I decided to use a WaWa gift card to buy gas the other day. I swiped the card and I was automatically assigned “Premium” as my gas option.
I don’t want, need or use premium gas. I don’t really think anybody needs premium gas but that’s a different complaint altogether.
My biggest complaint about the WaWa gift […]

My kids got me two extra XBox controllers for my birthday. OK, so my husband got them so the kids could give them to me without me turning my nose up at them.
The idea was a good one actually. But to hear him tell it makes it sound even better, “If we play as a […]

Up since 7:00am. In line at 9:00am… 15 kids deep already.
9:45… 15 minutes till sowtime and then the elves have to break the news. “Santa’s sick. He won’t be here until 12:30.”
You must be kidding. An elaborate operation like this and there’s no backup? You didn’t know Santa was hungover at 9:00 when we […]

My biggest complaint about going home for the holidays is not the 5, 6 or 7 hour drive depending on traffic and stops. My complaint about going home for the holidays is not about paying $3.00 a gallon for gas either. And, believe it or not, my complaint about going home for the holidays is […]

For one week I have felt like absolute crap. Yesterday, I even thought I might have an illness like SADS or something.
My husband offered to make coffee this morning. He then yelled to me, “Where’s the coffee? We don’t have any.”
“It’s right where it always is.” I yelled back to him. He can never find […]

I’ve seen this post about not bagging things that need to be bagged at the grocery store and I agree with it 100%. Give me a bag for my milk. Give me a bag for everything that needs a bag, don’t cheap out on the bags.
However, don’t go to the other extreme and go bag […]

In general, anyone of the classic Charlie Brown animated features is horribly depressing. No more so than “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.
Could there be a more convoluted, un-halloweenish story? I’ve seen it probably 20 times by now and I still don’t understand why this is considered a children’s story. As I said, all of […]

I’m sitting here watching a show half falling asleep and a commercial comes on with two 40 year old women in a clothing store laughing hysterically at each other.
Then I find out it’s an ad for Poise Bladder Control Pads.
I turned to my husband and asked, “What the hell was that? Were they laughing so […]

Years ago when Hooters caught hell for being what it is - a tits and ass show, the defense started playing hardball and the corporate execs of the tits and ass show decided to label the restaurant chain as a “Family Restaurant”.
The whole plan started to work and people and cities that were bitching about […]

Please. How about “Anything But Gentlemen’s Club”.
Gentlemen treat women with respect.
Gentlemen do not sit around stuffing dollar bills in women’s crotches while getting slam drunk with their buds. Gentlemen do not eat lunch or dinner at strip clubs so they can get the buffet while watching some strange woman earn her keep swinging from a […]

My husband converted our home computer to Linux about a year ago. I’m not a geek by any stretch of the imagination but “Ubuntu” is more than just fun to say.
We started using Skype a few months ago and everything works great except video will not work with Skype on Linux. Chat programs we used […]

I wouldn’t mind being your friend and telling you all about my summer vacation or my kids if you didn’t have my jaw pried open and you weren’t sucking spit out of my mouth every 10 seconds.
Are you this chatty with people who you’re not working on or is this a dental office game you […]

Smoking in a restaurant or other public place is one thing, smoking on the beach is another. Few things stick out like the completely unnatural smell of cigarette smoke or pipe smoke at the beach.
Even the considerate smoker, and yes I do think there is such a thing, can’t keep the cool sea breezes from […]

Are you one of these people? If so please explain to me why you can’t pry yourself away from the phone for just 5 minutes so that your child has your undivided attention before saying goodbye to you.
I see this all the time when I take my son to pre-school in the morning and I […]

I had to search for a new FM transmitter for my iPod after my old faithful iTrip was smashed because of my husband’s carelessness. My husband had an Apple gift card and thought he would make a step up in price this time and decided on the Belkin TuneBase FM Transmitter for my iPod.
I suppose […]

I have a neighbor who shows up with her kids as I’m fixing dinner about 15 minutes before we eat. About a month ago we invited them to join us for a meal and since then they have started to conveniently drop by the house before dinner at least once a week. What’s […]

Can someone with this job show up on time? No they can’t so take my advice and take your team pics with your own camera.
I scheduled pictures for my four year old son’s soccer team. This was easy- the soccer league gave me one photographer to contact. The photographer agreed to […]