Rant VIII: The Reckoning
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We registered for a lovely set that have glass bubbles in the stems to match our dinner plates. Sadly, they aren't sturdy and most have broken over the years. I think we've only lost one of the plates though.
@PatrThom didn't jump at this, so I will.
At least you still have the glasses from your bad wedding, right?
Dave
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In today's episode of "The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly"...
The Good: We got food for a couple days, toilet paper, and Easter stuff for the kids.
The Bad: Apparently when we went to the funeral this week the hotel charges that were held back were NOT deducted from the bank account total even though it said they were. So after buying everything from the "Good" category, we have a blazing $.10 left in our account.
The Ugly: That leaves us with $.10 until payday. Which thankfully is next Friday. We'll make it, but shit's going to be tighter than fuck until then. I still owe the mechanic $230 that will come out of that check so it's going to be a hoot and a holler.
tl;dr:
Money sucks. We'll be okay but its going to be a long week.
The Good: We got food for a couple days, toilet paper, and Easter stuff for the kids.
The Bad: Apparently when we went to the funeral this week the hotel charges that were held back were NOT deducted from the bank account total even though it said they were. So after buying everything from the "Good" category, we have a blazing $.10 left in our account.
The Ugly: That leaves us with $.10 until payday. Which thankfully is next Friday. We'll make it, but shit's going to be tighter than fuck until then. I still owe the mechanic $230 that will come out of that check so it's going to be a hoot and a holler.
tl;dr:
Money sucks. We'll be okay but its going to be a long week.
But...I did jump at it, when I posted the comment about our surfeit of glassware.
And I only did that because I wasn't at home to post a picture of our awesome bride&groom wedding glasses (which we still have)
--Patrick
His sister's last family visit literally left a pox on me!
This raises... awkward questions...
No it left two weeks of intensive painful medical procedures to correct the issue.
I can almost guarantee that if you have children, the kids threw them away on accident. Maybe they were trying to scrape leftovers off their plates into the garbage and inadvertently dropped the spoon in there.
You are now my number one suspect. Mr Stealy McSpoon Stealer!
Put him in the brig and ship him to Siberia!
To the salt mines!
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"What shall we do with the drunken sailor?", Alex!
An iron brig for certain!
FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK
My son had been doing his homework on his iPad and emailing it because it is 1000x easier to get him to do homework if he doesn't have to write. He has permission to do this from every teacher, but for some reason, a lot of his science homework is still showing up as missing even after he has emailed it, sometimes multiple time. I have emailed her about it, I have talked to his special ed coordinator multiple times and she keeps saying she'll look into it and hasn't, and this is the last day before spring break, so I am going to have to go and talk to these people in person yet again, but I don't have TIME, because I have to pick up my daughter from school after I get my son from school. ARGH.
My son had been doing his homework on his iPad and emailing it because it is 1000x easier to get him to do homework if he doesn't have to write. He has permission to do this from every teacher, but for some reason, a lot of his science homework is still showing up as missing even after he has emailed it, sometimes multiple time. I have emailed her about it, I have talked to his special ed coordinator multiple times and she keeps saying she'll look into it and hasn't, and this is the last day before spring break, so I am going to have to go and talk to these people in person yet again, but I don't have TIME, because I have to pick up my daughter from school after I get my son from school. ARGH.
What a glorious day, such a glorious day to be alive.
Weekend started with good friends leaving, and us unable to see them off for one last hurrah due to a flat. Then Not one, not two, but three little chicka-dees all being sick. Getting a hold of my manager was a pain in the ass to let them know I'm not coming in to work tonight to take care of them. One of the few things I cannot stand is no 2, and cleaning it up is the worst thing even after twenty-odd years of cleaning up after navy(children) personnel. Hopefully the rest of the night will go easier than this.
Weekend started with good friends leaving, and us unable to see them off for one last hurrah due to a flat. Then Not one, not two, but three little chicka-dees all being sick. Getting a hold of my manager was a pain in the ass to let them know I'm not coming in to work tonight to take care of them. One of the few things I cannot stand is no 2, and cleaning it up is the worst thing even after twenty-odd years of cleaning up after navy(children) personnel. Hopefully the rest of the night will go easier than this.
I live! I die! I live again!What a glorious day, such a glorious day to be alive.
Weekend started with good friends leaving, and us unable to see them off for one last hurrah due to a flat. Then Not one, not two, but three little chicka-dees all being sick. Getting a hold of my manager was a pain in the ass to let them know I'm not coming in to work tonight to take care of them. One of the few things I cannot stand is no 2, and cleaning it up is the worst thing even after twenty-odd years of cleaning up after navy(children) personnel. Hopefully the rest of the night will go easier than this.
