monster wrote:

has you dreading the inevitable shitshow follow-through in life's grand scheme of bollocks?

Bajaboi is tough on clothes.  And very particular.  And a difficult size/fit.  I have been working on getting him new ones, slowly.  The jeans he wears were discontinued.  JCP seems to have rebranded their own brand.  Had just about nailed down what was probably the same thing through online searching... A google spy-related "Black Friday" ad (one day only on Monday weeks away from BF) popped up with them at $10 instead of $30.  4 pairs. boom.  Now let's see if they actually are what we need.  And what negative events I will have to endure to pay back that iota of positive in the bank of karma if this does actually turn out to be a win..... ;)

Ah! You are dealing with life's ledger.
Unless one is very fortunate the debit side of the ledger is always going to outweigh the credit side.
As Spike Milligan (remember him?) once said 'All of life is 6-4 against'.
I wonder where he got such good odds.
 

Last edited by Carruthers (11/02/2021 2:36 pm)

Depeche Mode wrote:

I don't want to start
Any blasphemous rumors
But I think that God's
Got a sick sense of humor
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing

and the kicker was, despite me putting in my information when I ordered and the email said monster had to pick it up with a copy of this email and valid government id......  when I got there I was told the order was assigned to beest because at some point he had used the phone number with them to place an order.  I told them good luck with waiting for him, they let me take it, gave me a number to call to get it fixed..... I called, after a couple hours... they can't fix it.  WTF? The phone number could easily now belong to someone who has nothing whatsoever to do with a person who placed an order at least 5 years ago you can't go assigning it to them!!!!! If nothing else, surely it's a breach of privacy?  They said he can go online to fix it.  I near exploded.  When a got through to a supervisor after more wait, they finally agreed to put in a ticket to IT..... not holding my breath for a satisfactory resolution

I won't be ordering online from them again     Not a big loss to them.  Annoying next time Bajaboi needs jeans but that is NOT OK

They can all suck it.

Minifobette told me last night that she is struggling with a bully at school. He's targeting friends of hers more than her--or at least he was, until she stood up for one friend in the moment in an aggressive, swear-y kind of way. Now, word is he's trying to find her on social media, asking mutual acquaintances for her username. She and I talked about going through the proper channels at school, which she has already partly done, and I coached her on how she needed to stay calm in talking to the staff and really focus more on the shoving and homophobic slurs, rather than how he "invalidated someone's trauma."

The minor victory is that I very politely reached out to the kid's mom and let her know the situation, making sure she knew that *I* knew that my daughter wasn't blameless in their particular escalation, and she responded exactly how you'd hope she would. I'm hopeful it will all get handled and blow over. The shitshow I'm dreading is that the whole reason I heard about all this was the social media stalking has Minifobette scared, and I absolutely don't need a return of her general school anxiety and the refusal to go to class of years past.
 

Rest assured my penance came home to roost today. sigh.

Last edited by monster (11/08/2021 7:21 pm)