Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

I just want one single day of being healthy, I cannot take much more of feeling like crap. Actually caught myself today trying to think of the last time I had a good full day and I could not remember.

Almost 10 years of constant pain in my joints, ulsters that will not go away, being able to only eat child size portions of food, sleeping 5 hours a night, broken bones and more stress then I should ever have to talk about.

Just one day to remind me what normal feels like.

Right now I just want to slam a half a bottle of whiskey and sleep on the couch for the next 3 days and not have anybody come to me with their hair on fire or some sob story.

I raced the F100. They called me back with rules. However I left work and got called back in so no time to change tires. I ran with slicks. The track was sticky and I did good in 2wd class. Good enough to place 2nd. And they had no trophies for 2wd. A t-shirt was more money than I spent on gas to get there so I left. It was a blast though and I got a lot of looks and compliments.

Next year my z71 will be there for true stock instead of taking my Ford.

One week ago today I renewed my cell phone contract and got a new phone, Samsung Galaxy S4.

Being a new phone I've been being very careful to not break it, etc, you know how it is.

Today I put it in my front pocket as always with every phone I've owned, screen facing in, and nothing else in the pocket. Get in a car, ride 2 minutes, get in another car and drive 2 minutes. Somehow, in that time, the screen cracked and is now completely inop. Not the outer layer, mind you, underneath.

Sigh....

If the doctor says you can't lift over 10 pounds and you're caught lifting 70, don't be mad when you get sent home with no pay.

Javelin wrote: If the doctor says you can't lift over 10 pounds and you're caught lifting 70, don't be mad when you get sent home with no pay.

Sounds like they should be getting paid 7x their normal salary.

Swank Force One wrote:

Javelin wrote: If the doctor says you can't lift over 10 pounds and you're caught lifting 70, don't be mad when you get sent home with no pay.

Sounds like they should be getting paid 7x their normal salary.

No, just 7x the claim costs!

EastCoastMojo wrote: but I have this sinking feeling that the county inspector is going to E36 M3 a brick when he sees this tree down all over our yard. And, just to add a nice colorful sprinkle topping to all that, I have just learned that my full time job as manager of the bike shop is not waiting for me now that I am able to return to work. It has been 1 year, 4 months since my accident, and I have been able to work part time in between my surgeries and recovery, but the General Manager has decided to only offer me two days a week and "We will see what the store's needs are as far as full time employees", which means I am berkeleyed. I would really like to blow a few holes in things right now, where the hell is my shotgun?!

could your husband get his trusty little chain saw out again and cut up all the downed wood ? stack it for fire wood (yeah I realize that Mimosa wood won't be the best btu fire wood you can find) or haul it off ?

you manager sounds like an shiny happy person ...

wbjones wrote: could your husband get his trusty little chain saw out again and cut up all the downed wood ? stack it for fire wood (yeah I realize that Mimosa wood won't be the best btu fire wood you can find) or haul it off ?

Yeah, but not before the inspector was due back. The good news is, we got a different guy for the second trip. He saw the tree, but it was late in the day and he looked the other way. Literally. He stopped, looked at it, and kind of shook his head. Then we just focused on the electrical stuff.

wbjones wrote: you manager sounds like an shiny happy person ...

That is the general consensus. All of my guys, the dudes who have worked with me day in and out, love me. They have all told the GM that they think I am a valuable asset and that I get E36 M3 done, and that they want me there. He, however, does not like my very direct style or the fact that I don't butt kiss, so he wants me gone. C'est la vie though. This, along with my recent completion of my GED gives me the motivation to move in another direction. I'm looking at the positive, wait, is that allowed in the rant thread?!

good luck ... get yourself well and move on

glad you got away with the tree ( glad I live here in the "country" on a mountain side, covered with trees ... I can cut any and as much as I want )

Old vehicles and breaking down. Almost makes me wish a car payment on myself.....

Dear Toyota Pickup driver,

Next time I see you in a hurry to get somewhere and are falling back and charging the car in front of you to get it out of your way. Be very thankfull I am not driving my volvo and in front of you. I would have dropped it into second and dropped the clutch without accelerating. With the bumper to bumper traffic all people would have seen was an shiny happy person in a lifted truck charging a smaller car and running into the back of it

UGH

My poor girlfriend has been through hell and back in the 6 months I have been deployed. Her job has gone from enjoyable to a nightmare. Her boss (the bar manager) is a pompous a-hole who has zero management skills. She barely makes enough money to cover gas ($200/week) and things keep breaking on her truck. She's broke all the time due to not getting enough hours at work and paying for gas. She's staying at my place while I'm gone but it's an hour away from her job.

My folks want me to fly home and go camping when I get back. They are paying for my sister and her husband to fly up there to instead of flying down there for Thanksgiving. I really want to take my girlfriend camping but she can only take a week off of work. She wants to spend time with me during that week.

