I started to read it then I was forced to retrieve my eyes that had rolled out of my head and across half of my office. Dumb AF. It's like a new age chain letter.
But, like, local news stations are covering it so it's worse! Our news shared it. Don't encourage this idiocy!
There is one news station here that covers shit like this. Its the worst
going off of the drinking thread last night: while I agree that yelling all of the time at your kids is no bueno, I don't think that yelling every now and then is going to mentally damage your kids or necessarily create a child that is a yeller.
I don't like the phrase "Sunday Funday". I really thought it would die out by now but people still feel the need to post about how fun their Sundays are all the time.
My sundays are filled with the shit have to do before the week starts. Not fun!
Post by Cherhorowitz on Feb 23, 2017 9:38:21 GMT -5
I yell everyday. I'm Italian. My voice has two volumes: quiet and loud. It's not like I'm scary mom yelling. It's just how I get my kid to look up from whatever he's using to ignore me with. If I didn't raise my voice, we would still be sitting in our house right now waiting on him to leave for preschool.
My daycare has always provided food to my kids, so my fucks to give is very, very low when it comes to food. Especially with the older one, if he's eating at all I'm pretty happy.
I miss food being provided so so much. I never imagined how much actually feeding my kids breakfast and lunch costs until we got a Nanny. Granted my kids don't have allergies, so I have the privilege of not caring, but if they had this food for free I would not be picky either.
MH is the same. I often ask how it's enjoyable to him.
But he's the same with food - it must burn the shit out of his mouth or else he won't eat it because it's "too cold".
OMG. This is my husband. He microwaves food for like... 15 minutes until it's literally boiling and then eats it. He wants things so effing hot. I'm totally okay with much cooler food. And showers. And his coffee is so hot he basically just sips the air of it forever. I don't get it.
Well, I'm glad we both get to experience such an odd creature together.
I will preface this by saying I assume this will probably be popular here, but since this practice exists in this day and age, some people must find it unpopular, so I will put it here.
Backstory: We are looking at replacing all the windows in our house. There was a person going door to door for an energy efficiency company that does windows, roofs, etc. I was already kicking myself for answering the door, but it was a day I was home with A (I want to say MLK day?), and we wanted to have the windows done at some point anyway, so I said we could set up an appointment. A guy came over on Saturday for over the hour long appointment we set up at 10 AM to do his sales pitch, and we had to shoo him out the door at 11:30 to go to DD's gymnastics class (H did that on purpose so we would have an excuse to leave if it went long). The guy measured and took down what he needed, and said he would email a quote but wanted to stop back by. Fine, whatever, GTFO my house.
He and H have been communicating, and he refuses to give us a quote by email or phone. He is insisting on coming back over when both of us are home (H was trying to schedule it when only he was home, because we both hate giving up family time for shit like that when one of us can just take care of it). This is only to negotiate price, not to measure anything additional or anything like that. Lnly to talk about the price. He will not give us a quote without sitting down with both of us. I understand this is a sales tactic basically to try to pressure us into giving them our business, but it frustrates me to no end, and for that reason, we will likely not be going with them. If they want to give us a quote in writing via email and negotiate that way, then maybe. But if they won't, oh well, no business for them.
Tl;dr my UO is that I will essentially not go with a company that doesn't give me a quote and work with me by email or at the very least phone.
Putting a No Soliciting sign on my door was the best thing I've ever done. We used to get solar panel salesman several times a week and had a similar experience when we scheduled an appointment with one.
Post by Cherhorowitz on Feb 23, 2017 9:43:45 GMT -5
Growing up in Philly, everyone yells. Like, it's how we communicate with one another. That and hoagies. I rarely flinch when someone yells. I heard "we're not yelling, this is how we talk" for most of my childhood. Now, if my mom dips her voice lower than a whisper, gets right in my ear and hisses that we're going home, I'm shitting my pants because I know bitch is serious.
I don't. But I'm literally hand carving a fancy ass bench for her and I to sit on together because I'm allll innnnnn on her opinion.
make sure it reclines and also has good cushioning because I'm going to be here a while. You know what, fuck it, let's get one of the all-recliner leather couches.
Must be nice to be so judgy on your fancy ass recliner (that I know you think is secretly gaudy).
Then they shouldn't be at a large day care center. Find an in-home or nanny that can better adjust to your requests.
