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Forum THE LOUNGE Conflicts. Foot in mouth . Not Happy . WTF

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    • Roberta
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        I can comment on this topic because I am probably one of the poster children. When I first joined I had undiagnosed food allergies, had been suffering depression and was going through menopause. More than once I opened my mouth and attacked, chastised, belittled or just plain went off my tree. BB respected those moments and whilst I got a slap on the wrist I was still treated with dignity and understanding. This is something we owe each other from birth. We may not agree due to cultural backgrounds or up bringing. We may not agree due to personal experience. What me must do is respect that difference, we can question and possibly learn something from those differences. Outright attacks however help no one and can derail an innocent bystanders post for help causing them to go without the support they need. I had moments when I was a complete cow, did I b ave a right to be angry ? Yes. Did I have aright to attack some one else when I did not have all the facts ? No. Did I allow that I too had made mistakes in the past ? Yes but not sufficiently to remember that when I first started many things I did made me bad bunny owner.  In the spirit of learning and compassion I ask each of us to recount a tale of when we put our foot in it. Friendly ribbing is good in response but please respect that we all started somewhere and none of us were born bunny experts.

         


      • JPetrucci84
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          Hi Roberta!!

          I think that one of the rules on the Guide Lines has been directly composed based on that sometimes certain people just CANNOT get along, thus rules are made that sarcasm, attacking, or chewing on someone is out of line. Not saying you necessarily, but it’s a natural thing. I do agree that we owe each other respect and compassion, in order to see things at least from their point of view, even if we don’t agree with them. It really seems like stereotyping is a big thing now, since 9/11 happened. Everyone wearing a garb on their head was “in on it”. It really flips my switch when I see such an injustice. We were all made equally. We are all here to serve a purpose in life for an undetermined amount of years, then we go the next world.

          I can’t say in what context you are mentioning when you said that you have a right to be angry, so I can’t really comment on that other than saying maybe anger and lashing out isn’t (or wasn’t appropriate). Again I don’t know what happened that riled you up, but it’s generally easier to take a quick break and breathe before becoming defensive and starting a flame war.

          When I worked at a pizza place, my ex had a knack for disobeying ANY supervisor or Manager. We were all cumulatively tired of her crap, and wanted her on to another store or on to another job. If as her ex I have to perform disciplinary action or worse send her home, you know there’s an underlying problem. So on New Years we were pretty busy. I had asked her to do something and I didn’t hear a response. When she continued just making pizzas, I flipped my wig. Whenever she disobeyed me, it sent me to the MOON in a heartbeat. I sent her home without another thought. Later on, I learned that she said she would, and end up doing what I had asked. She just hadn’t made herself audible that she would comply. Afterwards, I apologized but still maintained that her previous behavior made me think that she was once again being disrespectful not only to elders, but her superiors in the workplace. Yup, that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.


        • Roberta
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            Hi JP. Well said.. I’m not riled up. What I meant when I said it’s ok to be angry is its ok to be angry but not to take some one to task for it without having the whole story.. This is not a vent ? It’s for sharing experiences. I like your response though.


          • Bam
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              I hear you now, Roberta. And thank you for creating this thread. 

              I wouldn’t know where to start, I’ve said and done so many stupid things. 

              I used to be on a Swedish dog-forum that was very destructive. I wasn’t nice there. I quit being a member years ago. I was a very angry person then. I’m trying not to be now. Anger only creates more anger and resentment. 


            • LBJ10
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                Did I miss something? I’m really confused.


              • Roberta
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                  It’s fine LBJ, just with some of the head butting going on I thought it would be fun if we shared some of our own stories of when we had to extract our own feet from our mouths or committed some other transgression.


                • DethronedbyQueenB
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                    Hi Roberta,

                    If this is directed at me…pretty sure it is given where you mentioned creating the thread , I felt bad about voicing my thoughts/feelings right afterwards because I knew I didn’t word them as carefully as I should have so it didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but was too casual about.

                    I apologize for that and have been thinking on taking a break from being here for awhile because I loathe confrontation that isn’t mutually…ok? I guess I could say. I’m a nervous nelly as it is and was not meaning to escalate things the way it went down, was careless and not thought out commentary/reaction on my part. I could have and should have done better or not at all.

