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OT - LA Bans Fast Food
Yowie wrote:
"tanadashoes" wrote in message m "CatNipped" wrote in message ... I sure wish I could give them in person! How's it going, hon? Are you managing to hang in there? Chin Skritches, CatNipped Thanks, I need the hugs. The last three days have been such that I don't even want to think about them. I thought about ranting in here but don't want to prove that I'm a bigger drama queen than I've been in the past (yeah, I know, that is a pretty big drama queen). The whole thing involves an uncaring social worker or two, rotten food and service in a restaurant, IBS, stress, and more. Sometimes, I wish that I just wasn't emotional, which makes it all worse. Hugs coming atcha, Pam. Whilst its probably little comfort, please know that you are loved by many people. Yowie Hugs from me, too, Pam. Personally, I wouldn't care if you ranted in here, but if you need to rant, go ahead and e-mail me. Just remove the NOSPAM. {{{{{{{ Pam }}}}}}}}} kili |
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OT - LA Bans Fast Food
CatNipped wrote:
"tanadashoes" wrote in message m... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... I sure wish I could give them in person! How's it going, hon? Are you managing to hang in there? Chin Skritches, CatNipped Thanks, I need the hugs. The last three days have been such that I don't even want to think about them. I thought about ranting in here but don't want to prove that I'm a bigger drama queen than I've been in the past (yeah, I know, that is a pretty big drama queen). The whole thing involves an uncaring social worker or two, rotten food and service in a restaurant, IBS, stress, and more. Sometimes, I wish that I just wasn't emotional, which makes it all worse. Pam S. Now I'm really ****ed of - mostly at myself, but also a few others who contributed to this state of mind in the group! NOBODY should refrain from posting to ask for support when having a crisis in their life - EVEN if that crisis is a f*cking HANGNAIL! You are NOT a drama queen - I may be, but trust me, you are NOT. Lady, I am in AWE of you for the courage you display through all of the sh*t life has thrown at you. I am humbled and ashamed when I start feeling sorry for myself, because you (and a few others like Kili), have not only managed to get through life's toughest hurdles, but came through them with grace, and style, and a sense of humor!! Please, please, please, don't hesitate to post here when you need purrs or hugs or just a few shoulders to cry on - you need it and you DESERVE it! And if ANYBODY has the unmitigated gall to call you a drama queen I will PERSONALLY flame their ass to cinders! So THERE! ; *HUGS* CatNipped Well said, CatNipped, well said. :~) kili |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... Now I'm really ****ed of - mostly at myself, but also a few others who contributed to this state of mind in the group! NOBODY should refrain from posting to ask for support when having a crisis in their life - EVEN if that crisis is a f*cking HANGNAIL! You are NOT a drama queen - I may be, but trust me, you are NOT. Please don't be upset. Groups evolve and change and flow. Right now, we seem to need more restrained postings. Believe me, when it gets bad enough, I'll release my inner drama queen and tell you all about it. I'd say I was going through menopause, but I already done that. Same with PMS. Bummer, nothing I can blame this on. Rob has been having insomnia since we were told to have another MRI and call the oncologist next month. I worry about him. He needs his beauty sleep. He also needs a hair cut. It is scary waking up next to him and seeing a brown haired Einstein looking down at you. I have been letting him sleep in as much as possible during the day, which sometimes means that we don't start doing anything until the heat of the day. Pam S. dumping on everyone |
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"Yowie" wrote in message ... I found it really hard to walk around in the last two months of hte Yowlet's internment, and dearly wished to be considered 'temporarily disabled' for that purpose. It wasn't that I *couldn't* walk, so much as found it painful on the hips & back, and carparks difficult to negotiate with the huge thing in front of me. I did have a large baby, and an abnormally large amount of amniotic fluid going on, though. I don't have a problem with obviously pregnant women using those spaces. It's those barely pregnant women who take the spaces over, the minute they get the positive results back from the home pregnancy kits, that drive me up a wall. I've seen some little girl who wears a size 0 jump out of the car that she's pulled into the last available pregnancy parking space and the woman who's 8.5 months along has to park on the far side of the lot and waddle to the hospital. I've been known to give them rides to the front door. That's what I was thinking about mainly when I posted that. Sometimes I think I was lucky that every time I was pregnant, we were between vehicles and I had to take either the bus or a cab to the clinic. Pam S. |
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"tanadashoes" wrote in message
m... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Now I'm really ****ed of - mostly at myself, but also a few others who contributed to this state of mind in the group! NOBODY should refrain from posting to ask for support when having a crisis in their life - EVEN if that crisis is a f*cking HANGNAIL! You are NOT a drama queen - I may be, but trust me, you are NOT. Please don't be upset. Groups evolve and change and flow. Right now, we seem to need more restrained postings. Believe me, when it gets bad enough, I'll release my inner drama queen and tell you all about it. I'd say I was going through menopause, but I already done that. Same with PMS. Bummer, nothing I can blame this on. Rob has been having insomnia since we were told to have another MRI and call the oncologist next month. I worry about him. He needs his beauty sleep. He also needs a hair cut. It is scary waking up next to him and seeing a brown haired Einstein looking down at you. I have been letting him sleep in as much as possible during the day, which sometimes means that we don't start doing anything until the heat of the day. Pam S. dumping on everyone LOL! I think I'd rather have a dump from you than the sweetness and light of some other posters! ; Chin Skritches, CatNipped |
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"tanadashoes" wrote in message
m "Yowie" wrote in message ... I found it really hard to walk around in the last two months of hte Yowlet's internment, and dearly wished to be considered 'temporarily disabled' for that purpose. It wasn't that I *couldn't* walk, so much as found it painful on the hips & back, and carparks difficult to negotiate with the huge thing in front of me. I did have a large baby, and an abnormally large amount of amniotic fluid going on, though. I don't have a problem with obviously pregnant women using those spaces. It's those barely pregnant women who take the spaces over, the minute they get the positive results back from the home pregnancy kits, that drive me up a wall. I've seen some little girl who wears a size 0 jump out of the car that she's pulled into the last available pregnancy parking space and the woman who's 8.5 months along has to park on the far side of the lot and waddle to the hospital. I've been known to give them rides to the front door. That's what I was thinking about mainly when I posted that. Sometimes I think I was lucky that every time I was pregnant, we were between vehicles and I had to take either the bus or a cab to the clinic. A *temporarily* disabled sticker that is given at the last term of the pregnancy and carries through the first 23 month sof hte babies life is what I'd give. Then again, I'd have two grades of disabled. I'd have *wheelchair* access spaces as the closest-to-the-shops and then the 'mobility issues' slighlty further away. A heavily pregnant woman has mobility issues - but she can still walk. I still remember being 7 months pregant and having to go in for my monthly exam at the hospital. Our hospitals always seem to tbe ont he top of hills, this one being no different. The only problem is thats its also int he middle of twon. I tried for 15 minutes to get a parking spot, to no avail, the only place to legally park was a half hour walk, at the bottom of the hill. It was also in the middle of summer, adn this particular day was near 100F. So I huffed and puffed up the darn hill muttering and cursing, and arriving very out of breath and 10 minutes late. I apologised for being late to the receptionist. All she said in a very condescending voice "Well, you should have got your husband to drop you off at the door". And thenI got to sit inthe waiting room (although it was air conditioned) for nealry 2 hours whilst I waited for another appointment to become available. Had I not been so exhausted I wouldhave snapped back. The nerve of the woman making so many assumptions, the first that I had a husband, the second that he would have been able to drive me there anyway - most people *work* during the day and not everyone is allowed out to drop off their wife to hospital even if they worked close enough to do so. I coudl well ave had a husband who worked in Sydney - thats not unusual around here. The third assumption being that 'we' had a car. How would a single, woman who relied on public transport feel about that comment? B*tch. After that I paid the horrendous hospital car-park fees. $4 for every 15 minutes. Yowie |
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OT - LA Bans Fast Food
Yowie wrote:
"tanadashoes" wrote in message m "Yowie" wrote in message ... I found it really hard to walk around in the last two months of hte Yowlet's internment, and dearly wished to be considered 'temporarily disabled' for that purpose. It wasn't that I *couldn't* walk, so much as found it painful on the hips & back, and carparks difficult to negotiate with the huge thing in front of me. I did have a large baby, and an abnormally large amount of amniotic fluid going on, though. I don't have a problem with obviously pregnant women using those spaces. It's those barely pregnant women who take the spaces over, the minute they get the positive results back from the home pregnancy kits, that drive me up a wall. I've seen some little girl who wears a size 0 jump out of the car that she's pulled into the last available pregnancy parking space and the woman who's 8.5 months along has to park on the far side of the lot and waddle to the hospital. I've been known to give them rides to the front door. That's what I was thinking about mainly when I posted that. Sometimes I think I was lucky that every time I was pregnant, we were between vehicles and I had to take either the bus or a cab to the clinic. A *temporarily* disabled sticker that is given at the last term of the pregnancy and carries through the first 23 month sof hte babies life is what I'd give. 2-3 months, not 23 months! They'd be nearly two and walking by then! Yowie |
