<p>Yes, I saw you at the airport the other morning. I chose to ignore you because it was 6 AM at the start of a workday, and I don’t even want to talk to people I like then. Plus, you’ve always yakked my ear off about your (admittedly talented) kid - jeez, take a breath once in a while.</p>
<p>While you were leaning over in line trying to get my attention, I told myself I’d have to respond if you called my name. After all, I know your name, your ex-husband’s name, your kids’ names, and the names of all the important people who’ve been impressed by your daughter over the 10 years I’ve known you. (You’ve even generously shared their comments, just so that someone like me, who apparently raised 3 duds, could appreciate what it must be like to have produced a shining star.)</p>
<p>But you couldn’t call my name, because you never bothered to learn it. You couldn’t even say, “Hey, Laura’s Mom!” because you don’t know my kids’ names, either. So you had to do without your little public bragfest. I’m no good at confrontation, and I’ve always tried to be gracious about the good fortune of others, so I never turned you off when you were trumpeting your kid’s talent. (Unlike, btw, about 90 percent of our mutual acquaintances.) The last time I couldn’t avoid you, you were unbearably smug about your kid’s success, and condescending about the abilities of the kids who were once her friends. I was embarrassed for you.</p>
<p>Sorry to have kept you from starting your day off with a nice shot of superiority. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>All this drama is completely unnecessary. It’s making you look selfish and whiny. I know you’re upset, but you’ve got to learn to deal with setbacks in life. You’re a senior, and you lost your spot on your varsity team to a younger player. It happens all the time. Deal with it. You weren’t “benched” like you’ve told everyone, you were moved to a smaller, less visible position. You don’t like that position, so you refuse to practice there - you weren’t “denied the opportunity to practice” like you are claiming. Whether the younger player is really better or not, whether the coach is right or wrong or unfair - it doesn’t matter. It’s coach’s decision to make, and she made it. She shouldn’t have told the team she made the decision after talking to the captains, because it’s not their decision to make - and moreover, they did NOT tell her to give your position to a younger player! Stop blaming D. She didn’t cause this, and if it were up to her you’d still have your old position. But it’s not up to her. You’re causing all sorts of drama and dragging the team down. If you want to be part of the team, then support your teammates and quit sulking and crying on the sidelines. If not, quit. (Although that would be awkward because your mom is the Booster president.)</p>
<p>Get off your butt and start working!!! You will NOT acheive your supposed goals by just coasting…if your goals are changing, then COMMUNICATE that!</p>
<p>It is so hard to hear about some of your choices, but they are your choices. It may turn out better than I fear. You are finding your own way. You are a good person with a very smart head on your shoulders, so how can you be so dopey? I have to let go. I have to let go. I have to let go.</p>
<p>After 24 years of marriage, is it really too much to ask of you that you remember my birthday? I’m fine with no gift, card or cake, but you couldn’t say “happy birthday” when you left for work? Really?</p>
<p>Next time you make one of your homophobic comments I will call you on it. I don’t care if it’s a family event and all your children are there. As a matter of fact, ESPECIALLY because your children are there, I will call you on it.</p>
<p>Dear neighbors, we all bought lots or houses on a PRIVATE ROAD. This means that WE are responsible for its upkeep. The magic government fairy is not going to step in and repave the road for us. You each signed the road agreement when you bought the property. Now, several years later, no money has been collected so we are behind on repairs. And you start squawking that “the most important thing is that we remain neighborly. What if someone can’t pay their part?” Then they shouldn’t have freaking bought property here, huh?!? Spare me. And you, Mr Neighborly, haven’t even had the courtesy to pay me the $15 you owe as your part of the latest repair work cost.</p>
<p>You have no real interest in this or any other subject. You care only about proving that you are right. I don’t think you believe half of what you’re saying; you’re just trying to win the argument so you can look superior. In doing so, you look like a stubborn fool.</p>
<p>I am trying so desperately to follow the mantra and “love the kid on the couch,” but it is so difficult to sit and listen to you tell me how overworked you are and that you don’t have time to pursue other activities. I watch you waste an entire weekend when you have two papers to write. Don’t you realize that I know you are watching nonsense on the computer rather than writing your papers? If I don’t hear any typing, you’re not writing a paper! Duh! Also, you have college applications due. You should really not wait until the deadline date to send them. Servers crash. Hard drives crash. I am trying to help you with whatever I can, but I will not write essays for you. Please do yourself a favor and help yourself, stop procrastinating with EVERYTHING, or I am afraid that your dreams are going to be squashed and you will have no one to blame but yourself.</p>
<p>Dear Bro - Yep, mom was doing fine when you stopped in to see her last nite at the hospital. Oh, yeah, except for the fact that she thought the nurses woke her up for church in the morning and that she had to wash her own dishes. Oh, and by the way, do you know I was there until after 7:30 and visiting hours were over at 8? I’ll bet it was a long visit the two of you had. But - you think she is doing just fine so you will feel no need to help supervise meds or arrange doctor visits. As you have made abundantly clear - your time is valuable, and mine is well, what? I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad, why would you care about me when you could give a hoot about a poor woman who is clearly showing the onset of dementia.</p>
<p>Why would you do that? Respect people. Even if you don’t agree with them, you have to respect their very basic humanity. If you profess to be a spiritual, Christian, moral person, then you can’t pick and choose which of Jesus’ teachings you follow. Love your fellow man is pretty basic.</p>
<p>I know I’m an undergrad, and I know lab rats need good care, but…</p>
<p>You know nothing about our lab, the work that we do, the level of trust my PI has in me, or the the duties of me and our Grad RA. You are a poster on an online foreum. So the fact that you said that the only lab tasks where an undergrad and grad RA could possibly be equal are those akin to lab rate care bugs me because a) we DON’T work with rats and b) the manuscripts I’ve co-written and edited, the grant I was named in, and the overall work I’ve done beg to differ. Not all undergrads are stupid snowflakes, and I’m very glad my PI does not share your biases or your general attitude about undergrads.</p>
<p>Dear Boss,
Why haven’t you hired anybody for the 2 positions open in our department. You have known that we were going to be short since July. I interviewed 3 people and went thru several resumes back in September. We both gave you our recomendations.You were going to call them. Now that one of my colleague is retired and the other one has left since August, what are your plans? I have done overtime to plug up the holes in the schedule. I have asked for per diems to work extra. But guess what, I am not going to do anymore overtime and I am going to let the schedule stay as is, holes and all. I am a staff person, and I am not management. I guess you figured since I was covering the shifts you didn’t have to do anything. Those days are over. I’m 54, my knees hurt, I’ve been doing this fulltime for 36 years. I have a life outside of work even if you don’t. So suck it up and get going. I’m glad the Big boss is getting on your case for not doing your job. I will keep doing my job, but I’m not doing yours.</p>
<pre><code> Sincerely,
Your faithful,longtime,loyal,never call-in sick employee
</code></pre>
<p>To everyone who posts homework questions on the you-know-what forum: it would be nice for you to come back and post a thank you note to the helpers. Or your next question about N2O5 might go unanswered, he warns.</p>
<p>To the clerk at the computer store: Obviously I came in because of my interest in buying a new computer. Just because I didn’t understand a word of the mile a minute gooblygook techspeak you were spouting, doesn’t mean I’m the complete moron you made me feel I was with your smirks and condescending attitude. I have decades of life experience on you, might it have occurred to you that I might have expertise something else? You are a jerk.</p>