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vonda · Posted: February 19 2004, 3:19 PM Post subject:

Just thought of a few things that just IRK me to no end, all of them happening this week. Please share your gripes, it will make me laugh.

1. Don't you just HATE it when you've been trying to grow your hair out for 6 months and within 3 days, 3 different people say "oh, did you get your hair cut"? GRRRRRRR.

2. CD's - don't you just HATE it when you buy a new CD, go out in your car, drive away, then remember the CD, so while you are driving you TRY to get that CD out of all that cellophane, tape and crap. I swear I nearly wrecked the truck today trying to get that sticky long piece of tape off of that CD. Like WHAT is up with all of that?

3. I bought dishes last week, big plates, small plates, cups, and glasses, all separate, setting for 12 and EVERY one of those things had 2 stickers on the bottoms, not the pull off kind, the kind where they tear and shred and leave that icky sticky spot that will NOT come off by just a quick run through the dishwasher. OH how I hate that!!!

4. Dontcha hate it when you go into the bathroom for that 3 minutes of PEACE (if you are lucky), do your thing and look up and SOME lazy person in your household did NOT replace the toilet paper and you look around and there isn't a THING to wipe your butt on, so..............with your pants around your ankles you hobble to whereever it is that you keep toilet paper, cussing the entire time, leaving your little pee drippings all over the floor!!!

5. AND, lastly (but I'm sure I'll add more later), dontcha just HATE IT when you are out in public and start your period and don't have a THING with you, so you either have to wad up toilet paper and cram in your underwear, OR, you do what I did today and put one of the kids pull ups in your underwear. Actually it was quite comfortable. You'd think being 40 years old, I'd at LEAST carry something with me, will I ever learn?! Vonda

vonda · Posted: February 19 2004, 6:59 PM Post subject:

I KNEW I'd think of another one and this one really gripes me. Do any of you other ladies share this one, especially those of you with more than 1 child. Do you EVER cough or sneeze WITHOUT peeing in your pants just a little. OH I am getting SO old. Vonda

samantha's mom · Posted: February 19 2004, 7:31 PM Post subject:

Oh vonda...LMAO, ok about the period in public thing, try being someone that does not WEAR underpants and try wadding toliet paper between your legs just long enough to get to the car and get home and as you are trying to walk without looking like you have a stick up your rump down comes the toliet paper out your pant leg. Not that I have ANY experience in that Wink

Ok what I hate the most are 2 things really, At wal-mart Smile

I buy those plastic cups, bowls, plates you know the ones that you get for 88 cents like 6 of them, and I have like 24 of them in my cupboard and then that night I can NOT find a single one, have NO CLUE where they are and ask the kids and they respond..... I don't know and for weeks they are gone and then one day the dishwasher is full of these mysterious cups.

Then I have a silverware fettish, I SWEAR my kids think that the silverware is disposable because they are always disappearing but unlike the plastic stuff they NEVER come back.

Ok maybe I have more than 2...

Ok when they just wont eat/drink that little tiny bit left. Like you go in and there are 2 crackers left, what is up with that can't they just take the last 2 and then that little bit of milk that is left at the bottom of the carton, you know not enough to even spit on the cereal, why dont they throw it away.

Will get back to you all with more later.... Elizabeth

samantha's mom · Posted: February 19 2004, 7:33 PM Post subject:

Oh wait thought of another...

Don't you hate when you buy presents and you need a degree to open them, I mean all those plastic turny things and the tape and just when you think you have them all oops there is one hidden.

vonda · Posted: February 19 2004, 7:53 PM Post subject:

Elizabeth, BARBIES!!!! OMG the girls got SO many Barbies and those dang MY SCENE Barbie type dolls and EVERY SINGLE item in there was wired and taped and threaded and STUCK to the box. I thought my fingers would FALL off, and I have TWINS, so just imagine!!! It took nearly 20 minutes per box, and with Noah and Halle's things it was just as bad and they are sitting there like GIVE ME MY TOY, but you can't, cause of all the crap that's stuck to it, and those wires get all wrapped around the wheels of the trucks and cars. OMG WHY!!!!!!!!

