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JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

SHOUTBOX IV: The Shouting Doth Continue

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

RE: THE SHOUTING DOTH CONTINUES

StevieB · Chairman Of The Board

What is the deal with kids and cell phones? I am not even talking about late teenagers, I am talking about 9 and 11 year olds. Can't parents keep a better handle on their kids? My son, age 11, had 2 of his friends over, good respectful kids, but both of them had working cell phones. I almost died when I heard one of them ringing. The 11 year olds dad called to find out where he was. Didn't he know where his son was going before he left. My son just looked at me during the conversation because he knew my thoughts on young kids and cell phones. Of course, after the friends left my son and daughter and I discussed the cell phone issue. My daughter, age 8 and in 2nd grade says that there is a girl in her class that has one. OH MY GOD. Like, where are the parents?

CP · Lord of the Lair

You will most likely really be frustrated with me StevieB. I have two daughters, one seven and one twelve. Both have cell phones. My seven year old had one when she was in Kindergarten. I got them for my kids not to keep tabs on them, but for them to keep tabs on me. I just sold my business, am working for the company that purchased us, and also started another business. I will use the cell phones to let them know who is picking them up from school. We have also esthablished a secrect password. I have taught them that if anyone approaches them and said mommy or daddy cannot pick them up, they are to ask the person the password. If they do not give the password, then I have told them to call 911. There has been several child abductions here and I feel better with them having the phones.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

CP,

That sounds like very responsible parenting to me.

But having a phone for an emergency and just having a phone are a different thing. I'm amazed at how every 9 year old in my neighborhood is on his bike going down the street while chatting on a cell phone!

A) Where do these kids get the money to pay for those phones and B) what conversation is so important at age 9 that they need to be one handed bike riding while they chat on a cell phone!

It shows how the examples we set as adults quickly filter down to kids.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

RE: SHOUTBOX IV: The Shouting Doth Continue

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

SMOKERS IN THE LAUNDROMAT!!!! I HATE SMOKERS IN THE LAUDROMAT!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS IT YOU ARE WASHING YOUR LAUNDRY FOR IF YOU ARE JUST GOING TO SMOKE WHILE FOLDING IT!?!?! AND NOW MY LAUNDRY IS GOING TO SMELL LIKE YOUR CIGARETTES YOU DOLT!

Dovetails · Living Legend

Speaking of Laundromat: I was probably about 20, single and on my own at the time. I was in the laundromat waiting on my clothes to dry and watched another lady pull her sheets out of the dryer. She cleared a spot in the room of chairs and things then carefully spread her sheets out on the FLOOR! Then she neatly folded the sheets and put them in her basket. I remember at the time thinking "I"m just a stupid, single, male and I know better than to lay my freshly washed sheets out on the dirty laundromat floor!"

I would have helped her fold the sheets but I didn't realize what she was doing until it was too late.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

I totally agree with the smoking in the laundrymat aspect. At one point I was working in a place where none of my coworkers smoked, and I don't smoke, but when I moved and had to start going to the laundrymat, everybody started asking me if I had started smoking!

Now, our apartment complex has it's own private washers and dryers, so I only ever go to the laundrymat to wash big things like blankets. The last time I went I almost put my blankets in a washer that had dog poo in it!!! What I want to know is how the dog poo survived the wash cycle!!!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Thats just it- the apartments where I live have 2 washers and dryers to use for 18 units- even if there's no waiting, it takes a long time to get laundry done. whereas at the mat, 5 loads are all done much quicker. but you have to deal with stuff like dog poo, the insane, the smokers....

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

That's just wrong to smoke in a place like that. I will admit it, I'm a smoker. It's a bad habit, I know. However, I don't smoke in my house or around my children and I would never smoke in a laundramat. That is just rude. If I have to have a cigarette that badly, I will go outside and smoke out there. That's one of my biggest gripes. I have a friend who smokes and she does it in her car with the kids in there. That's just wrong. If you want to smoke, fine. Don't force it on your kids. I don't care how far you roll down your window, they are going to inhale it. That's just responsible parenting.

