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Medusa
Side comment: since when is ice cream considered ''essential''? Around here, pretty much everything is closed and we're told to stay home - and yet all the breeders and brats are lining up at the Dairy Queen.
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Medusa
Side comment: since when is ice cream considered ''essential''? Around here, pretty much everything is closed and we're told to stay home - and yet all the breeders and brats are lining up at the Dairy Queen.
Re: Customers harass teenage employees for ice cream May 16, 2020 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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freya
Many of the people I see while on walks make no effort to socially distance. Most are breeders and a few appear to be so 'in wuv' and can't acknowledge the existence of anyone outside their lover, let alone maintain distance of any kind. It is only a virus that could kill them, no worries. Just like having kids they can't afford won't do anything at all to improve their lives, no worries. These are the same people freaking out because others are socially distancing and they're finding any excuse to take out their misery on others.
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freya
Many of these same breeders also have dogs in tow. They make no effort to train their dogs so the dogs run away, try to take off in all directions, stop, start, and generally misbehave. It's glaringly obvious little to none of the breeders bothered to walk their dogs pre-corona. And the dogs weren't socialized, so every dog that passes them causes a huge barking freakout fest.
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ondinette
Yurble, I have always noticed how much more difficult and complicated the simplest things are for people who have kids. It doesn't look like a happy or rewarding life to me.
Re: Customers harass teenage employees for ice cream May 17, 2020 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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LoveToLurk
Agreed. I notice this most painfully on our yearly summer vacation with the in-laws. Something as simple as going to the pool takes 45+ minutes of prep to get the two young kids out the door. Getting them changed. Fighting with them about going potty before we leave. Fighting with them about washing their hands afterwards. Which shoes do they want to wear? Getting them slathered with sunblock. Packing their swim wings and toys. Making sure they have their towel. Where are their sunglasses? Packing them a cooler of water and snacks.
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It’s like that anytime we need to leave the house for anything. Sometimes I get tired of it and just go sit outside, and then I get accused of being miserable. It drives me nuts, because if we agreed to, for example, leave for dinner at 5:00 I’m dressed and ready to go at 5:00. Yes, I will get annoyed if I am sitting there waiting nearly an hour later. I could have kept doing what I was doing for another 45 minutes and still been ready to go before them.
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yurble
I would ditch them. This is a trait that really gets on my nerves. The point of setting a time for departure as opposed to a time to start getting ready is to allow everyone to adjust their starting point according to the amount of time they need. Persistent lateness is a sign of prioritizing yourself over others, and therefore it's extremely rude.
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ondinette
Yurble, I have always noticed how much more difficult and complicated the simplest things are for people who have kids. It doesn't look like a happy or rewarding life to me.
Re: Customers harass teenage employees for ice cream May 18, 2020 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,712 |
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yurble
Between the people who are too busy chattering with the person they're with, and the breeders with kids all over the path, few people seem to make any effort to distance. When I'm taking my walk I end up going off the path maybe 10 times, just so I can maintain distance. The fact that I simply stand there and glare has no effect whatsoever on them, because they are oblivious to everyone else in the world.
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On today's walk I saw a famblee getting out of their car and getting ready for a walk, and all I could think of was what a clusterfuck it looked like, and why would anyone choose to have a life like that? It was moo, duh, one young kid on a bicycle (one of those for toddlers where they can put their feet on the ground and walk along while pretending to ride; I don't know why these silly things replaced tricycles), stroller with an infant, and large dog straining at the leash. The amount of crap that they needed to arrange a simple walk was ridiculous. The fact that they needed to take a car was telling - I live in a small city, and pretty much all the residential areas are within walking distance of nature areas, unless you are disabled or burdened with kindercrap. Meanwhile all I had to do to take a 3 hour walk was grab a waterbottle, keys and sunglasses before leaving my house.
Why do people go out of their way to make their lives far more difficult and complicated than necessary?
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bell_flower
Cambion, that is five paragraphs of depression-inducing, yet realistic verbiage about what it is like to have a brat.
Re: Customers harass teenage employees for ice cream May 19, 2020 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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freya
Yurble, this is exactly what I see and we live thousands of miles apart. Afraid it is the norm now.
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freya
I don't understand this either. And, let's add the almighty cell phone to the mix. Because it isn't possible to spend 30 minutes or an hour outside without the phone in tow. Double points for the morons who try to steer brats, dogs, and talk on their phones at the same time.
I walk a little over a mile to the trail nearby. Many, many people drive (with their cars full of crap, dogs, and brats).
Why not escape the phone for a little while and enjoy nature?