What Makes You Angry Today?

[Raven]

Glad you had such a good time. Free booze and all that eh? I suspect you might have brought home more than you left with... some new crystal and some better towels? Anything?

The wedding planner asked us to leave because we were inebriated. Duh. It's a wedding. Of course I'm going to eke out as much alcohol as possible.

So we left. Then, ten minutes after we left, my husband realized how out-of-character of his friend it was to sic his wedding planner on us. He turned the car around and back we went. He told his friend that the wedding planner had asked us to leave, and his friend had no idea that she did this. He said he did not tell her to ask us to leave and he wanted us to stay.

The wedding planner, however, was the groom's agent. He is ultimately responsible and he should have kept her on a tighter leash. Going to his wedding was a huge hassle for us and he knew it. Given that we spent all that money and traveled halfway across the country to be there, the least he could have done was make sure we had a good time. I paid for my husband to be there because I thought it would mean a lot for both of them. I wanted to pay for him to go there by himself, but he asked me to go with him so I did.

I didn't think that asking the groom to refund me the money I spent on airfare because his wedding sucked would net the desired results, so I made sure that bridge became a motherf*cking inferno. All of my own bridges are burnt down, so now I burn other people's bridges.

Actually, the wedding planner decided to burn that bridge...

 

[Spock]

Wow Raven, you called it on here before you went. Amazing intuition. I too am learning to tap into my wife's intuition better. Glad you both survived the trip you did not want to make.

 

[Raven]

I assumed we'd have a problem with someone else in attendance. Actually, the other guests there were quite pleasant, from what I could tell.

I think the issue is that I went outside to smoke during the speeches. I don't even smoke, but I didn't want to be there listening to a bunch of people I don't know drone on and on and on about other people I don't know. Smoking on the patio made it look like I had a reason to be out there. I smoked like three cigarettes and by the time I realized the speeches were over, they were in the middle of their first dance. I slipped back in and waited by the door for it to end. That's when the wedding planner told my husband we should leave.

The ceremony started an hour late and it was outside even though it was cold and drizzling and they didn't even have a canopy. My husband blew a loud raspberry during it and then said, "Come on, seriously? Who farts during a wedding?" I started laughing hysterically (I married this guy precisely because he does shit like this). We got some nasty looks and others chuckled, but the bride and groom up at the altar didn't even seem to notice. They were so caught up in their ceremony that I'm not surprised.

I was hoping I'd at least come out of this weekend with a friend or two. A friend of my husband's is a friend of mine. But I honestly hope this guy's fat wife cheats on him with a woman. An ugly woman so he's not even titillated by it.

 

[Ned]

This..........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-murder-charge-shooting-Reeva-Steenkamp.html


If the twat gets away with it by putting this cloak on, I'll be even angrier. I am thoroughly disgusted with self-serving lying bastards wearing the 'hyper-vigilance' and PTSD excuse, devaluing it for genuine sufferers.
In all the years it's f*cked up my life I've never needed to use it as an excuse, and I f*cking well HAVE got it....

 

[reddevil1111]

PTSD and hyper vigilance is no excuse for violent crime. We all know the rage is what it is but your still in control enough to know right from wrong and not act or we would murder everyone we come into contact with as everyone pisses us off. The twat is guilty and he should pay for his crime. He should stop ducking the real issues by trying to find any excuse to dodge. f*cking hell he sucks!

 

[Ned]

Of course, he's doing what his lawyers tell him. They suck even more.....

 

[Raven]

I can't find the article now but a year and a half ago, there was a news story about a former Soldier who apparently snapped. He struck a woman with his car and severely injured her, forced this severely injured woman into his car, and then raped her. This happened in the States.

His wife (who wanted to stand by him wtf) and his lawyers were trying to blame it on his PTSD... I found this excuse offensive and disgusting on so many levels--as a Soldier, as a woman, and as a sufferer of PTSD.

I hope that sicko was convicted.

 

[Ned]

Now the weather's fine, power tools. Whether it's gardeners or DIY-ers the weekend is one long cacophony of production-line and building-site noises. Doesn't any f*cker use hand tools anymore? Doesn't any f*cker want to just enjoy a bit of peace and quiet?
Oh yes, just remembered, they do use one hand tool. Hammer, a lot......

 

[Raven]

Not angry but still something that makes me go :(.

A boyfriend of a friend is having trouble finding a job. He's in that vast group of recent liberal arts graduates, and he doesn't want ot be just a retail drone. Fair enough, I don't blame him. He's been considering joining the military, and I told him he should go through with it if he wants to. My friend (his girlfriend) was pissed, and then I learned she had been hoping I'd dissuade him.

Is it such a catastrophe that I realize not everyone who goes in comes out regretting it? As the acronym goes, YMMV. He'd become an officer anyway.

 

[OldDoorGunner]

Raven for what it's worth, I would have told him the same thing....In fact I have pissed off 100's of people over the years in doing that. You, me, anyone that has been in the military, live in reality.....to us it's a black and white thing. In today's world
people don't understand reality, so they think in the gray. I would say people today think you can be just a bit little dead or a little bit pregnant...For us that are dealing with the Beast it hard to deal with, that's why we have a hard time dealing with them. Your are a lot younger than me, but I would bet $100 that we could set down and have a good conversation and get along quite well..... I changed a line from a movie, I use this when I have to leave the house and go to town..
"I see Stupid people"!!! Sorry to say, but that is the reality we live in today, most people think in the gray.......

J R

 

[Raven]

I don't even regret my enlistment. There are some things that happened that I wish hadn't and if I could have a do-over there are some things I would change. However, regret is a completely different animal and I've learned the difference now. Hindsight is 20/20.

The man I spoke to is older now than I was then. He seems to have his head screwed on better than I did. The only advice I gave him was this: That if he decides it's what he wants to do, he should pick an MOS that he wants to do and be in the DEP for a while rather than pick what would get him shipped off to boot camp the quickest He wants to do intel and his recruiter apparently told him there's a long ass wait in the DEP for that. I say not truly hating your life for at least four years is worth the wait.

 

[reddevil1111]

I would advise him to do something that has a civilian transition for employment. Out side of the military when he finishes his enlistment or obligation as an officer he is going to need to find a job.
Unless he wants to work for the CIA or the French foreign legion jobs can be difficult to come by for intel. I was intel. Those were the only jobs I could find that had any kind of interest for intel. That was about 20 years ago and things do change but I would insure that whatever it is has movement in the MOS for promotions as well. If the job is jam packed and top heavy he wont get as many promotions. That's one reason a lot of guys go infantry to start. Its the fastest way to go up the ranks. After 5-6 years of being a grunt your 4-5 years ahead of other ranks. Then you can side step into a different job and be ahead of the pack. Just some thoughts to put out there. Tell him to get it in writing that he has a guarantee to attend the school not just a recruitment promise.