what's on your mind, right now?

jnimhaoileoin · May 2015

oftenreading said:

jennycoyle said:
I need to find a way to enjoy badminton again or else stop playing it :(
Well, that's a truth - no point in playing if you aren't enjoying it. New partner? New club? Maybe cross-train in something else for a few months?

Tension has been building with my doubles partner of the last 4 or 5 years and we had a falling out in a big tournament yesterday. She is also pretty much now running my club. So it may be a case of finding a new club or just giving it up, these days it does nothing but stress me out

23scidoo · May 2015

jennycoyle said:

23scidoo said:
Booked my flight tickets..small step closer to my dream..
Where you off to?

Buenos fucking Aires..november..you know why..haha..

jnimhaoileoin · May 2015

23scidoo said:

jennycoyle said:

23scidoo said:
Booked my flight tickets..small step closer to my dream..
Where you off to?
Buenos fucking Aires..november..you know why..haha..

Oh very good, enjoy

Pap · May 2015

23scidoo said:

jennycoyle said:

23scidoo said:
Booked my flight tickets..small step closer to my dream..
Where you off to?
Buenos fucking Aires..november..you know why..haha..

You too? Lucky bastards!

Enjoy your time there!

smarchee · May 2015

I have no eggs for breakfast in the fridge
but I do have some english muffins, so I guess toast it will be

23scidoo · May 2015

jennycoyle said:

23scidoo said:

jennycoyle said:

23scidoo said:
Booked my flight tickets..small step closer to my dream..
Where you off to?
Buenos fucking Aires..november..you know why..haha..
Oh very good, enjoy

Pap said:

23scidoo said:

jennycoyle said:

23scidoo said:
Booked my flight tickets..small step closer to my dream..
Where you off to?
Buenos fucking Aires..november..you know why..haha..
You too? Lucky bastards! Enjoy your time there!

thank you guys..and perhaps Deftones, pap..

PJSiren · May 2015

How LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG of a day it's going to be today, the drivers all had such short routes and I had very few late routes today, and I'm basically waiting for drivers to get back and turn in keys and scanners....that's my day...

PJSiren · May 2015

Also wondering if the Analog membership is worth the extra 20 bucks??? my membership is coming due in a couple weeks and am debating whether of not to upgrade...

wasa1971 · May 2015

I'm feeling so lucky to have surrounded myself with amazing people.

smarchee · May 2015

the neighbour has left their dog in the back yard since at least 6
gonna go check and see if he is still out

ldent42 · May 2015

smarchee said:
the neighbour has left their dog in the back yard since at least 6
gonna go check and see if he is still out

I hope the doggie is okay. I recently saw a story about a doggie in Long Island that got rescued from its owner who "couldn't afford to feed it much" and had it out in the backyard. They found rocks and clothing in the dogs stomach.

So I've been having a lot of problems with Chrome recently and today I finally lost my patience. I was trying to upload a pic to photobucket and couldn't because "shockwave crashed" over and over. I don't use extensions and very few plug ins none of which conflicted with each other. I went so far as to a full reset my settings gone and it STILL didn't work. Spent like 10 minutes trying to find my damn "chrometheme" to get back to normal and it turns out - Chrome just needed to be updated. :fp:

so annoyed at myself.

jnimhaoileoin · May 2015

Pet peeve: People who start a thread or comment on one purely to tell us just how much they hate a certain band or how crap they are

I just do not understand their motivations or what purpose it serves. Does it give them some weird kind of twisted enjoyment to share their negativity?

For whatever reason, it really really irritates me...

dimitrispearljam · May 2015

Pain

deadendp · May 2015

Maybe I'm a flirt and don't know it. Maybe the gentlemen of the boards can answer this.

I try to be nice to people. I smile a lot. I kid around with people. (As many people as I can. I kind of gauge the situation, though.)

Last year, I had an old guy hit on me. That's fine. That didn't freak me out. It was the way he did it. (It's here that I remind you that I work at an art gallery.) He came in. Needed help. I got what he needed, was writing the sale up and asked for his phone number. We are supposed to do that on every slip, but I only take it for checks and charge. He leans across the counter, points to his bare ring finger and tells me about how he isn't married. I would have loved to see the look on my face. He is a fan of the tanning bed and his teeth are overly whitened. I'll remind you that he was still leaned way across the counter.

I have personal space issues anyhow. I blame the shortness thing for that.

"No, no, no! That's not why I was asking!"

I told him that I was married and that was not why I was asking for his number. I was just asking because it was a credit card sale. I always wear my wedding ring. I know that doesn't mean a lot to some people, but it does to me.

He kept trying to give me his phone number.

"No, really. I'm good." I refused to take it.

Fast forward to today. About 5 minutes before he came in, I had a flash of memory. I was helping someone else. Not a male at all. A very pale older woman. At any rate, there he was with his old dude smile with the too much whitening and far too much tanning. He needed my help.

Crap.

"Hey! How are you today?" he asked. I did what I needed to. I was all business. I wasn't fun and joking around.

When he went to leave, he said, "You really did me a big favor last year."

He knew that I knew what he meant. "Oh really? What was that?"

"Um, uh . . . " he stammered. He thanked me and left. I could have had his creepy ass banned from the gallery. I work at a mom & pop. My boss wouldn't have hesitated to call him and ask him not to return. Thankfully, my coworker was with me. She remembered his creepiness from before.

Here's my thing. I'm nice to people. I'm not going to apologize for that. I do try to joke around and have a good time. Life would be really boring if not. Does that lead men (of all ages, including this man who could have been my father and was possibly qualifies for Medicare) to think that I'm wanting some type of relationship with them? I had another creepy customer (a younger guy) want to take me on a paid vacation to Central America after Christmas one year.

