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Maybe it's just me but I'm having one of those days where apparently to all the men in the world I'm a friggin moron.
I'm helping a friend with some images for his new website for his COH SG... I'm doing this out of the kindness if my heart and the bordom of some spare time on my hands... I wish I'd known when I voluntered my time to him he'd be so opposed to listening to an art students opinion of it bright red web site... (not kidding... hardest thing to read after gaming for a while... feels like my eyes are going to explode.)
Ok so I just sent him some stuff, and he sends me a message that that red thingie is too big. Now keep in mind... I kind of forced him to invert his colors by making the title bars and the buttons and the borders the colors I thought they should be, I thought maybe he just couldn't see it ( I would have changed them around if he'd asked... he didn't) But I'd sent him a bunch of red thingies... so I asked him to be a bit more specific. "Well that bar thingie" was his reply... what bar thingie???? Which one... I sent like 12 buttons and 5 title bars... or are we talking about the bars that go around the buttons (aka the border)
I guess he thought by adding -ie to the end of his words I would understand better... so the thingie that does this thingie, and makes it go over this thingie... ok I'm exagerating now... but really just curoius do guys honestly think by calling it a "thingie" we're suddenly going to understand what they mean???
I suppose that the converse could be asked of women... since the most often asked for thingie in my house is the "screwdriver thingie" despite the fact that I know I need a 3/4" phillips head... but hey, when we get frustrated thingie is all we can come up with.
Gah... not another e-mail from him... please dear lord no more "thingies"
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| 09/01/04 16:05 |
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Well...you know more about tools than I do because I have no idea what 3/4 has to do with a phillips head I just know I need a phillips head. But I don't think I have used the word "thingie" in trying to descripe what I need since 3rd grade hehe.
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| 09/01/04 17:40 |
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i use the word thingie when i don't know what something is called.... but in his case i think he should be a bit more specific about it.... but hey boys, what can we do?
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| 09/02/04 09:59 |
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Heh, I remember when my mother asked for the thing-a-ma-jig in the whatchacallit and I knew what she was asking for. Of course, I was helping her make dinner and knew what I would have needed the rubber spatula from the crock next to the stove.
I double majored and minored in 3 different sciences. And I worked in a research lab for 4 years before switching to the corporate business world. I greatly understand the frustation of being asked for a thingie, instead of a 3/4" Phillips head screwdriver :) Hello! If you don't call them by name, how do you keep them straight? They can't all be "thingie"!
I work in payroll time entry (we deal very little with dollar amounts - almost none - and ALL of our entry is done by hours). I have an employee, who has been working for me for over 5 years, who still tells me that she paid so-and-so 40 dollars (hours). I have tried being funny about it, by remarking how that person isn't going to be very happy with their paycheck and she gets frustrated with me for being smart about it.
I also hate it when people assume that whatever they are talking about it the only thing you are working on that day. I deal with processing time for 15000 people a week. I don't actually process the time, but audit the information and deal with problems in the department. I work on about 100 people's checks a day, with maybe 20-40 problem people. However, people will come up and start talking about their one person like I've been waiting all day to hear about them, when maybe I last thought about them 3 days ago (they weren't that big of a deal to me).
Oh, I'm so glad someone else understands the importance of being specific :)
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| 09/02/04 10:55 |
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I work in a Pharmacy, counting pills until I get out of school for Radiology, and I have people who I've never even seen before come up and say "I need to pick up my perscription" and nothing else... when I ask a name this one woman sighed and says "You must be new." well hello if you've never seen me beofre then yes obviously I'm new... it didn't take the 3 brain cells that you have to figure that one out either.
another thing that drives me crazy is at the drive-thru, ok when someone puls up it dings, but there's still a button to call, just in case we don't hear it ding, it happens very infrequently. What drives me bonkers is, someone will pull up, it'll ding and 2 seconds later the annoying buzzer goes off telling us that someone's hit the button... what the hell people... it takes me more than 2 seconds to get from where I'm counting to where the drive-thru is.
Another tale of the drive thru... those speakers... if there is any noise (and I mean any) on the other side of the speaker, it makes it very difficult to understand the name that I'm being told... so I usually ask them to spell it for me... don't want to give someone the wrong pills... I always have to ask on the easiest names too.. like today it was arnold... what the hell else could arnold sound like... so when I asked her to spell it for me she goes "K,Y,L,E, A,R,N,O,L,D" and gives me this look like what the hell was so hard about that... until I explain that sometimes it's difficult to understand what someone's saying.
