I posted an item on marketplace for $40. It is brand new in box and currently $100 on Amazon. Within 30 minutes 2 people offered $30, and passed when I said I wasn't willing to drop the price yet.
I mean, I guess I could just accept any offer and be glad it's out of my house. But on principal I'm annoyed. I'm already offering you a steal on this item! Please don't ask me to drop the price by 25% immediately after I post.
Post by sofamonkey on Apr 10, 2022 13:32:43 GMT -5
We got a new couch yesterday. DH took the 2 old very worn out couches to the dump. We ALL kept offering to help, but he declined. Fine, whatever, but we have a love seat that needs to be moved downstairs still. Instead, my living room is full of couch. I’m super annoyed he didn’t take help. And he’s gone today. I’m willing to bet that it’ll be here all week if I’m not pushy. Lol
Awhile ago I volunteer coached xc at an underesourced high school, and it was an open team resulting in a 2:45 ratio of coaches to kids, which is way, way, way over the safe limit, but yeah! Logistics be damned!
One week our head coach went on vacation and I was alone with all 45 of the kids. On one run, 2 girls got lost, and one kid had a tooth knocked out during a game of ultimate frisbee: both on my watch.
Everyone got to participate, but I was in charge of too many kids and we were all at risk, but yeah, I mean so great everyone got chance and if something REALLY terrible happened it was me who was going to be held liable.
😒
I was saying “logistics be damned” in that I don’t really need 40 posts telling me about ratios and all that jazz.
I’m saying - “it would be nice”
Aware it’s not always possible but “it would be nice”
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Maybe I misunderstood the interactive and responsive nature of the message board 😶
I just looked at the Easter basket thread on MMMoms, this may be an unpopular opinion, not a vent, but when did Easter become the 2nd Christmas? My daughter is 23. I don't remember getting her so much stuff for...Easter.
I buy my kids candy. When they were little I had things like bubbles because a toddler does not need tons of candy, but that is it. If I even thought to do more than that, H would be pissed.
I was saying “logistics be damned” in that I don’t really need 40 posts telling me about ratios and all that jazz.
I’m saying - “it would be nice”
Aware it’s not always possible but “it would be nice”
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Maybe I misunderstood the interactive and responsive nature of the message board 😶
Please feel free to post as much about ratios as you would like. It’s just not pertinent to me basically playing a Beach Boys song with regards to children’s athletics.
I hung out with a friend last night while my partner was out with friends. My friend and I ordered "gourmet" personal size pizzas. I saved the other half in the fridge for today.
My partner came home after 2 am and ate all my damn pizza! Claiming that anything in the fridge is ours, grrrr. He has cooked for me the past 2 days, but that does not negate that I wanted that damn leftover pizza!
H did this once when we were dating. I was young and didn’t handle it maturely- the next time we had leftovers, I ate his and replaced it with an onion in his container. But he never did it again.
I just looked at the Easter basket thread on MMMoms, this may be an unpopular opinion, not a vent, but when did Easter become the 2nd Christmas? My daughter is 23. I don't remember getting her so much stuff for...Easter.
Easter is a good gift giving holiday for someone with a fall or winter birthday so they can get summer gifts. My DDs birthday is usually a 2 or 3 weeks after Easter every year and we usually do a combo gift. I like giving presents 🤷♀️
Caveat I haven't seen the other thread
My parents often gave us good presents for easter and as an adult I realized it’s because it was around tax refund when they were younger and broker. One year we got new bikes
It seems as though our Santa and Easter Bunny are in cahoots. When Christmas is over the top, Easter gets pulled back. But if Santa misses *the* present, the Easter Bunny brings it (the year of the hatchimal craze this happened).
I’m on vacation and I lost my wallet (ID, health ins card, 3 credit cards, etc)!!
Anyone ever had to fly home without ID? I do have a photo of it and my SSN card (and I’m with my family so hoping they will vouch for me ha). What a freaking pain. Also have another hotel to check into but I think my DHs name is also on that reservation.
I have an expired passport at home I could have someone mail me but I don’t think that would work?
Last month my friend visited me on a domestic flight and lost her wallet and did not have ID to flight home. It was NBD. She checked in with TSA and they cleared her through security. Something about it being a return flight helped.
How long has the passport been expired? I was just at the airport and the TSA person said expired passports are good for travel (domestically - for ID purposes) for an additional 90 days or 9 months, not sure how long.
I hung out with a friend last night while my partner was out with friends. My friend and I ordered "gourmet" personal size pizzas. I saved the other half in the fridge for today.
