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Post by zazzles on Jul 19, 2018 15:01:48 GMT
wildcat, if the lawyer thing doesn't work out, I think you've got the begginings of a great stand-up rountine here! Thanks for the laugh.
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Post by SuzieP on Jul 20, 2018 1:39:29 GMT
Just Google for the Amazon 800 number and call them. If you are a frequent customer I bet they will credit it. It's only $18 but it's your $18!
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Jul 20, 2018 13:25:34 GMT
Today's annoyance- they are are doing construction on the hotel room next to mine. luckily I'm up and just waiting for my friend to pick me up. But it sounds like they are coming through the walls.
Also can't seem to get the temperature set right. I'm either freezing (which I do very easily) or I have to turn everything off and then it gets stuffy.
Not big deals. But my minor annoyance for the day.
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Post by DotRen on Jul 23, 2018 11:19:32 GMT
I've been reading great things about Starbucks cold foam brew, so I decided to try it yesterday. It was disgusting! I have never tasted such bitter coffee in my life. Just awful. It was so bitter, I even had DH taste it because I could not even detect the s/f vanilla syrup in it, and he couldn't either (he hates coffee anyway lol). The foam on top was great, so I had high hopes -but it's a hard NO for me lol.
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Post by cyndee on Jul 23, 2018 12:00:56 GMT
My morning clumsiness always annoys me. Every morning something has to either fall on the floor or go wrong because of something I do.
A very common annoyance for me is other people's driving. Turn signals seem to be totally optional, getting one car ahead for some is mandatory, and just generally being aggressive or not following traffic rules. One day a couple weeks ago I was walking towards the grocery store through the parking lot and a man in a huge truck started gesticulating at me madly just for being in front of the parking spot he wanted to rush into. I wasn't standing there, just walking past it. Maybe he expected "the woman" to stop before it to allow "his highness" to pull in speedily. In his mind pedestrians DON'T have the right away. As a true New Jerseyan, I yelled back at the mthrfkr. I won.
I know this is commenting on a very old topic in this particular thread, but I think it is a good idea that in many states (like mine) that pseudophedrine products (like in some Sudafed) require a license with some kind of limitations. Makers of crystal methamphetamine used to use them to make that illegal drug. I'm not sure how much the drivers license rule has slowed the production down, but at least it is some limitation. Meth addiction is rampant in many places and it's a terrible addiction and very difficult to get off of.
Beyond the making of crystal meth, people with some medications and health conditions should not take pseudophedrine. It could be harmful, especially if abused, which many do/did. I guess in some cases it's not so different than the choice to buy and drink alcohol for such people, but they do affect some people differently since alcohol is considered a depressant of sorts while pseudophedrine is a stimulant.
My doctor does NOT want me to take pseudophedrine. An old pharmacist that knew me and my condition well would not sell it to me if I was buying it for myself. I could buy it at other pharmacies if I didn't mention or lied about my condition, but that would be a sign of abuse, even though pseudophedrine was the most effective medication at relieving my occasional sinusitis discomfort. But there were times I took it not for just sinus pressure, but as a stimulant. That's only marginally better than a person using Adderall that wasn't prescribed for them.
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Post by finreporter on Jul 23, 2018 18:27:03 GMT
I never knew Sudafed was a stimulant. I've taken it for colds and allergies and never noticed a stimulant effect.
And I too hate when people driving think their time is so much more important than anyone else's.
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Jul 23, 2018 19:00:03 GMT
Mine was getting lost today and having to drive through DC. If you want to see crazy drivers, there you go!
Somehow I either missed and exit or it just wasn't there, but I was able to make it home.
Cyndee- I agree that meth addiction is terrible and is rampant and something needs to be done. I agree with you that I'm not sure the license thing is helping, but something needs to help people who are addicted. I was just annoyed that something that is useful (an safe) for some of us, has been regulated because people learned how to do something bad with it. I got carded to buy spray paint also! I hope you weren't offended.
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Post by linda72 on Jul 23, 2018 19:06:01 GMT
cyndee, I was laughing at your descriptions yelling at the car drivers which I agree with. I wasn't laughing at the information about Sudafed. I didn't know about that. Thanks.
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Post by finreporter on Jul 23, 2018 19:17:51 GMT
I'm okay with regulation of OTC medications and spray paint. If one is going to graffiti with the spray paint then at least be artistic. But most of the time it's bratty teens painting gang symbols and other ugly choices. My fence got tagged and I was livid! And I live in a really expensive neighborhood so it's not like I'm amongst street gangs everyday. Within a few days someone had painted my fence for me and to this day I have no idea who did it. May have been a neighbor or someone called the city because the city also took care of the same tagging on the high brick wall that borders the highway.