Now I have to choose between spending two weeks camping with my family or spend time with her. I feel either choice I make is the wrong one. My folks don't have a lot of money and they aren't getting any younger (early 60s). I have been looking forward to taking her camping for 6 months now

In reply to stanger_missle:

"Dad, as much as I'd like to see you, I'm gonna go get laid. Explain it to Mom, ok?"

Yet another one...

The dumbmotherberkeleyers that put carbs on otherwise fine running EFI machines they have NO intentions of modifying beyond something that the FACTORY computer can handle! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

In addition to the carb swap, they shouldn't be allowed to own a set of side cutting pliers either by the amount of jackassery hacking I see...

Almost got me a MB today.

As bad drivers seems to be a hot topic today. Going over to my mom's for her birthday, I am in my red Landrover and this brand new MB decides to pull out in front of me, not four car lengths ahead of where I was. Gave the brakes a good testing.

But I gotta know.. how do you miss almost 5000 pounds of 4x4?

Datsun1500 wrote: In reply to mad_machine: They were not expecting a land rover to be moving under its own power.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything.

stanger_missle wrote: UGH My poor girlfriend has been through hell and back in the 6 months I have been deployed. Her job has gone from enjoyable to a nightmare. Her boss (the bar manager) is a pompous a-hole who has zero management skills. She barely makes enough money to cover gas ($200/week) and things keep breaking on her truck. She's broke all the time due to not getting enough hours at work and paying for gas. She's staying at my place while I'm gone but it's an hour away from her job. My folks want me to fly home and go camping when I get back. They are paying for my sister and her husband to fly up there to instead of flying down there for Thanksgiving. I really want to take my girlfriend camping but she can only take a week off of work. She wants to spend time with me during that week. Now I have to choose between spending two weeks camping with my family or spend time with her. I feel either choice I make is the wrong one. My folks don't have a lot of money and they aren't getting any younger (early 60s). I have been looking forward to taking her camping for 6 months now

Sounds like you and the girl need to go camping with the fam and she can give her current job 2 weeks notice. After camping go find another job, there can't be too hard to find another job for someone with her skills.

In reply to turboswede:

That was the first thing I mentioned to her

She is worried about not finding work for awhile. I completely understand that. She wants to apply to be a bartender/shot girl at one of the local strip clubs. One of her regulars works at one and she brings home about $200/night. I'm definitely hesitant about her working in a place like that but she is barely making anything now. She brought home $50 the other night. She's essentially running out of money due to spending almost $200 a week in gas. I wish I had a reliable, fuel efficient E36 M3box to let her drive to work. None of my vehicles are neither fuel efficient or reliable. I've seriously thought about buying her a $500 beater

Toyman01 wrote:

Datsun1500 wrote: In reply to mad_machine: They were not expecting a land rover to be moving under its own power.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything.

done almost 500 miles in two weeks.. and nothing has broken or fallen off yet... except for my wallet when I went to fill it up

I would like to take a moment, and speak to you all about elevator etiquette.

Now then, when you are waiting for an elevator, it is advisable to wait several feet away from it, rather than pressing your nose to the door. Its also courteous to allow people to disembark before attempting to enter yourself.

Yours truly,

The guy who thinks this should be common sense.

I worked with a guy who had a great sense of humor. He used wait until a big group of people were in the elevator and proclaim loudly, "Everyone! Start running in circles!"

Made the day a little brighter when you saw the look on some of the uptight jackwads you typically see on an elevator. You know the ones that ride the elevator one berkeleying floor? Even though the stairwells are open and faster? Yeah that's part of the reason you're a fat berkeley.

Why is it that berklying mechanics that make $15-$20 an hour more than I do, need me to tell them what tools they need to do their berkleying job? How hard is it to look in the manual for the torque setting? How hard is it to actually know what that test set you need is called? No, sorry a$$hole, "big white box" doesn't cut it, I have 30+ of them in here. Which berkleying one!!!!

This only proves that a shiney happy resume gets shiney happy morons a job.

Oh, and to the chain smokers. Breath freshener...please. Smaug has nothing on your stank a$$.

I realize this is hard to figure out. And I realize that you are a cafeteria. But you are also in large part a coffee shop. This should be job number 1 in the morning. And on that line of thought, please, introduce the water to the coffee grounds. Make them shake hands and get to know each other. Don't just put them in close proximaty. This coffee tastes more like extremely watered down cream than it does coffee. And I barely used any cream!

Ok shiny happy people, I'm sure you're in a hurry. But that flashing traffic light that's flashing? That means berkeleying stop, for at least a second. Especially when I make it through my left turn and see in my mirror it was flashing RED in YOUR direction too!

You have a $30-40k car, but cant seem to afford a camera made in this century to photograph it, or how to use any camera for that matter.

Case in point: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cadillac-DeVille-INTERIOR-BY-FLEETWOOD-1960-CADILLAC-39-000-ORIG-MILES-ORIG-PAINT-/171061908552?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item27d4159448&vxp=mtr