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It takes me longer to 'open' it than it does to eat it.
And then, you finally get that pesky shrinkwrap off there, and you smell the sweet mint fragrance. You are reminded of the wintry essence of fond Christmases past...your mouth waters in anticipation of that burst of mint as you taste the cane...and then, and then...it snags one of your taste buds and ruptures it.
BUZZ KILL!
D-Day 2-10-2009 Fully Recovered and Better Than Ever! Thank you Marriage Builders!
Pesky shrinkwrap is a rant all its own... they wrap the candy-canes so friggin' tightly that you need to break out tools to get a fingernail-hold so as to peel it off...
An' how about drinking straws? Same thing! Remember how when you were a little kid, you could tear off the straw-wrapper at one end, slide the wrapper down a little bit, stick the open end of the straw in your mouth and blow the straw-wrapper at whoever was sitting across the table from you, like a little paper-dart, for good ol' juvenile fun?
But NOOOOO!... Some pencil-headed MBA had to go & figure out that if you manufacture billions of straws, you can probably save ten bucks a week on paper supplies, by making the straw-wrapper so tightly conformed to the straw that removing the wrapper is now a time consuming exercise that often results in the straw getting kinked or spitting open lengthwise.
Sorry, I just had to get that out there... been bugging me for several years... Now I can get on with enjoying the holidays...
Glove, that one bugs me as well. You have to peel it off these days. Of all the things to get bothered and ticked about these days, it seems pretty low on the priority totem pole. But when it happens, you DO remember the little child in you, and when that little simple pleasure is taken away, it REALLY aggravates you for a moment. Of course, I alway laugh at my sillyness afterwards.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.
I can't even seem to get the candy canes out of the boxes without breaking them. What does that say about me? On second thought, don't answer that, I don't think I want to know.
My rant for tonight, waywards who think that just ending the affair is good enough to recover their marriage. NOPE.
I usually just looked for a "seam" in the wrapper and if that doesn't work, I break the darn thing and that usually opens it.
One year becomes two, two years becomes five, five becomes ten and before you know it, you've wasted your whole life on a problem you can't solve. That's one way to spend your life. -rwinger
I thought I was the only one who noticed that about straws! Also, when I was a kid, I'd poke the end on the table to pop the other end out, but at some point that became impossible because the straw would crack. Less material in them, I guess.
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Me 44- yes ugggh WH 47 together 26 years M 19 serial cheater big time DD1 2.24.11 NC letter sent 3/7/11 NC letter to OW2 april final truths 5/8-- all of them poly confirmed 5/18 working the plan
Tell you whats driving me NUTS lately. People who have been on here for months, even years in some cases, yet act like theyve never HEARD of MB.
DO SOME READING, PEOPLE - or at least get the wax out of your ears and listen.
1) Oh I cant be bothered/too afraid/busy/lazy to implement MB plans 2) MB principles dont apply to me because I'm special and smarter than all of you. What's the name of this website again? 3) Im here to blog. Occasionally I will promise action, but thats just to keep you reading so I can waste your time. 4) Tell me how I can get my spouse to do MB - but dont expect me to do the same for them, I'm perfect. 5) I am the great disappearing act. When I want to vent, you see me - when I want to go against MB principles, I will DISAPPEAR.
What would you do if you were not afraid?
"Fear is the little death. Fear is the mind-killer" Frank Herbert.
It's sad that some folks think that their abusive situation is, in some way, normal or even remotely "ok" for them to live with. Or, that they agree that it's not ok but just cannot seem to do much about it for some reason or another?
I want to scream at them "HEY, WAKE UP! Why are you putting up with that! That crap you're living with IS NOT FREAKING NORMAL!!!"
I have a poster in mind, of course, and hope that they get a fire under their rear very soon.
I have a poster in mind, of course, and hope that they get a fire under their rear very soon.
You mean the one whose husband has a locked closet in the house that she has no access to? And passwords on both his computer and his phone. And full control of all finances and bills... Oh, brother.
I have a poster in mind, of course, and hope that they get a fire under their rear very soon.
You mean the one whose husband has a locked closet in the house that she has no access to? And passwords on both his computer and his phone. And full control of all finances and bills... Oh, brother.
Actually, it was a different one but that one definitely wins as well. A buck gets you twenty that there's a keylogger on that poster's computer. I mentioned a way to check (looking for antivirus exceptions) but didn't see a reply. Oh well.
Sometimes you just don't know *what* to say but just hope for the best.
