RL peeves! >< @$!#
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@ThatOneDude
Totally needing that oasis today...jeez. haha. We do have color examples in one of our books. The inevitable "well I don't like /any/ of those, they're just not /quite/ right". ...
I've promised a customer that their four year old won't remember what hue of purple the cake is by the time it matters. They still didn't believe me. >.>
One of these days...
I need that weird oasis of calm contraption, or a wiffle bat. Or possibly both. -
My mother took a trip up to the U.S. to visit my brother. People asked her to bring them back a lot of different things: high-def mics, cowboy boots, silks for rolling cigs and joints, special brands of super-special teas, a phone or two, and other random crap. Some of this stuff you can even get here, just not as cheap.
I asked for a couple of bottles of root beer. You can't get root beer down here. It doesn't even exist.
She brought me Dr. Pepper.
She doesn't understand that Dr. Pepper is not root beer. Not even fucking close. And because she doesn't understand, I said thank you and drank one and left the other in the fridge.
Dr. Pepper isn't horrible. It's not going to kill me.
But it's not fucking root beer, now is it? The person who ordered the cowboy boots didn't get a pair of shit-kicker combat boots, did they? She didn't bring the person who wanted classic Zig-Zag silks for their fucking joints some random off-the-counter brand, she got them Zig-Zag.
I asked for root beer. I got Dr. Pepper.
Okay. Sorry. I'm done complaining now.
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@Admiral Yeah.
I'm job hunting at the moment. Though, 'no call centers' is my main rule for now.Also, giving up soda is difficult and I would tap dance for a pepsi about now. And as far as asking people for stuff, I always give them a brand or ask for a brand because I had a lot of people ask for stuff when I was studying abroad.
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I didn't care which brand. I just wanted root beer. The problem is that Dr. Pepper isn't root beer.
[wails].
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Aaand I get a phone call that Medicaid is only for adults with kids. Thanks, fucking Texas.
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Stupid people.
I just had someone check into the hotel I work at, and while filling out the reg card wrote 'silva' for the color of her car. She genuinely couldn't figure out why it didn't look right.
Silva. Fucking SILVA.
I weep for the future of mankind.
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@Stabby
Re. Stupid People.
There was some snow in the Southeast. I work at a bakery. All of our bread was gone by 10am on Wednesday.
A woman approaches me, legitimately upset already. Asks - "Where's y'alls bread at?"
I inform her that its gone for now, we're baking one last batch then calling it quits and going home before the roads ice over (untreated roads, you northerners shut your mouths >.>).
Lady promptly freaks out, with actual tears in her eyes - "BUT WHAT WILL MY BABIES EAT". All shrill and loud.
I laughed. I thought she was joking. My manager informed me, after she complained about me, that she wasn't joking.
Stupid people. You're in a damn grocery store. Find something else. Jeez. Its just a bit of snow, you won't be snowed in for weeks, I /promise/.
That said..more peeves. Southerners freaking out about snow and being stupid. I'm from the midwest. Snow is no big deal. But I get why it is here, and ice is legitimately scary here, because there's no plows or salt trucks, or anything (especially in the more rural burb I'm in). Anyway... swear it doesn't mean the world is ending, as much as I love to watch the local news footage of reporters freaking out over snow flurries...
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@thebird I feel your pain, here in SoCal it was 80 degrees and sunny while the entire East Coast was covered in snow. I mean, how are we suppose to enjoy our summers if winter feels like summer?!
Thank God things are back to normal and its sunny, in the 60's to 70's most of the time again. Now it feels like winter!
Then when it's all over and the rest of you are ready for Dead Animal Pickup, I'm gonna go balls deep into Dahl. But only because she asked me to. Sweet-like. - Riddick (2013)
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@ThatOneDude
Lol.
Hey. Yesterday was a perfect day. About 65, sunny, bit breezy. Weather needs to make up it's mind.
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@thebird I feel that pain. I grew up in Iowa, where school didn't let out until nearly the end of June because of snow days that piled up over the winter. I now live in Florida, where the heavy coats come out when it hits 50 degrees. People freak out at the smallest sign of weather. If there's prediction of heavy rains, people lose their minds and assume that it means hurricane or floods and they start doomsday prepping. In Florida. Where there's quite often rain all day. Like today! This is why I won't work in the food industry anymore. People be cray, yo.
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I just moved into a pretty nice apartment with a cousin and a good friend, both of whom professed to be a little OCD about cleanliness. I'm a fairly clean dude, maybe a little messy sometimes, so my thinking was along the lines of "Awwww yeh, just put what is for me a little effort in and the place will stay mostly spotless."
My cousin, who I had never known or guessed this about before, was mostly bullshitting about the OCD thing and has actually started to let piles of trash accumulate. DID NOT WANT. :rage1:
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Uh. OCD manifests many ways, including being obsessively clean. He might've meant that he washes his hands a lot or has another tic or ritual.
That said, ew, piles of trash. I'd give 'em a talking to. The only time crap really builds up around me is if my depression flares up.
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I meant that he had specifically said he was OCD about cleaning, and he's not. Sorry, that was a little vague.
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I'm a compulsive hand-washer myself. I'd never say I'm OCD about cleaning. That's a whole different kind of monster.
On the bright side I manage my problem by washing my hands without soap 99% of the time and just pretending in my head I'm cleaning off the dirt and grime.
I feel really, really bad for people who have it worse than me. I met someone whose hands were just reddened, raw, and nearly skinless because he went after them with a brillo pad.
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I live in the 4th? largest city in the country. If it freezes here, it's A BIG FUCKING DEAL. I mean, the panic is overblown mostly yes, but we have zero ways to prepare for it. They only have like 3-4 trucks that can sand overpasses. And PS, you won't get anywhere without going on an overpass so, yeah. It's just best to stay home. But while the panic is absurd, we really can't do fuck all about freezing anything. An ice storm took out power for a week one time. Mock all you want, almost literally the entire rest of the country including the upper half of my state...but I was 20 before I ever saw snow in my entire life, other than a light dust. The first real snow I saw I thought was a blizzard. I thought every snow fall was a blizzard. So you may know snow, but there are people there to whom that will be the biggest ever winter storm they ever saw in their LIFE. This entitles you to mock away, but in return I get to point and laugh when you complain about the terrible heat and it's like 90 degrees.
And I find people who are like I'M SO OCD are really terribly messy. I don't know why they say these things. It's really irritating.
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Does that mean I can point and laugh at all since I've seen everything but an earthquake and a tsunami? XD Blizzards, torrential rains, hurricanes, tornadoes, below freezing temps, crazy high heat and humidity indexes... the US is a scary place to live for weather.
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Maaaaaaaan, I'm in Buffalo. Shit here got so bad when we went out for beer we had to watch out for Wampas.
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@Miss-Demeanor Yes!! Except at me, because we have hurricanes, tornadoes and floods that trap you where you are. Gulf Coast for the win. I think.
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@Luna I too live on the Gulf Coast.
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Oh. You're over there. We can't be friends, we don't talk to you people.