My partner came home after 2 am and ate all my damn pizza! Claiming that anything in the fridge is ours, grrrr. He has cooked for me the past 2 days, but that does not negate that I wanted that damn leftover pizza!
H did this once when we were dating. I was young and didn’t handle it maturely- the next time we had leftovers, I ate his and replaced it with an onion in his container. But he never did it again.
Lol. The thing is, if I ate his leftovers or replaced it with an onion he probably wouldn’t even care! Makes it even more annoying hehe. But I think he’s def learned a lesson and I will certainly be writing notes on foods he can’t have I’m looking forward to the good meal he’s gonna cook me tonight when he gets home to make up for it
My dog is constantly licking himself. It is driving me crazy. So many mouth noises. He's also shedding like crazy right now and I just have constant fur balls rolling around despite vacuuming 1-2x a day. I'm over him.
Post by emilyinchile on Apr 10, 2022 14:47:48 GMT -5
It took FOREVER to get the baby to sleep for his nap, and as FI was putting him in the crib, the dog went into his room and woke him up. She's almost 15 and basically does nothing all day - I literally have to drag her on our very short walks, otherwise she's in one of her beds - and ignores/avoids the small human in the house except riiiiiight when he's falling asleep. Obviously it's not her fault, she doesn't know what she's doing, but it is so incredibly frustrating. And now she's asleep again while my son is babbling away very much not asleep.
I hung out with a friend last night while my partner was out with friends. My friend and I ordered "gourmet" personal size pizzas. I saved the other half in the fridge for today.
My partner came home after 2 am and ate all my damn pizza! Claiming that anything in the fridge is ours, grrrr. He has cooked for me the past 2 days, but that does not negate that I wanted that damn leftover pizza!
H did this once when we were dating. I was young and didn’t handle it maturely- the next time we had leftovers, I ate his and replaced it with an onion in his container. But he never did it again.
I literally LOLed at this. This is the most appropriate revenge ever.
@@once, when I was 9 months pregnant, I went to lunch with my friends for my bday. I had one big slice of delicious pizza left that I had planned to take to work for lunch the next day. As I was packing up that morning, I realized my H had taken that one slice with him already and I had no yummy pizza and no lunch ready to take and I was 9 months pregnant and still working! The Onion Revenge would have been a far calmer response than what I had.
I’m on vacation and I lost my wallet (ID, health ins card, 3 credit cards, etc)!!
Anyone ever had to fly home without ID? I do have a photo of it and my SSN card (and I’m with my family so hoping they will vouch for me ha). What a freaking pain. Also have another hotel to check into but I think my DHs name is also on that reservation.
I have an expired passport at home I could have someone mail me but I don’t think that would work?
Last month my friend visited me on a domestic flight and lost her wallet and did not have ID to flight home. It was NBD. She checked in with TSA and they cleared her through security. Something about it being a return flight helped.
How long has the passport been expired? I was just at the airport and the TSA person said expired passports are good for travel (domestically - for ID purposes) for an additional 90 days or 9 months, not sure how long.
Um….8 years? Ha!
Thank you for all the reassuring replies! I’ve got all the electronic things to show -taxes, work emails, health insurance, 401k -anything they want! Plus the photo with my license also has my DHs license on it so they can verify his…I’ll go early.
H did this once when we were dating. I was young and didn’t handle it maturely- the next time we had leftovers, I ate his and replaced it with an onion in his container. But he never did it again.
Lol. The thing is, if I ate his leftovers or replaced it with an onion he probably wouldn’t even care! Makes it even more annoying hehe. But I think he’s def learned a lesson and I will certainly be writing notes on foods he can’t have I’m looking forward to the good meal he’s gonna cook me tonight when he gets home to make up for it
Dang it!!
But yay for solving the problem with words and getting delicious meals out of it.
I considered saying something, either to the recipients or the sender, but I couldn't figure out how to do it without sounding totally bitchy haha.
I’ve gotten to an age where I honestly don’t care anymore about sounding bitchy. In your situation, honestly, it would bug me so much that I’d say something to both of them and wouldn’t give it a second thought.
I don't care as much as I used to but I also just had an incident with this coworker where she was trying to help me with something but she was the opposite of helpful. I was a little short with her because I was already having a bad day. I appreciate she wanted to help, but it just frustrated me even more lol. She's also fairly new to the team so I mostly chose to let it go. I'm kinda hoping my coworker friend mentions something (they're both on the committee that does stuff for birthdays and such, usually it's someone else but she's out right now) but I'm not counting on it haha.
