BS: What made you crabby today?

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: GUEST,sinky
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:34 PM

my lazy good for nothing work shy son in law,sponging cretinous creature.How do they get away with never working,surely the powers to be know that his last job was milk moniter at school.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 06:46 AM

A two and a half hour journey into work where it usually takes 45-55 minutes... but not as crabby as the bloke on the bus... because we were between stops, the driver wouldn't open the doors despite the gentleman asking him to several times... the gentleman then proceeded to turn green and throw up - well he had asked to be let off!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 08:33 AM

Well isn't this just the bees bollocks...

My nice new Family Tree programme that I'd spent ages this week filling in details (hit my 300 about 80 names ago), has decided it can't read a file that I was accessing only this morning.

I suspect sabotage but more likely some damned corruption from the computer. Thank heaven for backups though, something this programme has and my previous one didn't!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Alba
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 09:41 PM

My crabby feeling has passed but I was a bit crabby for a while this evening when I heard that a very gentle Buddy of mine made a choice and trusted someone that my Buddy considered to be trustworthy and was under the impression that this person also cared for my buddy as a person only to end up being treated like shite. People can be real arseholes at times.
Better oot than in. Feels much better to post it here and let it go.
Thank you for the outlet Mudcat:)

Jude

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 09:08 PM

Almost everything reminded me of something I am ashamed of.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 05:13 AM

Nothing so far ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 03:57 AM

Putting the 250th name into my nice new family tree maker programme and realising that that is only one branch of the family and it's not finished yet... This could take some time.

But at least the cat hasn't peed on the printer today.

Yet.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Greg B
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 03:20 PM

Some 24-year-old get in a pick-up truck dragging an air compressor
to work on the 36-inch gas pipeline project they're inflicting on
us through town took a look at me and pulled right out across me
from the driveway where he should have been patiently waiting
to turn left, causing me to jam on the brakes.

It might not have been so bad but it was the very same drive where
some git from the same construction company did the same damned
thing three weeks ago, causing me to jam on the brakes. (Different
git.)

So, I tracked down the 'safety supervisor' on the project at his
mobile number and told him what happened. I described the git
and he replied "I'll take care of it. That's the SECOND complaint
I've had about him doing that this week."

Now THAT was rather satisfying.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Bert
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 01:43 PM

Helen,

Call the insurance company and tell them that you are not accepting their settlement and what would they offer as a settlement that includes the salvaged car.

I had a similar thing happen to me some years ago. They wrote off the car and said that I couldn't have it back. I called the insurance head office and said what I told you above. They came back straight away with the revised offer which was the write off amount minus 100 pounds for the salvaged car. I fixed the car myself for the price of a new hood and a couple of cans of paint. The whole deal left me with about 500 pounds in pocket.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:39 PM

A book shop near us is closing down. Mind you everything was half price so I have bought 10 books for the price 5!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 11:35 AM

Helen,
that's exactly what I reacted badly to re the mechanic. I absolutely HATE it when they talk down to me. I have a brain in my head and can understand most concepts pretty quickly. I have spoken with someone I know personally whom I trust not to give me the run around and he is pricing the parts needed to do the repairs. I'm sure it'll be a damnsite cheaper, too.

I'm still crabby about the cat, though. I brought him home yesterday with a script for Clavamox and Valium...yes, Valium. The vet told me that she wanted him to have it for the next 3 days to keep him relaxed so that his urethra doesn't spasm because of the trauma of the catheter. Ok, that made sense to me. I gave him a pill at 9:30pm yesterday and when I left the house this morning, over 12 hours later, his was still loopy. It did NOT relax him, it made him very aggitated and he spent the night wandering around the apartment like a drunk stroke victim, falling over, not able to jump up on the furniture, shuffling along. It was horrible. I looked at the bottle and the pills are 10mg each...for an 8 pound cat! There is no way in hell he's getting the other 8 pills. I'm running on about 5 hours of sleep in 2 days and someone could get hurt today.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 06:53 PM

Right.. Now I'm crabby because I have a stiff neck and I'm frustrated with the Ancestry.co people who want to take my credit card details so I can access their "free trial"... Excuse me? What part of FREE don't they get?!

