What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I'm impatiently waiting to work "fatso-san" in on somebody.

I think that's my behind my back nickname at work.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Are you among the many owners who make up little silly songs that are sung to pets?

If that's the case, maybe the shark watcher would appreciate loud and very disruptive shark themed songs... just saying. I mean, if it's sharks, how can she dare not appreciate it?

I am! My dog Zoe has had MANY songs written about her in the 8 months she's been here. Serendipitously, I have switched the lyrics of "Baby Shark" to "Baby Zo'", which my wife finds hilarious. The current favorite is my reworking of the Wham! classic "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" into "Pretty Pup, Pretty Zo-Zo". We're pretty busy around here!
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Active and Ongoing Grind, a Facebook "friend" continually jumps on a post I made about the Roe vs. Wade issue to basically just keep saying "F*ck those sluts, should've kept their legs closed" and it's getting pretty aggravating. I made a long post thoroughly countering every single "point" they tried to make - not difficult, since again, their only bullet is "Women shouldn't be sluts!" - but predictably, like most conservatives, his rebuttal is "I'm not reading all that, they just shouldn't be sluts and murdering babies." Typical airtight "rebuttal"; "La-la-la-la I can't heeeeeeeaaaaar yooooooou!" And people like that wonder why their opinions go right in the garbage.
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Less of a "Grind" and more, "Something that makes me sad," there was some activity outside while I was asleep. Seems a racoon decided to hang out in our yard for a while, and may have been hurt. Obviously, with the two dogs there's much to be concerned about; I was asleep during this, but my wife apparently went out to check on it and she said it seemed injured, possibly concussed.

At one point it was napping in the doorway of the garage; my wife tossed it a towel and apparently it made a little nest of it and took a nap. I wish I would've seen that.

Zoe went outside at one point and they were expecting her to chase or attack it, but instead, she saw it was hurt and expressed much concern while deciding not to go near it. She gets like that, whenever she sees Riley hurt or struggling she gets very concerned, even if it was because they had a fight. Such a compassionate pup.

Anyways, they called animal control but by the time they got here the racoon got over the fence into an adjacent yard and they couldn't find it. I hope it'll be okay. Obviously we have to be concerned more about or dogs but looking at the pictures my wife took the thing didn't look diseased, just hurt and scared. Poor little guy. I hope he makes it.

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by ***First of Two Latin Kings***

I thought you and I were good. This is news to me.

It was brought to my attention that Michael Edgecomb was still complaining about me which was why I sent him those messages confronting him. Then someone else brought it to my attention that he had posted here to garner sympathy rather than face me due to his absolute lack of emotional maturity.

To reiterate, if you sell remorse purchases to a re-seller at or below the cost you paid, it in NO WAY makes you a "victim." You are also not entitled to any sort of discount as a buyer based on the specifics of your personal situation. You don't just get to make up your own prices.

I haven't given two sh!ts about you in almost a decade. You're a slimy pos burger flipper. I have no idea what you're talking about either.

[Leo656]

I don't get to play video games every single day, but it's always on the agenda whether I get to it or not. I generally hit more than I miss. So anyway, in-between "big" games, I generally always play some wrestling games since they're a good "palate-cleanser" and are very easy to jump in and out of at any time. Like, it's not a week- or month-long commitment, I mean it can be but you can also just play for like an hour and go on to something else, if you want.

So I've been playing a lot of WWE 2K18 lately - I'm always a couple of years behind on these games; I mostly mess with the Creation features and it takes FOREVER to make people nowadays, although the astounding level of detail makes up for it, but in any case when I start one I generally stick with it for at least a year or two before moving on to the next one. So anyways, recently I finally got my Universe Mode all filled out with the customized rosters, shows, arenas, everything; had shows plugged in for every day of the calendar, teams set up with their entrances and all that stuff... Hours and hours of setup work before you even sit down to actually PLAY any matches or anything. So that takes forever, but then I finally had that all done just the way I wanted it so I could get things rolling along. Past week or so, everything's fine.

