Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))

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  • FroggyBug
    FroggyBug Posts: 4,883 Member
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    I confess... That I haven't ever made a really deep or meaningful confession here. Everyone else seems to relate to each other so much, and I feel like an outcast; in my mind, at least, I'm certain that if I were to make a deeper confession that would leave me vulnerable, I'd be targeted for bullying or judged harshly by everyone here.

    I have to admit that I'm not sure how much sense I'm making, or if I'm making sense at all. :) Does anyone else ever feel this way, or is it just the anxiety talking? I don't know that either!

    I feel exactly this way. I feel like this in real life too though. I always see other people bond and I never feel like I fit in anywhere. I'm just weird. :) They sent out the company picnic email today and last year I felt so out of place. I think I may skip it this year.

    As for this thread, I feel like I can't keep up enough to bond with people. It seems I'm always way behind everyone else on the current topic...(I am still on page 658-I had to train someone this week so I didn't have much alone computer time).
  • Oberon21
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    KylerJaye wrote: »
    81Katz wrote: »
    Oh my god .... I had to read 15+ (maybe even 20 pages!) to get caught up. You people sure confess an awful lot ;)

    I have never donated blood. The idea of it freaks me out.
    I am also not an organ donor. :neutral:

    Walmart, oh god that place sucks! I usually try to go really early to beat the rush, but the problem with that is no checkouts are open, except self-checkout with someone standing there nearby when said self-checkout doesn't want to work (hellllllo, just open a freakin' lane then!)

    I still haven't weighed myself. I keep telling myself it's probably not THAT bad, but then I am scared the number will be huge, so I am living in denial currently ...

    i used to be an organ donor, then my bff saw it on my license and lost her mind. she was adamant that if it was dire situation (keep in mind as a teenager/early 20's i wrecked a ton of vehicles) they wouldn't attempt to save me. i still don't totally agree with that, but she pleaded with me to take it off "just in case."
    I donate blood and platelets. I am also on the stem cell donor list and organ donor list. The only thing I will not donate will be cord blood if/when I have kids. I with have that stored in a cord blood bank for personal use if my kids ever needed it. There is a lot of cancer in my family.

    I donate blood, I can't donate platelets (tried a few times, its hard to get the blood back in me. When they did it with 2 arms I always nearly passed out and they stopped). I am also listed on the bone marrow registry. A few years ago they called me and I had to go give platelets. I warned them I have an issue with that, and they changed the machine to only do one arm (they can only get to the veins well on my right arm). I took forever and I was freezing and squeezing things with my hand to make the blood flow, it kept clogging. They told me again to stick to blood. I am listed as an organ donor (but not whole body... I don't want some medical student propping me up in their school and dressing me in weird clothing or putting me in weird positions with other dead bodies. :wink: )

    So blood, bone marrow and organs for me!
  • Oberon21
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    klwells08 wrote: »

    I guess he is a Tuxedo ... HE is all black on top with a partial white nose, and a white chest. And 4 white paws. He is sitting outside my door right now. Should make catching him in an hour easy!

    So names....These are very important to me. I like unusual names. I usually name my animals after Shakespeare, but here is the list (this will be long...)

    Chinchilla was Sebastian Alexander (two minor characters in some Shakespeare play, can't remember which one).
    1st Cat: Camille. She was a calico. Just looked like a Camille so that is what he became.
    2nd Cat: Quasimodo (Quasi) because he was so sick when I found him.
    3rd Cat: Othello. Because he was grey and Othello was a Moor (a bit of a stretch)
    4th Cat: Nerissa. Handmaiden to Portia in The Merchant of Venice
    1st Horse: Show Name: To Boldly Go because he was bold to the jumps and I love Star Trek. Barn name Oberon (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
    2nd Horse: Show name: A Midsummer Night's Dream (In honor of Oberon). Barn name Phoebe because she came with it. There is a Phebe in Shakespeare, but I liked the "o" in her name so left it.
    6th Cat: Portia from The Merchant of Venice
    7th Cat: Emilia from Othello (Desdemona's companion)
    8th Cat: PK (named from Paula's Cat). She came with that name, was a barn cat from my barn, and Paula is the vet...she brought the cat. She wasn't doing well (sick, needed her teeth done, wasn't killing mice) so I took her home. She is happy as a clam, nearly toothless now and eats like crazy.
    About to be 9th Cat: Cobweb (a fairy from A Midsummer Night's Dream in honor of Oberon).

