[Jane Sherwood]

Complaint: Tomorrow is my last day at home...

(*sniff*)

I miss DSL already!

[Spoon Poetic]

Tomorrow's my last day at home, too, but I'll be leaving dialup for shiny new high-speed internet all over campus. It makes me sad to think that somewhere out there is a whole college dorm (or more!) without anything better than dialup! I feel for you, Jane!

Complaint: I wanted to go to E3. I thought that it would be feasible in a couple years. And now they go and destroy it. E3 is no more and I never got to be a part of it.

They better not destroy Comic-Con, too...

This post has been edited by Spoon Poetic: 18 August 2006 - 11:50 PM

[Deepsycher]

I find that disappointing to be put on a slow dialup connection.

At another place years ago I had dialup then.
The engineer who installed the line fooled the person paying for it into an expensive package deal.

Evening times free (3 hours) and pay per what you use afterwards which is around three dollars an hour.

After morning weekend free, until midnight.

For $80 dollars a month.

For full time access it would cost $120 a month.


That was no deal for me. It was an insult and rip off to me when I can pay $24 a month for anytime usage on a service I found which I eventually went for.

The person who paid for it is not sensible when it comes to things like this, he offered me $120 a month to keep the package. How generous and maybe ... the point is that money is being spent irrationally and I did not even choose that service.

I just don't accept any package for anybody I am paying for until I check the costs and find out their needs first. It is not good to make automatic choices or decisions for people without asking them first, especially when it is on someone else's wishes or ambitions of creating a generation of limiting people and charging more through fooling people.

[Slade]

Complaint: My ears are crooked, so my glasses will sit crooked on my face until I can get them fitted at the optometrist's office.

[Jane Sherwood]

Complaint 1: After sleeping on one, I've discovered proper springy box spring beds aren't as cool as I thought. My bed needs to be oiled. Plus, it's not very wide and I nearly fell off a couple times trying to roll over.

Complaint 2: Migraine headaches = throbbing, relentless "OW!" with every movement, sound, and light.
Migraine headache medicine = Not very much throbbing relentless "OW!" at all, but "MY SKULL IS ON FIRE!"

[Slade]

Feel better, Jane.

[Chyld]

Right, for this (set of) complaint(s), start at the Elated thread, and come back across...

Biggest Complaint Of All: I'm not in Wales anymore That, and I probably won't see the missus until I get back to Hull... in a month :'(

Minor Complaint # 1: Brothers laughing at the damn hickeys on my neck.

Minor Complaint # 2: Erm... I had a huge list of these. I'll come back.

[Emu]

complaint: in an attempt to make a graceful exit from my hall's lounge, I wound up landing right on my big toe, which is now a bit of a bloody mess.

on the bright side, I have duct tape. lots of duct tape!

[Mirithorn]

Complaint: Our invisible fence broke, and now our insane neighbor is threatening to run my dog over if he sees her outside our yard again, so now she can't go outside anymore for a while. While I concede that she shouldn't be outside our lawn, she almost never is and reacting to an occasional fluke occurrence by killing someone seems a bit extreme.

Plus, this all came about with my other neighbor (apropriately enough, the one whose dog tried to eat my dog on numerous occasions) shrieking insults at me as I grabbed Suki and ran back into the yard with her, with the other car who had been about to deliberately run her over, revving it's engine at me, resulting in me being a nervous wreck for another hour...

I just think maybe they could have handled that better.

Other (slightly minor) Complaint: ARGH! I read Beowulf when I was supposed to read Grendel, and I didn't read the super-important history book that you fail the history class if you don't read. Oh, how I wish I hadn't lost my summer reading list.

[SimeSublime]

What's with your school? It's like they're going out of their way to ruin your life.

[Mirithorn]

No, just this particular teacher, I think. And this time, it's mostly my own stupidity that's the problem.

[Slade]

Ach, lass. I read Grendel, but not Beowulf. I had sympathy for him right until he started randomly killing people. Then I was sad. My reccomendation is here.

[Jane Sherwood]

Walking around campus on this bright, sunny day has brought to my attention how INCREDIBLY FREAKING PALE I have allowed myself to become. Don't get me wrong, I like being pale, but I seem to be giving off a very strange looking glow when I stand in direct sunlight. That, and I can feel my skin sizzling just from ten minutes of walking.

Why does the sun want to kill me? Did someone turn me into a vampire when I wasn't paying attention?

[Spoon Poetic]

I empathize.

[Gobbler]

And here I was thinking that I was pale, even though I spent the whole summer in the sun... well, I guess I was wrong. Don't worry though, the sun will be good to you after two or fivehundred sunburns.