                    I am also pretty lackadaisical, all around, being here and have likely been too open/carefree/forthcoming in many regards.
                    Not new to the ways of the communities online…I actually own a very large online vbulletin forums community that has been up and running actively since 2008 with almost 1000 active members….but I do not frequent it anymore nor manage it as I passed that on to someone else.

                    I suppose I need to find that happy medium of not having to wear my pokerface so that I can enjoy but not be too lazy or presumptuous.
                    Or a complete doormat.

                    Unfortunately, with this method of communication we lack so many of our usual cues; tone of speech, body language, etc. that conflict can be easily to start and hard to squelch without both parties working to understand each other. I have found for me that HOW I read something generally says more about myself than that of the poster or his/her intent…unless there is a persistent pattern, etc.
                    I also have a huge disadvantage in communication via written text as I tend to come across loads differently than I actually sound face to face because I am lazy in my typing and tend to not use enough fluff, smilies, etc to soften how I say things. Also, I lack public education due to childhood circumstances so what I know, I learned from life, reading and reading…did I mention reading? My grammar and less than stellar word choices can impact me and readers negatively when I am not cautious or mindful enough.
                    This is no excuse, just sharing a bit of me.

                    I have loads to ponder and thank you for sharing this.


                  • Roberta
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                      Heavens No DBQ, Not directed at anyone…. We have all been there, I just thought it would be funny for us to tell our stories…..


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                        All’s I got to say is – thank goodness for the EDIT button! Ha ha hah ha!


                      • LBJ10
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                          If we’re just talking about experiences in general, I can probably list quit a few instances where I behaved poorly.

                          When I worked retail, this person was moved to my department that I didn’t get along with. It wasn’t that we fought or anything, it’s just that everything she did annoyed the hell out of me. The way she talked, the way she laughed, the way she would take insanely long to ring up one customer while people were standing in line getting frustrated, the way she would not put ANYTHING away, etc.
                          Okay, deep breath.
                          Well, anyway, I sort of snapped one day. She had this habit of going to get a gourmet coffee EVERY SINGLE DAY. And she would set it inside the cupboard below the register where everyone kept their purses. One day, I was reaching in to get my purse and I accidentally knocked it over. It was leaking out of the cupboard, all over the carpet. She made some snide remark about me spilling it (because I would get mad at her for spilling her coffee all the time). Let’s just say I was less than cordial at that point and screamed at her. She was so upset that she left work shortly after that. The strange thing was, my manager wasn’t all that upset. I think she could see I was at my breaking point. I still felt bad afterwards because I knew I had behaved badly. I should have just walked away from the situation.


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                            OMG LBJ, if that’s all you have done, I not telling anything!!!
                            I have been mean (when I was a lot younger) and I am mortified at myself! I still haunt myself with memories of ‘why’ did I say or do that? I really do try super hard not to ever be that person again (mostly caused from being short tempered or frustrated from ignorance/laziness/stupidness) cause I’ve been on the end of it and it HURTS!
                            But in the next breath, when someone has been intentionally cruel or mean (being downright NASTY!), I have NO regrets of letting fly!


                          • DethronedbyQueenB
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                              I think it’s a good thread in whichever way it goes…maybe a lil of this that and some other.

                              I do have a memory for myself that makes me laugh and while not exactly the question posed as I don’t know WHAT I said/did, it’s sorta on topic as
                              this is actually how I became aware of how I can sound to others. (Unless I’m thread-jacking- quite possible in my sleep deprived state.)

                              A few years back when I was on my site around the clock trying to do it all and spending loads of time in the chatrooms, there was a woman there that acted strangely around me and I could tell she was uncomfy so one day I just finally asked her what was up.
                              Thankfully she was honest and said I scared her!! I was like…WHAT? hahaha omg- She kinda intimidated me because she seemed like she had it together and was well liked and definitely a bigger, more secure in herself, type- exception being ME.
                              She said she pictured me as this big brusque woman that just seemed to intimidate her and make her nervous.
                              Me>>> 0.o
                              I could NOT convince her I was just some reg ole person, 115 lbs soaking and everyone else was like..”L*** isn’t like that at all!”, but she was stuck.
                              Soooo…..I broke a rule and handed out my phone number and had my first call from Australia. I talked to her about random things and such and then finally SHE started laughing uncontrollably and I started laughing not even knowing what she was laughing about until she managed to breathe out, “YOU SOUND LIKE A SQUEAKY MARSHMALLOW!!!” I was dying and like, I TOLD YOU!!
                              When people call my house, they ask for my MOM.