..And earlier, after a couple of matches, I get hit by an apparent known glitch that causes Universe Mode to lock up and become unplayable. It's totally random, nobody knows exactly what makes it happen, but it's common enough to have had a lot of people complaining about it. The only thing to do is Delete the saved Universe Mode file and start over. And I've actually already done that, as this has already happened to me once before with this game but I thought I'd managed a work-around, since it's been running smoothly for the last few days. But apparently, it's just something that happens (or doesn't) whenever it feels like.

Incredibly frustrating, after all the work I put into setting it up Just Right (twice). It's a very fun mode, too; when it works right it's my favorite thing about the entire game. But after having two crashes in a row now I'm just not going to bother with it. I can still do Exhibition matches but it's not as fun as setting up feuds and storylines and having guys do interviews along with just doing matches. Shame.

My wife said that at least it's an excuse to jump to the next game sooner, but I had to sadly point out that they apparently never fixed this glitch, and that it persists all the way up through the current edition. It's madness, they've had this Mode in the game for years and before 2K18 they never had this issue. I occasionally had some freezing in 2K17's Universe Mode, but in that game I discovered that the game wouldn't freeze in Universe so long as you played a couple of Exhibition matches, first. This game doesn't seem to have that work-around, once it glitches you're f*cked.

Still very proud of all my created wrestlers, arenas, and Title Belts, though. That was like hundreds of hours of "work" all by itself (it always is). It's just that kind of the entire point of making them was to show them off in Universe. Bah f*cking Humbug.

[Leo656]

That's some real piss.

Supposed to be 100+ degrees this coming week. Awful. Not sure how I'll survive. Probably gonna try and sleep through most of it.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Ugh, that's near impossible, trust me. Been in the low 100's for about a week and a half now down here, and unless the AC is blasting, I wake up from sleep sweating my proverbial nuts off. Even at night, it's still in the 85-90 range, which is ridiculous. My walks to and from work are exercises in self-torture.

[Leo656]

Yeah, it sucks because money's tight and we're supposed to be trying to only use the AC when it's necessary, but... it's always necessary. And the poor dogs aren't thrilled about it, either.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Lol, tell me about it! Angel is a homebody and a couch potato, but Cinnamon LOVES to go outside every chance she gets, and has been a pain in the tail lately because we can't even let her out during most of the day for the past couple of weeks, due to the heat. And she REALLY lets us know how unhappy that makes her!

[IndigoErth]

90s coming all week... humid... and yay for lingering Monday morning stomach aches.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Customers coming in five minutes before closing time, especially if they have a large group.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

Customers coming in five minutes before closing time, especially if they have a large group.

When I worked at Target, this was a VERY common occurrence. In fact, the nights when this didn't happen were much rarer than not. I used to have quite a few closing shifts, which I dreaded since I didn't want to have to stay behind for twenty minutes babysitting bratty old people that came in literally a minute before closing.

One time, my manager asked me to go shadow someone who was still in the store after thirty minutes, and have them leave. I was a shy, mousy nerd so I was simply overjoyed to do this... I went to go look for the lady, and found her in the clothes section. In true Karen fashion, she barked at me, demanding I open the dressing rooms for her. I informed her that she needed to take her purchases upfront. Then she proceeded to chew me out for what felt like an eternity. The icing is that she threw the stack of clothes she had down at my feet before leaving the store emptyhanded. Good times.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by superstaff

When I worked at Target, this was a VERY common occurrence. In fact, the nights when this didn't happen were much rarer than not. I used to have quite a few closing shifts, which I dreaded since I didn't want to have to stay behind for twenty minutes babysitting bratty old people that came in literally a minute before closing.

One time, my manager asked me to go shadow someone who was still in the store after thirty minutes, and have them leave. I was a shy, mousy nerd so I was simply overjoyed to do this... I went to go look for the lady, and found her in the clothes section. In true Karen fashion, she barked at me, demanding I open the dressing rooms for her. I informed her that she needed to take her purchases upfront. Then she proceeded to chew me out for what felt like an eternity. The icing is that she threw the stack of clothes she had down at my feet before leaving the store emptyhanded. Good times.

Yep. Sounds like a Karen alright.

