied.

Again, you need to DISTRACT yourself when waiting in line. Don't think "Oh why doesn't this person hurry up, can't they see I am waiting?"
Think of something else. You are being a little too self-centered.
It's really no big deal in life.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/05/10 at 3:00 pm


Again, you need to DISTRACT yourself when waiting in line. Don't think "Oh why doesn't this person hurry up, can't they see I am waiting?"
Think of something else. You are being a little too self-centered.
It's really no big deal in life.


Maybe I should fiddle with my cell phone.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/05/10 at 4:55 pm


karma paid! O0


Karma owed. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/05/10 at 4:57 pm


yeah but he's complained about the line at subway too...
precisely

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 11/05/10 at 5:54 pm


Maybe I should fiddle with my cell phone.

If that is one way to distract yourself, then it's great.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/05/10 at 8:14 pm


and he is talking about me....  I never know what I want, I have to decide - what do I feel like... I don't like donut's but I love their coffee and perhaps a sandwich...   ::)


Okay...now I'm gonna have to side with Howard.  Ladies....please decide what you want to buy or take whatever you need out of your purse BEFORE stepping up to the service counter!!!  It really annoys me when people start the selection process when they hear the words" what may I get for you". I always know exactly what I'm getting prior to actual service. This is primarily to NOT waste other people's time. However, I do notice that most do not share my sentiments...in fact, most others decide for themselves that MY time is not worth too much at all...and they take THEIR sweet time stuffing about.  Oh...and quite often they also decide that their friends can jump into the line with them...which will mean another couple of people just got served in front of me without wasting THEIR time, of course.

However....DON"T GET ME STARTED!!!!!  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/05/10 at 10:42 pm


Okay...now I'm gonna have to side with Howard.  Ladies....please decide what you want to buy or take whatever you need out of your purse BEFORE stepping up to the service counter!!!   It really annoys me when people start the selection process when they hear the words" what may I get for you". I always know exactly what I'm getting prior to actual service. This is primarily to NOT waste other people's time. However, I do notice that most do not share my sentiments...in fact, most others decide for themselves that MY time is not worth too much at all...and they take THEIR sweet time stuffing about.  Oh...and quite often they also decide that their friends can jump into the line with them...which will mean another couple of people just got served in front of me without wasting THEIR time, of course.

However....DON"T GET ME STARTED!!!!!  >:(


Some of them are passive aggressive.  Most are just cognitively compromised.  Patience is a virtue.  It's not your time.  It's everybody's time and we don't all reckon time the same we, do we? (to paraphrase Hannibal Lector)  I get impatient too but my time isn't still everybody's time and time is not as important as patience.  Time will run out but patience need not.  Self-importance is a temptation.  Lead us not into.  If one's self is as important to all as it is to one then one would have another to wait on line for him while one goes about his important time as important to him as it is to all.  Confused yet?  Ponder it with your time on line at the chemist.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_scratch.gif

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/06/10 at 1:19 am


Some of them are passive aggressive.  Most are just cognitively compromised.  Patience is a virtue.  It's not your time.  It's everybody's time and we don't all reckon time the same we, do we? (to paraphrase Hannibal Lector)  I get impatient too but my time isn't still everybody's time and time is not as important as patience.  Time will run out but patience need not.  Self-importance is a temptation.  Lead us not into.  If one's self is as important to all as it is to one then one would have another to wait on line for him while one goes about his important time as important to him as it is to all.  Confused yet?  Ponder it with your time on line at the chemist.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_scratch.gif


I'm not entirely certain what you said....but I think I liked it!!  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/06/10 at 6:57 am


If that is one way to distract yourself, then it's great.


I just want to stand there,either look at the menu or just stare at the window.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/06/10 at 6:59 am

I already know what I want and boom I'm out,I waste no time at all,I don't have to decide either.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/06/10 at 10:06 am

Why are people trying to control and bully other people about posting in one thread, but not posting in another thread.  The thread count is uneven, so they report to a moderator, to a moderator that follows up on the story.  To me this is ridiculous... 

This is the age old conflict of tattling and telling..

Is someone pyschologically or physically going to be hurt?  and I mean really hurt... NOT - I just don't like it, so it is hurting me..

What is my intention? 

Motivation - what is my motivation?

  ie.  Someone is doing what I think they are not supposed to do
        a. I want to get them in trouble
        b.  I want them to do it my way
        c.  I want the attention to be me, usually looking like the perfect angel (smiles, and holds hands together in the praying position while they do it; giving compliments - Eddie Haskel)
        d.  I got caught, I want them to get caught too
       
Telling on the other hand is revolving others, and trying to prevent me or others to get hurt
    1) I need help because I don’t know how to handle it.
    2) I already tried to handle it and it didn’t work.
    3) I might get hurt (or others might get hurt) more if I try to handle it myself.
    4)Someone is doing something they’re not supposed to and:
    5) I want to know if the rules have changed.

Another difference is the level of emergency - Is this an emergency or can this be dealt with anytime?







Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 11/06/10 at 10:37 am

The definition of the word game: An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime
Am I being entertained or amused?

No.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/06/10 at 3:12 pm




What is my intention?  

Motivation - what is my motivation?

  ie.  Someone is doing what I think they are not supposed to do
        a. I want to get them in trouble
        b.  I want them to do it my way
        c.  I want the attention to be me, usually looking like the perfect angel (smiles, and holds hands together in the praying position while they do it; giving compliments - Eddie Haskel)
        d.  I got caught, I want them to get caught too
       


reminds me of Judy Hensler...

http://www.tvsinopse.kinghost.net/l/leave-it-to-beaver3_arquivos/tvsinopse11044.jpg

MISS LANDERS! MISS LANDERS!!!
SOMEONE POSTED OUT OF TURN IN PBG!!!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/06/10 at 8:12 pm

Whatever happened to peace and quiet on the buses?  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 11/07/10 at 12:40 am


Whatever happened to peace and quiet on the buses?  ::)

When were they ever quiet? ( except at 5Am when everyone is half asleep and the drunks at the back are passed out)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/07/10 at 6:44 am


When were they ever quiet? ( except at 5Am when everyone is half asleep and the drunks at the back are passed out)


Now you get on a city bus and people are blasting their Ipods and yammering into their cell phones.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/10 at 6:47 am


Now you get on a city bus and people are blasting their Ipods and yammering into their cell phones.
I find it rather strange for people are talking on their mobile phones and everyone can hear the personal details of the phone call that is being made.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/07/10 at 6:50 am


I find it rather strange for people are talking on their mobile phones and everyone can hear the personal details of the phone call that is being made.


One guy in front of me was talking so loud and then you have so many conversations going around too.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/07/10 at 6:57 am


Now you get on a city bus and people are blasting their Ipods and yammering into their cell phones.
blasting their iPods???  Do they have speakers hooked up to them, or they just ear buds?  If they are ear buds, you can be thankful for that.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/07/10 at 7:29 am


blasting their iPods???  Do they have speakers hooked up to them, or they just ear buds?  If they are ear buds, you can be thankful for that.


ear buds but they blast it so loud I can hear them in front of me.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/07/10 at 7:44 am


ear buds but they blast it so loud I can hear them in front of me.
be thankful they don't have a boom box then

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/07/10 at 1:38 pm


be thankful they don't have a boom box then


Boom Boxes were loud in those days.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/07/10 at 2:20 pm


Boom Boxes were loud in those days.


be glad they don't all have these


http://www.geekologie.com/2007/08/14/ipod-boombox.jpg


you'll notice it's a boombox made for an ipod

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Midas on 11/07/10 at 5:10 pm


Why are people trying to control and bully other people about posting in one thread, but not posting in another thread.  The thread count is uneven, so they report to a moderator, to a moderator that follows up on the story.  To me this is ridiculous... 

This is the age old conflict of tattling and telling..

Is someone pyschologically or physically going to be hurt?  and I mean really hurt... NOT - I just don't like it, so it is hurting me..

What is my intention? 

Motivation - what is my motivation?

   ie.  Someone is doing what I think they are not supposed to do
         a. I want to get them in trouble
         b.  I want them to do it my way
         c.  I want the attention to be me, usually looking like the perfect angel (smiles, and holds hands together in the praying position while they do it; giving compliments - Eddie Haskel)
         d.  I got caught, I want them to get caught too
       
Telling on the other hand is revolving others, and trying to prevent me or others to get hurt
    1) I need help because I don’t know how to handle it.
    2) I already tried to handle it and it didn’t work.
    3) I might get hurt (or others might get hurt) more if I try to handle it myself.
    4)Someone is doing something they’re not supposed to and:
    5) I want to know if the rules have changed.

Another difference is the level of emergency - Is this an emergency or can this be dealt with anytime?



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Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/07/10 at 5:47 pm


http://rlv.zcache.com/no_one_likes_a_tattle_tale_sticker-p217242191708728736qjcl_400.jpg



O0  TRUE DAT

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 6:54 am


be glad they don't all have these


http://www.geekologie.com/2007/08/14/ipod-boombox.jpg


you'll notice it's a boombox made for an ipod


Wow,that's cool and I thought Boomboxes were dead. :o

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 11/08/10 at 7:04 am


ear buds but they blast it so loud I can hear them in front of me.


Here's an idea, get your own iPod or even a Walkman (if you can still find one) and listen to your own music, this way you won't hear other people.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 7:45 am


Here's an idea, get your own iPod or even a Walkman (if you can still find one) and listen to your own music, this way you won't hear other people.  ::)


I do have a portable CD Player.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 12:52 pm


I do have a portable CD Player.
Solved!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 1:36 pm


Solved!


and I do have earbud headphones but kind of small to fit into my ears but the CD player may not be stable enough into my pocket when the bus moves fast.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:37 pm


and I do have earbud headphones but kind of small to fit into my ears but the CD player may not be stable enough into my pocket when the bus moves fast.
Ask the driver to slow down?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 1:39 pm


Ask the driver to slow down?


It goes at whatever speed,sometimes fast or sometimes slow.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:39 pm


It goes at whatever speed,sometimes fast or sometimes slow.
Buy an iPod!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/08/10 at 1:40 pm


and I do have earbud headphones but kind of small to fit into my ears but the CD player may not be stable enough into my pocket when the bus moves fast.


most of those portable cd players had an anit skip button on them.

You might have yours in the wrong position.

and buy new headphones/ear buds..... they make them now with changeable ear pieces so they fit practically everyone.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 1:41 pm


Buy an iPod!


I don't feel like buying an Ipod right now,maybe after I pay off my gum surgery in January 2011 when he gets finished with all 4 corners then I have to fix my hard drive and we'll see about an Ipod later.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 1:42 pm


most of those portable cd players had an anit skip button on them.

You might have yours in the wrong position.

and buy new headphones/ear buds..... they make them now with changeable ear pieces so they fit practically everyone.


I think mine has one.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:42 pm


I don't feel like buying an Ipod right now,maybe after I pay off my gum surgery in January 2011 when he gets finished with all 4 corners then I have to fix my hard drive and we'll see about an Ipod later.
Improve your whistling skills by whistling the tunes?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/08/10 at 1:49 pm


I think mine has one.


then problem solved. 

get new head phones

and


take  your cd player on the bus so it doesn't seem so loud.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/08/10 at 2:26 pm


Improve your whistling skills by whistling the tunes?



not on the bus. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/08/10 at 9:27 pm

I hate it when pedestrians cross the street without so much as a glance with hoodies pulled up and a cell phone stuck to their heads.  I do my best to be a conscientious driver in a town full of clueless college kids so the least they could do is show some common sense.  On the other hand, what always surprises me about common sense is how many people don't have it!
>:(

As a pedestrian, I hate it when drivers think it's okay to haul ass over the crosswalk so long as I'm not on their side of the median line.  These are the same drivers who think as soon as I'm 1 cm past their car, it's time to accelerate like Dale Earnhardt and rip the back pockets off my trousers!
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/09/10 at 6:00 am

I hate it when people call and we talk and then this person becomes a "conversation jumper",jumps from one conversation to the next,it's like he doesn't stick to one subject all the time. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 11/09/10 at 7:49 am


I hate it when pedestrians cross the street without so much as a glance with hoodies pulled up and a cell phone stuck to their heads.  I do my best to be a conscientious driver in a town full of clueless college kids so the least they could do is show some common sense.  On the other hand, what always surprises me about common sense is how many people don't have it!
>:(

As a pedestrian, I hate it when drivers think it's okay to haul ass over the crosswalk so long as I'm not on their side of the median line.  These are the same drivers who think as soon as I'm 1 cm past their car, it's time to accelerate like Dale Earnhardt and rip the back pockets off my trousers!
::)


I feel your pain on both of these!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/09/10 at 11:25 am


I feel your pain on both of these!


Amherst and the colleges introduced raised crosswalks, rumble strips, illuminated crosswalks signs, and lower speed limits vigorously enforced owing to numerous automobile-pedestrian/cyclist accidents -- including a few fatalities -- over the past the past three years.  This was not cheap or convenient, but necessary.  However, no amount of cautionary designs or traffic codes can help the idiotic students who wander across the streets like dumb animals.  Last night, I was at the corner of Commonwealth and Mass Ave, the left arrow signal turned green.  I turned left into the intersection.  The students from Southwest standing at the crosswalk chose that very second to cross Mass Ave.  I had to SLAM on my brakes on wet pavement and squeal to swerving stop.  The kids didn't care.  Didn't even look at me.  If that was ice on the pavement they would have cared because I would have slid right into them.  Then we'd all be miserable!

I generally don't make a fuss if pedestrians jaywalk.  I keep my speed low on campus and downtown.  The thing is, if I struck a pedestrian or a cyclist and caused injury, I would feel terrible no matter how irresponsible the other person was.  If, sweet Lord and sonny Jesus forbid, if somebody died, I could never live with myself, even if I was not at fault.  My gripe is not about my convenience or who gets to go first.  It's about the way these college students think the world is their playpen full of soft toys and they can't get hurt!
::) ::) ::)

Subject: PASSE IDENTITY POLITICS BULLSHIrT!

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/22/10 at 3:28 am

In our hyper-politically correct college town, a follow-up to anti-Columbus Day is Unthanksgiving.  I get sick of the sh*t.  I get sick of the retarded signs and the screaming neurotic scoundrels who drink collegiate identity politics Kool Aid and wanna p*ss on everybody's parade.  

I confronted some of them.  Big mistake.  I told them politely I thought there protest was needlessly provocative and counterproductive.

Answer: "Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

Look, I have walked past street demonstrations, tuned out radio programs, and ignored college newspaper articles every fall for years and years.  I keep thinking this 1978 throwback mentality will tire itself out.  But it doesn't.  The students come and go.  The college town lifers don't.  Some are here because they like it, some are here because of their careers, some are here because they never got it together enough to move somewhere else after college.  Regardless, it's not the young college students keeping the annual we-hate-whitey festivals going, it's rancorous faculty, professional whiners, and local troublemakers.  