I have a stiff neck because I've put over 200 names and notes into the new family history CDRom. That's just one branch of the family, and only 2/3 of the 8 generations I've got on paper.

My problems are as nothing compared with some here, but hey, it's my thread, I started it, I can put what I want in it, so there!!!

LTS










No more bitchy pills for ME today!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Helen
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 03:38 PM

Becca72,

I'm sorry. What I was trying to say came out badly, because I am at my lowest ebb in years - just when I thought life was turning around for the good after 15 years of bad luck. I was trying to say that having a car is a blessing, and you never know when, or how fast, it can be taken away from you.

Keep at it with the mechanic, and stand your ground. Use back up/moral support if necessary - you know, so you don't get treated like a "girlie", if that is the problem.

And I hope your life takes a turn for the better. Been there, done that and I totally know how it feels to be hit by one bad event after another, but I also believe in the way life turns around, especially if you put your heart and soul into making the changes happen.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 03:35 PM

LOL...peeing on electrical equipment might break her of the habit...
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 03:13 PM

Regretably, peeing in unsuitable places has long been one of her less enticing habits... she's not shown a preference for electrical equipment before though... although it might explain a lot about the hairdryer.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:42 PM

Liz,
I'm sure you know this already but if it's new behavior you might want to have her checked out for a medical cause. Or has something changed in the house that is pissing her off (no pun intended)?
Mikey will let me know he is not satisfied with the state of the litterbox by "going" on the bathmat. That is usually my cue to change the litter. But he's alwasy been that way. The other 2 couldn't care less.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 12:13 PM

Huh... don't talk to me about cats and urine... my older kitty has decided the world is her toilet. Trouble is, her world at the moment is the shelf behind the monitor, next to the computer. First time she pees there could be her last.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 10:30 AM

Sorcha,
Yes, neutered male. He is already on food with all protein (Wellness brand) and that's still not quite good enough. He has a lot of crystals in his urine right now. Looks like he'll need to be on prescription food for the rest of his life as this is the 2nd time since March he's had issues. The first time there weren't any crystals, though, just an infection.
As a side note, he is the only cat I have ever met/owned who doesn't like canned food. He doesn't even really like treats. I am going to ask about giving him organic canned salmon or something because I have read and been told that wet food is good for urinary tract health because of the high water content. We'll see!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 10:00 AM

Becca, ref. the cat. Neutered male? Bladder infections common in those but a Low Ash dry food (Urinary Diet) will help a lot. Wet/canned food is VERY high in ash.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 06:54 AM

Sorry, Helen, but the latest 2 incidents I mentioned above are just the most recent in a horrible year for me. I love my car and take very good care of it. What pisses me off is that I think the mechanic is trying to pull something and at the very least is jerking me on the cost. I had to register my car in July to the tune of a couple hundred dollars, put 2 new tires on it in the last 3 months to the tune of another couple hundred dollars and I pay for full coverage insurance at over $600 a year....all of that is the cost of running a vehicle. I'm angry at the mechanic, not the car. Sorry I can't be more sympathetic to your situation but in addition to the car issue my 1 1/2 year old cat could have died yesterday and had to spend the night at the vet's office (which, incidentally, will cost me about $400 when I pick him up this afternoon).

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 08:18 PM

OK I lost my faithful old car in the floods but I got a "new" one!

Now while I was overtaking two cyclists riding one behind another some silly sod (sorry male driver/tautology?) decides he doesn't need to slow down or pull over to his side and wipes out my wing mirror!

Would you believe these are not "standard" fittings?

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Helen
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 08:10 PM

How about you pay about $500 for the car registration and compulsory third party insurance, plus paying $217 having to pay put 2 new tires on before it is passed for inspection, and deciding to get a wheel alignment because you care about your car and want it to run safely and reliably, plus the $31 inspection fee, plus about $45 for a full tank of petrol.

That's $793 to keep your reliable, safe car on the road, the one your father looked after like a baby for 8 years and then sold to you 3 years ago.

Then, 13 days after car registration someone runs up the back of your stationary vehicle and the insurance company writes it off. Says it can't be fixed *for the amount it was insured for* so it's kaput! No arguments or tears or appealing to their respect for a family-loved and cared-for car will change their minds. It's taken off you without any warning, without even the chance to get your father to see the damage and talk to his friends in the motor repair industry.

