<p>To me: STOP OBSESSING. CALM DOWN. IT WILL WORK OUT.</p>
<p>To ACM: {hug}</p>
<p>You know, every Thanksgiving I offer to bring a dish, a bag of rolls, or even a bag of ice to dinner. You tell me not to. Yet, you fully embrace the offers from your other DILs. (And I always welcome your contributions to my dinner parties.) Why? WHY? Why are my home-made dishes or store bought items not good enough? After 20 years of being singled-out, it really hurts and I feel insulted. </p>
<p>When Iâm a MIL, I promise to keep it fair.</p>
<p>Do Jews celebrate Thanksgiving? </p>
<p>This from my MIL who is coming here (and did so two years ago) for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>Yes, American Jews have Thanksgiving. Canadians Jews do so as well, but on a different day. Uruguayian JewsâŠpossibly not.</p>
<p>Do you have turkey? (means will I have turkey)</p>
<p>You arenât serving JEWISH food for Thanksgiving?</p>
<p>WellâŠsince the food is an all day affair start with the first football gameâŠyes, kosher hot dogsâŠand kosher shrimpâŠ</p>
<p>No lox?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Thank God. I hate lox. Canât trust people who eat lox.</p>
<p>So you donât like the Scots and the Danes?</p>
<p>Me tooâŠI will be such a nice MIL.</p>
<p>Reminds me of a woman who asked an American-born woman of Mexican descent what she was going to do for Thanksgiving. </p>
<p>The usualâŠturkey, dressing, etc.</p>
<p>First woman: where do you find Mexican turkeys?</p>
<p>True story.</p>
<p>Dear Neighbor with the wandering dog who leaves presents on my lawn:</p>
<p>I have picked up after your dog with complaining for a year and a half, but when I get a note from the mail carrier that they canât deliver mail because YOUR DOG is in MY YARD blocking access to MY mailbox⊠thatâs over the top. Keep your dog at home, please.</p>
<p>Diagnosing yourself on WebMD is not a great idea. Remember what you thought you had the last time you did this?</p>
<p>Skip the angst and go to a doctor.</p>
<p>I am so tired of my bully boss.</p>
<p>You had your administrative assistant call me on my vacation (apologizing profusely all the while) to tell me that you asked **"**Whereâs the budget?!" and ***âItâs already late!!!â ***Well, no itâs not; it isnât due until December 1. Remember you told me to check when it was due? (Ah yes, another one of your tasks that I had to do for you.) Besides, youâve known for weeks Iâm going to be out this week. But youâd rather wait until Iâm on vacation so you can have your Admin call me up, do your dirty work, and get me really angry at you while Iâm trying to relax.</p>
<p>The only thing worse than a bully boss is a company that acknowledges his shortcomings and doesnât do anything about them.</p>
<p>AnotherCrazyMom: My problems are nothing compared to yours. I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you had an opportunity to spend your sonâs birthday with people who remember him and care about you.</p>
<p>ACM: HUGS to you.</p>
<p>Kind of puts things into perspective.</p>
<p>Oh, ACMâŠ</p>
<p>I am so sorry. I needed to vent, clicked on this thread, typed in my thoughts, and didnât bother to read other posts. </p>
<p>Please accept my hug and my prayers!</p>
<p>Dear SUV-crazy rednecks: you will get where you want if you drive slower; if you drive as fast as you do, you will spend the night pulling your SUV out of the ditch. It is really icy outta there!</p>
<p>To the most patronizing âladyâ ever:</p>
<p>You are lucky I did anything at all to help the group. If it wasnât for me, nothing would have been done. Then you have the nerve to blame the entire project on me and verbally rip me apart in front of an entire room of people. I was just a damn volunteer who managed to do more work than you, yet youâre jealous because I was acknowledged for it?</p>
<p>I was seriously pressed for a deadline and you did nothing but run your mouth the entire time. Where were you when we were actually doing work? Did you see the groupâs previous work? You know NOTHING. What I churned out was far better than what was submitted in the past. It wasnât perfect because this school is so apathetic. </p>