    Whew. So mostly themed. :)

    Edited because I repeated numbers![/quote]

    Love the name Quasi. I worked with a girl who named her cat Quasi, it had the kitty version of a harelip. She also had a three legged cat named Ilene.

    We have a great dane named Merlin, after Top Gun, not the magician. He also goes by MerBot, botty bot, and bud. Our English bulldog is Molly, aka Little Miss, Molly monster, pigadillo (she snorts like a pig and has rolls like an armadillo), Hot TaMolly, and wiggles.

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    Ilene for the 3 legged cat cracked me up. Othello had one eye (found him as a 3 week old baby totally sick, eye infections, etc.). Love the names of your pets!
  • ShibaEars
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    ShibaEars wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm finally caught up. I missed one afternoon and there were over 300 posts!

    I am super annoyed by a coworker who works at a desk near mine. She keeps walking by my desk, although she doesn't have to. There is another way out that seems easier to me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems like she just walks by to see what I'm doing (or not doing, since I'm on MFP :blush: ). Sometimes she'll come by and just lean on the filing cabinet behind me, like she's waiting for me to initiate a conversation, although I have no desire to. I kind of have to ignore her until she returns to her own desk. The other reason I hate that she comes by - and I feel bad saying this - is that she's very overweight and the floor shakes when she goes by (we're in this weird second floor addition, my corner kind of "hangs" over a warehouse). If I'm writing, I have to stop until she passes by, and earlier today something fell off a shelf above my desk. I know it's not her fault that the building design isn't great, but having her pass by multiple times an hour is really annoying.

    ETA: She's walked by 3 times in the 5 minutes since I posted this :angry:
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm finally caught up. I missed one afternoon and there were over 300 posts!

    I am super annoyed by a coworker who works at a desk near mine. She keeps walking by my desk, although she doesn't have to. There is another way out that seems easier to me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems like she just walks by to see what I'm doing (or not doing, since I'm on MFP :blush: ). Sometimes she'll come by and just lean on the filing cabinet behind me, like she's waiting for me to initiate a conversation, although I have no desire to. I kind of have to ignore her until she returns to her own desk. The other reason I hate that she comes by - and I feel bad saying this - is that she's very overweight and the floor shakes when she goes by (we're in this weird second floor addition, my corner kind of "hangs" over a warehouse). If I'm writing, I have to stop until she passes by, and earlier today something fell off a shelf above my desk. I know it's not her fault that the building design isn't great, but having her pass by multiple times an hour is really annoying.

    ETA: She's walked by 3 times in the 5 minutes since I posted this :angry:

    She might just like you and want to be friends. That's why she's hanging round hoping you might start a conversation, because she is shy to.

    Nah, we've worked together for about 10 years. Our office is small (this area only has 5 people in it) so we do chat regularly. I think it's just when she is bored that she hangs around and wants to talk - which I get, but I wish she'd be able to see that I'm working on something and don't want to/can't talk at those particular moments.
  • quiksylver296
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    ShibaEars wrote: »
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm finally caught up. I missed one afternoon and there were over 300 posts!

    I am super annoyed by a coworker who works at a desk near mine. She keeps walking by my desk, although she doesn't have to. There is another way out that seems easier to me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems like she just walks by to see what I'm doing (or not doing, since I'm on MFP :blush: ). Sometimes she'll come by and just lean on the filing cabinet behind me, like she's waiting for me to initiate a conversation, although I have no desire to. I kind of have to ignore her until she returns to her own desk. The other reason I hate that she comes by - and I feel bad saying this - is that she's very overweight and the floor shakes when she goes by (we're in this weird second floor addition, my corner kind of "hangs" over a warehouse). If I'm writing, I have to stop until she passes by, and earlier today something fell off a shelf above my desk. I know it's not her fault that the building design isn't great, but having her pass by multiple times an hour is really annoying.

