start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

lol yeah that sort of pointlessness irks me as well.

LIFT TALK. Especially of the "whatd you do on the weekend?: blarbs on monday mornings. STFUUUUUU

we used to have icebreakers in meetings and my mentee and I have grown sick of them because they're always questions like "where would you go on vacation if money wasn't an issue" and everybody would giggle over the predictable answers.

they got to me last time and I said "Barge to Hell" and dead silence, just the way I wanted it.

^ LOL

I was once asked what I'd want to be if I could be anything. I said "a good person". Lots of "uh" looks.

she has this way of saying in an extra-fake feminine voice "heyyyy! how was your weekend?" and it kills me. i wanna be like "i slept too much, went to the gym three times, decided not to do laundry, looked at the internet, didn't talk to anyone, how about you"

one of my coworker friends is a manager & is super small talk chatty first thing in the morning, stopping by everyone's desk, asking about their weekends or whatever ... but she knows to keep walking past my desk bc I am not HAVING it that fucking early

i love her but srsly there is something wrong with ppl like that, so loud & chirpy at 8am good god woman

you people are my people

Opposite

I like talking about weekends and stuff now

my coworkers are good at remembering funny dumb stuff though. the old ones who were like "my kid went to soccer and i mowed the yard" are gone and i get "my two year old disappeared at 7am today and i caught him in the driveway drinking his milk wearing only a diaper and staring at the neighbor's house"

I nod, thinking that is my morning only with coffee instead of milk and no one came out to find me

lol

nice

quality thread this

I work in an office with mostly childless women who constantly ask me about my toddler and demand new photos all the time

My mind completely goes blank when someone asks me about my weekend. It was... fine. As best as I can recall.

Holy shit this chatty woman at the coffee shop constantly interrupting the barista who is politely trying to converse with her SHADDAP

xp: yeah, I can have a great weekend and have someone ask me that question and I just don't know what happened anymore.

I'm one of 3 in my dept who has no kids and probably the only one who isn't married or in a serious relationship so everybody else is all like "I took my kid to Beauty and the Beast" or "my husband and I went mini-golfing" and I'm like "I got kicked in the chest at Toxic Holocaust and drunkenly hugged a bunch of strangers"

Small talk is like 80% of my job some days, I think I just do it mindlessly now? Tbh tho I would much rather someone launch into a detailed description of something they're actually feeling than just mindless "positivity."

BACK PAIN. I know exactly what caused it (falling out of bed because one of my mother's cats turned out to be sleeping next to me when the alarm went off), but that doesn't make it any easier to manage.

I had this idea for some landscaping in the front yard.

I'm not a landscaper but I do have a back. It was an interesting idea on my part. I feel your pain.

i hate when people turn left when driving

appalling!

i hate it when people are around me, in general, tbrr

lol harbl on my scooter about two days ago I was trying to get home from work and yelling "NO TURNING LEFT. NO ONE TURNS LEFT" at the traffic up ahead. Feel ya.

Of course with my mouth hanging out the front of my helmet everyone can hear me so I should maybe stop yelling at drivers so much.

people who don't know how to end a business phone call. ie, spending 3-4 minutes with closing thoughts and never getting to the end.

usually after about 1-2 minutes I just hang up if it's an endless sea of "well ok hope you have a great day, let me know if you have any further questions...oh by the way"

I used to get IR at people honking when they drive down alleys. I figured, yeah, we can all hear you honking, but no one can see you or where you're coming from, so why even honk? Especially since honking makes most people rationally angry. But then the other day I heard someone honking down an alley, paused, and may have stopped myself from getting run over by said car emerging from said alley, so maybe it really does work, but only if you're in the right place at the right time, which is to say, about to get run over. Which is the most important time for honking down an alley to be effective, I guess.

"Honkin Down The Alley" - The Josh In Chicago Story

I hate alley honking. Just slow the fuck down and look for ppl when you are pulling out.

I curse all non-necessary honking

vertical videos

just stop doing them

it is the future, sorry mang

the future doesn't understand how people watch videos

people watch videos on their phones. look at which way a phone is oriented when you hold it in yr hand. voila. every cineplex in the country will be vertical within 2 years, george lucas said so

george lucas said a lot of things

1. jar jar binks is a really good idea
2. we don't need a green screen set longer than 14 feet
3. trade tariffs are remarkably entertaining

coming home to put things into the fridge and finding out that I was a shelf low with the icecream earlier so it didn't go back in the freezer.

The local LIDL being busy restocking shelves mid way through a Sunday so every pallette mover is in the way.

Seeing somebody intentionally stack a trolley tehy had with them out in the exit area where it seems they don't get collected instead of at the end of the conveyor belt. Had to go out and grab one earlier thsi week and had a couple of kids try to walk through teh same conveyor belt alley I was walking out through while I was trying to walk out through it, when they had a lot more space behind them than I did so I would think I had right of way. Bummer.

