The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

Unrelated note *cough*: plain/ lemony/ chocolate cake or something else?

For reference, at 25 my chiropractor said my back looked like a 60 year old after only 5 years of service

Euo: Spice cake cupcakes with chocolate frosting.

Fine choice, mate.

But, then, you can't go wrong with chocolate icing, except on carrot cake.

I'm worried about my dad. He's 74, on more meds than a tiny cabinet can hold and with immunity issues care of his underlying heart condition.

And, he's flatly insisting on going to Crufts this weekend. Not to show any of the dogs (thank goodness), but just to be a merrily cantankerous ringside critic.

He thinks the containment protocols the committee are trying to put in place aren't going to work, but won't let a cold stop him.

Trying to talk him out of this is a non-starter, but if anybody is wearing a target for COVID-19, it's him. At Crufts. Where only show entrants with dogs known to be from blacklisted locations are being denied entry — the public spectators? No adequate control.

I wish I were just being paranoid, but I've been to Crufts often enough to know how bugs whip 'round the NEC. Hand-sanitizers (which are canine-toxic, by-the-by) aren't going to be a big help if the crowds are even halfway normal.

Edited by Euodiachloris on Mar 2nd 2020 at 2:04:56 PM

Stubborn parents: the bane of sensible children everywhere.

Would he wear a mask?

Nope. He's decided masks are germ magnets liable to pick everything up as he fiddles with them.

It's not totally without logic. But, he won't listen to other views. Or watch videos on how to wear masks, either.

Back in January sometime, I ordered a bow tie and matching hanky to wear at my wedding. It did not appear in my mailbox or on my doorstep and the resident service office didn't have it.

I filed a Where's My Package ticket with the post office and I was told it was delivered to the resident service office. Who still didn't have it and also were suddenly getting out of the package-holding courtesy.

So I contacted the company and I was told "check again, see if a neighbor has it". Obviously no, so I reordered it. And it didn't show up. And it turned out I accidentally autofilled my old address on that order.

So I went back to the company and said "nobody had it and also I accidently sent my replacement order to the wrong address and you may get it returned to sender". They asked if I wanted both orders refunded or if I still wanted the tie, and I said I wanted the tie if it could arrive by this Friday.

And then I didn't hear anything about a replacement shipment, so I placed a third order for just a tie with expedited shipping. It will arrive tomorrow.

Today they emailed me saying "hey, saw your new order. Added a hanky at no charge. Do you want the first two refunded?"

I think this is going to be okay, but it's cutting very close. I think after refunding the first two, it still works out to less than if I'd just bought a tie from the menswear shop I got my vest and pants from.

Welp, the company COVID-19 directive was handed down today at work. All employees who request it may work from home until further notice. The rest of us are on a rotation of working two days from home each week. It has been stressed that if we have any doubts about our health or exposure to COVID-19 to stay home. Because if someone who's been at work recently tests positive, the entire building will be shut down for 3 days for disinfection, and that person's floor will remain closed for two weeks. Really curious how long it'll take before that happens.

The fun part is, the way things are going, the peak of this thing is going to hit right during the financial quarter end. When my department normally works long hours and depends on data being sent from our subsidiaries in a timely fashion. Oh boy.

Also, for some reason, it's been decided that we can do casual dress for the rest of March.

... I turned 30 last week. I am now obligated to post here.

I'm 31 and I remember when Fast Eddie started this thread… 11 years ago? :skeletonface:

Though apparently I just lurked for a while. Can't find myself in the first ten pages, just a lot of cool people I don't see much anymore.

Edited by TParadox on Mar 15th 2020 at 12:35:57 PM

Man the weird days of tropes. How old is this section?

burinuu please see supply to be issued your 30+ kit. Aches and pains are usually pre-issued at this point.

First post was 2009.

...I've only been here for two years? Huh. Feels longer.

Edited by TheLovecraftian on Mar 16th 2020 at 7:29:25 AM

Tueful, I've already been issued shoulder pain, now I also have been issued "doctors telling me weird new changes to my body are normal". -_- My fiance is older than me but not quite there yet.

My missus is older as well and we make a grumbly morning orchestra.

My thirtieth is coming up just in time for my city to close alllllllll of the sit down restaurants, bars, and retail stores. x_x And since I work at a grocery store-slash-deli, I'm one of the few people still working! Oh well.

I got Breath of the Wild! It got fun once I stopped accidentally falling off cliffs! I spent an hour exploring before I got to the first shrine.

I knew it wasn't very responsible of me to try to go to Starbucks to do my sit, sip and read thing, but I did it, and today's the first day they're putting all the chairs against the wall and only doing grab and go.

So I went to a general use (not their) table outside to sit and sip my drink while I read.

Yeah work is kicking my ass (I work in dairy at Meijer, a midwest grocery chain). Upside is I can get a lot of hours now. And the day goes by fast.

My mom was helping me buy a condo but the seller is so afraid of Corona that they blocked off all showings until next week. The worst part is another buyer already saw it and put in a bid before the scare happened. -_-

We've run into an odd problem with working from home (and we're all working from home now).

We use a mainframe for the core of our business. My department doesn't input anything into it, but we need the reports it runs and we use it for reference. Well, interacting with it strictly key-based: no mouse. And several commands depend on the technical keys that tend to get left off keyboards that are less than full size. The company laptops sure don't have full keyboards, and a lot of home desktops don't either. So we're having to figure out the key-combos that work in place of the missing keys.

So glad that when I bought a mechanical keyboard, I decided to get a full one.

Work keeps getting a little more challenging each day. We are down to wearing masks when interacting and doing patrols. Doing a patrol in even a homemade mask frankly sucks. You can't breathe as well and it's hot. Not as bad as a gas mask or full-face respirator but unpleasant. I need to dig up a spray bottle so we can stop borrowing the janitor's bottle to wipe down our work space before our shift.

Other than that things have been going ok. Been keeping an eye on our one elderly neighbour periodically checking on her to make sure she is ok.

Now for some fun.Human's are weird. Told from a possible alien beings perspective.

Edited by TuefelHundenIV on Apr 19th 2020 at 8:42:50 AM

I love that thread.

Yeah I've been wearing a mask when I have to go out on the sales floor after my store opens (I start at 4am, it opens at 8am) and my mom made me a kickass Legend of Zelda-themed mask that has a picture of Link from Majora's Mask on it using some material she had. I also have my neck gator from the Army that I have been wearing in the cooler for like the last 4 years I worked there.

I'm just floored at how busy we are every day. I've noticed a lot of the same people show up every day and just browse. Fucking degenerates.

oh joy my first hemorrhoid thank you santa

this is only gonna get worse from here isn't it

Getting older sucks. Just keep it clean when it flares and get yourself Preparation H or the nearest equivalent.

The high heat can fuck right back off to hell. I want my cool rainy sort of spring back.