Twatwaffle Tuesday

[xanthepants]

So my director comes huffing and puffing in late today from a dentist appointment pissed off that traffic was basically shut down on her way in. I said I heard there was a pedestrian death this morning on the way in on the particular highway. Her response "GOOD! I was thinking I hope that the person who cause this is DEAD for making all of us so late." When I confirmed it she wasn't the least bit remorseful in her statement. She later looked it up  online and realized it was a person who jumper to their death. I hope she feels petty.

WTF. Who the hell thinks like that? What a horrible person at heart. Twatwaffle.

[summergirl1211]

Jun 23, 2015 10:58:01 GMT -5 xanthepants said:

So my director comes huffing and puffing in late today from a dentist appointment pissed off that traffic was basically shut down on her way in. I said I heard there was a pedestrian death this morning on the way in on the particular highway. Her response "GOOD! I was thinking I hope that the person who cause this is DEAD for making all of us so late." When I confirmed it she wasn't the least bit remorseful in her statement. She later looked it up  online and realized it was a person who jumper to their death. I hope she feels petty.

WTF. Who the hell thinks like that? What a horrible person at heart. Twatwaffle.

xanthepants, that's awful! I read about that too because my H was stuck in the same traffic. Being late is nothing compared to someone losing their wife, daughter, sister, best friend, etc. How sad for those who knew her. 

[bliz1712]

Wow there are no words xanthepants,.

Can I use my judging situation from this weekend and call the Mom/StepMom a huge Twattwaffle? My friend took and their entire family went to Wisconsin Dells, a big water park area and very popular around here. It was my friend, who I know through my Mom and scrapbooking, and all of her kids and their kids. Well her one son and his wife were along but there was no sign of their 2 kids. One is his, one is hers, I think they are 8 and 6. Well apparantly the parents made them stay home because they were naughty. My jaw almost hit the floor. What on earth could have been so bad that the kids had to stay home?!?!?! And if they were that bad, why don't you be the parent and stay home with them instead of going yourself. Maybe I'm way off base but to me that's a punishment that doesn't fit the crime, IMO.

ETA: I guess the oldest was 15 and the youngest is 8.  Maybe that's appropriate for the 15yr old but not the 8 year old.

[mightybee]

That is horrible xanthepants! Makes me sick to stomach to know people actually think those things and even worse, think it's normal to say them out loud?

[xanthepants]

Yeah she can be a real peach. I don't understand her because she really can be a great person 95% of the time but then Boom she says something like this and you are like really? I can absolutely see her in different circumstances being cold enough to have a mental break to do something horrible. She just really doesn't like people/humans except her small group of people at all. She tolerates the rest of the world. It was a horrible thing to say.

[cookiesandwine]

My twatwaffle is our bank, mortgage officer, underwriter, whoever. All of them. It's been like SIX WEEKS of additional delays on our construction loan. We were supposed to break ground in May but it's been like "Oh yeah we also need X" "Forgot to tell you this last time but now we need Y" "So close, we just need X" WE GAVE YOU X TWO EFFING WEEKS AGO; WTF ARE YOU DOING? My sweet patient husband has taken over all the back and forth with them because I'm way too pregnant to be reasonable at this point. Now they need our cabinet choice, that I gave them (again) last week. There are two options in the bid. They asked if we're going with 1, 2, 3, or 4. H just told them to count the most expensive ones in the bid to be done with it - they're like $200 difference in price. I'm about to give a thousand dick kicks and burn down a building if this doesn't wrap up soon.

[bliz1712]

cookiesandwine, Does your mortgage/bank happen to be Wells Fargo? We had a horrible time with them when we refinanced. We had to pay money to lock in the interest rate because so much time had passed. We started in Memorial day and we didn't close until middle of December.

[sarasansh]

cookiesandwine What is it with mortgage people? When we bought our house our closing got pushed back 3 times because our mortgage writer kept fucking things up. At one point we were going to have FIL co-sign when we were considering a more expensive house. We didn't end up going with it/needing him, but our mortgage person pulled up paperwork THREE times with his name still on it. Every time we asked, "does this matter?" And she would say "no." Then we'd get a call like 3 days later telling us we had to come in to resign the same stuff because his name had "accidentally" been left on. Then they kept not using H's legal name (Raymond, but he goes by Read) and again we would say, "does this matter?" and inevitably have to resign again because as it turns out, using your legal name actually DOES matter. Imagine that.

