A little rant!
missdaisy79
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What's bugging you this afternoon? Nothing major, just something that's irritating you a bit.
Mine is this. No matter how nice this weather, no matter how chilled out I feel, it still really annoys me when I see bikers and moped riders riding around without their protective clothing on. The sun doesn't make your skin any tougher or your bones any stronger. You will not have any skin left if you come off your wheels and you aren't wearing textile or leather. Having spent three months working at a bike accessories store, I feel very passionately about the bikers who think they have kevlar skin.
Grrr.
Mine is this. No matter how nice this weather, no matter how chilled out I feel, it still really annoys me when I see bikers and moped riders riding around without their protective clothing on. The sun doesn't make your skin any tougher or your bones any stronger. You will not have any skin left if you come off your wheels and you aren't wearing textile or leather. Having spent three months working at a bike accessories store, I feel very passionately about the bikers who think they have kevlar skin.
Grrr.
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What's bugging you this afternoon? Nothing major, just something that's irritating you a bit.
Mine is this. No matter how nice this weather, no matter how chilled out I feel, it still really annoys me when I see bikers and moped riders riding around without their protective clothing on. The sun doesn't make your skin any tougher or your bones any stronger. You will not have any skin left if you come off your wheels and you aren't wearing textile or leather. Having spent three months working at a bike accessories store, I feel very passionately about the bikers who think they have kevlar skin.
Grrr.
It's called natural selection. Let nature run it's course.0 -
The bloke next door whistling tunelessly for hours, and it's so hot here today I have to have the windows open so I hear every dischordant warble!!0
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Ooh, well said. My Dad calls them 'organ donors'!It's called natural selection. Let nature run it's course.0 -
The amount of reading my professors expect me to do for law school. 100 pages for each class is unrealistic.0
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The weather is bugging me today...it is a miserable rainy day!!!0
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Why is the conveyor belt at the grocery store always wet? :huh:0
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<--- obviously a rider
I AGATT (all gear all the time). Its the only way to ride0 -
What's bugging you this afternoon? Nothing major, just something that's irritating you a bit.
Mine is this. No matter how nice this weather, no matter how chilled out I feel, it still really annoys me when I see bikers and moped riders riding around without their protective clothing on. The sun doesn't make your skin any tougher or your bones any stronger. You will not have any skin left if you come off your wheels and you aren't wearing textile or leather. Having spent three months working at a bike accessories store, I feel very passionately about the bikers who think they have kevlar skin.
Grrr.
Oh I totally agree. I always wear a helmet, protective pants, armored jacket, and boots. I like my skin, thanks. If it's too hot for your gear, then don't ride. I saw a kid in my neighborhood riding shirtless, just wearing shorts and sandals. Sandals! How the hell do you shift in sandals?0 -
drivers bug me...why is it ok not to use your signal lights, or drive 50 when it's a freeway and there's signs EVERWHERE that say 70? or how about the douche that gets into the lane that ends, just so he can try to beat you off the lights...hello moron, I drive a 5.7L Hemi..it's a charger engine, you aren't going to beat me in your hurtin' half ton.0
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when I worked at the hospital I saw a very pretty girl who got road rash, wanted to look cute on the back of that bike with shorts on ..........not so cute anymore unfortunately.0
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Excuses.
My mother ALWAYS has one.
Yesterday when we spoke on the phone I told her I had just gotten out of the shower, that the kids and I had just come in from the pool. She lives in Massachusetts and I live in Florida. I was telling her that it was just then starting to get dark, about 7:30pm-ish. She was surprised because it gets dark there much earlier. That led into her next comment about how she can no longer "go for walks" because it is dark when she gets up, before work, and dark when she gets out of work and she doesn't feel safe to walk in the dark. I suggested she walk on the treadmill in her basement. She can't do that because of her knees. Last week she told me she "started walking again" ... she went one day. I'm sure she'll have endless excuses of WHY she isn't in better shape or comfortable in a bikini when she arrives to visit next month -- like every time -- and then get a major attitude because she feels insecure.
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It's called natural selection. Let nature run it's course.
Love it!0 -
Why is the conveyor belt at the grocery store always wet? :huh:
Raw chicken juice.0 -
Ooh, well said. My Dad calls them 'organ donors'!It's called natural selection. Let nature run it's course.
Truer words were never spoken. . that is where my brother got his kidney. .. .0 -
My boss treating me like an intern. i am not his coffee girl / paperwork filer/ meeting room booker and note taker!
i am paid to be a science researcher.
I don't mind helping but stop!
thanks for the place to vent!0 -
Why is the conveyor belt at the grocery store always wet? :huh:
Raw chicken juice.
Yeah, I know what caused it. But I want to know why the cashier doesn't keep a disinfectant spray bottle & roll of paper towels handy to clean it up. Some actually do this, but most of the time, they don't. It really grosses me out. :sick:0 -
My boss treating me like an intern. i am not his coffee girl / paperwork filer/ meeting room booker and note taker!
i am paid to be a science researcher.
I don't mind helping but stop!
thanks for the place to vent!
Just say "No." Remind him that you are a professional just like he is and that getting his coffee etc. is not going to benefit science. You are being paid to benefit science not act as his go-fer. If you are part of a university or corporation there should be an HR person who can help you clarify your duties. Most jobs descriptions do say other duties as assigned but they should be professional duties. He sounds like one of those people who think he is to good to do the more menial task surrounding his job. That being said, helping others does build good will within the group but it should never be at the expence of your research. Good luck.0 -
PERFECT timing for this topic.
