Things I've had to say to people today

Devil Ledbetter

Come on you stranger, you legend,
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 8, 2007
Messages
9,767
Reaction score
3,936
Location
you martyr and shine.
Remember that recent thread where someone asked how many people we speak to IRL each day? Here are some of the things I found myself saying to people today:

"Why are you arguing with me when I'm not even disagreeing?"

"So you're saying the longer the meeting, the more effective it is? Why don't we just meet 40 hours a week?"

"It's called Google, people." (When three coworkers engaged in a game of email hot potato because none of them could bother looking up an associate's mailing address.)

"Do you see any room for that in my office?" (When one of the aforementioned lazy emailers tried to palm off a giant ring binder of tablecloth samples in my office. And no, my job has absolutely nothing to do with tablecloths.)

"No, I really don't eat at Domino's or Hungry Howie's." (To coupon book solicitor at the front door, who arrived right after I'd gotten the Special Olympics magazine subscription salesperson off the phone.)

I'm starting to think hermits have it right.


So, who have you had to set straight out today, and how did you do it?
 

Marcus

sept 5th and I'm Out
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 11, 2009
Messages
388
Reaction score
65
Location
In between here and there
havn't left the house yet, but if there is any colorful language at work tonight i'll post up then.... :) i'm sure there will be if that F#$ckin KC-10 is still on our EFN ramp!

stupid thing's been on teh ground broke for 300 hours now if its still here...
 

fairy86

Loose on the internet!
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Apr 6, 2009
Messages
3,591
Reaction score
502
Location
El Paso, TX
havn't left the house yet, but if there is any colorful language at work tonight i'll post up then.... :) i'm sure there will be if that F#$ckin KC-10 is still on our EFN ramp!

stupid thing's been on teh ground broke for 300 hours now if its still here...

I remember listening to that--and I only did payroll. :cry:
 

backslashbaby

~~~~*~~~~
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2009
Messages
12,635
Reaction score
1,603
Location
NC
My words have actually worked well today with folks. There must be something in the water - these folks don't usually play that way :D
 

JoNightshade

has finally arrived
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Apr 29, 2007
Messages
7,153
Reaction score
4,137
Website
www.ramseyhootman.com
Does it count if I resisted the impulse to chew my Dr's secretary out for intentionally mis-pronouncing my name for the HUNDREDTH TIME? Like, yes, I know my last name is funny in a juvenile way, but intentionally saying it wrong because you are embarrassed is just insulting. I walk around with that name every day of my life and am proud of it, so I think you can hear it come out of your mouth once or twice a month.

I felt almost saintly for NOT saying that.
 

Kris

like motherf&cking Tolstoy
VPXIII
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 25, 2009
Messages
894
Reaction score
1,808
Location
New York, NY
It's kind of a long story, but today I had to tell my 3yo that nails are for nailing, and screws are for screwing.

*blush*
 

som1luvsmi

My brother loves me thiiis much! :)
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Apr 6, 2009
Messages
4,285
Reaction score
2,077
Location
About a block away from the nuthouse...they've sta
Website
randomlyabstract.blogspot.com
Let's see. Today I've said:

"Stop hitting your sister with that spatula!"
"Don't you try to El Tigre me."
"Spongebob, go tell Squidward you're sorry."
"Don't eat the popsicle after it has fallen in the dirt."
"No, I don't know exactly what a polarizer does."
"I'm sorry mac 'n cheese isn't your favorite, but Mommy is not a restaurant.
"All right, who moved the cheese?"
"If I have one shred of sanity left by the time September comes, it'll be a miracle."

Yeah, it's been that kind of day.(Seems like everyday is that kind of day.) :)
 

KTC

Stand in the Place Where You Live
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 24, 2005
Messages
29,138
Reaction score
8,563
Location
Toronto
Website
ktcraig.com
.
 
Last edited:

aadams73

A Work in Progress
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
9,901
Reaction score
6,428
Location
Oregon
"It puts the lotion on its skin..."

Oh wait, that was yesterday.
 

backslashbaby

~~~~*~~~~
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2009
Messages
12,635
Reaction score
1,603
Location
NC
OK, Sarah, you reminded me then:

[To the neighbor boys]: "I promise Rosemary keeps Zombies away. Everybody knows that. Just keep this sprig on your nightstand and you're good..."
 