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Post by zazzles on Jul 23, 2018 20:15:12 GMT
Ooo, ooo, ooo—Teacher, I know...
First thing our leader hits us with this morning is that WW is now partnering with what sounds like some head shrinking operation that has an app and tells us that we're going to start each meeting for the next several meetings with an exercise. today it was a yoga-esque breathing exercise to quiet our thoughts. No idea if it will be the same exercise every week.
The meeting topic, self image (again), fortunately didn't get much traction because the members kind of took over the meeting and it turned into a good and useful discussion about real issues that real people are having and real suggestions and solutions.
I wish that WW would get rid of the psychologist who's directing everything.
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Post by zazzles on Jul 23, 2018 20:28:32 GMT
My doctor does NOT want me to take pseudophedrine. An old pharmacist that knew me and my condition well would not sell it to me if I was buying it for myself. I could buy it at other pharmacies if I didn't mention or lied about my condition, but that would be a sign of abuse, even though pseudophedrine was the most effective medication at relieving my occasional sinusitis discomfort. But there were times I took it not for just sinus pressure, but as a stimulant. That's only marginally better than a person using Adderall that wasn't prescribed for them. I hate "nanny" laws. I didn't use to have an opinion, let along a strong opinion. But between Federalk State, and Local laws to prohibit this and prohibit that government has become terribly invasive in daily lives. I got bitten by the particular law you refer to. It was when my father was living with me and I was his caregiver. My life was already hell because he needed to be in an assisted living facility and there was no money to put him into one, so I had to turn my house and my life into assisted living. So things were stressful, chaotic, and life was a real bummer. One day his doctir prescribed one of those allergy pills—it think it was twice a day; I went to the pharmacy and found out that I could only get what for dad was a one-week supply and that I had to go back to the pharmacy every week. Like I needed one more think to add to my burden. Locally through various California jurisdictions plastic grocery bags have been banned unless they are heavy-duty, reusable ones. And the law requires people to pay for them at the store; retailers can't give them away and eat the cost, they have to charge for them. And the fee stays with the retailer, it does not go to a government program. Other laws require us to divide garbage from recyclable glass, plastic and metal; however, recyclable styrofoam is NOT permitted in our recycling containers in my city. Yard clippings go into their own containers. And now they are replacing garbage cans with a two-section bin amd expect people to put food waste (i.e., thrown-away food) in a container separate from other household garbage. So you can see the issue you mention hits a nerve with me, because both of my parents as well as all of my aunts, uncles and grandparents are long dead and I do NOT need the government stepping to tell me how to live my daily life. And I too hate when people driving think their time is so much more important than anyone else's. Gee, Fin, almost everybody I encounter on California roads thinks they are more important than anyone else. The rare exceptions are the ones I call Rickshaw drivers—those who drive so far under the speed limit on local streets that the could walk faster, but who insist on not using the right-most lanes.
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Post by finreporter on Jul 23, 2018 20:43:04 GMT
LA has a lot of those rickshaw drivers. The law is that a the left most lane is a passing lane and that slower drivers must stay to the right. But slow drivers won't move out of the left lane so everyone wanting to go 5-10 miles over the speed limit is either stuck or ends up passing them on the right which is even more of a hazard than people simply driving a little faster than the speed limit. We luckily don't have a lot of extreme speeders but tons of slow drivers.
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Post by finreporter on Jul 23, 2018 20:45:13 GMT
And I'm a fan of the so called nanny laws. We should be using the reusable bags and we should be sorting our garbage. The fact that most people won't unless you force them is why they have to find a way to make you.
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Post by linda72 on Jul 23, 2018 20:49:16 GMT
zazzles, incompetent drivers are high on my list for making my blood pressure rise. I too hate having all forms of government telling me how to live my life through banning plastic bags and forcing people to bag their garbage a certain way. I've been reading about some of the trash issues in San Fran and I hate to think that beautiful town has this issue. I read of one group that cancelled their planned convention because of the trash issues in the downtown area. Sad to think that is allowed to continue. I'm interested to see if my Wednesday WW meeting will be having this new practice with this new pop psychology and breathing exercise. Sounds like the encounter groups of the 60s. Oh no! Don't think this will appeal to anyone.
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Post by borntexan on Jul 23, 2018 20:59:07 GMT
linda72 I don't know if it affected Houston or your area but Austin and some other TX cities no longer have to use reusable bags.We never did have the law in this little town but we always use the reusable bags b/c they are also insulated and since we live 20 minutes from the grocery stores the food doesn't get warm or melt.I think they took it to the Supreme Court.I can't believe something so trivial made it to the Supreme Court. My annoyance for the day is the oppressive heat...108 at 4:00.It should be the last day before our "cool front" where it just gets warm at 100-101 for the rest of the week.
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