not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption
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Why is that in the not so serious rant thread?
This thread is for whining about inconsequential stuff that annoys or interrupts our lives, not for serious problems, people!
I hope things will turn out alright, hylian.
This thread is for whining about inconsequential stuff that annoys or interrupts our lives, not for serious problems, people!
I hope things will turn out alright, hylian.
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Wasabi Poptart
Hope everything turns out for the best, Hylian.
I had to freaking work today, I usually don't have to work on Saturdays. So I'm walking the store, talking to customers, doing my job, and this old lady walks up, she says something like "My toaster broke. I had a big one, got it here, but you don't have it now." I talk to her a little, find out that she bought the oven a couple of years ago, explain that companies change their assortments on a fairly regular basis and showed her what we had and talked to her about them. Got the feeling that she just likes to gripe about stuff, that's okay, part of dealing with the public and I can deal with that. Time passes, I go to lunch and when I get back to work she's back. She's in our cookware section. I step up and greet her again, and she looks at me and says "I'm looking for that big oven. It's not here anymore." I'm like "what the???" in my head and ask just which one that she was looking for (she never indicated a preference when we talked a couple of hours before) and she was "The one that was right here. Right where they all were before." Okay.... I point out, politely, that they toasters are a couple of isles over, and she pops off with "I know that, I was just looking for the one that was here earlier." So I'm going "What the hell is happening here?" in my head again.. ask her if she would like to step over to the "other" toasters and see if the one she wanted was there. We start heading over and she sounds out with "Oh, I remember now, this is where they are at." I'm wondering if she is even okay to be driving by this point... but we find the toaster that she was looking for and get her all checked out at the register, and she's I need some help getting this to my car, so I walk out to the parking lot, where we wander around for a couple of minutes because she's forgotten where she has parked, only to realize that her car is in the front row that we passed 9 cars ago, to find that she has a friend waiting in the car, in the passenger seat, car off, with with windows rolled up. It was about 98f air temperature at the time. I'm just wondering if I'll have to be calling the ambulance in a minute... but luckily everything is okay with the friend. I really don't feel safe driving around town now, this lady doesn't need to be on the road at all.
Egads! That reminds me of the day I took my wife to the chiropractor. As we got out of our car, an old woman got into her car, put the car into reverse to leave her parking spot, and gunned it, slamming into a car and pushing it up into grass area. Then she put her car into drive and gunned it, turning to the road and instead of turning crossed one of the busiest roads in town and jumped the curb on the other side of the road while her car screeched in protest.
Sometimes, seeing someone who seems a bit off get behind a steering wheel still makes me nervous.
Sometimes, seeing someone who seems a bit off get behind a steering wheel still makes me nervous.
I think this isn't serious rant material yet, but my dependency of coca-cola (Diet and Zero) is starting to cross the line to addiction territory.
Well, your first problem is that you're drinking Coke, rather than the far superior (yet too-often under-appreciated) Pepsi.
Well, your first problem is that you're drinking Coke, rather than the far superior (yet too-often under-appreciated) Pepsi.[/QUOTE]
Oh, no, I'm also a Pepsi fan! But I generally use coca-cola as a generic word.
But, as the "spanish scottish" people we catalans are considered to be, I drink wichever is cheaper
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Wasabi Poptart
Well, your first problem is that you're drinking Coke, rather than the far superior (yet too-often under-appreciated) Pepsi.[/QUOTE]
You are correct, Sir! And here they have started putting Pepsi Throwback on the shelves again which makes me happy beyond belief.
RIght now I'm at the peak of my dependency, drinking between two and four liters of soda a day. I always try to quit it, but after one or two months I start again because:
1- I need to drink soda to work (a little like a smoker may need to smoke to work)
2- I need the caffeine (I'm used to it, but this is also aggravated by a partial disfunction of my suprarenal gland, wich causes me to have constant tiredness (and other simptoms like baldness, a premature sexual maturation, a hairy body and the kind of tumor that made my "bad" leg become the bad one.)
3- I have some kind of oral fixation or something like that: I need to eat, drink, chew gum...
4- My digestion depends on drinking soda.
I'll have to fix it someday, but I keep trying and then doing it again because I need to get some work done. RIght now, it's my master's thesis. But I always have something or the other to do.
1- I need to drink soda to work (a little like a smoker may need to smoke to work)
2- I need the caffeine (I'm used to it, but this is also aggravated by a partial disfunction of my suprarenal gland, wich causes me to have constant tiredness (and other simptoms like baldness, a premature sexual maturation, a hairy body and the kind of tumor that made my "bad" leg become the bad one.)
