Things that frustrate us all
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***HUGS***
I'm glad you made it through that!
My sister - love her to bits, but she's kind of a PITA sometimes - posted a picture of me to her FB, and she knows I hate that...
Like, hate with the intensity of a thousand bursting suns hate.
She took it down, but not without saying "I don't know why it bothers you so much". Does it matter ?
And I'm not even on FB ! - I hate that, too, haha - but it still really grinds my gears. Why can't people simply respect your feelings ? Everyone, and I mean everyone, else in my family does, so why not her ?
Like, hate with the intensity of a thousand bursting suns hate.
She took it down, but not without saying "I don't know why it bothers you so much". Does it matter ?
And I'm not even on FB ! - I hate that, too, haha - but it still really grinds my gears. Why can't people simply respect your feelings ? Everyone, and I mean everyone, else in my family does, so why not her ?
#Controversial
The pedestal we put motherhood on, we make such a massive deal of motherhood like it's the most wonderful thing ever it's no wonder so many end up with post natal depression when it doesn't live up to it.
You DON'T automatically have a special bond with your child, if that were the case how do parents that got the wrong kid not immediately know? A mothers bond comes from love/care etc that a good mother will give, but it's not automatic.
Billions have done it before you and billions will do after you, it's nothing special.
The pedestal we put motherhood on, we make such a massive deal of motherhood like it's the most wonderful thing ever it's no wonder so many end up with post natal depression when it doesn't live up to it.
You DON'T automatically have a special bond with your child, if that were the case how do parents that got the wrong kid not immediately know? A mothers bond comes from love/care etc that a good mother will give, but it's not automatic.
Billions have done it before you and billions will do after you, it's nothing special.
Dude today standing inside the taped lines directly in front of the weight stack absorbed in his phone. This despite the fact there are signs on the wall literally in front of him asking to limit phone activities to the lobby and not to stand in the striped box directly in front of the weights.
Of course, this forces me to be all polite and shit and ask him to move (which was compounded by the earbuds he was wearing) rather than telling him to get the $#*@ out of the way like I wanted to. Of course, this isn't the first time I've seen someone do this and it's sometimes an every few weeks tradition. It's almost like people aren't self-aware. Almost.
Of course, this forces me to be all polite and shit and ask him to move (which was compounded by the earbuds he was wearing) rather than telling him to get the $#*@ out of the way like I wanted to. Of course, this isn't the first time I've seen someone do this and it's sometimes an every few weeks tradition. It's almost like people aren't self-aware. Almost.
Bill Burr has the best take on that.
"How many mothers died on Ice Road Truckers last season? Any moms get washed overboard on Deadliest Catch?"
I got an email from Travelocity saying a credit from a canceled flight in April 2020 was about to expire.
It says in the mail of I did the booking as a guest I can create an account with the same email and it should show up.
I try to create an account, get weird errors. Finally manage to create one through Apple and it still doesn’t show up.
I talk to Travelocity agents, they say I should contact JetBlue. Talk to JetBlue agents, they say I need to do it through Travelocity. Meanwhile I leaving $2300 of credit on the table.
It says in the mail of I did the booking as a guest I can create an account with the same email and it should show up.
I try to create an account, get weird errors. Finally manage to create one through Apple and it still doesn’t show up.
I talk to Travelocity agents, they say I should contact JetBlue. Talk to JetBlue agents, they say I need to do it through Travelocity. Meanwhile I leaving $2300 of credit on the table.
This is one reason I never use booking agents. I always go directly to the airlines and the hotels.
I’d like to do that but at least need a search engine to know which airlines have direct flights.
I'm not following.
I mean, if I’m booking with individual airlines, do I check 20 different websites to see which have the flight I want at my preferred time of day, with the fewest connections?
20? There aren't that many airlines left.
More like four: United, American, Delta, Southwest.
I admit, I'm biased, because I am extremely brand-loyal, and I always fly United. YMMV.
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I haven't flown since Covid started, but even before then passenger behavior was ramping up to ridiculous proportions, so even on a nice, on-time flight I'd be just waiting for some idiot to have a conniption fit about their ice cubes not being the right shape or something, and then it's a 3-hour wait while the Airport Team-6 takes them off the plane...
I have a connection in Chicago, you moron ! Behave yourself !
I have a connection in Chicago, you moron ! Behave yourself !
I use JetBlue when possible. But sometimes when I go to New Orleans, the only direct flight that's not late in the evening is Spirit so I grudgingly take it. Then of course if I was going to somewhere like Alaska, airlines specific to those places come in. But there's also some cases where United or Delta or something has a direct flight and JetBlue only has routes with 2 layovers.
Unless it's a place where JetBlue happens to have a well timed direct flight, I need to be able to search across multiple airlines to find the one that does.
I started taking trips again a few weeks after being fully vaxxed, and went to Phoenix for my Ironman, which fortunately had a direct JetBlue flight. But I'm planning a trip to Yellowstone sometime next year and it did not.
I will use direct flights at all costs, and always morning flights for the trip there and early afternoon flights for the trip back, before any airline loyalty.
I have not had any particularly bad experience with other passengers, nothing worse than someone reclining unreasonably far back in front of me.
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I have a connection in Chicago, you moron ! Behave yourself !
I'm generally not well-off enough to travel, so admittedly I don't know the ins and outs of the airline industry. But if this credit is money that you paid that was refunded to you due to the airline cancelling a flight, how can it "expire"?
Dogs and cats do it every day, with a lot less fuss and bother. And with multiple babies at a time!
