The Rant Thread

[Rachel]

People. I hate them. I don't want to talk to them because they just want to hear their own voice. Don't talk to me about money problems, taxes, politics or religion. I make just above minimum wage so if you pay taxes, don't bitch to me about it. I'd love to make enough money to pay taxes.

Fuck off telling me my attitude has changed. Yes, that happens when you're called a stupid cunt bitch and making me call the police when I get cussed at every day because our cigarette prices are higher. Maybe if I called you a fucker old man who needs to get fucked, your attitude would suck too.

I hate waking up at 5am, I hate all the responsibilities I have, I hate my co worker is a lazy fuck and I can't fire him and I hate that I need this job. People are bitching about Obama giving all these people a free ride, well where the fuck is my free ride? I work 60 hours or more a week just to get by. Thank God in the next year I am moving so I can tell these people to go fuck themselves.

[JustSkipIt]

My wife does this thing where she gets overwhelmed and stressed about "so much stuff to do" so she does nothing. She's all stressed that we have so much to do for Tgiving. But she won't do any of it or get specific about it. She's sick. Yes. That sucks. But she could clean for 10 minutes or 5 minutes or fold laundry sitting down or something. But she won't. She has done some schoolwork with Chiara but mostly has played solitaire on her phone all day. She says there is so much to do and the house is a mess and and and. Well, I cleaned the bathrooms and the kitchen and did laundry and what else needs done. She doesn't know. She won't make a list. She just feels overwhelmed. She does this every fucking time we have anyone coming to visit or we're going to see my family.

Make a list!

[Finey_McFine]

Some people are assholes and some people are ASSHOLES. It appears to be their life's ambition and they take their job seriously. Now, if they could put that energy into something more useful, the world would be a much better place.

[JustSkipIt]

Deleted.

[Finey_McFine]

This rant is in honor of my best friend, who had wisdom teeth pulled today. She lives 4 states away, so all I can do is be indignant for her!

Anyway, she's in a ton of pain and tried to take the pain meds, but threw them up. I told her to eat ice cream or mashed potatoes and then try again. So she did, but STIll can't take them because her fucking husband went to sleep and left her to watch their son. Seriously? One fucking day this guy can't stay awake long enough to care for his wife and child? Stupid ass. I seriously have NO idea why she stays with him. None. He really has no plausible excuse except that he's a teacher and had to work today. Boo freakin' hoo. My wife would NEVER, EVER do something like that and she works nights! In fact, I'm having knee surgery tomorrow and guess what? She took time off to help me out, even if it's just to sit and hold my hand. Gah! He pisses me off.

[JustSkipIt]

Shel - That's idiotic! #1 he should be there for her and if he can't he should call some friend or something to come over and be around so she can go to bed. Actually I'd love to hear that phone call. "Hi, uh... Alice? Can you come over. Joanne had surgery and she wants to take some pain pills but I want her to watch Junior so I can go to sleep. Can you come over?"

[BeneathMyWillowTree]

I am pissed! I made a mistake at work and I took full responsibility for it. I am not the type to cover shit up. I fuck up, I own up to it. Here goes my rant....instead of notifying me of the issue; someone went out of their way to do everything but that. This person emailed my boss, director of HR and Safety Manager about what happened. I am not too bothered that they brought it to their attention, but the fact that they didn't bother bringing it to my attention.

All they had to do was call me and tell me what was happening. I would have handled it. I had no idea what was going on until I received an email from my boss. I was at the job site my boss wasn't. This person really went out of their fucken way. A total of 3 emails was sent out giving the play by play as to what was happening. Dude really?

[Finey_McFine]

I'm seriously annoyed with people and having to explain to them that just because I photograph their child or family with a digital camera, it doesn't mean they are entitled to the pictures FREE of charge. For fucks sake people! I'm running a God damn business, which means I CHARGE for my services as well as my products. Stop fucking asking me to, "email you a picture" and then acting surprised when I tell you NO! I am so fucking sick of explaining it that I feel like my head's gonna explode. Someone threatened me with a lawyer today. Really? Because there's this little thing called The Copyright Act and it protects photographers by giving the author (creator) of the photograph the exclusive right to copy, edit, and distribute image by sale or transfer. You ignorant ass.

