Sometimes I feel like nagging a bit, but I don't want to bump up my blue room thread for the millionth time. So here's an idea: a thread for mild rants. Anyone who's got a quick rant can just say "I HATE THIS GRRR!!!" and then get on with their day. To start: [-] My botany teacher just spent 20 minutes telling us how we've got to study more, and if we've got a 30 in the class right now, we've got to pick up the pace. He drew lines on the board and equated classes to a car traveling down a road. I don't care! I have a B! And we've just now started the lecture. And he's teaching what we went over Tuesday as if it were new! [/-] It would be easier just to say " = Botany"
I have a co-worker who has this little bitty voice, and she has a habit of walking up to my cube from the back aisle and speaking to me without introduction or anything and expecting me to a) know it's her, and b) know she's talking to me. This is much like my wife's 5'0", 350-pound, needy-as-hell aunt who calls and says "Hi." and nothing else, expecting you to know it's her and to launch straight into conversation.
Ugh. I know what you mean. There's a nice lady that sits next to me but she talks, sings, or hums to herself all the time. That's bad enough, I can listen to music or something and drown that out. But she also expects me to be listening intently when she includes me in the conversations she's been having with herself. How do you have that much experience in the work force and NOT know some basic social skills?
(Insert general rant against the US Postal Service as a whole, including colorful language on the subject of its parentage and suggestions that it whores itself out to bums at Wal-Mart at nights)
True, but realistically we can only dodge her calls so often, and I think it is precisely Caller ID that makes her think we know who she is after only a single syllable. Besides, she's the type who will try back repeatedly if she believes we should be home at the time she calls. Most times it's just plain easier to answer the damned phone and pass her off to my wife. Trust me, if she wasn't related to my wife, I'd have ZERO contact with the woman!
There's a classified area right next to my office, where cell phones aren't permitted. So from where I sit, I'm looking at a rack with about eight cell phones sitting on it. Pretty much every day someone will have forgotten to turn theirs off and it will sit and ring all day. (Or until I get pissed off and go turn it off.)
That lump under your right foot is called the gas pedal. When you push down on it, your car goes faster. It might even approach the speed limit for the road you're on. If you don't understand this, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am tired of girls who try to get with guys just because they have a girlfriend! Or they try to hit on them! gahhhhhhhh.
Well, here's my rant. I recently got into a wreck about a week ago. Some girl plowed into the back end of my car, smashing out the glass and everything. Now I'm driving a Crown Vic which I really like. See, the thing is is not only is my car not drivable, but so is the mechanic's. His truck died on him last night and they had just gotten it fixed. It's gonna need a new engine, which is expensive. Now I'm gonna have to drive a rental car next week for the time being until he gets his Dodge fixed. I don't mind driving a newer vehicle(it's as close as I'm gonna be about having a new car), but I'd rather drive the Crown Vic. Another rant-the co-boss in FL is demanding for all his stuff to be ready first, without regard to our feelings. He doesn't seem to give a rat's behind that both mine and the mechanic's vehicles aren't drivable and need to be fixed and also, that the mechanic is working on someone else's car at the moment(he's fixing it up to look like a new car). It's like we got a black cloud over us or something. Everything that could go wrong HAS.
I can't do deadlines, and I can't do not having a deadline! ARGH. I ALWAYS leave things to the last moment, but if i know there's a vague deadline, then it gets left even longer!!! All I want is to do work in advance, and be able to hand it in before, not 30 seconds after, (maybe 20 minutes today... oops) the supposedly final deadline has passed! I could have got it in if I was told the one the other day was the final final one, rather than knowing I could push it!! And this is why "can work to deadlines" isn't on my CV. That would be a lie. Time management IS, because I CAN, but for some reason, I choose to ignore the perfect timetable (I'm brilliant at working out how long things will take, and how much time I need to factor in sleepng eating and staring at my bellybutton) I create. GODDAMIT.
"Mucinex in, mucous out" = B.S.!!!! Oh, it helps a little, but even the maximum strength version ain't cuttin' thru what I've got. I'm coughing up loogies that are green, brown, white, yellow...a veritable rainbow of disgustingness!
I take advantage of this trend. I have a hot married friend that I'll take out to the bars. It's sort of like a decoy, so the hot crazy girls will try and "steal me" away from her.
