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28 December 2008

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Dear person who decided to patch ceiling cracks with caulk. I can see your reasoning: caulk is flexible, right? So it should hide the cracks better, right? Wrong. Not only that, but I have to fix it, and bevelling cracks is much, much more difficult if some bright spark has filled them with caulk. And working over my head all day fixing your mess is not my idea of a good time. Also, I suspect you're the brain trust responsible for that abomination on the baseboards, which I now have to scrape off and redo. I'd shout, but thanks to you I'm too tired. You suck.

Love, Muggins.

post by: elizard at: 20:49 | 33 comments

P.S. Really? You looked at those baseboards and thought, "Yep, that's perfect"? Did you fail fingerpainting, too?

posted by elizard 28 December | 20:55

I had an exasperated person cut my hair yesterday. I gave her a 30% tip to brighten her day.

posted by hellojed 28 December | 21:16

I'm exasperated too. I invited 4 couples and their kids over for a New Year's Eve potluck. I did it by phone, early on Christmas Eve. Three of them accepted. The fourth one, Stacy, who's mom is visiting from out of town, wasn't home. I talked to the mom, said, "all of you are invited, please come".

On the day after Christmas, I sent an email to all 4 couples with the time and some details. All responded except for Stacy. I left her a message yesterday on her answering machine, saying, I hope you can come, please let me know. I still haven't heard. Grrrrr. If they can't come I'd like to invite someone else but it's getting too late for that now.

Why won't she get back to me? I'm annoyed and I am not calling her again.

posted by Kangaroo 28 December | 21:26

Working on ceilings is THE WORST. Kills my back and arms. There are a couple of projects around here I keep putting off because they both involve painting ceilings. Argh.

posted by BoringPostcards 28 December | 21:32

I can't work long hours fulltime and then keep this house clean by myself particularly when other people keep making messes and not picking up after themselves....

Ordinarily I wouldn't care THAT much but my daughter, son in law and grandbun are arriving in town tomorrow night. I would like to spend my spare time between now and then NOT running around like a headless chicken.

Oh, and those beautiful fancy red kitchen canisters my husband gave me for Christmas are not big enough. They will do for rice and other ephemera but not for my flours and sugar. So much for getting rid of the stupid tupperware...

posted by bunnyfire 28 December | 21:38

Football, football, and more football!

posted by LoriFLA 28 December | 22:46

I have about twenty-five pounds of papers to grade, and most of a novel to read by January 6th (the date I gave my AP students for their quiz). Plus laundry to do tomorrow (I cannot wear these underwear another day) and more dishes and groceries and visiting my mom, who I love to see, but I can't seem to feel rested. But I do have another week off, so I can only gripe so much.

posted by Pips 28 December | 22:59

(And neither Jon nor I smell too good.)

posted by Pips 28 December | 23:00

The bloke designing the reports to be extracted from a system which doesn't exist yet, for people who won't supply their requirements, to replace reports they haven't been supplied, for processes they're unfamiliar with sympathises.

(especially because he doesn't have to do it over-head)

posted by pompomtom 28 December | 23:29

Our neighbors, with whom we share a wall, seem to be watching the sub-woofiest of sub-woofy movies on their extremely sub-woofy sub-woofers. I'm feeling exasperatingly woofed.

Also, I'm fucking exhausted and strung out after six days of my father visiting. That is just too many days. So I just want to sit and not here anyone tell me weird stories and not have to run and fetch things for anyone and just, you know, be quiet and by myself, and yet, sub-woofers. Argh.

posted by occhiblu 29 December | 00:10

Why do people get a dog, then it leave outside alone on the balcony all the time, even when they're home?

Don't want a dog in your house? Oh, hey, here's an idea - don't get a dog, asshole.

posted by taz 29 December | 01:01

ARRRRG! taz. Many years ago I had a new neighbor buy a dog and then leave it out in minus 20 degree weather. I called the right people and he took the dog in but he was evicted shortly after, so I don't know how the dog made out.

posted by arse_hat 29 December | 01:05

There are about four like this in the neighborhood (that has many dogs, most of which are not neglected at all), but two or three are out when the owner isn't home, it's just that the owner is almost never home. But the worst is the Beagle (?) puppy (about 6-8 months old) who is never let inside. He barks his head off, of course, sorely irritating all the neighbors... and I have the feeling that one day he won't be there. Which is sad unless they find someone to take him who actually wants a dog.

This is a young attractive family with a little boy, and I think they just thought the cute dog would fill out the pretty picture, but they don't want to actually deal with the animal at all. Grrr.

posted by taz 29 December | 01:22

Bad pet owners ("oh that's so cute! Wait, it poops?", "I need to be trained to take care of it!?", "It gets bigger and not so cute?", and "Bites and barking and shit bother people?") suck.

posted by arse_hat 29 December | 01:29

Yes, Beagle for sure. He looks like this:

≡ Click to see image ≡

So cute.

posted by taz 29 December | 01:29

Awwwwwwww...

posted by arse_hat 29 December | 01:32

I know!

posted by taz 29 December | 01:35

but I'm sure any of his neighbors would cheerfully strangle him at this point. :(

posted by taz 29 December | 01:36

Folks! Strangle the owner! Not the pet!

posted by arse_hat 29 December | 01:39

Good idea. I've just been reading about beagles. What a terrible, terrible choice of breed to keep isolated like that. Not that I can think of a breed that really wants to be bored and neglected.

posted by taz 29 December | 01:49

What about all the assholes that bought Jack Russells after seeing one on Frasier?