Then 2 days later you are diagnosed with whiplash in your neck, shoulder, arm, lower and middle back. So now every waking moment is painful. Not 10 out of 10 pain, but just constant discomfort. Then you have to run around, using public transport or making your hubby walk to work so you can borrow the car, to get medical treatment and chase up the at-fault driver's insurance company, hoping you'll get some sort of compensation for treatment of the condition. Not to mention having to use public transport to get to work, 30 miles from home.

Sorry, I can't be more sympathetic about having to pay to keep a car on the road. My father and I are in deep mourning for a car which, although 11 years old, would have stayed safe and reliable on the roads for at least 10 more years. And after the fees and costs and hidden charges are all deducted I'll get just enough back from the comprehensive insurance to buy something unsafe, unreliable, and something which is riddled with another person's bad habits and lack of care and respect for a machine which is almost like an extension of ourselves in life these days.

But it's all all right, because the at-fault driver said he was "sorry for the inconvenience".

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 07:22 PM

I had several reasons for being crabby -- but they just don't rate with yours Liz. Now I can just be concerned about you and forget my own problems. Does it make you feel better that we haven't had it happen to us? How much lighter is my burden -- happy day.
Just about to print off a bit more of my family tree info. just in case.
Lots of chocolate! Lots of chocolate!
Sending hopeful thoughts,
Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 12:42 PM

Sorry you lost your best mate, Captain Ginger. Puts it all into perspective really.

{{{{{{{{{{Captain Ginger}}}}}}}}}}

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 10:26 AM

First, let me say how sorry I am for your loss, Captain Ginger.

Now, what's making me crabby today is that my car failed state inspection and the autoparts place wants $450 to fix it to pass. AND my 1 1/2 year old cat has another bladder infection and needs to go back to the vet this afternoon, meaning I have to take time off from work which cuts into my paycheck which makes the $450 (and the $100 vet visit) a little tight. Grrrr. I feel for the cat and don't blame him in the least, but the mechanic almost lost his head this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 08:31 AM

waiting in the house on my own for a guitar delivery from ebay

which may or may not actually be delivered today, or any time this week..

..i've been desparate to go for a shit for hours..

but trying to hold it in beyond bursting point
cuz its 'sods law' that our usual miserable lazy parcelfarce delivery driver
will arrive just a few moments after i sit on the bog;

tap the door once, then stick a 'sorry we missed you' failed delivery card
through the letter box before swiftly buggering off to his next 'victim'

ooh.. the pressure from my nether regions is giving me a headache
and making me very irritable...

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: The PA
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 06:30 AM

The cost of an MOT for the monster car.

It failed on two bolts which hold the rear seatbelts. I said nobody uses the back seats - he said that dont matter, £50.00 please. So £50 for the test, £70 for the repair, and £25 for the re-test.

Bugger!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: bfdk
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 04:30 AM

Captain Ginger, there's no such thing as "Only a scruffy terrier", when you're talking about your best mate. And saying goodbye to a four-legged friend hurts like hell, as those of us who have been there and done it know all too well.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss, sincerest condolences from here.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 03:47 AM

Thanks for your kind words, and sorry to hijack the thread. It's just that yesterday I was still very raw having just buried the little bugger.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 08:05 PM

Captain Ginger, I am so sorry. Poor little bugger desreved better. It doesn't matter if they come with expensive papers and sires or just turned up on your door step, when you lose them it hurts.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 05:29 PM

"How small can some people's penises BE, one wonders??"

Well, judging by the daily spam in my bulk email...it seems to be a problem on a lot of people's minds...or so the spammers hope, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 05:01 PM

I had a $2000 dentist visit today and they hit a nerve. They did not offer pain medication so what is now standard office procedure I had to go back and plead for pain medication 2 hours later when the novacaine had worn off. I have witnessed about 6 people having to ask for medication at the front counter in a crowded waiting room. I assume some suffer needlessly since they are to ashamed or timid to go through the humiliation and condesending attitude with strangers watching and listening. They are so niggardly with pain control nowadays it is nearly criminal. The front desk is not the place to practice good medicine.

