Random Rants ΟΔ: broken record

[aimeeandbeatles]

A bit of an update to the smell problem: I saw the maintenance van outside earlier today and now the smell is starting to go away. So I think they removed whatever it was.

 

[Ajidica]

There was a massive downpour as I was walking home from the bus today, I was getting soaked even with the umbrella. Sidewalk is really close to the road and there is no shoulder, but there are 2 lanes each way even though traffic is light. Anyhow, this massive pickup truck with the dual wheels in back, I swear to God, swerved into the lane closest to me and came about as close to the sidewalk as he could get and completely splashed me with a puddle and them sped off. I doubt it was an accident as lots of other cars and large vehicles drove past me and I never even got close to getting splashed from them.

Yet another reason for why people who drive pickup trucks and don't work in the construction business/have a compelling need for one should be castrated with a rusty spoon.
(The biggest reason is the ************** who wasn't paying attention and just merged right into me and then sped off.)

 

[Zkribbler]

... maintenance van ...

So, not a dead neighbor.

 

[Takhisis]

[slips a thermonuclear bomb to MaryKB]:

If your parents start ragging on your fiance, merely say: "I don't understand why you're even celebrating your anniversary. It's clear to everyone that you two loath each other." Your fiance will be immediately forgotten.

If she's going to do that then let's be thankful she's not staying there.

A bit of an update to the smell problem: I saw the maintenance van outside earlier today and now the smell is starting to go away. So I think they removed whatever it was.

Which is a good thing, not least because Parkinson's disease tends to tamper with people's sense of smell.

Yet another reason for why people who drive pickup trucks and don't work in the construction business/have a compelling need for one should be castrated with a rusty spoon.

I thought we'd agreed that the punishment for evil people was to be forced to watch Rob Schneider films.

 

[sophie]

And it's not just this one incident that has me fuming at my in-laws. This was just the final straw. Several times they have asked us to pay their rent for them, to which I flatly refused and told my wife that if she gives them any money for their bills, our marriage would be over and lectured her on where her responsibilities lie now. Those responsibilities being to me and our two daughters. We are her primary family now, and she needs to get that through her head. That's a big reason why I moved us back to Ohio, so we'd be far away from her family who live in Pennsylvania. Apparently that's not far enough away though, so I have an old army buddy in Texas looking at trying to get me a good job there. That should be far enough away that we won't have to deal with her family and their leeching ways anymore.

There have been a number of things you have revealed to us about your home life that have shocked and horrified me over the years, but this is, far and away, the most shocking and horrifying thing you have ever said on here.

 

[Ajidica]

Jesus Christ that is harsh Commodore. My mom's side has its fair share of screw-ups and criminals, but my dad never threatened her when she would send them some money occasionally to help out around the holidays.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Monday:
WalMart Girl #1: We're out of that. It will be in on Thursday.
Tim: Okay, Thursday. You sure?
WalMart Girl #1: Yeah, Thursday.
WalMart Girl #2: I already ordered that, it will be here tomorrow.
WalMart Girl #1: Maybe tomorrow.
Tim: So if it comes in tomorrow will you run out again by Thursday?
WalMart Girl #1: No, we'll get a bunch.
Tim: Cool, I'll be here Thursday then.

Thursday:
Same WalMart Girl #1: We're out of that.
Tim: When I was here Monday...
WalMart Girl #1: I know. It hasn't come yet.
Tim: So, really you had no idea when it would be here, and you still don't?
WalMart Girl #1: Not really, but I could ask... <looks at same WalMart Girl #2>

 

[Takhisis]

I was going to post that that's what you deserve for shopping at WalMart but then I remembered that I also shop at WalMart.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I was going to post that that's what you deserve for shopping at WalMart but then I remembered that I also shop at WalMart.

The pharmacy. 25 bucks vs 125 bucks. Not really any way to balance that out. But, yeah, it's not like I went in with high expectations.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

When I called the cardiologist office 2 weeks ago they said they would set aside a long term heart monitor for mom for us to pick up at her appointment today and train us on the right way to use it while we were there. Apparently they did set one aside for a while, but gave it away to another patient yesterday. Now we will have to wait for one to be mailed to us. A couple weeks ago I was told it could take a couple weeks to have it shipped, but the lady today said it can usually get there is a couple days and that they can send someone to our house to train us on its use. There is a good chance that I will be busy with work when it arrives though, and I am not sure I trust my dad to remember the instructions well enough to explain them properly.

