Can I start a "Say it here" vent thread?

Can I join you please?
Mother, I am not a maid. Stop asking people who visit if I've made them coffee yet, if you want maid service hire a bloody maid.

Oh dear.....I'm sorry to hear someone's let you down.

My rant today is with the oven engineer. You came last month, fitted the new thermostat (great!!) and said "You need a new door seal as well.....you look half intelligent (Gee really? Thanks so much!) so I'll get one posted to you and you can just fit it yourself"  Ok, that'll be quick, fine. But it never arrived, we ended having to book another call for an engineer to come out, I had a day off work for that appt but you never arrived. So today is yet another attempt, I stayed in all day again. You are supposed to ring to tell me when you're on your way. Nothing, nothing, until you arrive (minus phone call) at 4 .30. So I stayed in all day..........all day!!! For you to arrive at 4.30 for a job that took less than 5 minutes. 

This is a vent only - I adore, absolutely adore, my mother...BUT, I am the only one of my siblings she can call at work. So she calls me at work to chat about everything going on with my siblings, the neighbors, friends, you get it. She has early onset memory issues that make her very anxious and hyper, so she talks a mile a minute.

My poor sister that is a teacher will get the calls all summer, because "she's not doing anything!"

Yes mom, I know my step-sister's kids are amazing, especially the internationally recognized violin prodigy. I'm sorry my own kids aren't living up to that standard, but they are pretty amazing as well, something you might see if you EVER made the effort to come and visit us. We're done making those long, expensive trips that nobody reciprocates or appreciates. And please stop forwarding my step-sister's emails to me, I really don't care.

Dear Co-worker..... Please go to the doctor to get yourself checked out. Your coughing and hacking all over the office is really bad. Not to mention you don't even cover your mouth!!!! Or at least turn your head when you are mid-sentence and over come when you try to breathe so you have a coughing fit. Better yet why don't you quit taking smoke breaks every 15 minutes I am sure that would help immensely!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Co-worker #2..........Please stop stinking up the bathroom 4-5 times per day and then spraying 1/2 a can of spray so the whole office is drowned in the scent of your bowels and orange citrus. OMG it is seriously gag worthy.

I really need a vacation ASAP!!!!

Ugh! I am so annoyed with my sister that has lived with me for nearly 4 years. She had started seeing her ex of 20 years back in November and things seemed to be improving with her mood. She was also gone to his place on the weekends, giving us a much needed break. Well, he cheated on her so she broke it off recently. She is now back to her pesky, moody ways.
She rarely leaves, has little money, no life, no car, no job, etc. I feel trapped in my own house but thankfully I have a job that I like that gets me away for awhile during the day.
it's going to be a long, hot summer with her hanging around. There's no place for her to go to live but here so we soldier through so my mom doesn't have to have her. (She's 80 and it would be a strain to her sanity because sis is a major PITA)!
I'm glad I have a new bottle of Refupea recommended Kinky Vodka.

My vent: You cannot handle money for shit. He TOLD you to leave money in the old acct until you were sure the insurance payment would be pulled from the old acct. He told you NO LESS than 10 times over the course of 2 weeks. It's not OUR fault you withdrew $2500 to put in your new acct (for no real reason other than you could since you didn't NEED the money in the new acct for something specific) and only left a few hundred dollars in the old one...and then continued spending out of that account until there was only a little left...AND then the insurance payment hit that old acct and you're in the negative. And then you have the freaking audacity to say it's OUR fault because we don't get together enough?! How the F does that have anything to do with you overdrawing your account? You didn't listen. Period. YOUR fault. NOT ours. And let me just tell you - telling us that we don't get together enough is a slap in the damned faced. You've been invited here every weekend for 3.5 months to spend the night, hang out with us, go places with us...this week and last week are the ONLY 2 weeks you haven't gotten an invite. You were gone one of those weekends and we had plans for the other. But what pisses me off the MOST is that how you're acting and the crap you're spewing is hurting my dh and stressing him out. Act like the freaking adult you are!!

Me, this morning: DD, please pick out some clothes and put them on.
DD: (sound of dead air, nothing happening)
Me, five minutes later: Did you get dressed yet?
DD: (sound of dead air, nothing happening)
Me, five MORE minutes later: It's time to get dressed, RIGHT NOW. If you don't choose some clothes, I will do it for you.
DD (yelling!): I WILL DO IT WHEN YOU STOP TELLING ME!
Me: 

Ugh, I get it, she's five. We were in the same room so I know she heard me. But honestly, is it such a difficult concept to grasp that if you don't want me to NAG, PLEASE just do it the FIRST time I ask, and then I won't feel compelled to tell you more than once! Grrr!

Dear DH, does the tv have to be so loud? I can hear it on the other side of the house as if I'm standing in front of it. I asked you to turn it down and you did, about one notch and then turned it back up about 10 seconds later. It makes it really hard to get the kids to sleep!!

Darling Dad:  I am 52 years old.  This means I am a grown woman.  This means you don't get to tell me what to do anymore.  Feel free to share information (so&so's son passed away), but do NOT tell me you think I should go to the wake.  I am perfectly capable of making these decisions myself.

Sweet Sister:  It's fine that your 8 year old is calling the shots in your house.  It's fine that she would rather go to her friend's birthday party than come to my house for lunch.  Just remember that it will also be fine for my teenagers to make the same choices.

Super Spouse:  Please email your hotel info when you arrive in your hotel.  Please stop making me nag you about it.  If there's ever an emergency in the middle of the nite, I need to be able to reach you because you shut off your cell.  Just send me the damn number!


I think that's it . . .

I feel caught in the middle of my granddaughter and her mother arguing. I am trying to stay neutral but it is difficult...thank goodness I don't live with them!

I feel your pain - we went through this with DD when she was looking a few summers ago. Add in the extra issues of kids who won't call or go in person to follow up and the whining put it over the top.

Dear person who will remain unnamed:

Please refrain from bragging to me how you "stuck it to your boss" by telling him that you won't do tasks that you deem too menial for you. Please don't tell me how you are saving to move out on your own in one breath, then tell me that you don't care if you get fired with your next breath. Yes, working sucks. Yes, sometimes you have to take out trash or run an errand. No, you don't get to keep a company car overnight. But you have no education. You didn't even graduate/or get your GED. You have a bad attitude. Truthfully, it amazes me that you have a job at all.

And stop whining about having no money. You have literally zero bills. No car, no utilities, no rent, no dependents. So why don't you have any money to save? Oh, that's right, because you have to buy take out every day, and you have to party with your friends, and you have to have expensive sneakers.

You are middle aged. Get it the fuck together and stop complaining to me.

Dear bosses,
It's crystal clear that you've been decreasing my hours and increasing hers. Why wouldn't you? She's a young girl making way less than you're paying me. Let's see what happens now that she's "fractured her back" just standing up from her desk at work. Bet you're going to want me to work more hours. Wanna take bets on how available I'm going to be to do that?