I work at a restaurant as a hostess, and if you’ve ever watched “Waiting”, then you know what happens when customers act like entitled snobs. I just feel so bad for the cooks who are getting ready to go home and have everything put up only for some jerk(s) to come in 10 minutes before closing time.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

I work at a restaurant as a hostess, and if you’ve ever watched “Waiting”, then you know what happens when customers act like entitled snobs. I just feel so bad for the cooks who are getting ready to go home and have everything put up only for some jerk(s) to come in 10 minutes before closing time.

Oh, never seen that movie, though I went to look up clips on YT just now for it.



I try to be extra nice to waiters because I know they have it rough, and I've been treated like dogsh*t at my former jobs. I never did waitressing, though I did work as a barista at a Starbucks inside of a B&N. Not fun.

But...meh. I had two bad experiences as a customer that I felt awful about. One time in 2005, I went to a restaurant near Rutgers University that was a 5/5. Amazing food. I even dressed up super nice to go there back then. I was young, and didn't...know much about restaurants since I was sheltered. At this place, they had a waiter to bring out the food, but it was self serve for the drinks. My spouse (my boyfriend back then) and I weren't sure if we were supposed to tip or not. In the end, we figured we weren't supposed to since we got our own drinks. On our way out, the waiter stopped us. "You know we work really f*cking hard here, right? Who do you think you are to not give us a tip even though we served you?" I was super embarrassed, and handed him what I thought was a tip. He glared at us the whole time, and told us not to come back. That experience really haunted me...

Then the second time was when I went to a Denny's in 2013. The waitress there was being really mean to me. To me, specifically, but nice to my husband. Like, she kept huffing and groaning at me because I kept adding stuff to the order, and was taking a long time to tell her what I wanted, I think. Then she got my order wrong twice in a row. She gave my husband refills, and not me. When the check came, I thanked her, and she rolled her eyes. I felt like I did something wrong. I was about to leave a tip, and my husband's like, "No, don't, she doesn't deserve it. She treated you like sh*t." True, it's just that I hate to not leave something. I left only a dollar. This made the waitress livid, and we both left there with everyone there being angry at us because "you're supposed to always tip even if the service sucks, you c*nt"... Sad because we used to love going to that Denny's...

Pretty sure every restaurant I go to has them do to my food what they did in this movie. Ha ha...ha.

Edit: Someone PMed me to say that I sound like a Karen that's a nightmare to deal with. I know I may seem like a huge b*tch on here, but believe it or not, I tend to be pretty polite and shy IRL. I don't scream at service people or whatever, even when things go wrong. I say my "pleases" and "thank yous". Like I said, I try to be extra nice to people in retail and in restaurants because I don't want others to be treated the way I was when I was working those jobs. ...But who knows, maybe I am a b*tch Karen, and that's why everyone hates my guts. I've actually had workers cop attitudes and insult me. One time, at Wawa, the worker there said, "Wow, your clothes look really ugly". At Walmart, I was paying for something in the electronics, and said "Thank you so much", and the guy then said, "Did you call me ma'am? Did you seriously call me ma'am!?" I'm 99% sure I didn't say that, not even 'sir'. He wasn't trans, by the way, just a regular guy.

[Leo656]

Well those people were unprofessional as f*ck. I'd have made a phone call. Might do nothing, but it might.

People like that are why I'm generally against the argument for people in those fields making more money. I know, it's a chicken/egg argument, "If we were paid better we wouldn't be such dicks!" but that sounds like excuses, to me. Even CEOs swear they're underpaid. I feel like these types of people are just assholes and they use being underpaid as an excuse to act out.

I mean, me being me... that Rutgers situation definitely would have escalated. I have a really light "The f*ck you think YOU'RE talkin' to?" trigger, and even if I'd "f*cked up" by not knowing to leave a tip, there's no way I would've left that scene quietly.

At the very least, I'd have waved the tip in his face before tossing it on the ground and saying "Go fetch, asshole." I mean, my logic is always, if you're getting "banned" anyway, make a scene so at least it's justified.

Always be the Bigger Prick, that's my motto. Especially if you didn't start it.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I mean, me being me... that Rutgers situation definitely would have escalated. I have a really light "The f*ck you think YOU'RE talkin' to?" trigger, and even if I'd "f*cked up" by not knowing to leave a tip, there's no way I would've left that scene quietly.

