We are sitting next to the world's most annoying couple. I will elaborate more when I'm home with a keyboard, but it beats Jesse's racist story.

I still think I am an extrovert, but each day I become far more particular about the people I will socialize with. It would be a lot easier if people would wear hats that marked them as bat shit crazy, or loves animals and books, or quilting fan. I did meet with one of my practice managers and he had a you know what kind of red cap behind his desk. Kept right on the business only topics with that one.

Be careful with how you word that, Tep.

Ha! Fair point.

Okay, so these people were already super-irritating because I was in a bad mood, and they were loud and constant talkers. Until the man began reading the names of the Thai dishes loudly and wrongly. Either he had no idea how to pronounce them, or he was exaggerating for effect.

Then, the waitress came to take their order. It was the same waitress we had, and she had a very heavy Japanese accent. The man said something along the lines of, "We want Reee Keee Raaaa." The waitress looked puzzled, and the guy repeated it, even louder. She still had no idea what he wanted.

Ha ha! He was saying made-up words! They wanted salmon teriyaki!

I could tell he was bullshitting her because I'm pretty familiar with Thai food, and also because his lady companion was swatting at him and playfully saying "Stop! *giggle* Stop!"

The part that I will eventually find funny is when the woman was recounting the plot of Little Miss Sunshine, and the guy asked if the kid won the pageant, and the woman said, "No! Because she was *mouths word* fat." Accompanied by a little glance over at me.

Like, lady, so many things wrong with that. It's not a dirty word. I can still hear you because you're sitting right next to me. And the bit where you looked at me did not help your attempt at subtlety.

Everything & everyone is aggravating & I just do not have anything to spare. And now I have to call more roofers and contractors and I'm getting even madder at this quote because I specifically asked for creative solutions and they went with full redo because it is easier for them & more expensive. Lost me.

I'm so sorry, -t and sara.

Lyft changed some of the requirements around for me for the rental car 'bonus' -- which included that I had to have 25 rides in certain 'power hours' during the week. I fretted over that quite a lot on Monday... then because of the hours I did work, actually completed my 25 by late Thursday.

The rental is still a good deal, especially as my own car is just this side of not driveable. I'm actually (gack!) thinking of giving it up rather than try to get it through inspection, as I won't be able to drive it much in the coming summer months because the AC won't run for more than 15 minutes at a time.

Much as I don't want take on a car payment, it might make good sense for me to think about getting a car loan for a used car. SIGH.

No thanks to UPS, I delivered a misdelivered package to its rightful owners. Tip: when ups contracts to usps and usps misdelivers, ups is useless. They won't even give the sender an alert or pickup the package. But I figured out where the Beltran lived on Ellerslie and took it over (there was a typo or smudged label on the street number. But usps delivered to the wrong *street*.)

In conclusion, people are stupid.

Like, lady, so many things wrong with that. It's not a dirty word. I can still hear you because you're sitting right next to me. And the bit where you looked at me did not help your attempt at subtlety.

Oh ma gaaaaaaah. That is worse!

And I'm sorry about the steroid saga.

My sympathies, Sara.

And I'm sorry, -t.

And general hugs from your friendly, neighborhood lurker!Pix. I've been generally overwhelmed this school year and not around much as a result, but I skim as I can and still care a lot.

Oh dudes, I just almost got phished -- it was an iTunes invoice! And I've had so much financial fraud I was automatically like, "NOPE" and clicked through... and then I saw the site was a .ru so noped back out of there, too.