Modern life: had to help a random grandma get her kiddo out of the car at library story time. She couldn't work the carseat buckle.
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This reminded me that Rocko's Modern Life was one of my favorite cartoons when I was in college.
I seriously cannot make this damn smoke detector stop chirping. I've replaced the battery. Tested it. Reset it. Turned the breaker on and off to reset it. It is ******* me off
Parking lot karma.
I was at WalMart last night and some tool didn't feel the need to put his cart in the cart return. He put it in front of his car without bothering to make sure it was secure. Well, it was resting on a bit of an incline, so as he started backing out the cart started rolling towards his car.
Instead of letting the cart roll (possibly) harmlessly into his front quarter panel, he guns his car in an attempt to out-run the cart. The cart then hits his back door and carves a nice scratch down the side of his car.
Laughing, I then walked over and caught the cart before it rolled into another car.
I was at WalMart last night and some tool didn't feel the need to put his cart in the cart return. He put it in front of his car without bothering to make sure it was secure. Well, it was resting on a bit of an incline, so as he started backing out the cart started rolling towards his car.
Instead of letting the cart roll (possibly) harmlessly into his front quarter panel, he guns his car in an attempt to out-run the cart. The cart then hits his back door and carves a nice scratch down the side of his car.
Laughing, I then walked over and caught the cart before it rolled into another car.
Sometimes they get dust in them. Try vacuuming it. If that doesn't work it is time to get a new one.
This one could also probably pass for a natural inseminator.So it is Homecoming week and there are dress-up days each day. Today at the middle school it is -er/-or day (doctor, napper, football player, etc). My oldest was pretty sure she would dress up as a vet/animal doctor but we were thinking of alternatives. Most were not suitable for school.
--bikini inspector (although we changed it to nut inspector for a girl)
--artificial inseminator (vet does cover this, but we could've added shoulder length gloves)
--streaker
-fluffer (okay I did not tell her about this, I didn't think she needed to know what that was yet)
I have severe anger towards people who don't respond to important emails at an urgent pace and then don't even address my original question when they do respond.
FIFY. That might explain it.
In all honesty, I've come to realize that the more I mark emails as urgent, high priority, etc. the most likely people respond slower than usual. Don't know why that is, but just seems to be the case.
I am currently out of the office. If you should need immediate assistance, please leave me an E-mail and I will get back to you when I feel like it.
I sympathize with her. The carseats I used for my boys were VERY simple...the actual seatbelt buckled over a panel that went over the carseat. The harness portion was a couple of very simple straps.
With my grandkids, it's a combination of extremely complicated 3 to 5 point buckles (all very tight), unfamiliarity with the different designs, awkward angles, and arthritic thumbs, and I cannot get them in & out of seats. Fortunately, the couple of times I've been on my own with kidlets, I've been able to lift the smaller ones in and the older ones fastened & unfastened the buckles for me.
You could have my boss, who fires off five emails with five questions, then walks over to my office to ask the same questions before I am done typing the FIRST response...
You should invent a real-time, direct means of communication. Similar to talking to a person, only they wouldn't be required to be physically present.
I sympathize with her. The carseats I used for my boys were VERY simple...the actual seatbelt buckled over a panel that went over the carseat. The harness portion was a couple of very simple straps.
With my grandkids, it's a combination of extremely complicated 3 to 5 point buckles (all very tight), unfamiliarity with the different designs, awkward angles, and arthritic thumbs, and I cannot get them in & out of seats. Fortunately, the couple of times I've been on my own with kidlets, I've been able to lift the smaller ones in and the older ones fastened & unfastened the buckles for me.
My car has this one odd-sized clip that fits some alternate car-seat restraint that comes from the back of the car. I never used that clip, so I've never really looked into it's usefulness.
The problem is this odd-sized clip is right next to the standard clip. And while a normal clip will fit into it if you force it in there, it won't release because there's not a release button on it. And once a normal seat belt gets inserted into the odd-sized clip, it's a ***** to release it. Even harder when there's a panicky kid harnessed in. One of my daughter's friends had to get stuck in her seat twice before I wizened up and just put duct tape over the hole for that other stupid clip.
it's so quiet today in my office.
and I wonder what's going to happen with this wedding stuff. Brother and fiancee (weird) aren't going to want to spend money, but brother always says how much fun mine was and from Pinterest I can tell fiancee wants super country Pinteresty type stuff. Well, we spent money on things like food and location and no money on that decor/Pinterest type stuff. The one country type venue around us is suuuuuuuuuuper popular with Chicago transplants which means it's not priced for locals. I'm wondering (and my mom is worried) that they will want to go really cheap on things like food. Or even one of those deals where they have to bring in and set everything up plus take everything (including food) down, like at DH's brother's wedding.
and I wonder what's going to happen with this wedding stuff. Brother and fiancee (weird) aren't going to want to spend money, but brother always says how much fun mine was and from Pinterest I can tell fiancee wants super country Pinteresty type stuff. Well, we spent money on things like food and location and no money on that decor/Pinterest type stuff. The one country type venue around us is suuuuuuuuuuper popular with Chicago transplants which means it's not priced for locals. I'm wondering (and my mom is worried) that they will want to go really cheap on things like food. Or even one of those deals where they have to bring in and set everything up plus take everything (including food) down, like at DH's brother's wedding.
My parents always taught us that guests deserve a good meal for travelling to attend a wedding. We spent more on food than a lot of other people for that reason. I actually had several people compliment us on the food, which I thought was weird. It could just be a "my strange family" kinda thing, though.
We actually have a couple of people in our office that have voicemail messages that state, "I will return your call at my earliest convenience."
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