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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

PattiCakeUS, and all concerned:
Please accept my apologies for my rant re marriage, et al - I made the post answering a post about marriage, and the declining sex that was made earlier.

I posted what I did based upon my life, and my life was pretty screwed up for a long time; plus, it was the day before my birthday, and I was running late to an appointment with my therapist (my fiancée was running late, as she had a meeting to attend).

I meant to offend no one - and, if I did - once again, accept my sincere apologies. At 2:09 AM, I will officially turn 53 years old.

Yesterday was a bad day for me... I hope that everyone understands, and forgives me for such a negative post.

Your friend in rants, LW
 
LOveWerks said:
PattiCakeUS, and all concerned:
Please accept my apologies for my rant re marriage, et al - I made the post answering a post about marriage, and the declining sex that was made earlier.

I posted what I did based upon my life, and my life was pretty screwed up for a long time; plus, it was the day before my birthday, and I was running late to an appointment with my therapist (my fiancée was running late, as she had a meeting to attend).

I meant to offend no one - and, if I did - once again, accept my sincere apologies. At 2:09 AM, I will officially turn 53 years old.

Yesterday was a bad day for me... I hope that everyone understands, and forgives me for such a negative post.

Your friend in rants, LW
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Dude...no problem...[emoji106]
Kaat72 said:
The rant thread is for ranting, LOveWerks. We're cool ;)
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Absolutely!
 
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I think marriage should be illegal until the age of 35...I have good reason for thinking this. First you need to establish yourself as individuals, both professionally and personally. How many marriages have ended because of career pressure or because someone else felt shorted because they stayed home while the other finished school and established their career path. I know people get married in their 20s and make it but in my opinion we haven't established ourselves as individuals and certainly can't function in a collective dynamic. Secondly people need to date & do all the deviant activities they need to so when they get married there isn't so much curiosity. (The need to cheat the first and second are related I think.)
Again just the opinion of a 40 year old that's been divorced and widowed.
 
starkraving said:
I think marriage should be illegal until the age of 35...I have good reason for thinking this. First you need to establish yourself as individuals, both professionally and personally. How many marriages have ended because of career pressure or because someone else felt shorted because they stayed home while the other finished school and established their career path. I know people get married in their 20s and make it but in my opinion we haven't established ourselves as individuals and certainly can't function in a collective dynamic. Secondly people need to date & do all the deviant activities they need to so when they get married there isn't so much curiosity. (The need to cheat the first and second are related I think.)
Again just the opinion of a 40 year old that's been divorced and widowed.
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I was in my 30th year when I married, and became a father to two children.

Your post makes perfect sense to me. However, due to substance abuse and my career choice (being a musician/vocalist), I still wasn't fully established in the way you described.

Today, I turned 53. I finally have the woman of my dreams, and I'm repairing the damage that I inflicted upon my life up until seven years ago.

My lady and I are in no rush to marry yet. She is, however, my fiancée - as she is the woman I've dreamed of since my youth.

Your comment about waiting until your mid-30s to marry is very insightful. Some people may argue that the generation gap can be difficult (it was, for me), but...

Having an extra measure of wisdom before becoming a parent is a necessary thing, in my humble opinion.

When you become a parent, it is no longer about you, and your life works. Being a parent is a big life change, since your children become your primary responsibility.

Thank you for sharing your views. LW
 
Terrible day. I'm on 2 different types of meds for heart disease. About 30 days ago I was given a prescription for 1x 30 of one and 3x 30 of another, 1 of each daily. The 1x 30 ran out Sunday so I thought I was done with that part of the meds. Yesterday I felt a little anxiety and down. This morning, total melt down. Turns out the med in question should not have stopped. Waiting for the refill now.
 
Today. Today grinds my gears.

First work thing: Let's find the most complicated piece of testing and give it to the new person. Oh, you don't have a clue about how to do it? Ask ol' "Clemmy", she'll help. Sure. I will. I will take multiple hours and explain what needs to be done and how to do it. I will update your files because some idiot built them wrong, you were set up to fail. So, now we can proceed together. Run that in and when it bombs out (that's OK, it's supposed to) we will go to the second batch of files and I'll fix those too. There we go, now we have it right. Yes, you're welcome and it's OK, it's not like I had my own stuff to do. Sorry no one trained you right.

Next up: I get an email from an "off-shore" tester. Hey, can you look at this 'cause I'm all confused. Sure, I'll look. Multiple conversations between her and the coder had taken place. She's right, coder's wrong (as usual). I know the coder is wrong but decide to double check before replying. Wrong move. I asked my quasi-supervisor what she thinks; am I right in thinking all these files DON'T have to be updated? No, no you are wrong, they ALL need updating. OK, ugh, thanks. So I reply to the email that I'll have to update the files (because "off-shore" isn't allowed to touch them), and asked the coder what is needed specifically. Three seconds later my stupid quasi-ass-supervisor replies that nothing needs to be updated on our end, the coder needs to fix the code. Yeah, thanks for making me look foolish when I knew I was right to begin with. Thanks for taking the time to not understand what I was asking you before. Idiot. UGH.
 
The day just gets better and better. lol.

I went to make a sandwich and the bread has a bit of blue mold on it. Of course it does.

Some idiot ran from the police near the park that is in walking distance from my house. There are now helicopters circling around. I really HATE helicopters. I could care less about the person they are looking for, I have two German Shepherds!

Shudda stayed in bed this morning. Oh, yeah, internet was out when I got up too. hahaha. I quit. o_O
 
Dear McDonald's. I really had a crappy day. All I wanted (not really, I was hungry and didn't feel like cooking) was a fish sandwich. It was made with two bottom buns. That's just not a good thing to serve someone who is borderline (that border's been crossed really) OCD. I ate it but it was super annoying and, pardon the pun, hard to swallow. Had I not been in such a bad mood I would have driven back to yell at you. Jerks. Thanks for adding to my misery.
 
At my work, we had a 5k "fun run/walk" thingy today. I don't run (unless something scary is chasing me, I really don't see the point) and normally I'm a kinda fast walker, but I twisted my ankle right at the start! I still walked, though, but it definitely ground my gears. I even said a bad word in my head when it happened :p
 
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