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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #540 on: October 30, 2009, 04:27:35 PM »

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Question mark answered. After a month of being just using the actual term dating short of dating, she revealed to me tonight that she "hopes I haven't been leading you on" but "I'm not looking for anything serious right now". So, at least that's one less thing to bother with the drive for.

My ex pulled that on like 3-4 guys. Seems like a bad thing to do even if its one person.  :sadpanda:
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #541 on: October 30, 2009, 04:28:08 PM »

My condolences, DNi. Would you like me to make some black humor jokes?

Go for it.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #542 on: October 30, 2009, 05:34:56 PM »

having to add a question mark after the girl you're dating seems like it would be pretty shitty

Yeah, I'd rather see the question mark two words to the left.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #543 on: October 30, 2009, 10:37:25 PM »

having to add a question mark after the girl you're dating seems like it would be pretty shitty

Yeah, I'd rather see the question mark two words to the left.
Only if you get to be player one.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #544 on: October 31, 2009, 06:37:52 AM »


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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #545 on: November 03, 2009, 06:50:06 PM »

I cannot believe I'm as livid about this this as I am, but at the school where my parents work(ed), they started up a collection in my father's name. Now, it would've gone to my mom, but then some loud-mouthed fucker up and blurted out that "[she] wouldn't take that money," which is actually completely untrue. But anyway, apparently the collected money is going to go into a scholarship.

My dad's alcoholism cost me and my family so much. Before I was born, my parents owned a fucking Chagall. My dad would lose jobs because he'd go in drunk; the only reason he was a teacher in the first place was because my mom pulled some strings and it was the only place left that would hire him. His drinking screwed me out of a college fund. It cost me my dad.

The idea that his drinking will now put somebody else's kid through college infuriates me. I know it's selfish, I know it's wrong to think this way, but I don't care. I don't want that. I don't want some kid to go to college because my dad drank himself to death.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #546 on: November 03, 2009, 06:59:24 PM »

Well, I suggest quietly but firmly approach somebody in charge of the collection and say that your family could actually use the money. Which has to be true. Something like someone dying is a horrible financial hardship on top of everything else. The loudmouth was a total dick and stepped out of bounds on that. I'm sure that whoever is in charge will see to it that your family are the ones who get the collection raised. If not, there should be hell to pay.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #547 on: November 03, 2009, 07:08:05 PM »

 
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #548 on: November 04, 2009, 04:08:29 AM »

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Remember, if you don't think it's right to speak up, understand that if you DON'T, then some jackass is just using your father's death as a rallying call to their pet project.

That doesn't mean that you should be a loudmouth, but that, yeah, you need to say something to the people in charge.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #549 on: November 06, 2009, 06:37:34 AM »

Time to invoke the blog-like qualities of this thread.

Last night as I was leaving the grocery store here, I noticed a cute little yappy papillon dog tied up outside. I looked and said "Hey little guy" (or words to that effect) as I normally do when I see a dog, but for some reason he really didn't want anyone talking to him, so he started backing up... into the street. At that moment, three things happened simultaneously:

1) The thought started forming in my brain "I'd better back away and leave the dog be".
2) Out of sheer instinct I said "Whoa hold on there!"
3) The dog slipped his lead.

The dog bolted across a street full of traffic. He was hit by a car doing maybe 15-25 kph. I think I just about had a heart attack. The dog kept running.

I couldn't cross the street immediately unless I wanted to share the dog's fate so I just stood there stupidly. Luckily two kids across the road saw what happened and clued in, and started chasing the dog. So I was trying to look for the owner, the dog, and the guy who hit the dog at the same time. The guy who hit the dog didn't even stop (in fairness, it's possible he may not have noticed), so then I was finally able to cross the street to help chase the dog. By then everyone was gone (approximate time elapsed maybe 20 or 30 seconds?).

I waited for the owner and explained what heppened. At that moment one of the two kids came back saying the dog had been coralled. We all went to catch up with the dog (who, as the owner explained, had run home), only to find that the dog and the second kid were gone. The dog had run off again, this time escaping the second kid when he ran across an even busier street. Everyone involved said the dog was running at pretty good clip, but then that doesn't preclude internal injuries or other things that wouldn't show up right away.

Searched for a while with the owner, then gave her my number. Walked back home and then Starr and I went out and searched again for a couple of hours. Last night was miserable weather. Rainy, cold (it froze overight). I knew a dog that size, possibly injured, had long odds against it surviving alone outdoors overnight. By the time I realized we weren't going to do a damn thing Starr damn near froze her hands off (which she only admitted when we were home), so I'm glad we didn't stay out longer.

At any rate, if the dog was picked up by someone, he should be okay. If not, if he crawled  somewhere to hide... that little dog is almost certainly dead.

Maybe intellectually I can rationalize it as not being my fault, but I sure as hell feel responsible.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #550 on: November 06, 2009, 09:56:13 AM »

Man, you greeted a dog, and mechanical failure happened. You're not even remotely responsible, and you still went above and beyond the call of duty to assist. Any number of things could have caused that dog to bolt and very few of these things would have spent hours trying to help out afterwards.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #551 on: November 06, 2009, 10:28:39 AM »

No!  Mongrel this is totally your damn fault!  You should never say "Hi!" to little dogs!  Ever!
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #552 on: November 06, 2009, 08:28:51 PM »

I have a terrible premonition of tomorrow.

My best friend's coming back here, and from what I have deduced from his comments over MSN, (1) he's coming alone (which is odd, seeing as he's married), and (2) he seems like he wants to take his mind off of something. Perhaps it's nothing. Maybe it's just that there's no room where he's staying (a friend's apartment) for a second person, and he just needs some time away from the hustle of the big T.O. Though I can't shake the feeling that something bad has happened (to his marriage?) and he needs the solace of friends.



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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #553 on: November 06, 2009, 09:12:35 PM »

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #554 on: November 07, 2009, 12:15:32 AM »

i can't get money from my sister to pay rent, and so even though i have a job lined up for December i might be evicted before then. also one of my front teeth is disintegrating because my mouth is so tiny it broke at the base. also i'm becoming more and more obviously bald and i am not even 30.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #555 on: November 07, 2009, 03:34:07 PM »

Why was this little dog out near a street without being tied or leashed to something?  That is some poor dog-parenting, and it's also very upsetting about your story.  Hope for the best ;-;

Also belated sorry to DNi, about your father's passing.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #556 on: November 07, 2009, 03:45:09 PM »

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3) The dog slipped his lead.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #557 on: November 07, 2009, 04:46:46 PM »

Oh, I guess I didn't read that correctly.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #558 on: November 07, 2009, 05:25:02 PM »

terrible premonition

Turns out his wife is up in Montreal for the weekend and he just had some free time!  :derp:
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #559 on: November 07, 2009, 05:27:02 PM »

Buge, that's good!
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