<p>Please people! This is a NO REPLY thread. Therefore if someone’s get-it-off-your chest message resonates with you… PM them… except if it is me. Don’t PM me if I vent on this thread because I just want to get it off my chest and not think of it anymore. I don’t want to explain, excuse, or echo. </p>
<p>It feels good to dump without needing backstory, justification, nor further involvement.
That is what THIS thread is for.</p>
<p>^I guess we need that reminder every now and than. It is hard not to comment when the pain is so intense.</p>
<p>Can this traffic move any slower? Thank goodness I’m not driving!</p>
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Well since you seem to be in a position of authority, why don’t you just delete the offending replies. Wait, what? You’re not in charge around here? So you don’t get to make up arbitrary rules and boss people around? Huh.</p>
<p>ObRant: I know you are tired when you come home from practice, but do I really need to tell you <em>every single day</em> to put your nasty, sweaty soccer socks in the hamper instead of leaving them laying on the carpet? </p>
<p>OK, not that good, I’ll work on a better one.</p>
<p>notrichenough, this thread has been in existence since before you became a member.</p>
<p>While I AM NOT in a position of authority, let me point you to a post by an administrator within this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/4383122-post281.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/4383122-post281.html</a></p>
<p>Dear Mother Nature: If I’m going to be sick all the time, could you at least give me something that has a name and an identifiable cause, instead of just “I-always-feel-like-crap-itis”???</p>
<p>You are shocked - shocked I tell you! - to find out that your child can buy ice cream in the school cafeteria. What planet do you live on? My kids went thru 13 years in this district, we’ve always sold ice cream. Good luck finding an elementary school cafeteria anywhere that doesn’t sell ice cream! The ice cream in our cafeterias is low fat, and it’s a small serving size. If you don’t want your daughter to buy ice cream, tell her she can’t! But because you don’t want your kid to buy ice cream, no one else’s kid should be able to buy it either? And you’re going straight to the Superintendent, because I’m sure she has nothing better to do than to listen to a formerly-high-powered-executive-who-is-now-a-stay-home-mom-and-needs-to-feel-important rant about ice cream. Our school budgets have been slashed, teachers laid off, programs eliminated, facilities are crumbling, we can’t buy text books, we’re trying to prevent bullying - but you go ahead and expect the Superintendent to drop everything and listen to your rant about improving kids’ lives by denying them the chance to buy small portions of low-fat ice cream. Yeah, that will make our schools a better place to learn. Geez.</p>
<p>You called to tell me that can’t afford food or your heart medications…and now I find out that you’ve taken on another old race horse and you spent more on vet bills this winter than you did on taking care of your own health! We’ve been friends for 30 years but you seriously need to get your priorities straight before you ask me for help again! I wish I could help you indulge your passion for these lovely creatures but I have real children to take care of…and no matter how much you love them, your animals are not children! </p>
<p>Btw, I’m also sick of your nitpicking remarks and know it all attitude, which is why I haven’t offered my home to you again. You definitely have a knack with animals but that does not make you an expert on parenting teenagers. No matter how much you love kids. It’s just annoying when people who don’t have children act like they know more than those of us who have done it for a few decades.</p>
<p>Rewind and repeat: post #2068.
