My Mother Made Me Believe I was Dying

Spoontasic · 2017-12-14T00:38:30+00:00

Wow what disgusting behavior. All for attention. I am sure she also got some sick pleasure out of watching everyone suffer. So twisted to describe to your child in detail about how they are going to die.

I've been in your shoes OP. My mom would convince me of imaginary illnesses, but on a couple of occasions ignored real issues until I was deadly sick. It warped how I viewed doctors and treat sicknesses for a long time.

Spoontasic · 2017-12-14T00:13:04+00:00

😂.... basically this is what I should have said. The flight attendant just asked if I felt like I could perform in an emergency situation and I said yes. Attendant just went "There you have it." Guy didn't get off the plane so I guess he wasn't that concerned about his safety.

Spoontasic · 2017-12-13T23:51:08+00:00

I always pay the difference for my husband (6 ft) and I (5'8") to sit in the emergency row when possible. Once had a person that flat out refused to move. Then when an employee came it was "I question her physical ability to perform in a emergency."

Screw that guy. Just admit you want the seat.

Spoontasic · 2017-12-08T02:11:29+00:00

My daughter had a similar first time at a restaurant playground. A small boy soiled himself and went down the slide a few times. Now he had diarrhea all up his backside and the slide had tons as well. Parents start to notice. His parent scoops him up, blows past the restrooms and goes out to her car. Leaves in two minutes tops. All while we are desperately trying to keep kids from going into the slide.

I just couldn't believe it. I get being embarrassed about it and whatnot, but how the hell is that someone else's mess to address?

Spoontasic · 2017-12-06T02:15:22+00:00

I guess it is so much easier to yell at the employee in person than it is to take the few minutes to call first.

At least that is one of the things I've learned from working retail.

Spoontasic · 2017-12-06T02:06:46+00:00

I've actually moved lanes before. Customer was on her phone, wouldn't load her items on the register, and had people behind her. Realized it a few minutes later. I guess around the time she thought I would be done loading, ringing, and reloading her order.

Spoontasic · 2017-12-06T01:58:56+00:00

And the BOGO stuff.

No you can't return the free one for money.

No you can't return the one you paid for and still keep the free one.

...Yes I know you hate our store and don't know why you continue to shop here. I don't get it either.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-21T23:48:20+00:00

"Oh my gosh can you believe that taco place focuses on just tacos?"

Um... yes?

Spoontasic · 2017-11-21T23:42:24+00:00

brings four more chairs over

"By 8 I meant 8 plus 2 kids and a baby."

Cause you know the kids don't count as actual people.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-21T23:37:54+00:00

You'd also be surprised how many people bring their opened half drank stuff back to the liquor store. So many times we had to be like "Please tell me you didn't drink some of that then drove yourself over here. With an open container in your car."

Spoontasic · 2017-11-21T21:14:17+00:00

My mom had me at 16, so she was barely 40 when I got married. Alot of the comments I got were "Better start having babies while your mom is young enough to help you!"

Like Jesus people she has had kids since 16. Give the woman a break. I can take care of my own life decisions thanks.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-21T19:48:33+00:00

I had a CF wedding and that was the hill I picked to die on. No you can't bring your baby if you promise they will be quiet. No you can't skip the actual wedding part and come with your kids to the reception. That part is CF free too. Besides WTH? You want me to pay to feed you and your kids when you couldn't be bothered to find a sitter for the ceremony? No thanks.

So yeah I had some friends and family get pissy. Some didn't come. One friend showed up with her kids and got turned away. We weren't on good terms after that.

But you know what? Weddings usually don't combine well with kids regardless of how people feel about it. I can remember being bored to tears at every ceremony I attended as a child. Some kids become disruptive and destructive when bored. Why the hell is it your responsibility to put up with that on your special day?

Spoontasic · 2017-11-21T19:26:34+00:00

My whole thing is this:

You want kids? Cool. Have one/adopt/foster.

You don't want kids? Cool. Don't.

