Pet Peeves 12

When Tide won't get it out and you can't Shout it out, Fug it.

We can't stop here, this is BBQ country!

formattc said:   Me, my life...

Everything always has to be about you, doesn't it?

morecowbell said:   ganda said:   We can't stop here, this is BBQ country!ok, i just got this still haven't.

<sigh, off to google>

okay...it's been 13 years since I read the book. My bad

I lost a button from my sweater this morning. The sweater probably came with a spare, but it's unlikely that I'll be able to find it in my big box of buttons. I always seem to have extra buttons for everything except the garment that lost the button.

sublimosa said:   moonbeam said:   I lost a button from my sweater this morning. The sweater probably came with a spare, but it's unlikely that I'll be able to find it in my big box of buttons. I always seem to have extra buttons for everything except the garment that lost the button.
There's a trick for this that I've wanted to try but not gotten around to-you buy one of those small photo books and slide the spare button in a sleeve along with a card with a description of the garment it belongs with
I really like the idea, just have to buy the photo album
on the other hand, it is very convenient when the spare button is sewn on the inside of the garment-no losing/confusing the buttons that way
although garments that do that are usually so well sewn that the buttons never fall off

Lands' End sews the button in the side seam. I really like that, although sometimes it's itchy. As far as the album, I have WAY too many clothes for that to be practical.

sublimosa said:   people who change appointment times without regard to how it affects the other parties (as in, myself) and mucks up my schedule

I agree. It's really annoying. Last minute meeting cancellations also irritate me. It's so disrespectful of the other person.

When I arrived at the dentist office last week, the receptionist insisted that my appointment was at a later time, even though I had the appointment card and I called two days earlier to confirm the time. Obviously someone changed it without bothering to check with me or even let me know. So I had to sit and wait an extra half hour.

I also have one doctor who NEVER sticks to his appointment schedule. He sees patients out of order and is always way behind schedule. The last time I saw him he commented that my blood pressure was borderline high. Yeah, I wonder why. I've been sitting here seething for the past hour and a half.

HorB said:   the person who NEVER offers to drive and ALWAYS tells me
what a bad driver I am,
why I am not going the right way,
that I don't use my windshield wipers at the correct speed,
and that the time to turn my defroster on is when HE can't see.

LOL, HorB, I had one of those, too. I drove to an out of town training and a colleague from another city wanted to ride with me from the office back to the hotel. Fine. I could do her a favor. Then she kept me waiting for a ridiculous amount of time while she chatted with some other people. I went to the restroom while I waited and then she threw a huge fit because she had to wait for me to pee. She ranted and raved on the way back to the hotel about how much I had inconvenienced her. I seriously considered pulling over and dumping her out on the side of the road. Then she had the nerve to demand a ride the next day. Of course I told her no.

got nothing done yesterday after work

moonbeam said:   morecowbell said:   got nothing done yesterday after work

Not quite nothing but I'm certainly not working at full capacity so far this week. The weather is cloudy/rainy and I don't feel like doing anything but napping.Yeah.. days like these I dont feel like going to gym. I feel like drinking coffee while listening to rain/lightning.. (is that a good excuse for not going to gym? If not then I'll say I have to pack bags.)

moonbeam said:   KayK said:   moonbeam said:   morecowbell said:   got nothing done yesterday after work

Not quite nothing but I'm certainly not working at full capacity so far this week. The weather is cloudy/rainy and I don't feel like doing anything but napping.Yeah.. days like these I dont feel like going to gym. I feel like drinking coffee while listening to rain/lightning.. (is that a good excuse for not going to gym? If not then I'll say I have to pack bags.)

My gym is right in my apartment building, so I really don't have a good excuse for not going. Plenty of lame excuses though. i actually did go to the gym. after that was when i got nothing done

since gym girl doesn't use this gym anymore i actually had to focus on working out

Not in the mood for people's stupid-ass shit this morning.

Sometimes I can just look at the list of meeting invitees on an outlook meeting and know it's going to be miserable. Usually when the list is long and the people seem only tangentially related to the topic at hand.

Thanks SO much for your help Shaletha. I'm impressed that you can rattle off your company specified denial codes without having to look them up. And I apologize for not knowing what a 4C denial is. I deal with more than 50 insurance companies, so it's a little difficult for me to memorize ALL the codes for each one. Even trickier when the code is not listed on the EOB.

Oh, and when the provider EOB states that the patient liability is zero, imagine my surprise when you state that the EOB does NOT state that. Again, I will be happy to fax this to you so you can see what I see.

I'm still a little unclear on how it is my fault that the patient did not respond to the pre-existing condition questionnaire since I was not copied on any correspondence between your company and the patient. And since "preauthorization does not guarantee payment," I'm not sure how I could have prevented the patient from having surgery on a condition that your company has determined was pre-existing...but was unwilling to make that determination prior to surgery. I know I'm completely stupid, but when a patient has had their policy for over 2 years, I'm not sure how a bad gallbladder can come up pre-x.

And, finally, thanks for spending 45 minutes with me on the phone. I appreciate that only 24 minutes of that time was me being on hold.

mystery('s BS, )Again

I just paid my DS's tuition for summer semester. It hurt. It really hurt.

I just got 2 shipping notice emails for things that were delivered 3 hours ago.

Maybe he assumes you have more, which in your case isn't a bad guess. You might have a closet full.

Sigh. Drives me nuts when people are disrespectful to their significant others. Now I've turned into that person. I'm sorry honey,but you have worn me down and I much prefer the pet name of "jackass".

packratmarty said:   Sigh. Drives me nuts when people are disrespectful to their significant others. Now I've turned into that person. I'm sorry honey,but you have worn me down and I much prefer the pet name of "jackass".

"don't be menan, you don't have to be mean, because no matter where you go, there you are. "

-buckaroo banzai

ZenNUTS said:   soundtechie said:   JorgeBurrito said:   Mods locking topics just as they begin to get good.

Like I said before, mods never lock a topic due to a religion post, they only lock the topic when you respond to such a post. They coulda sat there and talked about religion being the cause of the worlds woes, they could have said God doesn't exist, they could have said all believers are delusional, and those mods would never have locked it in a million years.Ask the mod for a dedicated thread.

Do we really need a dedicated thread about marrying your cousin?