Things you shouldn't have to tell people

[kitap]

If every website you're going to will show up but one, odds are good it's a website issue, and not an issue with our computers.


If the speed limit is 45 and driving conditions are good, the sheriff in the car next to you is not going to pull you over and ticket you for going 45, so you don't need to slow down to 30.


Some people- like myself- prefer to work the Graveyard Shift. We didn't get stuck working on it and aren't campaigning to move to days.

[wanderwoman]

Just a caveat to your first statement. I seemed to be able to get everywhere but the snopes message board on both my home computers, so I thought snopes was down. Went to work and tried it, and found that it was not snopes. Spent hours on the phone with tech support people from my DSL service and they had me try everything that I had already tried, but nothing worked so they concluded it was the site, however they would not try the site to make certain. Finally, for some reason I tried resetting my router and it fixed the problem.

[kitap]

Originally Posted by wanderwoman

Just a caveat to your first statement. I seemed to be able to get everywhere but the snopes message board on both my home computers, so I thought snopes was down. Went to work and tried it, and found that it was not snopes. Spent hours on the phone with tech support people from my DSL service and they had me try everything that I had already tried, but nothing worked so they concluded it was the site, however they would not try the site to make certain. Finally, for some reason I tried resetting my router and it fixed the problem.

Mine was in response to a guest at work who was using the computer in the business center and kept complaining about the slowness of one website (the computer's on a T-1 line) and then that she couldn't get on at all. She finally got it up after -literally- an hour of trying. I'm fairly sure that isn't us.

[wanderwoman]

Originally Posted by kitap

Mine was in response to a guest at work who was using the computer in the business center and kept complaining about the slowness of one website (the computer's on a T-1 line) and then that she couldn't get on at all. She finally got it up after -literally- an hour of trying. I'm fairly sure that isn't us.

Your original observation is generally the case, I just had to throw in my exception.

[Tzarina]

If you have to physically restrain your child while she is sobbing and freaking out, she probably does not want her ears pierced. You either should have gotten them done when she was a baby (I think it's mean, but whatever), or you should wait until she wants them done and is ready for it. Holding a child like that for anything less than an actual necessary medical procedure is cruel.

In addition, I don't think every one in the Wal-Mart wanted to hear her crying like that. I sure as hell didn't.

[JoeBentley]

Don't judge how easy a person's life is or has been based on how much they have it together.

Not everyone responds to crisis in the same way. Just because little Timmy pushing you down on the swingset 30 years ago still emotionally cripples you to the point that you can't succeed in life doesn't mean no one else has ever experienced similar trials just because they managed to become reasonably mature, ego formed, emotionally stable adults.

Some people are actually capable of getting over things. That doesn't mean it effected them less, just that they handled it better.

Point blank, don't assume that everyone who isn't a worthless neurotic little wreck has lead some kind of blessed existence free from pain and strife. Completely self destructing isn't the only way people deal with conflict.

[Christie]

Jumping off your point Joe, don't assume that just because someone didn't hate school that that must mean they were bullies. I see this tendency to assume that there are only two streams of people in high school, the picked on and the pickers. Nothing is ever that black and white. Least of all high school.

[Heroic Muse]

Originally Posted by Christie

Jumping off your point Joe, don't assume that just because someone didn't hate school that that must mean they were bullies. I see this tendency to assume that there are only two streams of people in high school, the picked on and the pickers. Nothing is ever that black and white. Least of all high school.

I would imagine most of the bullies hated school just as much as the people they were bullying. Do happy people really need to pick on others?

[Christie]

Originally Posted by Heroic Muse

I would imagine most of the bullies hated school just as much as the people they were bullying. Do happy people really need to pick on others?

I don't know if that's true for all bullies or not. Likely it is true for some, definitely.

My point though was that there are not two streams of people in school, which seems to run contrary to the theme of many of the threads, or at least the tangents, many of the threads here take. It does seem sometimes if you post that you liked school you are inviting the assumption that you must have been a bully, or at the very least did not mind watching others being bullied.

[Amigone201]

I wish counter people wouldn't stare expectantly at me while I read the menu. Jesus, just go about your business. Or don't, I really don't care. But don't stand there staring expectantly. This could take a while and I'm sure there are more interesting things in here to look at.

[zman977]

When shopping at Wal-Mart with your child lettin him jump on the pallets sitting on the floor is not a good idea. Try actually watching your child and don't get mad at the associates who tell your child not to jump on store property. obviously we're more concerned about your childs safety than you were or you would have been watching him and not clear at the other end of the grocery section talking on your cell phon while we told your kid four times to stop jumping on things.