    ETA: She's walked by 3 times in the 5 minutes since I posted this :angry:
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm finally caught up. I missed one afternoon and there were over 300 posts!

    I am super annoyed by a coworker who works at a desk near mine. She keeps walking by my desk, although she doesn't have to. There is another way out that seems easier to me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems like she just walks by to see what I'm doing (or not doing, since I'm on MFP :blush: ). Sometimes she'll come by and just lean on the filing cabinet behind me, like she's waiting for me to initiate a conversation, although I have no desire to. I kind of have to ignore her until she returns to her own desk. The other reason I hate that she comes by - and I feel bad saying this - is that she's very overweight and the floor shakes when she goes by (we're in this weird second floor addition, my corner kind of "hangs" over a warehouse). If I'm writing, I have to stop until she passes by, and earlier today something fell off a shelf above my desk. I know it's not her fault that the building design isn't great, but having her pass by multiple times an hour is really annoying.

    ETA: She's walked by 3 times in the 5 minutes since I posted this :angry:

    She might just like you and want to be friends. That's why she's hanging round hoping you might start a conversation, because she is shy to.

    Nah, we've worked together for about 10 years. Our office is small (this area only has 5 people in it) so we do chat regularly. I think it's just when she is bored that she hangs around and wants to talk - which I get, but I wish she'd be able to see that I'm working on something and don't want to/can't talk at those particular moments.


    That something being MFP? LOL
  • xMrBunglex
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    MoHousdon wrote: »
    My sister, I find, is really good at naming pets. She named almost all of our pets growing up (the only one I named was our cat Libby). Our golden retriever was BooBoo, a cat was Fuzz, one of our guinea pigs was Wiggles, cats named Taloose and ClairaBelle.

    Taloose was my baby!! He sadly died from some common disease that kills young cats (Libby died from the same stupid disease). He used to wait for me to get home and then we'd cuddle on the couch together. If I put my lips in front of his face he'd lean forward and rub his face against them :love: He didn't want to ever be put down, and he was the most gorgeous cat too! :(

    I now have quite the soft spot for orange kitties :tongue:

    I also admit that I give tons of nicknames to pets. Taloose went by Boosy, Goosy, Taloosey, Baby, Baby boy, etc. Mostly Boosy, for some reason.
    ClairaBelle (who is still living) goes by Claire, Clairabear, Clairababy, etc etc etc.

    I also do this. Owen's nickname when he was much fatter was Fatty McButter Pants, and Lucy's nicknames are Lulu, Lucy Lulu, or sometimes just Lu.

    I did this most with one of my guinea pigs called nutmeg, she was meggie, meg smeg, meggie spaghetti, meggie peg or pretty much anything else that came into my head, and my dad called her nutty. The others just seemed to have one nickname though.

    My wife had a cat, Oscar, when we first met. He eventually became Mr. B. The evolution:

    Oscar
    Oscar M'Loshcr Bar
    M'Losh
    Osh
    Osh Kosh B'Gosh
    B'Gosh
    B, and finally
    Mr. B.

    My wife's favorite (of our 2) cat is named Moxie. She's getting chubby, so I started calling her Maxi, and then Maximum....now she's M.L. (or Maximum Load)

    This does not please my wife.

  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,442 Member
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    Modcloth banner adds on my MFP page! Hmmmm, wonder how that happened? :p
  • Oberon21
    Oberon21 Posts: 13,235 Member
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    KylerJaye wrote: »
    Tubbs216 wrote: »
    MoHousdon wrote: »
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    kelly_c_77 wrote: »
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    MoHousdon wrote: »
    MoHousdon wrote: »
    I am really upset this morning because my degu is dying, I am sure of it now.....he has almost completely stopped eating and now his fur is falling out.....I was up at 4am hand feeding him corn flakes but have to leave for work now and am terrified he is going to die by himself in his cage while I am not home....I can't stop crying......its gonna be a long day, or few days, every time I have to leave the house.....