RKCNDY · May 2015

^^^ eww eww eww
you just reminded me of the uber creepy people I had to help at the clinic.
I'm nice, I smile...that's my fucking job, I don't care about...ugh, I can't even...yuck.

*shudder*

dimitrispearljam · May 2015

Fix line

jnimhaoileoin · May 2015

deadendp said:
Maybe I'm a flirt and don't know it. Maybe the gentlemen of the boards can answer this.

I try to be nice to people. I smile a lot. I kid around with people. (As many people as I can. I kind of gauge the situation, though.)

Last year, I had an old guy hit on me. That's fine. That didn't freak me out. It was the way he did it. (It's here that I remind you that I work at an art gallery.) He came in. Needed help. I got what he needed, was writing the sale up and asked for his phone number. We are supposed to do that on every slip, but I only take it for checks and charge. He leans across the counter, points to his bare ring finger and tells me about how he isn't married. I would have loved to see the look on my face. He is a fan of the tanning bed and his teeth are overly whitened. I'll remind you that he was still leaned way across the counter.

I have personal space issues anyhow. I blame the shortness thing for that.

"No, no, no! That's not why I was asking!"

I told him that I was married and that was not why I was asking for his number. I was just asking because it was a credit card sale. I always wear my wedding ring. I know that doesn't mean a lot to some people, but it does to me.

He kept trying to give me his phone number.

"No, really. I'm good." I refused to take it.

Fast forward to today. About 5 minutes before he came in, I had a flash of memory. I was helping someone else. Not a male at all. A very pale older woman. At any rate, there he was with his old dude smile with the too much whitening and far too much tanning. He needed my help.

Crap.

"Hey! How are you today?" he asked. I did what I needed to. I was all business. I wasn't fun and joking around.

When he went to leave, he said, "You really did me a big favor last year."

He knew that I knew what he meant. "Oh really? What was that?"

"Um, uh . . . " he stammered. He thanked me and left. I could have had his creepy ass banned from the gallery. I work at a mom & pop. My boss wouldn't have hesitated to call him and ask him not to return. Thankfully, my coworker was with me. She remembered his creepiness from before.

Here's my thing. I'm nice to people. I'm not going to apologize for that. I do try to joke around and have a good time. Life would be really boring if not. Does that lead men (of all ages, including this man who could have been my father and was possibly qualifies for Medicare) to think that I'm wanting some type of relationship with them? I had another creepy customer (a younger guy) want to take me on a paid vacation to Central America after Christmas one year.

Do you not think maybe these people are just lonely and a friendly face draws them to you? Ultimately they sound harmless. Also the fact that he kept trying to give you his number isn't that odd when you did actually need it for your records

Of course I'm sure it doesn't seem as harmless when you're actually experiencing it! I'm just a bit naive and like to believe everyone is good and harmless at heart, until they give me serious cause to think otherwise

ldent42 · May 2015

deadendp said:
Maybe I'm a flirt and don't know it. Maybe the gentlemen of the boards can answer this.

I try to be nice to people. I smile a lot. I kid around with people. (As many people as I can. I kind of gauge the situation, though.)

Last year, I had an old guy hit on me. That's fine. That didn't freak me out. It was the way he did it. (It's here that I remind you that I work at an art gallery.) He came in. Needed help. I got what he needed, was writing the sale up and asked for his phone number. We are supposed to do that on every slip, but I only take it for checks and charge. He leans across the counter, points to his bare ring finger and tells me about how he isn't married. I would have loved to see the look on my face. He is a fan of the tanning bed and his teeth are overly whitened. I'll remind you that he was still leaned way across the counter.

I have personal space issues anyhow. I blame the shortness thing for that.

"No, no, no! That's not why I was asking!"

I told him that I was married and that was not why I was asking for his number. I was just asking because it was a credit card sale. I always wear my wedding ring. I know that doesn't mean a lot to some people, but it does to me.

He kept trying to give me his phone number.

"No, really. I'm good." I refused to take it.

Fast forward to today. About 5 minutes before he came in, I had a flash of memory. I was helping someone else. Not a male at all. A very pale older woman. At any rate, there he was with his old dude smile with the too much whitening and far too much tanning. He needed my help.

Crap.

"Hey! How are you today?" he asked. I did what I needed to. I was all business. I wasn't fun and joking around.

When he went to leave, he said, "You really did me a big favor last year."

He knew that I knew what he meant. "Oh really? What was that?"

"Um, uh . . . " he stammered. He thanked me and left. I could have had his creepy ass banned from the gallery. I work at a mom & pop. My boss wouldn't have hesitated to call him and ask him not to return. Thankfully, my coworker was with me. She remembered his creepiness from before.

Here's my thing. I'm nice to people. I'm not going to apologize for that. I do try to joke around and have a good time. Life would be really boring if not. Does that lead men (of all ages, including this man who could have been my father and was possibly qualifies for Medicare) to think that I'm wanting some type of relationship with them? I had another creepy customer (a younger guy) want to take me on a paid vacation to Central America after Christmas one year.

Congratulations, you've internalized victim blaming! It's not your fault or anything you've done wrong. Creeps gonna creep. One thing I'll point out is that you are a captive audience when you're at work in sales or service or whatever and those creeps know that. Some of them undoubtedly seek out those scenarios on purpose. A lot of times you'll get the lonely old person who is just looking for company. Sometimes you'll get the lonely not so old dude who turns out to be a nut job. General rule of thumb, anyone who goes out of their way to interact with an establishment's employees more than being nice and polite and friendly is probably a perv and a creep.

dimitrispearljam · May 2015

Basketball

jnimhaoileoin · May 2015

I hate always worrying about my skin and how bad I look :(

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