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Archive through January 08, 2003
Weinermr | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:34 pm     Come to think of it, there's nothing wrong with being a woman. I withdraw my objection, whatever it was! |
Car54 | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:42 pm     Weiner, we already voted you an honorary woman a long time ago. You are special...you can hold your own in the Mens club and with us check writers! Wear your badge with pride. It will get you check cashing privleges at most grocery stores. PS... what is with the spitting...I don't know anyone who spits...is this a regional thing? Maybe the Yankees up here don't spit much. |
Spygirl | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:47 pm     Car, I think it may be a regional thing. I don't care who spits, I just don't want to HEAR what is required to get it to the mouth. I truly believe it is the #1 most disgusting sound on the planet. And just to point out, I work with a woman who does the hacking and napkin spitting on a daily basis. I can't stand to be around her much. Even when she isn't doing it, I am hearing and picturing it in my mind. And she leaves the tissues laying around everywhere!! can you tell this really freaks me out? |
Car54 | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:49 pm     Bakerygirl, I hear you. Being a manager stinks when that kind of stuff happens. Is there anyone on your remaining staff who is a candidate to step up and take on more responsiblities? When I have this kind of thing happen, I try to stretch my existing people a bit and see if they have potential to grow into a bigger role...sometimes I find out someone was just waiting for a chance to show what they can do. If you can move anyone up, at least they are trained, and then you have a little more stretch to recruit, hire and train someone to replace them...or maybe if you have some part timers can they give you more hours for a limited period of time? After Xmas, sometimes folks want to make some extra cash. |
Crossfire | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:54 pm     Chewing tobacco...now there is something I don't think I've ever seen in my life. I'm not even sure if stores around here carry it. |
Car54 | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:55 pm     I can remember some spitting when I lived in the South and in Texas, but not up here...I can't recall ever seeing spitting up here in Boston.(but I personally do have a sinus infection right now and confess to making some mucus related sounds lately...sorry Spy!) |
Maris | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:56 pm     Forget my suggestion bakerygirl, I suggest spitting at your boss. |
Not1worry | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:57 pm     Okay, I understand check writing, some people don't love their debit card like I do. I was forever messing up my checkbook, but with the debit card, the $$ is subtracted almost immediately and I don't worry about when a check is going to clear. My GRIPE is the people who write checks and have to stand there and take the time to enter it into the check register and do the math to get the balance right there in line. Carbon checks are not that expensive, but at least do that math at home! When I was in the army, spitting was the least of the bodily functions that bothered me with the guys. Anyone heard of a Farmer John? Or was is Farmer Brown, I forget. Place a finger against your nose, closing off one nostril and forcefully exhale thru the other nostril, shooting any substance from that nostril onto the ground. So a little spit here and there was not so bad. |
Spygirl | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 05:03 pm     LOL Car -- you'll be appropriately punished for those noises..hehehe. I realize that happens when people get sick, but I'm betting you don't sit around in public sucking that junk out of your throat and nose when people are around you to hear it!! Okay, Not1....YUCK!!!!!!!!! |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 05:03 pm     ewwwww gagging at the thought!! Chewing tobacco is very common 'round these parts..LOL I saw a bumper sticker in LaBelle, a town east of me, it said.."Pass with care, driver chews tobacco". |
Car54 | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 05:05 pm     <hocking up a big ol oyster> Just for you, Spy! My grandpa "chewed".... grossed me out. |
Not1worry | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 05:07 pm     Yep, there's nothing like tossing out a soda can you thought was empty only to have tobacco saliva slosh out. Okay, I'll quit grossing everyone out tonight. |
Urgrace | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 05:10 pm     Twiggs, that stuff will take the paint right off your car. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 05:17 pm     Imagine what it does to the insides of a person chewing it? |
Bryan | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:15 am     Just curious, if you do not spit this mucous stuff out, do you swallow it? |
Spygirl | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 06:37 am     I must be funny, but the only time I have mucous stuff is when I'm sick. And then I do spit it out -- into kleenex. But I'm home alone and not in public -- or at least in a bathroom. Any other mucuos stuff simply requires me to blow my nose, not suck it out the back of my throat to spit out. I just don't get that at all. |
Grooch | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 06:51 am     I'm with Spy girl. And the worst mucus story I have was when I was driving down I-95 at 60 mph and the guy in the passenger seat, in a van in the lane next to me, spat out the window and it hit bullseye on my windshield. THANK GOD I had my window closed and washer fluid! I was blinded by it, and it took quite a while for the blades to wash it off. Spit is a bodily fluid that should be disposed of properly. |
