Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

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Indyellen said:
Dear uterus:
I realize that you have this thing you have to do every 28-30 days; however, making me feel like I'm going to die from an alien bursting through my abdominal wall is NOT productive for either of us.

Dear OB/Gyn:
I curse you for listening to all the "data" which says that I, as a 41 year old woman, do not have the right to choose to have my uterus removed. I'm sure there's some logic behind your wanting to keep me miserable, but you have yet to give me a valid reason to keep the unused (and unaccessable due to the tubal ligation) organ.

Dear Self:
Next time you're aware that Aunt Flo is expected for an immanent visit, PLEASE remember to reload muscle relaxers in your purse. A rusty spoon is an unnecessary (and messy) alternative.

No love,
Indyellen
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Have you looked into endometrial ablation?

I had serious issues with Aunt Flo too. It got to the point where I was having periods three weeks out of the month and they were painful, not to mention exhausting.

At any rate, I had the surgery in February and things have been pretty good for me. If anything, I now have a couple of days of light spotting and then it's over. Such a nice change...
 
niblet_head said:
All of you, please please stop it. Just stop it. Do not call me and when I answer say, "Hey, it's me."

Guess what. All the women in my life and pretty much most of the men sound exactly alike on the phone. Especially if you're calling on a cell phone. Are you my sister? My boss? A friend? Which friend?

I don't know who the fuck "me" is until way too long into the phone call, ok? It's embarassing and stressful for me. And frankly, it's kinda rude on your part.
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What do you live in 1975 or something? Don't you have caller ID?
 
I've turned the water off in our house before to change out a toilet - it takes about five seconds. I'm with Kaio - it doesn't need to go off until you're actually removing the old water heater.
 
Southern Yankee said:
I know this is not uncommon practice for the airlines (at least here in the U.S.,) but how the fuck does this make sense? I am trying to book a flight from Charlotte, NC to Harrisburg, PA. on short notice (next week.) The non-stop round trip price is about $950 (because of the lead time, I assume) when normally it runs about $300 - $350. So, in the course of searching for better fares I see that there is a 1-stop fare from Greensboro, NC (about 85 miles from me) to Harrisburg for $350.

Where's the 1 stop? Yep, Charlotte! As a matter of fact the 2nd leg of the flight is the same one I'd be taking if I went non-stop.

So essentially, I could save $600 by driving to Greensboro, flying back to my home town of Charlotte, and then on to Harrisburg.

This is all on US Air, and Charlotte is their hub, blah blah blah. It's still ridiculous.
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I bet it's because they assume all the travelers from Charlotte are banker types traveling last minute that are charging the fare back to their companies via expense accounts. And the schmos from Greensboro are just regular schmos chosing by price and can go anytime.

(I know and love schmos from Greensboro btw.)
 
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That took a while to read. I'm now hungry and need a sAmmich.
 
Holy cow, SurrenderDorothy, that's outrageous! I would very, very seriously consider dumping this friend. That is very disrespectful and insensitive on her part. All of it, but most egregiously changing the wedding to a destination wedding after you've agreed to be a bridesmaid.
 
I'll jump on the "cut your losses" train - socialize with this woman any time it's convenient for *you*, but don't change your life for someone who obviously doesn't care about inconveniencing other people. Life is so much better once you stop trying to tie yourself in knots for other people.
 
I am my company's garbage can. Anything that is too stupid or pointless or annoying or crappy to do gets given to me. Right now I've just been asked to create a form (which is basically just a list of items: item one, name of item, name of second item, contact phone) so send to all our locations for them to use for a specific program they do.

Seriously? This is a very, very basic thing to create in either Excel or Word. I just told my boss that. "I don't understand why it makes sense for me to create this. Why can't someone in the locations do this for their location? This is very basic."

His response? Because I just want to send it to them.

So, we don't have any level of expectation for anyone in our locations that they can create a basic list?

No, says he. I'm not confident we have anyone in all of our locations that can create this.

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Fucking. KIDDING. Me.