When we think of Thanksgiving, our popular culture exhibits images of Thanksgiving at the Plymouth Colony in 1621.  My ancestors were there.  So they're trashing my ancestors.  Okay, let them.  That's not what bugs me.  

"Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

None of them were people of color, let alone of Wachusett or Abnaki heritage.  They were all other white males.  They were the kind of white male who gets a vicarious thrill feeling disgusted about what white males did to this group of noble savages and that group of noble savages.  Useless white guilt.  The above statement is the Our Father of political correctness.  It's something you can say any time, any place, and feel self-righteous.  

I'm feeling particularly sentimental about this Thanksgiving because it's the first one I'm spending with my father in fifteen years and the two of us have a lot of healing to do.  I'm hoping I can make the gathering go well in spite of a recent family tragedy and perhaps bring us closer together.  That's what's on my mind about Thanksgiving.  Governor Bradford, Miles Standish, Squanto, and smallpox are the furthest things from my mind.

Then comes their ugly "Unthanksgiving" signs featuring photos of angry Indians with guns and captions about "Celebrating 400 years of lies and genocide!"  

Listen, man, I'm the child of hippies.  Since I could crawl I've been hearing about all the atrocious things the white man did to the Indian. Points taken, history learned, ancestral guilt accepted, and ancestral guilt reconciled.  They don't like that last part.  No matter how far around the family tree you have to stretch, you must always feel guilty in October and November because of your genetic makeup.  BTW, that's no excuse for feeling any better about it the other ten months either.

"Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

Excuse me?  What M-F-ing "privilege"?  The guys with fewer privileges than I are sleeping on heating grates or looking out the bars of a prison cell.  Seen my bank account?  Seen my credit score?  Seen my assets?  Seen my resume?  Sheeeeyit! I ain't privileged and neither the bank, the employer, nor the credit bureaus give a crap who my ancestors were.  I'm not a free man, I'm a number.  I spent a couple of Thanksgivings eating leftover lasagna and a couple in soup kitchens.  I've had a pretty effing hard life, and my heart goes out to the people who are less fortunate this year.  That's why I give more than I can afford when the collection plate comes around.  


"Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

And

You gotta problem with free speech?

Say what you want.  I just think it might be more responsible to let college students learn some nuanced history about cultural differences and human behavior before teaching them to be Louis Farrakhan dipped in flour.  

I have had terrific Thanksgivings and I have had miserable Thanksgivings, but never have I had a Thanksgiving where we joined hands in gratitude for the genocide of indigenous peoples and the riddance of their cultures.  Stupid!

Your "free speech" is also hackneyed.  It's the same self-serving angry masturbation you guys have been up to for decades.  The rhetoric never changes.  It's not even interesting, insightful, useful, or helpful to anybody or anything.  It's just a bunch of smugly divisive claptrap we've been hearing since the 1960s.  IT IS TIRED!  Enough already.  The best you can do is just eat your turkey, mash, squash, and cranberry sauce, watch the ball game, and fall asleep to "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles."  

"Celebrate Unthanksgiving."  Why don't y'all go get run over by a city bus, then you'll finally have something to truly feel "unthankful" for!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/15/thefinger.gif

Okay, next year I go back to the usual policy of ignoring the white guilt infested pissers-on-everybody's parade.  Just had to get that off my chest.
:)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/22/10 at 6:45 am

Relatives sometimes have to realize that when people grow up and have paid jobs we don't spend much time with them as much as we used to back in the days,My aunt was hoping that I'd spend time with the family but I told her in an email,I'm sorry but I had plans to spend time with my friend at his house Thursday night.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/22/10 at 6:53 am


In our hyper-politically correct college town, a follow-up to anti-Columbus Day is Unthanksgiving.  I get sick of the sh*t.  I get sick of the retarded signs and the screaming neurotic scoundrels who drink collegiate identity politics Kool Aid and wanna p*ss on everybody's parade. 

I confronted some of them.  Big mistake.  I told them politely I thought there protest was needlessly provocative and counterproductive.

Answer: "Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

Look, I have walked past street demonstrations, tuned out radio programs, and ignored college newspaper articles every fall for years and years.  I keep thinking this 1978 throwback mentality will tire itself out.  But it doesn't.  The students come and go.  The college town lifers don't.  Some are here because they like it, some are here because of their careers, some are here because they never got it together enough to move somewhere else after college.  Regardless, it's not the young college students keeping the annual we-hate-whitey festivals going, it's rancorous faculty, professional whiners, and local troublemakers. 

When we think of Thanksgiving, our popular culture exhibits images of Thanksgiving at the Plymouth Colony in 1621.  My ancestors were there.  So they're trashing my ancestors.  Okay, let them.  That's not what bugs me. 

"Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

None of them were people of color, let alone of Wachusett or Abnaki heritage.  They were all other white males.  They were the kind of white male who gets a vicarious thrill feeling disgusted about what white males did to this group of noble savages and that group of noble savages.  Useless white guilt.  The above statement is the Our Father of political correctness.  It's something you can say any time, any place, and feel self-righteous. 

I'm feeling particularly sentimental about this Thanksgiving because it's the first one I'm spending with my father in fifteen years and the two of us have a lot of healing to do.  I'm hoping I can make the gathering go well in spite of a recent family tragedy and perhaps bring us closer together.  That's what's on my mind about Thanksgiving.  Governor Bradford, Miles Standish, Squanto, and smallpox are the farthest things from my mind.

Then comes their ugly "Unthanksgiving" signs featuring photos of angry Indians with guns and captions about "Celebrating 400 years of lies and genocide!" 

Listen, man, I'm the child of hippies.  Since I could crawl I've been hearing about all the atrocious things the white man did to the Indian. Points taken, history learned, ancestral guilt accepted, and ancestral guilt reconciled.  They don't like that last part.  No matter how far around the family tree you have to stretch, you must always feel guilty in October and November because of your genetic makeup.  BTW, that's no excuse for feeling any better about it the other ten months either.

"Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

Excuse me?  What M-F-ing "privilege"?  The guys with fewer privileges than I are sleeping on heating grates or looking out the bars of a prison cell.  Seen my bank account?  Seen my credit score?  Seen my assets?  Seen my resume?  Sheeeeyit! I ain't privileged and neither the bank, the employer, nor the credit bureaus give a crap who my ancestors were.  I'm not a free man, I'm a number.  I spent a couple of Thanksgivings eating leftover lasagna and a couple in soup kitchens.  I've had a pretty effing hard life, and my heart goes out to the people who are less fortunate this year.  That's why I give more than I can afford when the collection plate comes around. 


"Why, because it threatens your privileged status as a white male?"

And

You gotta problem with free speech?

Say what you want.  I just think it might be more responsible to let college students learn some nuanced history about cultural differences and human behavior before teaching them to be Louis Farrakhan dipped in flour. 

I have had terrific Thanksgivings and I have had miserable Thanksgiving, but never have I had a Thanksgiving where we joined hands in gratitude for the genocide of indigenous peoples and the riddance of their cultures.  Stupid!

Your "free speech" is also hackneyed.  It's the same self-serving angry masturbation you guys have been up to for decades.  The rhetoric never changes.  It's not even interesting, insightful, useful, or helpful to anybody or anything.  It's just a bunch of smugly divisive claptrap we've been hearing since the 1960s.  IT IS TIRED!  Enough already.  The best you can do is just eat your turkey, mash, squash, and cranberry sauce, watch the ball game, and fall asleep to "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." 

"Celebrate Unthanksgiving."  Why don't y'all go get run over by a city bus, then you'll finally have something to truly feel "unthankful" for!
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Okay, next year I go back to the usual policy of ignoring the white guilt infested pissers-on-everybody's parade.  Just had to get that off my chest.
:)



Wow, well said.  Karma. :)

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Written By: snozberries on 11/22/10 at 7:30 am



Wow, well said.  Karma. :)


can ya paraphrase? Cuz I'm really tempted to post something about slaves being here in 1619 (before the Mayflower landed)  but not sure it fits his rant  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/22/10 at 6:17 pm

Man,When the hell did the city bus become a meat locker? It was utterly freezing tonight coming home,the driver had on the air conditioner and it was full of the crowded college kids so I waited till my stop and got off to cool down.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 11/22/10 at 6:40 pm

I'm just upset because there's a Michael Jackson figure I want to get and I just learned there's only one left in stock that might sell out before I can get a chance to buy him, and I planned to get that hunk of plastic as my Christmas gift to myself.  :( I mean I know the man os gone and all, but I really like collecting MJ stuff, and it just makes me mad because this is the one thing that'll make me feek good and I might not get it. Boo!  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/22/10 at 6:51 pm


I'm just upset because there's a Michael Jackson figure I want to get and I just learned there's only one left in stock that might sell out before I can get a chance to buy him, and I planned to get that hunk of plastic as my Christmas gift to myself.  :( I mean I know the man os gone and all, but I really like collecting MJ stuff, and it just makes me mad because this is the one thing that'll make me feek good and I might not get it. Boo!  >:(


Was it The Beat It doll? ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/22/10 at 6:59 pm

People need to grow the living hell up.  One of my employees is fuming that we hired.  We hired because we got slammed and the current employees wouldn't work extra to get it done.  I wasn't happy about the hiring and asked the boss not to but in the end it was not my decision.

I guess this biotch has decided to rant about evil supervisor Dagnabbit, like it is my freaking fault.  The worst part is she was going off in front of the latest newbie.  Of course she won't say any of this crap to my face, only behind my back.  I talked to the boss and he is going to call her in tomorrow for a good talking too.  I don't think it will do any good, though.  All I want to do is fire her ass, but I have to leave that up to the big guy...I can't let personal feelings jump into the middle of it. 


I GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/22/10 at 7:31 pm


Man,When the hell did the city bus become a meat locker? It was utterly freezing tonight coming home,the driver had on the air conditioner and it was full of the crowded college kids so I waited till my stop and got off to cool down.
Howard you might want to get checked out!  You are repeating yourself all over the place, I just don't want to see your memory deteriorate any further.  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/22/10 at 7:34 pm


People need to grow the living hell up.  One of my employees is fuming that we hired.  We hired because we got slammed and the current employees wouldn't work extra to get it done.  I wasn't happy about the hiring and asked the boss not to but in the end it was not my decision.

I guess this biotch has decided to rant about evil supervisor Dagnabbit, like it is my freaking fault.  The worst part is she was going off in front of the latest newbie.  Of course she won't say any of this crap to my face, only behind my back.  I talked to the boss and he is going to call her in tomorrow for a good talking too.  I don't think it will do any good, though.  All I want to do is fire her ass, but I have to leave that up to the big guy...I can't let personal feelings jump into the middle of it. 


I GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't give up - that's what they want!  Start posting fliers about an position opening (whom someone's job description seems to fit) - that should quiet her down 8)



I make my owns self laugh on that one!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/22/10 at 7:39 pm


Don't give up - that's what they want!  Start posting fliers about an position opening (whom someone's job description seems to fit) - that should quiet her down 8)



I make my owns self laugh on that one!


I just wish I could tell her to get the hell out of my office and never come back.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/22/10 at 7:39 pm

Dag. Sounds like my bitch works for you on her days off.  >:(

I feel your pain. People suck! You however don't suck and therefore you deserve better employees. Hugs. And karma when I can.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/22/10 at 8:03 pm


Dag. Sounds like my bitch works for you on her days off.  >:(




She must.  I say we get them together and ship them off to the same island we are shipping aunt flo so the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with them ever again.  And to top it off my bitch can't have her meds so both will suffer greatly.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/22/10 at 8:16 pm


She must.  I say we get them together and ship them off to the same island we are shipping aunt flo so the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with them ever again.  And to top it off my bitch can't have her meds so both will suffer greatly.

Great plan!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Frank on 11/23/10 at 12:37 am


I just wish I could tell her to get the hell out of my office and never come back.

Sorry you have to go through that crap.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/23/10 at 6:51 am


Sorry you have to go through that crap.



Thanks, Frank.  Hopefully I won't for much longer. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/23/10 at 6:52 am


Howard you might want to get checked out!  You are repeating yourself all over the place, I just don't want to see your memory deteriorate any further.   ???


I don't need to get checked out,I had a long button down sleeved shirt and I was a bit sweaty from working hard in the parking lot,that's all.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/23/10 at 3:36 pm


I don't need to get checked out,I had a long button down sleeved shirt and I was a bit sweaty from working hard in the parking lot,that's all.
I see!  Being sweaty makes you repeat your gripe all over the boards? Gotcha O0

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/23/10 at 9:12 pm


I see!  Being sweaty makes you repeat your gripe all over the boards? Gotcha O0



And I have a reason to rant here.  :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/23/10 at 11:17 pm


can ya paraphrase? Cuz I'm really tempted to post something about slaves being here in 1619 (before the Mayflower landed)  but not sure it fits his rant  ;D


Amen to that.  The Jamestown settlers celebrated a "day of thanksgiving" on their arrival.  Of course, that was before they had to eat their shoe leather, and then the flesh of their dead because they didn't know how to work the new land, but that's another story.  Furthermore, "Thanksgiving" wasn't made a national holiday until 1863 when President Lincoln proclaimed it as the last Thursday in November.  Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation...but don't get the PC whiners started on Lincoln.  I know the that whole spiel too!  
::)

I do agree the White Europeans divided and conquered the world in the last millennium, but the tables are turning.  If the human race survives, the Asians will control the world in 2510 and there will be  PC rallies in Beijing and Mumbai crying out for justice on behalf of the dwindling and persecuted White race!
;D

Furthermore, I want some restitution from those Danes who made MY ancestors serfs in the tenth century! So there!
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Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/23/10 at 11:43 pm


People need to grow the living hell up.  One of my employees is fuming that we hired.  We hired because we got slammed and the current employees wouldn't work extra to get it done.  I wasn't happy about the hiring and asked the boss not to but in the end it was not my decision.

I guess this biotch has decided to rant about evil supervisor Dagnabbit, like it is my freaking fault.  The worst part is she was going off in front of the latest newbie.  Of course she won't say any of this crap to my face, only behind my back.  I talked to the boss and he is going to call her in tomorrow for a good talking too.  I don't think it will do any good, though.  All I want to do is fire her ass, but I have to leave that up to the big guy...I can't let personal feelings jump into the middle of it. 


I GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yep, that's one thing I don't miss about working in an office...office politics!  I used to get people gossiping and bellyaching to me about this or that person not pulling his or her weight around the place.  I took nobody's side...not even when it was tempting.  Then I got another kind of reputation.  I got the reputation of the secret-keeper.  My fellow employees figured out I didn't gossip, so they would come over to my little corner of hell and bitch and whine about who said what and who did what and X,Y,Z.  I just kept editing my reports, nodding and saying, "Uh-huh, I see, okay, hmmm....interesting."  I think it was because I was the only guy doing clerical work.  The rest were women with women's interpersonal politics.  In the end, I got laid off with the rest of the medical transcriptionists and haven't worked in that field since. 