At the very least, I'd have waved the tip in his face before tossing it on the ground and saying "Go fetch, asshole." I mean, my logic is always, if you're getting "banned" anyway, make a scene so at least it's justified.

Always be the Bigger Prick, that's my motto. Especially if you didn't start it.

Oy!

I actually felt pretty guilty about it back then. So did my husband. We were really young, and just started dating, and didn't even have bank cards at the time (the receipt wasn't for a card so it only had the amount, and no tip line, which further confused us too). We had no idea what the 'etiquette' for this stuff was. We were debating whether to tip or not for several minutes until we figured we might not need to. Like, the dude was really harsh and rude to us even though I tried to explain the mix up. Even in spite of it all, I felt awful, and the situation ruined the night.

I honestly have a lot of sympathy for people who work these sort of jobs, so I tend to feel bad if I piss anyone off or something. Like in my other examples, I often wonder if I am being a Karen or offended someone, and that's why things happen.

Also, I am a wimp, especially in real life. Hell, I saw a customer mistreating the waitress the other day at a buffet we went to. I really wanted to stand up for her, yet I chickened out. Thing is, whenever I try to defend people, I always make matters worse. Always. I get scared of saying anything, justified or not.

[Leo656]

Not to be a prick but I'm sure it's much harder for a chick, just in general.

In such situations, a guy can always pop one'a these at someone:


...And that alone will de-escalate a conflict situation 9 out of 10 times. Even if you are not Kevin Nash. It helps to be Kevin Nash - in most things, just in general - but really, as long as you perfect The Glare, it still works. I pull that sh*t all the time on people and most things go my way in a hurry. I mean, I don't wear a hat, but that's just flair. The Look is the whole deal. That sh*t works.

Chicks can't do that, though. So yeah, taking that one off the table makes any conflict situation infinitely more complicated. I empathize.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Chicks can't do that, though. So yeah, taking that one off the table makes any conflict situation infinitely more complicated. I empathize.

Yeah.

I've tried to do the Kevin Nash thing, actually, in some situations where I'd be bullied or whatever. Going back to Target, I had this one guy come to my register that began to make fun of me to his girlfriend(?). I tried to give him that look and intimidate him. Didn't work. He just called me ugly, and a dyke, and laughed as he walked away with his girlthing. That's just one example, I've got others that I won't share since you get the gist.

I'm a real life 2012 Baxter Stockman, a laughing stock...man. I think the TMNT would get my name wrong too. Le sigh.

[Leo656]

That's the thing, if a chick throws me that look I automatically assume she's down for Butt Stuff and really impatient about it.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Leo656

That's the thing, if a chick throws me that look I automatically assume she's down for Butt Stuff and really impatient about it.

I have no idea how other women are able to stand up to that. I've tried everything, and nothing ever works. For me, my actions either escalate the situation so it becomes more violent or they laugh at me.

One time, I was at Boston Market, and the guy in front of me was being a huge d*ck to the servers. I roll my eyes, and more or less say to my husband, "Wow, some people will make any excuse to be a huge asshole to others". Big mistake. Dude turned around, and asked if I had a problem with him. I said, "Yes, because you're being an asshole." He began to scream at me, and that was when I suddenly began to back down, and just went to order.

Husband was actually mad at me because he felt that I went too far, and made matters worse for everyone involved. I felt bad the entire time I ate. Then when we finish eating, the same guy comes back, and he gets in my face, and says he wants us to step outside. Yes. He says this to a woman. No, I am not lying. He actually wanted to fight me.

That was when my husband stepped in, and said, "Okay, tough guy, let's go. You and me." Then the dude backed down, and left. I was glad my husband defended me, though he was still pretty steamed at me, and barely talked to me that night.

[Leo656]

I love that the guy wanted to fight you.

Seems like he took the "Boston" part of "Boston market" a bit too literally. Only in Boston is it acceptable - nay, encouraged - to fistfight a woman over a minor verbal altercation. But anywhere else it's generally frowned upon. Bunch'a savages up there.