<p>No matter what you say, at least I look like a woman. At least I donât have the body of the twelve-year-old boy and the face of a heavily made-up transvestite. You must be a ***** because you donât eat anything and bitter because you look like a man.</p>
<p>To the spoiled princess:</p>
<p>You are a lame duck leader. No one respects you. Stop thinking you are more intelligent and special than you really are. If it wasnât for your daddy, you wouldnât get anything. You pretend to be all nice and innocent, almost like a goddamn victim, when in reality you are a *****. </p>
<p>I can already predict that youâll never get into med school. Or does daddy have connections there too? </p>
<p>You are incredibly lazy and expect everyone to do stuff for you while you take all the credit. </p>
<p>Iâm not even going to wish anything on you. Everyone knows youâre screwed once daddy canât â or wonât â bail you out.</p>
<p>To the student executive board:</p>
<p>We get it. If weâre not in your stupid clique we get the brunt of everything. You are extremely corrupt, not to mention incredibly tacky and trashy. I donât care how nice all of you are being to me right now, I know things will be the same as it was before once I go back to you. You are all users. </p>
<p>Iâm glad I left this ass-backwards place. You can all go to hell for all I care.</p>
<p>ACM my hugs and prayers also. Iâll bet those people didnât forget, they just donât know what to say and they donât want to upset you, because they really do care.</p>
<p>DougBetsy - ThankyouâŠnow I know I am not the only one!!! So frustrating and hurtful. Now even the other Ds & DILs are doing it to me and one is a brand new one! Little tip: I usually hint that anything I do bring my H had the idea or made, etc even if he didnât and it is loved by all!</p>
<p>You selfish ASS. Grow up and stop hiding behind your friends. </p>
<p>âI canât control what my friends do.â Oh REALLY? Have you even TRIED?</p>
<p>You let them write trash about D all over your FB, because apparently you have never heard of a DELETE button. Thereâs nothing negative about you on Dâs FB. Not one word.</p>
<p>You knew D was on her way home from seeing her father admitted to the hospital with a serious illness. If you couldnât face seeing her, you should have texted her and told her so. Donât allow your best friendsâ bratty sister to SLAM the door in Dâs face. I wonder if there were a bunch of high-fives from the rest of you hiding in the shadows - YES, D saw you there, sheâs not blind or stupid - while D returned to the car in tears. Not bad enough that her daddy is really sick, she gets to know that you have cut her off from all of her former friends as well. Really sweet. Glad she dumped you and found out who you REALLY are.</p>
<p>GROW UP. Stop hiding behind your friends and learn to handle your own relationships.</p>
<p>And as for Little Miss The-World-Revolves-Around-Me: I know your daddy is famous and your parents are rich and your older brother and younger sister are big star athletes. But that doesnât mean you are exempt from basic common courtesy. When you ask someone to borrow their $400 prom dress so your FRIEND can wear it, then you donât bother to return it for 6 MONTHS, then the dress owner shows up at the door, the correct thing to say is, âHere, thanks for loaning it to me, sorry I forgot to give it back. Your ex-BF doesnât feel able to see you right now, but I hope your Dad is better.â Hint: Handing over the dress as if it is being stolen from you and then SLAMMING the door in the personâs face is RUDE, VINDICTIVE, and IMMATURE. </p>
<p>Iâm so glad D is done with the lot of you. We thought you were nice. Now we realize that the rest of Dâs hs was right⊠you are a bunch of arrogant self-centered tools.</p>
<p>(((ACM))) even if I donât know the specific day - I rememberâŠ</p>
<p>On my venting note -
ok - I really like you and all, and I know you mean no harm whatsoever, but when I hear about how cool it is that your children are having such amazing experiences, personal recognition, having a blast with all your new activities etc., it makes me feel bad that my head down and plowing through engineering student seems to be flying under the radar. I am so proud of his grades and all, and he seems really happy, but I was not prepared at what a different college experience engineering seems to be than many other majors.