The MT field is dying because of offshoring.  All they have to do is offshore about 10% of it and, during a recession, the market gets so competitive medical offices are free to treat the remaining MTs like garbage.  I'm encouraging a friend of mine to quit her MT job.  I'm loathe to do so in a recession, but they don't deserve her.  She hates it and her company treats holds the "you're fired" threat over her head all the time.  I worked with her for years.  She's a great MT.  They just terrorize people.  Her husband makes good money and her children have all grown, so she can afford to just get a job in a clothing store or something.  Don't let people treat like crap unless it's absolutely necessary!
::) ::) ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/23/10 at 11:46 pm

Oh.  When I sign up for production studio time and I'm engrossed struggling to make the Samplitude program do what I want it to do, don't come to the door and ask me dumbly, "Max, are you gonna be in here for...like...a while?"  I signed out 3-6, WTF do you think?  Don't try and guilt-trip me because you didn't have the foresight to sign up earlier.
:D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/24/10 at 6:41 am


Yep, that's one thing I don't miss about working in an office...office politics!



I agree with you there.  From 2007 til Feb of this year I was at home and it was pure bliss.  The brought me back into the office and made me the boss so the gossipy crap doesn't quite reach me.  This witch was bitching about how I do my job, which doesn't bother me.  It just bothers me that the problem she had was with us hiring and she was bitching in front of the new girl. 

Days like that, I really miss working at home.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/24/10 at 5:47 pm


Yep, that's one thing I don't miss about working in an office...office politics! 


I manage 7 women and have had my moments with bitchiness. I will never understand why ladies are so competetive in the workplace. So nice to each others face...and can be soooo horrible behind the scenes.

Until I understand it...I will never effectively be able to manage it. I've had some absolutely horrible staffing issues in the past. I managed to weed out a couple of 'pot stirring' troublemakers (when the GFC hit and we had to choose two for redundancy). Strangely, bothe of them were sooo surprized it was them that I picked to go. They even offered me two other names that they believed should go before them...  I've had minimal issues since they left. It only takes a couple of bad seeds. The trick is to identify that personality at interview stage... :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/24/10 at 6:01 pm


I manage 7 women and have had my moments with bitchiness. I will never understand why ladies are so competetive in the workplace. So nice to each others face...and can be soooo horrible behind the scenes.

Until I understand it...I will never effectively be able to manage it. I've had some absolutely horrible staffing issues in the past. I managed to weed out a couple of 'pot stirring' troublemakers (when the GFC hit and we had to choose two for redundancy). Strangely, bothe of them were sooo surprized it was them that I picked to go. They even offered me two other names that they believed should go before them...  I've had minimal issues since they left. It only takes a couple of bad seeds. The trick is to identify that personality at interview stage... :-\\



Unfortunately, especially in the case of my special problem child, they are crafty and cunning enough to mask this particular personality deficiency in the interview so you think you are hiring a perfectly pleasant person and wind up with a total raging bitch from hell....

My boss was joking about how, next time we interview, we are going to spend 10 minutes talking about skills and normal dispatch issues and then 40 minutes having them explain how they avoid being manipulated by the people around them.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/24/10 at 6:05 pm



Unfortunately, especially in the case of my special problem child, they are crafty and cunning enough to mask this particular personality deficiency in the interview so you think you are hiring a perfectly pleasant person and wind up with a total raging bitch from hell....

My boss was joking about how, next time we interview, we are going to spend 10 minutes talking about skills and normal dispatch issues and then 40 minutes having them explain how they avoid being manipulated by the people around them.   ;D


I agree... people learn how to conduct themselves in interview situations....and the more interviews they are involved in ...the better they get at saying the right things.  I trust my 'gut' these days and work more on how I believe they will 'fit' the existing team. I've had a measure of success ....so far. Plus I managed to employ one male as well. Still early days ... but everyone seems to be getting on well.

This just probably means I can't see the train coming that is about to hit me.... ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/24/10 at 6:24 pm


I agree... people learn how to conduct themselves in interview situations....and the more interviews they are involved in ...the better they get at saying the right things.  I trust my 'gut' these days and work more on how I believe they will 'fit' the existing team. I've had a measure of success ....so far. Plus I managed to employ one male as well. Still early days ... but everyone seems to be getting on well.

This just probably means I can't see the train coming that is about to hit me.... ;D


let me just say this. We are exactly 50% female 50% male at my dept. I have a couple of guys who are just as bad as the bitch I rant about... the difference is, they are more up front about their loyalty or lack there of....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/24/10 at 6:35 pm


let me just say this. We are exactly 50% female 50% male at my dept. I have a couple of guys who are just as bad as the bitch I rant about... the difference is, they are more up front about their loyalty or lack there of....


It's been quite a number of years since I worked with mostly males. When I first started... I was in a predominantly male environment. I can only recall being involved in any instances of disharmony sparingly. Those occasions were resolved quickly and involved face to face chats. Gradually, the payroll working environment has shifted to predominantly women and I have been involved in some very stressful instances of in-fighting. I was glad to find a male applicant who could do the job. I think it is now predominantly women because it is now closely linked to Human Resources (which is predominantly women also). Women appear to multi task naturally ... and that is what this job requires. I also suspect my latest male recruit might be gay! I do know that he stays out of office politics...so far!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/24/10 at 6:48 pm

And trust me they learn all their techniques early in High School....  Their parents ask if they have any homework, kid says no, parents believe.  Parents look at grade book, see the kid is failing and has several zeros, they confront kid.  Kid said he was late with his homework, but he turned it in and the teacher hasn't put in a grade... UH NO and in the meantime you believe this song and dance another 2 weeks worth of assignments are past due...  :P

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/24/10 at 6:51 pm


And trust me they learn all their techniques early in High School....  Their parents ask if they have any homework, kid says no, parents believe.  Parents look at grade book, see the kid is failing and has several zeros, they confront kid.  Kid said he was late with his homework, but he turned it in and the teacher hasn't put in a grade... UH NO and in the meantime you believe this song and dance another 2 weeks worth of assignments are past due...   :P


Been there....experienced that!  ;D  I was also surprized how nasty girls are to each other at such an early age.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/24/10 at 6:54 pm


Been there....experienced that!  ;D  I was also surprized how nasty girls are to each other at such an early age.
Oh terrible, they actually purposely try to break up/steal their friends relationships... they will do anything.

Very little self pride in some of the girls that I see...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 11/24/10 at 6:55 pm


Was it The Beat It doll? ???


It was the Bad doll. There's one left in stock and the price jumped ten dollars.  >:( But I'm hoping it sticks around long enough for me to get it.

Current rant: I sat for THREE HOURS in pain in dialysis. The needle was hurting me to bits, but I was too scared to say anything for fear they'd pull the needle and stick another one in. Also I almost crazy glued my fingers together replacing a stone that fell out of my favorite ring.  :( What a day!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/24/10 at 9:19 pm


Oh terrible, they actually purposely try to break up/steal their friends relationships... they will do anything.

Very little self pride in some of the girls that I see...



and also have boyfriends who cheat.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/24/10 at 9:20 pm


It was the Bad doll. There's one left in stock and the price jumped ten dollars.  >:( But I'm hoping it sticks around long enough for me to get it.

Current rant: I sat for THREE HOURS in pain in dialysis. The needle was hurting me to bits, but I was too scared to say anything for fear they'd pull the needle and stick another one in. Also I almost crazy glued my fingers together replacing a stone that fell out of my favorite ring.  :( What a day!



The Bad Doll was cool. :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/26/10 at 10:46 pm


Human Resources (which is predominantly women also).


I've been fired from numerous jobs and regardless of whether my boss was a man or a woman, I got sent to "Human Resources" where a woman delivered the notice of termination. 

Sorry for sounding so sexist about it, but when it's a man in charge, I want him to nut up and tell me I'm fired himself.  Especially Don Buxton of Acme Information Technologies (BTW, person's name and company name changed.  Just in case somebody finally goes postal on those azzholes, nobody can say Maxwell Smart did it!)

I wanted to march down to Buxton's office, kick open the door, and growl, "It takes a BIG MAN to get a LITTLE WOMAN to do his dirty work for him, now how about you and me just step outside..."
Of course, I didn't do anything of the sort.  I meekly packed my sh*t and left.

As David Lee Roth said,
"Eat 'em and smile!"
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You know what term I hate: "Human resources."  I'm a being not a resource. 
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/27/10 at 5:19 am

I don't like when one of us are pushing or pulling 30 carts and one cartguy is on his cellphone,I guess in this day and age of technology you're allowed to walk and talk while doing work inside or outside. Can't you save the phone call for later?  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/27/10 at 5:30 am


I don't like when one of us are pushing or pulling 30 carts and one cartguy is on his cellphone,I guess in this day and age of technology you're allowed to walk and talk while doing work inside or outside. Can't you save the phone call for later?  ::)


Yes...it's possible to walk and talk while working. But ... Pathmark aren't paying him to talk!!!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/27/10 at 5:41 am


Yes...it's possible to walk and talk while working. But ... Pathmark aren't paying him to talk!!!



I would complain but I won't.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/27/10 at 8:48 am

Forgive me for my pity party!  Feel free to ignore this if you want!  It's okay!

I was in the e.r Thanksgiving morning, for an chronic asthma attack, they pumped me full of steroids, gave me a breathing treatment, took a chest x-ray, handed me a z-pack and script for more steroids!  I am o Kay, I can breath, I still cough a lot and I have to take my allergy med's everyday, keep my inhaler with me, as my lungs will construct at any little irritant right now.  I haven't been this bad atleast 15 years...  Well I ended up not going home, to my moms for Thanksgiving.  My hubby talked to her, and she was upset about me being in the er and such, wished she had a car so she could come down...yadda yadda yadda...  Hubby said I would most likely be up with the girls this weekend...

My house is under construction/destruction in the worst way... I was trying to help, so we can get it done!  I am pretty sure this is not an option right now..  Since the attack was most likely induced from the whole mess!  We have to get all the cupboards, stove sink etc, out this weekend and wiring in as the drywallers are coming Monday...  There is 100+year old plaster dust all over everything in our house, ihave been trying to live with it, but not sure how I am going to get it all up, without causing myself worse problems!  Ian overwhelmed, suck and in a great need of help...

So this morning I call my mother, and she can only talk of how awful I am sounding, and how she knew the construction was a bad idea yadda yadda yadda...  Then she goes and talks about how busy she is working everyday and such. (taking care of 98 year old woman, whose family doesn't put her in a nursing home, cause they can pay my mother a hella lot cheaper and not use their inhertance).  And how the family needs her because the daughter just found out she has breast cancer so she won't be helping take care if her mother right now... 

I need help, I need my mom...  When do I get to be taken care of... She offered her house for us to use "till I felt better and things were settled at home".  Well um mom I have 2 little girls who have to goto school, the 2 hour commute, might be a little too much!  Let alone my job, she never wants to acknowledge...  Oh, is all she can say...  And that she is just too busy with the 98 year old to think about helping me right now... 

I just feel abandoned yet again, why do I set myself up:(. I hoped she would drop everything and just come help clean... No instead I get a lecture about not using my head and having this going on in the winter when it clearly should have been a summer project...  It really doesn't matter mom.. I amallergic to everything still, and even the crap outside more so in the summer...  Well it was just bad planning, um it was when the contractor could get here, cabinets and such were in that were ordered (frickin window still isn't in)..  It is called more factors than me saying I think the time between the holidays will be perfect!  I just want a mom who will drop everything, and help there daughter/grandchildren in a time of need.  Her mother/my grandma was never around & my mother hated that!  Only seeing her on holidays or when we made the effort Togo see her... My mom cried over it, funny how the tables have turned!  I only pray that I will not be this type of mother/grandmother!  That I will have the good fortune of seeing my childrens families grow and be beautiful... 

I just sooo need a good friend around, I don't tell this crap to anyone (besides hubby) to anyone around here, and my good friends that know ate too far away to help...  I guess you guys get to be my shoulder as you are one computer removed from the situation, you are not obligated to me or my situation in any way...

I guess I can now choose to A turn the heat on in the camper and move out there (with out water and such). Or start taking back presents and pay for a hotel room tonight :( (but that is a very short term solution)...  C sister in law offered us to camp at her house but I still feel intrusive, and I am a little "exposed" right now and I really don't want to share all this crap with her! 

Just wish I was a normal person without the freeky breathing problems and allergic to everything...  Most people do not even know that I am as I keep myself fairly well medicated, and I never try and let the crap prevent me from doing something... Even my husband forgets how serious it is, because I do everything...  Thank you for modern medicine (every day i take 2 inhalers and a nasal inhaler twice;  an allergy pill a day, and an allergy shot in each arm once a week) I really can't stand those people that say, well I can't I am allergic...  F that you just don't want too...  You don't want to put the effort into it... I want to live life as a regular person, yes a highly medicated one, but I still have pets, mow lawn, enjoy hikes and long walks, and even a cattle show). This little incident scared my husband...  I just don't want to remain in an unwise situation at this point...  I want to be around for the holidays (that I can't decorate for right now)

Ok I am rambling... Sorry and take care all.. Thanx for providing this place for me to say it all in!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 11/27/10 at 9:22 am

{{{{hugs}}}}}  Ramble away, we will listen.  I wish I were closer, I would be there in a heartbeat to help.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 11/27/10 at 9:27 am


{{{{hugs}}}}}  Ramble away, we will listen.  I wish I were closer, I would be there in a heartbeat to help.


Same here

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/27/10 at 10:18 am

(((((((HUGS)))))))) Sami I wish your relationship with your mom was better

I can't fix it but right or wrong I offer these two observations.
1) your mom may not be offering to drop everything and come help you now but she was totally worried when you were in the er. It's not much of a consolation but it's something. And she is concerned for you but unfortunately it comes out as criticism.

2) she totally drives you nuts when she visits so you know day one you'd be all yay my mommy came to take care of me but three hours later you'd be raging wondering when she planned to leave.  ;) ;D

Love ya Sami! You deserve better.  >:(

I just hope your hubby was concerned enough that he's finally decided to work on his project upstairs and get it finished soon

And I hope the heater on the camper is warm enough.

You may have to suck up your pride a bit and accept the invite from your sister-in-law.
The song says you are woman hear you roar. No one ever said you had to be superwoman.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 11/27/10 at 12:51 pm


(((((((HUGS)))))))) Sami I wish your relationship with your mom was better

I can't fix it but right or wrong I offer these two observations.
1) your mom may not be offering to drop everything and come help you now but she was totally worried when you were in the er. It's not much of a consolation but it's something. And she is concerned for you but unfortunately it comes out as criticism.

2) she totally drives you nuts when she visits so you know day one you'd be all yay my mommy came to take care of me but three hours later you'd be raging wondering when she planned to leave.  ;) ;D

Love ya Sami! You deserve better.  >:(

I just hope your hubby was concerned enough that he's finally decided to work on his project upstairs and get it finished soon

And I hope the heater on the camper is warm enough.

