Say it here cause you can't say it directly- the get it off your chest thread (Part 1)

So thankful that the “Hatfields and McCoys” put aside their differences and allowed nephew’s wedding to be a wonderful family event!

So sorry, dear potential student. It is great that you want to return to school, but no, the schools where you neglected to drop your classes and have a 0.00 GPA are not going to “expunge” your record.

To my daughter’s boss:

One night last fall, my daughter was choked by a customer in your store because they didn’t have the type of ice cream he wanted. She was alone at the time; the college student she was working with was in the parking lot talking to some friends.

She got past her terror and returned to work for you when you reopened in the spring.

And now you think my 17 year old, 5 foot 2 inch daughter is going to work alone until 10 pm? In that store all by herself? Bringing the garbage around to the dumpster behind the store, walking to her car all alone?

OH HELL NO!!!

I’ll be there in the parking lot from about 8:30 pm – when the store sharing a wall with yours closes-- until she’s done with the night’s work. And I’ll do it every time she’s closing alone until your season ends.

I’m not sure about the parents of the other 16 and 17 year old girls you have working for you, but this is how it’s going for us.

You should be ashamed of yourself. In your eagerness to save the money it would cost to have 2 teens work from 7-10, you’re endangering these girls.

She loves the job, so I won’t push her to do what’s logical-- tell you she will NOT be working alone at night. Instead, I’ll be there, making sure my daughter is safe.

I’m guessing you don’t have daughters of your own.

Reading along. So proud of myself for not screeching “we told you so”.

Smoke and mirrors is not a good design approach for huge public systems. If the underpinnings are so weak - no matter how well they’re cloaked in pretty covering - the tower will crumble. And, it will crush those who refused to look at things reasonably and without an agenda during the development phase.

Eh…it’s only money.

Why does a 20 year old need to still hang on to not washing her dishes as a way to assert her Self? I mean, I got it. You’re you. It’s exhausting.

I’m so sad. You have so much potential. Throwing it away with drink. Killing yourself slowly. It is so very very awful.

My mom passed away Saturday. Of course I’m very sad. Today my son, who graduates in May, received his first job offer.
I am so excited for him, and it hit me hard that I can’t call my mom and brag to her.

The IRS caller is back… they are like rats. Can’t exterminate completely… can only control their population.

I’m sick of the clickbait!

How can you be so smart, but not be able to hang up a wet towel?

Neighbor, you have been a good neighbor for these 17 years…almost like family. But maybe that’s the problem. …you thought you could take liberties and literally destroy a boundary. The handsome 6’ front-yard hedge between my yard and your driveway (that you generously always trimmed, because you seem to enjoy it, my husband is not a gardener, and it was a bit tall for me to handle.) But it clearly IS MY HEDGE on MY PROPERTY; your driveway is clearly the boundary between our yards and you must know it, given that your driveway extends along the actual side of my house . I HATE, HATE, HATE that you acted on your whim today to cut the hedge to two-foot-tall ugly-as-sin sticks poking out of the ground just because you thought it would make it grow back fuller in the spring. And even if that’s true, why didn’t you wait until almost spring so I don’t have to see these ugly leafless whacked off stumps through my windows all winter. But the worst is, you destroyed my private garden world and my privacy, something I care deeply about. It will take YEARS to grow back that hedge to privacy height, and I am now sixty years old. I hate that I will have a direct view of the street the whole width of your yard, cars parked on the street, your driveway, your ugly car and truck (I think all vehicles are ugly) from my living room, stairway, foyer, and most important, front porch. I spent years developing a “secret garden world” in which I could savor reading on my sunny front porch in the morning, coffee in hand, barefoot, in Pajamas, in a private place with only me and the birds at the feeder, as my own trees and plants largely screen my porch from direct view in front of my house. These early morning porch times were among my most peaceful and happy moments, this place my refuge, my church. Now anyone walking or driving in front of your house can see me, and see right though the windows deep into my house. I loved not needing curtains downstairs because of the private hedge. Now, all gone and how many years will it take to grow it back? You thought you had a great idea and itchy fingers to try it out? Really, I want to scream and shout and blow my top. You destroyed something I loved, which was more than just a hedge.

Yes, United, it was nice that you sent us a e-cert for having a terrible start to our flight and having to sprint with oxygen and our luggage through TSA and to our gate at the far end of the airport because you didn’t have adequate staffing, but you still have NOT proposed ANY improvements or change that will make the situation better in the future for me and countless others who have problems because you choose to have minimal staffing for a major international terminal, SFO.

I really would prefer that you all try to address the deep culture-wide problems at United and all the major carriers where customers are really just widgets/cargo and their needs are preferences are an inconvenience rather than a priority. I wish there were a better airline to switch to but sadly I’m afraid most airlines have a similar toxic, uncaring culture toward passengers.

Argh!!! Why did it take me 2 hours to decide which electric kettle to buy to replace our 18 year old Braun? I must have read 3000 reviews. I hope I chose the right one. I know it won’t last 18 years, but why must I research every purchase to death?

I wish you’d realize that no one can take your posts seriously with that silly avatar you have. Oh, never-mind, please keep it - it makes me laugh instead of getting TO’d at your ridiculous opinions.

The absurdity level lately, of literally everything, has been through the roof! Must everything be offensive/microaggresion/-ism (of every sort)? :-<

Wow. Thanksgiving is less than a month away. Slow down calendar.

S will be home in less than two months. He will have been out of the country for a year and a half. Hurry up, calendar! :slight_smile:

Person #1: You are creeping me out. You are creeping out my colleague. The security system is not a toy. You’ve crossed a line.
Person #2: You’re the president of this organization. Your failure to take this issue seriously puts the entire organization at risk.

Should have got the extended warranty :confused:

Wow, I am sooo cringing from my old compositions. God I had such a terrible writing skill.