                              I wonder if she’s a bun lover…. *looks around* 

                              ETA: Ooops….Queen escaped and by the time I came back to hit submit, more posts where there and now I wrote way off the thread tone. Tell on myself….hm.  Besides showing myself on BB….

                              I freaked out on a woman in a WalMart line once because she was taking sooo long to pick out a candy bar and holding up the line, but doesn’t everyone lose it at least once in Wal-Mart? (Just say yes.)  

                              She was like twice my size but I think my head rotated because she retreated…and hubs asked me if I was ok.


                            • DethronedbyQueenB
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                                @ AH- I wish there was a “like” button here, I would like that so many times, haha.


                              • LBJ10
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                                  Andi, you weren’t there! LOL I think I turned into a monster in that instant.

                                  I suppose I could tell you about the water balloon locker incident in high school. But that wasn’t really confronting anyone. It was just me pulling a prank on someone. LOL


                                • Roberta
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                                    I got caught out in a “Not Happy” moment many years ago. I worked in a large company here in Perth, I was in the warehouse office and dealt more with the factory hands, suppliers and delivery people. There were a couple of Bitchy War Horses in the office but one in particular was a nasty piece of work and always irritated me with her supercilious manner and squeaky little chipmunk voice. I had finished what I had to do in the executives area and was escaping this harpee and someone saw the look on my face and wanted to know what was going on so I filled them in loudly and without reservation. Not only did I cast some very imaginative aspersions on the womans biological origins in my very best ex army only for the trenches vocabulary I also went on to state (I am cleaning this up quite a bit) “should I encountered said individual prostrate in a street gutter and burning to death, I would not even dowse the flames with my own urine” When the person I was talikng too suddenly stopped taliking and turned white I immediately knew that “said” individual was stnading behind me.


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                                      LOL DQB! I also wish we had a LOVE button – I love so many member’s (and they ALL know it, ha ha ha!), and some posts that have left me in stitches and have made my day/cheered me up deserve a LOVE vote toooo! Lol!

                                      PS – YES! We have all had one of those at the checkout line….. GGRRRR! Lol!


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                                        LOL Roberta! I’m sure we have ALL done that! Ooops, did I just dob myself in???
                                        Sooooo funny! If we had a ‘love’ button, I would have loved that! (twice!) LOL!


                                      • DethronedbyQueenB
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                                          OoOOO I just remembered a bad one.

                                          Once we were driving through Utah during a snow storm and this car with a young couple in it were driving quite fast and unsafe coming up behind us. I had 4 small children in the car with me and I kept telling hubs those people were going to cause an accident. I was sitting there getting more and more upset by the moment as they started weaving in and out. Suddenly they ended spinning out right next to us and slammed into our car nearly missing one of the children.
                                          I LOST MY HEAD.

                                          I got out of the car in the storm on the freeway and started back towards their car to really give them a whatfor and the look on my face scared them so bad they refused to roll down their windows. I knocked on her passenger side (he was driving) and she scooted over towards him. Finally he rolled it down just a touch, thank Gd cuz I was enraged that the kids could have been hurt or killed…and I cussed them out one side and down the other and lectured soooo much. I felt way out of line and actually kinda dangerous because I wanted to smack them upside their head with a trout.
                                          The worst part though was when it was over and they drove away I thought about all my language and realized they were Mormon. Between the accident and me cursing and wildly upset, they were prolly traumatized.
                                          Kinda funny though…I was so mad at hubs that he let me get out of the car in a snowstorm on Freeway in such a tantrum. Crikey. XD


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                                          • JackRabbit
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                                              Roberta — With as many times as I’ve heard AH say it, and with you two being Aussie, I think you should have called this thread “Going Crook”!!! (There are a few other words that she’s taught me too….!). And once again, I never would have guessed — you are definitely too many people rolled into one!

                                              DBQ — Squeaky Marshmallow?! Ok, I totally get the Walmart thing, but you don’t get to live down the marshmallow thing! Too funny!


