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The TVClubHouse: Archives: 2004 January - Arpil: The return of The Return of the Gripe Thread (ARCHIVES): Archive through April 14, 2004 users admin

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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 10:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
First the water board raised the rates twice last year, then they demanded access to everyone's home to put in a water meter so they can charge us by the gallon and now they have raised the rates again!!! And they are a monopoly and we have no choice!! Its bad enough they keep raising the property taxes, now its the water bills and there are no decent jobs left in the city and they wonder why everyone is selling (or losing) their homes and fleeing! I HATE this city and I wish we could leave too! No, I take that back. I HATE the politicians running this city!!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 7:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinks, do you live in my town? Let's have lunch and commiserate.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Should I send bottled well water? At least we only pay for electricity to run the pump! (of course...we don't have Consumer's Power or Natural gas...so we pay through the nose for our electric and propane....but at least I'm not paying for water!)

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Teach, for putting things back into perspective.LOL

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Who's trying to gain perspective...I've got CHEAP water! I'll send it anywhere! LOL (and it's good water...we have fine sand over 3 feet down, our well is over 250 feet deep...so it's well-filtered, darn fine water!)

Can I gripe that today, between 7:45 AM and 3:30 PM...our gas went up THIRTEEN CENTS! Gee...think it has anything to do with spring break? GRRRRR....I really wish they'd start actively pursuing hybrid cars and making them cheaper and more available to us! (of course...I need a 4WD hybrid...can't get out of my driveway without it!)

Bearware
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 9:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Teach, I also teach, and I totally TOTALLY understand what you're saying! I've been inundated with grades, portfolio entries, and the likes for so long, the top of my desk looks like the reverse of a tornado. I have parents who want to know DAILY if their kid is doing better (can't the tell if the kid did his homework?) and an asst. principal who keeps telling me she won't tell me how to act, but I am not doing it. (I am not 'gentile' - more like one of my middle school students).

NOW - here's the perspective. I have exactly 43 days until I CAN retire. I have 78 sick days. I'm pretty sure my Dr. would vouch for a 'stress ailment' if I needed it, so I've finally come to the time in my career known as the Time of Great Power. For ONCE, I can think, what will they do, FIRE me? And laugh maniacally as I refuse to do their irrational crap. I can't WAIT until next year, when I can actually walk out and hand them the keys whenever I want! (I actually LOVE teaching, the kids, and the subject area. It's all that petty junk that gets in the way.)

Bearware
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not sure how to correct my above, so I thought I'd come and say, yes, I know a schoolteacher should have known how to spell genteel, oops, and a couple other typos slipped by. Sorry

Melfie1222
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07-29-2002

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
pssst... Bearware! if you're still here, you can fix typos in the next few minutes by clicking that E button to the right of the time on your post.

oops, I'm already too late... my computer clock is a few minutes earlier than TVCH time.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 10:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Bearware! You are in that wonderful, enviable position ...so close to retirement! My girlfriend and I often comment about the things we'll say on that VERY last day! (not that either of us is close to retirement, mind you...we've both got over 15 years to get to that magic "30" mark)

Things like....

Yup...your kid IS stupid. Sorry...no pills for that!

If all papers are turned in late, of COURSE you're going to flunk!

There's not enough valium in the world that could make me like you....


Well, you get the picture. Honestly, most of these would be said to PARENTS...not the kids! I do love my job...but this whole working over Spring Break (and every break) gets old after awhile. However, if I hear, "At least you get breaks" one more time, I'll scream!!! I like to say I work 12 months, I'm just so efficient, I do it in 10!

Because I'm not sure I can last an entire 30 years in an English room, I'm pursuing a media specialist degree, too....then, if our MS ever retires, I'll have options! Still have the kids, still have the literature, still have the daily interaction with the staff...just won't have to grade papers. Almost sounds too good to be true.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
neighbors.....music.... *shrugs*

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Friday, April 09, 2004 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Why am I the only person in the house that knows how to open the dishwasher? Dirty glasses make it to the counter above the dishwasher but no one else is able to actually open and put it in there.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, April 09, 2004 - 9:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i once did a whole show explaining to my family how to open the dishwasher, how to close the refrigerator, how to put water in the dishes in the sink... with great visual aids and demonstrations. i still get this blank look and this "hunh??"