Devil Ledbetter

Come on you stranger, you legend,
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 8, 2007
Messages
9,767
Reaction score
3,936
Location
you martyr and shine.
Note to self: Don't give Devy a hard time. :D
Maybe I'm just too feisty today. I've worked 10 days straight, some days as long as 15 hours, and my DH and kids are out of town.

I'm going to go mix myself a dark & stormy now.
 

Marcus

sept 5th and I'm Out
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 11, 2009
Messages
388
Reaction score
65
Location
In between here and there
stupid got @#$^^@ plane is STILL on the ground.

at this point they would have been better off just changing the engine to begin with.

work always sucks when we get planes that are on the ground broke for so long.

Chiefs start calling and asking questions from halfway around the world and GOD help you if you can't answer the person's questions about why their acft is a piece of crap...
 

Matera the Mad

Bartender, gimme a Linux Mint
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jan 6, 2008
Messages
13,979
Reaction score
1,533
Location
Wisconsin's (sore) thumb
Website
www.firefromthesky.org
I reserved all my best for Windows Vista and its stupidass security center that bombarded me with poop-balloons.

"Shut up." *click*
"Shut the f*ck up." *click*
"Shut the bloody f*ck up." *click*
"Shut up!" *click*
"Fscking die, dammit." *click*
"Shut up." *click*

Not my computer, bet on it!

I was nice to some people.
 

Vespertilion

Flying blind on a rocket cycle.
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
May 6, 2009
Messages
1,862
Reaction score
5,794
"Half. If it's fifty-percent off, you're paying half, ma'am."
"Well, there are three feet in a yard, and twelve inches in a foot." (Which is always preceded by "Um, I'm not very good at math....")
"It's paper. You trace with. Tracing paper." (I have people ask me every day what something's for, when its purpose and recommended usage is in the title.)
 

Marcus

sept 5th and I'm Out
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 11, 2009
Messages
388
Reaction score
65
Location
In between here and there
that chief called, he was pleased when i had all his answers. :)

i talked to a guy at supply and had to inform him that all his co-workers always had trouble doing the thing i needed him to do for me.
 

bettielee

I'm a sparkly fairy princess!
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Apr 7, 2009
Messages
24,466
Reaction score
12,761
Location
Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
Website
bettielee.wordpress.com
Well, yesterday I told this stupid salesman that no, I don't know how the telemarketing went. I am not a telemarketer. And no, I don't know what orders you got in today. I enter all the orders and I don't give a flying fark in a stiff wind who's territory they are in. I also have to make them invoices, check the invoices, mail the invoices. The guy is so stupid, we are calling him "dildo."
 

Marcus

sept 5th and I'm Out
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 11, 2009
Messages
388
Reaction score
65
Location
In between here and there
you have to love people like that, i deal with them all the time where i sit now
 

Velma deSelby Bowen

I miss the mountains....
Requiescat In Pace
Registered
Joined
Sep 15, 2006
Messages
152
Reaction score
29
Location
Seattle, WA
"You know, the coffeemaker would work better if you turned it on."

I would guess that my coworker was very much pre-coffee at the time, because she was staring at the machine dolefully.
 

Stew21

Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 2, 2006
Messages
27,651
Reaction score
9,136
Location
lost in headspace
Today the only thing noteworthy I said was:

"Don't you just want to give Al Gore a wedgie? I do." (it's a really long story)

honorable mentions:

I also told a really funny story about my mom: mom, her cat which made its way onto their roof through an open window on the second floor, and a poorly-timed police cruiser driving by at 3 AM story.

and to my computer I said, while reading Authorscoop's story on salinger winning his case, to the quote by JDCalifornia, "it's not banned, it's just unlawful to publish books you steal and turn to sequel-shit." thankfully the accounting team that sits behind me didn't hear it.
 
Last edited:

aadams73

A Work in Progress
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
9,901
Reaction score
6,428
Location
Oregon
"Which part of 'I don't want to hear about your colonoscopy' don't you understand?"

(While in line at the store. Seriously.)