Oh, and another thing, WHY, WHY, WHY put such tiny items in with Barbies. My girls have Barbies that have actual CD's, cups, wine glasses, bracelets, earrings. Like WHAT CHILD is gonna be THAT neat to keep this stuff and not lose it. Heck half of the stuff in those boxes got tossed right out with the box and they never knew it was gone. These manufacturers should know that if it isn't as big as a baseball, DON'T PUT IT IN THE BOX!!!!!!!Vonda

NattysMommy603 · Posted: February 19 2004, 8:37 PM Post subject:

ok, I have one,

Go to walmart, just need 1 thing and end up in line for 1/2 an hour because out of 30 lines they have 3 opened.

I also hate it when people get in the express lanes with MORE than 20 items.

Oh, and I absolutely HATE those shredded cheese or block cheese packages where they say tear here then seperate. Okay, seperate what? I end up cutting the cheese out of the package after I spend 20 minutes trying to seperate the ziploc feature on a block of airtightly sealed cheese.

Oh, and on the subject of packaging. How is it that pickles and sardines are packaged like they might get up and run away? Yet, over half a bag of chips is air?

Yes, and air. WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR AIR AT A GAS STATION TO FILL UP MY TIRE? That's like saying hey we're gonna charge you to breath.

Also, why should I have to ASK for an ASHTRAY when I've ASKED to be seated in the SMOKING SECTION? Hello?

I'll think of some more.

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Heidi · Posted: February 20 2004, 8:12 AM Post subject:

Elizabeth-no underpants in public...what would your mother say?!!!!!

I'm with Vonda on the empty toilet roll!!

My bugbear is telesales people (apologies to anyone whose job it is!)-we have had a real glut of them recently-and they do not understand the word NO!!

Keep these coming, I am feeling better already, knowing that others are suffering too (in the nicest possible way!)

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vonda · Posted: February 20 2004, 8:34 AM Post subject:

I SO know those telemarketer's, get at least 3 calls a day and you can ALWAYS tell who they are by the way they are OH SO CHEERFUL, sound like they are reading a script, and completely get your name WRONG!!!grrrrrrrrrrrr. Vonda

Myztri · Posted: February 20 2004, 10:48 AM Post subject:

Just what i needed.

Dont you hate when you sit new thread instead of reply!

Dont you hate getting sick, and then you dont get a chance to recover because youre busy taking care of everyone else.. and then everyone else gets better in a week and your still dragging 3 weeks later.

Dont you hate not having insurance so you cant get drugs for above mentioned illness....

Oh.. and people who park RIGHT at the line in the parking space next to you, when you parked in the middle... so that you have to go through the passenger side to get in your care.... and even worse, when someone sits in the vahicles that parked that way and WATCHES you have to climb in through the passenger side....

Or people who think they can run a red light just casue they are turning at the intersection a little ways up....

ohhh..... and the people who try to turn to out to the farthest lane, but instead of doign it right, they sit perpendicular in the intersection so they block 4 lanes of traffic....

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Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: February 20 2004, 10:59 AM Post subject:

For being such a happy-go-lucky person, I have a quite a few gripes. I will try to list only a few.

- You have a killer sinus headache, and the pills are in those tiny little foil backed packs. So you cannot get them open no matter how hard you try and by the time you do, your head is about to explode.

- You put on your husbands shirt (as I did this morning) and get to work, only to find out it is stained from the red clay that is all around your property

- You get all set up to watch your favorite tv show, only to find out the pre-empted it with Billy Graham (not that that is a bad thing, but damn)

- or worst yet MARCH FREAKEN MADNESS. OMG, why should college basket ball be so freaken important that for one whole week we have to miss our favorite shows every night.
They do not even do this for the professionals.

- That your husband, who has lived in the house as long as you have, still cannot find the damn tape

- and that same wonderful man, can mannage to get the new toilet paper out of the cupboard, but for some reason cannot manage to put it on the roll.

oh there is so much more...but that will do it for now.

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Kerry · Posted: February 20 2004, 11:17 AM Post subject:

The thing that bugs me most....I want to know where the HELL all my dinner knives have gone!?!?!?

I have 18 big forks, 18 little forks, 18 big spoons, 18 little spoons, I have 18 "iced tea spoons" (whatever they are!) and 18 "seafood forks" (why would I need that many?) and I have...are you ready for this? 10 dinner knives. I know I used to have 18! Where the heck are they?