Sorry to make this a dog thread

posted by arse_hat 29 December | 01:53

≡ Click to see image ≡

I was always mad about Murray.

posted by taz 29 December | 02:32

I was told that the management co. was be gone soon, but the guy who was voted off the board (building owner's cousin who doesn't live here) had pride of place at a recent owner's meeting. Shortly beforehand I had a weird call from the management office saying they wanted my email.Uh, you're leaving soon, no dice. What I found out at this meeting is that the passenger elevators are being refurbished, which means tenants have to call when they need to be taken down in the service elevators --the former scumbag super disconnected the buzzer and no one's bothered to hook it back up--and be taken down by one of the building staff...most likely the asshole porter who has badmouthed other tenants in front of me and given me the "you need to be fucked" look. I still don't have the washer and dryer hooked up in my place, so this means I'll have to find a serviced apartment nearby and move my things out before the elevators are shut down.

posted by brujita 29 December | 02:43

At the beginning of this thread, all I could think was, "Didn't they know about Pro Caulk??!"

And by the end I was thinking that this is so perfect:

Don't want a dog in your house? Oh, hey, here's an idea - don't get a dog, asshole.

posted by chewatadistance 29 December | 08:38

Dear Former Owner of my House.

I see your reasoning when you cemented the whole ceramic tile bathroom floor with mastic. I really do. And, also, to underlay it with particle board must have seemed like a good idea.

But those two decisions caused me a lot of time, pain, and heartache. Not only does any bit of moisture cause particle board to expand, but the tile you chose, which has a total of 44 (count 'em) pieces per square FOOT, had to be treated with a very caustic stripper to get the mastic off.

Then I had to be very careful to cut out this high density particle board without ruining the surrounding, in tact tiles.

All in all, your choices cost me four weekends of my time to fix a 3' by 5' area next to the tub.

Two words for you:

THINSET
CEMENTBACKERBOARD

(I know that elizard feels my pain on this one. . .it's maddening to follow stupid people when the time comes to fix what they did)

posted by danf 29 December | 10:58

Hee. You people are the best.

I do feel your pain, danf. Do I ever. I'll add two more words (okay, one word and one collection of words) there:

INTERNET (if you know how to sort through the crap...maybe you don't, so)
KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON AT DECENT HARDWARE STORE (You know the place where you bought the wrong stuff to do the job badly? Take a few minutes and talk to someone there. Someone over 25. Really. You can learn a lot from these people.)

posted by elizard 29 December | 12:23

Dear Cove Ceilings.

I hate you. Yes, you look nice. Elegant, even. But like many attractive, elegant things you're a pain in the ass. Therefore, you suck.

Love, me xo

posted by elizard 29 December | 17:19

Exasperated Thread B:

Dear Daughter. . .

We are paying through the NOSE for a basic "state college" education that does not seem any more challenging than your high school, just so you can be in a big city and away from home. We warmly welcome your GF whenever you are home, and don't really mind that you guys (from the sounds) seem to be fucking one another's brains out upstairs for most of the time she spends in our house.

All we ask is that you do not treat us as "the enemy." We are the best parents anyone could ask for, and you act like you are in prison ever time you come home.

So, Daughter, What the Fuck?

posted by danf 29 December | 18:01

I made a pie with pork and potatoes and carrots and onions and it's rilly, rilly good only it's still technically too hot to eat and I keep burning myself.

posted by Wolfdog 29 December | 18:17

danf - when I was in college, my parents were "the enemy" because I didn't want them to know I smoked weed. Just sayin' that it's a natural part of growing up, and it freaked my mom out, too, when her normally "nice" daughter started getting rebellious.

Eventually she'll learn to go through the motions like the rest of us do :)

posted by muddgirl 29 December | 18:21

OMG I want some of Wolfdog's pie.

posted by elizard 29 December | 19:01

We can't GIVE away $200 Chuck Berry tickets for New Year's Eve. WTF? What's wrong with you people?

I love you, really I do.

posted by Pips 29 December | 20:02

Dear Particle Mask and Safety Glasses,

Can't you get it together? I mean, what's the point of wearing you if Mask causes Glasses to fog up, preventing me from seeing what I'm doing? It's bad enough that I can hardly breathe (which, admittedly, is preferable to breathing in fine dust all day), but to be almost blind as well? With the alternative being having dust in my eyes? Really, now. Can't you just work together for me? Please?

Sincerely,
Breathless and Blind and Exasperated

posted by elizard 30 December | 11:23

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