My other big gripe about responsible parenting is seatbelts. If you don't want to wear your seatbelt, fine. It's your life. Your baby has no choice. I don't care how much my kids hated their carseats, they were told they had to be in them. It irks me to drive down the street and see a child hopping around in a car. If you can't get them to sit in their carseat, don't take them anywhere. There is no sense in turning your child that you (hopefully) love into a hurtling missile if you have an accident. Where is the sense in that?

(Trish steps down off the soapbox.)

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Thanks Trish I'll take the mic now.

Whats worse is when you see someone smoking in the car with the windows rolled up! Reminds me of the Cheech & Chong movie where the smoke rolls out when you open the door. I'm an ex smoker but I always had to have plenty of ventilation. Boy I don't miss the laundromat at all, we live close to Homestake Gold mine so your clothes would always end up with grease or coal stains.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

So, at the backstage party they had an open bar. Since I was driving home, I just got a glass of coke. It was TWO DOLLARS!!! And it wasn't even a movie theater sized glass, it was a tiny little plastic cocktail glass with some ice and some fountain coke. Not even from a can, from one of those bar fountains. What happened to rewarding the designated driver? Some places won't even charge for pop if you're not drinking, but I was expecting to pay like a buck. Two dollars for a shot of soda is ridiculous!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Hey if you want a bottle of good beer at a Bucks game, which they pour into a plastic cup anyhow, it will cost you 7 FREAKING DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Time to bring back this forgotten thread for my newest HAIR PULLING THOUGHT!

For the second time in a week the U.S. diverted a flight from Boston to Bangor, Maine because someone on board was on the no-fly list.

This is at an incredible cost to the taxpayers and an incredible aggrevation to those aboard the plane.

HOW, IN THIS TIME OF TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY, CAN WE NOT STOP THESE FLIGHTS BEFORE THEY TAKE OFF!!!!

Everythings computerized, why do they keep not noticing someones on the no fly list until they are, well, um...

FLYING!!!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

And then, once they're flying, what's the point of landing early. You've already taken the risk, just finish the darn trip.

Here's my gripe for the day. When you hire a company to do something specific for you, you draw them a picture even (literally), they say they can do it, and then they come back with a peice of crap and they don't want to fix it! And then, they say they can't do what they said they would do in the first place. And then, when you prove them wrong, they say maybe they can do it, but it may not be the way you want it. And of course, they've already got our money. And our rep even used a frowny face in his email to me!!!!! Now, I'm going to go out and learn how to do it myself, because of course, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

That was very hard to type without curse words.

CP · Lord of the Lair

My shout box is a direct attack on all gutless people who cave in to peer pressure even when they know they are right. I obviously am speaking of the company I work for. I do not understand when people do not stand their ground. Well maybe I do, because I did and I got relieved of my duties.

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

Along the lines of your gripe, Jeremy... I'd just like to know why White House security doesn't have a secure landing field in the middle of nowhere for such emergencies like the flight the other week? My office just happens to have a back window view to the airstrip in Frederick where they decided it'd be safer to land a plane that could have potentially been loaded with explosives - because us Frednecks aren't as worthy as dem der Washingtonians!

To bring back the cellphone talk, I can't stand the new text messaging thing that takes place left and right in the theater! No, they aren't ringing, but at any given time I get to see a little blue light glowing in the audience in front of me. I just can't understand how teenagers can't let go of their social needs for 2 straight hours. The insecurity boggles the mind.

WFTR · Prophet of the Posts

Marketing agents. They are the BANE of my existence! Just because you can conceive some cock-a-mamie idea on your little Illustrator program and sell it to your "vision like a blindfold" supervisor does NOT mean that someone can produce it! And informing you of this fact IS NOT a sign that we are lazy or don't have a "can do" attitude. It's the people that you hired for their professional experience trying to help you market your product with professionalism!