Oh... the last one I promise, if you're the passenger in a car... I can't hear you... between the space from the speak and the sound of your car running... all I hear is "mubmle, mumble" send the message to the driver... if you can't understand me what are the chances I can understand you, and I've even got a mic right in front of me.
So there you have it... the idicies of being a working woman I guess... we're all morons... even in out own fields...
BTW, I'd have laughed at her saying she's giving someone 40 dollars...especially if you' said what you did with me there... that woman would have hated me.
Another BTW (then I'm done for real) a 3/4" phillips head... is just the width of the head... (mind out of the gutter) sometimes you need a smaller screwdriver to fit the screw you have ;) That's about the extent of my tool knowlege though... I've got no clue what a "compound Miter saw" does, and I even helped buy one for my Brother-in -law. :)
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| 09/02/04 18:01 |
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Just let it out Gyspy, come on don't hold back, let it all out!
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| 09/02/04 21:38 |
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Try working 911/Dispatch for the Police. I worked as a dispatcher for almost 2 years (now im a full-fledged crime fighter in RL). Talking to people on the phone who call in incidents and don't tell you where thier happening at, or when radio traffic is so high that noone can understand what in the heck is going on.
Never mind all the stupid people who get pissed at you for doing your job (Ensureing that their homes don't get looted after the hurricane by insuring the people in the houses are those who live their). Then when the houses get looted (on someone elses shift) they get pissed that you weren't doing your job.
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| 09/02/04 21:51 |
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I don't know what a compound miter saw does either hehe. I am a computer tech and while I understand computers and can troubleshoot and fix anything I don't know all the tools by name intimately . But I do understand the need to be specific though because I can't very well tell someone there is an error thingie with that program thing-a-ma-bob and by the way you need to upgrade some..like you know..stuff because uhhh you know...it will make it like...run better and stuff.
But then again I used to teach as well and I learned fast that you have to be VERY VERY specific with some folks and I do mean spell it out in painful detail hehe.
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yeah I'm a terrible person, I'll hold everything in at work and come home and blow... my poor boyfriend :( he usually gets the burnt of it, but he's learned to just smile and nod when I vent and be done with it.
Beleive me I know what you mean about the dispach... I use to work in MIS... I was the one person that everyone called before they could talk to a tech, they'll tell me what the porblem was... I'd ask if they'd rebooted, if not I'd have them reboot and call back if they were still having teh problem... 95% of problems are fixed by a reboot people, reboot before you call.
But there was one guy, an engineer, who calls me. We've just built him a new machine, now on this paper we would send out with the tech there was all the things he needed, programs, drive access. it was his job to make sure that the tech had all the information. He forgot a drive... so he calls me. "My boss is on my A$$, I've got this project that needs to go out to a client at 5 (mind you it's 4:30) and I don't have acces to the V: (or whatever) drive and I can't beleive you morons didn't give me acces to it. I told that girl tech, whatever her name is, (we only had one girl on the MIS staff aside from me) and she's so dumb that she can't rember one drive. So I tell him to hold on and I pull the sheet for his build, and low and behold, no where on this sheet does it say he needs access to that drive, so I ask him if he double checked the build sheet? "well I looked at it." tell him that the drive isn't on there but let to me go talk to Kim (our only female tech) and see if she has a few moments to come over there and give you access.
Now I think I did well for holding my temper, cause at the time I was like 16 (not kidding I was working corperate at 15, I interned at the company my dad worked for ,and no one that didn't know me personally, knew I wasn't a college intern... go me) So I go back to Kim, with this sheet in hand, visibaly shaken cause there were a few more choice words thrown in there that I felt deserved to be left out, and tell Kim that he needs access to this drive and could she please make sure he get's this ASAP. Well when she asked which one he is, I'm albe to tell her exactally where he was sitting... saddly I know that kind of info, and she goes, oh him, that guys got a temper hang on a second. Picks up the phone and calls him "if you ever talk to one of my staf like that again I'll personally make sure that you never get a new piece of equiptment. Now, I had you look over the build sheet before I left, if that drive was missin you should have told me then, I'm not psychic and I don't know what drives you need access too, now I'll be over there in a moment to give you this access, but don't you ever yell at my staff again. If it weren't for this girl you'd probably now have a new omputer so grow up." and slams down the phone.
