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Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yesterday my daughter returned from a trip to Phoenix and decided to go to her storage place to pick up some winter clothes. She is staying with us since she gave up her apartment last spring when she took this job. She travels so much that it didn't make sense to maintain an apartment.

When she got there she discovered that her lock was gone...and so was were a lot of other things...like her tv, stereo, 2 dressers, her comic book collection, and much of her racing memorabilia. Every box had been opened and gone through.

She called me first! I told her to call the police and then found the number of the storage manager...he wasn't going to go over, but she called him and he changed his mind...(she was in NO mood to put aside).

There were tons of prints, yet they decided it wasn't necessary to dust for prints because they probably wouldn't match anything in the system. Why have a system if you aren't going to check it? Who decides these things and what are the criteria. Seems to me you want to dust for prints and then have them on file in case they match future burglaries...but that's just me.

The good news is that she is insured...they bad news is that some of her racing memorabilia are photos and autographed items that can't be replaced.

The police feel that the comic book collection is the key that will help them catch these crooks.

The hard part is feeling totally violated. I am trying to help her see the positives...like a new tv when she gets her new apartment...and not having to move those dressers again! It still sucks.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, November 12, 2004 - 2:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{{Mary & Daughter}}}} How sad is it they just assumed they wouldn't match prints? Reminds me of the time a co-worker of Mom's had a break in at their house. The burglar ended up shooting her daughter (thankfully, she lived with no permanent damage). The police went in, got a partial set of prints, but said they couldn't start looking for the guy unless they got a full set of all ten fingers/thumbs. Yeesh!

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 2:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{Mary & DD}}} Sorry to hear this. . .it's not like tv is it? Have you checked eBay for some of her racing memorabilia? If they are using the USPS to mail payments or packages it's considered a fedral offense. . .just a thought.

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Monday, November 15, 2004 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Zules has decided to leave TVCH and I, for one, am incredibly unhappy about this! I loved playing in her folder with the other women and men of this site. Even though I am a new poster, Zules always made me feel welcomed. I appreciated Zules quick wit, sarcastic sense of humor and playfulness.

Since this is the gripe thread- I want everyone to know how unhappy I am that Zules feels the need to leave TVCH!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, November 15, 2004 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh no what happened?? Maybe she just needs a break and will be back?

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Monday, November 15, 2004 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok,I'm not gonna generalize and dis all men. But,I am really perturbed at one particular man right now. It's a good thing he isn't around my house right now.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 5:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*sigh*

I got all ready to go run errands today. A snow storm is due in tomorrow, so I thought I'd beat the storm, and get my Thanksgiving shopping done before the storm, and before next weeks crowds.

The damn car won't start. Its Friday afternoon. Nobody will be open till Monday. And to top it all off, I called my mechanic's number, and he closed his doors "for the last time" October 31.

Now I have to try and find someone I can trust again.

If I don't get it fixed next week, I guess I'll be walking to sis's house for Thanksgiving. Better bundle Mom up real good too. I wonder how long it will take me to push a wheelchair 28 miles.





Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Have you ever just hated your husband. My veins are running with pure poison today. I am sick of being married to Mr. Perfect. If we were allowed to swear in here my fingers would be bleeding typing the words that are going through my mind. Don't even bother asking what he did, he is perfect, of course he didn't do anything wrong. B-----d, f----r, p---k. Ah that helps.

Jasper
Member

09-14-2000

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ll, hmm, there have been many a time I would have liked him to go live out in the shed. How about this for a crappy attitude. I told my 41yr old dh that something he was doing I was not happy with, his reply, quit nagging at me or I'll rebel and do it more. I'm not kidding exact words, I must have missed the fact that I married a 10 yr old.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ahh the stories I could tell.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i have a 14 1/2 year old who thinks she is my mother or my sister or someone who can tell me what to do or criticize the things i say. sometimes she's the sweetest thing in the world, and other times i'd love to ring her neck. but what REALLY cooks my bird, my husband will say "enough YOU TWO!" or "i don't want to hear another word out of EITHER OF YOU!" and instead of scolding her, he's scolding me too! this just encourages everything she says to argue with me about EVERYTHING!



Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Frankly, Landi, I'd advise telling your husband in no uncertain terms that you're not one of his children and to get down to the business of parenting the one child who IS in the house.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, if i come decorate your tree, will you talk to the husband? otherwise i may have to enlist your legal services! HAHA! Isn't christmas such a lovely time of year? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

right now, i'm also pissy that at the age of 42 i'm sick and friggen tired of having a "monthly" geeeeeeeeeeeez i want this done with! i'd rather deal with the hot flashes again. i didn't have the thing for 6 months, and they said i was "pre-menopausal" well SHOOT let me just be menopausal and get it over with!


Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi, my sister just got her "monthly" after 2 and a half years. She is 56 and is definitely in menopause. She is ready to throw herself out the window. Only problem is that she is on the ground floor. LOL

Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 4:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG Landi, my Dh does that crap too, or tries to, I had enough one day, and I told him to shut it or I would shut it for him. Dork, it is just so that he can play Mr. Niceguy and I always have to be the heavy. I had enough of it, so for at least 2 weeks I let the kids do what ever they frickin wanted to do, drove me crazy but finally he had to step up and take the parent role. Know what I did, I said "You guys stop it right now, both of you.".. He was so peed off, later I just said , "see how it feels." ah to be in love , isn't it wonderful

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Monday, December 06, 2004 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is it just me or has everyone that works at the DMV here just stepped out of 1985? The hair styles, all feather, the multicolored sweaters, pegged pants, and high top LA Gears? I am not joking, I had to do a double take and check the date on my cell phone.

Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 5:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just wanted everyone to know that dh is alive and well and I am not in jail. lol

whew that was a real bad mood I was in.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fourth-grader suspended over 'Jell-O shots'

Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Posted: 10:12 AM EST (1512 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12/08/jell-o.school.ap/index.html

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- An 8-year-old girl was suspended for nine days for bringing to school what appeared to be about 30 "Jell-O shots" -- though it was unclear whether they contained alcohol.

The incident occurred November 29, as the girl stood after classes outside Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School in Terrytown, a New Orleans suburb. A teacher spotted liquid dripping out of the student's bookbag and found what looked like the small cups of alcohol-laced gelatin that are sold in bars, schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski said.

The girl told the principal that her mother, who works in a bar, makes alcoholic shots at home and sells them at work. The fourth-grader said her mother had instructed her to take the shots to school and sell them, three for $1, to make some money for Christmas, Nowakowski said.

The gelatin was turned over to the sheriff's department for testing to see if it contained alcohol.

The girl was suspended for violating school rules against possessing or trying to distribute a "lookalike," or something that appears to contain drugs or alcohol.

Under the lookalike rule, the girl's suspension will stand no matter what the sheriff's department finds.

"The school system's position is, it doesn't matter if it had alcohol in it or not," Nowakowski said.

The names of the girl and her mother were not released.

The mother must also allow school officials to test her daughter's hair for signs of drug use, Nowakowski said.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 2:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I mean,really,if they had alcohol in them,all you would have to do is smell them.

Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know which is sadder, that a mother would send her daughter out to peddle alcohol or that a school would suspend an 8 year old child because of her mother sending her to school to sell it. And yes Hip if there was alcohol in them of course you could smell it. What is this world coming to.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hope criminal charges are brought agains the mother if there are alcohol in them. Why would she put them in her daughters book bag? COME ON FOLKS.....when DD takes alcohol to school, I make sure she puts the flask in her boot or the waist of her jeans..........

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GRRRR, I'm married to the king of back handed compliments. I was so excited about my new smaller size outfit for tonight's Christmas party. I spent the whole day, polishing myself, pedicure, manicure, facial. He sees the final product of ME, and says, "looks like you think you're sexy."



Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
AHHHHH..........

I would have said...yes I do, and I'll bet everyone else thinks so too.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 3:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tell him, "No, I know that I am."

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, you both are much nicer than I am, I replied with, don't be such an @$$! LOL!