Hey JR, have you got one of those little umpire brooms? We all need to sweep off the soap box when we're done with it.

NEXT!

murscclub · Chairman Of The Board

Zim, you work in Frederick? I used to live in Mt. Airy!

ray925 · Darth Raydar

The customer isn't always right. I ordered a lighting package that they had to have in 4 or 5 days. I placed the order late in the afternoon and was told the factory would try to get it out the next day. More likely to ship the 2nd day. (customer didn't want the added freight to ship sooner) The rep I dealt with knew this was a hot order and knew we had problems with this customer before. Long story shorter...Factory shipped material the same day!!! The following morning customer cancels order. I tell them it's too late to cancel because it's already on the way. Customer says we had plenty of time to cancel the order since it wasn't shipping until the second day. They refuse to pay restocking charges because it shipped too soon. Then I'm called a lying SOB because I "lied" about the shipping schedule. A**hole!!!

Just one bullet.................................

Date: Tue May 17 16:46 2005

geeze louise , you think you had a ruff one ? i had to work on a condo all day. it was terrible.

78 degrees and sunny . yech , 8th floor over looking the gulf , ack, and the pool next door , bleky. and every time i stepped out on the balcony what do you think i saw ? yep it was the worse day i ever had .

p . s. i bought a washer and dryer a few years ago, i've been useing the saveings to get myself neat stuff, like binoculars!! pps , have to go back to that hell hole again tomorrow.

jstdve · CEO - The KOTO Co.

forgot to sign last post , mind somewhere else...

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Holy Postings Batman! Looks like bringing back the shoutbox was LOOOOOOOOOONG overdue!

Zim, you're TOTALLY right about the landing strip. If I were in your shoes I'd be REALLY ticked!

And as for cellphones, I've mentioned this before, but I WILL NOT GO TO A MOVIE THEATHRE ANYMORE. MAYBE, MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYBE once every two years a film will come out that I just have to see asap, but if I've seen 2 films in 5 years in the theaters that would be it.

I'm so sick of the talking, the kids running around the theatre, the idiots behind me asking each other "why's he doing that? He shouldn't go in there? Do you think the killer is in there?"

Last fall I bought a majorly cool 9 foot screen and a projector that actually produces a picture as good as a theatre (even BETTER if it's an HD DVD or HD TV) and I can ENJOY a movie. I even got myself one of those old time popcorn machines so the house can smell like a theatre

I was also listening to a news report the other day that said actual movie theatre visits are WAY down. The moneys only a little down because they keep raising prices, but they are very concerned about the audience seemingly drying up on them.

Dovetails · Living Legend

Wow, I'm going to Jeremy's to watch movies from now on. Now, where did I put my BIG popcorn bowl?

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Stop on by Dovetails! Always room for one more!

No need to find that popcorn bowl because I bought a huge case of disposable popcorn cups like they have at the theater. LARGE size. So you'll be set!

Now if I could just get my hands on a slushee machine!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Hehe, they could even be special slushees! When I went to Key West, there was a place called Flying Monkeys that was really just a huge row of slushy machines making a variety of alcoholic drinks, from margaritas to mudslides to strawberry daquiris to some of their own creations. I will live there someday...

Dovetails · Living Legend

Sounds like a great time Jeremy!

I just need to finish up on my latest robotic creation and I'll be on my way . . .

. . . oh, wait. I think there's someone at the door.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Man Rigg's house is AWESOME- watched a few Packer games over there, and a world series game in HDTV. AWESOME!!!! You could see the red in the eyes of the guy sitting 3 rows back behind home plate ITS THAT GOOD!!

Dylan · Leader Of The Banned

JD, I guess being an unpaid intern has its perks. The palatial estate is so big, that I will bet you and I were watching the same games and didn't even know each other was there.