Not kidding you, the second I got back to my chair he calls back to appologize. But Yeah I can understand the idiots blaming you for useless shit.
although I felt bad one day, I had been told that all cell phones when they dial 911 are programed to call teh nearest Highway patrol station. So one day I'm on my way home and there's a huge chunk of debris in the road and people are swerving and not really looking where they're swerving too. So I pick up my cell phone, remebering this tidbit of info. and dial 911, in attempts to avoid causeing a wreck later on in the evening rush. and I get the "911 what is your emergency?" to wich I go oh my, I'm sorry, I was told that my cell phone would call highway partol, I didn't meant o call 911. I appologize. and the lady is very nice and says, "that's ok, I'd heard that too, you be careful out there and have a nice day." I'm glad she was nice about it, I guess I was used to all those tales I was told when it first cam out, fi you call 911 and it's not an emergency they'll bill you for it, it'll got on your record, they'll call teh cops on you... you know that stuff. :)
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| 09/03/04 09:37 |
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You guys ever had people threaten to sue you for useless shit? Maybe its just something the wealthy do. I worked one winter at Vail for the Hyatt in Beaver Creek. In one seaon 3 people threatened to sue me.
The first time was because they showed up for their reservation. They had requested a Mountain View room if possible, but they where full and non-available. When they got to their room they didn't like the view they did have (from the front of the hotel) and came storming back down. I was working the front desk at the time (and mind you we have nothing to do with reservations) and the gentleman informed me that I had to move him into a Mountain Room or he was going to sue the hotel and sue me personally. Of course that did fly and the MOD pulled him into an office and talked to him, but I was incredulous.
The next guest who threatened to sue me was one that actually DID get a Mountain View room. Seems they didn't consider that Vail actually blows snow and does grooming at night. The called down and demanded I call Vail Resorts and have them cease the grooming operations immediately because they could not sleep due to the noise. I tried to inform them that I had no number to call anybody at Vail at this hour, that Hyatt Hotels was not affiliated with Vail and I had no pull with them, and that it was a necessary operation and that I was sure there was nothing I could do to get them to stop. To this response came the reply "If they don't stop in the next hour I am going to sue you." Of course they didn't stop within the next hour and I was never sued hehhe.
The oddest one of all though was perhaps one involving an American Express retreat. They had I think 2 seminar coordinators who where responsible for keeping track of the attendants, their travel, needs, events etc. Somehow (probably a situation similar to the V: drive incident) one of the attendants need for a shuttle at a given time to get her back to the airport for her flight and was overlooked. She came to the desk in a panic because her shuttle had not arrived. We told her that we have nothing to do with coordinating shuttle rides and that it was all handles by your seminar coordinator. She started yelling and screaming about how she was going to miss her fight and how we had better do something. Trying my best to be helpful I called the cab company and they tell me it will be 30-40 minutes before they can get a cab out there. I inform her of this and she launches into triad of abusive comments and tells me she can't wait another 30-40 minutes and that if she misses her flight she was going to sue me.
Its the oddest thing...I have only been threated with being sued 3 times and all 3 times where in one winter ski season in Vail.
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| 09/03/04 10:06 |
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ok I just learned how to ski this past winter... aka spent a day on my butt in the snow... also spent one lovely trip down a hill discussing the snow conditions and my inability to ski with a lovely Ent who happend to rescue me and slow my descent down an icy bank... a really lovely and touching story.
So trying to ski the first time... I was terrified... of the bunny slopes... come on... it's a minimal slope, but I love him and my bf is a skier, spent a week in Colorado skiing and if he'd met me 2 weeks earlier I'd have been out there with him... but instead upon his return I'd purchased a set of skis and boots... used mind you I'm not made of money.
