What pissed you off today? Mark II

[Bramblethorn]

I felt the same way the first couple of times we had to put dog or cat down, but came to realize that as they trusted me with their life, they trusted me to make a rational decision about when it was time for them to leave it.

(Poorly worded - I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.)

I do, thanks.

I'm so sorry for your loss.
It still feels horrible even when you know it was the right decision.

Yep. I have plenty of logic for why it had to be done, but the heart ain't listening.

I think part of it is - when he was younger, and active, we had so much fun. All the cute affectionate things dogs do. Even when he was stealing food (pretty often) it was always funny. Easy to remember how much you love a dog when that stuff's happening.

And then the last year or so, it was all about the non-fun stuff: giving him pills, carrying him from bed to food and back, getting up in the middle of the night to stop him bumping into stuff, cleaning up messes. I lost track of the fact that all those things are expressions of love too, until Saturday when I wasn't doing them any more.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

My partner and I took our dog in to be euthanased yesterday. He was old and sick. He had difficulty standing up and he couldn't find his food or water unless I guided him to it. He'd lost a lot of weight and his kidneys were starting to go, and he was miserable in last week's heat wave. I know it was time, but I still feel like a horrible selfish person, like I betrayed someone who trusted me with his life.

He was such a lovely guy. A friend told us "he was the first dog I ever met that I wasn't scared of". It's been two days and I'm still crying like a baby.

I'm so sorry, Bramble :[ He sounds like he was a special dog and your love for him shows. I'm a little biased as a veterinarian, but I believe that enabling a pet to die painlessly and peacefully is the greatest fulfillment of their trust. I hope your family has many memories to smile and laugh about, and that some smiling, drooling face will warm your hearts in the future

 

[KoPilot]

It's 2am and I'm awake because of relux. Tired as shit, but I can't be horizontal for a while. I'm also trying desperately to figure out what in the hell would have triggered it since I've been going so much out of my way to eat even better lately (I'm only a few fucking steps away from being wheat-free and vegan at home now). It must have been the teriyaki sauce, slightly spicy sunomono, and shot of baileys and vodka I had after dinner.

Fuck I guess I gotta be even MORE careful than that. I have a "three strikes" mental checklist for all my meals and I guess I've technically struck out tonite.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm so sorry, Bramble :[ He sounds like he was a special dog and your love for him shows. I'm a little biased as a veterinarian, but I believe that enabling a pet to die painlessly and peacefully is the greatest fulfillment of their trust. I hope your family has many memories to smile and laugh about, and that some smiling, drooling face will warm your hearts in the future

We do have another dog, and he's getting spoiled hard now. Love him too, but he's a completely different personality to the old one. The old fellow was an English Cocker who'd been with us from six weeks old. New Dog is a corgi/something who we adopted him from the pound, and he seems to have had a rough life before that - he wants to be loved but he's also very defensive and we had to figure out his triggers one bite at a time.

Feeling a lot better about things today after hanging out with friends. Still missing the old guy but at least that horrible guilt feeling seems to be gone.

 

[midwestyankee]

Au Revoir, Au Bon Pain!

I get that some restaurants and coffee shops that offer free wi-fi to their customers might not want me to cruise Xhamster (or even Lit) on my laptop while I'm seated in their establishments. I get that and I'm fine with it. However, what the café chain Au Bon Pain has been doing lately, in the name of limiting pornography, sickens me. They're blocking access to blogs and other websites dedicated to LGBT issues. I used to enjoy eating there. No longer.

 

[CutieMouse]

So I turned on the radio this morning, and they're talking about Wendy Davis (running for Texas Governor) - because OHMYGOD she made the decision when her children were young, to leave them with their father and go to Harvard Law, instead of SMU Law.

The vitriol on the radio about this subject is sickening me.

Apparently, "real" mothers don't ask dads raise to raise kids. "Real" mothers make the lesser choice (SMU vs Harvard). "Real" mothers would have done the superwoman thing, and raised the children while working full time AND attending law school. "Real" mothers would have acted "responsibly" and set aside their ambition, because the children come first. "Real" mothers would NEVER done anything that would take them away from their children's sides until they were grown. And if Wendy Davis is so pro-abortion, and wasn't willing to make the sacrifices that "real" mothers do, why didn't she just abort her children, instead of ruining their lives (by going to law school, giving their dad custody in the divorce, etc)?

My head. It a'splodes.

 

[ecstaticsub]

So I turned on the radio this morning, and they're talking about Wendy Davis (running for Texas Governor) - because OHMYGOD she made the decision when her children were young, to leave them with their father and go to Harvard Law, instead of SMU Law.

The vitriol on the radio about this subject is sickening me.

Apparently, "real" mothers don't ask dads raise to raise kids. "Real" mothers make the lesser choice (SMU vs Harvard). "Real" mothers would have done the superwoman thing, and raised the children while working full time AND attending law school. "Real" mothers would have acted "responsibly" and set aside their ambition, because the children come first. "Real" mothers would NEVER done anything that would take them away from their children's sides until they were grown. And if Wendy Davis is so pro-abortion, and wasn't willing to make the sacrifices that "real" mothers do, why didn't she just abort her children, instead of ruining their lives (by going to law school, giving their dad custody in the divorce, etc)?

