Sunbird she/her Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 People who want to tell me stories about their foot fungus while I'm eating. Seriously? No. Just... no.
Delightful Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 22 minutes ago, Sunbird said: People who want to tell me stories about their foot fungus while I'm eating. Seriously? No. Just... no. Who wants to hear about foot fungus ever ?!?! 1
Silverblade5 he/him Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 6 minutes ago, Delightful said: Who wants to hear about foot fungus ever ?!?! Doctors talking to clients?
Delightful Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Silverblade5 said: Doctors talking to clients? Uuh job requirement. Doesn't mean they like it? 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 13 minutes ago, Delightful said: Uuh job requirement. Doesn't mean they like it? "Boy oh boy, I can't wait to go to work and hear Mr. Abernathy tell me all about that weird fungus on his left big toe!" —the doctor all the other doctors probably avoid 5
Orlion Blight he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 Hey! Foot fungus can be a very interesting topic! Like...um...
Sunbird she/her Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 The only time I can think of when foot fungus would be interesting is if you're talking about a mushroom that grew in the shape of a foot. 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 7, 2016 Posted July 7, 2016 Parents: We miss you! Call us! Talk to us! We miss you so much! Me: *comments on funny observations over family text* Me: *sends funny comments over family text* Parents: *ignore me* Parents: We miss you! Call us! Talk to us! We miss you so much! Me: Spoiler 2
Edgedancer he/him Posted July 7, 2016 Posted July 7, 2016 23 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Parents: We miss you! Call us! Talk to us! We miss you so much! Me: *comments on funny observations over family text* Me: *sends funny comments over family text* Parents: *ignore me* Parents: We miss you! Call us! Talk to us! We miss you so much! Me: Hide contents Remember Twi, what they miss is you living on their terms. Interaction is useless for them unless it involves you bowing to their will. Thus random comment they didn't ask for? Might as well be Spam. You calling when they tell you to? "Parental" victory. 3
Orlion Blight he/him Posted July 7, 2016 Posted July 7, 2016 1 minute ago, Edgedancer said: Remember Twi, what they miss is you living on their terms. Interaction is useless for them unless it involves you bowing to their will. Thus random comment they didn't ask for? Might as well be Spam. You calling when they tell you to? "Parental" victory. He's right, you know. Don't bow to their terms, you can even say "if you don't have time to respond to a text, how would you have time to talk?" Or something like that. Make your own terms! 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 7, 2016 Posted July 7, 2016 12 minutes ago, Edgedancer said: Remember Twi, what they miss is you living on their terms. Interaction is useless for them unless it involves you bowing to their will. Thus random comment they didn't ask for? Might as well be Spam. You calling when they tell you to? "Parental" victory. I know. It was the same while I was living at home—they'd ignore me, treat me like an idiot, punish me for stepping out of line (I once stayed home sick from church and the rest of the family went out to lunch at a restaurant I didn't like, without telling me or offering to pick anything up for me on the way home) and then turn around and tell me how much they'd miss me when I left, how they hoped I'd live close, how they wanted me to visit for major holidays, etc. They're already talking about how I'll need to use up all my paid leave to come home at Christmas. (Okay, they don't put it that way, but still.) 8 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said: He's right, you know. Don't bow to their terms, you can even say "if you don't have time to respond to a text, how would you have time to talk?" Or something like that. Make your own terms! I don't know if I'm ready to say something that incendiary yet.
Orlion Blight he/him Posted July 7, 2016 Posted July 7, 2016 6 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: I don't know if I'm ready to say something that incendiary yet. The key thing is to make sure they know what your terms are, that way ignorance isn't an excuse! And if they get snippy about it after you are polite, don't communicate with them for a while. With my father, it was over a year. Your situation will vary, but if you do go this route: simply ignore. You Don'don't need to provide a dramatic farewell.
Kaymyth she/her Posted July 7, 2016 Posted July 7, 2016 1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: I know. It was the same while I was living at home—they'd ignore me, treat me like an idiot, punish me for stepping out of line (I once stayed home sick from church and the rest of the family went out to lunch at a restaurant I didn't like, without telling me or offering to pick anything up for me on the way home) and then turn around and tell me how much they'd miss me when I left, how they hoped I'd live close, how they wanted me to visit for major holidays, etc. They're already talking about how I'll need to use up all my paid leave to come home at Christmas. (Okay, they don't put it that way, but still.) I don't know if I'm ready to say something that incendiary yet. Try this less incendiary line: "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that won't be possible." Repeat ad infinitum.