    That's just heartbreaking. I'm so sorry. Losing a pet, no matter how or when, is always so hard.

    I have an indoor/outdoor (mostly outdoor) cat that I haven't seen in almost 2 weeks. We live in kind of a wooded area so I think an animal got him. I was thinking something happened last week when I didn't see him, but now that almost a whole week has passed and I still haven't seen him, I'm pretty sure he's gone for good. He was my boy and I'm sad I'll probably never get to hold him again. :'(:'(:'(

    So far my little guy is hanging on, but still not really eating anything but hand fed corn flakes.....

    Sorry about your kitty!! That is so hard!

    Glad your little guy is hanging in there. Maybe he just needs to serious TLC that only hand fed corn flakes can provide.

    I was really struggling with Owen being gone yesterday. Every time I'd think about him, I'd bread down in tears. I hope he makes his way back home. That's him in my profile picture.

    Aww... I am so sorry about your cat. That is why all my cats are 100% indoor, I am so paranoid. I am currently courting a feral all black cat on my porch that I have been feeding for about a year now...trying to get him inside eventually. Not that I need 4.

    And speaking of 4... I have a fifth cat that I started feeding on my porch every day too... black and white. Totally friendly. I finally took him to the vet on Monday and he is microchipped! So we are tracking his owners, which I am sure they dumped him, so far we traced him to a shelter in TN, then he was adopted and taken to DE, then surrendered to a shelter near my home, so now we are trying to find out if the shelter readopted him out or if he somehow got free.

    I had to let him loose again (wasn't spending hundreds on a cat that I had to hand over to someone else) and I can't have him in my home until he is tested for feline AIDS And leukemia. So still feeding him on the porch. I am worried something will happen before the vet agrees I can keep him and will treat him. So I may soon have 4 in house, and one on the porch. Then eventually maybe I'll get Porch Kitty into my condo. Then it will be 5. I basically have a Kitty Condo. I swore I would never have more than 3. I am becoming a crazy cat lady.

    This sounds like my family! We have five cats...four were previously strays that we fed off of our porch. They warm up to us over time, we take them in and quarantine them in our basement away from our other cats until they get to the vet to be tested and checked for microchips. It always seems to work out...all the cats end up getting along great, and adjust to indoor-only life just fine!

    yep, I had set up the spare bedroom for him on Monday, but didn't bring him in when I didn't get him tested after we found the microchip. The vet thought it was too risky. I may now though, he keeps begging me to come in (standing at my sliding glass door and crying, running out to meet me when I get home, etc.)

    I would not be able to resist this....I would have ten thousand cats if they each did this, lol.

    Yep hence the about to be 4.

    So update on black and white kitty. Vet confirmed the trail is dead so I can bring him in and claim him. I have a 4 pm appt today. His last known owner surrendered him because they moved to Israel so I am hoping the spraying is not an issue. So unless he has a contagious disease he is about to be cat #4. I am going to decide on a name today. I am feeling guilty about my other 3 cats. I think they already think they don't get enough attention. Oh well. I'll just have to make sure I give each of them some time each day. The 3 I have figured it out and we settled into a routine. Hopefully this will work out.

    That makes me happy. Is he a tuxedo kitty? That's what my Owen is and he was so handsome. Is handsome. Do you have name-names for your kitties or cat names for them? What I mean is, I don't give my pets animal names, I give them people names. Our dogs are Lucy and Otis, the guinea pigs were Ozzy and Jackson (my daughter was a HUGE Hannah Montana fan at the time), there's Owen, and I had a rabbit named Jessica. I think people names are more endearing for pets than animal names, IMHO.