Thankfully, itâs my issue, not his :)</p>
<p>Dear Residents,</p>
<p>I really love and enjoy each and every one of you. But PLEASE, read that neon green sign on my door that states lockout procedures and On-call phone numbers. I donât want to get dragged out of my warm and cozy bed at 1 AM because you left your key in your room, or because your fire alarm is going off, or because Room X is having a partyâŠagain. That is why we rotate on-call: so that we can get a good nightâs sleep every once in a while. Youâve been here for over 3 months now; you should know how this works. So Iâm sorry if Iâm a little rude, but you woke me up and I have morning class. I will apologize when I am more reasonable.</p>
<p>Also, please donât ask me âhypotheticalâ questions, about âwhat would happen ifâ you did something. I take this as a tip-off that youâve already done it, and it means I have to tell my supervisor about it.</p>
<p>And stop with the âI donât want my roommate to know I/we talked to you about this.â Causing a little drama is better than living with a potential housing violation that could get YOU in trouble as well as your roommate. Be adults.</p>
<p>To the students who are not my residents:
We know whatâs going on when it takes you a full minute to open the door and we can hear you shushing each other. We can smell the alcohol coming from your house. We are not stupid. We are not going to go away just because you tell us âwe donât have anything.â We donât want to have to call our boss or the police just to break up your party, because it means more paperwork and more hassle for us. </p>
<p>Also, contrary to popular belief, we are NOT out to get you. We are just doing what the Office of Residential Life hired and trained us to do. We donât knock on your door unless we have a reason, like being able to hear your (bad) music from three doors down or getting a phone call from your annoyed neighbors. Trust me, there are other things we would rather be doing at 1 AM than counting out the number of fluid ounces in your Corona and making you empty all the beer pong cups. LikeâŠoh, I donât knowâŠsleeping.</p>
<p>Oh, and running out the back door doesnât make you cool. It makes you a jerk. You are sticking your friends with your bad decision and theyâll be held responsible for all of it. Be an adult and face the consequences for your actions. Chances are it wouldnât have been that bad.</p>
<p>Annoying kids in my PSY 447 lecture: stop being a total kiss-up and a jerk. Stop arguing with the woman who holds the doctoral degree. Stop asking questions like the rest of us are stupid. Stop inserting hypothetical situations into every theory. You are further complicating already complex theory, and youâre making a 4-hour lecture go even longer.</p>
<p>For the backstabbing, disloyal *****es rot in hell and I mean this!</p>
<p>Screaming profanities and other horrible things during football is not good behavior in front of your uncle.</p>
<p>I hate what you have done to our family. </p>
<p>I would like nothing better than to unfriend you on facebook. Go ahead, keep throwing it in my face that after months of rehab and treatment you are still partying. Make sure your aunt and uncle sees it too, because theyâre reporting all your activities back to the rest of the family. Thatâs why I get all the calls about you because your father is never here. Work is more important. </p>
<p>If I unfriended you though, it would be a âsignâ that I love D more than you. Gosh, Iâm sorry that things are going so well for her. Of course they are going so well because she just wants to rub it in your face how great her life is and how much yours sucks. That was sarcasm, btw. </p>
<p>If I had the money for you to get your own apartment I would give it to you. And never look back. But do you know why I donât? Because Iâm still paying for your fancy private school education â the drunken country club. Glad it worked out so well. </p>
<p>You have no one to blame but yourself for the way things are. I have tried so hard to help you for so long. Now Iâm broke and nothing has changed. Sorry we canât afford another trip to rehab. AA will have to do.</p>
<p>Why donât you leave the kid alone? Heâs socially inept because you never allow him to just be with friends or part of a crowd. I love him dearly but heâs not that special!!! People donât always need to modify for him, he needs to learn to modify for them and he will suddenly have more friends and, by the way, be much happier! LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!</p>