My wife says I get too worked up and I need to just, "explain it methodically and stick to the facts." That's great in theory, but she doesn't have to deal with them. Plus, I just don't have the time to sit and explain it to them over and over and over. I mean, how many different ways do I have to say the same thing, YOU. HAVE. TO. BUY. THEM. FIRST.

Don't get me wrong, I love my customers and 99% of them are really great, but it's that annoying 1% that one day are gonna make me go all dark eyed and veiny their asses!


Phew, I feel better now. Thanks!

[Laragh]

This is only a very-mini-rant but grr do I hate being the only sober person in a boozy family. It gets real old, real fast.

[angieb86]

Totally just got called out on facebook about being fat. I don't even KNOW this person, but he felt compelled to comment on our band photos and say how for every 5 pounds of extra weight the body has to produce an extra mile of blood vessels.

Dear random DOUCHE from Texas whom I've never met and don't really care to meet:

The name of our band is "CRUISIN' HEAVY" for a reason. So thank you and fuck you very much.

Also, go fuck yourself.

[sandbarDragon]

I'm so beyond bored right now. I've been on "vacation" all week. Of course at the same time that all my friends are either working over-time or just plain not around. My best friend is nowhere to be found. And of course I have major writer's block, cuz life's all like "What? Free time? No, sir, you may NOT enjoy this time by working on that shit you wish to call a masterpiece! Good day!"

I'm used to working 10 hour days (sometimes 16 on weekends) and now I have no idea what to do with myself. So I read some fic, get up, walk around, eat too much, read some more, watch some mind-numbing TV show, get up, eat again, re-watch favorite Buffy eps for the millionth time...

Now I'm at the point where I feel like if I sit still in front of this computer any longer I'm going to blow my brains out. But what the hell else is there to do?

Looks like I'm about to get real social on the KB. ...Maybe... We'll see.




Oh, and Angie - Ignore those douche bags. I just listened to some of your music, and my conclusion is: Them haterz be jealous cuz you're good at what you do. And ain't nothin' wrong with fluffy chicks. Some of us love fluffy chicks.

[Finey_McFine]

Dear Deadbeat Client...

Try not openly bragging about the heated steering wheel and automatic motorized running boards in your brand new $65,000 SUV before whining to me about how you're having money problems and can't afford to pay your balance. Waah! I seriously have no sympathy for you. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Because guess what? I have bills too and a family and employees to support. So cry me a freakin' river.

[BeneathMyWillowTree]

Damn it!!! I've been ratted out by the system at the Red Cross. I was trying to be a sneaky cat and donate platelets in Pennsylvania. It looked like I was going to get away with it when I received a voice mail from the coordinator out here. So my appointment was cancelled. The system wouldn't allow her to put me down because I have been deferred until April 28th. Booooo!!!! Looks like I'll have to make another random trip to Penn state in the future. Good thing I have peeps here.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