You may have to suck up your pride a bit and accept the invite from your sister-in-law.
The song says you are woman hear you roar. No one ever said you had to be superwoman.

yay I got to the bottom of your post on my phone!  Wonderful!

I am not sure if anyone knows this, but hubby's job is on average 64+ hours a week, 5 days a week each and every day, with every other weekend and every other holiday!  And on call at any other time, heater goes out, curtain doesn't come up, fans stay on, power goes off he has to go and get the situation fixed!  Those hogs need fed each and everyday, they need a constant temp around 72 farenheit to avoid poising any, and the 5,000 sows atleast 30 are birthing a day, that also means weaning, shots, tail and teeth clipping, and general welfare of all animals).  Because it is agricultural, overtime doesnot have to be, paid or holiday/weekend triple time...

Then we have our small herd and such... I know I complain.. Chock it upto the bitch in me.  But I highlydoubt there arefew here that would work under such conditions and hours...  So what I am trying to say, time off is little and valuable.  We tried hiring someone, but I could not handle paying someone for shotty work!  So I got rid of them!  That is my doing...

I guess the kitchen as well is my doing as I wanted it... So I can take the blame!

What I am upset about is that my mother's attitude that I left her, and that is where I went wrong... My decision to move 2 hours away is my problem, not the benefits that I gained a loving husband and 2 great girls... But the idea that I have made my bed, now lie in it.  I was my mom's meal ticket, I supported her and paid her property taxes since I was 16 years old.  I bought groceries, my own Christmas presents.  I learned responsibility at a young age... She was mad when I left for college. She was mad when I graduated from college, she wasn't going to attend the ceremony, just pick me up after it was through.  She was mad at my brother wedding, didn't goto the reception taking me with her (I was nine)  She was mad at my wedding, left the reception after an hour, didn't show up for pictures, I have 3 takin right before the event.  She is mad at me for getting my kitchen done, she always wanted hers redone.  She spends soo much time being bitter she misses in all the joys in life, her grandiose and such... I didn't want her to take care of me, but just offer to help me.  This women changes curtains monthly, takes down storm windows to wash them twice yearly, climbs a ladder to wash the sides of a 3story home down, and can refinish like no other...  But to help me us beyond her, criticize me, and my decisions... I after all was stupid to leave her wonderful, warm and cozy life, for my own life...

Your right shed be here and I would have to fight my battles, or bite my tongue!  After all I was stupid to even consider remodeling my house, absolutely stupid...  I should know better...  I have asthma, it cripples you... To live in Iowa is horrible.  Stick with what you know..,

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 11/27/10 at 2:44 pm

Hugs to you sami.

I wish I could say or do something to make it better for you

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/27/10 at 3:34 pm


Same here


Same here as well (((hugs)))

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/27/10 at 8:10 pm


{{{{hugs}}}}}  Ramble away, we will listen.  I wish I were closer, I would be there in a heartbeat to help.


Ditto.  {{{{hugs}}}}} from Maxwell to 2K too!  Stress around the holidays in bewildering.  I'm still decompressing....and then it's Christmas in three weeks.  It's better to vent here than holler at family member and, boy, is that tempting!  Trust me, nobody's family is "normal."  My mother is getting old, impoverished, and confused.  I feel guilty I can't do more to help her.  At the same time, she drives everybody nuts.
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 11/28/10 at 12:59 am

Hope it all takes a turn for the better soon Sami. I'm sure you'll be back to your positive best soon. We all need to lean on someone else from time to time. There's no shame in it at all. What Q said is sound....

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/28/10 at 6:53 am

Trust me, nobody's family is "normal."

Not even mine,My Father is getting more and more like Archie Bunker,always hating on some people,gets along with some,gets pissed off at everything that bothers him and he's going to be 70 next year.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/28/10 at 12:18 pm




Not even mine,My Father is getting more and more like Archie Bunker,always hating on some people,gets along with some,gets pissed off at everything that bothers him and he's going to be 70 next year.


Hmmmm sounds you take after your father only you seem to have started much earlier  :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/28/10 at 12:23 pm


Hope it all takes a turn for the better soon Sami. I'm sure you'll be back to your positive best soon. We all need to lean on someone else from time to time. There's no shame in it at all. What Q said is sound....

Thanks Peter.


Sami it sucks that your life is so hard. I feel for ya. (((((hugs)))))
You seem to have learned from your mothers deficiencies and in turn are a far better mother to your girls than your mom ever was to you.


I knew your husband worked a lot of hours but I didn't know it was that bad.
In my defense there was a week where a lot of work was getting done upstairs then it seemed to come to a grinding halt. You had a lot of complaints about the lack of progress I was just trying to support your desire to get the job done. I didn't mean to imply your hubby was a slacker and I certainly didn't mean to offend. :(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/28/10 at 12:28 pm


Hmmmm sounds you take after your father only you seem to have started much earlier  :-\\



That could be Q,I don't why I act like my Father sometimes,But I do see a little difference between both of us.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/28/10 at 12:36 pm



That could be Q,I don't why I act like my Father sometimes,But I do see a little difference between both of us.


You said your father is always hating some people

You hate customers, bus passengers and people who are in line front of you.



You also said your father gets pissed off at things that bother him.

You do that here every day Howard
Every.......freaking.........day......  :-\\


The only difference I see is he's 70 and you're not.
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/28/10 at 12:54 pm


You said your father is always hating some people

You hate customers, bus passengers and people who are in line front of you.



You also said your father gets pissed off at things that bother him.

You do that here every day Howard
Every.......freaking.........day......  :-\\


The only difference I see is he's 70 and you're not.
::)


I do love some people,I don't hate them all.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/28/10 at 2:08 pm


Forgive me for my pity party!  Feel free to ignore this if you want!  It's okay!

I was in the e.r Thanksgiving morning, for an chronic asthma attack, they pumped me full of steroids, gave me a breathing treatment, took a chest x-ray, handed me a z-pack and script for more steroids!  I am o Kay, I can breath, I still cough a lot and I have to take my allergy med's everyday, keep my inhaler with me, as my lungs will construct at any little irritant right now.  I haven't been this bad atleast 15 years...  Well I ended up not going home, to my moms for Thanksgiving.  My hubby talked to her, and she was upset about me being in the er and such, wished she had a car so she could come down...yadda yadda yadda...  Hubby said I would most likely be up with the girls this weekend...

My house is under construction/destruction in the worst way... I was trying to help, so we can get it done!  I am pretty sure this is not an option right now..  Since the attack was most likely induced from the whole mess!  We have to get all the cupboards, stove sink etc, out this weekend and wiring in as the drywallers are coming Monday...  There is 100+year old plaster dust all over everything in our house, ihave been trying to live with it, but not sure how I am going to get it all up, without causing myself worse problems!  Ian overwhelmed, suck and in a great need of help...

So this morning I call my mother, and she can only talk of how awful I am sounding, and how she knew the construction was a bad idea yadda yadda yadda...  Then she goes and talks about how busy she is working everyday and such. (taking care of 98 year old woman, whose family doesn't put her in a nursing home, cause they can pay my mother a hella lot cheaper and not use their inhertance).  And how the family needs her because the daughter just found out she has breast cancer so she won't be helping take care if her mother right now... 

I need help, I need my mom...  When do I get to be taken care of... She offered her house for us to use "till I felt better and things were settled at home".  Well um mom I have 2 little girls who have to goto school, the 2 hour commute, might be a little too much!  Let alone my job, she never wants to acknowledge...  Oh, is all she can say...  And that she is just too busy with the 98 year old to think about helping me right now... 

I just feel abandoned yet again, why do I set myself up:(. I hoped she would drop everything and just come help clean... No instead I get a lecture about not using my head and having this going on in the winter when it clearly should have been a summer project...  It really doesn't matter mom.. I amallergic to everything still, and even the crap outside more so in the summer...  Well it was just bad planning, um it was when the contractor could get here, cabinets and such were in that were ordered (frickin window still isn't in)..  It is called more factors than me saying I think the time between the holidays will be perfect!  I just want a mom who will drop everything, and help there daughter/grandchildren in a time of need.  Her mother/my grandma was never around & my mother hated that!  Only seeing her on holidays or when we made the effort Togo see her... My mom cried over it, funny how the tables have turned!  I only pray that I will not be this type of mother/grandmother!  That I will have the good fortune of seeing my childrens families grow and be beautiful... 

I just sooo need a good friend around, I don't tell this crap to anyone (besides hubby) to anyone around here, and my good friends that know ate too far away to help...  I guess you guys get to be my shoulder as you are one computer removed from the situation, you are not obligated to me or my situation in any way...

I guess I can now choose to A turn the heat on in the camper and move out there (with out water and such). Or start taking back presents and pay for a hotel room tonight :( (but that is a very short term solution)...  C sister in law offered us to camp at her house but I still feel intrusive, and I am a little "exposed" right now and I really don't want to share all this crap with her! 

Just wish I was a normal person without the freeky breathing problems and allergic to everything...  Most people do not even know that I am as I keep myself fairly well medicated, and I never try and let the crap prevent me from doing something... Even my husband forgets how serious it is, because I do everything...  Thank you for modern medicine (every day i take 2 inhalers and a nasal inhaler twice;  an allergy pill a day, and an allergy shot in each arm once a week) I really can't stand those people that say, well I can't I am allergic...  F that you just don't want too...  You don't want to put the effort into it... I want to live life as a regular person, yes a highly medicated one, but I still have pets, mow lawn, enjoy hikes and long walks, and even a cattle show). This little incident scared my husband...  I just don't want to remain in an unwise situation at this point...  I want to be around for the holidays (that I can't decorate for right now)

Ok I am rambling... Sorry and take care all.. Thanx for providing this place for me to say it all in!



(((((((((((((((((((((Hugs))))))))))))))))))))))))



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/28/10 at 3:41 pm


I do love some people,I don't hate them all.


I never said you hated all people.
And you never said your father hated all people

I stand by my initial assessment that two are very similar.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/29/10 at 12:50 am


You said your father is always hating some people

You hate customers, bus passengers and people who are in line front of you.



You also said your father gets pissed off at things that bother him.

You do that here every day Howard
Every.......freaking.........day......  :-\\


The only difference I see is he's 70 and you're not.
::)


In defense of Howard, this IS the thread for bitching and complaining, is it not?
;)

Now, MY father, on the other hand, woweeee! What a piece of work that guy is!  He's also 70, BTW.   He's a citizen-theologian.  He held forth for hours and hours quoting everyone from St. Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Merton about how individuals should behave in society and how society should behave towards individuals and how the right-wing in this country has corrupted the family structure and lied about Christianity's true beliefs regarding social justice...

NO, DAD, WHAT ABOUT YOU?

Meanwhile, I'm looking at a guy who ground me under his heel for decades and referred to me in such as eloquent terms as "loser," "retard," "free-loader," and "sh*thead."  His Hannibal Lector-style dissembling and humiliating every part of our individuality made his children miserable, fearful, wrathful, and self-hating.  This had a large role in one of my sisters taking her own life at the age of 42.  He did not even have the testicular fortitude to show up at her memorial service and we have not spoken of the tragedy to this day...and I don't think we ever will.  Why?  Because he's guilty as hell and he can't take it.  Furthermore, I wasn't about to blow up Thanksgiving at the Smart household by dredging it up.  I'm sure my stepbrother and sister-in-law felt the same.

My surviving sister will never speak to him again because she thinks dad is evil and rotten to the core.  I didn't speak to him for eight years myself.  However, my own religious beliefs about forgiveness and honoring one's parents (not to be confused with liking) instructed me otherwise.  My father is a difficult man to forgive, let alone to honor, but it is precisely because it is so difficult that I believe I must try.  Dad was was grateful I made the trip up to NH to see him.  I know he misses me terribly.  I could see the love and the gratitude in his eyes.  If the only way we could relate to each other was ranting about religion and politics, it's not ideal, but it's a whole lot better than nothing!  

Imagine a family in which religion and politics are the SAFE subjects!

Dad might appear old and gray, sad and tired, but I'm under no delusions about his danger to me.  If he lost his temper and went on one of his guilt-tripping, name-calling tirades, I'd still get hurt.  Thus, I must always operate within safety parameters and never lose sight of them, which precludes us ever being close.  Hard to love somebody you can't trust.  However, healing no matter how minimal in the bedeviled Smart family is a good thing and a right thing, so I'm glad I went but like I said earlier, I'm still decompressing from the whole experience.
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Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/29/10 at 6:55 am


I never said you hated all people.
And you never said your father hated all people

I stand by my initial assessment that two are very similar.  ::)


I guess at his age now everything bothers him,He worries about his finanical market,money,dumb people doing dumb stuff on television,stupid commercials and almost everything else.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/29/10 at 9:13 am


I guess at his age now everything bothers him,He worries about his finanical market,money,dumb people doing dumb stuff on television,stupid commercials and almost everything else.


I'm just saying Howard you are headed down the same path. You are half your fathers age and already very near as crotchety.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/29/10 at 9:21 am

Yes Max this thread is for bitching and complaining but- in case you haven't noticed- Howard bitches and complains a lot and he doesn't contain it to one post. He posts the same complaint in 5 threads. A lot of times he complains about nothing or, most recently, he complained about something that never happened. He projected his presumption and fudged people for what he thought they might do. They didn't do it. So basically, Howard thought someone was going to do something to make his job harder but they didn't do it, yet he comes here hours later and fudges them for doing something he thought they would do but wasn't done.

The problem is, like the boy who cried wolf, Howard has become the boy who complains too much. His complaints are no longer taken seriously.
And they have become quite frustrating- not just for myself.

Since this is the thread to lodge complaints I am using it to lodge my complaints about howards habit of complaining.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/29/10 at 1:14 pm


I'm just saying Howard you are headed down the same path. You are half your fathers age and already very near as crotchety.




Maybe I need to calm down more often,I let things get to me. :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 11/29/10 at 2:21 pm


Maybe I need to calm down more often,I let things get to me. :-\\


You can't stop things from happening to you but you can control how you react to them or how you let them affect you. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 11/30/10 at 6:53 am


You can't stop things from happening to you but you can control how you react to them or how you let them affect you. 


Thanks.  :)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/14/10 at 2:00 pm

AAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!


I think some of you are aware that I am in the precess of creating a slideshow as a Christmas present for the newlyweds. Several months ago, I was in need a new program to create such a thing since my new computer no longer had Windows Movie Maker and I can't get it for Windows 7. I figured this was something that I was going to use many, many times over so I didn't mind paying for a program-but I wanted one that had certain elements to it. So, I searched & searched & searched and tried out different ones and I finally found the one that had all the elements that I wanted. So, I had been creating this slide show. Well, this program seem to have a lot of issues. Even though it has all the elements that I wanted, it seems to crash a lot. I FINALLY thought that I was done with it and then it is a matter of putting it on DVD. So, I tried to insert chapters. Unfortunately, I can't insert chapters without adding time to it (which messes up the timing of the music which I took a long time to get precise). Then I tried to get the template for the opening and tried to save it several hundred times but it never wanted to save. So, the final project has a template that I'm not impressed with. I'm starting to wonder if I did buy the right program. I just hope that after it is done burning (which it is doing in real time), that it comes out ok and will play on a DVD player.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/14/10 at 7:54 pm

Certain people in my family complain I don't call them enough.