And I think I can relate to just about every one of those gripes listed above. I've told my husband about a million times that I'm sick of being a tour guide in my own house. If he doesn't know where the tape, or the corkscrew, or the pot holders are by now, he'll never know.

Kerry

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Heidi · Posted: February 20 2004, 11:20 AM Post subject:

Gotta add one-'Mummy I cannot find my...', only to discover it is right in front of them..........my favourite expression at the moment is 'if it doesn't jump up and bite you, you cannot see it'..........maybe it is a male thing (a challenge for Jeff on a Friday pm!!!!!)

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Amy Jensen · Posted: February 20 2004, 11:58 AM Post subject:

O.K. Vonda,

Did you actually WEAR the pull up or did you just shove it down there? Kinda sick question, but I had to ask!

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vonda · Posted: February 20 2004, 12:16 PM Post subject:

WELL, not to be BLUNT, but my ass ain't that little, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. These pull ups open on both sides with that little velcro strip, so I opened them and slid them down in my underwear, actually these were BIGGER, than my underwear, taller anyway, and it was just like wearing DEPENDS.............I imagine, haven't gotten THERE yet!!!!! Vonda

rhonda · Posted: February 20 2004, 1:14 PM Post subject:

I hate it when you go to a fast food drive thru and make the mistake of not looking in the bag before you leave and get home and it's missing stuff or they put the wrong stuff on your burger!!

Or when you've been waiting in line forever and then your finally up next and you hear the cashier ask for a price check.

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vonda · Posted: February 20 2004, 2:27 PM Post subject:

AND, it's worse when they put the wrong stuff on your picky CHILD's burger, like the other night at McDonald's, we ordered a PLAIN cheesburger with just ketchup for Halle, what did we get, a cheeseburger with everything, except ketchup. Needless to say she didn't eat a single bite. Vonda

Emdad · Posted: February 20 2004, 2:40 PM Post subject:

Once again, trying to stay out of this one until my side is directly attacked. By the way, ladies (and I am using the term loosely), I am also suffering from TMI (tooooo much information)here. Elizabeth's got no underwear, and Vonda's in diapers.
No, I will only ask for directions when completely desperate, and yes, I'm the one who has to put the toilet paper on the roll - make sure it unrolls over the top and not from underneath! - every fricken time I find it sitting on the counter, and no, I don't ask where it is in the house, I'll just keep looking till I find it or don't need it anymore, or else I'll buy another one. Now, my son can't find his shoes when they're on the floor in front of him. . .
As to my complaints, most of them center around my job answering the service lines for maintenance, housekeeping, and security for a 522 bed hospital. Half of the population utilize English as a second language, and the majority engage their mouths before their brains catch on. There's nothing like a phone call -"I NEED SECURITY HERE STAT!" - click - now I have no idea where to send them, and I don't know if gunfire has erupted or it's just another homeless guy urinating against the building. I get calls for stuff where, after asking the nurse to repeat herself 3 times, will just say, ok, then send one of my buddies up to see her by saying, "somethings broken in room 622, I have no idea what it is." Or, please call me and go on and on about how terrible your carpet looks cause nobody's come to vacuum it for a week and what are you people doing cause I never see you cleaning just going to the cafeteria blah blah yadda yadda piss moan bitch whine. Just tell me what you want and GET OFF THE PHONE AND LEAVE ME ALONE!
But I'm not going to complain. I have a Batchelor's Degree in Psychology, so I know how to cope with stress, right?
Heidi, I have watched my father go into the kitchen, look through cabinets, and then call my Mom to come get him something from the kitchen. Bill Cosby does a routine (I believe that it is part of the "Himself" video) entitled "We are dumb, but we are not so dumb" that explains it so much better than I could.
And I was trying so hard to be good.

NattysMommy603 · Posted: February 20 2004, 3:18 PM Post subject:

ok, first i was catching up on everyone else's complaints since mine and when I got to Jeff I about pissed miself.

