Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
Holy shit, cricketwife! Does your mom know that her brother passed? This is totally blowing my mind.
tacokick, I am so sorry that your dad is being an absolute ass. I can't imagine treating anyone like that on their birthday, much less my own kid. I hope everyone else in your life gives you a much better birthday because you deserve it.
I want to complain about my ex-BIL. He and my sister have two kids, 3 and 5, and the 5 year old has a serious medical condition that affects toileting. He's starting kindergarten next week, and my sister (who's an RN) requested a meeting with the school to talk about accommodations for his condition. Ex-BIL breezes into the meeting, tells the school nurse, principal, and teacher that the condition isn't that serious, and that nephew only has issues right after he eats. GUESS WHAT KINDERGARTENERS DO AT LUNCHTIME, ASSHOLE? My sister stepped in with an accurate assessment of nephew's condition, and the school nurse backed her up that yes, this is a significant problem that needs multiple classroom accommodations for nephew to be able to stay in school vs. being sent home virtually every day. Ex-BIL continued to downplay the problem, and according to my sister she's not convinced that the teacher took the right information away from the meeting. I am livid. Nephew is already very small for his age, has diagnosed anxiety and depression, and experienced bullying about this condition in preschool. His dad is just wallowing in denial-land, and I'm honestly not sure what will be enough to break him out of that space to acknowledge that he needs to take his son's condition seriously.
Post by cricketwife on Aug 24, 2023 19:47:49 GMT -5
mofongo , He was buried, no funeral, not even an obituary. I keep googling for one. His only family are my aunt, my mother, my two brothers, and me. My brothers are close enough (distance-wise) that I know they would have come to a funeral and I would have flown up. We are a small family and a simple graveside service would have been all I expected, but honestly. I just can’t even believe my aunt. She has always been a piece of work, but this is just beyond.
nsl , my mom has moderate to severe Alzheimer’s and we wont tell her that he died, so that part isn’t a concern in this story. She won’t remember that he died and I’ve read if you tell an Alzheimer’s person (or remind) that someone has died, they grieve them anew each time. 😢. Sadly, she is not far away from forgetting she has a brother. She doesn’t know I’m her daughter.
I appreciate everyone’s empathetic rage on my behalf. I’m so mad at my aunt that it’s interfering with my ability to grieve.
eta: nsl, Ireally hope your nephew gets all the services he needs and has a great year in kindergarten.
cricketwife - I’m so sorry:( She really fucked up here, it’s not up to her to make those decision for everyone else regarding his death. Maybe you and your family can find a way to memorialize him.
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
mofongo , He was buried, no funeral, not even an obituary. I keep googling for one. His only family are my aunt, my mother, my two brothers, and me. My brothers are close enough (distance-wise) that I know they would have come to a funeral and I would have flown up. We are a small family and a simple graveside service would have been all I expected, but honestly. I just can’t even believe my aunt. She has always been a piece of work, but this is just beyond.
nsl , my mom has moderate to severe Alzheimer’s and we wont tell her that he died, so that part isn’t a concern in this story. She won’t remember that he died and I’ve read if you tell an Alzheimer’s person (or remind) that someone has died, they grieve them anew each time. 😢. Sadly, she is not far away from forgetting she has a brother. She doesn’t know I’m her daughter.
I appreciate everyone’s empathetic rage on my behalf. I’m so mad at my aunt that it’s interfering with my ability to grieve.
eta: nsl, Ireally hope your nephew gets all the services he needs and has a great year in kindergarten.
My aunt (my dad and my uncle's sister) decided to not have a service when my uncle died because of finances but she at least told everyone immediately. What the heck??
Post by mountaingirl on Aug 24, 2023 23:06:34 GMT -5
We moved 8+ hours away from MIL in 2010. My mental health was at a breaking point and we came back to my hometown. She has not sent me a BDay card or called for my Bday since then. We were even there in 2021 on my B day. Nothing. Not even saying it to me.
Can I just complain in general? Because I’m not sure who’s responsible for this, lol.
I still don’t have my new car. We put the deposit down 5 1/2 weeks ago. If they had told us they weren’t sure when it would be in, fine. But they keep telling us next week, then it doesn’t come in, then next week, etc.
How does no one know where this car is and when they’ll get it??
If you ordered it from the company with specifics it literally has to be made. If it’s just a basic model they may have trouble finding one. They should not let you purchase a car that does not exist in that second though.
Bernadine, that happened to me almost a year ago. I bought a car at the beginning of October, but it wasn't on site. They told me it could be here a week from purchase date, or maybe 2, or 3 on the outside. I texted my sales guy every week asking for an update. On more than one communication, he said they didn't have an exact delivery date because they didn't know where the car was. HTF do you not know where your cars are? I ended up taking delivery more than 4 weeks from when I bought it. I was hella annoyed, and I will never understand how a dealership doesn't know where their cars are.
