The Complaint Thread

TheSameIdiot said:
10 Things I Hate About You
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That is an *excellent* film, starring three incredibly talented actors, one gone far too soon. It’s by far the best adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew of all time.


TheSameIdiot said:
Are you on Psychology Today?
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Yep, that’s how this client found me. I’m working on other ways to advertise/market, but that is *not* my lane and frankly it makes me feel dirty.


TheSameIdiot said:
Oh, man. I think 21 Jump Street is one of the better comedies of the century
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Probably just not my “style” of humor. It came with glowing recommendations from friends and I didn’t want to wait like I did for Anchorman (which I did watch and do think is very funny), so . . . I tried. But nope. I don’t really think Jonah Hill is very funny, either, I didn’t “get” Superbad. But I’m the guy who watches Knocked Up and sympathizes with Katherine Heigl’s character and thinks she should dump “lovable loser” Seth Rogan and never talk to him again.

Now that I think about it, I can’t come up with a comedy from the 21st century I really like. I’m sure I’m just not recalling, but nothing stands out. The last comedy I remember seeing in a theater and going “aww shit this is REALLY funny” was Very Bad Things.
 
LA is in the middle of a MASSIVE storm right now, roads are closing left and right, and mostly I just hope my wife can get home from work.
 
Damien said:
What if she gets trapped at work, and you have to go to get her, but then a terrorist organization takes over the building and you don't have any shoes?!
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I mean her store has been beset by shitty rich kids shoplifting, yelling at cops, and when caught smirking and saying “fine, call my parents right now, they’ll pay for what I took right now”. So I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’d bring some stompy boots though.
 
AceofKnaves said:
I mean her store has been beset by shitty rich kids shoplifting, yelling at cops, and when caught smirking and saying “fine, call my parents right now, they’ll pay for what I took right now”. So I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’d bring some stompy boots though.
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She has my sympathy. This is my first Christmas out of the store-side of retail since 1999. I've seen it all.
 
Justice said:
She has my sympathy. This is my first Christmas out of the store-side of retail since 1999. I've seen it all.
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This is her first Christmas *back* in like 20 years. I fucking hate this for her and I’d tell her to quit today if I could make enough money to support us both.
On top of everything else, I feel like I’m failing her.
 
So I've got to vent. Be warned I've consumed a bit of alcohol to make dealing with the family gathered a bit easier.

Back in November I was helping my mom get her Christmas decor out of the shed and she was going through it and found my little sister's Looney Tunes ornaments that she hadn't used in 25 years. Knowning I have a "pop culture" themed tree she asked me if I wanted to use them. I took them and hung them on my tree. Flash forward to last weekend when my sister came over (this is the 30 year old sister who has never moved out that I have mentioned before).

She noticed the ornaments on the tree and had a total meltdown about how those were hers and started yanking them off the tree. She didn't say another word that night and hasn't spoken to me the two times I've come down here since then. Still ignoring me at Christmas tonight and even made everyone a mixed drink except me. Fuck her I BYOB anyway.

I'd also like to point out she is super high maintenance and thinks she's fancy and had an ultra color-themed tree that looks like something Martha Stewart concocted. These gaudy Looney Tunes ornaments wouldn't even begin to fit her theme.

So yeah, Merry Christmas.
 
AceofKnaves said:
This is her first Christmas *back* in like 20 years. I fucking hate this for her and I’d tell her to quit today if I could make enough money to support us both.
On top of everything else, I feel like I’m failing her.
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Don't be so hard on yourself. We are not living in the best of economic times and I'm sure she realizes that too. I bet you support her in plenty of other ways that matter.
 
AceofKnaves said:
On top of everything else, I feel like I’m failing her.
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I get that, and also don't do that to yourself.

My wife stopped working when our first was little (we get 1 year of leave here, so she went back when our daughter was 1 and she had stopped working again by the time she was barely 2). Then she went back for a super brief period before she was pregnant with our son, who is now 11. She hasn't worked since that pregnancy. I'm fine with it. I make enough to support us and the agreement was always that she'd stay home with the kids and I'd work.
But all of this plan was predicated on her being able to go back to work, even just part time, when the kids got older. Then she got sick. There's no chance she's ever going back to work now. Which, even though I'm doing what I've always done and have the best possible job I can even get within my industry, makes me feel like a failure because I can't just make up the difference in what we expected she'd be able to make once the kids got older.

It's not rationale, and it's not being fair to myself, and I KNOW she doesn't feel that way. But sometimes those thoughts creep in and you've gotta fight against 'em.
 
The fuck of it is that the plan was always for her to keep her very stable, decently-paying job while I got all my licensure and started the business and such. And then she just had rotten luck, rebounded, and had rotten luck *again* this year, and now she’s making a fraction of what she used to make with no clear path back to the job(s) she had before. We were *always* going to be a two-income household. And yet, here we are.
 
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