Exchanges with People that Make Your Brain Hurt

[marcel]

My youngest sister in law is a high school English teacher, posted a picture on FB that made my brain hurt.  It's a picture of a late assignment turned in by one of her students (name and student ID not in the shot).  Under the question, "Why is this assignment late?" the student's only answer is YOLO.  Nothing else.  Why someone would think this is an acceptable answer is beyond me.  My SIL circled it and wrote "Really?" next to it.  I'm wondering how much credit the student will actually get.

If a student writes YOLO, they should at least follow it up by telling you what special thing they did instead of doing that assignment.

[Diane AKA Traska]

Before the Miss America pageant there was an interesting Pre-show about the preparations and training for the contestants.  One segment concerned training for the Q&A.

That was when the brain hurt came.

'What are your views on euthanasia?'

'That's a vaccine, right?'
 

Against death?

Against life.

Good point.  No-one wants to come down with a nasty case of life.

Life has a 100% mortality rate, we're all carriers, and everyone has it.  Obviously, this silent killer needs to be stopped.

Actually, statistically, life is only has a mortality rate of about 93%. About 7% of all those who have been afflicted with life are still surviving.

No, even those 7% *will* die, they just haven't yet.  A terminal disease isn't only terminal once it kills you, it's terminal if it's what's going to kill you.  Being born is the first thing that can be conclusively pointed to as being connected to your death.

[hjaye]

Before the Miss America pageant there was an interesting Pre-show about the preparations and training for the contestants.  One segment concerned training for the Q&A.

That was when the brain hurt came.

'What are your views on euthanasia?'

'That's a vaccine, right?'
 

Against death?

Against life.

Good point.  No-one wants to come down with a nasty case of life.

Life has a 100% mortality rate, we're all carriers, and everyone has it.  Obviously, this silent killer needs to be stopped.

Actually, statistically, life is only has a mortality rate of about 93%. About 7% of all those who have been afflicted with life are still surviving.

No, even those 7% *will* die, they just haven't yet.  A terminal disease isn't only terminal once it kills you, it's terminal if it's what's going to kill you.  Being born is the first thing that can be conclusively pointed to as being connected to your death.

There will always be some who believe in the accuracy of the Old Testament in which case you have Elijah who did not die, but ascended up to heaven in a whirlwind.  This will skew the statistics of life being terminal 100% of the time to 99.99999999999999999999999% ...........................................

[Virg]

hjaye wrote:

There will always be some who believe in the accuracy of the Old Testament in which case you have Elijah who did not die, but ascended up to heaven in a whirlwind.  This will skew the statistics of life being terminal 100% of the time to 99.99999999999999999999999%"

I recall there being one other case too....

marcel wrote:

"If a student writes YOLO, they should at least follow it up by telling you what special thing they did instead of doing that assignment."

Be very, very careful what you wish for.

Virg

[Kate]

Recently an elderly friend asked me to pick her up at the airport ..so I arrive close to arrival time and drive the "circle" watching for her to come out of the terminal for about 40 minutes......finally park and go in, no friend. Flight had arrived on time.
 After going home, I contact her son where she had been visiting who then had to call the airlines to track  down her whereabouts.
(According to son, she has a cell phone that she never uses..keeps it in the glove box of her car for "emergencies")
Turns out her connecting flight was delayed due to weather and she missed her connection so was put on a later plane.
Days later in conversation  with her, I gently remind her that if she had her cell phone she could have called to let me know not to go to airport, and her son could have called her directly to find out what happened to her
. After all wasting 40 minutes of my time and gas is important to me..tho I didn't say THAT to her...
. Her reply? " I guess you don't pick people up from airport very often most people call first  to check if flight arrived"....!!!!!!
I said "Mary", your flight DID arrive YOU WEREN'T ON IT! She looked at me blankly...in her mind, if she missed the flight it never arrived at all ..and the cell phone..she didn't take it with her to her son's home, because all the calls would be long distance if she used it......this is a well off woman who still drives, has a health club membership and is of normal intelligence.

[DaisyG]

Her reply? " I guess you don't pick people up from airport very often most people call first  to check if flight arrived"....!!!!!!

I understand Kate's brain-hurt on this one, but this line makes my brain hurt. Maybe because it's about 1˝-2 hrs drive between my house and the nearest commercial airport, 1hr to my mum's house (from her nearest airport) and 4hrs to my SIL's; but surely almost anywhere if you (generic) waited for the flight to land before going to pick up a passenger, the passenger would be waiting around?

[Elfmama]

  (Eyeroll at Kate's friend, not DaisyG!)  Since we only live a few miles from the airport, DH calls me as soon as his plane lands.  By the time I get there, he's already collected his luggage and is standing outside waiting.  And if he's delayed at any point, he calls me.