I'm getting really sick of living with my best friend. In theory it's great, cause I love hanging out with her and as a bonus she's letting me stay for free, and for a while it was good but lately... She's in a bad place and handling things horribly, and it stresses me out way more than it should. What does it matter to me if she's fucking up her classes so badly she's in danger of not being able to graduate in a month? What's it to me if she chooses to read fanfic all day instead of getting her car repaired? She doesn't want me to tell her off for being lazy or remind her that she has papers due or give her a hard time for blowing off volunteering; when I was first here I would call her out on things, and once or twice it may have even done a little good, but I have no effect now so I've given up trying, but I still want to *do* something-- I want to make *her* do something. It's not just stressing about her schoolwork and such that has me wanting to leave though... The truth is we're bad influences on each other, and it seems to get worse the longer I'm here. She never does dishes (I've actually seen her use a dirty spoon that "looked fairly clean" instead of washing one), and I've gotten way worse about them; she loves junk food and going out to eat so I've had too much of both lately; I watch way too much TV so she watches more than she used to. Between the two of us, the place is a bit of a mess, especially with the mountain of recycling we've collected, cause I insisted we recycle and she keeps promising we'll take it to the recycling center but we never do, and since she has the car I can't on my own. But the worst part of all is that the place isn't mine, at all, and sometimes I feel in the way. It's her home, and I don't belong. I have a cabinet in the kitchen and a shelf in the fridge and half the closet space and 4 drawers in the dresser and a mattress on the floor and a side of the couch, but none of it's really mine. I'm just a visitor. I don't live anywhere, I don't have a home. I never even know what to put when forms ask for my address, because I don't really live here. I don't like anywhere, and it fucking sucks! A part of me is sad that I'm moving in a month or so, cause I really love Missoula and I've gotten to like my job okay and I love the shelter where I volunteer, but I need to have a space where I belong, a place that's at least a little bit mine. And I need to get away from the falling-apart-life of someone I love dearly but can't help.

[EasierSaid]

We seriously have the worst luck with plumbers. >:(

[T.G.I.F.]

One of the banks I have an account at has a malfunction. The second one this week!! I can't acces my online banking account and I need some proofs of payment for my hostingcompany. It sucks! I can't have acces to my own money, what is this shit? Luckily I have a second account at another bank, so I can at least get some groceries. But that doesn't fix the problem with my hostingcompany. AAARGH!!!

[Pavlov'sBell]

So I went on Amazon today because I wanted to see if I could find a nice looking Pentagram necklace that I could wear. I'm looking through the suggested searches from me simply putting in "Pentagram Neckalce" and you know what was one of the suggestions? "Pentagram Neckalce Satan"

IT'S NOT A SATANIC PIECE!!!!!!!

It annoys me to no end that people think this. It can only be considered satanic if it's upside down!

[JustSkipIt]

So I'm considering buying a used treadmill. I need to find a decent one for very little $ but I figure it will allow me some workouts on days that I just can't get out of the house (like today - watching the kids during the day while Rachel is at a conference and then this evening while she is at work) (or next week all week while she is out of town).

So the other day I'm texting with Rachel and I mention buying a treadmill and I say "where would we put t? In the living room? Would you use it?" and she says she wouldn't use it and that she wouldn't want it in the living room because the living room "already looks like a gym with the trampoline in there." 1. It's HER trampoline! 2. I put my exercise mat and ball away every fucking time I use them. 3. She does not. 4. How the fuck would I put it in the garage? The garage is full. her car is in there - mine is not. Seriously I would accept some other reasonable answer and I would accept having a conversation but for her to say that she doesn't want a treadmill for me to use because the trampoline for her to use makes it look like a gym is ridiculous. Look like a gym to who? Who gives a fucking fuck if it looks like a gym? We're not entertaining the Queen.

[Finey_McFine]

We have this couple that we used to be really good friends with. Our daughters are the same age and we did holidays together, birthdays, vacations, etc. but there was an "incident" a few yrs ago, then they broke up for a few months (tried to put us in the middle of their squabble) and we ended up drifting apart. More like we decided to distance ourselves from them to avoid getting sucked into their drama. We keep up on fb and twitter, but that's about it.

Well, last week out of the blue I get this msg on twitter wanting to get together on Memorial Day. I messaged back that it sounded like a great idea and then got zero response. Days went by and nothing. I finally texted her on Sunday afternoon asking if we were still doing something Monday and she says, "We're out of town all weekend."

Ooookay...WTF??? If you fucking knew you were going to be out of town, why the frilly fuck did you ask us to get together with you in the first fucking place?!?!?!?!?!?! Gosh, could this be the VERY reason we distanced ourselves from you guys in the first place??? Hmmm, uh yeah, I think it is. Even if it was a last minute trip, which it wasn't, have the courtesy to at least let me know. I mean seriously, rude much?