My head. It a'splodes.

I would be interested to know if anyone called in to support her decision and whether or not they were male or female?

 

[KoPilot]

I get that some restaurants and coffee shops that offer free wi-fi to their customers might not want me to cruise Xhamster (or even Lit) on my laptop while I'm seated in their establishments. I get that and I'm fine with it. However, what the café chain Au Bon Pain has been doing lately, in the name of limiting pornography, sickens me. They're blocking access to blogs and other websites dedicated to LGBT issues. I used to enjoy eating there. No longer.

The update on the article says they've since disabled the entire site-blocking system? You might go see if that's true...

 

[midwestyankee]

So I turned on the radio this morning, and they're talking about Wendy Davis (running for Texas Governor) - because OHMYGOD she made the decision when her children were young, to leave them with their father and go to Harvard Law, instead of SMU Law.

The vitriol on the radio about this subject is sickening me.

Apparently, "real" mothers don't ask dads raise to raise kids. "Real" mothers make the lesser choice (SMU vs Harvard). "Real" mothers would have done the superwoman thing, and raised the children while working full time AND attending law school. "Real" mothers would have acted "responsibly" and set aside their ambition, because the children come first. "Real" mothers would NEVER done anything that would take them away from their children's sides until they were grown. And if Wendy Davis is so pro-abortion, and wasn't willing to make the sacrifices that "real" mothers do, why didn't she just abort her children, instead of ruining their lives (by going to law school, giving their dad custody in the divorce, etc)?

My head. It a'splodes.

She and her supporters are going to have to put up with a boatload of this crap because the whole problem with her candidacy - in their eyes - is not so much her ideas or preferred policies but her femaleness. And this in a state that was once led by Ann Richards. I really miss Molly Ivins, who would be having a field day in her column with the last few years of the antics of "Governor Hair" (as she called Rick Perry) and his associates.

 

[midwestyankee]

The update on the article says they've since disabled the entire site-blocking system? You might go see if that's true...

The problem was with stores in New York and, while their food is good, 900 miles a bit too far to go for a ham sandwich. I hope they sort this out and if they do so honorably, I'll applaud.

 

[IrisAlthea]

So I turned on the radio this morning, and they're talking about Wendy Davis (running for Texas Governor) - because OHMYGOD she made the decision when her children were young, to leave them with their father and go to Harvard Law, instead of SMU Law.

The vitriol on the radio about this subject is sickening me.

Apparently, "real" mothers don't ask dads raise to raise kids. "Real" mothers make the lesser choice (SMU vs Harvard). "Real" mothers would have done the superwoman thing, and raised the children while working full time AND attending law school. "Real" mothers would have acted "responsibly" and set aside their ambition, because the children come first. "Real" mothers would NEVER done anything that would take them away from their children's sides until they were grown. And if Wendy Davis is so pro-abortion, and wasn't willing to make the sacrifices that "real" mothers do, why didn't she just abort her children, instead of ruining their lives (by going to law school, giving their dad custody in the divorce, etc)?

My head. It a'splodes.

It sucks.

I live in one of the worlds most gender equal countries and still, when minister posts were appointed, one of the female ministers to be was asked by the press if she would take it, considering she had recently had a child.
She pointed out that one of the male ministers to be had a child just the same age. He stood up and agreed that it was strange that the press would be less concerned with his possibilities to enjoy parenthood.
Many of the comments after the article were filled with the same vitriol you mention.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I would be interested to know if anyone called in to support her decision and whether or not they were male or female?

Not sure about that specific decision, but her second ex seems to have a lot of positive things to say about her.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Just wanna know that a silent someone is okay. Shouldn't be too much to ask. I realize I have probably sunk to some level of whiny ex, but I do think a simple "we're done" shouldn't be too much to ask. I mean we were there, at the helm of that decision, in agreement, it is mutual. But, the abrupt disappearance was unexpected.

It bothers me enough that I'd say no need to worry further about crossing the line. Your silence is screaming at me.

Whatever.

You know me well enough to know this isn't typical. I am not whiny or excessively needy. I hate feeling like this. I'm done feeling it.

 

[Aurantica]

What pissed me off today?

Getting invited for an interview, then told to fill out an application with info they could have gotten if they bothered to look at my resume, then being absolutely picked to pieces by the interviewer who apparently wanted to see nothing good in me. Seriously, she went over and over every bad thing in my resume, and was just so demanding and pushy, it was almost as if she was trying to see what I would tolerate. If I drive over an hour to get to you, I expect to be treated with a little more dignity!

And to be basically told that what I did to help a little kid was invalid because people ALWAYS do better with Product X and THAT is THAT is an insult to me and my skills. She doesn't know that kid, she's never tried to help him. But of course I couldn't push back or risk being kicked out, so I had to sit there and take it and it just wasn't fair. I had to sit in a coffee shop for over an hour before I was calm enough to go home!