Weather being good up until Tuesday probably when i need to be in town. & there's a bus strike so I may have to walk.

Taking forever to get shirts done.

Car still turning up and being way too close to the street door. Now found out it's a frequent visitor to next door who I thought would be facing the same problems. Couldn't see how she could get a buggy out with the little space taht was left between the car and teh door or how the boyfriend would be able to get a bike out.
Finally got around to asking and find that people downstairs had asked her to move car over cos she kept bumping their car with her door when she opened it.
I'm having to wiggle out the front door and watch where my feet are going, feel very cramped by its vicinity as I exit.

Spinach not being sold in its traditional form nearly anywhere. Seems people are only into baby leaf stuff. & I prefer the full leaf. Would have thought that was a staple but maybe its thought of as passé by supermarket customers. I'm just getting into cooking it too.

george lucas said a lot of things

that was not among them, i was just being irrationally silly. soz like

Seems I need a checklist to make sure the things taht i pick up off the supermarket shelf actually get into my take home bag.
That's the 2nd time this week taht something I picked up and put in the trolley hasn't reached my bag after teh checkout. Enough to make you paranoid.
Today I know I was looking at the 2 different types of peppers that were on the shelf, last week I know i found the right type of chocolate. I know I picked them up, & would be pretty sure they got into the trolley. So not sure what happened after that, if they got swept off the conveyor belt or got behind the separator into the next person's stuff. But rather annoying.

are they on the receipt?

i have self-scanned stuff and it still hasn't made it home. (i think it fell off the pile of stuff in the bagging area and down the back. you'd hope the scales would notice and complain, unless it was after i'd paid)

I am generally pro the no more free plastic bags thing but it does make the checkout more awkward and items more likely to go missing when you have to cram all your shopping in whatever bag you happen to have with you, e.g. a work rucksack with lots of different sections and full of work items for smaller groceries to hide under.

(Also shop plastic bags used to be perfect for bin bags and it's annoying how much more expensive smaller or not-black bin bags are than the big black bin liners. In a small flat with an open-plan kitchen/living area, you don't really get to build up a whole big sackful of rubbish before it starts to smell, plus we can't use black bags for recycling or they refuse to take it in case it's misplaced landfill.)

Further supermarket grumbling: on several occasions I've bought something at the supermarket on the way home from work specifically because it appears to be reduced (on a special offer shelf with big special offer signs underneath) and then got home, looked at the receipt and found that I paid more than I thought the price was.

I assume I probably read the shelf wrong on at least some of those occasions, but it is getting quite annoying. I really need to remember to check the receipt while I'm still in the shop instead of walking a mile home first.

the local sainsburys has updated their till software and it's a bit odd. doesn't give you the 'use own bags?' option and it's hard to know how to handle that (maybe it zeroes the bagging area scales when it scans the first item). it also spreads the list of scanned items out on the screen in an arc like a pack of cards, rather than just showing you a readable list.

got flagged for an age-check today as well, for a box of paracetamol...

Does look like I didn't get charged for the chillies today but they were one of the main things i went out to get I think.
& chocolate last week may have been down to something turning up on the outside wrapper of the cheese in my shopping . looked like a tomato seed splat or something but may have caused enough distraction that checkout girl didn't complete my shop. & I hadn't been paying attention to what was and wasn't already processed. Don't remember anything like that today though.

that was not among them, i was just being irrationally silly. soz like

believable though

& chocolate last week may have been down to something turning up on the outside wrapper of the cheese in my shopping . looked like a tomato seed splat or something but may have caused enough distraction that checkout girl didn't complete my shop. & I hadn't been paying attention to what was and wasn't already processed.
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probably only noticed the whatever on the cheese because the checkout girl was making something out of it. Cheese itself was in a thick rind thing. So wiping it off would have sufficed.
Not a big fan of the trolleys that LIDL Is using now instead of shopping baskets, seem to be a lot harder to navigate and may get things like tomato splat in the bottom of them without one being able to notice. These are medium sized plastic baskets on wheels rather than the full size wire things. I was much happier with the initial plastic baskets that LIDL introduced and had been happy enough picking up an empty box from one of the shelves to use as an ersatz basket before they went so bourgeois as to actually start having specifically designated baskets.

Companies (or individuals) who design digital fonts referring to themselves as "type foundries".

on several occasions I've bought something at the supermarket on the way home from work specifically because it appears to be reduced (on a special offer shelf with big special offer signs underneath) and then got home, looked at the receipt and found that I paid more than I thought the price was.

Apologies for The Sun link:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2836966/bbc-secret-shopper-finds-two-thirds-of-tesco-customers-overcharged-by-expired-deals/

there's an 'offer expires' date on all the price labels. it's small, but it's there.

(oh, the article says as much)