If all goes well the nerve will recede, if not a root canal will be indicated.

but...I'm feeling much better now.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 04:20 PM

Oh, Captain, all of our sincere condolences. The Corgi Herd plus Uncle Max, Sorcha, and Mr. Been there, done that. Doesn't get any easier.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Desdemona
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 04:13 PM

Captain Ginger, I just read your post, and now I'm embarrassed by my comparatively trifling (yet not wholly unrelated) entry. I am completely devoted to my own doggie, and there is just nothing I can say except that I am SO sorry...please accept my heartfelt sympathy.

~D

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Desdemona
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 04:03 PM

I narrowly missed an accident on the way home from picking my kids up from school...some idiotic moron on a motorcycle sliced across two lanes of traffic at top speed (no signal, of course), ostensibly to cut in front of me in his hurry to get to the red light first. Thank heaven there was no-one immediately ahead of me, and for the speedy acceleration of my intrepid Volvo; if I hadn't been able to hit the gas HARD he would certainly have hit us. As soon as the light changed he passed me--on the right--amid a roar of exhaust (how small can some people's penises BE, one wonders??), presumably on his way to cause an accident somewhere further up the road. Asshole.

~D

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 03:44 PM

Ta. It's ripped the stuffing out of me and I'm in bits. Only a scruffy terrier, I know, but he was my best mate.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 03:38 PM

What's making ME crabby is FLIES, the end-of-season desperadoes in my house that can't find anything to eat but ME!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 03:24 PM

Sorry to hear that Captain ginger (((hugs)))

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 02:50 PM

"What made you crabby today?"

You mean I have to have a reason?

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 02:00 PM

Some boy racer bastard killed my beloved dog this morning. I am more than crabby.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 01:53 PM

A colonoscopy. Yuck! But all is well. A perfect asshole - there I bet you to it!

Glad the kitty is home safe. Freddie goes walkies every once in a while and I sit and worry the same way I did when my son came home late.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Alba
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 10:55 AM

Nothing.........yet
Jude x

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: bfdk
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 09:02 AM

Glad to hear kitty's back in one piece. Sorry to hear about your troubles with your genealogy files, though. I can imagine what it must be like, as I'd be in the same fix if I suddenly couldn't access mine.

It's possible to put it all together again, but it represents hours and hours of laborious toil doing so.. I hope you find a way to get to those files. As long as the files are still there, keep trying and DON'T delete anything until you're sure you've tried every trick in the book.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: maeve
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 08:55 AM

Liz, I'm so glad for you that Raven kitty is safe.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 08:44 AM

Raven kitty turned up safe and knackered.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Cluin
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 11:27 PM

It's probaly where they filled up the barrels of "fire water" they sold the Blackfoot. Just before they added the turpentine, chewing tobacco and cayenne pepper. No wonder they went batshit when they drank it.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 11:19 PM

The computer hasn't been changed for at least 3 years, the disk ran perfectly well when I used it last (definately in the last 12 months and probably in the last 6), when the computer was in another room. It runs on Windows 93 and 3.1 which is probably the trouble. I suspect that upgrades and automatic cleanups have deleted the programmes we use least - 93 being one of them. Only one disk uses 93 and I'm trying to access it.

I've run a search and there are plenty of these particular files cached, but when I try to open them, it comes up as an unrecognised format. All attempts to open them have failed to come up with a programme so I guess I have to accept that they are lost to me.

To heap more coals onto the flame of disappointment, Raven kitty hasn't been seen for nearly 24 hours now. I hope he's just shut in a room somewhere in one of the houses down the street, rather than anything more sinister.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 10:29 PM

Shit Creek is near the Montana/Alberta border. Folks on the way to Ft. Whoop-up from Ft. Benton used to cross it. I am unaware if they used paddles or not.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 09:07 PM

"The insurance company is giving me just enough money to buy a bomb which will last me a couple of years if I'm lucky."

Hoimeland Security reads that post and YOU are gonna be up Shit Creek!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you crabby today?
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 08:40 PM

Okay, one more thought came to me, and then I'll shut up.
You changed computers. If the new one has different drive names, then it's possible the new paths you are using are not yet 'approved' by the software, might be worth a check by your expert. It's a longshot, but I've had it happen with some obtuse software.