Well, one its preschool. Two, I just send my own snack on days where vanilla wafers and Hawaiian punch are the class snack.
It's less than a to do. It's a negative to do. No one gives a shit and no one is inconvenienced beyond telling DS to go to his backpack and grab his snack bag.
Growing up in Philly, everyone yells. Like, it's how we communicate with one another. That and hoagies. I rarely flinch when someone yells. I heard "we're not yelling, this is how we talk" for most of my childhood. Now, if my mom dips her voice lower than a whisper, gets right in my ear and hisses that we're going home, I'm shitting my pants because I know bitch is serious.
I married into a loud family and now my own family has turned out to be loud. It's not angry, just at a higher volume than I'm used to. But I find myself adapting.
Post by Cherhorowitz on Feb 23, 2017 9:54:30 GMT -5
MH's new thing with phone solicitors is to pick up in a weird voice, listen to them do their whole spiel and then decline in a weird voice. I caught him doing it last night and I was like "what are you doing?" He just shrugged and said, "I don't know, I feel like we both get something out of it this way."
Post by veganontuesdays on Feb 23, 2017 9:54:47 GMT -5
Bouncing in late. My favorite "yelling" is while my kid is whining incessantly and my brain is going to explode, and I want to run from the house and never come back. It is then that he gets an ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!()@*#)(*@#()*@#)(*@(&*^#*&@^&@*
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
Putting a No Soliciting sign on my door was the best thing I've ever done. We used to get solar panel salesman several times a week and had a similar experience when we scheduled an appointment with one.
No one comes to our door anymore. Best.
OMG we have a solar panel guy that will not fucking quit. He actually showed up on Monday and kept knocking the door and ringing the doorbell. Only my sister was home so she didn't answer but he was fucking relentless. Even walked around the house. I'm pissed and if he shows up again I'm going to tell him to fuck off.
They're relentless to the point of being rude. I had one actually put his hand on my door to keep me from closing it after I said thanks, but no thanks.
OMG we have a solar panel guy that will not fucking quit. He actually showed up on Monday and kept knocking the door and ringing the doorbell. Only my sister was home so she didn't answer but he was fucking relentless. Even walked around the house. I'm pissed and if he shows up again I'm going to tell him to fuck off.
They're relentless to the point of being rude. I had one actually put his hand on my door to keep me from closing it after I said thanks, but no thanks.
Call the town. Ours have to have permits to solicit her and this kinda shit might get their permit yanked
But did you know that if someone flashes their headlights at you, it's part of a gang initiation?!
Or I'm warning you of a danger you are approaching or telling you to turn your fucking high beams off.
On a similar note, there are a lot of trucks in my area and for whatever reason all the manufacturers have decided to put extremely bright lights in the newer models and they're all right at eye level for all us non-truck drivers. I hate it and it's borderline unsafe. It's like high beams but it's their regular headlights.
I also won't do business with anyone who insists on speaking to my husband as well as me. No, asshole. I make the purchasing decisions in this house, and you'll deal with ME.
My aunt runs in to this all the time when she buys vehicles. They keep trying to talk to him until he says "Why the hell are you telling me? She's the one buying it".
He only goes along to browse while she does her thing and sign the paperwork when she gets it sorted out.
Oh y'all I have the best door to door sales story. The rep for a popular Christian bookstore came in one day looking for the senior pastor. He wasn't in, so they sent him to me. The conversation went like this.
Guy: I'm your local bookstore representative. I saw online that your senior pastor's favorite candy is mint m&ms, so would you pass these along to him? Me: sure Guy: is he the one who makes curriculum decisions? Me: no, that's me Guy: oh, ok (long pause). Do you currently use any of our resources? Me: no, not really. It's not a great theological fit for us. I'm sorry. Guy: well, ok. I understand. Could you elaborate? Me: we were pretty disappointed that you pulled one of our favorite author's books last week because she affirmed homosexual marriage. (Long awkward pause) Me: hey, it was nice to meet you. I'm sure our senior pastor will appreciate these. Guy: yeah, thanks! Don't hesitate to call me! Can I leave my card for him? Me: ......... yeah, of course
I have a uo! I think 60% of the go fund me accounts I have seen on my personal fb page ( directly affecting, at least, a friend of a friend) are basically a plea saying "I didn't plan well for emergencies" or "I can't afford the life I want"
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