RL Peeves
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When you think a patient is a nice person…until they see some black kids playing on their bicycles in the street.
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A cascade of events I do not understand and do not even with to pretend to begin to comprehend ended with our Social Studies teacher not being here for the rest of the year. (Was she fired? Asked to just leave and they’ll pay out the rest of her contract? I have no idea.) Since we can’t just have the children not supervised they asked me to step in and cover the last few days.
To do:- Finish teaching for the rest of the year any concepts not covered.
- Finish any grading that she hadn’t been able to do (this was holy shit)
- Give them a way to make up for anything earlier in the year (unique to our system because we don’t do letter grades, but competency.)
This is all fine, I can do this. At this point in my career I’ve done enough of almost everything that I can step into any classroom temporarily and help it limp along.
My peeve:
MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS. Oh my god. I love them, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore them and all their weirdness.
BUT THE THINGS THAT FLY THROUGH THE AIR WITH ALARMING REGULARITY THAT SHOULD NOT FLY THROUGH THE AIR EVER.
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When I say “keep your feet on the ground” and then you go to another tree and climb up it while I am still standing there there will be consequences.
I don’t care that you are safe. I do not care that you have 1.5 days until you are no longer a child I’m legally liable for keeping safe during school hours.
It isn’t even about the safety issue any more. It is the fact you were too teenager to not get caught. Don’t be stupid children!
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Outdoor party season has started in my neighborhood and I fucking hate it.
I didn’t always hate it, either. When we had actual block parties, it was fun! But this isn’t a block party. This is one single family that moved in across the street. They invite 30-40 people over to their 1,200 square foot rowhome and because there’s no reasonable way to accommodate that many people in their house, they move the entire party into their front yard…
Speakers and all. I don’t mind that they’re playing music. I don’t even mind that they’re playing music so loudly that I can hear it clearly enough to make out every lyric through my closed windows. I live in a city. It comes with the territory.
I do mind that they’re playing (terrible) music so loudly that I can’t hear my own television turned up to full volume and the bass is physically shaking my house.
Best of all, they’re going to be doing this for at least the next six hours.
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If you sneeze while eating the food in your mouth can go up your nose. You can also not realize it till you start blowing your nose and food comes out of said nose.
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@junipersky My eyes got real big as I read this post. I’m sorry.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
If you sneeze while eating the food in your mouth can go up your nose. You can also not realize it till you start blowing your nose and food comes out of said nose.
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@junipersky i did this with a french fry once
do not recommend
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Like I theoretically knew it was possible? Cuz like, laughing till milk comes out your nose is a thing. But… solids?!
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I once threw up and was blowing noodles out of my nose for at least a day. The human nasal cavity is a marvel in how it seems to have absolutely no space for a little bit of snot, but can fit an entire four-course meal under the right conditions.
Game-runner of Silent Heaven, a small-town horror MU.
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@Jumpscare Those two different things are the same thing if you’re young enough. As I am constantly reminded by a small human who lives in my house.
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@Pavel My dog is a huge fan of used tissues. The more snot the better. They’re one of the worst answers to the question, “Hey, what tf do you have in your mouth?!”
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Some motherfucker shot my 11 month old dog with a pellet gun.
She’s stitched up but okay after a night in the doggy ER.
I’m mad as hell.
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Oh hey! If it isn’t the most tasteless fucking sales email I’ve seen in my life.
Subject: Business ‘Long Covid’ Discussion
Hi <firstname.lastname>,
Is your business struggling post-COVID with any of these ‘classic’ symptoms?
- Projects late or overspent
- Resources not rising to the need
- Deliverables not meeting expectations
- Management without visibility to keep things on track
It goes on to try to sell a business management platform.
Blocked the sender’s domain for my entire place of work and reported them as malware, because fuck everything about that.
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They dropped the mask mandate at my clinic. I’m a little annoyed with it, but I work in residential substance use treatment, so the main potential problem is staff-to-resident and staff-to-staff transmission. Anyway, I didn’t realize how awkward I would feel doing clinical work without a mask on. It’s like, what do I do with my mouth, am I smiling too much? not enough? Did I not already have enough anxiety that we gotta add this?
Also, because of the environment, I’ve already noted some residents experiencing peer pressure about masking. We’re supposed to be a therapeutic community, so that’s frustrating.
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I’m sorry.
If someone feels comfortable in a mask everyone should respect them wearing one.
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@junipersky right?? Especially if we’re trying to help people reacclimate to life without substance abuse.
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@somasatori I honestly wish that we’d adopt the masking culture that they have in Japan. In the the last three years, I got sick exactly once after my COVID nightmare right at the start, and it was because my husband worked retail and brought something home even with the mask. When he moved to working a medical-adjacent field that required all customers to wear masks, too? Nothing. Not a single cold.
Compare that to the three colds or so I’d get every year from SCA friends who would come to events despite knowing they were still getting over something (I am looking right at you, friend who hugged me and then told me you were ill because seriously, what the fuck?!) or coworkers who had children in daycare that would be like “Ohh, yeah, my two year old has boogers coming out of everything and is miserable right now, but they don’t have a fever so I sent them to scho-- <hackwheeze>.”
If someone wants to wear a mask when they’re out in public, let them. You don’t know what health conditions they might have that could become dangerous with ‘just the sniffles’ added in. If you or someone in your house is sick, wear a mask before going out in public. You don’t know who you could make seriously ill.
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It’s hilarious that the above was my last post in this thread.
I went to see The Sisters of Mercy over the weekend. I forgot my mask in the car and didn’t walk back to go get it, even though I specifically brought one to wear in the crowd.
…Guess who has been home sick for the last two days?
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Unshockingly, still looking for a house despite ramping things up in earnest about three months ago now. Everything I’d consider bidding on (or placed a bid on) is getting snapped up within like three days of being listed for so, so much higher than listing.
I’m so tired, and if one more person who bought their first house when Reagan was president tries to tell me I’m doing it wrong, I will fucking claw their eyes out. For those counting, I’m up to five of those instances. That number is way the fuck too high for the most important purchase of my adult life.
And that is my peeve. Hopefully not the same peeve in September.
