Random Rant and venting thread for general or specific rage

[Ayingel 24]

Gonna spend some time with the boys then?

[Pandora 77]

Commenting waaaaaay back on the gun conversation:

1. When my grandma found out I'd gotten my carry permit her only reaction was, "Why would you want to carry a gun?" And my response was, "Um. Because I live in the most dangerous city in America for violent crime per capita and the criminals have guns and I don't feel like being a victim if I can avoid it? Duh."

2. A friend of ours from Texas has a new boyfriend from London. They came to town (he's an Elvis fan) and met them downtown for some BBQ and drinks when my mom calls, hear's the background noise, and upon hearing where are that time of night, proceeds to ask, "You have your guns with you, right?!" The look on poor Gary's face when I said, "Wish I could, Mom, but we're in a bar and the fascists in Nashville made it illegal to carry guns into a bar." Yes, my mother loves me and wants me to be safe.

3. My favorite response to "I don't believe in guns" is "Oh that's silly; here you can touch it. See? It's real."

Now for my rant, though it's lost some fire because it happened several days ago...

So I quit Macy's back in February, and had filled out paperwork to work as a freelance artist for MAC cosmetics (which is in the same Macy's, but a totally different company; basically they lease the floor space and cash register). Well I knew that the assistant manager was going to be out for several weeks on medical leave because she had a couple fo major surgeries she was needing, so I figured I'd get a call whenever they had hours for me. Never have gotten a call, until about two weeks ago, the assistant manager in question (I'm friends with the managers and really the entire staff) calls me from her cell phone; apparently she's been out for over a month now and they really need a freelance artist; have I heard from the counter manager? No, I answer, I assumed she'd call when she needed me, but I guess not. She proceeds to tell me that, as a courtesy, whenever they hire a former Macy's employee to work for MAC, they always run it by management just in case there was a legal issue. Bear in mind, I quit, I gave a two week notice, had an exit interview, and worked all of my final shifts making money for the Lancome counter that turned out to be about all they made through the entire gift with purchase promotion period. I now find out that I am not rehirable and am thus not allowed back in the store in any capacity because I "failed to finish my two weeks notice." That bitch I should have sued and didn't changed my ewoking schedule my last two days there after I had already left forever and didn't ewoking tell me. Now damn near five years of life has been officially ewoking wasted.

The moral of my story: NEVER work for Macy's, and if you shop there PLEASE don't tell me about it. Any of their stores.

[Bad furday 57]

*After all that, has a relatively minor complaint*

Roomthing- my creepy old roommate from college- has found and added me as a contact on Flickr.

*insists on not letting that ruin his morning* :p

[Uncle Du 22]

Gonna spend some time with the boys then?

Wish I could. Ty is in PA and Kian is doing stuff with his Mom. I have, in turn, slept the day away. That's all I really wanna do.

My favorite response to "I don't believe in guns" is "Oh that's silly; here you can touch it. See? It's real."

*insists on not letting that ruin his morning*

I'm sure it won't, lol.

[Bad furday 57]

I now realise I should have been like Doc Brown, and said,. " Oh god, they've found me. I don't know how...but they found me!" :p

[Drake 53]

[Bad furday 57]

AHaha! How fitting!

I've blocked him. I didn't know Flickr had a block feature...but the way they worded it in the FAQ, it could have been a flowhchart ie: Is someone making you uncomfortable? --> Block them! :p

[Pandora 77]

Hmm i guess I imagined that Roomthing had returned to the swamp of sorrows or something...

[Princess 35]

*headdesk* I thought that we actually had a real new member

[Bad furday 57]

Hmm i guess I imagined that Roomthing had returned to the swamp of sorrows or something...

So had I...but I was hideously wrong. :p

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

*headdesk* I thought that we actually had a real new member

I try not to get my hopes up when I see a new user has posted. By now I pretty much expect it to be spam. :|

[Uncle Du 22]

Bah, we don't need any new blood, we'll grow old and stagnant together. ;)

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

I finally broke down and asked my trainer friend for help with Tag's leash reactivity. It's gotten to the point I can't handle it on my own anymore and something needs to be done before he bites. So today I went out and bought a muzzle. I don't know if it's completely necessary, but it'll make me feel better if there's no way he can bite. The store only had one kind and the first location was out of the size I needed. Thankfully the other location had the right size. Except when I got it home and got it on the dog, it seemed small. Yes, I know the purpose of a muzzle is to hold the dog's mouth shut so it can't bite, but I wanted one that would let him get his mouth open enough to pant and get treats. I can get treats through it, but only just and I doubt there's any way he can pant with it on. I guess we'll see how it goes come training time. Hopefully I won't have to go up a size, but I'm hanging on to the receipt just in case.