Thanks for taking care of us yesterday. I felt awful that I was no help to you whatsoever.
Sit back, kids. It's story time. I just encountered an asshat customer at Costco.
So Mom and I were in line. It was so busy that there was a line up to get a line at one of the cashes.
A woman (about in her 40s) and her mother start cutting ahead of everyone. Someone tells them where the line starts. She rolls her eyes and says, "We're not getting in line. We're looking at something over here."
BUT THEN THEY ACTUALLY CUT IN LINE.
Mom stopped me from saying something. I really, REALLY wanted to ask, "So, what makes you better than everyone else here?" I wanted to make a big scene of it, shouting, "LINE CUTTER! WE GOT A LINE CUTTER OVER HERE." But Mom wouldn't let me.
What grinds my gears the most isn't that they cut in line, but her reaction to her mother. Like, her reaction was basically, "How DARE they accuse me of cutting in line?" Which, okay, fair point. People make wrong assumptions sometimes.
But that they then proceeded to actually cut in line?! Uncool.
So Mom and I were in line. It was so busy that there was a line up to get a line at one of the cashes.
A woman (about in her 40s) and her mother start cutting ahead of everyone. Someone tells them where the line starts. She rolls her eyes and says, "We're not getting in line. We're looking at something over here."
BUT THEN THEY ACTUALLY CUT IN LINE.
Mom stopped me from saying something. I really, REALLY wanted to ask, "So, what makes you better than everyone else here?" I wanted to make a big scene of it, shouting, "LINE CUTTER! WE GOT A LINE CUTTER OVER HERE." But Mom wouldn't let me.
What grinds my gears the most isn't that they cut in line, but her reaction to her mother. Like, her reaction was basically, "How DARE they accuse me of cutting in line?" Which, okay, fair point. People make wrong assumptions sometimes.
But that they then proceeded to actually cut in line?! Uncool.
fade
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I get a special kind of irritated when drivers do this. No, asshole, everyone else here just got in line because we love waiting in line. Clearly, you are more important and clever so go ahead and zoom up to the front of the line and nose your car in.
I hate when a second car races in front of me after I let the first one out. No, asshole, rule of the road is one at a time!
I mean, theoretically you are supposed to use both lanes until one closes, then alternate who goes to try to minimize how far back traffic backs up. But it never actually works that way.
This strip - except substitute the self-checkout lanes at the supermarket
Line cutters are Costco are just slightly less awful than sample abusers. You're supposed to take ONE sample. If you really like it, then shop for a few more minutes and come back. Let someone else try it. Don't snatch another one when somebody is reaching for it. And even though there might be several varieties available on the tray, don't plant yourself there and graze. It's just common courtesy.
And the worst sample abusers in my experience are mothers with three small children in the cart. They tend to take the entire tray while the kids sit there like nestlings with their mouths wide open. It gets even worse if they recently immigrated from a Third World country because survival instincts kick in and they become grabby. Growing up in Southern California in a predominately Southeast Asian circle, I knew a lot of Indochinese boat people. The kids were fine but their parents and grandparents all had horror stories about the ARVN or VC confiscating their village's rice stores. As a result, they went overboard whenever free food was offered.
And the worst sample abusers in my experience are mothers with three small children in the cart. They tend to take the entire tray while the kids sit there like nestlings with their mouths wide open. It gets even worse if they recently immigrated from a Third World country because survival instincts kick in and they become grabby. Growing up in Southern California in a predominately Southeast Asian circle, I knew a lot of Indochinese boat people. The kids were fine but their parents and grandparents all had horror stories about the ARVN or VC confiscating their village's rice stores. As a result, they went overboard whenever free food was offered.
hahahahahahah holy shit dude
It must be very hard for you to read books by anthropologists who are called on to describe and characterize the general behavior of people, particularly those foreign to the anthropologist's audience.
ironbrig4 is not a fucking anthropologist. he's just a racist
GasBandit
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okay whatever. but what he said was extremely fucked up and hilariously racist to me.
GasBandit
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That is not an objective standard of measure.
Sorry, the thread for minor whining is somewhere else.
So, after reading these posts, I had a little conversation with Jun:
ME: "Jun, is it true, sometimes, in China, that if your're giving something away for free, that some Chinese will go nuts and just start grabbing everything? Maybe even pushing people away to get it?"
Jun: "Yep"
Me: "Would you say, the person who might say this or claim this, is a BAD person, or is bad towards Chinese"?
Jun: "No."
Me: "What if it was a laowai (foreigner) who said it?"
Jun: "Still no."
Me: "Why?"
Jun:"Because it's the truth."
*shrug*