[BeneathMyWillowTree]

Dude, Red Cross changed their system. This "new system" limits how much donors can give. Now I understand needing to make sure the donors are safe, but how they changed their system is too extreme. This is a chain reaction. It affects the donor from donating, Red Cross from receiving the donation and more importantly the recipient that needs it. I donated blood last week and I checked my status online, I am not eligible to donate blood or platelets until October 16th. Are you kidding me????

I spoke to my coordinator and the people are trying to change this new system because it does suck. Seriously this is 4 months of me not being able to donate blood or platelets. It's not even like I've been deferred this time so to speak. It's this new crappy system. This really bothers me not being able to help people this way.

[JustSkipIt]

See above re: Rachel's rant about how there should never be any exercise equipment in the house and it looks trashy and it is the worst thing basically in the world to have any exercise stuff where anyone can see it. Seriously she went the fuck off.

So the next day I took my foam roller which I had been storing on top of the entertainment center and my stretching strap which I had on a shelf and put them in my closet and I've been getting them out and putting them away. Well my closet is sort of the catch all for every piece of crap that doesn't have a place so now I can't find the stretching strap.

So this morning I'm looking for it and Rachel is like "what are you looking for?" and I say my stretching strap and she says isn't it on top of the e center? and I say no. I have not stored it on top of the e center since you told me that it is very upsetting to you for any exercise equipment to ever be in the house where anyone can see it. So i continue searching.

And then she starts to give me a lecture about how all my problems are caused not by her request that I move the thing but my inference that she wants me to do it. And I'm like "uh... why are you being defensive? I'm not trying to pick on you. I'm not trying to fight? I'm looking for something and you asked what I was doing and I answered you. So she started saying "well I didn't ask and all your problem is caused by your inference not my asking.

I mean... I wasn't asking for a lecture. I wasn't even trying to have a discussion. I was just searching for it. She loves to tell me how all my pain in life is caused by my shortcomings. I didn't fucking ask! I didn't ask her to find the strap or go get me a new one or anything! I don't need a lecture. She gets upset if I ever try to do something to make her happy. It's like a personal affront to her.

[foxycas]

OH MY GOD WE DIDN'T HAVE INTERNET FOR THREE DAYS AND I TRIED TO FIX IT AND I FINALLY DID. I HAVE NEVER FELT SO CLOSED OFF FROM THE WORLD.

[Pavlov'sBell]

^ I know the feeling. I didn't have Internet for a week once, and it was horrible :(

[Finey_McFine]

Today we dropped our daughter off for Orchestra camp at Texas State University. I use the term 'dropped off' loosely because the process took HOURS and was a complete unorganized cluster fuck. I don't even know where to begin this rant because there are so many things to rant about, lol. The entire process, which should have taken about an hour, lasted FIVE GRUELING HOURS. Is it really wise to piss off the parents that are paying for the camp? Not just piss of, but severely inconvenience as well. "Hey, I know what! Let's put the wrong info on our website and then not send the correct info until 3 days before the camp start date. Then, we'll make them check-in at 9am on a Sunday morning, wait in line for hours, drive all over this hilly fucked up maze of a campus in 100 degree heat, not feed the kids lunch and still charge the same amount as previous years!"

[BeneathMyWillowTree]

While I was in Toronto I went to Casa Loma. What a beautiful place. I was pissed seeing that people have been tagging on the walls to say they were there. I mean really people? Have you no respect? Apparently not! To top it off I saw YOLO 2013 and the initials of the idiots who wrote that. I was so annoyed. Fuck! I wish YOLO never existed cos all it does is give people another reason to be annoying with a phrase. Just stupid!

[sweet satin lover]

In life I know that there are always going to be people who seemingly sail through it but it really pi**** me off that some people will use others or certain situations to get ahead there are alot of people that do this and I can only say I hope Karma catches them.

