The vent

My husband "fixed" my computer and now nothing works.

I am having one of THOSE days. I keep getting other people's fuckups and problems in my lap. Or other people attempting to fuck up my day.

Moron companies refusing to deliver goods and not answering emails, suppliers fucking up orders, new systems that should work not working, everything is late or delayed, idiot customers grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Actually the real issue is that my 10 year old started at the gymnasium last week. He is on Ritalin for behaviour problems, so we told the school. He has just been away on the induction week. The Ritalin wears off around 1pm which is enough usually but apparently he has been a nightmare every afternoon, and we have been called in for our first "special" meeting with the school next week. This is a double-hit for me. As well as the issue itself, it means the wife will be extra-bonkers, extra-crabby and we WILL have a pointless row about the issue even though I see fuck all we can do about it. So my weekend is fucked and it hasn't even started yet. Shit.

I am really really pissed, there is a company who I have longed to work for, and last Friday I was advised that I have scored an interview with them for this afternoon, i had to reply back to the email and accept and another email would come with confirmation details. Well I got an email on Wednesday saying that the position was already filled, so I replied to that as this one was in English the other was in Deutsch, and asked if there was a mistake, I also have called, Wednesday, Thursday and today and left messages, well I just called again as it was meant to happen at 5pm today to be told that position was filled, and that they tried to call me and email me... yeah right well why didnt you write that in the email you sent me on wednesday that it is now cancelled, what email sir, the one you sent saying it has been filled... oh i am so pissed off. I have spent the week researching as much as I could, what a waste.

An engineer on our team, when challenged as to the structural integrity and strength of his design proposal for mounting some equipment on an aircraft replied, "i know it's not a jet and is an aircraft with turboprops ( propellers ) and only flies slowly so designs don't need to be as strong "

Still, means more room in the office for other people after today

Church bells

I fucking hate them!

I am so annoyed with my job right now. It's like I'm fucking getting punished with a shit schedule with shit tours because I can do the fucking bike tour and no one else can...or alternatively because certain guides can only do certain tours. This fucking sucks.

United Airline's customer service sucks.

Son of a fucking bitch! God damnit! I'm going to kill him if I ever fucking find him! So, I needed three legal documents translated from English to German and am kind of in a hurry to have them completed. Two of the three are only one page and the third is about 13 or 15 pages, I forget which. Anyway, I spent an afternoon calling around trying to find someone to do this in a reasonable amount of time. Most promised a two week turn around so I accepted this and took the documents to a guy which a colleague recommended. This was at the beginning of fucking September, September 6 to be exact. We agreed that he would have the documents translated and ready for me to pick up on Friday, Sept. 22 (a little over two weeks). So, on my way home from Frankfurt, I call him up to tell him that I am running a bit late and ask if I could pick them up the following day (Saturday) instead. He then tells me that he has not had a chance to finish them and would I mind giving him a few more days. I agree and we say the Wednesday is the due date and that Mr. ajohnson will drop by to pick them up. Well, Wednesday comes and goes and guess what...no fucking translation! So here we are more than 4 weeks after the original drop off and I still don't have my documents. The fucker is not answering his office phone and has not returned any of my calls or emails in over a week. No auto response saying he's on vacation, no contact whatsoever. So, argh! fucking hell! mother fucker! I need my god damn documents and I need them NOW!

Shit! I got an f%cking speeding yesterday morning and I'm still hopping mad! And, you ask, how is it possible to speed within Munich city limits with all this freaking construction?! Who knows. All I know is that I was irritated and I switched lanes and punched the gas and that brought me up to 83kph in a 50 zone. Got a ticket, but luckily, did not lose my license for a month. I'm just angry because I was late for work and I took a back street because I have been sitting in shitloads of traffic all week (on Ingolstadterstrasse) because of construction and then there was construction on the back way too!
Grrrrrrr!!!

Angry... argh
thanks to the fuckwit that pushed over my new motorbike causing about 1500yoyos of damage. If I ever find out who you are I'll beat the fucking life out of you ! - ah, thats better ...!

Why in the bloody world does people have cell phones if they are neve going to answer them!!! Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

was up most of the night with a sick baby, at 8 am I stummbled into the kitchen to make a coffee, dropped the cup on my knee and ended up in the hospital with three stiches in my leg

My baby is still sick and I feel like shit too. I hate today

Sorry to hear that, honey, you are unlucky with knees. What's up with the baby?

He has a chest infection and a fever. But my husband is home so he can deal with the groceries today so I don't have to leave the house

Right now I am absolutely pissed off, and DISGUSTED!!!

Not sure if I am pissed off with mankind or the Germans??!! Or even myself?