I hope your H gets it all worked out asap!

[cookiesandwine]

bliz1712 nope but when I worked in a car dealership I learned quickly that dealing with WF sucks.
sarasansh yes I keep emailing to check in after several days of no word after we've submitted the "last thing" they need, and they keep finding more things.
We're going through a local CU and their slogan is bank like you own the place. Hello, if I owned the fucking bank my shit would be done by now!!

[tribute17]

I nominate my kid today. I know I'm pg and tired but I would like a break. He has been a mess today. We were those people at swim lessons who had to leave early. Early bedtime tonight.

[cbear]

Jun 23, 2015 16:10:59 GMT -5 cookiesandwine said:

My twatwaffle is our bank, mortgage officer, underwriter, whoever. All of them. It's been like SIX WEEKS of additional delays on our construction loan. We were supposed to break ground in May but it's been like "Oh yeah we also need X" "Forgot to tell you this last time but now we need Y" "So close, we just need X" WE GAVE YOU X TWO EFFING WEEKS AGO; WTF ARE YOU DOING? My sweet patient husband has taken over all the back and forth with them because I'm way too pregnant to be reasonable at this point. Now they need our cabinet choice, that I gave them (again) last week. There are two options in the bid. They asked if we're going with 1, 2, 3, or 4. H just told them to count the most expensive ones in the bid to be done with it - they're like $200 difference in price. I'm about to give a thousand dick kicks and burn down a building if this doesn't wrap up soon.

This seems crazy for a construction loan! I mean we need specs, blueprints, etc but I'm pretty positive we could give zero fucks what cabinets you put in.... The construction loan is an in house loan on our books so it's done so quick! The once it's done we do the final and refinance into the secondary market. This just seems crazy!

[sarasansh]

My twatwaffle of the day is the crazy storm system that passed through. We have a gorgeous, massive tree outside our house that has to be 60-70 years old. After the storm passed MH went outside to ask our neighbor a question and realized our sidewalk was tilted and raised 4 inches. It looks like the storm moved the whole tree. Now we're probably going to have to get it cut down. I don't want to spend the money or lose our tree.

[xanthepants]

sarasansh, No! I wonder if there is anything that can be done. I don't know much about that but I wonder if can be tied back or re-settled.

[paddyb]

sarasansh that would make me so sad. I hope there is some way to save it

[sarasansh]

paddyb and xanthepants I took another look at it this morning and I think we might be okay with just a serious trimming (which it needed anyone.) It's a healthy tree--I would hate to lose it. Of course now H is fixated on the fact that the sidewalk is uneven, which obviously needs to be fixed, but he's obsessing over some way to mark it because he's sure that because we're going on vacation, someone is going to trip on the sidewalk and sue us. As if we weren't going away we'd just sit outside and warn people about our sidewalk?

[trixi282]

Jun 23, 2015 11:12:21 GMT -5 summergirl1211 said:

Jun 23, 2015 10:58:01 GMT -5 xanthepants said:

So my director comes huffing and puffing in late today from a dentist appointment pissed off that traffic was basically shut down on her way in. I said I heard there was a pedestrian death this morning on the way in on the particular highway. Her response "GOOD! I was thinking I hope that the person who cause this is DEAD for making all of us so late." When I confirmed it she wasn't the least bit remorseful in her statement. She later looked it up  online and realized it was a person who jumper to their death. I hope she feels petty.

WTF. Who the hell thinks like that? What a horrible person at heart. Twatwaffle.

xanthepants, that's awful! I read about that too because my H was stuck in the same traffic. Being late is nothing compared to someone losing their wife, daughter, sister, best friend, etc. How sad for those who knew her. 

WTF did I miss today?? I left later for the hospital today, so I didn't see any traffic anywhere. But I also haven't seen anything on the news. I'm off to go find out what the heck you guys are talking about!

