Things that frustrate us all

[Sibyl]

{{{{{{{Scribble}}}}}}} don't give up that fight. You made it once and you can make it again. I managed to give up smoking 35 years ago by switching to chocolate instead. The side effects are somewhat extensive (in every meaning of the word

), but being plump is still a lot better than having lung cancer.
My dad says chewing gum is best to stop smoking because you can have it in your mouth all the time, like a cigarette. (I loathe gum, hence the chocolate.)

Expanding our "horizons" are we? I crossed two bills (US pounds) not long after quitting. And yes, I've been steadily losing weight since December. Grrr...hadn't even considered that factor.

I had quit before with vaping. Smelling like strawberries and cream was much more pleasant than smelling like an ashtray, for sure. I'd gradually reduced the amount of nicotine in my juice (I mixed my own from raw ingredients) until there was no nicotine at all. It really was an oral fixation (no comments from the peanut gallery!) for a lot of it. Not all, though.

Vaping, as it turns out, is not quite as healthy an alternative as was once pushed. I guess that last word is one clue to that fact. I also coughed and hacked a lot more than while I'm a smoker. Lastly, even though others could smell the scent of my fluid, I could not taste anything other than an intermittent hint from time to time. Other than that, it was just a feeling rather than a taste.

And not making excuses here, but I tend to swallow gum shortly after the taste disappears (yes, I also eat the shells of salted in-the-shell peanuts).

 

[Sibyl]

How about chocolate flavored chewing gum (I can't believe they haven't made these yet)?

There WAS a chocolate flavored chewing gum at some point in the late 80s or early 90s here in the US. I don't think it was too popular.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I also eat the shells of salted in-the-shell peanuts

You might want to avoid oysters and lobsters

 

[Sibyl]

You might want to avoid oysters and lobsters

No issues there as I'm allergic to pretty much any fauna that lives in the water.

 

[Kor]

...
And not making excuses here, but I tend to swallow gum shortly after the taste disappears (yes, I also eat the shells of salted in-the-shell peanuts).

Do you ever have deep fried peanuts? Those are actually intended to be eaten whole, shell and all.

Kor

 

[Sibyl]

Do you ever have deep fried peanuts? Those are actually intended to be eaten whole, shell and all.

Kor

I had no idea such a thing even existed!

Something to add to my bucket list. Thanks!

 

[Avro Arrow]

Monday: returned home from 12 day work at my parents to find that I had forgotten to bring the trash out. Spent an hour to get rid off 2 generations of flies. ack!
Tuesday: heating malfunctioned
Wednesday: oven broke
Thursday: electrician failed to call
today: phone broke and important parcel went MIA.

Oh my, that's rough! I'm sorry to hear all of that!

On the plus side, next week is going to seem wonderful by comparison, right?

 

[rhubarbodendron]

indeed. My course has often led through Murphyonic fields in the past and I found that (gallows-) humour is the perfect shield.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Argh! The murphyonic field is expanding rapidly! Today when I called up my parents, their phone line went dead all of a sudden. Given my recent royal flush of domestic troubles I first presumed that my phone had broken but it turned out a few mins later that my parent's while neighbourhood had a power failure.

Have you noticed that blackouts have a distinct tendency to happen at the most inconvenient moment, like when you have a soufflé in the oven or some washing in the machine that bleeds out?

 

[Sibyl]

I'm sorry.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Have you noticed that blackouts have a distinct tendency to happen at the most inconvenient moment

It only seems that way because there is never a "convenient" moment for this type of thing!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Frustration is trying to help a friend who's hurting but not knowing quite how.

 

[Discofan]

It only seems that way because there is never a "convenient" moment for this type of thing!

Same thing when we get sick, it's never a good time.

 

[Discofan]

Frustration is trying to help a friend who's hurting but not knowing quite how.

Sometimes you even get the distressing feeling that while trying to help you only made things worse.

 

[Sibyl]

Frustration is trying to help a friend who's hurting but not knowing quite how.

100% get this and is kind of what's causing me so much distress at the moment.

Sometimes you even get the distressing feeling that while trying to help you only made things worse.

All. The. Time.

 

[Sibyl]

Don't know if it frustrates all, but it sure frustrates me:

It doesn't happen every time. Not even half of the time, but it's happened enough in my life for me to notice and for me to feel guilty about it and adds another weight to my conscious: I'll go to a store, restaurant, fast food joint, and I'll get everything I wanted just as perfectly as I'd ordered it. Whomever I'm with will get the wrong food, wrongly-prepared food, or will be missing an item that they had specifically wanted. Whatever the wrong food or wrongly-prepared food will prevent them from eating or cause them to eat much later than me (or our group).

It hits my gut every time it happens now and since I noticed it. I feel extreme sympathy to the point that my stomach will hurt or I'll feel jittery (and often get angry to the point of throwing things/slamming doors).

 

[Refuge]

^ It's really decent of you that you empathise when someone is letdown by disappointing service. It happens. Such a small quibble but I don't eat fish and chips as much as I used to, sooooo when I do it is a treat. Hubby was away recently so I marched down to the takeaways, all happy and greedy! Get them back home. Spread the whole lot in its paper over the bed, just me and the cat ready to pounce. AND they crumbed the fish rather than battered it. I asked for it battered. I wanted it battered! Bastards crumbed it. Still tasted yummy.

It's not your fault when things don't work out, your mates will bounce back.

 

[Sibyl]

I know that it's not at all my fault. I did not cause it to happen, but it's always the person I'm with and never my food/item. I had a difficult time explaining to my housemate why it upset me so much today that he did not get his candy bar; the one that he asked me to pick up from the shelf for him because he hadn't had a Whatchamacallit in so long.

When we got home, and after I was done freaking about the fact that he didn't get the ONE thing he was looking forward to, we'd realized that the cat treats were also not there. The cashier at Walmart had not turned the little bag thingie and we left that whole bag.

It's not that I feel it's my fault, but because it always happens to my friends/family and never me and because it happens too often, I end up feeling guilty.

I'm sorry about your fish. That's exactly the sort of thing that would've happened.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'll tell you what frustrates the living shit out of me:

Finding out that when you're transferring from an inbound international fliglht, to an outbound domestic flight, at O'Hare International Airport (in Chicago), you fucking have to go through security again. My dad and I almost missed our connecting flight because of this.

I mean, seriously. O'Hare's been in existence for decades, and they can't work this shit out? Give me a fucking BREAK.

 

[Sibyl]

^^All because of a few people that decided to train to fly a plane a few miles from my house and didn't want to land them.

Even after that, I think most of these new rules are ridiculous.