So we go skiing... I hate winter... I hate snow, I really hate cold, I've had horses all my life, I despise winter... no one wants to break ice out of buckets and clean stalls when the poo is frozen to the ground... however they can really hurt with thrown witht he proper force... again another lovely story that will have to wait for another day. :)
so he drags me to Ohio's idea of skiing... from what I understand our Black diamond runs look like the bunny hills in Colorado... (I'm peeing mt pants at the thought of it :0
Needless to say I spent a lot of time that day seeing the tops of the mountains (ha)... and not nearly enough of the bottom... or any of the space in between... He's assured me once I figure out how to turn (the lack of which required the rescue by the Ent) it'll be fun. Can't they just have a steering wheel... or a joystick, I'll even settle for an old style Nintendo pad... I can turn on those... "just lead with your knees" he says... right... I've been steering 1200 lbs of horse for years with my "belly button" according to my mother... and now I'm gonna go flying down a hill steering myself with my knees... maybe I should just tattoo tree hugger on my forehead and stay at the bottom. :)
I will admit, when I wasn't on my butt, or communing with nature it was fun, but those times were pretty few and far between :)
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| 09/04/04 00:00 |
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Oh no... your bf tried to teach you how to ski and you're still together? Now that's a commited relationship! Too many couples have been split up by the words "oh, I can teach you how to ski, honey".
Caer was smart enough just to sign me up for lessons and wave goodbye to me in the morning. Since then, I've bought boots, but won't invest in skis until I'm better at it, because you change length of skis a lot between greens and blacks, so I just rent skis and poles. If you're ever in Colorado, Gypsy, we'll go down the bunny slopes together. :)
Just be glad you didn't try snowboarding... now that's a brutal first couple of days...
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| 09/04/04 00:29 |
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| QUOTE | | So we go skiing... I hate winter... I hate snow, I really hate cold, I've had horses all my life, I despise winter... no one wants to break ice out of buckets and clean stalls when the poo is frozen to the ground... |
I grew up outside of Chicago, im not a fond lover of the winter either. But with the second Huricane coming at me in just 3 weeks (and god knows how many more on the way) I'll gladly trade cold and winter for a Hunicane free season.
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| QUOTE | | so he drags me to Ohio's idea of skiing... from what I understand our Black diamond runs look like the bunny hills in Colorado... (I'm peeing mt pants at the thought of it :0 |
Growing up in Pittsburgh and having done some skiing in Pennsylvania and Ohio before moving to Colorado...I would say thats a pretty fair assesment...well except our bunny slopes actually have snow on them instead of ice ;)
| QUOTE | | \"just lead with your knees\" he says... right... I've been steering 1200 lbs of horse for years with my \"belly button\" according to my mother... and now I'm gonna go flying down a hill steering myself with my knees... maybe I should just tattoo tree hugger on my forehead and stay at the bottom. :) |
Well wearing a helmet is always good advice. There are still a lot of folks out there who think they are too cool or wear them or something. Big mistake. Life and Health are too valuable for silly things like thinking your too cool to wear a helmet so my advice is if your not wearing one..get one. :)
That and I have to say that in 14 or so years of skiing I have never heard the advice \"steer with your knees\" outside of Telemark. Is that what you are learning? If not I at least hope he is referring to snow plowing when giving that advice, but even then...
I mean steering more or less involves extension, flexation and edging and this involves the entire body, but upper torso, hips, knees and ankle joints working together in particular. I think your mother was probably closer to the truth when she said \"lead with your bellybutton\" than \"leading with your knees\" :)
| QUOTE | | I will admit, when I wasn't on my butt, or communing with nature it was fun, but those times were pretty few and far between :) |
Well the good news is it does get better and it gets better faster than you think it will. There are learning curves and plateaus with skiing just like any other sport. You will struggle a bit at first and then all of a sudden "you will get it" and your learning curve will go up pretty sharply for a bit until the next plateau and so on. But you will be surprised and how quickly you will all of a sudden advance.
And yes I did get send GrrrlX off on lessons and wave goodbye to her in the morning and ski with her in the afternoon. IMHO there is no better way to get over that first learning hump than a few days of half-day private lessons and then practicing what you learned in the afternoon....but thats just my opinion...I could be wrong :)
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bah skiing! doesn't anyone sled any more, now that is the fun stuff.... and i LOVE the snow, can't wait for this stupid hot weather to go away so i can actually go outside during the day..... well that's my imput
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| 09/04/04 12:33 |
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I did have fun, aand there was was, being pushed (litterally) though and onto bigger hills, because he figured once I figured out how to slow down then I'd be just fine... at least until that first turn.I kept thinking lead with you knees... I was turniny my knees, but my skis just kept going straight. so when I hit that bank the first time and tumbled head over skis... well I ws hurting, but too big of a bad A$$ to let him know it. She I'm one of those "tough chicks" or at least I think I am. So I get myself back up and just try not go go what seems like 90 mph head first down this hill...and just concentrating on not hitting anyone if I go down.
