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I would like to complain about live audiences on TV shows. It seems that in every audience there are always these women who express their enthusiasm by emitting high-pitched shrieks that dogs in the next county can hear. Very annoying. My wish for them is that in their next lives they will be reincarnated as smoke detectors.
I was going to complain the other night when C-D was down and I couldn’t get connected. Then when I got up this morning – it was working! So I now have to complain about how hot it was again today.
It's 62 degrees. If I wanted cool weather on Labor Day weekend, I would have moved to Maine. It's 62 in Portland, ME. I'm wearing a cardigan and I had to put on slippers because my toes were chilly.
It's 8am and a sunny 84 degrees out, heading for 105+/- again. I have a couple of outside chores that need to be done and they're on the shady side of the house - gotta do them this morning.
Employees that "pass the buck". Yesterday, I specifically spoke to the Manager, who was stocking at the registers, who gave the job of getting a stock number to a working cashier, who called for back-up as she was the only cashier working, when the woman walked up (not the one who was called over intercom), I told her, she REFERRED ME RIGHT BACK TO THE MANAGER WHO WAS RIGHT THERE STOCKING AT A CLOSED REGISTER.
I then said "OK, you are the fourth person I have talked to, I started with her" (the Manager, who I was referred back to). The Manager then stopped what she was doing and got on the phone and got the information that was needed.
I know someone who used to work for the phone company. She told me that before it was her end-of-shift time, she would use the option to pass an incoming call to another coworker. Especially on a weekend or holiday shift. She laughed about it. I thought that was so messed up. Talk about "pass the buck."
Yesterday, I was riding along at 55 mph on a major 2 lane road. Not many cars on the road. I was in the passing lane, and saw a white station wagon in front of me in the distance. I was quickly approaching it. There was a black station wagon on the inside lane next to the white one. Both were stopped dead in their tracks (side by side) and I slammed on my brakes. Luckily, there was a turning lane to my left that I quickly got in, so as not to ram the white station wagon. A woman got out of the white station wagon-left her car door open, and another woman got out of the black station wagon and she left her vehicle. They both started chasing a dog!!!! Good grief! What could they have been thinking! What stupid drivers! All of us could have been killed, and the dog just ran away.
Yesterday, I was riding along at 55 mph on a major 2 lane road. Not many cars on the road. I was in the passing lane, and saw a white station wagon in front of me in the distance. I was quickly approaching it. There was a black station wagon on the inside lane next to the white one. Both were stopped dead in their tracks (side by side) and I slammed on my brakes. Luckily, there was a turning lane to my left that I quickly got in, so as not to ram the white station wagon. A woman got out of the white station wagon-left her car door open, and another woman got out of the black station wagon and she left her vehicle. They both started chasing a dog!!!! Good grief! What could they have been thinking! What stupid drivers! All of us could have been killed, and the dog just ran away.
Well, bad thinking on the positioning of the cars, but otherwise I'm on the dog's side.
Well, bad thinking on the positioning of the cars, but otherwise I'm on the dog's side.
Actually, they weren't helping the dog. The dog was running across both lanes of traffic, away from those women, across the median strip, and on to another 2 lane highway loaded with speeding cars. I didn't hang around to get rammed by the speeding cars behind me, so I don't know if the dog made it, the 2 screaming women made it, or the cars coming behind me made it.
Actually, they weren't helping the dog. The dog was running across both lanes of traffic, away from those women, across the median strip, and on to another 2 lane highway loaded with speeding cars. I didn't hang around to get rammed by the speeding cars behind me, so I don't know if the dog made it, the 2 screaming women made it, or the cars coming behind me made it.
Still, my first instinct would be...
I get your point, but a dog running loose on the highway... it's hard for me to blame them.
I've lived my whole life being one of those "bleeding heart liberals" or "animal lovers" that everyone gets irritated over. I've learned to try and look at myself and be objective, but, again, in this case, it's a little doggy in danger. I don't understand why they stopped their cars in active highway lanes (I would have pulled off the highway), but maybe they weren't thinking right while panicking over the dog. Kind of hard to berate people's reactions in times of panic, especially over the welfare of a dog; dogs are the best.
Anyway, I don't have a beef here. Just saying...
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So I now have to complain about how hot it was again today. 
