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@fidgiegirl kids are 'used' as an excuse a lot. I sat across from a girl at work and several times I heard her tell her husband on the phone 'I will just tell them Meghan is sick and I have to leave, what are they going to ask me to prove it?' Lies are the worst. Saw this on Pinterest recently. "The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth".
My DH has no sense of portion control. I had 2 1/2 - 3 lbs. of gr. beef. I was planning on making 2 meals out of it. Chili tonight & something else later in the week. But while I was out grocery shopping he decided to help me out and used ALL of the gr. beef in the chili!!! Grocery money is tight this pay period so I am really bummed about this. If he had decided to grill burgers he would have used all of it. There are only 3 of us here! He would have made those burgers so big I can't hardly take a bite out of it. He just doesn't get it! Now I have to refigure the menu plan. And I really hate menu planning.
But on the bright side I don't have to cook dinner LOL
I hear you, Azure - my DH is the same way. Luckily? it's extremely rare that he gets the urge to cook. You could always add more beans to the chili, or set some of it aside to use over potatoes or something later in the week.
I am getting annoyed that a potential employer is taking forever to respond to my interview. First the contact said he would call me 2 weeks ago. He did, to say there was going to be a delay and that a decision would be made after the 25th. So because they are usually very prompt, and in fact the delay was largely caused by his personal vacation, I expected a phone call Thursday or Friday. No calls. He did say that I would be contacted with the final decision either way. So... wait, wait, wait.
On cooking/meal/portion peeves:
I like to cook complex meals now-and-then. Part of the challenge is getting everything ready at the same time. Often, the dishes are meant to be consumed immediately, and not sit around waiting. I plate in the kitchen, and whisk things out to the table.
And invariably, my DW will spring up from the table, rush into the kitchen, and put the remaining sauces in sauce containers, and the remaining portions into serving dishes, and bring those out to the table. Protesting "you all go ahead, this will just take me a moment..."
Meanwhile, the lovingly-prepared dishes...sit....on the table, and nobody wants to be rude enough to listen to her and dig in like starving wolves.
Plus, the portions I served were the "reasonable" quantity, and the sauces applied in the proper amounts for the dishes.
AAAAAARGHHHHHHH.
There's always time to get up *later* and do all that nonsense.
DOUBLE-AAAAARGHHHH.
I figure after 30+ years, this behaviour isn't going to change though. I've changed my procedures this year to simply not produce any extra portions. Mooo-hwa-ha-ha.
bae, that is a most excellent way to deal with the situation!!
LOL Bae! If I want to have any extra portions I have to remove them to the fridge as soon as possible or there won't be any
Dear Mr. Guy-on-the-Exercise-Bike-Next-to-Mine,
Just in case no one ever taught you this in life: When someone is reading a book, and responds to your attempts at conversation with a brief polite nod before returning to her book, that generally means "I don't want to talk about your opinions about Detroit, Anthony Weiner, Hillary Clinton, President Obama, the worthlessness of Congress, or anything else. I just want to read this book I brought." That's what it means. No need to continue to try to make your opinions on the sorry state of the world known to me on a peaceful Sunday morning at the rec center -- though I know you love the sound of your own voice. On the upside, I did pedal faster in an effort to lose the guy, and probably burned more calories than I normally would have.
Extroverts think reading a book is just something you do to pass the time until they come along to chat.
Fast-talking sales people.
Several years ago, I put a new floor into the kitchen -- actually, the floor store did, with their person doing the installation. Well, for the past few years, the floor has been rippling up from one end (it's pretty much a T-shaped floor). The floor itself is not even halfway through its warranty, so I called up the company that I bought it from. In the space of 20 minutes, the guy from the floor store claimed the problem was due to:
- it not being glued down (the floor was designed to be installed "floating", so that shouldn't be it);
- the "crazy weather we've had lately" (the floor has been doing this for at least three years);
- being held down (the vinyl is under a transition strip to the carpet in the next room);
- not being held down -- the baseboard molding there was missing (we removed it from half the kitchen several months ago as part of repainting and have been indecisive on whether to replace the original '70s dark wood with the cherry finish of the refaced cabinets).
He didn't get around to blaming sunspots or Republicans. I get that he doesn't want to do a warranty repair. I understand that the manufacturer of that floor has taken a powder and left the country after merging with another flooring giant, so he has no recourse in replacing the floor ('course, it also means I don't have the warranty I paid for). But the dissembling is just ... well, I sure don't want to have to deal with this guy again for a floor.
To his credit, he did show me how I can fix the problem myself, without his company's $250 repair visit and without replacing the floor. I'm going for it, as soon as I clear another few projects off my to-do list. DW and I have been talking about replacing the floor, and that still may be an esthetic decision. But what it would cost us to do that could be spent in so many better places, IMHO. So I'm lobbying for fixing this floor and moving on with life.
People who are working out so hard(running or biking) they can not smile,nod or muster up a small wave.
adding this was not in reference to puglogic's post >8)