                                            • Roberta
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                                                Or subtitled “Going Crook – Tales of classic dummy spits”


                                              • JackRabbit
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                                                  Ok, I’ll give a quick mini-confession. I have my dad’s eyes and his scary stare too. It’s one of those laser death stares that you don’t really need to say anything. I’ve been told that I can be pretty intimidating with it, but its not really intentional, well sometimes it has been. Its the unintentional times that bother me.


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                                                    I’ll share mine – but I am telling you all now, it makes me sick whenever I think about it! And all because I was being a selfish B!
                                                    We had pizza delivered once and it came SO late! I complained to him, but that wasn’t good enough! I had to ring up and complain to the manager. Turns out he had a slight disability (learning I guess?) and he got confused with our address. Why couldn’t I just leave it alone??? Did he get into trouble? Did he feel bad? Did he lose his job? Did I make him want to leave his job? I want to vomit!

                                                    Why couldn’t I just leave it alone! Now do you know why I didn’t want to share???


                                                  • Roberta
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                                                      I wouldn’t dwell on that one Andi… Look at it this way. If it was happening all the time to other people too the owner may have well lost his business as the customers all went else where.Chances are if it was a one off he continued to work and the boss took greater pains to show him how to navigate (they are always getting complaints about late orders) if he did leave or loose his job it would have been because he was unable to perform it properly and if it wasn’t you complaining it sure as s*8t would have been someone else. Life opens doors and sometimes it pushes us through rather than allowing us to walk. If he did loose his job it may well have brought him to the attention of someone that was able to offer training in different skills and placement in a more appropriate field of employment. So don’t beat yourself up, you may well have been the catalyst of a wonderful new life for that man.


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                                                        I have goosebumps Roberta! You are officially my ‘feel good guy’! Thank you!

                                                        This was a long time ago and I can only hope he moved onto bigger and better thing’s, or better still, the manager ignored me! I just wish I had the balls to call back, ask for his name and apologise. He didn’t deserve it – he was so apologetic! I was being a selfish B!

                                                        And do you know why I should have been a better person? NOT Blair! My youngest was waiting at the bus stop once and some idiot threw half a can of softdrink at him from a moving car – cause they thought it was funny! It’s not funny! He was humiliated, sticky and it ruined his plans for the day, he had to come home – why are people so mean??? Including ME!


                                                      • DethronedbyQueenB
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                                                          JackRabbit- I could have used that stare so many times in my life! That is a gift, I say!
                                                          That could possibly actually get my kids to bed at bedtime.

                                                          AH- Forgive yourself. It happens.
                                                          I am sure most, if not all of us have that moment.
                                                          Wanna hear a worse one?

                                                          My good friend and Pastor, years ago, also delivered newspapers on the side. One morning a woman called his house and Pastors wife answered the phone to this woman absolutely irate her paper was late and really knocking Wife around on the phone. Wife finally told her…”My Husband DIED this morning trying to deliver YOUR newspaper!” It was true.


                                                        • Bam
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                                                            Goodness Dethroned, that must have shut the woman up at least.

                                                            I once asked a patient, a very sweet, elderly lady of 70 or so, if it was her son accompanying her to the clinic that day. It turned out it was her husband – of the same age as she. Does he really look so young? she asked me, quite puzzled.

                                                            This was more than 20 years ago. I’m still embarrassed about it. But it’s among all the birds now. Yeah. 


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                                                              That happens all the time with my son, hubs and I, in a switcheroo way.
                                                              Up until last year I had long hair and would even put colors in it so I looked much younger and my son was 18. People mistake us for being siblings or a couple.
                                                              Especially when my hubs is there….they think he is my dad.
                                                              Son is 18, I’m 35 and hubs is 50.
                                                              None of us really mind.

                                                              Except it’s irritating when waitresses ask us if our bills are separate…I don’t know why that bugs us but it does then.

                                                              On Pastor- yes, the lady was quite apologetic after the fact.

                                                              What was your response???


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                                                                AH- Can you pm me? Mine seem to be not working right and it just goes blank when I try to pm you. My “New Posts” thing isn’t working either so thinking somethings up.


