the fat lady has sung

[cornerofmadness]

I'm doing up grades as I type this. Tell me WHY if you had personal life problems that made you no longer able to attend school would you NOT officially drop out. Getting F's makes you ineligible for student loans when life allows you to return. I have one this is the second time they've done this to me!

Also, if you have NO idea how the post office works DO NOT go at holiday time on a Saturday (i was going to go yesterday but thanks to one professor turning the dept. meeting into hell I didn't get to). First off I park on a side road because the parking lot for the Jackson P.O. is on main street and you have to back out. that's not an easy task so I always park on the side road next to the church. Just as I get out of my car someone pulls in behind me and parks literally a half inch off my bumper and totally ignores me when it's obvious I need to get into my trunk which he has now made impossible. I wait for the idiot to go inside and STAND on his bumper to remove my packages. Now I have three boxes and five padded envelopes in hand, drop the envelopes on his car, manage to get them in hand and into the P.O. the line is out the door.

I am now in line behind someone in a heavy duty mask and she's so allergic to perfumes taht she asks me to hold her spot while she stands off to the side. She the idiot in front of her has apparently marinated in it, I say yes please. Said idiot now has NO clue what any postal rates are, can't decide on one. Doesn't understand that she has to PAY for insurance and fights about it (thank god the post mistress didn't try to offer her delivery confirmation) then doesn't have a mailing tag on the box and wants the Post Mistress to do it and can't seem to understand WHY she has to do it herself. Finally she goes to the side and Miss No Perfume Please darts in then back to my side (i'm not wearing any) and yells her requests. Finally she's gone and the idiot is still up there while I'm doing my business. She doesn't know the abbreviation for Florida so i have to tell her. It's FA right? NO! How do you get this old and be this stupid? (because she's 50 if she's a day).

but the upshot is the gifts are in the mail!


now to clean house.

Comments

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I got your Christmas card, btw. Thanks!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you're welcome

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Did you use this grading method?

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/12/a_guide_to_grad.html

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i might as well have

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

That just busted me up. The number of times I joked about that very method of grading!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i know

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

That reminds me: Let me know when you're returning to your own home from PA, because I want to send your Xmas box to your apartment, not make you tote it home from the parents' place. Yeah, it'll be late--and if it's going to be too late I might send it to PA anyway, but for now....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

January 4th. Don't worry about it. I'm toting the gifts that did come here TO PA and then back again because I l ike having them in one spot. YOURS still hasn't gone out because of that boxing problem. Kicks it. Might send in two boxes which would solve a problem I suspect

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I'll send stuff to PA, then. I should have it ready to send before New Year's, especially since a gift for Sharon morphed into a gift for you while I was working on it. As for whatever you're sending me, two boxes? You're scaring me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

actually it's not that much or that big it's just one is too long/fat to fit into a standard box.

and way to go morphing gift. more for me.

and actually there'll be one more for you eventually if i can ever figure out how to work it...

You, my dear, have encountered an Obliviot!

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

"How do you get this old and be this stupid?"

Because strong per-fumes kill brain cells? ;)

Ob-bli-vi-ot: (n), from the combination of the English 'oblivious' with 'idiot'; 1. One who walks about in a fog of ignorance and lack of care, often cutting in line, taking what isn't theirs and having a jolly time while others collapse/die in their sickly wake of odors/traffic/confusion.

Re: You, my dear, have encountered an Obliviot!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i like that term. And it's so fitting. I think i've met many of these, including the professor on Friday who made it necessary to brave the post office on a holiday build up weekend

[demonicamills.livejournal.com]

How do idiots survive this long?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they're too oblivious for stress to kill them