[JoeBentley]

Originally Posted by zman977

When shopping at Wal-Mart with your child lettin him jump on the pallets sitting on the floor is not a good idea. Try actually watching your child and don't get mad at the associates who tell your child not to jump on store property. obviously we're more concerned about your childs safety than you were or you would have been watching him and not clear at the other end of the grocery section talking on your cell phon while we told your kid four times to stop jumping on things.

To bounce off of this.

The following areas are appropriate for use as unrestricted, lightly supervised child play areas:

1. Playgrounds
2. Chuck-E-Cheeses and other similarly children themed activity restaurants. This includes play areas in fast food restaurants.
3. Privately owned backyards where the children reside
4. Children specific interactive oriented museums (to some degree)

The following areas are not:

1. The Entire Rest of the Universe

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Amigone201

I wish counter people wouldn't stare expectantly at me while I read the menu.

Or worse, repeatedly bellow "May I take your order?" at you even when you deliberately stand well away from the counter in order to peruse the menu.

[kajerayn]

Just because a man is at the playground with his kids on a Saturday DOES NOT mean that he's divorced and has custody that weekend.

I had to work yesterday and it was a nice day so Mr. Kaj took the Kaj-lets to the park to play and get some of the energy out of their systems. DD is 3 and DS is 1. Mr. Kaj said you would have thought it was a funeral home instead of a playground with all the sympathetic glances he got from the moms. He also said he was the only adult male in the entire place.

I guess I must be the only woman in the tri county area that has a husband that likes to spend time with his kids.

[Bored and Dangerous]

If you are passing in the left lane, please be absolutely sure that you are going a speed that will allow you to overtake and pass the vehicles in the right lane in a timely manner. Otherwise, you're just being rude and holding up traffic. (I'm looking at you, tractor-trailer drivers on I-81! Going 67 mph when the other truck is going 65 is not an overtaking speed. Just because you're big and bulky doesn't give you the right to hold up the flow of normal traffic.)

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by JoeBentley

To bounce off of this.

The following areas are appropriate for use as unrestricted, lightly supervised child play areas:

1. Playgrounds
2. Chuck-E-Cheeses and other similarly children themed activity restaurants. This includes play areas in fast food restaurants.
3. Privately owned backyards where the children reside
4. Children specific interactive oriented museums (to some degree)

The following areas are not:

1. The Entire Rest of the Universe

And to bounce off this:

If I am restraining my child or telling him to stay off *insert nonplaything here*, I am not being a big fat meanie. It's because my kid is two, and I like him with all his body parts intact and able to interact with me.

[Morgaine]

Originally Posted by Tzarina

If you have to physically restrain your child while she is sobbing and freaking out, she probably does not want her ears pierced. You either should have gotten them done when she was a baby (I think it's mean, but whatever), or you should wait until she wants them done and is ready for it. Holding a child like that for anything less than an actual necessary medical procedure is cruel.

In addition, I don't think every one in the Wal-Mart wanted to hear her crying like that. I sure as hell didn't.

I once heard a lady tell her preschooler that no, that second earring hole she was getting wasn't going to hurt. The scream that child let out when that second hole went into her ear made me want to walk up to that mother & slap her silly.

[Ms. K]

Originally Posted by Zorro

And to bounce off this:

If I am restraining my child or telling him to stay off *insert nonplaything here*, I am not being a big fat meanie. It's because my kid is two, and I like him with all his body parts intact and able to interact with me.

It's good to know I'm not the only person who was a big fat meanie who told my kid, "No, you can't climb the shelves at Wal Mart". Although, from some of the disapproving looks, and comments of, "She's just being a CHILD, what is YOUR problem?" you'd have thought I was expecting her to lead Bible study in the aisle.

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by Ms. K

It's good to know I'm not the only person who was a big fat meanie who told my kid, "No, you can't climb the shelves at Wal Mart". Although, from some of the disapproving looks, and comments of, "She's just being a CHILD, what is YOUR problem?" you'd have thought I was expecting her to lead Bible study in the aisle.

Well, bear in mind, I am the one who's been known to yell at random strangers' children when they (the children) were behaving like asses and the parents were doing nothing about it. And, yes, my husband pretends not to know me when I do this. I'm sorry, but when you let your kid push the shopping cart for a running start, and then jump on it and ride it down an aisle, and it almost hits me, damn straight I'm going to take that quite personally.

[MrsLottoTx]

If I'm at a business, I'm there for business, not to be converted. So don't look at me weird when the following conversation occurs:

You: Have you found Jesus?
Me: (Rapid-fire delivery) No, I wasn't aware he was missing! Have you called the cops yet? How long has he been gone? What was he wearing when you last saw him? What does he look like? Do you have a picture?

Mrs.