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Archive through November 10, 2007

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Oct. 2007 ~ Dec. 2007: Free Expressions: The return of The Return of the Gripe Thread: Archive through November 10, 2007 users admin

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Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Friday, November 02, 2007 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
It's so strange...yesterday I felt my feet propelling me towards the bathroom and away from the television--turns out that HP Seinfeld commercial was on! My feet had automatically moved me away from the source of irritation.

I like Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfuss, but it's those blank eyes of his...frankly I'm a little scared of him!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Just got off the phone with my stepdaughter. She was given an F for study hall. Since WHEN do they give grades for study hall?

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
how do you get an f in study hall? don't study? <shrug>

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Maybe it was for FINE...not flunk.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 8:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Dylan keeps getting a weekly D cuz the PE coach thinks he should run the mile faster. Apparently the first time you run you must beat that time or make the same time to get A...which seems stupid to me. If we had known I would have told Dylan to walk the first time!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Those grades for study hall and PE sound ridiculous! You know, come to think of it, I don't think I ever had an official "study hall."

My gripe....grocery stores who let/force obviously sick clerks still work...and handle my groceries.

I've been sick since about last Wednesday. And I know precisely how I got it. At my latest store visit, there was a bagger who was obviously sick. She was phlegmy, eyes red, coughing, etc. She blew her nose and stuffed her tissue in her pocket, then proceeded to bag my food.

That alone is annoying enough. But what really kicks it was, she wasn't even my assigned bagger. She came over to "help" the person bagging my stuff, but it was obvious it wasn't to really help out. She was too busy gossiping with my bagger and cashier. She was only non-chalantly grabbing up a food item here and there, just to make her visit to the area seem legit.

Catching colds is a part of life of course. But I have to be particularly careful to try and not bring something home to Mom. Knock on wood, so far so good. I've been washing my hands like crazy, and not coming any where near her or any of her things without washing my hands first. And being her caregiver, you can only imagine how many times I wash my hands each day!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I would complain to the store manager

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
That's actually on my agenda for the night. I'll be visiting their website and sending in a comment.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Irritation. My uppity sister called me and asked me if I am still upset with her. I said "yes". She said "I'm sorry... sorry you feel that way, I mean." Like I'm going to forget that she is always uppity to all her sisters, and I told her so, too. Pbbbbffffttt

The call was exactly what I figured it would be. She wanted something.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Hey, I have have one of those....uppity sister, that is.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Thank goodness we don't have more than one of those, Twinks!

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Gracie, you know the old saying, "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family!"

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Ain't that the truth, Gracie!

And sure wish I could, Twiggy!

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 3:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
and why i'm glad i'm an only child.

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 4:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
This morning's gripe: People who hold meetings in common/shared areas. Grrrrr. My "office" is next to pretty much all the common areas, so this morning, I walk in to find a crowd of people right next to my room and with the door open I can hear everything. Its a large meeting, get a freakin' conference room. The building is full of them...its 6am, so its not like any of the rooms aren't available. I just want to go have my coffee, not sit here and wait out a meeting that should be held elsewhere. GRRRRRR.

Another gripe? Coming in to things that make me grumpy first thing in the morning! As if it isn't hard enough to get through work anyway!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Cd, I always carry earplugs in my purse. I just had the opportunity to use them yesterday in a noisy, kid crying waiting room.

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
After the aforementioned meeting, one of the attendees, stopped by and asked why I wasn't at the meeting...and basically, how I got out of it. I told him I wasn't aware I was supposed to be at it...that I just walked in to see a group of people having a meeting, but didn't know why and I'm not in the habit of just joining in on other people's meetings (and there are SO many around here.) He said he was told he had to go. Anyhoo, turns out the meeting was to inform us that our Sr. Director is leaving. Since she is evil incarnate, that is very good news! (I could hear the meeting, but came in after that part, apparently...and I couldn't actually make out most of what was said...just bits here and there.).

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Sounds like your gripe turned into a positive thing, Cdbga! You didn't have to attend, and the evil incarnate director is leaving. Yay!

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 4:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
Yes it did Grace! Of course, I STILL don't see why they couldn't have gotten a conference room! But, I'm not going to dwell on that negative in the face of the huge positive!

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 5:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Sometimes little surprises come in big packages! LOL

Karen
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09-07-2004

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
My gripe du jour: I tried to crawl into bed last night around 2:30am, after a night of beers with some friends. I pull back the blankets to find a large puddle of wet in my bed, right where I should go. Being sick as a dog and sinuses not working well, it took a minute before the smell of cat urine hit me. I am SO livid with my cat.

Today, with about as much energy as a dying sloth, I had to make my way down to the pet store to buy some Nature's Miracle spray to try to get the odour out of the mattress. Washed the sheets and comforter x2 each, and they both still have an underlying smell. Last night and tonight will be spent on the hide-a-bed in the living room as I wait for the pee to go away. It's a brand new mattress (less than a year old) and I don't really want to buy a new one.

After all the laundry and cleaning up the smell, I settle in on the couch with my NeoCitran and box of kleenex to watch my Leafs game. Donners brings me my jersey, which had been folded up on my bedside table last night... guess what else reeks like cat pee??? This is so unlike her. I'm so miffed.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
That sucks big time Karen. I can just picture it. There's is nothing worse than something in your bed that doesn't belong there. Maybe baking soda would help neutalize the smell? They say vinegar takes out smells too. You can also try to steam clean the mattress. try this site: cat pee cures

I recently had a fumigator come and he gave me a great tip--wrap your entire mattress in Saran Wrap to keep out the buggaboos. Your reason is different, but having the underlying layer of Saran Wrap would help repel the pee. You can't feel it under there trust me. I bought a new mattress and didn't even take off the plastic it came in and don't know if I ever will!

Sounds like kitty has some issues. What is wrong with kitty?

Feel better.

Sage
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07-20-2000

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 9:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sage a private message Print Post    
Karen, I know exactly what you're going through. In my past experience with cats, which has been practically my whole life, one of the main causes of cats urinating in places it doesn't normally, is a bladder infection. I had a couch destroyed once by a cat who kept peeing on it. Turns out he had a bladder infection. Another cat of my mom's started peeing in places it shouldn't and she had a bladder infection too. Maybe that's what's going on with your cat. I sure hope you can find out what the deal is with her, and that nothing else of yours gets peed on.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Honestly, as much as I hate to admit that I might have been a bad parent, I think I have Donners and myself to blame. We've been a bit negligent this past week when it comes to the litterbox... we ran out of litter about a week ago, and we've both been so under the weather neither of us has felt like trucking the 40lb bag up the hill from the pet store. So we've been cleaning all the mess out of the box every night, but the sand remaining was getting a bit dirty, cause we had no new stuff to mix into it.

We thoroughly cleaned the litterbox this morning after going to the pet store, then proceeded to put both cats into it, one by one. (We know exactly which one it was, but since there's no 'proof' proof, we decided to be diplomatic and show both of 'em the clean toilet to use.) Both of them used it immediately. At this point we're chalking it up to our own negligence and stupidity and hoping that the mess on the bed was simply a message of dissent from Holly. By all other accounts, she's healthy and happy, though I haven't ruled out medical reasons yet.

We've closed off the bedroom while the mattress dries out. Thank goodness for hardwood through the rest of the apartment, just in case it was more than just sending Mom and Dad a message.

Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
Vinegar worked with my cats pee and spray! I've tried other things and vinegar has worked the best by far

Good Luck Karen