Whats rustling your jimmies?

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Fat, diabetic scooter driving lardasses complaining about the cost of health insurance.

They should be immediately forced to go on a diet of raw broccoli and water while strapped to a treadmill all day for daring to fucking complain about something they directly contribute to.

Kreugen_sl said:

Fat, diabetic scooter driving lardasses complaining about the cost of health insurance.

They should be immediately forced to go on a diet of raw broccoli and water while strapped to a treadmill all day for daring to fucking complain about something they directly contribute to.

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received my bonus info at work.

I have a new position than previous years, with much higher pay. With that said, my manager decided she'd increase our merit % from standard 3% annual to 5% - GREAT

At the cost of, surprise, no bonuses.

I'll be lucky to get any merit increase, and I just got my bonus: $100 AmEx gift card.

Ho, ho, ho.

Mom asks me to buy some on-sale batteries for her that she needs for a gift, fine whatever. Go out and buy batteries.

Turns out, the reason I'm buying these batteries is because she already bought some somewhere else and then saw the sale price and intends to make a third trip to take them back. Only when you do math (different size packs) the "savings" is around 25 cents minus gas. Two extra trips to the store plus standing in line at customer service to "save" 25 fucking cents.

There is cheap, and then there is being cheap beyond all fucking sense and that is my mom. She will drive miles out of the way on fumes to "save" 2 cents a gallon on gas because apparently she does not know how gas works. She has spent years of her life buying and returning shit for pennies per hour. Her house is an icebox in the winter and a sweathouse in the summer. Her car is falling apart and everything she buys breaks because it's cheap dogshit. Until a year ago she still had a floor model tv from the 1970s that she insisted had a "good picture" and upgrading from the endless parade of broken VCRs to a DVR has probably changed her life. Oh my fucking god did I get tired of programming and fixing those fucking VCRs and her ranting and raving about the tapes fucking up or looking like shit because she recorded over top of the same tape hundreds of times. Of course the WalMart Visio tv she finally bought freezes up all the time and has to be unplugged to reset it. Everything she owns is old and broken. If it weren't for Christmas gifts she'd still have cords on all her phones. If she goes out to eat (maybe once a month) she'll get a salad (or an appetizer) and water. Her most cooked meal is hamburger helper. It just goes on and on.

I'm so fucking sick of having to be so goddamn cheap.

You need to get her going to rummage sales and thrift shops.

heh, it becomes an obsession for some people, no doubt. My grampa is turning 100 in January, and he's been a cheap fuck his entire life. Grew up in Poland in the depression, so that might have something to do with it, but it's ridiculous. A few years back my mom's at their condo, and her mom offers her some toast, which my mom accepts. She then observes her mom walk to the toaster, put bread in, and then hold the lever down. After 30 seconds my mom asks what's up. Grandma's response: "oh, the toaster has been broken for a couple years, I have to hold the lever down. Daddy won't buy a new one." So literally for years she's been standing there holding the fucking lever on the toaster down to avoid spending ten bucks on a new one. I think ten bucks. Fuck, how much is a cheap toaster at Wal-Mart?

When we finally moved them out of their house 10 or so years ago, it was a huge fucking battle getting my grampa to get rid of all the shit he'd accumulated over the years. Not quite hoarding, but very close. My parents caught him sneaking out parts of the house's built-in vacuum system; his explanation was that he was going to build his own vacuum so he wouldn't have to buy a new one for the condo. And by the way, he was pocketing all the cash from his house sale, as my parents bought the condo for them and charge them rent, just to make it easier to settle their affairs when they kick off. So the old codger has somewhere around half a million dollars in the bank, and won't spend ten bucks on a toaster or a hundred on a vacuum. And this isn't senility. While he's very deaf and physically extremely frail, he's 100% with it still.

Best part? He's a problem gambler. He's pissed away tens of thousands of dollars at casinos on slot machines of all fucking things. He's stopped going the past couple years because he's gotten too frail (did I mention he still drives?), but 10 years ago my mom would have to go check the half dozen local casinos in the middle of the night every few months because my grandma was sitting home alone freaking out that "daddy" was dead in a ditch somewhere, when in reality he was pissing away his money on slots till 3am. In his late 80's and early 90's.

Fucking old people, man.

Apparently some teenagers have been walking into my yard and taking the cut up logs from the tree that fell back in sept (the one that landed on my truck). They never asked me if they could have them, they just strode up on my property and took them. Then today, when I head outside to see what all the noise was, it turns out one of them tripped and dropped the log right onto the main pipeline. Now I'm without water until I fix that.

At least it wasn't too bad; should only need two couples and a new valve. It did fuck with a really good day I was having tho'.

Big Phoenix_sl said:

Would of held at gunpoint until their parents come get them.

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Or just walk two houses down and talk to the parents. What I'm wondering is what were the kids using the wood for? I guess so the parents could turn the heat off and save some money like Kreugen's kin? Hell, the only thing I was gonna use them for is chip them up and throw them into the smoker. Overall, it seems like those kids were up to some shenanigans.

Well, found all the parts I need. Just gotta wait until it's daylight again so that I can get to it.

Would you trust a credit card from people who would send their kids out to gather wood from other people's yards? Hell no. I took cash.

They probably didn't want the wood for anything. When I was a kid, my friends and I went into a neighbor's backyard, took a bunch of gallon jugs filled with some kind of oil, and dumped it in the woods. Why? Because we were stupid fucking kids and deserved to be beaten (which my parents did when they found out).

Kreugen_sl said:

Mom asks me to buy some on-sale batteries for her that she needs for a gift, fine whatever. Go out and buy batteries.

Turns out, the reason I'm buying these batteries is because she already bought some somewhere else and then saw the sale price and intends to make a third trip to take them back. Only when you do math (different size packs) the "savings" is around 25 cents minus gas. Two extra trips to the store plus standing in line at customer service to "save" 25 fucking cents.

There is cheap, and then there is being cheap beyond all fucking sense and that is my mom. She will drive miles out of the way on fumes to "save" 2 cents a gallon on gas because apparently she does not know how gas works. She has spent years of her life buying and returning shit for pennies per hour. Her house is an icebox in the winter and a sweathouse in the summer. Her car is falling apart and everything she buys breaks because it's cheap dogshit. Until a year ago she still had a floor model tv from the 1970s that she insisted had a "good picture" and upgrading from the endless parade of broken VCRs to a DVR has probably changed her life. Oh my fucking god did I get tired of programming and fixing those fucking VCRs and her ranting and raving about the tapes fucking up or looking like shit because she recorded over top of the same tape hundreds of times. Of course the WalMart Visio tv she finally bought freezes up all the time and has to be unplugged to reset it. Everything she owns is old and broken. If it weren't for Christmas gifts she'd still have cords on all her phones. If she goes out to eat (maybe once a month) she'll get a salad (or an appetizer) and water. Her most cooked meal is hamburger helper. It just goes on and on.

I'm so fucking sick of having to be so goddamn cheap.

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You've got some seriously hillbilly ass family. Some of the stories of annoyance you've posted here...fuck blood I'd have moved far away a long time ago. Where the hell are you anyway, Alabama or some shit?

Christmas presents shopping is rustling my jimmies hard

Trollface_sl said:

Alberta is pretty much the south of canada.

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He was responding to Kreugen, not me, you idiot. And 80% of Alberta's population is urban, no different than Ontario or Quebec. The "south" of Canada would be some parts of rural Alberta and central BC. There is some really backwards ass shit going on in BC's nether regions:Bountiful, British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia