Things you'd like to say, but can't

[Spinney]

@buggi - if that's what you do, then that is fine. But I have seen the same bag of poo hanging from a branch days later, or the state of the outside of the bag makes it clear that it has been there for some time.

So I do not withdraw my rant...!

 

[MossCommuter]

they do that so they don't have to carry it on the walk. it then gets picked up on the way back. i do this mysel, leave it in a bush, pick it up on the way back.

Well don't

 

[Lanzecki]

Just been said to my darling daughter.

"Firstly, I love you with no reserve. I will be there to help you protect you, and fix your mistakes. But,

If you slam your bedroom door once more. I will take the door off of it hinges for one week

Time for an update; After 2 weeks of quietness, love and love in the Lanzecki household things have come to a head. I got a distraught phone call from the Boss telling me what happened and that she was instructing me to follow thru. An SMS from the daughter protesting her innocence and that Mum is soo mean and unfair. Nice argument my daughter made there. Well thought out, not.

Returning home after work I had 20 mins to eat and get my cycling kit ready to go out for a ride with one of the cycling groups. The boss though that this was more important then cycling..... Honestly! I left it by saying "I'll deal with it when I return" to both parties.

Returning that evening there was a palatable silence in the house. Wife was concentrating on being insulted, Daughter was in her room with a "Do not disturb" sign on her door.... Please my door, my room.

2am in the morning I removed the door while daughter slept the sleep for the self-righteous. Yes sneekey, but I felt warning had been given on a prior date.

A beautiful Saturday morning I woke to breakfast in bed.... That's a first. "Thanks for doing the right thing" I was told. Well, I think I did something right there. Daughter wasn't up yet, so I decided to play some music by the Wurlitzer band's album "old time carousel music". Especially downloaded for the occasion. A very accurately descriptive album name.

The younger kids thought it was a great laugh and proceeded to run around the house screaming and slamming doors.

Daughter was to say the least, unimpressed and complained her civil rights were being affected. Her right to privacy and silence. . She complained later that she couldn't stop the kids going into her room.

The door was replaced 2 days later. Peace reigns.

 

[Archie_tect]

Lanzecki, that's the best example of parenting skills I've heard for a long time.... brilliant. Problem faced, boundaries set, broached, acted on and accepted as fair with humour, fun and love... I'd like living in your house.

Mind, the unintended consequence of all the mini-Lanzeckis gleefully slamming doors just so dad takes them all off is funny.

 

[swee'pea99]

Lanzecki, that's the best example of parenting skills I've heard for a long time.... brilliant. Problem faced, boundaries set, broached, acted on and accepted as fair with humour, fun and love... I'd like living in your house.

Mind, the unintended consequence of all the mini-Lanzeckis gleefully slamming doors just so dad takes them all off is funny.

I think the Wurlitzer band's album "old time carousel music" was my favourite bit! But yes, top marks, take a bow.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

So you're publishing porn stories based on things we did together.
Are you going to pay me royalties for providing the source material?

By the way. I'm with someone else, I'm happy. Get a life!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Sod the royalties - do we get a linky?
[/perv mode]

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I told you I was moving house.
You got 6 weeks warning and a rough date.
"I can work the time back" I said, but you scoffed at that and said not to bother.
I've talked about moving, we've joked about it, and chatted about it.
3 weeks ago I confirmed the date.
1 week ago I confirmed the date.
I mentioned it a couple of days ago too to remind you.
Today, 30 minutes before I walk out the door, you decided to have a tirade, because today you decided you wanted time off for you granddaughter's birthday.
Now you tell me I'm selfish, that work should come first, that I should have completed on a house sale on a weekend (eh!!) etc, etc, etc. Basically anything to try and justify the crock of shoot you've just made up.

Sorry but you're about as scarey as a platypus. I've been bullied and abused by real bosses, and you pal are not in their league.
You know lots of naughty words, but I've heard it all before.
I've just sold a house, and not bought another. I can tell you where to stick your job any minute of any day.

 

[TheDoctor]

Don't push it, sunshine.
I'm not so very attached to all this that I wouldn't walk.
It wouldn't take much more...

 

[Maverick Goose]

You !@#$%^&&*(()__+|":s unts at the local joke, I mean jobcentre-WTF? Do you enjoy rubbung people's noses in it just because they're unemployed? I hope Cameron cuts you all!

 

[Arch]

Oi, @Shaun, leave the cafe alone. Threads stand or fall on their popularity. Don't shove all your most prolific posters off into a cupboard.

Oh there, I said it.

 

[Shaun]

Oh there, I said it.

Well said ...

 

[Iain M Norman]

She sells seashells on the sea shore.

 

[Kies]

To wife "why does your family have to come round when I have committed to a bike ride with people I like much more than your lot"

I say it in my mind,but doesn't count!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

So the peace is restored.
Interesting that the first thing you then said was that there's a list of things that need completing.
What you don't know is that I met one of your ex-employees a while back, and she told me how easy it is for you to sack someone if another person can do that job.
So you're probably planning to throw me out once all the IT tasks are finished, and I've taught your daughter enough about accounts that she no longer needs help.
I'll walk out the door smiling on that day.