                                                              • Bam
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                                                                  dethroned, My PMs do the same thing lately, I hjave to create a new message each time, I can’t just reply to PMs I get. Maybe it’s a bug of some sort. Doesn’t matter what browser or computer I use.

                                                                  I have no idea what I said to the very nice elderly lady. I was mortified. I’d more or less told her she looked ancient compared to her hubby. I hope I shut my mouth after that.


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                                                                    Well..Ok…Here’s what I was gonna send and hoping you guys are about the only people that read it and not a zillion search engines but here goes…lol

                                                                    It’s the foot in mouth that I have lost years of sleep over.

                                                                    I had a good friend when I was a kid that had a really really nice dad while everyone else had no fathers or bad fathers. I really envied her, in a good way. We lost track of each other for a couple years and one night she called me up when we were about 18 and told me her dad wasn’t doing well. I could tell it was serious.
                                                                    I am SO BAD at these situations anyway and I have anxiety issues so I said…
                                                                    “I am so sorry to hear that! I really looked up to him and he was such a great guy. Gosh, he was the only man I ever knew with even half a brain….What’s going on?”

                                                                    She said, “He hung himself…he’s brain dead right now.”

                                                                    I SH!T YOU NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                    I am MORTIFIED every time I think about it.
                                                                    In fact, I lost touch with her again immediately and have avoided her ever since.


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                                                                      dethroned, goodness.

                                                                      But I’m sure she knew what you meant when she thought about it later. You said really nice things about her father. Such words are very comforting to a person when things calm down and it’s possible to start to remember the lost one by all the good stuff about him/her.

                                                                      So sad, though, to be 18 and have a father who commits suicide =(


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                                                                        My PM is not working properly either DQB. And hasn’t for a while. I can reply to a PM, but I can’t send a new one – my screen stays blank too! So I can only send a PM to someone that has already sent one to me. It’s a real bugga!
                                                                        So unlike bam who can’t reply, but can send a ‘new’ PM – it’s sounds like you and I have the same problem. Neither of us can send that first one. Dam!

                                                                        ETA – Ooops! Hit the submit button, how do I do that??? Lol!

                                                                        That is so terribly sad! I get it! I want to say something to make you feel better about it, but I know I can’t. But I hope it helps when I say and genuinely mean – I get it!  


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                                                                          Wow, that’s so sad. =(

                                                                          I have a couple of incidents where someone else put their “foot in their mouth” with me.

                                                                          I wasn’t a traditional student when I started undergrad. And when I say that, I was married before I first enrolled. In order to get the ball rolling, I had to come in to fill out some paperwork and register for my first semester. My husband came with me. Now he is older than me, but only by 6 years. Well we walk into this lady’s office and sit down. Two seconds later she said, who’s this? Is this “dad”? o_O

                                                                          Then there was the time I was working at my retail job. Did I tell you guys this one? I was holding a large tray of earrings on my hip (like you hold a laundry basket) as I was restocking a fixture. A woman approached me wishing to purchase something so I had her follow me to the cash register. As I walked, she asked me how I was feeling. I thought that was a strange thing to ask. Did she think I was sick or something? I gave her a puzzled look and then she said “you know, besides feeling round’. Round? ROUND?! Turns out this stupid woman thought I was pregnant. How rude!


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                                                                            Dethroned I would have done the same.  There was this drunk who cut directly across in front of me to reach the bar.  I turned around parked right next to him got out cussed him out kicked a dent in his door for good measure. 

                                                                            He was apologizing.  He probably didnt remember it the next day   and wondered where the dent in his door came from lol

                                                                            My 5 year old was in the car is why I was so upset.

                                                                            For instance the ride for hubby came at 11:30 instead of 12:30.  They never called came to front desk nothing.  Hubby missed his eye surgery.   Are having to reschedule because of this.  The least the service could have done was call or come into the facility to the front desk and inquire of hubby’s whereabouts.  Plus the next day he had a ride scheduled n I never got a call that the ride service never got the Dr. approval for a paralift van for the wheelchair. 

                                                                            I totally lost it.       I went off what is embarrassing is after I cool off.  All the cussing n swearing I did.  And who heard me. Any other time you wont hear words like that leave my mouth. I hate hearing others use these words.  Yet when enraged whoa.