I was on a very important call to the embassy, and heard someone outside calling "Hello, hello..." all the time. Eventually looked out the window to see that the old man (about 70yrs ol, in a wheelchair normally)was sitting on his doorstep calling outfor someone to help him.

I thought ok, his wife is probably inside and will hear him soon. I also thought to mayself that he is probably also a bit confused, as old sickly people sometimes are, as he was taken off in the ambulance the other morning anyway.

So... continued my telephone, as I have been trying to get hold of them for a few days now. And besides that, saw some peolpe walkinh down the street, and assumed that they would help him! Yeah f-ing right!!!

The guy continued calling, and moving towards the sidewalk for about 10 minutes while eveyone walked past him, plus its a very busy street so, 1) its dangerous, and 2) you would think maybe someone would stop to help, and 3) I'm torn between ending my call and running out to help him, or finishing my urgent conversation. [/b]

anyways, eventually finished the call, run downstairs and into the pub 50 meters away on the corner to ask the keeper to assist me with the old man.

His response: " Where is the man's wife? Just go ring the bell, she should be there."

I explain, but she's obviously not, and please help me as I am to small to lift him!

He replies: " No, go ring the bell... Ah, there the wife comes"

She returns with shopping cart. I go over to offer assistance. Ask if theres anything else I can do.

And the BITCH turns around and shouts : "No, we dont need your help, and scolds the old man for his wet pants.

At that point I was so astonished that my limited German failed me, and I turned around and walked away.

Sorry, about the long post, but just needed to get out of my system.

However, this just made me think, If something should happen to me, they would probably leave me on the bloody street to die! I will never again offer to assist someone here, as its always been spat right back in my face!
as of now THEY CAN ALL LECK MICH AM ARSCH!!!

I share a printer with a colleague and apparently she finds the smell of it printing so offensive (I can't smell it myself) that every single time I print something she rips open the window and sticks her head outside, so as to avoid these lethal printing fumes.

Push her.

print one page every 5 minutes. for the whole day. or get up and complain about the draught. "es ziehhhtttt ich kriege eine erkältung!"

We went to the tip the other day to dispose of an old plastic water-barrel liner that was used to collect rain water from the roof. It was drained and wrapped in a plastic disposal bag. The following conversation ensued:

Tip: "oooooooooooooy, what is that"
Us: a flexible plastic, waterproof liner
Tip: You cannot leave that here
Us: Why?
Tip: That fits in your dustbin, thats why
Us: It would fill the dustbin on its own, what are we supposed to do with our household waste
Tip: Put it in bags next to your dustbin
Us: (pointing at the waste that people had left behind). Well, thats an old lamp, that can go in the dustbin and so can those old sofa cushions, etc
Tip: That stuff is different
Us: There is an empty beer crate there, that should go to the Getranke Markt, surely. If one can leave a beer crate here, then do we take our liner to the Getranke Markt?
Tip: (after a 10 minute conversation) Well, you can leave your liner here but it will cost you 2.50euros
Us: Why did you not say that at the beginning of the conversation?
Tip: You did not ask!!!

Why not tell me that it will cost 2.50 euros before getting into a protracted conversation about what can and cannot be left at the tip for free? The allied intelligence services seem to be more free with their dissemenation of information than municipal workers are in Germany!

My brother & I recently emptied my mother's house in Cheshire - one could
take ANYTHING to the local tip & dump it for no charge (as a private person).

And they wonder why people here just dump their refuse. We live on edge of a
town in area with green fields etc. There is a (road) crossing with recycling
containers. Regularly mounds of rubbish appear NEXT to the containers
and every week its taken away . AT least the sign says "VERBOTEN" has also gone...

The janitor has been running our heaters full-blast at work for the last 10 days to make sure that they work and my secret stash of comfort chocolates melted into grainy lumps. I will be in a bad mood for the rest of the week.

My boyfriend wore my curvy jeans by accident yesterday and now they're all stretched out. Apparently they look like this other pair he has and he recognized that they were tighter than normal, but wore them anyways. Grrrr

Hopefully they'll go back to normal after a hot wash, otherwise he'll have to buy me new ones.

Oh yeah,
and the KVR is filled by a bunch of simpletons. I was there 2 weeks ago to get my work permit extended because the HR department here screwed up the paperwork last year and so it was only issued until the end of October when really my contract goes until the end of November.

I gave him the newer contract and he said he had to have it checked by the Arbeitsamt once again. So I waited. I called yesterday and asked if an answer had come back yet and his colleague said, "oh, but you didn't fill out the Stellenbeschreibung form." So in a panic I had the HR fill it out, sent like 16 pages of forms, Zeugnisse, etc. through the fax machine so that they could have it checked before October runs out.

The stupid woman calls me back 5 minutes ago and says, "but the forms you sent are from your old work??"