Another pet peeve is that OMG, go running into any public restroom because you just GOTTTA GOOOOOO NOOOOOOWWWW! Only to get in there and just like at home, THERE'S NO TOILET PAPER! So, no your are SITTING THERE STUCK on the toilet waiting to either AIR DRY or wait for that poor person to walk in and ask the ever emberassing question of excuse me could you please pass me a wad of toilet paper under the door? Not only maddening but humiliating as well.

Oh, I also hate it when someone calls my cellphone which has caller id and they leave a stupid message that simply says call me please. Every missed phone call I return because hello duh, that's what caller id is for!

oh yeah, besides no toilet paper, what about empty bottles all over the side of the tub? Try washing your hair only to find out someone forgot to tell you that shampoo, etc, was empty and you were just at the store. Hello? what, my hair's washed who cares about anyone else's?

Oh, and speaking of telemarketers, anyone experienced their new technique? Hello, Tracy? no. Oh, well, is Ms. Tracy ********* home? No, may I ask who's calling? Sure, this is some dumb*** at some dumb*** business and I just wanted to offer her god knows what? Um, what's with the first name business?

Oh, how about wrong number telemarketers? They keep calling back! No matter how many times you tell them that that name isn't in your household, they don't seem to believe you.

Oh, and how about blinkers? I assume they just don't have them on that model or make of car when someone fails to use them and by the time you realize they are slowing down you are slamming on your brakes?

Oh, and those darn people who use them at the last second, or worse, people who are turning into a shopping center or something making a right hand turn and yet they STOP right at the edge and look first. Where did they learn to come to a full and complete stop before making right hand turns?

Ok, I know I have more but I'll think of them later.

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Kerry · Posted: February 20 2004, 3:48 PM Post subject:

One of the other things I hate is when you take your young child to the movies. There's TONS of seats, yet an adult chooses to sit in front of the seat your child is sitting in. Do these people have no common sense? Good Lord! You're at a children's movie. Look behind you before you sit! Is there a little person there? If there is, then find another seat!

And, sorry if this describes anyone here, but I have a friend who when she calls me, just goes on and on and on and on about herself, and never gives me a chance to get a word in! I swear my half of the conversation consists of "uh-huh...oh, really?....wow...yeah?...mmm hmmm...okay, bye!" It takes her 30 minutes to tell a story I could tell in 3. Thank god for caller ID!

Kerry

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vonda · Posted: February 20 2004, 4:05 PM Post subject:

Kerry you also forgot to mention that that person who sits in front of your child in the movies ALWAYS has to be at least 400 lbs, or have a beehive hairdo up to THERE as well.

AND, Jeff, felt the dribble in my diaper as well reading your response, but I have to say that the next time Elizabeth comes to visit you I just KNOW you'll be thinking about her standing there in NO UNDERWEAR, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Vonda

Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: February 20 2004, 4:19 PM Post subject:

This has been on the most fun threads.
I agree about the movies. OMG..that is the worst, and happens to me all the time. And we go to a Blues Festival every year. You are to bring blankets etc, as it is picnic style. So we get there way early to get under the nice shade trees towards the front, spread out our blanket and pur our low boy chairs down, get a beer and a bbq braut and start enjoying things, only to have some ass's in big tall chairs come plant their big butts right in front of us. HELLOOO...gosh people are so freaken rude.
Oh Jeff....they never vaccum my carpet, could you please do something about it instead of spending your day using the work computer for personal business...teee heee..just kidding of course.

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samantha's mom · Posted: February 20 2004, 4:21 PM Post subject:

Oh Vonda I was sitting here drinking coffee reading the post and got to "AND, Jeff, felt the dribble in my diaper as well reading your response, but I have to say that the next time Elizabeth comes to visit you I just KNOW you'll be thinking about her standing there in NO UNDERWEAR, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Vonda" and I kid you not coffee came right of my nose. I NEVER thought of that, Oh so so sorry Jeff.

I am having such a bast reading these. Elizabeth

Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: February 20 2004, 4:26 PM Post subject:

Well I am having a hard deciding, when I get to Vonda's in May, do I bring a dozen roses to my gracious hostess, or a dozen pull up diapers...tee hee.

