Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[NFazzio]

Had to go on a service call at 8:30 this morning. On call this long holiday weekend. I need to find a new career.

[RickM]

The Anti-Grump; 40 mile ride this morning. Bracing. Now..Food, Booze, n' Fam. Nice. Happy day to you all.

[Matthew Strongin]

Who schedules Thanksgiving at 6pm?! FEED ME!!!!

I hope you all are eating and enjoying family time already. Have a great Thanksgiving and thank you all for keeping me entertained so often. I'll do my pushups tomorrow, I need to save my energy for meal time.

[Saab2000]

I have nothing to be grumpy about in reality. But the fact that the Green Bay Packers really suck this year makes me superficially grumpy. They're pathetic and they've given up.

I'm in YUL for Thanksgiving and I'd probably rather be with family, but that rarely happens. Being single on holidays doesn't make me grumpy, but it does make me sort of hate holidays. That is all.

[Wisco]

Cold is not a problem when smoking a turkey in a Weber Bullet smoker outdoors in a Wisconsin winter, but wind and cold really messes with my ability to control temperature. My Turkey is at risk, and I'm not happy.

And as Saab2000 noted, the hometown Packers not only lost, but their defense is just awful. Time to let Dom Capers go, bring in some dudes into the secondary who can tackle and find a pass rush ANYWHERE.

[jonathanb]

Ok, a first world gripe here: I find myself in San Diego unexpectedly for a few days. I've got a bike here, I've a helmet and I think I even have a kit to wear. But I don't have cycling shoes--and I wear D2's because my left foot is a 44EEE while the right is a 45EE.

The weather back home in NJ totally sucks by comparison to the San Diego weather so I'd love to ride here but I don't want to spend a day trying to find a store with a good enough shoe inventory where I can buy two different pairs of shoes to get the two shoes I actually need.

Who knows, perhaps this is some sort of cosmic intervention to ensure a thorough break from cycling before getting going for the new season.

[nahtnoj]

I couldn't sleep last night and I wandered across the hall for the first time in months. Oh. My. God. Had to just slowly back away before this happened:

[robin3mj]

Tues night waited in line at CVS for 45 minutes with screaming baby to get her passport photos taken.
Wed morning went to federal building to apply for expedited passport. Both parents have to be there. They tell us the photos will probably have to be re-taken because she's not completely vertical within the photo and looking directly at the camera. Thanks CVS.
So if they call to confirm this, I have about 1 day to get the pictures re-taken and schlep them downtown to the passport office.

This child is all of 45 days old.

[Tom]

When did they start making #10 brass wood screws so soft I can twist off the shank by hand when I try screwing them in? I'm a weakling. That should not happen. Cheap junk.

[ElvisMerckx]

My credit card got hijacked at my favorite coffee shop. Same for most of my employees and co-workers. We've all spent hours the past few days working through this. Turns out the coffee shop is aware and has been working to fix it as well.

There is a silver lining though: this coffee shop is steps from the White House, and the fraudsters hit at least 14 Secret Service Agents too. Talk about the wrong target for credit card fraud. I suspect someone somewhere is airing his grump from a jail cell.

[znfdl]

On Tuesday I had my 10mm Kidney stone pulverized. I have now passed 12 (albeit smaller) kidney stones in the last 18 hours, I am not having fun.

[Jeffrey Borisch]

Numbnuts (twice!) on the MUP shining their brites in my eyes.

One was lighting up the foliage on both the sides of the path. It looked like it was a f'n golf cart coming around a blind corner and I got ready to jump off the path.

I think the other one was a recumbent. Like I says, I was blind.

[Matthew Strongin]

Last night's traffic jam was brought to us by the good folks at a local radio station driving their promotional event truck down I-95. It's one of these:



It has a full row of fog lights on the top of the cab pointing backwards. They were on and blinding every driver behind the truck. I'm still annoyed.

[David Tollefson]

Wife decided she could go off her anti-depressants a couple weeks ago. Last week we were in Illinois visiting her family. Meaning little sleep on uncomfortable and unfamiliar beds and dealing with the 3-1/2-month-old in the same room. We're both still recovering. It all came crashing down for her on Tuesday. I'm thinking post-partum is rearing its ugly head as well. I had to take half a day off. I'm still making up the work time.

[kpomtb]

Installing a new brakes on my mountain bike yesterday. Get 11 of 12 rotor bolts in with no trouble. Just about the time my mind is thinking, this last screw isn't tightening up firm like all the rest, snap, the head breaks off the bolt. Brand new bolt, Hadley hub is only about 6 months old.

Luckily some patience and a screw extractor got it back out. So a grump with a happy ending, but I was really grumpy there for awhile.

[WayneJ]

On Tuesday I had my 10mm Kidney stone pulverized. I have now passed 12 (albeit smaller) kidney stones in the last 18 hours, I am not having fun.

I have a frend who I classify as one tough MoFo. Nothing makes this guy complain and nothing is impossible in his mind. I spent a night in the hospital with him while he passed a kidney stone. Tears in his eyes, screaming in pain - the works. He said if had a gun, he would have ended it then.

I hope all goes well, Stu. Maybe mount one of them pieces into the top cap of your headset to remind you of how much pain you can REALLY handle.

[WayneJ]

Effing truckers driving on I-95 like they're in a sports car.
... and lack of weight-based speed limits.
... and poor enforcement of dangerous driving.

When is CT going to realize there is a problem? We have like 4 truck roll-overs per week that shut down the highway.

[roseyscot]

My credit card got hijacked at my favorite coffee shop. Same for most of my employees and co-workers. We've all spent hours the past few days working through this. Turns out the coffee shop is aware and has been working to fix it as well.

There is a silver lining though: this coffee shop is steps from the White House, and the fraudsters hit at least 14 Secret Service Agents too. Talk about the wrong target for credit card fraud. I suspect someone somewhere is airing his grump from a jail cell.

"Dear Agent X, we are seeing a lot of abnormal charges on your card. Instead of your usual charges at the Glass Slipper, Golden, Banana, and Centerfolds, we are seeing charges at the supermarket. Can you please explain these?"

My grump - why don't cigarettes kill smokers faster? I fucking hate smokers.

Grump 2 - the only thing that could make the stress of buying a new home worse, is the stress of trying to sell the old one at the same time.

[nahtnoj]

Now I'm grumpy about the guy who have me a negative reputation comment for my previous grump. "Petty?" Its the grump thread. Of course its petty. This thread started two years ago because Josh was pissed after not getting a sufficiently large free cup of water.

[znfdl]

Now I'm grumpy about the guy who have me a negative reputation comment for my previous grump.

I agree, grumps should get a free pass