We have a particular "privledge" here at the office and one of my coworkers abuses it. And nobody tells her anything. I didn't tell on her, but I asked my boss a question relating to what she did. I don't know if by me asking the question, if I'll mess things up for all of us or not, but it really irks me. I totally want to punch her in the face. :explode:0 -
PERFECT timing for this topic.
We have a particular "privledge" here at the office and one of my coworkers abuses it. And nobody tells her anything. I didn't tell on her, but I asked my boss a question relating to what she did. I don't know if by me asking the question, if I'll mess things up for all of us or not, but it really irks me. I totally want to punch her in the face. :explode:
Better yet, throat punch that *kitten*...lol.0 -
drivers bug me...why is it ok not to use your signal lights, or drive 50 when it's a freeway and there's signs EVERWHERE that say 70? or how about the douche that gets into the lane that ends, just so he can try to beat you off the lights...hello moron, I drive a 5.7L Hemi..it's a charger engine, you aren't going to beat me in your hurtin' half ton.
Because, the sign says MAX of 70. The minimum is 45.
Deal with it.0 -
My boss treating me like an intern. i am not his coffee girl / paperwork filer/ meeting room booker and note taker!
i am paid to be a science researcher.
I don't mind helping but stop!
thanks for the place to vent!
Good luck to you. I really am my bosses coffee girl/paperwork filer/meeting room booker and note taker. It sucks.
But I make great coffee.0 -
What's bugging you this afternoon? Nothing major, just something that's irritating you a bit.
Mine is this. No matter how nice this weather, no matter how chilled out I feel, it still really annoys me when I see bikers and moped riders riding around without their protective clothing on. The sun doesn't make your skin any tougher or your bones any stronger. You will not have any skin left if you come off your wheels and you aren't wearing textile or leather. Having spent three months working at a bike accessories store, I feel very passionately about the bikers who think they have kevlar skin.
Grrr.
I fell off my bike going 40mph onto pavement and was fine. While I understand your frustration, for some of us the risk of getting messed up is worth the reward of feeling the rushing wind on our skin / through our hair.
To each their own.0 -
My colleague not remembering that I have BLACK coffee with ONE sweetener - and we have worked together for nearly three years. Is it a man thing or is a three quarters filled mug normal? I guess I should be grateful that he makes me a coffee (often wrong) at all!0
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I myself love bikers who don't protect themselves...It is called job security for me.0
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What's bugging you this afternoon? Nothing major, just something that's irritating you a bit.
Mine is this. No matter how nice this weather, no matter how chilled out I feel, it still really annoys me when I see bikers and moped riders riding around without their protective clothing on. The sun doesn't make your skin any tougher or your bones any stronger. You will not have any skin left if you come off your wheels and you aren't wearing textile or leather. Having spent three months working at a bike accessories store, I feel very passionately about the bikers who think they have kevlar skin.
Grrr.
I fell off my bike going 40mph onto pavement and was fine. While I understand your frustration, for some of us the risk of getting messed up is worth the reward of feeling the rushing wind on our skin / through our hair.
To each their own.
I'm sorry - that's like saying, I do crack. I haven't overdosed yet. O-well, to each their own.0 -
My boss treating me like an intern. i am not his coffee girl / paperwork filer/ meeting room booker and note taker!
i am paid to be a science researcher.
I don't mind helping but stop!
thanks for the place to vent!
ya know, i could send your boss my resume. i'm just sayin... i happen to be a professional office b!tch. LOL.0 -
The weather is bugging me today...it is a miserable rainy day!!!
I would love that rain. We are in a severe drought here.0 -
Wel since you asked. Okay, now the salesman gets an attitude with me if, when I'm answering the phones, I don't asked a customer what they want when they ask for sales. Even though I'm not in sales and it confuses some people when I ask for a part number because they think I am or they get an attitude because I have the nerve to ask for a part number instead of just putting them through to sales. Why is it that when my co-worker answers the phone and DOESN'T get the part number the salesman doesn't get an attitude with her? As a matter of fact, why is it that certain co-workers seem to never get an attitude with her about anything but they do with me?
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My colleague not remembering that I have BLACK coffee with ONE sweetener - and we have worked together for nearly three years. Is it a man thing or is a three quarters filled mug normal? I guess I should be grateful that he makes me a coffee (often wrong) at all!
Oh my land, I had to laugh at the three quarters filled mug! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Now, I'm wondering if it's a man thing too because when I ask my son to pour me a glass of something, he'll fill the glass about three quarters of the way full. I always make some sarcastic comment about it when he does that. :bigsmile: :laugh: :laugh:0 -
A CEO who refuses to make his own tea. Ya, I know he worked hard to get there. I have a degree too. I am not a tea maker. I hope he hates it. (One tea bag, luke warm water, dip in 5 times, and two scoops of sugar, stir properly) ugh shut up mr! Oh, and make sure to write the stock report numbers on mr's calendar although he NEVER looks at them, but swears one day he may get a phone call asking for them. (He has copies on his desk, too) blah blah blah
AANNNND- Road construction on the same patch of road, twice within 6 months. Thanks California. You're awesome.0
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