The Official a2k Earth Shattering Gripes Committee thread!

My big gripe is the number of policitcal signs stuck in every corner of our community. They are ugly and distracting. And about half will never be picked up. There oughta be a law . . .

Add to that having phone calls from one politician or another ringing your phone three or four times a day.

My big gripe today is the generator isn't working so the water heater isn't working so I had a cold friggin shower and I am frozen from head to toe. What i wouldn't give for a hot shower or just to be warm!

My gripe - it is jeans Friday and my good jeans are still in the wash - I had to wear my older, skinny jeans.

Life s*cks.

Ditto the political junk mail that I immediately throw in the trash without even looking at it.

I am on the ""do not call", "do not write" lists, so I don't get a lot of junk mail. Years ago, before I was on the list, Mr. P. tried an experiment. At the beginning of the year, he took a small carton, and put all the charitable solicitations in the carton. By the end of the year, the carton was filled to bursting. What I found fascinating, was that some charities sent over a dozen mailings.

We have our favorite charities, and no amount of solicitations will cause us to give to any charity that we were not planning to give to anyway.

I get riled at the crap that is spewed by the Media, the cable so-called news stations.

BBB

Will the construction on my block never end?!? It's been like 7-8 years pretty much non-stop. First one condo, then the Swiss Consulate, then the new library and underground parking garage, then another condo, then the streets, then the second floor of the Swiss Consulate, and then another condo, then the sidewalks, triple-decker condos, then the streets again (post-sidewalk redesign). All the while Nstar electric swings by every year to redo wiring and take up parking spaces.

I know I live in a city, but come on!

I don't blame you for being pissed at the racket. Did you know all of this construction was planned when you bought your home?

BBB

I don't own - I rent. I didn't know.

I forgot to add the construction on the high school which is on-going.

My computer goes off without warning. It takes multiple starts to get it on long enough to do anything. I was concerned with the start on front, but a poster on a website insists it is the power box in the back. So, I took an old tower apart and saw what he was describing. It would not be hard to change out, after I bought one. I don't want to try the used one, because I want to get it right the first time.

a hammer and some duct tape ought to do the trick.

There's no one to blame but me, me, or me. I could just fire me outright, you know.

I knew it was a stretch to dig out the big plastic container on the top of my refrigerator that I use to let dough rise in, out from behind the stack of ceramic bowls, bottles of mineral water, cans of Jumex* pineapple coconut or banana strawberry nectar, a bottle of sauvignon blanc, some more ceramic bowls with a tempting bag of tortilla chips in the top bowl....

I almost got the container through the available space, but then the sauvignon blanc flew to the tile floor and crashed with a big bang into glass shards of different fetching shapes, coating the entire kitchen area with 1/2 gallon of cheapo white wine.

Well, hey, maybe it killed some floor bacteria as I was getting the whole mess cleaned up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumex

To top it off, I let the no knead dough sit too long in too warm a room, and tossed the dough too.

That was yesterday and today. Tomorrow will be better.

Dys, you forgot WD40!

Osso.... I temp fate like that all the time. Usually it works out ok! Once in a while it is a catastrophe.

Running out of milk in the morning is no problem comparing to running out of soft cat foods.

When my head cat wake me up around 6 AM by slowly pressing her front claws into the side of my face I better wake up and open a can for the pride.

If I go downstairs and I am out of can food then I need to open a can of tuner fish or run out to 7/11 no matter what the weather happen to be for at least one can of overprice cat food.

One thing that bugs me is the one hit wonders who post here and never re-enter the conversation.

They drop these explosive questions, e.g. "My boyfriend beats me. Should we have a baby or build a house?"

Several people answer and the OP never enters the conversation again.

Sometimes I think these questions are "plants"

I was always of the opinion that these peole were not able to find their way back again Punkey.
They forgot to bookmark the site or cant remember the passwrod they used or cant find the thread again.

Or, they plastered a dozen social networking sites with the same commentary/question and can't even recall where they did that.

That seems to be the trend these days. <<<sigh>>>

May be also, that when getting just the answer they want is not instantaneous, they give up and leave.