    I always find it so interesting what people name their pets! I've had pets with people names (i.e. my first dog was Sam), but my current pets have 'animal' names - my husky in the photo is Jazz, and my cats are Tadpole and Purranha (long story- started with a cat named Catfish because my dad waded into our creek to 'fish' her out!).

    My mom almost always names her pets animal names, with two exceptions: she had a husky named Nikki when she was in high school/college, and a cat named Delilah for a while (yes, we then had Sam(pson) and Delilah in the same house!)

    So, my mastiff is Antigone Grace. People name or pet name? I love the name Antigone (Ann-tig-oh-nee for anyone wondering how to pronounce. Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles.) I wanted to name a little girl Antigone if we had one, but had a boy. Grace because as a puppy, she wasn't. :D

    People name, for sure. I enjoy it when people give their pets middle names.
    My screen name is my dog's middle name. Flossie Tubbs.
    We also have a bearded dragon named Dexter and a gerbil named Mary.
    When I was a student I had gerbils named Gabriel and Juan Jose Raul. Because I was a pretentious little &%$# at that age.

    right now i have two small dogs:
    Plankton (i've also knighted him Sir Plankton Batdog) and Wolverine (or Wolvie or Captain Fluffy Butt). when the boyfriend moved out he took our third dog, Loki (or Locust)

    i've previously had two tuxedo cats named Izzy Jo Levine and Dez the Cat. they hated being indoor cats so they went to live with my mom on her horse farm.

    I love the name Plankton!

    Horse farm???
  • FluffySandwich
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    My boyfriend's family has a funny tradition of calling every animal "BILL!'' in a high pitched squealy voice. Their dog is named Floppy, but they call him Bill. Once I caught his brother going ''BILL!'' to a fish :lol:

    My sister's cat is named Reggie, but I like calling him ''Reggie Roo.'' She also renamed a cat that was previously called Lilly to ''Dilly.''
  • LH85DC
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    All right friends- my boss has kindly agreed to let us leave early for Memorial Day weekend, so I am out of here. See you all next week! Try not to fill up too many pages that I'll have to catch up on, since I'll have no reception at all while camping this weekend!
  • Oberon21
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    Okay folks, packing up Cobweb and heading for the vet. Y'all have a great day! XOXOXO
  • tulips_and_tea
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    Love the name Quasi. I worked with a girl who named her cat Quasi, it had the kitty version of a harelip. She also had a three legged cat named Ilene.

    We have a great dane named Merlin, after Top Gun, not the magician. He also goes by MerBot, botty bot, and bud. Our English bulldog is Molly, aka Little Miss, Molly monster, pigadillo (she snorts like a pig and has rolls like an armadillo), Hot TaMolly, and wiggles.

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    Ilene is hilarious! And I love great danes! I knew someone who had one. His name was Zeus but he was the biggest baby ever! All she had to do to block him from entering a room or something (like when she had company) was lay a small, table top ironing board on the floor. He had no idea he could step right over it.
  • quiksylver296
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    LH85DC wrote: »
    All right friends- my boss has kindly agreed to let us leave early for Memorial Day weekend, so I am out of here. See you all next week! Try not to fill up too many pages that I'll have to catch up on, since I'll have no reception at all while camping this weekend!

    Lucky!!!
  • JPW1990
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    MoHousdon wrote: »
    bkhamill wrote: »
    I am still back on page 642. I have had entirely too much work the past couple of days to get caught up. I am off work tomorrow and have a ton going on, then we are off to a family reunion long weekend at my families ranch and I will not have phone or internet service on the ranch so unless I drive to town while there I may lose my login stretch, this pains me! I might just have to go for a drive everyday. I am not sure how I will ever catch up with this thread with that much time away though. I have to read each and every post so I won't miss anything! I am addicted to this thread! I may need to seek professional help for this :o

    I, too am addicted to this thread. I tell myself everyday I won't go on here, but then I do. I spend countless work hours checking it and replying to it. I feel you people (what do you mean, YOU people?!) have helped me more than you'll ever know. I have found some friends on here that I feel like I know IRL and I cherish our friendship. Even if it is strictly online only.