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OT - LA Bans Fast Food
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:16:52 +1000, Yowie wrote:
car-door ding scam story I once had a co-worker who had just bought his first car, a former Post- Office Jeep that had been repainted battleship gray. He came to work one day highly upset because someone in a car parked next to him had claimed that my co-worker had dinged his car door, pointing to a smudge of gray paint in the ding as proof. My co-worker had pointed out, to no avail, that his Jeep had sliding doors, not outward-opening doors, so that it was impossible for him to have caused the ding in question. My co-worker had finally given up the argument and driven off, to threats of "I will call the police and report that you left the scene of an accident." I predicted that, once the other driver calmed down enough to start thinking, he would probably be so embarrassed that my co-worker would never hear from him again. Sure enough, he never heard anything from the other driver. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:40:34 -0400, tanadashoes wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote in message ... LOL! Yeah, seat belts are a personal peeve to me too - I had a friend who allowed her children to stand up in the back seat of her car - she wondered why I never let my children go anywhere with her! Nose Kisses, Nose Kisses, doing much better Lori. My kids used to really upset some of those people, usually women, who let their kids ride without wearing their seat belts or in a car seat. Mandy would stare at them in the parking lot then loudly say to Mike "They don't love their kids any." Mike, playing along would ask why. Mandy would say "They don't want to keep them safe and buckle their seat belts." I'd pretend that I didn't hear them and the offending parents couldn't/wouldn't call me on it. I think they knew they were in the wrong. Pam S I was in a checkout lane today, and the family ahead of me was letting their one-year-old use a propane cigarette lighter as a teething toy. I finally spoke up and said, "You shouldn't let the baby play with that. He may burn himself." The father then took the lighter away from the baby. I just hope they don't let him play with the lighter at home. He is likely to burn down the house. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Car ding scam stories (was: OT - LA Bans Fast Food)
John F. Eldredge wrote:
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:16:52 +1000, Yowie wrote: car-door ding scam story Something like this happened to me a few years ago. I don't think it was a scam, though. I think the people just tried to blame me for something they had done. What happened was, I pulled into a space in a shopping center parking lot. When I got out of the car, I saw that my parking job was very crooked. I wanted to pull out and re-park within the painted lines, but I was afraid I'd hit the car next to mine. Fortunately, the people in the next car were just getting out. So I asked if they could pull out to give me space to re-park without hitting them. It was a couple of young guys, and they were simply not interested in talking to me. I couldn't get their attention - they kept saying, "It's fine, there's no problem, forget it" and the like. And then they walked off together making jokes and laughing. I was frustrated, but shrugged and went off to do my errands. When I got back to the car, I saw the two guys standing next to their car, which they had pulled out into the parking lot. And they said to me, "You hit our car when you parked." Then they pointed to the light blue paint on their car, which perfectly matched the (somewhat unusual) shade of blue paint on my car, and in the right place to have been hit. However, I knew I hadn't hit them, because as Yowie said, you know when you hit someone - you feel it. A big argument ensued. They told me that they had been sitting in their car when I pulled up, and they felt the impact when I hit them. I had not felt any impact, even if I had parked badly, so I insisted that I didn't hit them. We reached a stalemate, and they took off after saying that I would be hearing from their insurance company. Naturally, I didn't hear from them again. And it occurred to me later, after I'd calmed down and could think clearly again, that what must have actually happened was that *they* hit *my* car when they were pulling out. And they decided to blame me because I'd parked badly. I wasn't actually blocking them, but the rear of my car was awfully close to theirs, so unless they were very careful backing out, they would have hit my car. And they'd kept saying that they could feel the impact of me hitting them when I'd first pulled up to park. But if that were the case, then why didn't they bother to look for damages then? I was trying to tell them that there was a problem, and they wouldn't listen - they didn't seem in the least bit concerned about their car or mine. I guess they thought they were too cool to talk to some middle-aged lady in a parking lot, but because they didn't pay attention, they ended up hitting my car when they backed out. Serves them right for being so rude, IMO! -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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