What's mildly irritating you today?
 

I don't mind when moms and dads bring in their kids sales brochure for fundraising. Put it in the kitchen and we can order if we want.

But I find it highly irritating when the mom or dad come up to you, paper in hand, and ask you to order something from their obviously adored child. Today, I said "I can't, I'm broke." She responds, rather testily "you don't have to pay until March." I said "I can't" again and left feeling guilty.

I've been known to order these things before, but with the finances right now I can't justify a 15 dollar jar of peanuts. Maybe a 15 dollar jar of peanuts will be well within my means in a month, but I don't know that!

A dad did this to me a couple weeks ago...went office to office and then complained that it was cutting into his planning of the cruise he's going on.

Let us keep a bit of dignity and don't approach us and demand an order. Put it somewhere prominent, like the kitchen (which is what most people do), send an email to the department (easy to do) and spare us the embarrassment of having to refuse your child's needs to your face.


(PS I usually love the stuff the kids sell, and I like the kids when I know them. This chick has been here 2 weeks and I wouldn't know her kid if he bit me on the ankle.)


That is all.

make a buzzing sound and...

Or....

"No thanks."

Anyone dense enough to miss that normal cue is too dense to use (and waste) anything else more witty and appropriate. Defenestration is a temporary pleasure, at best, and bound to get you talked about.

on 12/28 I ordered a new Arsenal Jersey that has been impossible to find from a reputable company. I received my confirmation and have been patiently waiting. I followed up with them once and was reminded that it could take up to 4 weeks. Today I finally got in touch with a supervisor who says... "oh look, I see the problem, we've forgotten to send it to the customizer!" GRRRR!

at least I'll get it next week, but still that is piss poor business management.

Guess they couldn't be arsed-at-all to send it.

*groan*

Failure to rehab my knee after surgery as quickly as I want. Ok, this may be more than a mild irritation.

one of the cats just vomitted on the floor I just finished cleaning.

actually it pissed me off because right after that, another cat knocked over a vase of ornamental flowers. Luckily there was no water, just lots of little glass pebbles.

I still dont have my Sony Camera...fuckers!!!

Shawnee, I agree completely. Why should they hold you responsible for their mistakes?

Having kids, I mean.

If they can't afford to raise them, then why did they have them?

Cuz it was a lotta fun at first - you know how kids are made, right HLJ?

No. And I've always been too embarrassed to ask.

Does someone want to show me?

DO NOT LOOK AT ME! or even in my general direction!

Thanks. I'll be up all night reading that.

Here's an abridged version. nsfw

I'm at the office. On Sunday. Waiting for a hundred people to swarm in. It's College Goal Sunday, an event to help families fill out their FAFSA. We've commandeered the Math Lab (not meth lab) so everyone can get online after the presenter goes through the form line by line and it's a great event. I'm just mildly irritated because it's Sunday (the day I usually go see the 'rents and my brothers and their families) and the wind chill factor is about minus 10! :)

I can't eat my steak samich 'til tomorrow.

Wait... technically, that's in 3 minutes. :D

no technically it was either 57 minutes ago or is not for another 22 hrs 3 mins. from your post time.

Time zones are a funny thing.

But wait...the deeper question is why can you only eat a steak samich on a certain day? Some lent thing, some Sabbath thing?

74 degrees yesterday, 67 today. Mildly irritating.

It was in the 70's one day last week, and 15 when I got up this morning. damn.

Ouch! Now that is a difference!

Crabby people at work.

No. It'd take to long to explain, but nothin' like Lent or anything.

Huh? :monkeyscratcheshead:

3 minutes by my clock (local CST Cellar time) which was 02-10-2008, 11:57 PM .

But your post said 12:57am - [gilda] never mind [radnor]

That would be EST, which is one hour later that CST. Time Zone settings can be set in User CP > Options.

11:57 for me would appear as 12:57 for you.

This post 7:02 over here, so over there, it should be 8:02over thre.

it's 7:44 here

09:19 AM!

11.20am (tuesday)

It's 42!!!

Aah, the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

1.360 here - and its time to eat.

a :lol: would have been sufficient. spelling it out screams nerd, linking screams troll. and no, I wont give you a break.

/bitch

Meh.

:dedhorse:

I'm thinking Drax didnt realise what 42 related too, and linked to explain it in case others didnt either.

/over it

Yep, not everyone's a fan of HHGTTU you know.

I knew. I got Hitchikers... on DVD.

Correct. I don't assume things.

HHTTG ;)

is drax starting shit already?

please don't fight over him, ladies. it's unseemly.

ok galaxy. I got it wrong. Not a fan. ;)

If explaining things and correcting people = starting shit, then yes I'm a shit starter. :D

No big. ;)

Candles are an interesting light source, what with all the natural flickering. And they light a bedroom nicely, with just the right amount of dim yellow to see your way around. But it turns out that if you have three big cheap candles burning overnight for several months, a light layer of soot will coat everything, without you noticing.

But more importantly, the soot will be drawn down to your furnace, where it will coat the dust filter so perfectly that the furnace will slowly lose the ability to move enough air to heat the house. The furnace will then run overtime, causing you to pay huge amounts in electricity (or whatever) to heat nothing in particular.

It will most evident that something is wrong when the outdoor air temperature goes down to 5 F overnight, so that you wake up freezing.

candles in the bedroom! Who'd do it???

Put those little candles, in the aluminium discs, into a lantern in your bedroom and it's sooo nice. They burn slow and all the soot goes into and onto the glass and top/inside of the lantern - just clean same peridiocaly and you have a safe and romantic bedroom. I have open flame candles and an open fire in my lounge but in the bedroom I use a single lantern. It's so romantic and helps me navigate to my side of the bed without clunking against it whilst my wife is sound asleep.

Check for carbon monoxide, you just described in very great detail what everything looked like when my furnace broke and I was poisoned by the stuff (not greatly but enough)....please. Your furnace might be broken. Please have your furnace checked, fixed, and test for carbon monoxide. Asap. Your windows are probably closed...it's winter. Like mine were. Don't want to alarm you, but it's probably not the candles.

Please have your furnace checked by a professional. I did not do that and suffered greatly for it.
:)

Just check it...I might be wrong and I might be right...

And please excuse my new dyslexia.

We have a heat pump here, it's all electric.

At the Cellar we have a great deal of experience with slow CO poisoning and its effects on the brain.

YES,YES. Cicero speaks volumes of facts. Please all of you check your immersion gas heaters and please make sure all gas, parafine, kerosone, methane, propane, butane etc appliances are well serviced. They can kill without doubt - make sure the exchaust gases go up the chimney/flue and not into you.

understatement

noun
a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said [ant: exaggeration]

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

oh..all electric....K.
That's just a great description of what happened to me and all my stuff. Knee-jerk reaction. Moving along......
:)
I'm glad you guys are so "in the know".....weird.

I don't get it?

Sorry you all, pushed the wrong button first. I have had a carbon monoxide poisoing experience and I know what you went through and it is not good. I feel for you Cicero coz I had a fucking lumbar puncture and all the tests and all the time it was the fucking land owners blame. Check your installations please.

Ha HA nuf said!

Not really...I still don't get it.

Must be an inside joke? Outside of the CO being wrong.....Aaah forget it.

And those poor souls can just move on quietly and won't be any the worse off for not getting it, will they? probably happier, in fact, as their dislike for the trilogy will not be awoken to make them crotchety. :)