What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[BubblyShell22]

I hear you about how early Christmas is being put out, but I understand why the retailers have to do it because of the economy being so bad. Maybe people just want to get a jump start on it early so they don't have to do it after Thanksgiving. I know we'll probably put up our tree after Thanksgiving, and Mom, Dad, and my bro are going to go to Grandma and Grandpa's to help them with decorating their tree and stuff like that.

What grinds my gears: The dense fog. Seriously, it's bad.

[NameGoesHere1066]

People who can't respect the rules of another culture. I am taking a cultural interpersonal communication course this semester. And some of us in the class are going to get the opertunity to go to Japan or South Korea, based on a project we are doing of studying the cultures of one of these two places and how the different ways they comunicate. Half the class in doing Japanese culture and the other half South Korean culture. Last week we got the opertunity to interact with people from the country we studied for. I was in the japanese group. About three people in my group (the Japanese group) acted like total asses to the Japanese people we were supposed to interact with. The nature of the exercise was to do everything as though we were Japanese, so that meant following their cultural rules so that we could get a perspective.

we were supposed to meet at the house of middle aged japanese couple. Our Professor specifically told us, when entering their home to take off our shoes, one girl refused to do it and our hosts told her if she wanted to enter their home she had too. The wife ended up having to get plastic bags for the girl to wear over her shoes because she didn't want to take them off. I was so ****ing embarrassed.

As if that didn't set the stage for making things tense, later on in the visit this dumb f*ck of a guy had to comment on how the wife was doing everything (doing the dishes, and running around). We already knew from studing Japanese culture that there are strict gender roles and we were even asked to not call attention to this or ask questions, so this guy had no reason to bring it up. He knew. When the wife politely said thats what she does, this ass of a guy had to turn to her husband and say, "I guess she waits on you hand and foot, huh? Awsome." Not only did the wife look very offended the husband looked a quite upset as well, even though they never vocalized it. What the **** was that? How can people be so and stupid and rude! It got back to our professor and she is very angry at us. I don't think we are going to get the oppertunity to go to Japan now.

[BubblyShell22]

Wow. That sucks. I'd want to kick their a**ses for that because they've now ruined it for you and everyone else in the group. I'd be so p*ssed at that.

What grinds my gears: The fact that we're going to get lake effect snow tomorrow. Not cool.

[Blossombrooks]

Getting sworn at by a stranger with a word I would never dream of using.

[Jelly Bean]

getting sick with viral pneumonia and having to go to the hospital while being home from college for thanksgiving, and now being forced to take an incomplete in one of my classes becuase there is no way I'll be well enough to go back and finish the course. This sucks, it's tripping at the finish line.

pet peeves about being sick in a hospitial:

--the fact that no one checks on you at night even if you are pressing the button.

--collapsing on the floor because you are too weak to stand.

--getting yelled at for getting out of bed when someone does show up because you couldn't wait any more.

--not being able to breathe or adjust your position on the bed to make your self comfertable and/or breathe better.

--the joys of having to use a bedpan!

--not having the bedpan placed under you properly and having the nurse not listen to you when you say as much then having the nurse yell at you because you wet the sheets because she didn't place the bedpan under you properly.

--waiting for almost an hour in discomfert on wet linens and hospital gown while the stupid nurses takes off to find clean linens.

--actually, just nurses in general.




if you ever get sick just don't go to the hospital. Your mother, father, siblings, friends, an illiterate homeless bum with no experience, will be able to take care of you better than some unpleasant, over-weight, scowling nurse who doesn't like their job ever can.

[Jester]

Must be a really crappy hospital. The few I've been in lately...though to be fair, they were for my infant son, and not me...had wonderful nurses.

[BubblyShell22]

Sorry to hear about that, JB. I hope you're feeling better. Best wishes.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

if you ever get sick just don't go to the hospital. Your mother, father, siblings, friends, an illiterate homeless bum with no experience, will be able to take care of you better than some unpleasant, over-weight, scowling nurse who doesn't like their job ever can.