Yet...

I always have to be the one to initiate contact.

The guilt trip is: Why should we call you when you don't even want to talk to us?
The reality is: Whenever I talk to you, I feel worse about myself.  So f**k it.  You're lucky I call you at all.

I do feel guilty for not calling my uncle more.  Problem is, the guy is not just lonely.  He is autistic and a bit soft in the squash as he ages.  He has the vocal inflection of Steven Hawking, the emotional range of Rain Man, and speaks like a software manual.  Peter has a shifting schedule of rituals he must follow with rigor.  If I call him, it's either his sleeping time (could be 3 pm) or his teeth-flossing time (could be any hour), he can't talk.  Then he calls me five times in an evening when I already told him I would not be available to talk.  He always leaves his full name and number in every message.  Then he leaves another message in case he forgot to leave his full name and number!  
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/11/BangHead.gif

WTF?  Thing is,  I can't fault the guy for his cognitive deficits.  He was nice to me when I was a kid, but as he aged he got more intertwined in his own convoluted world, which is sad to see.  It's just frustrating.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/17/10 at 2:38 pm

Just needed a quick answer as to what setting I should have my new printer set on to print labels. I found this place on-line that had techs standing by-how convenient. That is until I found out that it would have cost me $14 to have just a simple question answered.  >:( >:( >:(



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/18/10 at 5:55 pm


Just needed a quick answer as to what setting I should have my new printer set on to print labels. I found this place on-line that had techs standing by-how convenient. That is until I found out that it would have cost me $14 to have just a simple question answered.  >:( >:( >:(



Fourteen bucks for online customer service?  That's f**king ridiculous!  What company does that?
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/18/10 at 5:58 pm


Fourteen bucks for online customer service?  That's f**king ridiculous!  What company does that?
>:(



It said that it was Canon but I wonder if it was or just a place that was using the Canon name.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/18/10 at 7:18 pm


Fourteen bucks for online customer service?  That's f**king ridiculous!  What company does that?
>:(


I smell ripoff. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 12/20/10 at 6:13 pm

Hi Everyone!

I am extremely unhappy right now. Okay, as many of you know, I've lost quite a bit of weight with my battle with kidney failure. One of the only forgiving aspects of it, is that I still look healthy and I hear all the time that I look it. I am a smaller size, I went from a size 26 to a 12 which I think is pretty remarkable. But the thing that made me so angry today, was that I was at the mall shopping for myself, as kind of a reward for finishing all my holiday shopping and getting the things for my family and friends they wanted.

So anyway, I was looking to get an outfit to wear to my friend's party on Christmas Eve. So the mall here has alot of trendy stores with cute clothing. I started in New York & Company and got a great raspberry colored sweater and some shoes and then went ot more of the stores. Depending on the store, I'm else a large or a XL. And much to my dismay nearly all the stores I went in, except for Old Navy which was a madhouse, I couldn't find anything to fit me. In the one store I found a great lacy back blouse in my size, alas it didn't fit. And it just made me feel like I did when I was a size 26 and nothing fit.  >:( People pay me compliments on my appearance which I appreciate and Dion tries to knock out the men who hit on me, but I just don't get it. I'm a whole size smaller than the average american woman and I still can't find clothes to fit me. I seem to be in the middle between stores. Too large for most chains, and too small for a place like Lane Bryant. I don't mind buying basics and using accessories to make it interesting, but I'd like to by a top that speaks for its self with out me have to spend an extra 50 in costume jewelry to amp it up.l

I just feel bad and I can't really complain to my friends because one is a size 6 who doesn't get it and the other is a size 28 who wishes she was my size. None of my friends are exactly my size so neither know. My other girlfriends are smaller than me, so I'm pretty much alone with this.  :-[

It just makes me upset that's all.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/21/10 at 7:56 am

One half of my speakers crapped out on me,I'm going to Staples sometime this week and getting myself brand new ones.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/21/10 at 5:38 pm

I am so p!ssed right now. I have been trying very hard to get this place in order for the kids visit (the first wave is supposed to arrive tomorrow) and my cleaning person was supposed to show up today and didn't. (I know, I know, I am lucky to be able to afford having a cleaning person.) This isn't the first time she hasn't shown up when we were scheduled. Normally, it doesn't bother me. She could come another time/day-whatever, but there are times when it is REALLY IMPORTANT that she show up-this is one of those times and I told her when we scheduled. I tried calling her business # twice & her home once-no answer. I left messages. So now I don't know what to do. I can't vacuum myself because our vacuum was broke by the last cleaning agency we hired and we never had it fixed-not to mention having time to do everything that I thought she would do (not just vacuum but clean the bathroom & kitchen) plus do everything that I still have yet to do like put all the sheets/towels away that I have washed in the last couple of days-make beds, & do last minute stuff.

The question is do I keep using her or not? Yeah, it p!sses me off when she doesn't show up when she said she is going to but she does paint for us, she also watches the cats if we have to go away-and will even do it at the last minute. And I do like her. So, there are a lot of advantages to keeping her on but THIS is really bad.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 12/22/10 at 9:37 am

up today and didn't. (I know, I know, I am lucky to be able to afford having a cleaning person.) This isn't the first time she hasn't shown up when we were scheduled. Normally, it doesn't bother
I am so p!ssed right now. I have been trying very hard to get this place in order for the kids visit (the first wave is supposed to arrive tomorrow) and my cleaning person was supposed to show  me. She could come another time/day-whatever, but there are times when it is REALLY IMPORTANT that she show up-this is one of those times and I told her when we scheduled. I tried calling her business # twice & her home once-no answer. I left messages. So now I don't know what to do. I can't vacuum myself because our vacuum was broke by the last cleaning agency we hired and we never had it fixed-not to mention having time to do everything that I thought she would do (not just vacuum but clean the bathroom & kitchen) plus do everything that I still have yet to do like put all the sheets/towels away that I have washed in the last couple of days-make beds, & do last minute stuff.

The question is do I keep using her or not? Yeah, it p!sses me off when she doesn't show up when she said she is going to but she does paint for us, she also watches the cats if we have to go away-and will even do it at the last minute. And I do like her. So, there are a lot of advantages to keeping her on but THIS is really bad.



Cat


This isn't about like or not like, there are a lot of people out there willing to do the job and do it right.  She probably blew you off for someone else.  You may like her, but she doesn't seem to have any qualms about leaving you high and dry, don't respect people who don't respect you.  If you find that there isn't a very, very, good reason for her not at the very least answering you calls, say thanks but no thanks and go somewhere else.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/22/10 at 11:21 am


This isn't about like or not like, there are a lot of people out there willing to do the job and do it right.  She probably blew you off for someone else.  You may like her, but she doesn't seem to have any qualms about leaving you high and dry, don't respect people who don't respect you.  If you find that there isn't a very, very, good reason for her not at the very least answering you calls, say thanks but no thanks and go somewhere else.



She is here right now. I'm still debating.



Cat


Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 12/22/10 at 3:21 pm



She is here right now. I'm still debating.



Cat






After the holidays.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/22/10 at 4:31 pm


Okay so I have been wanting to post this for about a week but it was too much to type on my phone:


While in AZ I was in Target trying to return something. There was a woman in front of me with three bratty kids... and there was a guy with her. I don't know if he was the father, husband/step-dad, or boyfriend but the ass had no business interacting with the kids.

Two of the kids were about 5 and 6 a boy and a girl, then there was a 9 or 11 yr old boy.  Here's what I observed.

The two young kids were playing on the computers that are there that allow you search for merchandise or register for a wedding... they were pounding the keyboard and spinning the tracker ball.  They guy yelled at the kids to stop. The young boy stopped immediately but the girl just ignored him. He walked over to her and leaned over and in a loud gruff whisper right into her ear "I TOLD YOU TO STOP!" then he grabbed her shoulders and gave her a hard shake. She then clenched a fist and took a swing at him - she missed. He picked her up from behind (like in an angry bear hug) squeezed her and then marched with her suspended in the air and then forcefully set her down near her mom.  (mom was oblivious to all of this)

The girl ran off over to the $1 items display. It's about 20 or 50 ft from the return area.  She started looking at stuff in the bins. The guy went after her to bring her back. When she saw him she decided to run back on her own. He grabbed her pony tail and yanked it really hard. Then he said "I'm gonna beat you"

At this point the older boy started punching the young boy in the arm. He punched him, alternating hands (like a punching bag) about 6 times. Then he, literally, kicked him in the ass. The young boy said nothing. Then the man turned to they young boy, made a fist and made a movement like he was going to punch the young boy- who, in my opinion had done nothing wrong since getting on the computer, the guy made the movement like he was going to punch the kid... he moved quickly but he stopped just short of the little boy's face.  Again... the mom had no idea any of this was going on. 

I hate kids but I would never condone such violence or mimicry of violence.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CeeKay on 12/22/10 at 6:02 pm


At this point the older boy started punching the young boy in the arm. He punched him, alternating hands (like a punching bag) about 6 times. Then he, literally, kicked him in the ass. The young boy said nothing. Then the man turned to they young boy, made a fist and made a movement like he was going to punch the young boy- who, in my opinion had done nothing wrong since getting on the computer, the guy made the movement like he was going to punch the kid... he moved quickly but he stopped just short of the little boy's face.  Again... the mom had no idea any of this was going on. 

I hate kids but I would never condone such violence or mimicry of violence.  >:(


It's a sad story.  And those kids are so likely to repeat it.  I saw something similar once w/ a bad mom.  We were at a family part (not my family, some other family - a friend of a friend).  This boy was playing around.  He accidentally bumped into me.  No big deal.  The mom grabbed him by the arm and yelled at him: "See what you do!  No matter where I take you, you have to bother people and be a troublemaker.  Can't you ever behave yourself!!"  I said, "It was really not a problem."  This happened about three more times while I was there.  He never did anything wrong or mean, but she constantly berated him.  I had to leave because I knew I couldn't really help, and it made me so mad that I wanted to punch her in the face (and just for the record I've never punched anyone for any reason).  >:( 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/22/10 at 6:15 pm



it made me so mad that I wanted to punch her in the face (and just for the record I've never punched anyone for any reason).  >:( 


I wanted to punch a pregnant lady once... I was working at a movie theater. We were screening Top Gun. The film broke more than once.. it couldn't be spliced together because it kept breaking anyway we offered everyone a refund....the pregnant lady came out and started yelling at me. Screaming about how stupid we were and how much we sucked...she was right in my face and I walked away... I told my friend "God I want to punch that fat lady in the face so bad!"  "My friend was all- "She's not fat she's pregnant"  I said- does that mean I can't punch her?  I ended up hitting a wall.  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 12/22/10 at 7:52 pm

I don't want to cook for Christmas.  :(


But I have to!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/23/10 at 7:00 am


I don't want to cook for Christmas.  :(


But I have to!


What are you cooking?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 12/23/10 at 9:49 am


It's a sad story.  And those kids are so likely to repeat it.  I saw something similar once w/ a bad mom.  We were at a family part (not my family, some other family - a friend of a friend).  This boy was playing around.  He accidentally bumped into me.  No big deal.  The mom grabbed him by the arm and yelled at him: "See what you do!  No matter where I take you, you have to bother people and be a troublemaker.  Can't you ever behave yourself!!"  I said, "It was really not a problem."  This happened about three more times while I was there.  He never did anything wrong or mean, but she constantly berated him.  I had to leave because I knew I couldn't really help, and it made me so mad that I wanted to punch her in the face (and just for the record I've never punched anyone for any reason).  >:( 


I was in a bookstore and their was a woman with her daughter, I'm not sure what happened but the mother said to her daughter(about 10 years old)  "Yeah, she's a bitch just like your little sister"  WOW!!!!!  I can only feel sympathy for the little girl whoever she is and can only hope she does well in life and puts mom in an awful home when she gets old.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/27/10 at 6:33 pm

Do you ever wish you could just fire someone for being a complete whiney baby?  We are slow at work and everyone is not getting their hours.  Well there is a group in my office that doesn't think it is fair that they aren't.  They (well one of them was elected...the others stayed in the hall like cowards) marched to the big boss today to complain.  Well, what do they expect us to do, pull work out of our butts? It isn't going to happen. They even had the nerve to complain that one of the girls does more of the work.  Well, not that it is any of their business, but that is because she is faster, works more hours if needed and sits at her desk and works.  They run around chit chatting and once their scheduled hours are up they are out of there.  If we have a lot of work they can stay.  I just want to tell them to worry about what they do and not what others do.  If course I have told two of them this once and they tried to turn it back on me, saying I made it everyones business.  What?  I force you to check out other peoples time clocks to see when they work?  I don't freaking think so.  Grow the hell up.  What really kills me with their whining about this girl is she wasn't even there today.  They whine about her all the time.  If they would stop pot stirring and concentrate on their work, I bet the could be as fast as well. 

One of them is really nice but today she even got to me.  I was asking opinions on something.  When she asked if we could start tomorrows work today, I said no.  She asked if we could vote on it and I said no, I am a dictator.  She replied "yeah, without the tator".  I almost cried.  She really hurt my feelings.  It is not my fault the work is slow and it is always slow this time of year.  We warned them and they didn't listen.  Why should I get called names?

I could tell something was coming though.  They kept going into the break room and whispering and being all secretive.  I hate to tell them that I am #3 in charge in the company and #1 and #2 agree with me when it comes to these babies.

It was truly a day I was glad we were low on work and I was all alone for most of the day.

I don't know how I am going to be tomorrow.  It is going to be hard not to read the babies the riot act. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/27/10 at 7:38 pm


Do you ever wish you could just fire someone for being a complete whiney baby?  We are slow at work and everyone is not getting their hours.  Well there is a group in my office that doesn't think it is fair that they aren't.  They (well one of them was elected...the others stayed in the hall like cowards) marched to the big boss today to complain.  Well, what do they expect us to do, pull work out of our butts? It isn't going to happen. They even had the nerve to complain that one of the girls does more of the work.  Well, not that it is any of their business, but that is because she is faster, works more hours if needed and sits at her desk and works.  They run around chit chatting and once their scheduled hours are up they are out of there.  If we have a lot of work they can stay.  I just want to tell them to worry about what they do and not what others do.  If course I have told two of them this once and they tried to turn it back on me, saying I made it everyones business.  What?  I force you to check out other peoples time clocks to see when they work?  I don't freaking think so.  Grow the hell up.  What really kills me with their whining about this girl is she wasn't even there today.  They whine about her all the time.  If they would stop pot stirring and concentrate on their work, I bet the could be as fast as well. 

