Sometimes it helps just to read about someone else's kerfufle.
This is amazing. There's this board for people into trucks. 19 year old kid offers to sell some new gears. Guy agrees to buy them, sends check. Kid cashes check. Then kid says that he made a typo - he meant to ask for $25 more, so he refuses to send the gears or refund the money. Kid goes back and edits his original post to show the higher $ amount he wants. Harsh language ensues. Fun stuff. Finally, kid sends the gears, but then admits that they are used, not new. That's as far as I've gotten. I can't wait to see what happens next.
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and now one of my neighbors is apparently washing every item of clothing he has ever owned in his entire life. There's like, 4 loads ahead of me. I might have to get up at ass o'clock to do it.
I probably need to go seek out really unpleasant gay people to balance my perceptions, but somehow that never manages to get a high priority on my list of things to do.
If you'd care to chaperone some of my dates, this would be easy as pie.
Re: colors
I certainly think that some people are more sensative to colors than others. I once had a weird argument with a props person about getting a bag to match a skirt. To me the skirt was clearly salmon, but they only thought in terms of pink or peach. Even holding up swatches of fabric which were to me clearly different colors didn't make this particular person grok the difference between pink, peach and salmon.
Now see, I wouldda thrown a swatch of coral to fuck with him even more.
weird, you KNEW it was a him!?!
Yup. I have had these issues with male prop people and directors when I costumed.
right now I am working on a show where the direction givewn was "Texas trailer trash", where everyTexas/western touch is hated by the director. Also, we are in tech rehearsal and they are bitching because we are still working on costumes. Sorry that tech rehearsal does not equal dress rehearsal, fuckers!
Hmmm... I may have some residual anger, but we are given no extra time to dress the actors, then screamed at because no costumes! We actually have them ready except for distressing!