Another car line complaint. Our school has a very long car line path, which snakes around the whole school. We have nearly 800 kids (most take the bus) but if it backs up, it's meant to keep cars from stacking up on the street around the school. Most of the time it is nowhere near that long and moves fast.
There is a small satellite lot at the front of the school where the car line lets out. Some dickhead parents use it to pull in, drop their kid off and then have to be let into the "regular" car line to get out, so they avoid the path around the school. It's maybe 90 seconds faster for them, but it slows down the entire rest of the line to let them in at the very end (and let their kids cross the line of traffic), because there are usually multiple of them -- so the regular line DOES start taking longer ... so more people start using the satellite lot ... and it's a crappy cycle.
I drop my kid off early before the worst of this jam-up, but there are still a few. I am SO ANNOYED by those people, because clearly they have calculated that inconveniencing everybody else is fine because THEIR time is more valuable.
Post by donutsmakemegonuts on Aug 25, 2023 8:42:26 GMT -5
I also have a car line complaint, but I don't have to drive in one. My office is next to a private school where all the kids are dropped off. The drop off line snakes around the block, down the street where my office is and into the parking lot where the drop offs occur. Vehicles waiting in line are often blocking the entrance to my office parking lot and creating a back up of employees trying to get into the lot to get to work. Parents also park in our lot to drop off/pick up even though it is a private lot that requires a parking permit (with plenty of signage stating this). My job is working with seniors in the community and they are also taking up spots that they would need if they were visiting the office. We barely have enough spots for all of our employees. When confronted, they will say "It's just for a minute!" but still. All this to say, it's been a glorious couple of months without this nonsense and school starts Monday. Ugh.
Now I have a MIL complaint. She started asking about our finances last night because she's nosy and refuses to acknowledge boundaries. She knows we just bought a car and offered to pay it off for us, then we make payments to her to avoid interest. When my H told her how much it would be to pay the car off (which honestly, he needs to set up some damn boundaries with his mother, but that's a whole other rant) she was astounded we would pay that much for car. Then she offered to pay off some of it and then we pay her AND the bank. Lady? No ma'am. BACK THE FUCK OFF. We bought this car because we can afford it, it holds its value well, and should last a long time. We do not need nor want your opinion or your damn money.
Bernadine, that happened to me almost a year ago. I bought a car at the beginning of October, but it wasn't on site. They told me it could be here a week from purchase date, or maybe 2, or 3 on the outside. I texted my sales guy every week asking for an update. On more than one communication, he said they didn't have an exact delivery date because they didn't know where the car was. HTF do you not know where your cars are? I ended up taking delivery more than 4 weeks from when I bought it. I was hella annoyed, and I will never understand how a dealership doesn't know where their cars are.
Yes, that’s what they keep saying! I refuse to believe they have NO IDEA where this car is.
Not a complaint about a person, but I must have lost my wallet (wristlet) at the train station yesterday - one of the major commuter rail stations in my city. I discovered this when, at the end of my train journey, I was at my daughter's pediatrician's office with no wallet.
I went to swipe into the turnstyle and didn't have enough on my card, so I had to schlep over to the machines and reload it, and I think at some point around then I must have put it down instead of back in my backpack or something.
I can replace the wallet if I want, and it was just cards in there (license, debit cards, credit card, insurance card), and I haven't found any unauthorized charges, but I'm still grumpy about it.
I also have a car line complaint, but I don't have to drive in one. My office is next to a private school where all the kids are dropped off. The drop off line snakes around the block, down the street where my office is and into the parking lot where the drop offs occur. Vehicles waiting in line are often blocking the entrance to my office parking lot and creating a back up of employees trying to get into the lot to get to work. Parents also park in our lot to drop off/pick up even though it is a private lot that requires a parking permit (with plenty of signage stating this). My job is working with seniors in the community and they are also taking up spots that they would need if they were visiting the office. We barely have enough spots for all of our employees. When confronted, they will say "It's just for a minute!" but still. All this to say, it's been a glorious couple of months without this nonsense and school starts Monday. Ugh.
This sounds exactly like our school! We are next to a hospital so it is especially rage inducing that parents are blocking the flow of regular traffic.
Post by liveintheville on Aug 25, 2023 10:44:50 GMT -5
My complaint is running errands in the pouring rain. H had a dentist appt I had to drop him off at. Kid 1 had an appt with his guidance counselor I took him to. Then I had to drop kid 2 off at camp. Then H is like I’m done come get me. So I do. Then he wants to go to petsi’s to grab something for breakfast. Now that I’m finally home the rain has let up of course.
My daughter's friend's mom is the WORST. She's sanctimonious, a know it all, hypocritical, and she gets under my skin in all possible ways. Her latest offense, of which there are many, is that when she saw my daughter at a sport practice with a wrist brace she IMMEDIATELY texted me to "make me aware" because "it can be so dangerous to reinjure developing bodies."
