The Trivial Complaints Thread ... #3

[Beth3346]

oh no BC. is the burn really bad?

no a trivial complaint at all. not really a complaint but i don't want to start a thread. yesterday early in the morning we think lightning struck my parents' house and started a fire. thankfully between the smoke detectors and one of their neighbors they were able to get out safely. so no damage that can't be undone.

their house is in really bad shape. the fire was on the roof and in the attic so the roof and sheetrock collapse in their living room, main bedroom, and office. which is where they have most of the stuff they use all the time. my dad's laptop and my mom's iPad were destroyed along with a ton of other stuff. and water from rain and putting out the fire was all over the house.

their insurance pays for temporary housing so they have a place to stay. i don't have a proper guest room just a office/pony room/guest room where the desk takes up most of the room. it will probably be months before they can living in their house again so not ideal for the long term.

i'm still in a state of shock over it. i was scared to death when i woke up to multiple calls/texts in the middle of the night. i thought something happened to my mom. so i was relieve that they're ok but it's going to be hard for them to start over at their ages.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

oh my goodness I am glad they are safe but ohhhh how terrible. 

[BlackCurtains]

How scary! I'm glad they are okay. I hope the repairs won't take too long.

The burn hurts but I still have my skin. Luckily, I let the kettle sit for a few minutes. I'm not sure what happened. I think I absentmindedly grabbed the Aeropress as I poured the water but it came over the side and hit my hand between my index finger and thumb. The worst part is that there's no such thing as cold tap water right now, it's lukewarm at best. I used ice.

[Beth3346]

thanks everyone.

it's been a bad time for my immediate family. we're still waiting on the insurance adjuster to come out. but we had someone from the restoration company the insurance uses out yesterday. she wasn't able to give a timeline yet but she said the damage was bad and my parents were lucky to get out in time. we think the rain may have kept the fire from spreading so rapidly. i think mother nature hates my parents. first floods and now that they moved from the flood prone areas we have this.

i hope your hand heals well BC ice usually helps.

[Taffeta]

That sucks, Beth. I'm glad they were safe at least.

[cowboyopossum]

So much construction and renovations going on at our house... Our neighbors are replacing their fence as well so we have twice the contractors.

[Griffin]

Glad to hear your parents weren't hurt, Beth! That is so scary, and I'm sorry for the damage

[shockponie]

I went to hang out with a friend last weekend, and I was greeted by her husband who said, “She’s waiting out back for you.” Immediately, I was thinking of how I didn’t want to go outside because it was hot (I read her thermometer:104 degrees F), but I met her outside. She was sitting down, and I could see she was fuming mad. So I sat next to her thinking, “Okay, she needs to let off some steam.” She was upset about how her husband was forced to go on leave, and now she’s worried he’ll lose his job. Understandable. Then she handed me a tape measure and said she needed my help with measurements. Okay, fine. Fast forward to me being in broad sunlight (I’m fair skinned but didn’t wear sunscreen because I thought we would be inside so I got sunburned), bit by mosquitos, her spray painting my shoe when making the measurement marks, then her saying she was going to dig holes where these marks were (2 feet down for concrete pours in this hard Arizona dirt), and about a quarter of a hole done, I ended up digging the rest of that hole, plus 4 more holes. I finally quit and said I was going inside and played with her cat. Her husband apologized to me “Sorry she invited you over for THAT. I don’t know what’s wrong with her. She basically invited you over for doing manual labor.” I just was like… Yeah it sucks, but you didn’t do it. She owes me the apology. The kicker is that the last time we hung out, she roped me into helping her do her taxes. The time before that, we did her shopping, and I explained that I cut my aunt out of my life because she would only invite me over to do her favors. And the time before that, she had me baking several dozens of batches of cookies and didn’t let me have a single one! Honestly, if she explained ANY of these situations to me beforehand and asked for my help, I likely would have said yes. But the fact is that she sprung these on me. Now I feel foolish for being used.  I’m done with her.

[Taffeta]

It's 13 minutes past midnight, and someone has their kids running up and down the street laughing and yelling as though it's 4 in the afternoon.

It's AFTER MIDNIGHT people.

[Beth3346]

we had a ton of rain come through and my parent's house still doesn't have a tarp over the collapsed roof 

update: the tarp was on my dad just forgot to tell me

[Ponyfan]

Beth, I'm so sorry that happened to your parents.  I can't even imagine how scary that must have been for you and your parents.

I'm really sad today. 

My dad has been really whiny lately.  He keeps saying my mom and I eat too fast and rush through meals.  We do eat faster than him since  he
eats super slowly, but a large part of why he doesn't get done as fast as we do is my dad will get up while we're eating and start doing other things and then return to his meal.  Of course, if he does that, he going to finish a lot later than my mom and I do.  I'm sure if I did the same thing I'd be told to sit down and eat and the other stuff could wait until later, yet he does it and then complains when he's the last one to finish eating. 

I do eat a little fast sometimes because I'm really hungry especially if it's been a long time since my last meal or if the previous meal wasn't much. 

Also yesterday, my dad said I could pick the restaurant we were going to eat at, but when I told him, he didn't like what I picked and insisted we go where he wanted instead.  I could have argued, but it would have ended with him getting angry and never letting it go.

Yesterday my dad almost hit a parked car.  How do you not see a car parked right in front of you?  He had to jerk the wheel at the last minute to avoid hitting it. 

My dad called a guy to give him an estimate on cutting back some of the huge tree branches that are touching the roof, but he never showed up yesterday or today.

I laid down on the couch for a few minutes because I was really sleepy.  My mom came in and woke me up asking me if I didn't feel good.  I didn't go back to sleep after that.

Also, I didn't see a metal bar in front of the refrigerated cases at the store and slammed my leg in to it



Ponyfan

[BlackCurtains]

I haven't been sleeping due to being out of one of my medications, but last night it finally caught up with me. I slept all day. I had a very strange dream that seemed absolutely real. I am usually a lucid dreamer, but this one I was trapped in. It's been on my mind since I woke up.