I ordered a new lens from Hong Kong. As it was over £250 it comes with free fed ex delivery rather than HK post. HK post takes 3-5 days, fedex apparently 2-3 days. On the fedex tracker it says it should be here by 6pm monday... ...bollox Shoulda gone with HK post, its never taken longer than 3 days with them, and as they post through royal mail here in the UK if im not in when they deliver i can pick it up from the depot later. No idea what happens if im not in when fedex deliver, their website doesn't mention anythign about that
Co-worker rant: There's a guy at work who doesn't show up until 11:30 AM. When he arrives, he doesn't even sit down at his desk, but comes straight to my cubicle and talks to me for a half hour! Then he goes directly to lunch.
I usually come in by the back door. Then I'll just sit at my desk and sort of...do nothing. Oh, it looks like I'm working...
I'm having credit card problems and don't understand why. Maybe you guys can help..? Here's the dilemma: I ordered something from jcpenny's website last week and the people call me saying my card has been declined. ? I'm not over my limit. Then I get this email saying that "The issuing bank does not associate it's card with third-parties." What the hell?? I've never had this happen to be before. Ordered online before and everything was fine. Guess I'll go and have a hissy fit at my bank today. So that's my rant..credit cards SUCK!
My parents have a credit card that won't go through Sears. It works everywhere else. Anywho, I'm in botany class again. If you could hear the professor's voice, you'd want to shoot yourself. Monotone and annoying is an understatement. It's been 30 minutes and all I've managed to get a drawing and half a page of notes. I wish he'd talk faster. I wish the test came from the book instead of the notes. Then I could skip. Oh crap, he's repeating himself. I GET IT. SPORANGIUM = MEIOSIS.
Hhehehe, sounds like CS Lewis, Tolkien always used to take the piss out of Lewis because of his deep monotonic booring voice. Tolkiens writing room at Oxford was next to the lecture theatre where Lewis used to teach,... all Tolkien could hear all day was 'Hrooom Hrom Hrooom Hrom'. So to get revenge Tolkien put Lewis into LOTR as Treebeard
Heh, I woke up grumpy this morning. I found out the girl I like got a boyfriend yesterday, I woke up too late to take the garbage out this morning, and when I logged onto my computer I realize it had restarted in the middle of the night because of a blue screen, so my download of vista 64 bit failed.
I hate getting invited to something when I actually wasn't gonna be invited in the first place. Our mechanic's daughter knows me somewhat and I thought that she invited me to a cookoff thingy at her house cause she wanted to. It turns out that her Dad(our mechanic) sort of forced her to invite me cause he felt sorry for me and wanted me to get out more. All I can say to that is "whatever"! What's the harm in liking to be at home?? I don't think she would have invited me if her Dad hadn't said anything to her. So I've decided(and I know this sounds high schoolish of me) not to go. I want her to invite me cause SHE WANTS ME TO COME, not because she feels obligated by her Dad to invite me. That hurt my feelings and now I'm in sort of a mood. I hope I'm not being too High schoolish for saying that but GEEZ! I dealt with this kinda crap in grade school!! Girls invited me to their bday parties cause they felt obligated to do so..where in turn after I went home they started making fun of me. They claim that I copied off of one of their friends where all I wanted was to be accepted by them. Oh well, that was a long time ago. But thanks for letting me vent! Glad we have this thread!
I hate it when people feel they are obligated to include you in things cause their Dad feels like you should get out more..
This is sort of a rant..I'm just sick and tired of waiting on the insurance lady to fax us my insurance information for my newer ride that I'm picking up this evening. I want to make it home before 8pm tonight but it doesn't look that way. I'm SO TIRED! Been up since 5am.
I'm tired of kids who think they are special. Who think they get to talk and interrupt everyone else's work for their social life. For the ones who actually made me yell at them today. I haven't done that in 2 years. My Alg II students should be my best students not my worst. And even worse are those students who don't do their work, then wonder why they failed a test. When I convince them to get their work in, they are baffled that it isn't bringing up their grade. Hello you failed 3 tests. MORON.
There's this guy that comes in late to chemistry lab EVERY WEEK. It's a once-a-week class, it's not hard to get to. About 10 minutes after the lab lecture has started, he walks in and says, "Oh, my bad. Am I late again? Wow, heh, I'm late again..."