                                                                            I get that from my mom  I said gee thanks mom lol

                                                                            Isnt it funny tho how we so casually accept damnit over f u.  Yet damnit to hell is a much more powerful word.  Seriously.  f u is just plain ugly tho  I hate hearing that.  I am working on my issue  My neighbor yes he heard me one day said when you get older you will mellow out   lol  I hope so lol


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                                                                              LOL, I don’t know about age mellowing BT. I am in my 50’s now and whilst I don’t spin off my axis nearly as much when I do I use the whole rainbow of colourful vernacular many that I did not use in my 30’s and 40’s. I have gotten very good at using it in helpful suggestion and descriptive diatribes.


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                                                                                Oh I just remembered one from my army days. I was on the guard duty shift one Friday night with a loung Lieutenant. The phone in the watch house kept ringing and there was a breather on the other end. The lieu’ie didn’t want to know about it and let me deal with it, each call I got a little more colourful and creative, finally after a bout the 5th time I put down the phone and laughing said to the officer, “Gee, aren’t we going to look like idiots if its some poor barstand in the admin building having a heart attack” a few seconds later the phone rings again and a weak voice managers to quiver out between gasps, “help me, heart attack, admin build” then he obviously passed out before he could say which floor. Officer sprinted for the building to start the search whilst I called an ambulance and grabbed the first aid kit. We found him and he survived.


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                                                                                  I tend to be a complete sweetie pie who just swears a lot.   I really hate conflicts and I’m very shy. If someone gets my order wrong, I usually won’t say anything. I will just grumble and complain quietly. The only exception is when I’m driving. I’m one of those drivers who is adamant that 90% of people can’t drive. I tend to scream and swear at other drivers. They usually can’t hear me but it makes me feel better.

                                                                                  But anyhoo, I think Thumper says it best and is the best advice for here on Binky Bunny:

                                                                                   


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                                                                                    LPT — my grandmother was kindof like that. At home, she would cover her mouth and whisper if she said even a semi-bad word. Put her behind the wheel of a car, and words came out of her mouth that I didn’t even know she knew!


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                                                                                      Yeah….I don’t curse much because I have kids around and church and all but man oh man, I just lose my head when I get scared for the kids or hubs. Especially the kids.
                                                                                      If I get really really scared, I seem angry but it’s because I’m terrified.
                                                                                      I agree with the dammit acceptable but not FU. I draw the line with the GD though.
                                                                                      Maybe partly as well because dammit is a general statement where FU is a direct personal statement.
                                                                                      I have let a “F that” fly from time to time when I’m really scared for someone.


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                                                                                        OMG Roberta!!
                                                                                        That’s almost like a weird premonition.


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                                                                                          I have a terrible potty mouth! Every sentence includes a swear word BUT!!! I never use bad language directly at someone when I am angry – ever!
                                                                                          I even hate people saying shut up in anger – it’s super rude! But I will say ‘shut the f up’ if I’m joking, playing around. I find bad language unoffensive when used correctly in fun and general conversation – why I never use it in anger. Also, my poor language is always used at home – never when I’m out and about. You don’t wanna know what I really call Henry??? Let alone my hubby…..Ha ha ha!


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                                                                                            I called QueenB a QueenB word today because after I took DM back to his room, it took her about 2 minutes to dig a hole halfway to China in my floor.

                                                                                            {>.<}

                                                                                            I may just move him back in permanently tomorrow.


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                                                                                              Okay I’ll add a teeny tiny confession…

                                                                                              A year or two ago I took my niece to the fair. It was me, my young niece, my little sister, and another little girl. We were waiting in line to go on a ride. I was hot and exhausted (It was mid July) and Thirsty. Well there was like this “gang” of guys in line behind us. Smoking (They were standing right behind us and the wind was blowing the smoke right in our faces!), wearing those baggy pants that are so low you can see like half their boxers, covered in tattoos, and pretty much every other word were swears! Well This goes on for like 10 minutes and I’m sick of it. I whip around and give them the “Icy glare of impending doom if you don’t shut the heck up in 2 seconds” with a scowl on my face. I probably looked so terrifying, although I’m like 5’5” on a good day lol. They shut up immediately, put out their cigarettes, and apologized. Although they thought I was their mother?

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