Sunbird she/her Posted July 8, 2016 Posted July 8, 2016 Self-flushing toilets. They always seem to flush at the most inconvenient times! Putting the cap on my water bottle and attempting to open it an hour later only to find that it is inexplicably screwed on like 10 times tighter than when I closed it.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 8, 2016 Posted July 8, 2016 Dear Coworker, If a pen is next to me, inches from my hand, on top of a document with my name on it, and you saw me obtain that pen by bringing it up from the back, that pen is mine for the duration of my shift. STOP TAKING MY PENS. 3
Sunbird she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Dear family of 5 in the line ahead of me at KFC, next time please decide what you all want to eat before reaching the front of the line instead of wasting 10 minutes of everyone's time while you ask each of your 3 terminally indecisive children what they want. 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 5 minutes ago, Sunbird said: Dear family of 5 in the line ahead of me at KFC, next time please decide what you all want to eat before reaching the front of the line instead of wasting 10 minutes of everyone's time while you ask each of your 3 terminally indecisive children what they want. It's just as bad for the person behind the counter. Here they are, with a steadily growing line and a manager telling them to keep it moving, and the people in the front are treating what they'll have for dinner like it's the most important decision the world has seen since the Magna Carta was signed. On top of that, they're probably tired, and their feet hurt, and they're hungry, and they just want to give that stupid family a giant bucket of chicken and tell them to leave, because they're getting death glares and a giant bucket is probably what they're going to order anyway…. Ahem. Rest assured the restaurant is on your side in this, and if they weren't forced to operate under "the customer is always right," that person behind the counter might let their impatience show a little bit more.
Orlion Blight he/him Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Yeah, that whole "let your kids make choices" philosophy is hookum...pure hookum. Kids of a certain age don't really have the cognitive function, and hijacking the time of others is not how you develop it.
Sunbird she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) Yeah, Twi, I was seriously impressed with the guy taking their order. He kept his cool the whole time. I made a point of telling him after I'd gotten my food that he was doing customer service right, and then I proceeded to give him top marks on the online customer satisfaction survey after he alerted me to its existence. Also thankfully it was like almost 9pm so there weren't too many other people waiting. Edited July 9, 2016 by Sunbird
Delightful Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 12 hours ago, Sunbird said: Dear family of 5 in the line ahead of me at KFC, next time please decide what you all want to eat before reaching the front of the line instead of wasting 10 minutes of everyone's time while you ask each of your 3 terminally indecisive children what they want. This....this was always me.
little wilson she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 My biggest pet peeve: the term "friend zone." While a girl refusing to go out with a guy because they don't want to damage the friendship happens, it usually only happens among teenagers. And in those cases, it's usually because the girl isn't just friends with the guy, but that he's also friends with her friends, and she's genuinely worried that if the date goes badly, it will damage the friend group that she values. Is this fear rational? No. But it's understandable in that age group, where self esteem issues are huge. However, "friend zoning" in its truest, purest sense is not really a thing once you get into your 20's (except among people who still want to live like they're teenagers). So why do so many guys still use that term as they get older? I went on a date this last week, and I swear this guy had an ego the size of a small planet. He was one of the most arrogant people I've met in my life. But it wasn't blatant arrogance. He actually came across as a nice guy, until you realize that he just wants to talk about himself and wants you to ask him questions about him so he can talk about himself and try to make you jealous of the things he's done that you want to do (he also had the gall to try to teach me about family history and genealogy and tell me about how what I was saying about it was wrong, even though I've been doing it since I was 12-13, so for 16-17 years and I know far, far more about it than he could ever hope to know). He's in his 30's and he said he's never been in a relationship because girls always friend zone him. Yeah, that's not friend zoning. That's girls not being interested in an arrogant person. But he insists on calling it friend zoning so he doesn't have to accept that he might just have an ego problem that he should work on if he ever actually wants to be in a relationship. A healthy relationship, that is. And that is my experience with the term friend zone: the guys who use it have serious social or personality issues but because they don't want to accept that they are at least partially responsible for their lack of dating luck, they blame the girl, saying that she just won't give them a chance. That they're a nice guy and girls are always trying to go for the bad boys, so nice guys get the shaft because they're just seen as friends. No. No. Just no. The prevalent abuse of that term makes me hate it with a fiery, burning passion, even in the cases when it's used correctly. 8
Sunbird she/her Posted July 10, 2016 Posted July 10, 2016 Grh. I can only sort my "liked" quotes on GoodReads by Favorite, Date Added, Random, or Popularity. What I really want is an option to sort by author so that I can find the one I'm looking for easily.
The Honor Spren she/her Posted July 18, 2016 Posted July 18, 2016 share this post in 10 secs to have all ur wildest dreams come true!!!1! if you don't share this post ur gonna die tomorrow. <3
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