3- I have some kind of oral fixation or something like that: I need to eat, drink, chew gum...
4- My digestion depends on drinking soda.
I'll have to fix it someday, but I keep trying and then doing it again because I need to get some work done. RIght now, it's my master's thesis. But I always have something or the other to do.
And I feel like the addiction is just beginning.
Oh, no, it's all diet soda.
Anyways, I previously used the term "oral fixation" quite freely. I just went to wikipedia to find out if it meant more or less what I meant.
Man, it fits me so much.
Well, not exactly "need" but "feel better when I do". A doctor would never tell me to drink coke for that, but the fact that it feels good (and that being without doesn't) makes me drink it.
In the periods I don't drink soda, I drink coffee, just 2 a day, maybe 3. But those are periods in wich I don't have to work in any papers or anything like that.
I have to fix it, I know. October is going to be the month. I promise!
(Edit: I also take madication for these symptoms. It doesn't seem to work too much, but I keep trying. It's supposed to be a progressive thing)
Well, your first problem is that you're drinking Coke, rather than the far superior (yet too-often under-appreciated) Pepsi.[/QUOTE]
HERETIC! BURN HIM!! (or at least dunk him in the Chattahoochee River)
It's bad enough I have to defend my position, living in Georgia, that I have to defend it against the mewlings and brayings of TEXANS on the INTERNET. *growls*
(For those who don't get it, Coke comes from Atlanta, GA... which does put me at about the same level as a Satanist for some folks down here)
It's bad enough I have to defend my position, living in Georgia, that I have to defend it against the mewlings and brayings of TEXANS on the INTERNET. *growls*
(For those who don't get it, Coke comes from Atlanta, GA... which does put me at about the same level as a Satanist for some folks down here)[/QUOTE]
Jus' trin' to make you feel at home.
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Philosopher B.
Oh sheet. I love having something to gnaw on.
It's bad enough I have to defend my position, living in Georgia, that I have to defend it against the mewlings and brayings of TEXANS on the INTERNET. *growls*
(For those who don't get it, Coke comes from Atlanta, GA... which does put me at about the same level as a Satanist for some folks down here)[/QUOTE]
Hey! I'm a Texan!
And I love Coke.
I don't see any horns, so that kinda narrows it down... *sidelong glance*
Pepsi is the superior cola, and that's all there is to it.
Okay, maybe not. Coca-Cola, I have found, has a much more consistent taste globally, while Pepsi has regional variations that are sometimes slightly off-putting. When traveling, I give Pepsi a try, but I do often fall back on Coke because the Pepsi is too different to warrant any loyalty.
Okay, maybe not. Coca-Cola, I have found, has a much more consistent taste globally, while Pepsi has regional variations that are sometimes slightly off-putting. When traveling, I give Pepsi a try, but I do often fall back on Coke because the Pepsi is too different to warrant any loyalty.
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makare
I like coke zero the best. It has just the right amount of carbonation for me.
Why can I never get up. I slept in until 2 in the afternoon today, because I had the day off. I was in bed at midnight last night, which means 8 or 9 would not bee too early to get up. And yet I don't even remember my alarms going off. I just slept right through them.
Now, I won't get to sleep tonight until at least 4, and I have to work tomorrow.
Now, I won't get to sleep tonight until at least 4, and I have to work tomorrow.
Not sure whether home sick as an adult is better or worse than as a kid. As a kid, you could sometimes get a day off through fudging it, otherwise you might be restricted in what you could do by a parent or someone keeping an eye on you.
Now as an adult, you really don't want to get off from work since it lowers your pay, so you'll only take off if you're feeling too shitty even to go in.
...Anyway, home sick, no one posting, getting some rest, popping the Tylenol, fun. I went in yesterday and I shouldn't have. I woke up feeling "yeah, I could go in", thought better of it and stayed home. Now that it's been a couple hours and the fever's really cooking again, I know I made the right decision. I can't remember the last time a freezing cold shower actually felt good before this morning.
Now as an adult, you really don't want to get off from work since it lowers your pay, so you'll only take off if you're feeling too shitty even to go in.
...Anyway, home sick, no one posting, getting some rest, popping the Tylenol, fun. I went in yesterday and I shouldn't have. I woke up feeling "yeah, I could go in", thought better of it and stayed home. Now that it's been a couple hours and the fever's really cooking again, I know I made the right decision. I can't remember the last time a freezing cold shower actually felt good before this morning.
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Element 117
Feel better, and avoid your loved ones. If you start to turn, I'll do the humane thing.
Thanks, Amy. I actually received it from a loved one. It's like a hug, except diseased.
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