What you can do, if you live farther away, is call and find out if the plane left on time.  Say your friend was flying from Dallas-Fort Worth to JFK.  You call or go online to find out if United Flight 1234 from DFW to JFK left on time.  If it didn't, you know approximately how long it was delayed. 

[Piratelvr1121]

We live over an hour from BWI so in the times my bff has flown out to see us, if we waited until her flight was scheduled to arrive to leave, she'd be waiting around for about an hour and a half. 

Though she usually has a layover since there aren't any flights that go straight from Cedar Rapids to BWI, that gives her time to call us to let us know if her connection is on time or late.   Though the first time she flew out to see us, about 2 1/2 years ago, there was a big storm over Chicago so they weren't even able to leave CR for about an hour and a half after the flight was scheduled to leave, so she missed her connection flight but because she had her phone on her she was able to call me and say "Okay my flight number is 12345, and we're scheduled to arrive in BWI around three."  She originally was supposed to arrive at BWI just before noon, so if we'd gone there assuming all was okidokie, we'd be waiting around for a looooooooong time.

Though some airlines allow you to pull up a map online to "follow" the flight, as they'll show you itty bitty airplanes and you can see when their estimated landing time is.  It's fun.

[VorFemme]

My youngest sister in law is a high school English teacher, posted a picture on FB that made my brain hurt.  It's a picture of a late assignment turned in by one of her students (name and student ID not in the shot).  Under the question, "Why is this assignment late?" the student's only answer is YOLO.  Nothing else.  Why someone would think this is an acceptable answer is beyond me.  My SIL circled it and wrote "Really?" next to it.  I'm wondering how much credit the student will actually get.

If a student writes YOLO, they should at least follow it up by telling you what special thing they did instead of doing that assignment.

Make it mandatory to turn in an essay on what they did instead of the assignment as extra credit to off set the deduction of points for being late.  If it is more work to turn something in later, it might encourage them to be on time!

[ladyknight1]

My DH made my brain hurt. B/G: DFIL was laid off yesterday. We have multiple friends in the same industry, and DFIL requested we forward his resume to them.

An email from DFIL comes to our family account with his resume. I check to see if DH has forwarded the resume. He has not.

Me: Did you want me to forward that to Larry and Louise?
DH: You could.
Me: Does that mean yes?
DH: Makes annoyed sound.
Me: Just tell me, so I don't have to assume.
DH: Starts talking to someone else.

  I work full time, I go to school full time, even when I am sitting at a computer at work or home I am doing something. I do not live to be the secretary. 

[stitchygreyanonymouse]

Is it possible that your DH doesn’t actually want to forward it, and is trying to ignore it (and taking his annoyance with the issue out on you, instead of saying so)?

[ladyknight1]

He has a PA inherited gene, so it is very possible. It is so not worth the aggravation to bring it up again, so I am just going to forward the resume myself.

[White Dragon]

I wasn't the main victim here, more of a 'drive by hurty'.

One of my coworkers called me today asking for contact information from my Technical Contact at JJJ company.

Coworker said that "Dale" at JJJ had called him - asking for the contact information for someone within his own organization.
Bonus points that Dale should have this information because he is supposed to be able to liase with my Contact on a regular basis.

This goes along with the four days I spent searching our files on behalf of someone else at JJJ, looking for documents.
Eventually, I found that we had never, ever had these documents.
The most brain hurty part was when I emailed my Technical Contact and he confirmed that we did not have the documents.

Again, a fact that the person would have known had he bothered to ask the person he was supposed to be talking to regularly!!!

[2littlemonkeys]

I wasn't the main victim here, more of a 'drive by hurty'.

One of my coworkers called me today asking for contact information from my Technical Contact at JJJ company.

Coworker said that "Dale" at JJJ had called him - asking for the contact information for someone within his own organization.
Bonus points that Dale should have this information because he is supposed to be able to liase with my Contact on a regular basis.

[snip]

I had a similar experience the other day.  One of my duties is to coordinate conference calls with our company and the client, who is in a different state.  I talk with the client's admin and he gives me availabilities for the team we work with.  Since I am the one who sends out the electronic invitation, he usually gives me the meeting room the people on his team should report to and I include it on the invitation.  I guess this makes the people on his side think I'm the one that reserves their room because while I was on vacation last week, a few invitations were sent by someone else on my team and without this information.  Guess who the client team called?

I'll give you a hint.  It wasn't their own admin who would have actually been the one to reserve the room at their office.

[nutraxfornerves]

From a column in today's San Francisco Chronicle. It's a tale that wags the dogma

It's the first item in the column. It's a little convoluted & I had to read it a couple of times to get it. A parent has found a great private school, however, "the website seems to stress the Catholic dogma," which as the columnist notes, shouldn't be too surprising, since it's a Catholic school. The parent wonders if there will be enough agnostics involved with the school to "make us feel comfortable."