Repeat as needed.</p>
<p>I’m really missing you tonight.</p>
<p>How can you suddenly decide, one day before the trip that you don’t want to go? Do you know I rearranged the whole trip when you said you wanted to go? Do you think I’m your parent? I’m not and I am not a doormat either. I don’t care that you’re not going, I care that you said you were and asked me for something different than what we had planned so I spent hours and hours rearranging the trip to accommodate you. Now you’re not going because you’ll be tired for a party you have that evening? You knew you had that party when you said you would go. Nobody forced you to go or maybe your parents did, I don’t know. All I know is that you had best not ask anything of me ever again and certainly don’t ask me for a college letter of recommendation!!! Selfish spoiled brat!!!</p>
<p>It just got worse! Mom emails me and says I didn’t think of the family’s personal situation that caused your daughter to change your mind. Your family’s personal situation?! What in any of these emails leads me to believe you have a personal situation? You might be too tired to go to a party at 5PM when we get back at 2 or 3PM? How is that a personal family situation? Did you stop to consider what I might have sacrificed from my personal family time to rearrange this trip for your daughter? Or the family sacrifices I have made in the last 12 years for your daughter and the troop? I don’t care that I did but don’t pull that cr*p on me; have you ever said thank you that your daughter has gained more in the last 12 years than any other girl? Your daughter does not walk on water and she is very far from perfect. You’ve just proved once again why she is such a selfish spoiled brat!!!</p>
<p>I am SO tired of being the bad guy. </p>
<p>Parent #1 - On your free lunch application, in the space where you’re supposed to write your gross income you wrote “We make too much to qualify, but after expenses we have very little money left over so whatever you can do for us would be appreciated.” You didn’t even give me any information to work with, except that you don’t qualify! Then I have administrators asking me how I could have possibly denied your application! What else was I supposed to do?</p>
<p>Parents #2,3,4 - If you want to use your Free lunch status to get waivers for bus fees, athletic fees and activity fees, then next time don’t check off the box that says, “No - do NOT share my information with other programs!” Now I have people in the district calling me because you told them you should get a fee waiver because your family qualifies for Free lunch, and I cannot confirm for them that your kids indeed do get free lunch because YOU told me NOT to. Now all of a sudden <em>I</em> am the bad guy? You can’t have it both ways! Either authorize me to share the information or don’t ask other programs for fee waivers!</p>
<p>You want to go camping with your friend? Then pack your c**p and let me drive you to her house. You’ve been procrastinating for hours, you have 15 minutes left. No, 14. If you’re not ready, I’ll take you over there AFTER rush hour. That means after 8 PM!!!</p>
<p>Get moooooooooooooooooving!</p>
<p>Why don’t you grow up and act like the middle-aged guy you are?! Quit being so mean to my daughter. What adult makes it his business to hurt a kid? Here you are, 40-something years old, and snubbing my teenage daughter at family events and even at her graduation events. Heck, you nearly knocked her over last weekend and didn’t even blink. Don’t come to my house then! Don’t invite us either! (The grandparents will get over it.) She trusted you, and you failed miserably. If her dad were living, he would put you in your place. Oh, right. If he were living, you wouldn’t dare act like this. He had more class in his little finger than you will ever have. You big bully. How would you like for someone to treat your daughters like that?</p>
<p>Strangely, I don’t feel any better letting that out.</p>
<p>To the saint of a guy who got in his truck and chased after the truck he recognized from the news as matching the description of a vehicle used in the abduction of a little girl and who risked his own safety to rescue the girl – you, sir, are an American hero.</p>
<p>sorry I’m taking over this thread, but…</p>
<p>Can we please stop with all this “Awareness”? Is there anyone, anywhere, who is NOT aware of Breast Cancer? How about we do some actual fundraising for a cure? And how about we remember that there are other forms of cancer, that are harder to detect and have a much lower cure rate? And my one last request - stop plastering pink ribbons all over everything in sight and using cancer as a marketing too. Yoplait - wanna donate to cancer research? Then just do it. Don’t tell me that I’m helping cure cancer by buying your product and mailing in your lids. There’s a lot of breast cancer survivors out there who don’t need a reminder of their disease every time they turn around.</p>
<p>Parent #1: Yes, your daughter is very talented and pretty and you’ve done so very well in raising her be ambitious with the work ethic to match, but she has done things, degrading things, sexually with more than several people that make even the most hardened frattastic hormonal male vomit in his mouth.</p>
<p>I sincerely appreciate the investment you’re making in developing my skills, but do you realize that I’m more likely to find a position in which I can apply these skills at another company, not this one?</p>
<p>I’m right. Get over it.</p>