I also love how anything for the dogs but food and parasite prevention I have to pay for myself. Ziggy needs a new collar because hers is right on the edge of being too small. But if I want to get her one, it comes out of my money. :roll:

[Princess 35]

I ran my big toe over with the linen closet door today and it hurt like a bith

[Princess 35]

My brother is driving me nuts. Our dryer hasn't been working right for a couple of weeks now, it's one of those high efficiency ones with sensors and usually the sensor dry works great, lately it's been going through it's 45 minute cycle for jeans and then noticing that they're still just a little damp it resets to 99 minutes when it only needs like 10 more minutes. Now this house is designed weird and my dad and aunt built a huge deck in the back yard with a gazebo and all. Unfortunately the vent to the dryer is under the deck. Now my brother is much thinner than I am, and I've asked him repeatedly to go under the deck and check to make sure that the vent isn't plugged. He refuses to go under and check it to see if it's plugged and I don't know if I can fit under there and I have added the Appliance Service Plan from Consumers to my bill every month, it's $21.99 a month but I don't have to pay anything for certain appliances to be repaired, including the dryer. I called today and set up service for tomorrow, so is it asking too much to ask my brother to check to see if the vent is clogged?

[Bad furday 57]

Clearly...he's been irreparably traumatized by the "Go down into the dark power station to turn the power back on" scene from Jurassic Park :p

[Ayingel 24]

Lol I just think he's lazy.

[Princess 35]

You win! And now they have friends coming over to watch TV and their furniture is covered in their clean clothes, so I don't know where their friends are going to sit

[Bad furday 57]

If they're as lazy as he is, they'll just sit on top of his clean clothes. :p

[Princess 35]

*shakes head* And now instead of teaching Charlie to leave shoes alone, my brother tells me I should put them up and away because "he's a dog"

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

There is a certain management aspect of dog training. Anything you don't want puppy to chew on, put away so puppy can't get it. It's also worth teaching the "leave it" and "drop it" commands for what you miss.

[Princess 35]

While, I agree with that JM, giving him boundaries beyond what furniture he's not allowed on would help.

So, I think that my brother is the worst dog owner ever. He yells at the dog constantly, and doesn't give him any real exercise. All he wants to do is nap with the dog and play video games while the dog is in the same room. Today, it was me and the dog while my brother was at work, but when he came home, I expected him to spend some time with his puppy. Instead he plays video games in the computer room and then takes a nap while I'm trying to get homework done and cook dinner at the same time. I'm tired of taking the dog out all the time, so I tell my brother that he needs to get up from his nap (after he's been laying down for an hour and said that he didn't want to take a nap earlier because he'd sleep too late) and take care of his dog because I have things that I need to do, and he just tells me to put Charlie in his crate. I should've tossed the dog on the bed with him and shut the door.

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

Right now I'm feeling like the worst dog owner ever. Tag bit one of the neighbors the other day. He was protecting his space, but neither Rob nor I are comfortable keeping him anymore. We're trying to find a rescue that deals with fearful dogs, but if we can't find one we'll probably have to put him down. Anyone know of any such rescues?

Edited May 18, 2011 by Radioactive Isotope

[Pandora 77]

Not specifically but you should check with your local chapter of the ASPCA. Explain your situation and they should be willing to help you out. You are trying to do the right thing, afterall.

*shakes head* And now instead of teaching Charlie to leave shoes alone, my brother tells me I should put them up and away because "he's a dog"

Boy does that sound familiar. Rather than teach her irritating mutts to stay out of the trash, we are supposed to shut every door with a trash can behind it, which restricts where our cats can go. I'm sorry, but their cat is hostile to mine, I am NOT trapping them downstairs on her turf. Nah uh. Train your damn dogs.

[James the Defender 7]

My father annoys me... He claims he's a bigger Packers and Phillies fan than I am. During the Super Bowl, what were we doing? Having a party. Where was I? On the couch, watching and analyzing every play, too nervous to eat. Where was he? On the computer chair chatting with my father-in-law about Civil War reenacting, not paying attention to the game except when I shouted. Phillies games are on, what does he watch majority of the game? Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi, the History Channel, Jeopardy, and/or Wheel-of-Fortune, occasionally flipping back to see the score. The night Halladay pitched his perfect game, my father wouldn't have even flipped to the game unless I told him Doc was six outs away from that perfect game. What hat do I grab when we go out? Packers in the winter, Phillies in the summer. Him? camouflage, even though his Phils 2008 championship hat is right next to it, and he has no Packers hat. My Phils 2008 championship hat: sweat-soaked, worn-out. His? Pristine, only wore it a couple times. Who follows the game when it's 3-0 Phils in the top of the first with an anemic offense? I do. 5-0, 7-1? Yup, you guessed it. Who can't take his eyes off this team even when all hope is lost while the other has the game off? I can't.

Why he insists he's a bigger fan than I am is beyond me. Sure, he's been a Packers and Phils fan longer than I have...but that's b/c he's 60 and I'm 24. He was 13 years old when he became a Green Bay fan; I was 10. Who knows more about the teams every season? I do. Who schools who on who has how many wins-losses, BA, HR, RBI? I do. How many TD-INTs Aaron has? I. How many HRs MIKE SCHMIDT has for his career? Right here...and my father watched the man play; I didn't. Who can't pronounce pitchers' names correctly even though they're said twenty-four thousand times a game? He can't. There's no one in this house with whom I can have an intelligent baseball or football conversation...my father proves he doesn't pay attention, my mother doesn't watch sports, and I'm teaching my wife.

He's so ridiculous with that! He even tells people he's more of a fan than I am!! They realize, however, when they engage both of us in a conversation.

I'M A BIGGER FAN, DAD! GET OVER IT!