One of them is really nice but today she even got to me.  I was asking opinions on something.  When she asked if we could start tomorrows work today, I said no.  She asked if we could vote on it and I said no, I am a dictator.  She replied "yeah, without the tator".  I almost cried.  She really hurt my feelings.  It is not my fault the work is slow and it is always slow this time of year.  We warned them and they didn't listen.  Why should I get called names?

I could tell something was coming though.  They kept going into the break room and whispering and being all secretive.  I hate to tell them that I am #3 in charge in the company and #1 and #2 agree with me when it comes to these babies.

It was truly a day I was glad we were low on work and I was all alone for most of the day.

I don't know how I am going to be tomorrow.  It is going to be hard not to read the babies the riot act. 
Complainers...  what to do with them, I feel some should look around and see all those unemployed and all those qualified who are looking for work, make them really feel dispensible, and grind in the fact that they can be replaced - EASILY... 

I hope your day goes better Dagny 8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/27/10 at 7:43 pm

Thanks, Sami.  My boss kinda said the same thing.  It's like these people think they are guaranteed the job.  He mentioned that it was crazy to be acting this way when there are plenty of people out there who want and need jobs and would be willing to work without the bitching. There are some in my office I would love to replace the whiners with.  They will do whatever they are asked and work late if need be because they realize that the world will not support you, you need to do it yourself.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/27/10 at 7:55 pm


Thanks, Sami.  My boss kinda said the same thing.  It's like these people think they are guaranteed the job.  He mentioned that it was crazy to be acting this way when there are plenty of people out there who want and need jobs and would be willing to work without the bitching. There are some in my office I would love to replace the whiners with.  They will do whatever they are asked and work late if need be because they realize that the world will not support you, you need to do it yourself.
I know one cannot do it, but wouldn't it be funny to post a "help wanted" for the whiners positions.  It would make them wonder who was going to be axed, and they would sooo turn on each other .... :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/27/10 at 8:12 pm

That would be hilarious.  Oh well, I will get thru the week knowing that they have widened the target on their backs and don't even realize it.  She thinks it betters her position but we all want her gone even more. ;D

One thing that annoys me is that I got a bunch of Chapstick from my mom for Christmas.  I still have a lot left from last year so I brought it to work to share and they took most of it.  This is how I am repaid?  I want my Chapstick back! :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/27/10 at 8:19 pm


That would be hilarious.  Oh well, I will get thru the week knowing that they have widened the target on their backs and don't even realize it.  She thinks it betters her position but we all want her gone even more. ;D

One thing that annoys me is that I got a bunch of Chapstick from my mom for Christmas.  I still have a lot left from last year so I brought it to work to share and they took most of it.  This is how I am repaid?  I want my Chapstick back! :D
Aaaaa, let em keep it... it will take the place of vasoline as they reamed...  :D

;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/27/10 at 8:22 pm

;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/27/10 at 8:35 pm


Okay so I have been wanting to post this for about a week but it was too much to type on my phone:


While in AZ I was in Target trying to return something. There was a woman in front of me with three bratty kids... and there was a guy with her. I don't know if he was the father, husband/step-dad, or boyfriend but the ass had no business interacting with the kids.

Two of the kids were about 5 and 6 a boy and a girl, then there was a 9 or 11 yr old boy.  Here's what I observed.

The two young kids were playing on the computers that are there that allow you search for merchandise or register for a wedding... they were pounding the keyboard and spinning the tracker ball.   They guy yelled at the kids to stop. The young boy stopped immediately but the girl just ignored him. He walked over to her and leaned over and in a loud gruff whisper right into her ear "I TOLD YOU TO STOP!" then he grabbed her shoulders and gave her a hard shake. She then clenched a fist and took a swing at him - she missed. He picked her up from behind (like in an angry bear hug) squeezed her and then marched with her suspended in the air and then forcefully set her down near her mom.   (mom was oblivious to all of this)

The girl ran off over to the $1 items display. It's about 20 or 50 ft from the return area.  She started looking at stuff in the bins. The guy went after her to bring her back. When she saw him she decided to run back on her own. He grabbed her pony tail and yanked it really hard. Then he said "I'm gonna beat you"

At this point the older boy started punching the young boy in the arm. He punched him, alternating hands (like a punching bag) about 6 times. Then he, literally, kicked him in the ass. The young boy said nothing. Then the man turned to they young boy, made a fist and made a movement like he was going to punch the young boy- who, in my opinion had done nothing wrong since getting on the computer, the guy made the movement like he was going to punch the kid... he moved quickly but he stopped just short of the little boy's face.  Again... the mom had no idea any of this was going on. 

I hate kids but I would never condone such violence or mimicry of violence.  >:(


I worked in a supermarket for years.  I've seen it all.  The way dysfunctional families behave is always unnerving. 

One time a kid started running out of the check-out area before the dad was done with the transaction.  He grabbed the kid by the scruff of the neck and then joked: "They're not gonna let us leave without paying!  This is America...and you're white!"  The cashier was Puerto Rican! I was bagging the creep's groceries.  I wanted to say, "Azzhole, I'm gonna hit you, and you're gonna fall!"  But the guy could probably have beaten me senseless and I would have gotten the sack, so I grimaced and finished the task.  Sometimes you gotta keep a stiff upper lip working in retail!
>:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/27/10 at 11:53 pm

When I was working as a student employee I was called the n word. I told the person I'll take off this uniform right now and kick your ass. The jobs not important to me.  They complied with my initial request and got the hell out of there  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/27/10 at 11:56 pm

Dag I'm so sorry the people at your work suck. If I could annihilate them for you I would (along w/ a couple of my own!)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/28/10 at 7:01 am


Dag I'm so sorry the people at your work suck. If I could annihilate them for you I would (along w/ a couple of my own!)


Thanks, Q.  I guess sucky people is something we all have to deal with.  The part that really sucks is that I am the boss so I really can't stand up and tell them what I feel.  Oh well.  I think they will end up getting back what they give and I can't wait to see it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/28/10 at 7:02 am


I know one cannot do it, but wouldn't it be funny to post a "help wanted" for the whiners positions.  It would make them wonder who was going to be axed, and they would sooo turn on each other .... :D


But how much is the pay?  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/28/10 at 7:03 am


But how much is the pay?  ;D


If it is my job, it pays by how fast you type.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/28/10 at 7:07 am

I couldn't even get outta my house yesterday cause of the big snow banks and the 20 inches of snow so I called in to work telling them I couldn't come in and so he said "Don't worry about it,and I asked If it's possible that I can make up the 2pm-6pm that I couldn't do yesterday? And she said call back tomorrow which is today so I'll call in just a little bit to see what my hours are,It's weird how you have a week off then you're so ready to come back to work then there's a blizzard the day after,I guess you can't control mother nature.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/28/10 at 10:38 am


Do you ever wish you could just fire someone for being a complete whiney baby?  We are slow at work and everyone is not getting their hours.  Well there is a group in my office that doesn't think it is fair that they aren't.  They (well one of them was elected...the others stayed in the hall like cowards) marched to the big boss today to complain.  Well, what do they expect us to do, pull work out of our butts? It isn't going to happen. They even had the nerve to complain that one of the girls does more of the work.  Well, not that it is any of their business, but that is because she is faster, works more hours if needed and sits at her desk and works.  They run around chit chatting and once their scheduled hours are up they are out of there.  If we have a lot of work they can stay.  I just want to tell them to worry about what they do and not what others do.  If course I have told two of them this once and they tried to turn it back on me, saying I made it everyones business.  What?  I force you to check out other peoples time clocks to see when they work?  I don't freaking think so.  Grow the hell up.  What really kills me with their whining about this girl is she wasn't even there today.  They whine about her all the time.  If they would stop pot stirring and concentrate on their work, I bet the could be as fast as well. 

One of them is really nice but today she even got to me.  I was asking opinions on something.  When she asked if we could start tomorrows work today, I said no.  She asked if we could vote on it and I said no, I am a dictator.  She replied "yeah, without the tator".  I almost cried.  She really hurt my feelings.  It is not my fault the work is slow and it is always slow this time of year.  We warned them and they didn't listen.  Why should I get called names?

I could tell something was coming though.  They kept going into the break room and whispering and being all secretive.  I hate to tell them that I am #3 in charge in the company and #1 and #2 agree with me when it comes to these babies.

It was truly a day I was glad we were low on work and I was all alone for most of the day.

I don't know how I am going to be tomorrow.  It is going to be hard not to read the babies the riot act. 



When I first read your post on the Fudge thread about whiners and people who are SUPPOSED to be grown-ups, I thought you were talking about a couple of members of this board.  ;) :D ;D ;D


Anyway, I'm sorry you had such a sucky day. Hopefully it will get better.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/28/10 at 5:50 pm


If it is my job, it pays by how fast you type.


I used to be a medical transcriptionist.  I was one of a handful of guys who did that job.  It wasn't bad when I was working for an orthopedic practice f/t and got paid by the hour.  Line-by-line for a transcription service gets downright nasty. 
::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/28/10 at 5:58 pm



When I first read your post on the Fudge thread about whiners and people who are SUPPOSED to be grown-ups, I thought you were talking about a couple of members of this board.  ;) :D ;D ;D


Anyway, I'm sorry you had such a sucky day. Hopefully it will get better.



Cat


;D

Thanks, Cat.  Today was much better.


I used to be a medical transcriptionist.  I was one of a handful of guys who did that job.  It wasn't bad when I was working for an orthopedic practice f/t and got paid by the hour.  Line-by-line for a transcription service gets downright nasty. 
::)


Piece rate can be a bear.  I love it, but I can see how some wouldn't.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/28/10 at 8:33 pm

I couldn't believe how nasty and bad this day was for pushing carts,It was just awful with a capital A,all these snow banks that are as tall as a small tree didn't help much and you have all these slushy floods which I kept stepping in,made my feet cold frozen and waiting for the bus wasn't a picnic either. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80sfan on 12/29/10 at 3:12 am

This guy dumped me as a friend because he thought I was a 'lazy' bastard.

Well a**hole, the reason why I'm 'lazy' is because of my depression!!  >:( >:(

This was before I was medicated.

~LOL~

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/29/10 at 6:41 am


This guy dumped me as a friend because he thought I was a 'lazy' bastard.

Well a**hole, the reason why I'm 'lazy' is because of my depression!!  >:( >:(

This was before I was medicated.

~LOL~


Did you tell him off? ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 7:42 am


I couldn't believe how nasty and bad this day was for pushing carts,It was just awful with a capital A,all these snow banks that are as tall as a small tree didn't help much and you have all these slushy floods which I kept stepping in,made my feet cold frozen and waiting for the bus wasn't a picnic either. ::)
I would suggest getting yourself a pair of bogs or Muck's. You can get them knee hi and they are made out if wetsuit material, super warm (-40 bogs, and -20 Muck's) but the best part your feet stay dry!  And they are super comfortable, made to work in all day!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/29/10 at 6:05 pm

If I hear the words "It's not fair!" out of the mouths of the supposed grown ups at work again I am going to flip the hell out.  Isn't that something a teenager would whine about, not an adult?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 6:39 pm


If I hear the words "It's not fair!" out of the mouths of the supposed grown ups at work again I am going to flip the hell out.  Isn't that something a teenager would whine about, not an adult?
But that's not fair....  >:(

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/29/10 at 6:42 pm


But that's not fair....  >:(


You trying to get fired? ;D

Oh, and I owe you Karma for that one. :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/29/10 at 6:48 pm


If I hear the words "It's not fair!" out of the mouths of the supposed grown ups at work again I am going to flip the hell out.  Isn't that something a teenager would whine about, not an adult?


please point out in the company handbook, employee manual etc where it says all decisions will be based solely on fairness  ::) 



today was my a-hole's last day... actually he worked graves last night so when he walked out the door at 0730 this morning  it was over!!!!

yes I did a happy dance!!! lol...

then I looked up a job listing for a local agency. Had a friend print it and post it.. and asked another friend to bring up with the bitch and see if she's interested!  :D  It pays ALOT more... I'd take it myself but the truth is no other agency would cater to my Paleyfest needs and say what you will but Paleyfest is the best thing that happens to me all year!

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 6:51 pm


You trying to get fired? ;D

Oh, and I owe you Karma for that one. :D
Fired??? Fired from what?  Being the best dang pot stirrer there is....  ::)

;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/29/10 at 6:52 pm


Fired??? Fired from what?  Being the best dang pot stirrer there is....  ::)

;D


you do have skill!  ;)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 6:53 pm


please point out in the company handbook, employee manual etc where it says all decisions will be based solely on fairness  ::) 



today was my a-hole's last day... actually he worked graves last night so when he walked out the door at 0730 this morning  it was over!!!!

yes I did a happy dance!!! lol...

then I looked up a job listing for a local agency. Had a friend print it and post it.. and asked another friend to bring up with the bitch and see if she's interested!  :D  It pays ALOT more... I'd take it myself but the truth is no other agency would cater to my Paleyfest needs and say what you will but Paleyfest is the best thing that happens to me all year!
I am waiting for them to rename it the Qfest ....  but it just doesn't have the same ring to it

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 6:53 pm


you do have skill!  ;)
and attitude...  and you can't fire that baby  :D



8)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 12/29/10 at 7:34 pm


please point out in the company handbook, employee manual etc where it says all decisions will be based solely on fairness  ::) 



I should do that. 

Yay on your problem child leaving!


Fired??? Fired from what?  Being the best dang pot stirrer there is....  ::)

;D


You're right.  I couldn't do that...you are too good at your job.  Want to come work for me to see if you can give the "high school" table a taste of their own medicine?

And, I love your attitude. :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/29/10 at 7:42 pm


I would suggest getting yourself a pair of bogs or Muck's. You can get them knee hi and they are made out if wetsuit material, super warm (-40 bogs, and -20 Muck's) but the best part your feet stay dry!  And they are super comfortable, made to work in all day!


Ok,Thanks Sami. I have these old boots,not quite waterproof and I'm waiting in the frozen cold,feet are very numb about to fall off,they don't help much.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/29/10 at 7:45 pm

There must be some lack of Sanitation and maintainence cause I'm tired of waiting for the bus in the streets and you have cars going fast and the big snow banks are just sitting there waiting for a thunderstorm or something.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 7:48 pm


I should do that. 

Yay on your problem child leaving!

You're right.  I couldn't do that...you are too good at your job.  Want to come work for me to see if you can give the "high school" table a taste of their own medicine?

And, I love your attitude. :D
OH I would sooo love that, and I would love being an efficiency expert (I have a friend who travels to companies, and watches the employees, and then tells them how they can get more from them, by just altering a step, moving a machine 4 inches to the left etc...  sometimes it is get rid of people, but a lot of time it is floor plan...)...  I think it is awesome (if I just did not have to leave my family every week)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 2kidsami on 12/29/10 at 7:54 pm


Ok,Thanks Sami. I have these old boots,not quite waterproof and I'm waiting in the frozen cold,feet are very numb about to fall off,they don't help much.
Both are well worth the money, we wade out in manure and mud, muck and snow to do chores, and my feet freeze, but these keep them warm.  AND they are good on my back, and feet (even the broken one does not hurt when wearing these).  My kids love em, my hubby loves em (he wears his in the Hog unit, everyday 10 hours a day) , and I love em.  Hunters wear them, and anyone who works outside in the extreme weather wear them, and you can use them in the spring and fall wet weather as well.  THEy are WONDERFUL!