So once I kind of figure out how to go down that first hill, we move on... I realize for him doing the same hill over and over is boring, but to me its practice... if I can figure out how to turn a little bit on that firt hill then I'll be better off for the next,but he just kept pushing... so I went, not wanting to be a pansy. Onto the next hill, not so bad, no nasty crashes, did that one twice and he decides since I didn't fall we should move on... ok why not right... this is supposed to be fun. So I go with him.... the next hill by the time we get to it is starting to get kind of icy at the top, but I didn't know this at the time... it's a pretty steep drop to a quick turn to the right... except on what minimal turning ability I have and the ice, I head straight to the tree line. Now it was a fairly mild winter this year so the snow was banked up pretty high to get a ski surface, and the area beneath the trees... no snow to be had. It's one of those things that you can see it comming and know it's going to hurt but have no way of stopping it, all I could do was try to slow myself down and pra I didn't break something. So over the chinked up snow I go, and from years of riding horses I try to tuck and roll like I was taught, however it's really hard to tuck when you've got 5 foot strips of fiberglass strapped to your feet and sapplings and biger trees quickly comming at you... so the closest I got was fetal position. and thank God for the Ent that rescued me... caught my behind the knees and stopped me from going any further.
Again from years of horses I to a quick mental check. Where does it hurt... ok it doesn't hurt too bad, can you move it, yes... ok now try to pull yourself up. Luckily for me, none of my exteremities hit anything with any force... I think the Ents were diving out of the way, cause I'm not sure how I didn't hit my head on one. :) But the worst I got out of it was a bruised ego, and a bruised knee. I quit for the day after taking one quick trip down the hill I did pretty good on... always ending on something positive. and watched him ski for a little bit.
I can now fully appreciate the need for a helmet, it's the same with horse, I've been riding since I wa a kid, I used to jump my horse bareback over 4' tall oxers (those are the wide jumps" and stupidly I'd do all this in a small area, and with no helmet, until we were out riding with a friend who insisted that we wear helmets, and my sisters horse spooked. She got her foot caught , and ended up underneath her horse, and got kiced in the head, and her helmet cracked to take the impact. When she took it off it looked like a lady bug, opening right down the middle, with a hoof shaped imprint on it. If it hadn't been for our friend insisting my sister wouldn't be here... so I think this winter I'll be getting a helmet. Iron Crusader (his character name) wants to take my skiing in Colorado this winter... I think I might pass until I can turn... and I'm out of school. :) I would like to go skiing in Scotland though... hear Edinburo has some great hills. :)
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| 09/04/04 16:37 |
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I agree - sledding is the winter sport of choice. At least for a horrible klutz like me. The ski hill in my hometown has sledding on Wednesdays. You get to use the tow rope to get back up the hill! Way better than the sand hill (well, snow in winter) that we would go to on the weekends, where you had to walk ack up yourself.
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well it's still ranting... of a sort... just a different sort... complaing about other things...
I'm a terrible person.. I'm never on topic with my family... 3 seconds of one toppic, 5 of another, 17 of te next then back to the frist one...part of having a short attention span I guess. :)
Besides I haven't had any sutpid peopla ask me to do something by refering to it as a what-cha-ma-call-it, or a thingie-ma-bob.... :) besides it's an off topic rant right???
Oh well... Back to topic I guess.. :(
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| 09/05/04 09:58 |
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| QUOTE | well it's still ranting... of a sort... just a different sort... complaing about other things...
I'm a terrible person.. I'm never on topic with my family... 3 seconds of one toppic, 5 of another, 17 of te next then back to the frist one...part of having a short attention span I guess. :)
Besides I haven't had any sutpid peopla ask me to do something by refering to it as a what-cha-ma-call-it, or a thingie-ma-bob.... :) besides it's an off topic rant right???
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i think that since you are the one who started the thread you shouldn't have to apologize for going off topic on it... i mean it is on the off topic forum, so i figure no harm no foul... better to get your ranting out on one thread than filling the forum up w/ a bunch of threads that are just rants.... so i say let it all out!