[xanthepants]

trixi282, I believe a woman committed suicide by jumping off a bridge onto 35w. It shut down 3 lanes of traffic essentially for hours. I always think it's a super sad way to go. My boss sometimes says the most insensitive things out of nowhere, I just don't get it.

[junkytrunk]

Jun 24, 2015 13:49:57 GMT -5 sarasansh said:

paddyb and xanthepants I took another look at it this morning and I think we might be okay with just a serious trimming (which it needed anyone.) It's a healthy tree--I would hate to lose it. Of course now H is fixated on the fact that the sidewalk is uneven, which obviously needs to be fixed, but he's obsessing over some way to mark it because he's sure that because we're going on vacation, someone is going to trip on the sidewalk and sue us. As if we weren't going away we'd just sit outside and warn people about our sidewalk?

Can you call the city and have them come out to mark the sidewalk? I would think that would be a city things and not your problem.

[trixi282]

Jun 24, 2015 20:40:11 GMT -5 xanthepants said:

trixi282, I believe a woman committed suicide by jumping off a bridge onto 35w. It shut down 3 lanes of traffic essentially for hours. I always think it's a super sad way to go. My boss sometimes says the most insensitive things out of nowhere, I just don't get it.

That's really sad.  It's a horrible way to go, and although deep (very deep) down inside I think "why would you do that in the morning and ruin everyone else's day?"  I also can't imagine what made her so horribly depressed that she wanted to jump to her death.

And yeah, that's incredibly insensitive to make that comment after hearing about why her commute was so slow. 

[cookiesandwine]

Jun 24, 2015 21:17:36 GMT -5 trixi282 said:

Jun 24, 2015 20:40:11 GMT -5 xanthepants said:

trixi282, I believe a woman committed suicide by jumping off a bridge onto 35w. It shut down 3 lanes of traffic essentially for hours. I always think it's a super sad way to go. My boss sometimes says the most insensitive things out of nowhere, I just don't get it.

That's really sad.  It's a horrible way to go, and although deep (very deep) down inside I think "why would you do that in the morning and ruin everyone else's day?"  I also can't imagine what made her so horribly depressed that she wanted to jump to her death.

And yeah, that's incredibly insensitive to make that comment after hearing about why her commute was so slow. 

Very sad story and maybe I'm a twatwaffle too but I think that's so selfishly dangerous.  She could have caused injuries and even deaths of innocent people just on their way to work. Not to mention the shock and emotional trauma of seeing someone commit such a gruesome suicide.  Just like drinking and driving, if you want to kill yourself stay home, don't take other people out with you.

[vanessalc]

Me? For being annoyed that h spent a half hour trying to get his Bluetooth to sync with my car. We are going anniversary strawberry picking and I just want to get going, and I don't really want to listen to the same songs we've been listening to for the past 16 years. But the sentiments are sweet, so I'm just going to stfu.

[jodielyn10]

Regarding the suicide traffic jumper. The exact same thing happened here a few weeks ago - the interstate was shut down for a few hours during the morning commute because someone killed themselves by jumping off an overpass. I do think that that method of killing yourself is incredibly and unnecessarily dangerous. But it is still unbelievably insensitive and wrong what your boss said xanthepants,!

[sarasansh]

Jun 24, 2015 20:42:49 GMT -5 junkytrunk said:

Jun 24, 2015 13:49:57 GMT -5 sarasansh said:

paddyb and xanthepants I took another look at it this morning and I think we might be okay with just a serious trimming (which it needed anyone.) It's a healthy tree--I would hate to lose it. Of course now H is fixated on the fact that the sidewalk is uneven, which obviously needs to be fixed, but he's obsessing over some way to mark it because he's sure that because we're going on vacation, someone is going to trip on the sidewalk and sue us. As if we weren't going away we'd just sit outside and warn people about our sidewalk?

Can you call the city and have them come out to mark the sidewalk? I would think that would be a city things and not your problem.

Unfortunately not. We looked up all the different ordinances and codes and the sidewalk is our responsibility. MH found caution tape somewhere and we marked it off so it should be fine.

[bantyrooster]

sarasansh look into mud jacking the sidewalk. We just did our front step and it was reasonable and quick. There site had tons of cracked uneven side walks. They drill little holes and jack it up with a ground up rock mixture.