Jbean | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:21 pm     ok, i have a gripe, actually i have a lot of them, but am only going to post one. i went to meet a friend for dinner last night, we live about an hour apart, so we meet in the middle, it is about a half hour drive for each of us, but we do this occasionally, so we still get to see each other, which is a good thing. however, last night, she talked to another one of her friends on her cell phone, the ENTIRE time we were at the restaurant. then after that, we went to wal-mart, where she got another call, and talked for the end of the time we were there...right through when i got out of the car. now, it would be one thing, if these were people that she hardly ever talked to, but she works with one of them, and spends a LOT of her time with this person, and talks to the other one almost on a daily basis. maybe i shouldn't be so petty, but if i wanted to eat dinner alone, i would have gone up the street to eat, and not driven half an hour to go meet my friend. i just thought it was rude. am i wrong to be aggravated? btw, when i was getting out of the car (while the other person was hanging on), she says to me "i'll call you tonight". geez |
Max | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:35 pm     It WAS rude, Jbean! I cannot stand it when people carry on long conversations on cell phones in restaurants and stores. I don't wanna hear their private conversaions! Either your friend is totally oblivious to others around her or isn't that interested in being your friend any longer. Did you say anything to her about it? Might be a good idea to say something like, "I really need to tell you that I was offended and upset that you spent our entire time together talking to someone else on the phone. It made me feel <insert appropriate feeling here>." Her response will tell you a lot about how much she values you as a friend. |
Crazydog | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:36 pm     No, Jbean, you are not at all wrong! Talking on cell phones in restaurants is rude in itself. I can't believe she went on and on! I definitely would have said something. One time I met up in Vegas with a friend that I don't see too often. When we were at the MGM Grand he got a call from his girlfriend. We then walked over the bridge to New York New York, went through NY NY, walked over the bridge to Excalibur, took the tram to Mandalay Bay, walked back through MB, walked through Luxor, walked through Excalibur and then back to New York before he finally hung up. If you're familiar with Vegas you'll know that is a LONG time to be on the phone. The saddest thing is this girl had just called him two hours before and he was clueless about how irritated I was. |
Zachsmom | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:43 pm     I hate cell phones..I don't even own one..nor a beeper..the highest level of technology that I have is an answering machine that has the same factory installed voice message..and of course I have callerID.. People do not need to get ahold of me that easily..lol..I find it rude to talk on the phone for long periods of time whether you are with them in public places or they are a guest in your home (or if you are at their house and they talk on the phone for a long period of time)..it's inconciderate, flat out rude and disrespectful..you have every right to be offended and hurt! |
Jbean | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:49 pm     well, i thought it was rude, but we have been really good friends for a long time. actually the relationship is more like a sisters one, we were college roommates. the deal is, that she has all these friends that have constant "dramas" and she feels like she needs to help them. so both of these situations were "dramas". she did apologize for the restuarant incident, and i told her it seemed like we were in there a lot longer than we atually were, and she said "probably because you had to set there and listen to me talk on the phone the whole time". but i haven't talked to her since i got out of the car last night. i guess she feels like we are close enough friends that i knew it wasn't against me personally. but, if i were the one who had gotten the call, i would have told whoever was calling that "i'm eating with ___ right now, can i call you later?" just me, though. she has major talk-on-the-phonia. goes over cell phone minutes and everything. thanks for letting me vent! |
Abbynormal | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 04:04 pm     I'd like to get this off my chest. Today I was standing in the return line of a store and in front of me was a woman 60ish and the cutest little woman I have ever seen. Not an inch over 4 feet. Being the way I am I told the little lady how cute I thought she was. She thanked me, we chatted for a moment and she went to sit on a bench. This resulted in the 60ish woman telling me her life story. The little woman was her mother, 83 and lived alone. Not by choice she told me but what were her and her siblings to do? They all had health problems and started listing them and on and on and on. They certainly couldn't take care of their mother now could they? As a matter of fact, she resented having to bring her mother with her today, why couldn't everyone just give gift certificates and be done with it?! I quickly tuned her out, but it has bothered me all day. I guess with the passing of Gramma Avery it just kind of broke my heart. Can she not see that the old woman is probably just lonely? Can she not see that if she is still living alone, then she must be somewhat self sufficent? She was so wrapped up in her own aches and pains that she is missing a great opportunity to be with her mother, an opportunity she may not have very much longer? |
Ophiliasgrandma | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 04:13 pm     Rig, I said ALMOST evey man. I'm not sexest, so there! You mean you have honestly never noticed that most of your wonderful sex have that horrid habit? Come on now, fess up. |
Wargod | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:24 pm     Jbean, we have a restaurant in town thats 50's themed. If they see someone pull out their cell phone, they will ask them to step outside...the idea being to keep up the 50's theme. I love that place, and when we go out for breakfast, thats where we go because its so nice not to hear ring, ring, ring. Abby, you're right about the 80ish woman...she's probably very lonely. Some people act like if they just put those elderly relatives out of mind and sometimes out of sight they won't have to be bothered with them. It's very sad, but something I saw alot working with the elderly. When their families came to visit, you could literally see them rushing through the whole conversation because they wanted to get out of there and back on with their own lives. |
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