And I said, "yes, I have another month's employment here but my visa only goes until the end of October."

And she replies, "oh, you didn't have to do all that, we can extend it no problem. You just have to worry about what you're doing after December."

No shit Sherlock. Why didn't the guy just extend it while I was there? Now I have to go all the way back there, and once again when my new employment takes foot. God dammit.

Looked out the kitchen window this morning and there was a big muddy patch in my front garden. Didn't think much of it just thought because of the heavy rain it had waterlogged it a bit.

Came home from shopping about half hour ago and there was about 4 drain people vans outside the house and the garden was 10 times worse and full of POO!!! Turns out a main sewer pipe had blocked and overflowed into mine and a couple of neighbours gardens!!

Also spent an hour this morning searching the utility room for a poo because it stunk and I thought the kittens and messed somewhere!!!

Not a good day!

I have just been told by a friend of mine that I am not unique and that there are probably a dozen arshoo's around!!! * shattered *

I hate sugar beet trucks. Theres a sugar factory up the road and for the next 2 months I am going to be driving 30 kph. I hate 'em!

If you need glasses, wear them! I get so frigging tired of my co-worker bending down with her nose within two inches off whatever document we are discussing because she can't be bothered to put her glasses on.
P.S. This is not the paranoid control freak, it's the helpless can't think for herself one.

If I have a 3 year scholarship and I've only been receiving it for 8 months why stop paying me for 4 months and start up again at month 12!!!

Some fooking cnut has been bloody drilling all fucking day on and off

The thing is sending me mad and the problem is i live in an 8 storey block so it travels through the walls and you can't tell exactly where it's coming from or i would smack the twat !

AHHHHHHHH!!! ok so i find the ultimate aupair job on a site, family sends me a little thumbs up thing to say they want me, then website says to get contact details of this family one of you must pay us money or you are doomed to send green thumbs to each other and nothing more..FOREVERRRR stupid bloody fricken thing... anyone got a membership to greataupair??? oh yea and to top it off i have until next tuesday to get out of the house im at now AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Personal FUCKING space! At the gym today, I got there early, but my mat down with my towel, and 2 others had to fucking move right inbeside me, there was harldy enough room to to proper kicks and such, but, jeez, there is enough room, spread out, we don't have to stand on top of each other!

so i parked my car in one of those one hour allowed parking zones came back one hours time and adjusted my parking schein for another hour . a ticket inspector saw me came running over and told me its not allowed to do this or a get a fine then he said if i move my car forwards one meter then i can start my park schein at the new time. which i did but came walking away thinking these german rules are getting on my tits why does everything got to be done by the book?

To be fair, if you tried feeding the meter in Britain, which is what your doing effectively, you would get a fine. You're supposed to move on to give someone else a chance to park, so I reckon you did well!

Son of a f§"$§/%$!!! Someone moved my halloween cookie cutters and frosting stuff, and while trying to see if it had been put on top of the refridgerator the bag of dry cat food fell on top of me. Someone didn't close the f*cking bag!!!
Now I smell like frigging cat food, still don't have the halloween cookie cutters, have to take a shower, change into something clean that matches everything else already packed, and still get my eyes checked and run into town before leaving in 2.5 hours. grrr .
WHY do people move things??? Especially MY things - grrr .
And now that cats are looking at me cuz I smell like dry cat food. ARGH!

EDIT - Guess where the stupid things were? yes, up on top of the fridge, behind the cat food, where I can't reach

OK, I'll see your dry cat food bag and up you a burst (very full) garbage bag that I tossed into the bin on the way to the bus-stop. I managed to catch the bottom and dump the bag in but not before a jar of fermenting Mumbai curry mix smashed on the ground. I had to clean it up with old papers and cut my finger and got curry all over my hands. Looked like frigging henna tattoos. Still smelled better than cat food.

AOL.COM - what a bunch of arseholes they really are. Stuipid overzealous email filters mean EVERY bloody day my customers are nagging that they do not have an order confirmation. Totally bloody useless waste of all our time and makes my company look crap when I have nothing to do with AOL.

Anyone who has an AOL.COM needs a smack in the mouth and some education.

I've been on and off hold with United for the last 40 mins.

Fucking German Cunts (and you all know how much I hate this word) at my gym, get to class early today (9:15), the gym opens at 9, so its been closed up all night since last nights TaeBo Class (if you ever done TaeBo you know you work up a sweat), so anyways, its warm and stinky in the classroom, so I go to tip the window, right by where I will be working out (I need fresh air), this old bittie jumps all over me, its not summer, we will all get pneumonia from the open window, it drafts, and we will all die. So I slam the window shut, look at her and say, No, only the sick in the head germans believe that, otherwise, all those in northern climates would be dead. But I still wish you a good day, and what a wonderful welcome to someone new to your class.
Once the class was over, I opened the window wide, and took in a deep breath of fresh air, and said, now, that is good air, not the stale sticky air that is in here.