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Friday, April 09, 2004 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, no fair ruining my gripe by making me laugh!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, April 09, 2004 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Apparently only I am qualified to load the dishwasher at my house, BUT it gets magically UNloaded each morning, and I have not been able to figure out how that happens, so I am happy.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm so ready to cause some bodily harm to the <self moderated> people who live downstairs. We turned our surround sound up ALL THE WAY and could still hear their crappy music. They took the hint and turned it down some, but it's this way every afternoon and every night. We've complained to the apartment manager in the past. It's in our lease in three different areas that no music or loud noise that will disturb other residents is allowed. They sent the people a letter but basically said it's up to us to get them to stop. They smoke dope all the time. It makes my cat sneeze and I'm afraid of what it could do to his [and our] health. I can't WAIT for our lease to be up September 1. We'd just break it but we'd lose our deposit, pet deposit, and have to come up with $300 we got off our first month's rent for signing a year's lease.

OK the pity party is over. I just had to get it out before I did something I regret.


Justavice
Member

07-12-2003

Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 4:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Serate- I had a neighbor with an electric guitar that wouldn't quit! You are well within your rights to call the police for a noise disturbance. If you do this enough times, they can be deemed a nuisance and you can take them to court for damages. I found that a nice conversation with the police usually shut them up for a few days. I did eventually move though. I just couldn't take the stress of waiting for the guitar to start. Santana will never be the same for me.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 11:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Justavice. My fiance' wants to call the cops when they are really loud but I tend to feel that it isn't important compared to other needs. Also I'm kind of afraid of retribution by these neighbors and/or their friends. People come and go at all times of the day and night. [I didn't mention that we are 99% the guy is a drug dealer].

I should feel bad because two wrongs don't make it right but I just HAD to vacuum my bedroom [which is over their bedroom] at 6:30am today. And ya know it was just one of those days where I just HAD to get every crack and crevice, and move all the furniture [leaving the vacuum on the whole time]. They were gone most of the day, but when they got home surprise not a single noise out of them, not even a door slam.

Thanks for the words of encouragement.

Justavice
Member

07-12-2003

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was on the floor below the Santana-wannabe and discovered that our air vents over the stoves were somehow connected. My favorite thing to do was burn a bag of microwave popcorn, turn the vent on and send the stench up to them. I don't know that it made any difference with the noise, but I secretly felt better.

Djgirl
Member

07-17-2002

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Serate - check the tenant laws around your area... here in Toronto, (I just happen to be a property manager/landlord) if a tenant has more than one complaint against them, they can be evicted for "disturbing the peaceful enjoyment of the other tenants". I don't know if that's available in your area, but check it out!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Word of wisdom for the day....

The next time you go house hunting, check out the cabinets in your kitchen. Go to the corner/area where you think you'll be doing all your meal preparations and make sure the handles on the drawers are not exactly the same height as the pockets on your pants/sweats!

I swear if I hook another drawer handle on my sweats and have the drawer try to come with me when I turn/walk away, I'm going to go stark raving mad! What makes it even more frustrating is, the corner I work in the most, there are drawers on each side of me. Heck, sometimes I hook both pockets at the same time!

I even went out and bought new handles, carefully choosing ones I thought wouldn't hook into my pockets. Came home to switch them out....the old handles are sort of (I don't know the right term here) imbedded into the finish/wood. I took the old handle off and there is a huge imprint/groove in the wood (sort of carved out). So if I put the new handle on, I have a big hole in the wood. About the only way around it is to get new drawers (or facing, I guess?). Like I can really afford that!

*sig* I just know I'm going to be on the news someday....."Crazy Woman Taken Into Custody After Throwing Kitchen Drawers Into Street....."


Beachcomber
Member

08-26-2003

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't you hate when you go to a fast food drive-thru and you don't get what you order? I got a salad, no dressing, and no straw for my drink - now what good is a salad with no dressing (other then alot healthier)? Not to name names, but that chain named after a little red-headed girl got me grouchy today. I must learn to look through the bag before I pull away.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whoami, could you Velcro your pockets?

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, good idea Juju! I was thinking of getting something with zippered pockets, but not only would that be hard to find, it would be expensive to replace my sweats wardrobe!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Beachcomber, I did a drive through one time at a specialty hamburger place (i know, oxymoron) and got home and there as no meat in my bun! I drove all the way back there too.

Beachcomber
Member

08-26-2003

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tex, that puts a whole new spin on "where's the beef"