That moment when...

Post by **Avatar** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:40 pm

Unfortunately not an option in this particular case.

I need to spend a day sorting out my work files damnit.

--A

Post by **michaelm** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:33 pm

Still didn't sew the pants, but I did get yet another distraction and sewed up a hole in my daughter's pig hand puppet.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:40 pm

That's almost as good.

So come on, tell us -- how come you keep putting off the pants project?

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:24 pm

It's always so satisfying to fix ones kiddo's toys!

For me...
...that moment when you dump the grounds on in the "water" part of the coffeemaker.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:12 am

Use a cafetiere.

--A

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:15 pm

How about that moment after brushing the kids teeth and doing a variety of other tasks for about 15 minutes or so, that you had started to fill the sink and left the water running for the first of those small tasks. Does that count?

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:48 pm

Don't ever try making cinder toffee in a shallow pan. A couple thousand years from now, archaeologists will be excavating my perfectly preserved counter from a beneath solid layer of toffee.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:37 am

A quick search showed every recipe specifies a "deep, heavy pan."

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:07 pm

Details, details. I don't own a "deep, heavy pan."

I'm used to improvising. Sometimes it works out better than others. Sometimes it results in an itty-bitty reenactment of Pompeii.

Tasted okay, though.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 1:16 am

Sorus wrote:Details, details. I don't own a "deep, heavy pan."

I'm used to improvising

exactly!

I was amused by the description of the need for excavation.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 5:41 am

The moment when the collegue you thought had his stuff together just a little better than you do comes to your desk to say goodbye because he was laid off right after his initial-hire stock units vested (about four years in).

You have to wonder if your own job will be there once the last of yours vest. Que sera...and may it suit your deities that the axe does not fall before all your pending stock grants vests.

I am too old and have been through "crash and burn" too many times for this [expletive deleted].

~ edited for boneheaded typographical mistake

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:24 am

That's rough. Been there, and still recovering from it.

Good luck.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:51 pm

That moment when I was teaching high school choir and I had a migraine so I was wearing sunglasses and as I stood behind the piano, one of my students enthusiastically called out "You look like Ray Charles!"

(I am a white female, btw)

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:55 am

Hey, colour blindness and all that.

Sheesh SD, good luck with that.

--A

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:00 pm

(one of those days) when... you check e-mail and you have two separate replies to mails to completely different people regarding completely different topics, yet the subject lines both begin "RE: Oops"...

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:50 pm

That moment when you message your phone number over FB to a friend who asked, noting that it's a landline & you don't have a cell...
..And then you reflect on the fact that this was the first time in months you logged on to FB through a device that will cause your message to show as "on mobile."

...the awkwardness and apparent-deceptiveness of it..

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 12:52 am

I wouldn't worry about it. There are plenty of non-phone mobile devices out there. I live under a rock, and I know that.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:25 am

Oh, good.
She would know that. I was just thinking, "it looks so bad."

Worse is that I never log on to FB lately, and we mostly only talk over it.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 3:26 am

The beginning of unraveling one's sense of self is to let other people's perceptions define you.

Surely we Watchers know better!

Yes, our technology options allow many possible misunderstandings. Stay aware of this...but don't obsess. If the person knows you well enough to form an opinion, that is one thing. If they are drawing conclusions from limited online data, they really know no more about you than does FB itself. Data-miners deserve what they get; those who have taken the time and attention to interact so as to try to better know you from multiple dimensions probably have a richer perspective.

It sounds like your friend is in the latter category.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 3:01 pm

Savor Dam wrote:The beginning of unraveling one's sense of self is to let other people's perceptions define you.

Pffft!
Another person's perception of me defines... that other person's perception of me!

I, instead, will choose to take comfort in the words of Charles Spurgeon: "...if any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him; for you are worse than he thinks you to be."

But, eh, sometimes it's good to say things that get a rise out of me.
After all, there is more stuff there...
The real problem (or one real problem), I think, is that I've been flaking on a bunch of my friendships, and I don't quite know how I ought to get back up & get on that horse.

SD wrote:...know no more about you than does FB itself.

Any talk of the things FB or google knows about peeps gets this emoticon from me as an obligatory response:

Now, this thread is for exasperating moments when exactly the wrong thing happens, (especially when it happens with some degree of predictability) soooo....

"That moment when... you see that the fish has, in fact, defrosted... and it seems the bag was not, in fact, watertight."
(at least we always put things like that on the bottom shelf of the fridge. now.)

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