All manner of low-grade bitching & moaning is welcome here! If you want to grumble about something, but the Rant forum isn't the right fit, or you don't want to start a thread, this is the spot for us.
I'll give the inaugural whine dump.
I have a head cold, with a chest cold buddy. Neither is particularly bad, haven't even had a fever, I just feel generalized crummy & whiny.
Thanks to said head cold, I can't smell or taste a damn thing. This sucks.
I want to hit up the neighborhood ice cream shop for a blueberry shake, but it's not worth it if I can't TASTE IT.
Nice weather we're having. Thanks for the sunburn, Mother Nature. Bitch.
I can't get any seeds to sprout this year. We had an overabundance of peppers & tomatoes last year. This year, not a single seedling. WTH.
I'm getting really tired of the birds having the proverbial New Year's Bash at 4:30 in the morning, every morning, outside my bedroom window. SHUT THE HELL UP.
I don't wanna be a grown up anymore this week. I want to turn in my Responsible Adult card, but apparently you can't do that. Not. Fair. < grumbles >
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The front end went out in my car- tie something, with a bunch of other $tuff, so I'm stuck at home- UNLESS I want to drive Hubby's rig; I don't.
My youngest sent out a bag with two quilts I had made for her- I had offered to wash them any time. I didn't know until last week that she sent them out- in a garbage bag- in February or March! That just haapens to be two of the three months I was going thru closets and donating garbage bags full of stuff to our local thrift shop. Flyers posted all over town haven't produced any results....
It could always be worse. I remember way back when the doctor prescribed a bunch of suppositories for me; for all the good they did I might have just as well have shoved them up my a$$.
'Things are never so bad they can't get worse, and never so good they can't get better.'
I love this idea! Nyiah, I hope that you start feeling better soon. It sounds miserable and I don't blame you for wanting to turn in your responsible adult card. Nugget, I hope that your flyers turn up a result. Learning experience for your youngest, maybe?
Mine is my kid. I took her to do the driving test to get her license today. When they got back the instructor lady said that Quin did really well on all but one thing. Unfortunately, that one thing is an auto-fail thing. She had to pull into an alley and then back out of it onto the street, but the street had cars parked along her side of it and Quin was afraid to hit the cars so she backed out a little bit wide and just crossed over into the other lane, but by doing that, she automatically failed.
The lady was telling me how well Quin did on everything else and if it weren't for that one thing, she would have passed with flying colors. She said we could come back tomorrow to try again, but Quin has to work and by the time she gets off work the DMV is closed. So, we will be going back on Thursday to try again and we spent most of tonight out practicing driving and backing out of various spots. If you don't mind, please keep your fingers crossed on Thursday for Quin's second try.
Mine has been a six month whine, that I officially cannot even talk about!!!! So, here is the vague but basics of it. I've worked for this company for 21 years. Been lied to for many of them, that it would eventually be employee owned. Well, it's for sale, with a potential buyer on hand. I'm scared to death that I will be without a job. One of the reasons I haven't been around here much. I've been refinancing the house, and trying to stash money away, just in case. We should know what is what by July, but with this, and other crap, I've been calling 2016 the year of SUCK!!!!
Just a little bit of a whine. I wasn't feeling great today and I have to take the kid back to the DMV tomorrow to try the driving test for her to get her license again. I just hate having to go out when I don't feel good, so hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow and the kid will pass her driving test and get her license so we don't have to spend another 4 hours practicing driving tomorrow night so that we can go back again on Friday.
Nugget, I hope the quilts turn up. I've misplaced/lost many sentimental things, I can completely understand the frustration.
Glencairn, wow, THAT'S all it takes to insta-fail the DL road test?? Caution around other people's property? I can kinda understand how it presents an unnecessary hazard, but if the coast was clear at the time, that should have been a pat on the shoulder & a do-over for it, IMO.
chiefsmom, that's crappy to do. It sounds like they never had any intention of going employee-owned, and just strung everyone along for status quo's sake. I really hope the new owners are awesome to the employees instead of the Board of Dickheads.
Gripe moment -- It's nice out now (kind of...still humid for 3am) but it was nasty hot earlier today. The thermometer hit 87. Eighty-freakin'-seven degrees. I appreciate the clear skies, MI, but if I wanted this kind of temperature, I'd go back to FL instead of reading the old local news to snicker at the hot weather down there. Can it be winter again? This is MI, it can be winter on a dime if someone sneezes in the right direction at the right time.
Oh, wait, I have two gripes. Both kids caught my cold. One has the chest cold, the other isn't keen on admitting she's got the head cold. Spyder's practically walking around with garlic & crucifixes.
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Nyiah, I hope that you and the kiddos get to feeling better soon and my fingers are crossed for Spyder to avoid getting it.
