Vent thread - add yours

I feel your pain. One of my kids has ADHD/ODD and was so challenging. I counted down the days until the graduated. It was exhausting.

My vent-I have been to hell and back for the past 5 weeks trying to retain an attorney. I never would have expected such unprofessionalism. I’m tired of trying to deal with this to move forward.

My vent - we have multiple things broken on our house and my husband is incapable of fixing them or dealing with it (calling someone to fix it)
Which means I have to - and I’m sick of it.

He has an annoying habit of just “covering up” things when they break instead of fixing them. For example - a leaky sink? Oh just turn off the water to the sink instead of fixing it or calling a plumber.
Super annoying!

mine is a minor vent. i double booked a bunch of appointments by accident. that's on me. i scheduled stuff so far ahead that i didn't realize some of them collided. some were day trips, some were medical appts, one was a hair appt that i couldn't rebook before xmas because she's just that busy. so i had to make a hair appt with my old stylist who i like but that involves a drive and it's on a busy december saturday.

first world problems and i'm more annoyed at myself for not checking my calendar first.

OMG I am so angry for you! Backing out is bad enough, but to make changes? Oh, hell no. I hope you win in court.

My vent is that my job has me helping with all these "corporate speed dating" meetings all week. I'm pretty much just taking notes for the salespeople, which is fine. Only then they invariably ask me to do all kinds of things like set up direct meetings between them and the vendor (I don't have access to do that for them). I've explained about 10 times already today that I do not have that ability. I could rant more about that and their abilities in general, but I'll be nice.

Teacher vent -
Someone comes in to observe a lesson. They ALWAYS give a grow and a glow. Just ONCE I wish we could get a “Great Lesson” with out the Here’s how it could be even better comments. But that’s how our world works.

I'm sorry, that must be so frustrating for you. My friend's son is home schooled primarily due to physical health conditions. My friends has tried working with him and even hired a tutor but he just either isn't interest most of the time or he gets frustrated trying to learn and doesn't apply himself. I can only imagine how challenging this must be.

Oh Im sorry! I hope you feel better soon! 

Because this is how my luck is going these days.

At 1:45 this afternoon Amazon delivered a package with 3 pairs of capris for me and 4 pairs of shorts for my husband. And charging adaptors for the trip we are leaving for on Sunday.

At 2:40 UPS showed up to pick up a package for return. They did not ring the doorbell (I wasn't home). They took my package with my things that were just delivered and put the return label on my box and took it.

I tried calling UPS and got someone who was very polite and horrified at the situation. Now I get to wait for someone to call me back to figure out if I have to try and reorder everything tonight and hope it comes before we leave.

Oh noooo!! I would be pea livid!

I am having a great time. The food is good, weather is amazing and my Spanish is more than welcomed. That said I have a left thigh muscle that keeps going into spasm. I want to offer it the finger and tell it to leave me the heck alone. I haven’t done anything dumb. I wear good shoes. Just ugh!

My DH is often like this. I recently discovered Task Rabbit and got the outside gate fixed and gutters cleaner quickly and with no hassle. (I know I sound like an ad, but I’m so pleased with how easy it was.) Replacing the bathroom faucet with the frozen handle is next. If I’m going to have to take care of it, I want it easy.

I bought $135 worth of postage online from the USPS.com website. I've used them before without issue, as my local Denver area branch is always out (yes, out) of the postage I need, especially at the holidays. I wanted to get the postage before the new rate increases and for my holiday mailing.

My package was scanned as delivered to my mailbox (I live in a condo complex) at 11:21 a.m. this past Saturday. I went to grab it - it is not there. I figured misdelivery, so I posted on our complex site asking if anyone received it in error. No, but a neighbor right across from me posted a copy of her delivery scan for the same day, at 11:20 a.m., and she did not get her package either. Both of us headed off to contact USPS and find out what was going on.

In dozens of communications over phone calls and emails with the USPS, I was brushed off, had my claims closed, sent back and forth to different offices multiple times, and when they last sent me an email saying they couldn't help me and closed my claim, I lost it completely and told them to expect a Congressional Inquiry (CI's are a pain, but I've launched one before against the USPS to get resolution). Further, at one point, I was told my address had been changed on my package to go to someone else. Guess who? To my neighbor's address who is also missing a package! The address change was unauthorized, and done by USPS in their system before delivery, not by my neighbor. She and I both get a lot of packages. My unit number is 87, hers is 78, and we face each other. We've both caught dyslexic deliveries in the past. But now, we're both screwed.

Additionally, when I tried to file a claim for replacement of my package, I was again bounced around to various places telling me "we can't do that here, you have to go back to the sender of your package." Plus, they listed the contents of the package as "unknown," and said if I filed a claim I could only get a monetary value of $100, because that is all priority mail will insure. OK! I told them countless times that I ordered POSTAGE from their own USPS online store and they are the sender and ones who chose the delivery method!

I am so tired of this runaround!! It is ongoing. As of today, I finally got a call number for the stamp store of USPS (it is not easy to find), and they are sending me a form to fill out so they can replace my shipment outright. Because of the time difference (MT vs CT) and they close at 2:30 my time, I have to do everything early in the morning. I am so hoping this can finally be resolved, and that I might get my postage before December 1.

USPS sucks.

I would involve my realtor/broke and their's before hiring my own lawyer if it hasn't closed escrow yet. Did your buyers see the house in person? If yes, there is no way they can claim a lack of sunlight breach. I don't think they can anyway, but definitely not if they were physically there.

We weren't in quite the same situation as our sale had gone through when the buyer threatened to sue us for breach of contract to cover the expenses of expanding the garage we'd advertised as two car. Well, it was before they moved the laundry from the house to the garage. Thankfully our realtor shut it down.

RosieKat, I'm sorry you are dealing with the ups and downs of homeschooling. Sometimes you do need to run away and cry.