    I consider this free therapy and I feel free saying things here that I can't anywhere else. If I could hug each and everyone of you, I would. Even those of you that aren't into that sort of thing. :smiley:

    I keep finding myself entering my food, and then clicking right on "community" to come here.

    I find myself opening MFP to enter food, clicking here first, then forgetting to enter the food and have to come back to do it.
  • quiksylver296
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    BZAH10 wrote: »
    Love the name Quasi. I worked with a girl who named her cat Quasi, it had the kitty version of a harelip. She also had a three legged cat named Ilene.

    We have a great dane named Merlin, after Top Gun, not the magician. He also goes by MerBot, botty bot, and bud. Our English bulldog is Molly, aka Little Miss, Molly monster, pigadillo (she snorts like a pig and has rolls like an armadillo), Hot TaMolly, and wiggles.
    Ilene is hilarious! And I love great danes! I knew someone who had one. His name was Zeus but he was the biggest baby ever! All she had to do to block him from entering a room or something (like when she had company) was lay a small, table top ironing board on the floor. He had no idea he could step right over it.

    I had a Dane names Zeus, too. 200 pound pain in the butt. Ex got him in the divorce. :'(
  • quiksylver296
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    JPW1990 wrote: »
    MoHousdon wrote: »
    bkhamill wrote: »
    I am still back on page 642. I have had entirely too much work the past couple of days to get caught up. I am off work tomorrow and have a ton going on, then we are off to a family reunion long weekend at my families ranch and I will not have phone or internet service on the ranch so unless I drive to town while there I may lose my login stretch, this pains me! I might just have to go for a drive everyday. I am not sure how I will ever catch up with this thread with that much time away though. I have to read each and every post so I won't miss anything! I am addicted to this thread! I may need to seek professional help for this :o

    I, too am addicted to this thread. I tell myself everyday I won't go on here, but then I do. I spend countless work hours checking it and replying to it. I feel you people (what do you mean, YOU people?!) have helped me more than you'll ever know. I have found some friends on here that I feel like I know IRL and I cherish our friendship. Even if it is strictly online only.

    I consider this free therapy and I feel free saying things here that I can't anywhere else. If I could hug each and everyone of you, I would. Even those of you that aren't into that sort of thing. :smiley:

    I keep finding myself entering my food, and then clicking right on "community" to come here.

    I find myself opening MFP to enter food, clicking here first, then forgetting to enter the food and have to come back to do it.

    I do that, too. LOL
  • Sch614
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    Francl27 wrote: »
    I don't think I'd last long as a cashier because I would not be able to hide my irritation if I was at the express line, lol! Let's just say I'm apparently not too good with people, from my experience working with customers in bakeries (but seriously, a lot of them were *kitten**oles). But at least I have stories, right?

    I hated being a cashier. I know I’m not the right person for it. I once got angry with a customer because he dumped out a huge pile of coins on my register and expected me to count it out and give him bills in exchange (I worked at a hardware store...). I told him that he wasn’t at a bank and I refused to do it. Of course management sent him over to customer service for them to take care of it. Ugh…I just get irritated with people who think they are entitled to anything they want.
    Thankfully the head cashier that day was a friend so I didn't get into much trouble.[/quote]

    My mom has been in food service all her life; cooking, bartending, waitressing, etc. She has many stories. People are a-holes. She's working at a donut shop now; the people who pick up big orders never tip. [/quote]

    When I pick up a pizza order for example I don't tip the cashier .. Is it just super big orders that you mean?
  • m1xm0d3
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    KylerJaye wrote: »
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    Hard confession here cuz it just happened again...

    I went to the Dollar Tree to grab 3-4 things best bought there. Was shopping fine enough, come time to checkout. A line out about 6 people deep with a ton of crap to buy and only one cashier checking people out.... Nope. No thanks. Not gonna happen. I dropped my hand basket in the center of the aisle where I stood and walked out. If you spend more time in line trying to pay for what you just shopped for then there is a problem with your practice! Yes, waiting is a part of living and in most cases there's no getting around it... The problem I have is not with the cashier doing their part so I never cut them a look or anything, I blame the business for insufficient staffing and I refuse to support them by making a purchase at that time.

