Major round of applause… not. You got your son a gun for his 16th birthday and then spent the entire afternoon in your driveway teaching him how to properly handle and use it? The trees that separate my yard from your driveway are not gonna stop any stray bullets, so I yes, while I commend you for being an engaged dad, I am worried if you are going to teach him to shoot and WHERE!!!
Really!?! You have major boundary issues.
It is NOT OK to call my DD’s FMIL, after the event, to ask what happened to your invitation.
Though I miss my Mom, I am glad she is no longer dealing with your drama.
Ah, today’s mail… where we find a Top 5 medical bill… with a note saying it’s going to collections in 7 days if not paid… but of course, no note mentioning we’ve talked with you about this for three months now and that YOUR BILLING is the problem. You changed systems back in Dec, applied pre-payments to “bills” WITHOUT EVER SENDING US A BILL, then tell us you can’t “reissue” bills. Excuse me, but we’ve patiently told you we need those bills to submit to our health share ourselves. Without them, we don’t get reimbursed. It’s not “Re-Issuing” them when we never got them in the first place. You know we’re not paying anything more until we get what we need - 'cause otherwise we WON’T get what we need. That’s pretty obvious.
You say that’s ok. You’ll see what you can do. Then it’s not.
We ALWAYS pay our bills on time - you should know that after three years now, but you know what? I strongly feel like letting this one go to collections if you won’t fix your system. Yes, I don’t dispute these bills and if we had what we needed, you’d have been paid, what, three months ago? But why should we take the hit on what you WON’T bill for?
Or maybe I’ll send you half since this one is higher than what you kept. Actually, I might even balance it out - closing my eyes to what you might have done the same way before since I wasn’t paying close attention then, but I still don’t feel we need to take the hit due to YOUR system.
I need to quit caring so damn much.
No dude, it’s not OK to clip your nails on the subway. I don’t care if you have a uniform on either.
News flash. I don’t care how long you keep blaring your horn at me, I am not going to pass the biker when we are on a hilly,narrow rural road with a 45mph speed limit in a no-passing zone. Had I “listened” to you when you were behind me blaring your horn, I would have crashed head-on into the car approaching us from the other side of the hill.
You were forced to slow down for 30 seconds while I made sure it was safe to pass. Idiots like you are why accidents happen and people get killed.
This election cycle has exposed things I really didn’t want to know about you. I will never again be able to see you the same way. And it makes me sad.
“Pull those devil horns back into your head!”
Me, to our little snowflake after her reaction to me asking her to please try taking a few of the practice ACT tests in the book we bought. A kid with caviar dreams and hamburger helper effort.
OK! So she is “frugal”! And the ceiling in her bathroom is falling down.
Glad you admire her but I do not. Grew up that way and it is not a virtue.
I am willing to bet that the fraction of parents on CC have children who can do quite well on standardized tests (SAT, ACT . . . ) without going to prep classes is higher than the fraction of such parents among all parents of students who will be going to college. However, some of them will never know it, because they were pressured into buying into the whole test prep mania before they had any real idea how the student could do on his/her own.
I am somewhat suspicious of initial scores given by test prep companies, because it is in their commercial interest to persuade people that they need test prep. How authentic are these likely to be?
I don’t oppose test prep for those who really need it. There are surely some schools where the regular curriculum does not prepare students adequately for standardized tests. And there are some schools, even “fancy” ones, where the nature of the assignments means that students very rarely see a multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank question before they take the standardized tests. They may benefit from organized test prep. No doubt there are some schools where students don’t encounter any time pressure on the regular tests. They may also benefit from organized test prep.
But students are likely to see score gains of 100 points per section on the SAT just by moving from freshman year to junior year. Your son or daughter might not need test prep any more than he/she needs to buy a third shoe “just in case” when he/she gets a new pair of shoes.
you left me for a 32-year-old and I’m angry and upset with you for screwing me over the way you did. Now I have to mentally prepare myself to see you again and I don’t know when and where that will be, or what I’ll say or feel. This is so messed up.
If you have to qualify all your comments with “I have not read the thread” maybe you should read the thread before you comment.
Wow - feelings all a-jumble. What happened? So, my MIL dies 1 1/2 years ago after battling cancer for 5 years. It was heart breaking as my FIL married her on spring break in his senior year of high school - he was 17. She was 81 and he was 77 when she died. He doted on her for 60 years - I mean really doted on her. My husband and I were so very concerned for his well being but his Sunday School group and church members rallied around him and he was always busy. Today, we learn my FIL is getting married in December to a lady at church. They’ve been spending time together. I thought it was nice he had a companion to go to the movies or out to dinner. I had no idea it was this serious or would move this fast. Part of me is tickled that he’s an old man with butterflies in his stomach and another part of me wonders how he could forget his wife so easily…but that’s not what he’s doing and I know it. Geeez, shouldn’t they at least date a few years? I never thought I’d be posting on the Wedding thread anytime soon.
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You made me feel small and now I’m really pissed and feeling crappy.
So very done that you have no idea.
Because you lack imagination to begin will you cannot ever begin to see the future.
Guess you will be surprised.
Just so not interested anymore.
Willing to cut my losses. And know will look back and shake my head for the next century.
It’s so weird when your relative that you know but haven’t contacted for years wants to “friend” me in FB…I am just gonna ignore it until the time comes…which will never.
BTW, I am glad that my international student office approved my internship. It’s so hard to do anything if you are international.
Really, you made me spend two hours interviewing for a programming position after an initial coding test and then you drop the ball on me that it’s an unpaid internship also open to those fresh out of college? I hope your unethical company goes under. Maybe then you’ll learn that to get talent you actually need to pay for it.
If you messed up my oven, I’m going to be really really annoyed.
This should be interesting.