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What was the most annoying thing that happened to you recently?
We NEED a vent area. May as well vent out the little nonsense nuances on here than to your family and friends who just want to staple your mouth shut. :-)
My brand new, $300 vacuum isn't working. I accidentally let it vacuum up a shirt, then I pulled it out, and now it's not effing working! Gosh! Vacuum's suck.
(Why is vacuum spelled with two u's? It's weird...)
Yea, I dunno. I took teh bottom off, pulled out my awesome hair (when will they actually invent a vacuum that can suck up hair without clogging?), the belt was intact, discovered a reset button, pushed it, screwed back on. Discovered another button for another part of it. Man, the things you discover when you take stuff apart. Looked in the hoses, look clear. Discovered the cleanable filter; looked gross, washed it, and now it's drying. I'll put it all together in like 10 minutes and see if the lights stay off to indicate it's working fine. Which they effin better.
EDIT: an hour later, it's working fantastically! I'm a genius. :-)
My internet connection... Well, not my internet connection, I don't think, but a neighbor's internet connection is terrible. I used to be able to get online fine, but now I got this new desk and my laptop is in a slightly different part of the room, and now I can only get on the internet for minutes at a time, and with a terrible, slow connection at that. I can't download anything, and without notice I'll lose connection, right in the middle of something. I wouldn't be surprised if I lost connection in the middle of this. I guess I'll just need to fix my router, but I think I'll need to buy a new one. Whatever I do, I need internet to survive.
One of my friends actually made a website about venting about stuff. It's fun. It's tovent.com.
My most annoying thing was about how I can't get certain jobs for at least a month because I'm not 18 by law, even though I have a high school diploma from one of the best high schools in the county. Isn't that awesome?
I know! That's the most annoying thing EVER! I mean, my parents didn't give me money for anything after I turned 18, and the government/college system has the balls to say I'm still a dependent and thus not grant me tuition that I deserve because I'm poorer than they want to believe. I just don't get it. How does being married or in the military make someone any less a dependent, ya know? You're married, getting 2x the income (thought for at least 2 people), and if you're in the military, you're getting paid more money a month from the government than the average person. I think it's all backwards and it's friggin retarded.
But you know, kids in the military don't make much when they start out... it's just a more steady income, and they have less time to spend it.
It's almost worse for middle class kids these days! My friend's mother was dead, and her dad didn't make much so she got a free ride for being a mediocre student. Btu I get better grades, and a dead beat father and I get nothing. It's like you'd like to say to your parents, "well if you're not going to help me with school, could you at least fake your death?"
The govt just expects parents to help us until we're 24, regardless. It's extremely unrealistic. Once someone starts the military, they're actually getting equivalent to what someone of minimum wage is getting. And as soon as they finish technical school training (anywhere from 1 month to a year after boot camp) they're income goes up approx $100 a mth. And if you have dependents (a wife or kids), per dependent they get an extra $100 a mth. AND rent is completely paid for (unless they're living in a house that costs more than what the state Base Allowance Housing cost is, then they just lose a little from their income to compensate). So, really, they have a place to live for free (typically stuck on base for the first 2 years though, unless married), and all that income that typically goes unspent (but not quite). Most Airmen, that I'm familiar with, they are seriously financial irresponsible and use all their money on the weekends doing anything they can spend it on rather than saving it. And besides ALL that, they can get into any college pretty much with a discount and there are services that will pay for all their tuition (and not including the GI Bill which is starting to seem more and more like a piece of a shit bill).
So, really, if you can tolerate being in the military and doing mundane tasks, it's a good place to work to build up a savings account and get started with college, or even make a career of it with stable pay. Really, the only true downside is if you or your spouse (friend, partner, sibling, whatever) is deployed. It's not emotionally stable, so that's probably why they compensate with the money.
My girlfriend's "best friend" has a crush on her (she is a lesbian) and is a total ass to me whenever my girlfriend isn't around because she thinks that she is better for her than I am and when I mentioned how rudely I was being treated I was called a liar and got yelled at for "making stuff up"!
It sounds petty, but I have certain ticks. And one of them is when people touch things in my bedroom, move things around in my bedroom, put things in my bedroom, et cetera. What happened yesterday? I come home to a fantastic surprise--my brother and his friend installing a new bed frame in my bedroom, because my mother didn't think it was right for me to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The best part is that I was playing Aura in 'Aura the Magnificent' in, like, an hour, and I needed access to my bedroom and bathroom that I was not given.
I'm dealing with moving from an apartment to a house. It's annoying. You have to transfer the electricity, gas, water, and internet connection, all through separate companies. File a change of address. Make sure the new house has nothing wrong with it. Sign all the paperwork. Pay all the fees. Make sure there are no lingering bills at the old place. Rent the U-Haul. Pack everything up. Unpack it again. FFFUUUUUUUUUU