Bogs website http://www.bogsfootwear.com/
Mucks website http://www.muckbootcompany.com/Pages/default.aspx

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 12/29/10 at 8:18 pm


I am waiting for them to rename it the Qfest ....  but it just doesn't have the same ring to it

;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 12/29/10 at 8:18 pm


Both are well worth the money, we wade out in manure and mud, muck and snow to do chores, and my feet freeze, but these keep them warm.  AND they are good on my back, and feet (even the broken one does not hurt when wearing these).  My kids love em, my hubby loves em (he wears his in the Hog unit, everyday 10 hours a day) , and I love em.  Hunters wear them, and anyone who works outside in the extreme weather wear them, and you can use them in the spring and fall wet weather as well.  THEy are WONDERFUL!

Bogs website http://www.bogsfootwear.com/
Mucks website http://www.muckbootcompany.com/Pages/default.aspx



I'l tell my Father about it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: karen on 01/01/11 at 3:33 pm


There must be some lack of Sanitation and maintainence cause I'm tired of waiting for the bus in the streets and you have cars going fast and the big snow banks are just sitting there waiting for a thunderstorm or something.  ::)


where do you want them to put the snow?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/01/11 at 7:03 pm


where do you want them to put the snow?



I don't know,just put it somewhere where it doesn't block anything.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 01/04/11 at 8:00 pm

Okay, I am getting fed up with dialysis. And the treatment has nothing to do with it. The needles and all that stuff is as fine as expected. What's really getting on my last nerve. is this man that I have to take treatment with. His name is Kyle and he is one loud assault on the ears the minute he gets into the treatment area. I don't really know what the hell is problem is, nor do I really care. But no one is supposed to sit in treatment for THREE HOURS screaming thier head off.
He gets on everyone's last nerve in there. He's screaming at the nurses and even for nurses who aren't there. He annoys everyone within earshot of him. And for other people who are sick and dealing with thier own troubles, this =just makes treatment all that much harder to bear.
I really want to jump up and tell him in no less terms to shut the fudge up. If he is in that much pain and everything, he should go see his personal doctor and have them perscribe something.

I'm not really a fan of sitting in dialysis anyway, because at times it does hurt me, but it is easier to take my treatment when there isn't a constant interruption. I'm 24 years old and behave more maturely than a man in his 50s. And just because he's older does not give him the entitlement to act a damn fool day in and day out.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/05/11 at 7:06 am

This black woman in her car must've cursed me out in the parking lot,Yesterday as I'm pushing 8 carts with the pulley to the corral,I'm hearing a car horn but I don't know if it was meant for me or not so she starts screaming and saying 'Don't you hear a car horn"? And I said "F You,Go Away and Drive Off",I'm pushing carts slowly because there is still some hard ice and snow from last week's storm and I'm going as slow as possible so I don't crash.People in their car are supposed to see the red vest,the red means slow down and if you don't see the red well then you must be blind,I'm trying to concentrate on the road as much as the cars are doing in the parking lot.  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 01/05/11 at 9:38 am


This black woman in her car must've cursed me out in the parking lot,Yesterday as I'm pushing 8 carts with the pulley to the corral,I'm hearing a car horn but I don't know if it was meant for me or not so she starts screaming and saying 'Don't you hear a car horn"? And I said "F You,Go Away and Drive Off",I'm pushing carts slowly because there is still some hard ice and snow from last week's storm and I'm going as slow as possible so I don't crash.People in their car are supposed to see the red vest,the red means slow down and if you don't see the red well then you must be blind,I'm trying to concentrate on the road as much as the cars are doing in the parking lot.  ::)


Howard, you could lose your job over something like this.  I know if someone said that to me I would park my car and go into the store and talk to the manager, if I couldn't go I would call the very first second I had.  That was rude and unprofessional. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/05/11 at 1:46 pm


Howard, you could lose your job over something like this.  I know if someone said that to me I would park my car and go into the store and talk to the manager, if I couldn't go I would call the very first second I had.  That was rude and unprofessional. 


I'm moving the carts slowly cause there's still hard ice and snow on the ground,I didn't hear the horn cause there was too much noise around me,the woman must've been in back of me when she did that. She didn't have to say "Did you hear a car horn"? I do hear stuff around me sometimes,I'm not deaf! ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 01/05/11 at 3:00 pm


I'm moving the carts slowly cause there's still hard ice and snow on the ground,I didn't hear the horn cause there was too much noise around me,the woman must've been in back of me when she did that. She didn't have to say "Did you hear a car horn"? I do hear stuff around me sometimes,I'm not deaf! ::)


You missed my point.  No, she didn't have to say that but she did and you should have either kept your mouth shut or said something like "No, sorry I didn't, be out of your way in a minute.".  You should not have been rude or cursed at her, you could lose your job for something like this or ruin your chances for ever moving to an inside position.  Take the high road.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/05/11 at 6:16 pm


This black woman in her car must've cursed me out in the parking lot,Yesterday as I'm pushing 8 carts with the pulley to the corral,I'm hearing a car horn but I don't know if it was meant for me or not so she starts screaming and saying 'Don't you hear a car horn"? And I said "F You,Go Away and Drive Off",I'm pushing carts slowly because there is still some hard ice and snow from last week's storm and I'm going as slow as possible so I don't crash.People in their car are supposed to see the red vest,the red means slow down and if you don't see the red well then you must be blind,I'm trying to concentrate on the road as much as the cars are doing in the parking lot.  ::)


Oh, Howard, you didn't....cursing out a customer is a great way to lose your job quickly. 

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: apollonia1986 on 01/05/11 at 6:28 pm

Eh, if I was in the cold and snow, I probably would have introduced some four letter words too.

*pats Howard on back*


:)  The man's human and humans get upset. I know I do at times. LOL.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/05/11 at 8:20 pm


You missed my point.  No, she didn't have to say that but she did and you should have either kept your mouth shut or said something like "No, sorry I didn't, be out of your way in a minute.".  You should not have been rude or cursed at her, you could lose your job for something like this or ruin your chances for ever moving to an inside position.  Take the high road.




Karma for saying what I was thinking.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/05/11 at 8:29 pm


I'm moving the carts slowly cause there's still hard ice and snow on the ground,I didn't hear the horn cause there was too much noise around me,the woman must've been in back of me when she did that. She didn't have to say "Did you hear a car horn"? I do hear stuff around me sometimes,I'm not deaf! ::)


Howard read your own post:
I didn't hear the horn cause there was too much noise

Then you said :
She didn't have to say "Did you hear a car horn"? I do hear stuff around me sometimes,I'm not deaf!  ::)

I put that eyeroll at the end back on you ::)

By your own asmission sometimes you don't  hear stuff. 
We keep telling you that you have to treat the customers with more respect.

>:(


Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 01/05/11 at 8:38 pm

Unfortunately, the customer gets to sass you...but you have to bight your tongue!!  Curse under your breath while smiling pleasantly (or giving an apologetic look).  ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/05/11 at 8:41 pm


^Agreed. that's not to say you have to take direct abuse. I was called a particular name when I was working at that time I decided I was willing to risk my job to speak my mind. That person got an earfull from me but that was a very specific racially charged incident.

Customers are impatient and sometimes rude. That's why they PAY you to deal with them.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/06/11 at 6:56 am


You missed my point.  No, she didn't have to say that but she did and you should have either kept your mouth shut or said something like "No, sorry I didn't, be out of your way in a minute.".  You should not have been rude or cursed at her, you could lose your job for something like this or ruin your chances for ever moving to an inside position.  Take the high road.




It was a reaction,That was my fault,I shouldn't have said it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/06/11 at 6:58 am


Oh, Howard, you didn't....cursing out a customer is a great way to lose your job quickly. 


So why do customers talk down to us like we're retarded? ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/06/11 at 7:01 am


Unfortunately, the customer gets to sass you...but you have to bight your tongue!!  Curse under your breath while smiling pleasantly (or giving an apologetic look).  ::)


But what if they come out their car and start pushing me around?

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/06/11 at 7:05 am


So why do customers talk down to us like we're retarded? ???


Because some people are just rude like that.  All customers are not like that, just a few loud ones. 


But what if they come out their car and start pushing me around?


Then you need to report it to your supervisor.  Let them be the bad guy, don't resort to cursing them out.  It will still look bad on you.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/06/11 at 7:30 am


Because some people are just rude like that.  All customers are not like that, just a few loud ones. 

Then you need to report it to your supervisor.  Let them be the bad guy, don't resort to cursing them out.  It will still look bad on you.



customer service is a good job,not crazy about it.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: danootaandme on 01/06/11 at 8:57 am


But what if they come out their car and start pushing me around?



Tell them that cameras are recording them, even if they aren't

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 01/06/11 at 11:09 am


^Agreed. that's not to say you have to take direct abuse. I was called a particular name when I was working at that time I decided I was willing to risk my job to speak my mind. That person got an earfull from me but that was a very specific racially charged incident.



Right, when I worked in banking I had an elderly man accuse me of stealing $15 from his deposit (he was often confused when he came into the bank, always probably, so he most likely forgot the money at home).  I just couldn't allow him to accuse me of taking his money so I let him have it.  Luckily I wasn't fired, but my boss sided with me becuase he knew the guy.  Heck, I was the head teller and handled 10's of thousands of dollars, if I were going to take money it wouldn't have been a lousy $15.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/06/11 at 12:52 pm


But what if they come out their car and start pushing me around?


But that didn't happen.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/06/11 at 12:53 pm



customer service is a good job,not crazy about it.


We noticed  :P :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/06/11 at 12:59 pm


Right, when I worked in banking I had an elderly man accuse me of stealing $15 from his deposit (he was often confused when he came into the bank, always probably, so he most likely forgot the money at home).  I just couldn't allow him to accuse me of taking his money so I let him have it.  Luckily I wasn't fired, but my boss sided with me becuase he knew the guy.  Heck, I was the head teller and handled 10's of thousands of dollars, if I were going to take money it wouldn't have been a lousy $15.


No kidding.  ;D

Glad the boss sided with you.


I've told stories about how I lost my temper with a few customers. When you work retail it's bound to happen but you endure lots of punishment in retail and save those explosions for the battles that matter. Like when I hung up on a customer for making fun of my name  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 01/06/11 at 2:55 pm


No kidding.  ;D

Glad the boss sided with you.


I've told stories about how I lost my temper with a few customers. When you work retail it's bound to happen but you endure lots of punishment in retail and save those explosions for the battles that matter. Like when I hung up on a customer for making fun of my name  :D



I think every one should work in Retail or Food Service at least once in their life, that way that wouldn't be so quick to complain or get annoyed.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/06/11 at 4:58 pm


I think every one should work in Retail or Food Service at least once in their life, that way that wouldn't be so quick to complain or get annoyed.


I second that.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/06/11 at 5:58 pm

I want to tell you the tale of two dentists. One, who Carlos went to for many, many years, was extremely popular-so popular that he was no longer taking on new patients. Then there was the other one-who I went to. He wasn't a BAD dentist. I never had any complaints going to him. The only thing was the fact that he was a little further away-and for someone who doesn't drive, this is a problem.

The popular dentist retired and enter a new one in his place. Carlos convinced me to go to this new dentist-not because he is better than the one I had been going to for many years but because it was more convenient. The office is right around the corner and I can walk to it. I really didn't want to leave and I did tell them that it was nothing against them (in fact I think the dental hygienist there is GREAT and didn't want to leave her) but the other place is just more convenient.  So, I went. My first trip there, I just wasn't very impressed. At the other place, they ALWAYS put some stuff on my teeth to help with my sensitivity (which is EXTREME). These people refused-saying that the insurance company wouldn't pay for it. They also wanted people to pay BEFORE hand-and really didn't want to deal with insurance companies. Then we noticed on the way into Vermont-right over the border in NY was a BIG billboard for the place. (There are no billboards in Vermont). We thought that was kind of tacky that they would advertise on a billboard.

After going for a cleaning every 6 months, they tell me that I should go every 3 months. The thing is, the insurance company will only pay for 2 cleanings a year which means I have to pay for the other two out of pocket. Then there was an issue with our bill. They were saying that between the two of us, we owed for stuff that the insurance company wouldn't pay for but they couldn't quite tell us what they were. When we got the statement from the insurance company, we noticed that the dentist had an address of ALASKA!!!!  :o :o :o :o  In other words, he moved but still owns the business-and that is basically what this is-a business rather than a service for people.

We finally had enough and are going back to my old dentist. When I called to make an appointment, the ladies there were more than willing to tell me that there had been a mass exodus after the popular dentist retired and this new guy came in. Apparently, we are not the only ones who are upset with these people. This is why they HAVE to advertise on a billboard because they can't keep patients because they are more worried about $$$$ than they are about their patients.

So, we will once again have a hometown dentist who cares about his patients rather than $$$$.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: gibbo on 01/06/11 at 6:20 pm


^Agreed. that's not to say you have to take direct abuse. I was called a particular name when I was working at that time I decided I was willing to risk my job to speak my mind. That person got an earfull from me but that was a very specific racially charged incident.

Customers are impatient and sometimes rude. That's why they PAY you to deal with them.


I have only 'lost it' twice with 'clients'. I have worked in various payroll offices for the past 27 years or so. I was working in the pay office at a University many years ago and a union rep security guard was really pushing my buttons (we normally got on fine). He was being unreasonable and abusive. He threatened to come back later and 'discuss it' (after I finished work). I saw red ... and promptly hurled a heavy folder about twenty feet across the office and offered to 'discuss it' right now. He went white, stepped back and then calmly walked away. A few days later he caught me again and said that he'd never seen me like that and knew not to proceed at that time.  

I am someone who has never even been in a fight (except once, when I was so drunk...got hit but still don't know by whom ...or why. Something about propositioning his girlfriend  :-\\).

Another time (same pay office.. and year) ... one of the Lecturers was rude to me as I had made a small error in his pay. I was the only person in payroll who would speak with this guy as he was too abusive to the other ladies I worked with. Anyway, we had a rather pointed conversation where he advised me that we must all be morons in the pay office etc etc. That was fine... I got through it without loosing my temper. A few minutes later he rang back to have further words (about the same thing).  He started with ... "let me say this really slowly  .. so that you will understand" (in his sarcastic/condescending tone).  Well...he only worked a few buildings over from me on that campus (but I'd never seen him in person before). I said "No.... I'll give the opportunity to say it face to face". I slammed down that phone and ran over to his office....banged on his door. Well... this weedy little wimp man opened the door. He was about 5 ' 2" .. I felt ripped off ... I couldn't hit THAT guy!!  It all ended well ... and he spoke only to me (on payroll matters) after that day. Lucky me!