The doctors seem to agree with dad's idea that we should not inform mom of my sister's condition for a while, but she has made that difficult by calling our house 3 times today. The first two times she left messages on the answering machine. I almost checked that while mom was in the room, but decided to wait just in case. Mom would have known pretty much every detail that we do if she had heard the first message. When I played them for dad he seems to think she sounds a lot better, but I personally did not notice any improvement. It seems odd to me how she introduced herself almost as if we hadn't met before. Dad spoke to her the third time while I kept mom busy. He seemed even more impressed with her progress that time, but I don't know if I should trust his judgement.

The real life confidante I'd like to turn to in such tough times has not returned any messages in 2 weeks. I'm also not sure if I should bring her down right now, as her birthday is Saturday.

 

[Lexicus]

Rob Schneider

Rob Schneider derp!

 

[Gori the Grey]

I moved us back to Ohio, so we'd be far away from her family who live in Pennsylvania

they just came to visit us for my youngest daughter's birthday

responded by saying if they don't have any money, then maybe they shouldn't be taking vacations

Uhm . . .

Anyway, couple of reflections on your case. 1) If you refused to pay your parent-in-laws' rent, but let your wife pay for other things when she or they visit, what would that outlay come to relative to uprooting your whole family and moving to Texas? 2) do you have a line-item in your budget for treating your wife? (presents, dinners out, etc). Could you consider what she spends on her family to be a way of treating her to the things that are most meaningful to her, family? Maybe it's what she'd most enjoy spending money on. 3) there's mail service from Texas to Pennsylvania, so you might do this entire move and find that she's still capable of sending her parents money. Unless you lock her in the basement or something. But you could do that in Ohio. 4) moving your wife to Texas might make her miserable. By your own line of reasoning, ones's highest obligation is to your family. How is making your wife miserable meeting that obligation?

You two clearly need to come to terms with how your household will handle its finances. I'm just not sure moving farther and farther away from her family is

 

[Lexicus]

Unless you lock her in the basement or something. But you could do that in Ohio.

In all seriousness. Please don't give that dude ideas.

 

[Synobun]

In all seriousness. Please don't give that dude ideas.

The basement isn't rated as a dungeon anymore. It's a gun range now.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

In all seriousness. Please don't give that dude ideas.

C'mon man. What are the chances that Commodore hasn't already considered that?

 

[Takhisis]

Commodore, instead of laughing it off and pretending it was all a joke as you did last time, please think that there might be a reason why all the responses to this kind of post you make are like this.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Which is a good thing, not least because Parkinson's disease tends to tamper with people's sense of smell.

thought it was mostly lack of smell, visual hallucinations can happen with dopaminergic meds though. (tired so maybe remembering wrong)

 

[r16]

a reason why all the responses to this kind of post you make are like this.

well , take no prisoners is an attitude some take quite a time to learn and some equally long to forget .

also in the news rantwise but kept here at spoiler named of 21st

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[Lexicus]

So, not a dead neighbor.

Could have been a dead animal though.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Commodore, instead of laughing it off and pretending it was all a joke as you did last time, please think that there might be a reason why all the responses to this kind of post you make are like this.

I'm still convinced he was actually messing around on his wife when he claimed he had picked up a side chick. When called out on how repulsive he was being he claimed he was joking and accused everyone who reviled his life choices as being unable to get laid. I have the same response to his new disclosures as I did to that one: eww gross.


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Got a call from the doctor yesterday. The surgeon who took my biopsies isn't sure she got all three tumors in her biopsies despite taking three samples and telling me she got them all at the time. From what I could gather from the conversation, she did not take adequate work notes to be able to show herself she got all three when the formal post-biopsy ultrasound measurements came in to be compared against her notes. And of course because she had to break skin with needles, this fifteen minute procedure cost my insurance about a grand with $200 being passed to me. And now I have to do it again just to be sure.

Also, the largest tumor seems to have been growing rather rapidly in the last month as now it feels like there's something stuck in my throat and it really hurts to swallow every day for the last few weeks. I think I'm just going to have to have my thyroid removed rather soon.

I really thought all this was behind me at least for a few months and I'm pretty bummed.