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Heck yeah! Off Topic is just that... ramble any ol' way you want to!
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| 09/05/04 20:33 |
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there you have it.... I've got approval from 2 other staff members... I'm rambling... if you don't like it... don't read it ;)
Ok so today is a holiday... I had to work... I ahd this one lady come in at 2 after 5, and the Pharmacist and I were gathering our things to leave... she comes up and is all out of breath "I'm going into the hospital and I need to get my pills." (all sweet and old lady like) :) So I ask if she was just picking them up... of courser not they;re new ones and begins rooting through her purse to find them, and comes up with a huge stack..."well is there anoyone here that can fill them?" Now I was contemplating it before she cam up witht he big stack... but I left the decision to the Pharmacist cause really it's up to him, I can't legally dispense any pills without a pharmacists approval. So he looks at her and says "Well we closed at 5 today, being a holiday and all, and the computers are shut down." she get's all huffy and goes "WELL! I dont know how people say in buisness if they don't DO business!!!" and stomps off.
Now... don't get me wrong, if she'd have been a regular customer, I'd have asked the pharamcist if we could do it, If she'd only had one, I'd have asked the pharmacist if we could do it... but when she walked in I heard her ask someone where the pharmacy was, and why the gates were closed... and heard them say, Well they're closed but you might see if anyones there... So she knew... Knew we were closed. It cracks me up that she get's all pissy because on a holiday, when most places aren't even open, and we were there till 5.. if she'd have come in earlier that day... things eould ahve been just fine... but you don't show up at close of business and expect someone t stay after as a favor to you... I don't think so.... I wanted to get home and get off my feet and game for a while... not cout pills for a grumpy old lady... and if she's going into the hospital, then she can take the perscriptions to the hospital with her and they can fill them there... she doesn't need to take them with her.
ARGH... people just really aggrivate me sometimes...Oh what I wouldn't do some days for the Radiation pools X-ray... Burn their little perscriptions to dust... HAHAHAHA Get it filled now BIATCH! :)
Ok I feel better now :) lol... My poor BF was getting sick of hearing stories ;)
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I think my brain exploded when I tried to read all this post within a 10 minute period... That's what you get for surfing the internet at school.
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| 09/15/04 11:05 |
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| QUOTE | | I think my brain exploded when I tried to read all this post within a 10 minute period... That's what you get for surfing the internet at school. |
i don't think you should try reading any of the threads w/i 10 min, it can't be good for you!
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| 09/15/04 15:55 |
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I am ok with with imprecise descriptions unless it is my surgeon asking the nurse for his "cutting thingy".
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| 09/20/04 20:40 |
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I've only had a scrapper,so I am wondering about other archtypes, especially controllers.
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Wow, talk about your wild rambles... So much for trying to catch up with the rest of the threads, lol took me half the night just to read this one propperly. But hey, I have that kind of time with my job.
Speaking of which, don't get me started on the sorrid details of things that go on in hotels after midnight. I thought working at a convenience store was dangerous, boy was I wrong. Working as both the night auditor and security guard for a hotel is brutal. Actually I really wish I could tell you guys about some of the things that have gone on here because some of them are just really funny. But for the most part they're either disturbing or inappropriate for this kind of forum so I guess I'll have to refrain and let your imaginations fill in the details for you. Let me just say this, I'm on a first name basis with most of the police who work the graveyard shift in my town because of this job.
Heh, as for the rest of the randomness... never had a problem with scraping horse dung off of anything. Heh, even when it would get into frozen clumps on the ground. Man I miss the Nemier's and working on their farm. I can't understand why anyone wouldn't enjoy skiing cause it's just such a huge rush to be racing down the side of a mountain with the wind whipping in your face and trees rushing past you on either side of the course. Hmmm...screwdrivers....screwdrivers..... Well, I'm just going to leave that one at I know the difference between a standard and philips head.
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| 10/15/04 03:29 |
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controllers interst me because they can do cool things like make badguys beat each other up.
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I like cheese....
(LOL Sorry bit of midnight maddness there.)
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| 10/15/04 23:42 |
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I'm also thinking about blasters because they can do damage
from far away.Plus I just think that ice blasters are kick ass.
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| 10/26/04 21:51 |
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MMMMMMMMM......DONUTS!!!.....DOH!!!
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