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Person who doesn't update the user title
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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But anyone who has been on the Tube in rush hour does think "Isn't there a law against this?!" My first thought when the London Underground bombs hit was "Well, they'd have had more victims if they got up earlier!" Of course as it unfolded I was distressed and sickened. Hurt badly, it brought back all the old worries and stress. But that really was my initial thought, because they hit at 08.50. I used to get on the Tube at 07.45. And boarding at Leyton I couldn't get a seat until Oxford Circus.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Minifob wants to do Cub Scouts. Really, really wants to do it. I tried very hard to talk him out of it and/or distract him until the obsession passed, but it didn't work. We officially signed up tonight, and already they're trying to make us be den leaders and shit. I am dreading every aspect of this whole experience.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Maybe you could be the GFCF den?
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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I did think about forming our own just so we wouldn't have to deal with other people. But then it's harder to quit when Minifob (hopefully) decides he wants to drop out.
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago suburbs
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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I feel your pain Clod. I feel that way about most of the activities my kids are involved in, mostly because they do try to force you to do stuff you don't want to do or don't have time to do, or even object to for various reasons.
If you pay the fees, and buy the uniforms and help out when you can, that should be enough. You shouldn't have these 'goody' Mums and Dads making you feel guilty because you don't want to totally immerse your family in their particular activity of choice. Most clubs/teams have at least one parent like that who runs things. These parents are born with a built in ability to make you feel like shit for saying no. These parents should be avoided at all costs. These parents sometimes need a beat down in my opinion.
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Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas
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Kept having nightmares and kept tossing all night. Finally couldn't sleep anymore but I'm bored. My hands are shaky and I'm still coughing. Doc said I have a touch of bronchitis.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Yeah, if you find it getting harder and harder to dodge that bullet, try to get the treasurer job. It takes about 2 hours a month and then when they look to you to take on jobs you can say "No. I'm the treasurer." Do not do the den leader job. A good one will take 4 hours a week or so, and much more when there are events going on. It's a lot of work.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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That's funny you say that. Their treasurer is leaving, and they were really hyping the need for a treasurer last night.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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There's a chance they may expect the treasurer to also do the rechartering. Rechartering is a big job each January. It's usually done by a committee chair or the pack leader. You don't want to get stuck doing rechartering. But the regular treasurer role of writing checks and generating a monthly report is easy.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Tell them you work shifts. If you're going to lie best make it about something everyone understands. Like MONEY. (I did get the humour in Pete's response though.) Or tell them the truth. You work freelance, have children and stepchildren, a drinking problem that makes you incontinent in liquor stores and therefore can never guarantee your presence. No-one wants to take on someone that unreliable, right? Okay, it's not really the truth, but you gotta make your lies as close to the truth as possible. Quote:
I know what a sledgehammer lack of sleep is. And night terrors. I used to have "two o' clock in the morning" thoughts when I couldn't sleep and life was wretched. Thanks to addiction, withdrawal, depression - rinse, repeat - they're now "four o'clock in the morning" thoughts. Life can be sucky when you can't even lose yourself behind your own eyelids. Chin up, darling. This too shall pass. I had bronchitis too. And more that just a touch. I was grateful for my diagnosis though, it went on for so long and sounded so bad I feared cancer. I cleared lifts, supermarket queues and public toilets with my fearsome phlegmy cough. And sadly was too ill to even enjoy it properly.
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is a beach
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: One step back from the end of the world
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Despicable little bastards.
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is a beach
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: One step back from the end of the world
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they are, and they're seriously harshing my mellow as I attempt to commune with nature and nuture a few fruits and vegetables
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