I know I need to get the fuck out of here. I don't know how to solve this problem. Seems like just going to a different, stupid job would simply mean transfering this stupid bullshit for different stupid bullshit. I don't know what, if anything, I would actually LIKE to do. And at this point, I can't imagine being paid a living wage for what I would like to do. I'm 41 and going back to school for a graduate degree seems like a very expensive option that may get me a more interesting job, but a sucky financial situation in the end (ie - debt). All I see is a series of crap options that all suck. I feel trapped.
 
Internet dating trolls annoy me.

He writes that he 1> read my profile, 2> understands that I'm independent, driven, and know what I want, 3> but I shouldn't be (in fact it is a character flaw), and 4> if I want to date him, I should change.

Change. For a total stranger on the interwebz. I LOLed.

Even better, he started out with "I'm not an asshole, but..."

Dude, if you feel a need to throw in the disclaimer, then yes, yes, you are. You are also stupid (and desperate?), since you are chasing after women who you know and admit are all wrong for you.

Also old enough to be my father, for an added layer of EEEWWW.
 
Chefguy said:
Look, I just need my fucking prescription filled, okay? Called the pharmacy last Monday, they faxed the request to you; you haven't responded and I'm going to run out in two days. So you keep me waiting for 45 minutes in the waiting room so that someone can take two goddamned minutes to look to see if the fax has been sent or not. Why can't YOU do that? Yes, I know that you're having renovations done; not because you managed to tell me that twice as an excuse for laziness, but because of, you know, the fucking guys working right behind you. Useless fucking hag of a receptionist. And by the way: those chic clothes you wear and the dye job on your hair do nothing to remedy the fact that you look like a piece of beef jerky. I finally left before saying something truly rude, and have no confidence that this will be taken care of. I gotta find a new clinic. :mad:
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Self-fulfilling prophecy, of course. Three days later and still no resolution. I've been told four times now about their fucking renovations: I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR MESS! They are apparently not checking to see if their fax machine is working or not. The pharmacy has faxed the request three times now and I checked to make sure it's the right number, so it's the clinic idiots who can't get this straight. Called again today and gave them hell. I swear I'm going to go over there and choke the shit out of somebody.
 
Rigamarole said:
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What do you live in 1975 or something? Don't you have caller ID?
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Not at home I don't. Git offa' mah lawn!

At work, yes, but remember, caller ID only works to identify people if their names actually come up. "Cell phone NE" doesn't really narrow it down.

Seriously, git offa ma lawn!!
 
niblet_head said:
Seems like just going to a different, stupid job would simply mean transfering this stupid bullshit for different stupid bullshit.
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The biggest problem with being smart is that you don't feel smart--it just feels like everyone else is deeply stupid.
 
Actual line in an email from a client this afternoon:

I don’t understand why they can not get {product} set up and then we will figure out money later.
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Ummm ... because that's not how the adult business world works? Remind me to try that line the next time I'm at the checkout with $200 worth of groceries. ("But my ice cream's melting! Why can't we figure out the money laaaaaater?!?")

Where do we keep finding these people? Who in hell is hiring them?
 
But they probably thought they were being efficient -- and would have been, if the delivery had arrived on time.

As in, it takes X minutes to unhook the pipes and haul the old gear out of the way, and Y minutes to hook up the new gear. So by having the first part of the job done and ready to start on the installation, the water would be switched back on X minutes earlier.

Best laid plans and all that.
 
The dingbat niece I've posted about before had gone and done it again.
She loaned $800.00 (mind you, she has no job; this is money saved in her account from graduation or birthday or Christmas money gifts) to some guy she knows only from talking to him online or by phone. He sent her the pink slip to his car as collateral for the loan. He has paid back only a little.

Forward: she took off to another state the other day to try to recover the money and also to meet a different guy (she knows him only from social networking) and his mother with the idea of marrying him. She's "known" him for all of four months. Her reason for marrying at age 20 with no job and a humongous student loan for cooking school that needs to be paid back? : She wants to get away from home.

Her mother's response to the above chaos: "She's not stupid; she has the pink slip." And "we'll pray about it."

:rolleyes:
 
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