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Emdad · Posted: February 20 2004, 5:07 PM Post subject:

I have decided that, if I am Samantha's Uncle Jeff, then Elizabeth is my sister, and I could never imagine my sister not wearing underwear. So there.

vonda · Posted: February 20 2004, 9:28 PM Post subject:

This is so much fun!!!! I've had drinks fly out of my nose as well, usually while reading something on this Ds board, IMAGINE THAT!!!!! Vonda

LoveMyLivi · Posted: February 20 2004, 10:06 PM Post subject:

I have one. We've been considering trading Eric's truck in 'cause it's got a zillion miles on it and if my 'burb is in the shop, we can't all fit in his truck so kicking tires we went. Went to look at the Nissan Armada (very nice!) We asked the salesman for a brochure and he goes in to get it and...comes back with his boss to talk turkey. We clearly indicate that we are merely looking - don't even want to test drive it (as my 4 kids are going ballistic in the car lot) so they both go back into the sales office and return. Not with the brochure as we requested, but their BIG BOSS! So happens they were out of brochures all along! I told Eric that if we decided upon that vehicle, I would NEVER go back there to buy it - would travel a couple hours away 'cause I can't stand a hard sell. Whew!

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NattysMommy603 · Posted: February 21 2004, 12:58 AM Post subject:

ok, mind you I listen to a lot of kinds of music. What peeves me about the radio though is that if I'm having a sort of bum day I use music as sort of a relaxant, antidepressant, etc.. ok, great, get in the car, all the songs are upbeat, get you groovin', and singin' along. Next thing you know it's a slow song that reminds you of something or someone in your past and BLAM! right back to where you started.

This thread is awesome. I have had several drinks fly through the nose. I've learned not to drink while reading these. Yet, has anyone else found themselves just sitting quietly thinking about what all has gone on in your day and then think of one of these funny threads? Hahahahahaha. Next thing you know you're smiling away and or laughing just from a thought that no one person around you understands. I think it's great!

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Amy Jensen · Posted: February 21 2004, 8:07 AM Post subject:

I think we have the most wonderfully wacky people on this site and I, for one, am pleased to be in such good company! Vonda-I was gonna be really impressed if you had told me you had actually WORN those pull ups! I'd say you need to be strutting your stuff on the runway!

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Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: February 21 2004, 1:20 PM Post subject:

Veronika. We had the same type of experiences looking for our truck. We test drove almost every SUV out there. Manny and I each had a role. When a salesman would approach us I would say "Hi (salesman) we are shopping around for a new SUV. We want to test drive a (model). WE ARE NOT BUYING TODAY. And the first push from you to do so, we will walk. If you respect our wishes, and we like the car, then we will come back to you personally" Since it was going to be my car, I would drive and Manny would do everything in his power to pick the car apart and make the salesman squirm. Some of them did something awful. We actually had one guy get all pissed at us for making him give us a test drive, and then telling him we did not like the car, so he showed us another and we when we told him we were not buying today, just as we had already told him, he gave us such attitude so we walked away....laughing. I would say about half of them respected our wishes, the other half would bring in financial advisors and we would refuse to talk to them. The one guy who did the best job, and had the truck we really wanted, well he got out business.

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carolyn · Posted: February 21 2004, 3:41 PM Post subject:

You lot are all bananas. And yes Vonda there is a certain amount of leakage when I sneeze or cough too... In fact I am slightly dreading going back to work (REALLY dreading it for all sorts of reasons) in 2 weeks because I can't control various outbursts these days i.e leakages, tears, wind, and that really doesnt matter while it is just me and the kids and these four walls (although even Keir is sometimes suprised at the noises mummy's bottom makes). ..but my colleagues should not have to suffer these side effects of late motherhood..

And Elizabeth I would love to go out without any knickers on but it is JUST not practical I envy you. It is good however to know how holy respectable Jeff is in regards to this matter. That 'sister' line is excellent you are to be commended.

Carrie

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donnita · Posted: February 22 2004, 12:21 AM Post subject:

1. slow gas pumps

2. when the phone book company accidently lists your phone number as the hospital's information number. Luckily, ours is not a big city and there have been several correct versions of the phone book in the last few years, so now we only get 1 or 2 calls a day.