Basically, it doesn't really help most situations to resort to violence. Physical self defence is the exception...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/06/11 at 6:47 pm


I second that.


Third!!! (unless I'm not third then insert the correct number here!  :) )

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/06/11 at 7:05 pm

Great stories Peter. You're right violence doesn't really pay off and the only tine it's "okay" to get physical with a customer is in self defense. That means you don't throw the first punch and it means you don't egg someone on enough to get them to hit you just so you can hit them back  ;D


I'm pretty fortunate now. Every phone conversation i have with the public is recorded so I don't have to worry how my interactions are perceived.
I'm always respect and helpful in the beginning of my dealings. If the person calling is as well I will go above and beyond to help them.

If they are rude my tone changes. I will not be rude to them but I cease with the pleasantries and answer everything matter of factor. If they are rude then my tone reflects that I'm not rude to them but I can be curt and sometimes I have to put on my authoritative dispatcher voice. If I don't the conversation can go around in circles.

When I worked retail 95% of my customers were polite. 3% were rude. 2% had attitude problems.
Sometimes you just chalk it up to they're probably having a bad day. The others are just plain mean.



Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/06/11 at 7:10 pm



Glad your old dentist was able to take you back Cat. He could've filled his office with all those newly acquired patients from the mass exodus.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/06/11 at 7:32 pm



Tell them that cameras are recording them, even if they aren't


Is that ok?  ???

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/06/11 at 7:34 pm


But that didn't happen.




I see a difference in The Garden City Park one and Ozone Park one,over in GCP,I had loads of fun conversation with such sweet elderly people but in Ozone Park,one look at them funny and they'll punch you in the face or curse you out,those are the abrasive people.You don't want to mess with them.It's like living in an Attitude Era.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80sfan on 01/06/11 at 9:43 pm

I hate waiting! I'm so impatient, stupid me!  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/07/11 at 7:12 am


I hate waiting! I'm so impatient, stupid me!  :D


What I hate is when cars idle in the parking lot in the middle of the parking lot street start chatting it up with others while other cars wait to move. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/07/11 at 10:38 am



Glad your old dentist was able to take you back Cat. He could've filled his office with all those newly acquired patients from the mass exodus.



True. But the appointment I made was for a few months away so it worked out. Besides, they do remember me so I'm sure they would have squeezed me in even if they were full to the max.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/07/11 at 12:11 pm



True. But the appointment I made was for a few months away so it worked out. Besides, they do remember me so I'm sure they would have squeezed me in even if they were full to the max.



Cat


But they wouldn't have to... Let's face it that good dentist could've squeezed you in as a courtesy since Carlos was already a patient.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/07/11 at 12:34 pm


But they wouldn't have to... Let's face it that good dentist could've squeezed you in as a courtesy since Carlos was already a patient.





He would have but I didn't push the issue.



Cat

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/07/11 at 3:38 pm



He would have but I didn't push the issue.



Cat


Ah.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80sfan on 01/07/11 at 4:12 pm


What I hate is when cars idle in the parking lot in the middle of the parking lot street start chatting it up with others while other cars wait to move. ::)


Oh boy, I'd rant about that too.  :-\\

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/07/11 at 7:19 pm

I wish the big bosses would stop telling me to hustle all of the carts in the snow,sleet and freezing rain.I'm taking my time,there is snow on the ground,I do not want to get into an accident just like last year (Garden City Park) when I was trying to get the wagons out of the hard snow and back to the corral when I almost slipped on ice so I'm taking it slow.They think they're all high and mighty but yet they don't know how it feels to be out in the hot and cold. ::)

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: snozberries on 01/07/11 at 7:54 pm


I wish the big bosses would stop telling me to hustle all of the carts in the snow,sleet and freezing rain.I'm taking my time,there is snow on the ground,I do not want to get into an accident just like last year (Garden City Park) when I was trying to get the wagons out of the hard snow and back to the corral when I almost slipped on ice so I'm taking it slow.They think they're all high and mighty but yet they don't know how it feels to be out in the hot and cold. ::)


A) you need to get yourself better shoes/boots

B) you didn't actually fall so there was no accident last year

C) is the ground actually icy or are you just afraid it is?

D) you don't have to run with the carts but at least try to walk a little faster than you have been... obviously you're going really really slow if cars are honking at you and now your boss is admonishing  you...

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 01/07/11 at 9:24 pm


I wish the big bosses would stop telling me to hustle all of the carts in the snow,sleet and freezing rain.I'm taking my time,there is snow on the ground,I do not want to get into an accident just like last year (Garden City Park) when I was trying to get the wagons out of the hard snow and back to the corral when I almost slipped on ice so I'm taking it slow.They think they're all high and mighty but yet they don't know how it feels to be out in the hot and cold. ::)


Customers need carts to shop, so the store makes money, so they stay open, so you can get paid.  You are getting paid to do this job, if you don't want to be out in the cold or the hot then look for a new job.  I'm sure there other people who would love to have the job.

You won't buy them but I'm going to suggest something anyway (I have them and they're great)... you put them over your shoes/boots

http://cozywinters.com/shopping/graphics/00000001/GAG-ULTRA_B.jpg

They are cleats that give you traction in the snow and ice.
Does your mom ever shop from QVC?  They sell them.

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: lorac61469 on 01/07/11 at 9:26 pm

I forgot, the cleats are called...


Get A Grip.  ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/07/11 at 9:28 pm

How fitting. ;D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: 80sfan on 01/07/11 at 9:30 pm

Somebody called me stupid today when I tripped.  :-[

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Dagwood on 01/07/11 at 10:13 pm


Somebody called me stupid today when I tripped.  :-[


That's just rude.  Sorry that happened to you. 

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Written By: wildcard on 01/08/11 at 12:17 am

if the ground is icy maybe you can ice skate Howard

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 12:23 am


Somebody called me stupid today when I tripped.  :-[
Not on YouTube?

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/08/11 at 12:49 am


That's just rude.  Sorry that happened to you. 


Thanks, it was some stupid teenager, about 16-years-old. I've said some pretty mean stuff as a teenager; I guess this is what karma feels like.  ;D

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/08/11 at 12:50 am


Not on YouTube?


Nope, I wish it was on Youtube.  :-\\

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Written By: snozberries on 01/08/11 at 1:07 am


Thanks, it was some stupid teenager, about 16-years-old. I've said some pretty mean stuff as a teenager; I guess this is what karma feels like.  ;D


you just got your revenge! ;D

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/08/11 at 1:21 am


you just got your revenge! ;D


Too funny!  :D

Subject: Re: Sound Off/Vent Tent/Rants Are Us

Written By: Howard on 01/08/11 at 7:07 am

C) is the ground actually icy or are you just afraid it is?

No It actually is icy,still a lot of that hard snow from the 2 weeks ago when NYC was pounded with 20 inches,It melted but not fast enough and on the ground is leftover frozen precipitation from yesterday making the parking lot look like a skating rink.

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Written By: Howard on 01/08/11 at 7:10 am


Customers need carts to shop, so the store makes money, so they stay open, so you can get paid.  You are getting paid to do this job, if you don't want to be out in the cold or the hot then look for a new job.  I'm sure there other people who would love to have the job.

You won't buy them but I'm going to suggest something anyway (I have them and they're great)... you put them over your shoes/boots

http://cozywinters.com/shopping/graphics/00000001/GAG-ULTRA_B.jpg

They are cleats that give you traction in the snow and ice.
Does your mom ever shop from QVC?  They sell them.


I don't think my Mother ever shopped on QVC. But anyway,I'll look into those.

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Written By: Howard on 01/08/11 at 7:11 am


Somebody called me stupid today when I tripped.  :-[


Sorry that happened to you.

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Written By: Howard on 01/08/11 at 7:12 am


if the ground is icy maybe you can ice skate Howard


Not in the parking lot.

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Written By: wildcard on 01/08/11 at 11:16 am

while your gathering the carts you can slide with it.

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Written By: Howard on 01/08/11 at 1:06 pm


while your gathering the carts you can slide with it.


way too dangerous to be pushing carts and wearing ice skates.

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Written By: wildcard on 01/08/11 at 5:15 pm

who said anything about ice skates?  The only thing I've done on ice skates is fall.

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/08/11 at 8:31 pm

I hate Walmart! They didn't have the kind of school notebooks that I wanted!  >:(

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Written By: wildcard on 01/08/11 at 10:23 pm

our Walmart has gotten so bad that I don't go there any more.  I don't give a dam if the store has carpet now.  It went from having some things too nothing I want to buy.

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/08/11 at 11:25 pm


our Walmart has gotten so bad that I don't go there any more.  I don't give a dam if the store has carpet now.  It went from having some things too nothing I want to buy.


I heard they've been having problems the past decade+ or so.

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Written By: Howard on 01/09/11 at 7:32 am


who said anything about ice skates?  The only thing I've done on ice skates is fall.


But I would not do it in the lot with cars all around me.

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Written By: Howard on 01/09/11 at 7:35 am

Damn It!  :( It's going to snow again On Tuesday night into Wednesday but thank god Wednesday is my day off.

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Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/09/11 at 10:58 am


I hate Walmart! They didn't have the kind of school notebooks that I wanted!  >:(



I don't do Walmart because they treat their employees like crap, they force their venders to do business with China (i.e. ship jobs there), they force Mom & Pop stores out of business, etc. etc. And most of the stuff they sell is crap anyway.



Cat

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Written By: karen on 01/10/11 at 3:43 pm


Customers need carts to shop, so the store makes money, so they stay open, so you can get paid.  You are getting paid to do this job, if you don't want to be out in the cold or the hot then look for a new job.  I'm sure there other people who would love to have the job.

You won't buy them but I'm going to suggest something anyway (I have them and they're great)... you put them over your shoes/boots

http://cozywinters.com/shopping/graphics/00000001/GAG-ULTRA_B.jpg

They are cleats that give you traction in the snow and ice.
Does your mom ever shop from QVC?  They sell them.


I was going to suggest Stabil-icers. much the same thing - they just velcro over your normal boots/shoes.  I could walk downhill on black ice in them!

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Written By: Howard on 01/10/11 at 7:00 pm


I was going to suggest Stabil-icers. much the same thing - they just velcro over your normal boots/shoes.  I could walk downhill on black ice in them!


I see they have that stuff on the end of the shoe to prevent from slippage.

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Written By: Howard on 01/10/11 at 7:03 pm

How do you deal with people who chat it up the parking lot with their friends in their cars sitting idle while you have cars in back of you honking their horns wanting the others in front of them to move? Should you act patiently? I mean I don't want to say anything but I should just keep quiet. ???

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/10/11 at 9:26 pm


How do you deal with people who chat it up the parking lot with their friends in their cars sitting idle while you have cars in back of you honking their horns wanting the others in front of them to move? Should you act patiently? I mean I don't want to say anything but I should just keep quiet. ???


Howard, I'd stay quiet for 5 minutes then after that if they don't move I'd walk up to them and say to them firmly, but nicely that there are people in the back waiting for them to move.  :(

I don't know if this will work, but I'm just givng advice!

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Written By: snozberries on 01/10/11 at 11:50 pm


How do you deal with people who chat it up the parking lot with their friends in their cars sitting idle while you have cars in back of you honking their horns wanting the others in front of them to move? Should you act patiently? I mean I don't want to say anything but I should just keep quiet. ???


yes howard ignore it. it's not your job to monitor the activities of the customers at their cars.

if they want to talk to their friends then they talk to their friends. the parking space is theirs until they vacate it.

If the person wants to honk then that's their business but really that doesn't meant the people at the car have to move any faster.

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Written By: snozberries on 01/10/11 at 11:51 pm


Howard, I'd stay quiet for 5 minutes then after that if they don't move I'd walk up to them and say to them firmly, but nicely that there are people in the back waiting for them to move.  :(

I don't know if this will work, but I'm just givng advice!


I respectfully disagree with you.  It's not in Howard's job description to clear the parking lot of cars.... just carts.

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Written By: gibbo on 01/11/11 at 3:32 am


yes howard ignore it. it's not your job to monitor the activities of the customers at their cars.

if they want to talk to their friends then they talk to their friends. the parking space is theirs until they vacate it.

If the person wants to honk then that's their business but really that doesn't meant the people at the car have to move any faster.


No..no, no. You simply walk between the two cars and loudly fart! This strategy works for me every time.  :) They quickly wind up those windows and take off. ;)

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Written By: Howard on 01/11/11 at 7:02 am


Howard, I'd stay quiet for 5 minutes then after that if they don't move I'd walk up to them and say to them firmly, but nicely that there are people in the back waiting for them to move.  :(

I don't know if this will work, but I'm just givng advice!


I don't know these people but I feel they could flip the bird to me or curse me out,I've had it done in the parking lot before, people are jerks. ::)

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Written By: Howard on 01/11/11 at 7:05 am


yes howard ignore it. it's not your job to monitor the activities of the customers at their cars.

if they want to talk to their friends then they talk to their friends. the parking space is theirs until they vacate it.

If the person wants to honk then that's their business but really that doesn't meant the people at the car have to move any faster.


Right I'm looking at the road too,carts are like cars but with the horns.

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Written By: Howard on 01/11/11 at 7:07 am


I respectfully disagree with you.  It's not in Howard's job description to clear the parking lot of cars.... just carts.



I'm only in control of the wagons. I have no control of the cars and the parking lot only the landlord who owns the property does.

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Written By: Howard on 01/11/11 at 7:08 am


No..no, no. You simply walk between the two cars and loudly fart! This strategy works for me every time.  :) They quickly wind up those windows and take off. ;)


;D

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/11/11 at 12:59 pm


No..no, no. You simply walk between the two cars and loudly fart! This strategy works for me every time.  :) They quickly wind up those windows and take off. ;)
A method that must be tried out over here!

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Written By: Howard on 01/11/11 at 7:41 pm

It happened again out there in the parking lot but today it was so crazy because people panicked about a snowstorm tomorrow that every few minutes cars are honking in back of me and people are getting quite upset and they start cussing each other out.

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Written By: 80sfan on 01/12/11 at 2:53 am


I respectfully disagree with you.  It's not in Howard's job description to clear the parking lot of cars.... just carts.


Ohh.  :o

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Written By: DJ Blaze on 01/17/11 at 9:50 pm

http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/halojones/75/ryuuki/cardfvkni.jpg

Well, this is the "vent" tent.....

(Final Vent is an attack used in the Kids WB show Kamen Rider.)

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Written By: Howard on 01/18/11 at 6:52 am

Please someone tell me when Spring is going to get here,I'm tired of it snowing every week!  >:(

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Written By: 2kidsami on 01/18/11 at 7:19 am


Please someone tell me when Spring is going to get here,I'm tired of it snowing every week!  >:(
Spring equinox...  March 20, 2011...  You still have 2 months to go Howard 8)

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Written By: Howard on 01/18/11 at 7:21 am