    We were shopping the other night at Wal-Mart (we were in a small town and it was the only thing open that had what we needed) and there was seriously 1 lane open. In the whole entire store. One freakin' lane! Luckily, we didn't have a whole basket full of stuff, but still, I thought it was ridiculous. I've left a cart somewhere because I didn't feel like waiting in line for 20 minutes.

    I hate WalMart. Their official policy (here) is not to redirect or confront or scold people for having too many items in the express line.

    I know this because I once went through express with ONE item while the woman in front of me had 38. Yes, I counted. I wanted to say something to her but it would have been something really b*tchy and I'm trying to be a nicer person. So I pointed out to the cashier that the customer had exceeded the posted item limit about three times over, and she advised me that they weren't allowed to say anything.

    Nope, they aren't. People know this and abuse it.

    Walmart.com is a godsend! Free shipping to my home for any orders over $50.00. I order almost all of my non-perishable foods, toiletries, household cleaners, etc. Then I go to a different grocery store only for my fruit, vegetables, dairy, etc. Haven't set foot in Walmart for almost a year and I intend to keep that streak growing.

    That is such a good idea! You are a genius! I usually go to one grocery store for meat, veggies, dairy, and sale items and then go to Walmart for paper, cleaning, etc. Totally doing this next time!

    It has made my life immensely easier! I just placed an order today for toilet paper, laundry detergent, canned goods, and tea bags. In a few days either FedEx or UPS will deliver it. It's great!

    i stalk slicdeals.org for super deals on toiletries and household stuff. it's amazing how much you can save!!

    Do you mean slickdeals.net? I am there all the time. Either searching for a deal on something or hanging out in the gamers lounge. At work there's only SD & MFP. Everything else is blocked. lol
  • Lefty1290
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    Sch614 wrote: »
    Francl27 wrote: »
    I don't think I'd last long as a cashier because I would not be able to hide my irritation if I was at the express line, lol! Let's just say I'm apparently not too good with people, from my experience working with customers in bakeries (but seriously, a lot of them were *kitten**oles). But at least I have stories, right?

    I hated being a cashier. I know I’m not the right person for it. I once got angry with a customer because he dumped out a huge pile of coins on my register and expected me to count it out and give him bills in exchange (I worked at a hardware store...). I told him that he wasn’t at a bank and I refused to do it. Of course management sent him over to customer service for them to take care of it. Ugh…I just get irritated with people who think they are entitled to anything they want.
    Thankfully the head cashier that day was a friend so I didn't get into much trouble.

    My mom has been in food service all her life; cooking, bartending, waitressing, etc. She has many stories. People are a-holes. She's working at a donut shop now; the people who pick up big orders never tip. [/quote]

    When I pick up a pizza order for example I don't tip the cashier .. Is it just super big orders that you mean? [/quote]

    Yeah, big orders.
  • tulips_and_tea
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    BZAH10 wrote: »
    Love the name Quasi. I worked with a girl who named her cat Quasi, it had the kitty version of a harelip. She also had a three legged cat named Ilene.

    We have a great dane named Merlin, after Top Gun, not the magician. He also goes by MerBot, botty bot, and bud. Our English bulldog is Molly, aka Little Miss, Molly monster, pigadillo (she snorts like a pig and has rolls like an armadillo), Hot TaMolly, and wiggles.
    Ilene is hilarious! And I love great danes! I knew someone who had one. His name was Zeus but he was the biggest baby ever! All she had to do to block him from entering a room or something (like when she had company) was lay a small, table top ironing board on the floor. He had no idea he could step right over it.

    I had a Dane names Zeus, too. 200 pound pain in the butt. Ex got him in the divorce. :'(

    Oh, no! That would be so hard to let go of. Hope he had a good home.