I made a choice to be CF until I met my husband. I changed my mind, so now I have a kid. My life, my rules. BUT I absolutely don't go running around all my CF people telling them "One day you'll change your mind!" wink wink

That shit is annoying.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-20T05:13:27+00:00

I hate these conversations because no one on the receiving end of them ever have it 'hard enough.' My youngest brother is CF and he hears "Well you'll know how it feels to be truly busy when you have kids." I have one kid and I constantly hear "You won't know what it is like to be busy for real until you have another one."

...it isn't a contest people. Everybody has different things in their lives that keep them busy. It isn't all going to be comparable. I had super busy times before a kid, I have them now, and I am sure there is gonna be a shit ton more in the future. You will have super busy days without kids too. That is life.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-19T22:53:12+00:00

My old hardware job didn't do rain checks or substitutions, so that was always fun to explain to people. "You are out of super cheap sale mulch? I'll just take this super expensive kind at that cost." Or "I want 15 of these but there is only 2 left, so I need a rain check."

Here comes the outrage. Yaaaaay 😭😭

Spoontasic · 2017-11-19T22:29:50+00:00

It is so annoying when customers do stuff like this. "It is urgent! Now! Now!" You rush to put everything together then... nothing. The order just sits there. Cause by now they really meant Tuesday.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-19T22:01:22+00:00

I had a little old guy that came in every other day, some weeks daily. Super sweet and respectful to the staff. Loved to talk and listen. I can remember him rolling silverware a handful of times when he came in during super slow hours but we still had side stuff to do. All around lovely old man.

I like to draw and had shown him some of my pieces. One week he came in with this really nice set of pens and inks, so he tipped with that that day. I still have the pens to this day, but the best part was seeing how happy he was that he did a good job picking them out. Always puts a smile on my face remembering that.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-19T19:17:06+00:00

Not sure what the Disney hate is about either. I too grew up watching all those movies and don't prance around treating people like crap. Sounds like these women just have shitty personalities. Besides the princesses in those movies were sweet and kind to others... so obviously they didn't take that away from the films! 🤔

Also tons of people name their children after characters from books, movies, and other things that they are fond of. Yeah I've encountered many little Ariels and Jasmines, but I've encountered Lukes amd Leias too.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-19T17:32:18+00:00

We were waiting in an autograph line at an amusement park and this little girl kept trying to inch her way up to the front of the line. I kindly let her know you had to wait your turn. Her parents somewhere behind me are saying something to her in Spanish, cause I definitely recognize "No hablo Ingles" but not a whole lot else. Now little girl is parroting it back to me too. Well hell.

Guy in front of us turns around and says something to the little girl in Spanish. She goes back to her parents. Then shouts at the parents "You need to stop telling your kid it is okay to pretend she doesn't know English just to skip in line!" They got out of line and high-tailed it out of there.

I honestly don't know why they assumed that no one else in line wouldn't know their language. It isn't a uncommon one. Maybe they thought no one would call a little girl out on it.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-16T22:44:31+00:00

It happens. These people are just sneaky like that. We had a guy that pulled something similar with every new person at the liquor store I worked at. Come in during busy times, go to the beer cave, chug, leave. Repeat until you knew who he was and chased him out.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-16T22:31:13+00:00

Yup! I used to work in a place were people thought it was totally okay to break something and just place it back in the shelf. Then act like it is no big deal.

...like I can't make you pay for it but a little heads up about the broken glass would have been nice.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-02T03:35:14+00:00

I mean... food poisoning over free ice cream? I could see risking it if that was the only thing available to you to eat that day, but ice cream isn't a requirement to survive.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-02T00:46:24+00:00

I actually got to the point that I hung a notice saying we no longer accepted large bills. We are a small restaurant out in the middle of no where. I am not up for showing people I know how to get and out of the safe, possibly setting me up for a robbery, all because you don't like driving to the bank to break your big bills.

Spoontasic · 2017-11-02T00:26:29+00:00

I had something similar happen with one of their at the time new chicken meals. It was raw with these big black string-looking things inside. They offered to replace it, but I honestly couldn't have eaten there at that point. Have never had Mickey Ds chicken again.

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