Bitch. You're not a doctor. And I know my kid has a brace because HER ACTUAL DOCTOR GAVE IT TO HER, and the coach is aware. This is you judging my parenting.
Because I don't want her to know that she annoys me so much I just texted back "OK!"
I got suckered into being on the board for DD's HS theater arts boosters (before she was even officially at the school), and it's fine, I like it, it's a pretty easy lift for me. But OMG, the mom who is president is just the most helicopter-y mom I have ever met, and cannot just shut the hell up about all of her "struggles" w/ various teachers, admin, coaches, etc. Board meeting last night was twice as long as it needed to be because she kept getting sidetracked onto the backstories of multiple grudges she has. She's had I think 4 of her 5 kids go through this school, so she's got lots of material.
Eeeh, I’m probably the parent you all hate at drop off/pick up line. But because it’s new! I’ve asked multiple people but they’ve never explained it! They have signs telling us to pull up, but where do I stop? I pulled up so far the other day I was nearly out of the parking lot and I felt bad for my Kindergartener because it’s all still new and nobody was really out to help.
Then yesterday they directed me to this second lane (like moved cones and pointed me to the left so I did) then when they brought my DD out a lady snapped that I wasn’t in the pick up lane. I apologized and said I was directed and she said something about move between the orange and white (still don’t know!). I’m assuming they directed me to that lane thinking I had already picked up my kid and that’s an exit lane?
Like, send out instructions like I’m also a kindergartner. I want to do right but I don’t know what you want!
Post by maudefindlay on Aug 25, 2023 11:10:28 GMT -5
cville that's just like my sil. She texts her niece and nephews often and then when us adults (parents of those kids) get together she is just giddy saying things to us just sure she knows something about our kids that we don't. It's mainly my adult niece and adult nephews as only 2 of my 3 kids have phones and my 2 rarely respond to her texts which I'm sure really bothers her. You are a 49 year old woman, texting you isn't the highlight of the day for my 12 and 14 yr olds.
tacokick, ugh I am so pissed for you. cricketwife, I gasped reading that. holy shit. nsl I hope your nephew has a wonderful year at kindergarten! rachers I hate the lack of communication for new kindergarten families at our school, too.
rachers I’m sorry, I hate figuring all that stuff out too! When my son was in kindergarten another mom once screamed at me for accidentally cutting in the pickup line. The line overflows to a residential street, but cars wait on the shoulder so it just looks like they’re parked, I turned into the driveway from the street. I actually cried, it was so confusing and I was already flustered because I didn’t know the procedures as he usually take the bus, and she was so nasty to me.
Liking for commiseration! My kid juuuust mastered unbuckling and opening/closing the door and it always makes me feel bad because it’s such a rush.
I know people are eager to get on their way and our drive through line is not ideal. There’s another school around the block and it’s just a mess. People driving the wrong direction, hopping curbs, so much honking!
I wish I could be the kind of person who has no compunction about ignoring texts but I'm not so that's a great reply to those people who should shut their fucking mouths.
Eeeh, I’m probably the parent you all hate at drop off/pick up line. But because it’s new! I’ve asked multiple people but they’ve never explained it! They have signs telling us to pull up, but where do I stop? I pulled up so far the other day I was nearly out of the parking lot and I felt bad for my Kindergartener because it’s all still new and nobody was really out to help.
Then yesterday they directed me to this second lane (like moved cones and pointed me to the left so I did) then when they brought my DD out a lady snapped that I wasn’t in the pick up lane. I apologized and said I was directed and she said something about move between the orange and white (still don’t know!). I’m assuming they directed me to that lane thinking I had already picked up my kid and that’s an exit lane?
Like, send out instructions like I’m also a kindergartner. I want to do right but I don’t know what you want!
DD starts PreK in two weeks and I'm already stressing about this. I have no clue what to do and I know I'll piss people off after reading the complaints for so many years!
Eeeh, I’m probably the parent you all hate at drop off/pick up line. But because it’s new! I’ve asked multiple people but they’ve never explained it! They have signs telling us to pull up, but where do I stop? I pulled up so far the other day I was nearly out of the parking lot and I felt bad for my Kindergartener because it’s all still new and nobody was really out to help.
Then yesterday they directed me to this second lane (like moved cones and pointed me to the left so I did) then when they brought my DD out a lady snapped that I wasn’t in the pick up lane. I apologized and said I was directed and she said something about move between the orange and white (still don’t know!). I’m assuming they directed me to that lane thinking I had already picked up my kid and that’s an exit lane?
Like, send out instructions like I’m also a kindergartner. I want to do right but I don’t know what you want!
DD starts PreK in two weeks and I'm already stressing about this. I have no clue what to do and I know I'll piss people off after reading the complaints for so many years!
It has gotten easier this week! I just wish they’d spell it out for us. It seems like every day is different and I’m like that monkey meme just throwing my hands up because I feel so confused.
So hang in there. Also Fridays are my favorite day because it’s when DH deals with it and so atleast we can vent to eachother 😂