We didn't end up going to try for the license today because the kid was coughing her head off and had a really sore throat. She seemed to feel a little better before going to bed and now we are planning to go tomorrow.
Apparently the lady that Quin had for the road test is a stickler for everything and is sort of zero-tolerance about things. She did tell me how well Quin did with everything else on the driving test, though, so hopefully Quin will have better luck tomorrow.
Glencairn, I bet she caught whatever cold's been going around up here. Spyder's avoidance didn't pay off, he's got the beginnings of it (raw throat) The kids seem to be doing better, one seems fine entirely while the other is still sniffling a little.
Sort of a repeat whine, but more in depth -- I've gone through a huge amount of veggie seeds trying to sprout something to start indoors over the last 2+ months. I've finally got ONE cayenne seed sporting a taproot (yay!) but 11 others with nothing, and a dozen habanero seeds with nothing. I've been trying to sprout in batches of 12 to up my odds, I think I've gone through at least 6 dozen by now of anything. I gave up on the tomatoes, leeks & spinach. So much for my prolific porch garden this year...
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A bunch of Quin's friends also seem to have the cold. I swear, it is some kind of country-wide mass sickness that everyone is passing around.
I am sorry that your seeds aren't sprouting. I tend to have a black thumb, so I gave up on trying to torture plants into living at my house. Hopefully you will have better luck than mine and they'll grow for you.
So, my current whine is that I don't think Quin is ever going to get her license. I don't even get it. I have done the required number of behind the wheel hours of practice with her and she is safe and careful and does extremely well. The minute that she is alone in the car with a driving instructor, it all falls apart or something.
We went back to try again today and when they got back and came in and the driving lady (a different one than Quin had the other day) walked up to me and started getting a crappy mouth with me, I wanted to drop kick her right out the front window. She walked up and said "Has she even driven before, much less the 50 required hours? There wasn't a single thing that she did correctly." So, I know flat out that she is a liar because her colleague from the other day said that Quin did everything but two things exactly right and said that even the two things that she did wrong were only slight and not horribly wrong.
Quin walked in and was already crying and said that this lady yelled at her the whole time they were driving and once we got back in the car to leave Quin said that the lady was playing on her phone the entire time and wasn't paying attention and that multiple times when coming up to an intersection, the lady wasn't watching and would suddenly look up and tell Quin to turn as they were already entering the intersection and then yelled at Quin for not using her turn signal soon enough. Quin said "Mom, how do I put my signal on far enough back, when she didn't even look up from her phone and tell me to turn until we were already in the intersection?" Apparently, according to Quin, that also got her a lecture about not jerking the wheel to turn and that she should already know how to make smooth turns.
Quin spent almost an hour crying and telling me what all the lady was saying when she could be bothered enough to look up from playing on her phone. Quin is pretty open with me and I'm not claiming that she wouldn't exaggerate, but I don't believe that she made this all up after all the driving that I have done with her and the praise that the previous instructor gave about Quin's driving. So far, that is all the other people who have driven with Quin (both of us parents, previous instructor, grandparents, driver's ed teacher who hates Quin praised her driving, even) who have all said how well she is doing versus one single other person who claims she is spectacularly bad at driving and had the temerity to chew MY ass in front of the whole DMV about how bad of a driver my kid is.
I so badly wanted to open up and deliver a verbal annihilation that would have left this woman checking for cuts I was that angry at her behavior. Unfortunately, we still have to go back at some point to try again, so I was stuck biting my tongue and clenching my teeth so hard I thought they would crack. GRRRRRR...
Glencairn, Wow! I hope you have plans of reporting this incident to her superiors! There is no reason she should have even had her phone on, and giving it her attention while she was SUPPOSED to be working is inexcusable,IMO. That isn't what she's paid for!
Is it possible to find out what days the first lady is going to be working? Or, maybe go to a different county foer the test?
Russ said the same thing about reporting her for her attitude towards me and for spending the entire time out on the road test on her phone. I want to, but I am hesitant to since that is the closest place to go for a DMV. There are two others that are about 40 minutes or so away, but they are both in bigger towns and one I am not familiar with and the other is the one that I had always gone to before we moved to where we live now.
That one is notorious for their long waits. You can (and I have) shown up in the morning to do a road test and to get your license and still be waiting for your number to be called at closing time that evening. I was there with a friend shortly after I had gotten my license and my friend, her mom, and I sat for the entire day and ended up having to go back the next day to try again because of the long wait. It hasn't gotten any better over the years. Going in just to get license plate stickers is a 3 to 4 hour wait sometimes.
It is much easier to go to the one nearer to us and hope we don't get the mean lady than to deal with the wait times and stressed out staff at the other one I used to go to, but I am asking around to some friends to see what their experiences have been with the other DMV that I'm not familiar with and see if that might be a better option.