- I had a brilliant bon mot but I forgot it.
- I hate it when I have to discuss a paper at the conference and I get the paper and it is 90% literature review and then 10% summary statistics and… nothing else.
- Posted on a local discussion group that we’re looking for a piano teacher for our 8 year old who has been playing ~3 years. Got a response, “is it a boy or a girl?” Huh? I don’t think I would want a piano teacher that cares what gender the child is.
- DC2 can read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like, zie can sound things out and everything.
- Cooking at home again [after two weeks in Italy] is fine. I like other people making food for me, but I also like being able to stay home and not put on pants and not have to talk to people and not care about when things are open, etc.
- Case of the missing credit card solved– our neighbors have been holding on to our mail that got delivered to them accidentally since AUGUST
- Along with said missing credit card was a check from our insurance company (we changed both our car insurance and our house insurance) for $1385. We called them and they said yes it is a real check and yes it is still good and we should cash it. Whoops.
- Overheard on the subway, “I’m not saying her problems aren’t real, just that she creates them herself.”
- I’m done traveling until December! Woooo!
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October 27, 2015 — nicoleandmaggie24 Responses to “RBOC”
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October 27, 2015 at 7:47 am
Sigh on the credit card. My neighbors and I get each other’s mail relatively often, but that makes sense when we share a rack of mailboxes… Someone once brought something down several days later OPENED. They didn’t even check the name on it before opening! I don’t open my boyfriend’s mail, so I always look at the name before opening mail.
October 27, 2015 at 7:57 am
at least it wasn’t several months later…
October 27, 2015 at 7:58 am
True, but it was food that was then no long as fresh…
October 27, 2015 at 8:00 am
oh ugh
C’mon people!
When we’ve gotten their mail, especially checks, we get it to them right away!
October 27, 2015 at 8:06 am
Same! I even gave a wedding invitation that was addressed to Mr. & Mrs. John Smith to them right away! And I wanted to barf! I always text/email to say I have their mail and when I’ll be home that day for them to retrieve it.
October 27, 2015 at 8:08 am
Who holds onto a check for 3 months? Or a credit card?
I almost wish I’d held onto their check that got misdelivered to our place. But I don’t really. What I do wish is that they’d gone, “oh hey, we have one of those too” so we’d have gotten the check and credit card earlier.
October 27, 2015 at 11:42 am
People make no sense! I’m sorry.
October 27, 2015 at 12:01 pm
Hopefully they won’t get and hold on to any more checks…
October 27, 2015 at 5:14 pm
Who holds on to important looking mail meant for a neighbor for MONTHS? That is just weird.
I love the quote you overheard on the subway. So true in many situations…
October 27, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Ditto this exact comment.
October 27, 2015 at 5:58 pm
That quote can be applied to so many scenarios I’m listening to right now.
October 27, 2015 at 7:07 pm
inorite?
October 29, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Erm. So I used to travel a lot at my last job. And I would deliver the neighbor’s mail to them when we got it (at least once per week), but my bf likes to just put it all in the mail basket and treats it like all mail that is not his is “Kellen’s mail.” So sometimes it would be awhile before I went through my own mail, and I’d realize there was a bunch of the neighbors’ stuff.
October 29, 2015 at 2:08 pm
>3 months? Also, dude, your bf should take some responsibility! It should be obvious that if it isn’t his and it isn’t yours, it doesn’t go in your basket.
October 27, 2015 at 6:19 pm
You on cooking: Yes, I agree. There are a lot of times I’d rather just PB sandwich at home rather than figure out who’s open, who’s really busy, get dressed, go out, drive somewhere, park …. bah.
Your neighbors are WEIRD. Ours very nicely rescued some of our packages last year but gave them to us as soon as we saw each other in passing. Mail just gets attached back to the communal board or the mailbox itself. Why would you take it and not return it?
@Leigh: Don’t hold it against us! I HATE being addressed as Mrs. HisFirst HisLast, I prominently display my full name on everything we send, and I tell people my name is still my name. What do I get? Wedding invitations send to Mrs. HisFirst HisLast. *growl* I’ve been tempted to send them back stamped “Recipient doesn’t answer to not her name”.
October 27, 2015 at 7:06 pm
They seemed so nice too.
October 27, 2015 at 7:08 pm
My spouse goes by his middle name which is very convenient for telling telemarketers there’s no-one named Joe Scientist here.
October 28, 2015 at 6:12 pm
I’ve joked that I won’t RSVP to a wedding if the invitation is addressed to Mrs. HisFirst HisLast OR to Mrs. HisLast :) It’s not me!
October 27, 2015 at 7:17 pm
Not having to put on pants should not be underestimated.
October 27, 2015 at 7:30 pm
never!
October 27, 2015 at 8:34 pm
Don’t we all create our own problems, really? Although some people are more direct about it than others! That is the best overheard quote. :)
I have to admit, I am not into the no-pants thing. Like, do we mean that we don’t need real (not pj or workout) pants, or is everyone really going around wearing absolutely no pants at all at home?
October 27, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Little from column pajama, little from column long nightshirt. Depends.
October 28, 2015 at 10:11 pm
OK, I’m on board with pajamas! But I don’t mind pants much either. Maybe i need some long night shirts?
October 27, 2015 at 10:48 pm
Mostly I wander around in pajamas which, to the outside world, counts as no pants. But actual no pants is dangerous with a grabby wolverine-clawed infant.