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SWoody · Posted: February 22 2004, 12:31 AM Post subject:

I have a Wal-mart pet peeve....Why do they put so much crap in the middle of their main aisles so that if you want to get from one side of the aisle to the other you have to go all the way to the end of the aisle and back to get where you wanted to go in the first place??? Plus they are always stocking the aisles, yet they are out of an item that I am looking for!! Also, people who are taking up all the room in the aisle and are standing still wait until you are about to go around them and THEN they decide to move! As you can tell, I LOVE grocery shopping!

I agree with the toy thing! I hate those plastic wire things that they use to strap in every single piece of the toy set.

Something I have had happen before is get a nosebleed while I'm driving and there were no napkins or anything to use in the car, the only thing I had was a pad! So I'm driving down the road holding a big old sanitary napkin up to my nose. It was very absorbant I might add! I'm just glad it was a pad and not a tampon! I would have loved to see people's reactions to me at a stoplight with a tampon shoved up my nose and a big string hanging out!!

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samantha's mom · Posted: February 22 2004, 12:39 AM Post subject:

Oh Sue I can so imagine you holding a pad up again your nose. And you are right thank God it was not a tampoon, I would pay to see that. And to answer your question about Wal-Mart

"Why do they put so much crap in the middle of their main aisles so that if you want to get from one side of the aisle to the other you have to go all the way to the end of the aisle and back to get where you wanted to go in the first place??? "

So people like me buy the stuff we really do not need but hey it was a great deal!! Elizabeth

SWoody · Posted: February 22 2004, 12:43 AM Post subject:

I never thought about that!! you're right! It's a CONSPIRACY!!!!

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vonda · Posted: February 22 2004, 1:55 PM Post subject:

What I hate is the GIANT skids of piled up cardboard boxes blocking an entire aisle, OR blocking something on the shelves that you need, like me, and my hair color, had to CLIMB up and over those boxes to get the box of hair color that I wanted, boy that was a sight. THEN, on a day when I was PMSing really bad they had all these metal shelves down stacked on the floor, along with the piled up boxes everywhere and Halle accidentally knocked them over. BOY was I mad, marched right up to the service desk and told them WHAT a fire hazard those boxes were and how my daughter could have injured herself on that shelving stacked up like that. Boy it felt good too!!! Vonda

Solveig · Posted: February 25 2004, 5:41 PM Post subject:

This is hilarious!!! I don't come around very often, but I just love it that when I do, I'll log off laughing so hard my computer is about to choke!
Ok, here it goes with my gripes:
Don't you just hate it when you're driving down a curvy country road, and end up behind an old man going 2MPH who has NO idea you should be at work already, not to mention you still have 2 kids to drop off at daycare??? Of course, he's enjoying his drive so much he's not even aware there's a care behind him, driven by an increasingly crazy woman!!!

Don't you just hate it when you're at a restaurant, trying to have a desent lunch, and there are 3000 cell phones going off constantly?? (I could NEVER live in NYC....)

And the ever so popular telemarketers!!!! Here's my cure: "Is this Solveig ******?" "Yes, may I ask who's calling?" "My name is SoandSo, I'm offering you this one time only great offer on ThisandThat.." (Now is the time to interrupt him or her!!!) "Oh, that sounds just GREAT!!! Could you hold on for a second, I need to take a pot off the stove?" "Yes, of course!!!" (Telemarketer's smelling the easiest sale of the day) THEN PUT THE PHONE DOWN, GO ON AND DO WHATEVER IT IS YOU WERE DOING, AND LET THEM WAIT UNTIL CHICKEN GROW TEETH. I've also given the phone to one of the kids, who LOVE to chat, and have them go on and on and on and on about whatever they want to talk about. When you're child's done talking...... just hang up! Not very polite, but heck!!! Smile

I hardly have telemarketers call at all anymore! LOL

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carolyn · Posted: February 25 2004, 7:20 PM Post subject:

I do LOVE the idea of chicken trying hard to grow teeth....!

Carrie

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Heidi · Posted: February 26 2004, 5:17 AM Post subject:

Maybe it is just my men then, Jeff?!!

I am changing tack here slightly but I have a gripe of sorts-I live in a rural part of the UK and we have lots of lovely hedgerows. Now I know they grow over the farmers' fields but do they have to cut them with such ferocity? Why can't the hedges be trimmed and laid as they used to be-much better all round. (Apologies to the townies who have no idea what I am talking about!!!)

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