We sent an email to the Datenschutz office in July and have been regularly following up on it, and getting the usual run-around. I was told that this office is an independent agency and that they would handle all matters seriously etc. I was extra nice to them every week when I called them. Two weeks ago I was told their response is ready but it was on the boss's desk, waiting for the his signature. One week ago the boss tells me that it has been sent off. Then they tell me that the letter has gone to the 'schreib' /typing department. Then the mail just takes so long. So today I finally blew up and asked if it is so difficult for them to use modern technology and if I needed to engage a lawyer. Well, that got the lady mad. She wanted to know if I was threatening. I said that I just wanted to know what I have do in this country to get a reply to my letter and that I do not threaten; if I want to hire a lawyer, I would just do so. An hour later she sent me the email(they do not have my home address). When I think of the time she has spent talking to me and coming up with lame excuses, I think what a waste of taxpayer money. What's more she should have done a more thorough investigation of the problem. Now I have to respond and go through the same circus again. What a lovely system! And they have the nerve to complain about not being able to get things done in third world countries.

bloody rest of the world, why aren't they cafflick and so have the day off? i have had 3 hours to myself today. 3 hours. it's a holiday!

and lawyers why do they love the sound of their voices when it just bores us?

screw 'em. next call at 9 and by then i aim to have polished off most of a bottle of wine. that'll teach them.

Really didn't think this week could get any worse

Got up this morning and my coffee machine just won't work...

Washed my hair and my hair dryer started smoking and died a death and now I look like wurzel gummidge!

Then to top it all someone must have flicked the switch to the freezer a couple of days a go and everything is all mushy!



Stop the world - I want to get off

It's bad karma coming back to you. You must have done something really, really reprehensible in the last seven days ...

Bastard cat keeps puking in the house. 90% of the house is tiled but the little fucker still keeps managing to puke on the carpet or rugs.

Always a pleasure to get up for a wee in the night and step in cat pizza.

My mother called a half an hour ago as I was walking out the door to get my pop and she's been talking nonstop ever since. damn it. I just want her to stop talking...but even when I try to interrupt her, she manages to just carry on as if I didn't say anything...I'm hungry and want a Coke Zero...

This morning when we were getting ready to walk out the door my littlest one needed to use the toilet. I was standing behind him to ensure no mess and my other son came in the washroom and said something. the little one turned around to see what the oldest one was talking about and peed all over my leg

GERR!!

It's freezing outside, and has a nice wind chill. I live out where there is no bus and/or no ubahn/sbahn. I have to have a bike to get where I'm going. I rode my bike to the bus stop, locked it (checked it 3 times!) where there were other bikes. Rode the bus to work and came back.

The bike WAS NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. Lock broken, bike obviously stolen.

Yeah, I was angry. What made me more so? I went to the police office to make a report so insurance *might* cover it. I tell him in German what happened, and he asks me...

"So, do you know who has the bike then?"

GERR...

and gives me an internet website to file the report on (The WRONG internet website), says he speaks no english (duh - I was fine with his German) and walks away.

Meanwhile, I'm left to walk home in the cold and dark, and not even a police report filed because the police person is a dumbass.

No, I don't actually expect them to look and/or find the bike. I did, however, not expect such a stupid response from that police person.

~Rose

The days are only getting better, the littlest boy woke up at 3.15 with an earache. After a very long nightwe headed to the docs at 7.30. In the parking garage he pukes all over both of us. My neighbour walks right by us while he is puking and doesn't even glance in my direction to see if I could possibly use some help. . I felt like bringing the baby over to his parking space and letting him puke there.

Just watched a great movie with great music in the movie. Then check soundtrack and music is not on the soundtrack...

A ground floor apartment received a new shower this week (no shower or bath in there up to now, built 1955) and the plumber mis-plumbed, resulting in a burst pipe and water dripping - yep - right on the boiler electronics.
NO hot water, NO heat and NO frigging janitor putting up a sign informing people coming home at 6pm about the disturbance.
We are hopping mad, but at least that keeps us warm. Thanks to Crawlie I have a nice fleecy electric blanket for Haggis Junior, and Scogs got electric blankets for us this week - they have yet to prove effective, no heat off them yesterday .
Tip: If your heating does not work in weather like this you are entitled to withhold the rent for the duration of the disturbance.

I am extremely happy to say that the heating was fixed by 3pm today. Ah, the nostalgic feeling of boiling water in the kettle, mixing it with cold water in the 1 liter plastic container we acquired at the George Michael concert and washing my hair over the kitchen sink ... Made me feel like a student again.