[JustSkipIt]

I don't know if this will actually fulfill the Rant moniker but I'm frustrated.

My best friend is in lurve with a new girl. Ok. yay. Happy for her. Sort of. Or whatever. Let's go with I'm happy with her and she deserves it. The gf is visiting this weekend so my friend planned a couples's dinner (2.5 months ago, no shit). Well for one thing my wife can't go because we don't have child care and right now even if we did, we wouldn't ask anyone to watch Asher. So I'm going out to dinner tonight with 3 other couples. At literally the fanciest/most expensive restaurant in Austin. Where I need to dress up. And it's not vegetarian friendly (to say the least) and the dishes (there are no vegetarian meals - I will probably eat a salad and dessert) basically range from $44 to $80. And it's at 7:00 which is the same time the football game starts which means a. I will miss the game which is ok because I'm not committed to watching it or anything but b. I have to deal with the traffic of 80,000 people going to the game 2 miles from the restaurant.

I just keep telling myself that I love my friend and want to support her. But yuck.

[meretricious]

About two years ago, when my mother moved cross country to live near us, her mail was forwarded to our address for around two months. We used it as an opportunity to weed out most of her junk mail. Now, inexplicably we are being barraged with mail for my father who has been dead for ten years. The worst is kaiser permanente who won't take "deceased" for an answer. We've tried telling them that unless they've developed an extra special raising the dead policy, my father has no need for health insurance. Are they trying to get the jump on the zombie apocalypse? Will zombies even purchase health care? Will Kaiser guarantee brains after your zombie arms fall off and you can't procure them yourself?
Why would we ever consider buying insurance from a company that mismanages resources so poorly that you can't get them to take the extremely ineligible off their mailing lists?

[Finey_McFine]

I have a friend that's getting married in a couple weeks and she just found out she's pregnant. No big deal because she's getting married anyway, right? WRONG. Because the fiancee isn't the baby-daddy. Yeah, you read that right. It's a big ol' cluster fuck of a situation. First, she allows her family to bully her into marrying someone she's not in love with and now this live action episode of Jerry Springer. I'm trying my hardest to show a little empathy, but what I really want to do it slap the shit out of her and then slap her again for good measure! I don't want to go into too much detail, but the plan she came up with to deal with the situation is THE MOST asinine thing I've EVER heard! And they say we're ruining marriage and family?? Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yeah, ok. Pot, meet kettle.

[Mrs. Pineapple]

Girl problems. I hate them. I'm totally in love with this girl and she's (guess what?) straight and recently got a boyfriend. And because I really value the friendship I told her that I have feelings for her, and that I wanted her to know that, but that I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. And she was totally cool about it! And she's still the sweet, vivacious, and affectionate friend I know and love. Which is really not helping me getting over her.

Two days ago, I celebrated my birthday with a couple of friends. Obviously, she was there too. And she was totally infuriating, in the sense that she was so, so sweet. All throughout the evening she insisted on taking pictures of me, and she kept calling me "birthday girl". And then her gift. She knows I like homemade gifts, so she knitted me a shoulder warmer. Which just made me melt, because a) she took the effort to do that and b) SHE COLOR-MATCHED IT TO MY EYES. WHAT?! I don't even know the eye-color of half of my friends. Only when your eye color is really distinct or straightforward (plain brown or green, for example), will I remember. But for about 75% of my circle of friends, that's not the case. And my eye color is not straightforward at all. In fact, there is discussion about what it is. I think it's more of a bluish-grey, some think it's more of a greenish color. So she couldn't have known my eye color unless she had really been paying attention to it. And why on earth would she do that? GAH.

I know it won't help me to agonize over it. And I feel totally pathetic that I am agonizing over it. But every time she does something totally sweet and thoughtful like that, I get my hopes up again, no matter how many times I tell myself that it's just not going to happen. Ever.