Post by mysteriouswife on Apr 10, 2022 16:22:34 GMT -5
After reading several replies I polled FB for the #regional school tryouts. Apparently, it wasn’t a thing at my school because were were so small. Lots of my school mates mentioned it being weird for tryouts. Others in more metro areas like Nashville said tryouts have always been around. So there we have it
What is Color Guard? So far I've gleaned that it involves drills and "throwing flags and shit", but I don't think I fully understand what it is. They didn't have that at my school. foundmylazybum,if I was ever on a cross country team, I would definitely be the kid getting lost.
What is Color Guard? So far I've gleaned that it involves drills and "throwing flags and shit", but I don't think I fully understand what it is. They didn't have that at my school. foundmylazybum,if I was ever on a cross country team, I would definitely be the kid getting lost.
Color Guard is the people (usually girls) who are out on the field with the marching band spinning flags in time with the music.
What is Color Guard? So far I've gleaned that it involves drills and "throwing flags and shit", but I don't think I fully understand what it is. They didn't have that at my school. foundmylazybum,if I was ever on a cross country team, I would definitely be the kid getting lost.
It’s the students who twirl/toss the big flags with marching bands. The flags are, like, 6’ tall and you don’t want every kid who just feels like participating throwing them around 2’ away from their classmate with an instrument or another flag. The band and the color guard move around the field changing formations and moving around each other, it’s very precise and requires a lot of practice. This makes it sound like I think it’s rocket science, I definitely don’t, but it’s not like a sports team where someone who isn’t very good could just be put in for a few minutes each game.
This happened to a coworker of mine and it was quite a pain. I wouod call TSA now so you can start dealing with it. She ended up having to get the dept of Ed in the state she lived in to fax someone in the tsa her teaching credentials and one other thing I forget what. It’s not as easy as just showing them a pic on your phone.
Ugh the internet is telling me otherwise!! Like I’ll get pulled aside for an interview but as long as I have some supporting documentation and I’m with the other members of my party, it’s a pain but fine??
I lost my ID but I did have CC. I was with DH so I was with another party and it was also my return trip. Just did a short interview with questions and extra screening. This was like 8 years ago.
What is Color Guard? So far I've gleaned that it involves drills and "throwing flags and shit", but I don't think I fully understand what it is. They didn't have that at my school. foundmylazybum ,if I was ever on a cross country team, I would definitely be the kid getting lost.
It’s the students who twirl/toss the big flags with marching bands. The flags are, like, 6’ tall and you don’t want every kid who just feels like participating throwing them around 2’ away from their classmate with an instrument or another flag. The band and the color guard move around the field changing formations and moving around each other, it’s very precise and requires a lot of practice. This makes it sound like I think it’s rocket science, I definitely don’t, but it’s not like a sports team where someone who isn’t very good could just be put in for a few minutes each game.
It's not rocket science, but it's hard! I was in marching band for 4 years and had no problem marching and playing, but I tried to learn some of the CG routines for fun and I definitely would have been cut at try outs. The amount of coordination required, and a lot of it blindly, is intense. I played varsity softball and consider myself fairly athletic, but not a chance you want me next to you throwing and catching a flag pole.
See also: majorettes. My bff twirled batons with fire.
It’s the students who twirl/toss the big flags with marching bands. The flags are, like, 6’ tall and you don’t want every kid who just feels like participating throwing them around 2’ away from their classmate with an instrument or another flag. The band and the color guard move around the field changing formations and moving around each other, it’s very precise and requires a lot of practice. This makes it sound like I think it’s rocket science, I definitely don’t, but it’s not like a sports team where someone who isn’t very good could just be put in for a few minutes each game.
It's not rocket science, but it's hard! I was in marching band for 4 years and had no problem marching and playing, but I tried to learn some of the CG routines for fun and I definitely would have been cut at try outs. The amount of coordination required, and a lot of it blindly, is intense. I played varsity softball and consider myself fairly athletic, but not a chance you want me next to you throwing and catching a flag pole.
See also: majorettes. My bff twirled batons with fire.
I am not athletic at all (I was never chosen for part of any team sport, that's for sure!) but IME color guard is more like dance. Which also means that if you have a bunch of people who aren't any good at it, it will ruin the entire performance effect because all these flags are moving synchronously, and if people are out of sync it is pretty obvious.
Adult me wants all kids to be able to have the experience of participating, but teenage me would have been pissed if our routines all looked like crap because we included people who couldn't coordinate with us. Not to mention it could literally be dangerous. It's not like we never missed catching a toss, but because we had 16 people on our squad, we were able to stand far enough apart that it was fine. I think we usually had at least 3x that many try out, so it would have been a mess if we had 45 people out there throwing flags and dropping them. I didn't make the team the first two times I tried out so I've definitely been on both sides of it!