 

[TwoShades]

What pissed me off today?

Getting invited for an interview, then told to fill out an application with info they could have gotten if they bothered to look at my resume, then being absolutely picked to pieces by the interviewer who apparently wanted to see nothing good in me. Seriously, she went over and over every bad thing in my resume, and was just so demanding and pushy, it was almost as if she was trying to see what I would tolerate. If I drive over an hour to get to you, I expect to be treated with a little more dignity!

And to be basically told that what I did to help a little kid was invalid because people ALWAYS do better with Product X and THAT is THAT is an insult to me and my skills. She doesn't know that kid, she's never tried to help him. But of course I couldn't push back or risk being kicked out, so I had to sit there and take it and it just wasn't fair. I had to sit in a coffee shop for over an hour before I was calm enough to go home!

((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))))

 

[BiBunny]

I don't know if this is so much what pissed me off as what made me whiny, but I'm putting it here, anyway.

I have an impacted wisdom tooth that gets infected regularly. The last time it did this was in September or October, and now it's flared up again. I have no money to go to the doctor for antibiotics, no insurance to go to the dentist and have them removed, and no more antibiotics left in the house. I took the last of what I had the LAST time this happened.

It hurts. And the infection's spread from my bottom tooth (where it started) to my top tooth. I had hoped I could just wait it out, but it looks like it's getting worse instead of better. FML.

/whine

 

[Aurantica]

I don't know if this is so much what pissed me off as what made me whiny, but I'm putting it here, anyway.

I have an impacted wisdom tooth that gets infected regularly. The last time it did this was in September or October, and now it's flared up again. I have no money to go to the doctor for antibiotics, no insurance to go to the dentist and have them removed, and no more antibiotics left in the house. I took the last of what I had the LAST time this happened.

It hurts. And the infection's spread from my bottom tooth (where it started) to my top tooth. I had hoped I could just wait it out, but it looks like it's getting worse instead of better. FML.

/whine

I feel your pain, Bunny. That happened to me with all 4 teeth. Worst headaches of my life. I really hope you are able to get them fixed so you're not in pain anymore.

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

I don't know if this is so much what pissed me off as what made me whiny, but I'm putting it here, anyway.

I have an impacted wisdom tooth that gets infected regularly. The last time it did this was in September or October, and now it's flared up again. I have no money to go to the doctor for antibiotics, no insurance to go to the dentist and have them removed, and no more antibiotics left in the house. I took the last of what I had the LAST time this happened.

It hurts. And the infection's spread from my bottom tooth (where it started) to my top tooth. I had hoped I could just wait it out, but it looks like it's getting worse instead of better. FML.

/whine

Huge hugs, wisdom teeth are bastard painful. You need metronidazole for them. Keep swilling with TCP and hot saline xxxx

 

[LallyH]

Whilst I think 'pissed off' might be a bit strong, what has mildly irritated me today is, working from home, I picked up a bunch of apparently blank paper, loaded up the printer and spent fifteen minutes printing off some reports.

Upon checking, my daughter has kindly illustrated THE REVERSE of said paper with various drawings, random thoughts about boys of her acquaintance both in real life and online, song lyrics, how much she hates her brother and then replaced it neatly in the paper box. Blank side up.....

 

[MeekMe]

Whilst I think 'pissed off' might be a bit strong, what has mildly irritated me today is, working from home, I picked up a bunch of apparently blank paper, loaded up the printer and spent fifteen minutes printing off some reports.

Upon checking, my daughter has kindly illustrated THE REVERSE of said paper with various drawings, random thoughts about boys of her acquaintance both in real life and online, song lyrics, how much she hates her brother and then replaced it neatly in the paper box. Blank side up.....

Wow, that's diabolical. (´･_･`)

 

[LallyH]

Wow, that's diabolical. (´･_･`)

I'm proud of her creativity - I just wish she wouldn't sabotage my work in the process

But was has genuiniely pissed me off today - waiting.....I am sick of waiting....

 

[Ahlam]

No one can ruin your day with a word quite so well as your mother can.

 

[MeekMe]

Realizing with certainty that I do actually have to cut my hair to fix the ugly.

(♯｀∧´) I told her, I'm growing it out so I just want to touch up LONG layers and keep the length. What does she do? SHORT layers and kept the length! Now it looks like a really scraggly Carol Brady haircut! It took me a long time and a lot of pony tails to realize this isn't growing out fast enough to be ok. I'm cutting! Argh!

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Man, this thread needs some help!

*Leaves dark chocolate and salted caramel truffles to help offset all of these strains.

TGIF!

 

[Vixandra]

Bitchy damn obgyn nurse is gonna find Monday uncomfortable after her boss gets a note from me. How dare she get in my face and order me to do anything? Or bitch about coworkers in front of me when I understand the lab tech had to go home on time?

I've worked clinic, did all the doctor assisting stuff, and had a far larger scope of practice as a military medic than some super chunk LVN. I'm still highly pissed hours later.