Rants: Everyday Venting

[Fable]

I have a bit of venting that needs to be done!


So I have a power wheelchair and use said quite often. Today I went outside, came home, no big deal. Went outside to go grab something when my chair fully starts sliding down the ramp of my house unable to brake. Its not only sliding but wont turn! I finally got it to turn a little and got it to stop from going off the side of the ramp by wedging it against the rails.
Ok cool. got the chair stopped... BUT NOW ITS STUCK AGAINST THE FREAKING RAILS! so I just had to sit there like a dumb ass and wait for my grandmother to get back to the house. Its cold outside and more then a bit boring....
we manage, after fighting the stupid chair forever, to get it off the ramp and onto flat ground. The stupid thing wont turn! something on it has broken and guess what! that means it WONT GO!
so yeah the one thing that gives me a tiny leash of freedom away from the house, and is needed for my summer job, is now broken- which is kinda important because until its fixed I'm pretty much on house arrest and can no longer go anywhere!
hurray for the loss of my extremely small amount of independence!
now i get to fight with the insurance company to get it fixed. yay......

[Malina]

(Silly little thing that's been on my mind for a long time now, and someone's gotta say it)
Also the strike today wasn't wage related, I know, but shush 
London underground drivers think they're the most entitled things ever. £50k isn't enough to sit on your ass and move a lever whilst staring at some lights by a track, so we stop all trains and middle finger the capital whilst we demand we get more because my job is too hard oh boo hoo.. I'd love to be earning what you lot make for such a low-skill career.
The sooner automated trains come the better. They're safer, more efficient and don't go on strike when you pay them double what TEACHERS earn! So we think a very easily replaceable job which involves moving a stick that says "go" and "stop" is twice as important as educating the future generations. It's unbelievable it happens on the day I'm down there as well, like a giant 'f*ck you'
Who's a bigger drain on the economy? Idlers or stuck up overpaid entitled dicks?
https://youtu.be/0dftDPLAylU

[Bricket]

I would like to respond to that last message of yours... but let's say it's  a bit more to the job than you think it is 


Anyway, I got a serious issue here: psychologist has found a rather "interesting" disorder which I hope can be resolved soon

[Rocco Rex]

Each and every stinking year during Spring, I have pretty much no energy. Doesn't matter if I sleep in. I still have trouble staying awake the whole stinking day. I get so sick and tired of it, I had hoped this year was going to be different. I'm too tired to care about doing anything, even don't really care about video games

[Vael]

If bad things come in threes, I'm waiting on the last one.
I'm hardly superstitious, but I'm just so... drained. I haven't slept or eaten well in nearly a week. Believe me, I've tried. I can feel it suspended over my head, the rope fraying more every day and wearing down my patience. Of course, no one suspects anything I'd wrong, and I've worked hard to keep it that way. But I can't do it for much longer, especially since it's testing week and I'm anxious about my new job.


I really need a break, or for whatever it is to just come already.

[?]

Just my luck, was walking in a crowd minding my own business and some random person decided to pull some out some kind of liquid from a bag which I can only hope was water and just throws it into people before running off . Which lucky me was quite close getting pretty soak which it did stink, good thing I was already heading home though. I just don't understand some people sometimes. 

[Bricket]

"Friend" kinda crushed my moral completely.
I was an idiot and trusted him, he backstabbed me quite severly.

Honestly, I keep breaking my own rule of not trusting people, should have listened to it.

[Romulan_Furry]

And I strained muscles in my left shoulder working out. Now I can't do any serious exercise without feeling like someone jabbed my shoulder with a hot iron. Honestly, why do I bother exercising if I just keep hurting myself? And only ever manage to lose just a few pounds?

[Blaiiine]

Got a nice check from this pay period so I decided to get myself something nice and practical. I've always wanted a pair of Dr. Martens' combat boots since I started listening to punk as a little kid. So I found a great deal on a pair of dark cherry red 1460 boots and ordered them in 14s' since I heard they ran small.


Start today: I get bored and check the tracking. Eventually get back to the product page on Amazon, and scroll to the reviews. My first big downer I saw: Made in Vietnam. Genuine old school Doc's are made in the UK only but now they outsource with cheaper materials. And then to add salt to my financial wound? They run BIG. So now I'll have to shell out for inserts on a pair of boots that won't even freaking last four months.


FOR SHAME, DR. MARTEN, FOR SHAAAAME.


P.S. I have a backache

[Malina]

My mum really likes to spell out every masculine figure I have, aka all of my insecurities. It doesn't matter to her that I've been referred to a gender specialist doctor or shit like that, in her mind it seems she's made it her duty to proclaim to me I'm male and there's no changing it.
Today she told me how me being tall (~180, also the part of me I hate the most) is 'nothing but good in males but for females it's awkward' and 'embarrasing' or something like that, I don't really listen when she speaks that stuff to me. She also noted how much better I looked when I had short hair and how it highlighted my manly face or some bullshit.
I've tried talking to her about how it makes me feel several times, even tried talking with my dad (who isn't as vocally displeased) to get him to talk with her but nothing works and it's making me insane. She's got depression and has attempted suicide as well so I'm wary that what she says could be affected by that but it's not an excuse to make me suffer this way Imo, and I just don't know what to do anymore

[The Past]

... Eventually get back to the product page on Amazon, and scroll to the reviews. My first big downer I saw: Made in Vietnam. Genuine old school Doc's are made in the UK only but now they outsource with cheaper materials. And then to add salt to my financial wound? They run BIG. So now I'll have to shell out for inserts on a pair of boots that won't even freaking last four months. ...

^ THAT is why I check through info and reviews with a fine tooth comb before I buy anything. And even then, I often don't buy the thing anyway because I worry something will go wrong or I won't find much use for it and feel it wasn't worth spending the money for.

Seriously, I at least somewhat regret buying nearly everything I get. Though the feeling tends to be less so if I buy odd food and drink stuff. I guess that's what I care about more in life.

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...
Today she told me how me being tall (~180, also the part of me I hate the most) is 'nothing but good in males but for females it's awkward' and 'embarrasing' or something like that, I don't really listen when she speaks that stuff to me. ...

As a biological female of average US height, I never understood why being tall was socially considered a bad thing in females. I always wanted to be taller. Then again, I'm gender dysphoric as well, so maybe I'm a weird one.

I hope things work out for you! It won't be easy; many people are stubborn and don't like change, especially of what they don't understand personally. But no matter if your mother accepts it or not, this is your time to find out who you are.

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Onto my personal rant, I think I've put too much detail in the special ability mechanic for my current story project. I got really interested in how to make the ability work at a semi-"scientific/biological" level, including any issues and defects that my arise. I think it's really cool, but now I think I made it too convoluted, and older details I latched onto and built the story around don't make as much sense with the newer ones.

This story may never see the light of day at this rate.

Also, what's up with the lag when typing posts? It's ridiculous.

[asterisk]

How do I get this topic to stop notifying me of new replies?

[Rocco Rex]

You don't. You are now trapped forever and ever and will never escape the clutches of Everyday Venting MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

Post Merge: May 22, 2017, 03:37:00 AMOne of my closest friends lost a long time friend today

[asterisk]

You don't. You are now trapped forever and ever and will never escape the clutches of Everyday Venting MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

Really??
 

[Cheza]

It's a commonly asked about feature, but to my knowledge it doesn't appear to be possible to stop notifications.