Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

Auspice

@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Not quite the same thing as you're all talking about, but I think I'm the only person in this region who, when telling a story, isn't compelled to preface a self-quote in a story by saying, "So I said to her, I said," like I frigging Foghorn Leghorn.

"What had happened was" except it becomes "Whahahappenwas"

Wretched

@Auspice So much easier to just say 'Whappinwuz'

Ganymede

@GreenFlashlight

I usually go with "so I was minding my own business when -- "

VL_Raptor

@GreenFlashlight There's always the SCA-standard, "No shit, there I was..."

Tinuviel

"Okay, so I'd just poured my fourth drink..."

Aria

We currently don't have water. We haven't had water for about four hours now. And because the city didn't follow their own policies and procedures for emergency shutoffs, we have no idea when it may come back on.

But worse than that, most of our neighborhood has been freaking out on our community app, ignoring the responses posted from those of us who have actually spoken to the utility company. Several of them are already going to the local stores to buy up all the water before we have a shortage like we did with toilet paper and no one can find any!!1!11!omg!!!!

I give it a day before we descend into Mad Max territory.

mad max water

Alamias

@Aria Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

Tinuviel

100% of cancers contain water.

L. B. Heuschkel

@Alamias said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

DO YOU KNOW WHAT FISH DO IN WATER?

Ghost

These Fremen have become water-fat and weak. Mua'dib's name is no blessing. It is a curse.

Ghost

For fuck's sake my car doesn't have an extended warranty. whyyyyyy

Aria

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

For fuck's sake my car doesn't have an extended warranty. whyyyyyy

'Cause you didn't sign up for one when you bought it, I'd guess?

You can add them after the fact, though. You can buy them at a dealership for whatever make your car is.

Cobalt

Roommates still haven't paid me for this month's power. Haven't even acknowledged that it's due. Cats peed in my clothing so I have to wash literally all of it. Roommates left my previous load of laundry just ontop of the dryer rather than putting it again. So, literally everything has to be washed but what i'm wearing...

Roommate's overly aggressive spastic cat (that she has not gotten spayed yet, so he keeps trying to jump my female cat) keeps getting in the way of everything.

I am >so close to screaming<.

Ghost

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

For fuck's sake my car doesn't have an extended warranty. whyyyyyy

'Cause you didn't sign up for one when you bought it, I'd guess?

You can add them after the fact, though. You can buy them at a dealership for whatever make your car is.

No I just keep getting that robo-dial about my car's extended warranty, in which there is none. Easily 2x/day at this point.

Aria

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

For fuck's sake my car doesn't have an extended warranty. whyyyyyy

'Cause you didn't sign up for one when you bought it, I'd guess?

You can add them after the fact, though. You can buy them at a dealership for whatever make your car is.

No I just keep getting that robo-dial about my car's extended warranty, in which there is none. Easily 2x/day at this point.

OH! Yes. I get those, too. I thought you meant some shit went wrong with your car and you were like, "Ugh. Why did I not add coverage beyond the first three years/36,000 miles?" that most manufacturers have.

Auspice

oh hey
my extended unemployment ran out
and TX has decided covid is over and people don't need assistance anymore
ahahahaha

here's hoping this new job does start right away in January. I think I can hold off debtors and convince my apt to let me float a month.

GreenFlashlight

@Auspice No offense to you as someone who lives there but personally I am just about ready to give Texas back to Mexico. And to give Florida to, I dunno, Cuba? They could probably use it.

Auspice

@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice No offense to you as someone who lives there but personally I am just about ready to give Texas back to Mexico. And to give Florida to, I dunno, Cuba? They could probably use it.

I mean half of the state would be OK with that probably.

It really sucks because Austin is pretty awesome. Our city officials have been fighting and fighting for better handling of covid. But the AG and such just shoot them down.

But yeah, they decided 'well unemployment numbers are improving so we don't need to help people anymore'

Meanwhile companies are pulling back once again because oh look things are even worse now than they were seven months ago.

SparklesTheClown

I have a strong sense of loneliness lately and not a single thing to be done about it.

Ghost

@HelloProject Online gaming (not MU but stuff like Among Us and other social games) have been good throughout quarantine. Plus they require mics so there's more of a sense of human contact.