That is terrible, terrible advice. You had the misfortune of ending up in a sh*tty hospital, but that's usually not the case. Don't give bad advice based on your bad luck.

[mysterycolor]

hope you feel better soon Jelly Bean.

[Lethal Lullaby]

All this Spongebob hate going on in the TMNT section. There is a LOT of it. It's freakin' ridiculous. I don't hate or love the show, but I'm getting annoyed with the constant trashing on it.

[BubblyShell22]

I agree. It's like the people act like they're being forced to watch a show with a gun to their heads when there's the option of using the remote to switch the channel. So ridiculous.

[Jelly Bean]

Originally Posted by Cure

That is terrible, terrible advice. You had the misfortune of ending up in a sh*tty hospital, but that's usually not the case. Don't give bad advice based on your bad luck.

I was being somewhat facetious, though I still feel the same way. If you are sick go to the hospital but if there is any way you can be cared for at home I think it's best to do that. I'm probably being to hard on the nurses because I know most places are under staffed but when you are sick and helpless, and I mean litterly helpless because you can't breathe or too weak to move, and you sence the people taking care of you don't like there jobs and aren't compassionate of your situation and your getting poor treatment, the last thing you want is be in that situation again.

[Sage Ninja]

I witnessed the most pitiful and depressing thing today. I was in a little cafe just outside of campus near the train station having lunch. It was just myself and an elderly man and this couple. The guy did something I thought I would never be a casual witness to. He got down on one knee and proposed to the girl! I was like "oh my God this is so cool, what a lucky girl!" But before I could squeal over this, the girl looks at the guy and tells him "no." I think I was as startled as the guy was that she said no. When he asked why, she told him she was pregnant with someone elses baby, and got up and left. ANd then the most horriable and awkward thing happened, he ran into the mens room and started balling his eyes out. Everyone could hear him, it was terriable.

Whats worse I didn't know if I should say something to him or not. The old man told him to "shut up" and to be thankful he found out before he married her and she tried to pass the kid off as his. The guy didin't take it well. Seriously it was a real scene. I've never been witness something like that before. I feel so sorry for this guy.

[zkarlette]

Just Wow! Man..Sage that must have been quite a scene, poor guy.
I think that the old man was being a little insensitive there.

[Guitar_Raph]

I recently had an unrepairable virus that totaled my home PC. So from 15 hours access to only two hours @ the Richardson library (go ahead & cheer if you're not a fan of me).

The only way I can get back to normal is a comoputer sale or a Texas Lottery win.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

I witnessed the most pitiful and depressing thing today. I was in a little cafe just outside of campus near the train station having lunch. It was just myself and an elderly man and this couple. The guy did something I thought I would never be a casual witness to. He got down on one knee and proposed to the girl! I was like "oh my God this is so cool, what a lucky girl!" But before I could squeal over this, the girl looks at the guy and tells him "no." I think I was as startled as the guy was that she said no. When he asked why, she told him she was pregnant with someone elses baby, and got up and left. ANd then the most horriable and awkward thing happened, he ran into the mens room and started balling his eyes out. Everyone could hear him, it was terriable.

Whats worse I didn't know if I should say something to him or not. The old man told him to "shut up" and to be thankful he found out before he married her and she tried to pass the kid off as his. The guy didin't take it well. Seriously it was a real scene. I've never been witness something like that before. I feel so sorry for this guy.

...what part of that "grinds your gears" exactly?

[BubblyShell22]

I think she means that the girl rejected him and gave him that news. But the way I look at it, he dodged a bullet because he could have found out about this when he married her. I feel bad for the guy, but at least he'll find someone better than her in the long run.

[The Stryker]

That old guy that told him to shut up is awesome.

[Lethal Lullaby]

Some people just eat too fast I think. Then it feels like they are trying to rush me when i'm only a little over half way done Well it could have been because I was picking the pork out of my soup, (note: i hate having meat in my soup) but I just don't like being rushed.

*le sigh*

[BubblyShell22]

Another cloudy day today. Yuck. We're supposed to get lake effect snow on Friday.