I'm kind of bored, does anyone have any drama or juicy secrets they want to talk about?

I just finished the third season of the wire on Sunday and I’m almost done with the 4th.
WHOAAAA
HOLY SHIT

My sisters husband cheated on her repeatedly. She decided to take him back if he quit drinking completely. She said a bunch of really nasty things to the woman the guy cheated with. I spent 6 hours yesterday writing a detailed legal document about why my sister did not deserve a restring order against this hoe-bag.

I had to have my dog euthanized. She was 17 years old with lymphoma. Vet got kicked by a bull so I had to wait for her to get back from the hospital.

This evening when I attempted to play badminton with my brother, my son, and my nephew I realized that I have absolutely horrible hand eye coordination. I was horrified as my entire family sat and watched me miss shuttlecock after shuttlecock. My son suggested I take up video games ASAP to remedy the situation.

Bonus: I am a grown woman with a husband, a house a job, and three teens and last night my father yelled at me like I was 12 – also in front of the entire family. I would have been humiliated but I am fairly certain the old man humiliated himself more than he humiliated me. He was around tonight and didn’t even make eye contact much less speak to me.

@WestRiverrat RIP your dog. 17 years. That is tough.

A great friend (and one of the best humans I have known) just told me she has cancer. I was totally optimistic face-to-face. I puked and cried afterwards.

On the plus side, I attended a couple of high school graduation celebrations last weekend, and the kids are alright. Much more level-headed than me and my friends (their parents) at that age.

Drama? I finally unfriended someone on FB for their constant attention whoring. I feel better.

Our new dog seems to be working out great, aside from reeeaaally wanting the cats to play with him. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but can’t get him to leave the cats alone.

One of my best friends shocked the hell out of me by ignoring a direct order to not feed my dog any people food. I caught her sneaking him bites under the table. Twice. WTF?

I once broke a mirror on purpose to see if it would bring me bad luck.

I totally just lied to you. <Gasp!> Who needs to tempt fate like that? :D

@SuperMouse I have absolutely horrible hand eye coordination.

Sister! I cannot swing a bat or racket or paddle or golf club to save my life. I learned this at a young age.

I pursued the linear sports of running and cycling instead. I still enjoy both at age 50.

Ugh. I just sat through an hour and a half of small town gossip at my daughter’s softball game. I heard about the skinny mom with big boobs that has three children and all the moms who are envious of her. I also heard a lot of bitching about the coach not teaching the girls what they need to know to succeed when they get older and play at the high school level. These girls are only 9! You know what I have to say to the parents that bitch? Get off your fat ass and help coach if you aren’t happy! It frustrates me because the coach is doing her best and she’s really good with those girls.

Then there’s my husband’s dilemma at work. His boss retired last week and before he left he told Jon that he told the owner of the company he wished all the workers were like Jon. It was a nice compliment. Jon has only been at the company for a little over two years. One of Jon’s co-workers (who is also a friend) has worked there for over 10 years and was expected to take the place of the retired boss. Well, Jon was surprised yesterday with an offer for the position that included a nice raise. Jon couldn’t say no, but of course this pissed off the person who was expecting the position. This man told Jon he isn’t upset with him, but it’s still awkward. Now Jon is trying to get the guy to not quit because he really needs him there. This is stressful, but man the money is nice.

I ate two T. of ice cream this afternoon. It wasn’t that delicious.

^^^ Let Jon (congratulations, by the way) see this as an opportunity to use his managerial skills in order to persuade the other guy to stay. Being the big kahuna can be initially awkward but he will have to get the hang of the job in order to succeed.

Two tubs?? Holy cow!

Two tablespoons?? WTF!

Oh, nothing in my life is too juicy. I guess the “secret” that I don’t dare voice is my irritation with my father. He goes into work at around 6 every morning and comes back 7PM or later pretty often. He comes home really stressed and grumpy and barely says hi to us and goes to bed.

I wish he would set some boundaries with his employer. He started out with this company trying so hard to impress and of course you can’t start working less hard once their expectations get set. But no reasonable employer can really expect somebody to work the kinds of hours he does.

I don’t even really enjoy the time I do spend with him because he is just grouchy and always in a hurry and sometimes I feel like he is just being extra showy about his exhaustion because he wants us to pity him.

And then I just feel guilty for thinking this way, since providing for our family is the reason he breaks his back like this, and probably paying my medical bills is a large portion of it.

@jonsblond I’m glad to hear that. I remember a post from you a long time ago where you were venting your frustrations about being poor. I don’t know why I remember that specific post, but it’s good to hear you guys have some more coming in.

@WestRiverrat I’m sorry, man. 17 years is a long time, so at least she had a full life :)

@gailcalled You should appreciate you can still eat ice cream :) I can’t without having to use the bathroom afterwards. But the sorbet is a good substitute.

I’m in and out of work so I can’t reply to everyone at the moment. Thanks for the replies.

1) My neighbors smelled gas.
2) They called the gas company
3) The gas company turned off the gas
4) The gas company says the furnace must be moved before the gas is turned on
5) They are “enjoying” cold showers until the furnace is relocated
6) It’s summer, the furnace will not be needed for months

@WestRiverrat, so sorry about your dog. :-(

We bought some new cases for our trip to Canada. Other than that, I can’t think of any drama or excitement. Things are pretty peaceful. Touching wood now.

So, my roommate and close friend since high school the other day got a complaint at his job at the veterinary hospital about his body odor. And he told me and the rest of my roommates about it and how embarrassing it was and how the person who complained was someone he hates, so it made sense. So he kind of brushed it off as that person just being a bitch.

But after he left we all kind of looked at each other like we knew what the complaint was about. He does have a certain…odor…about him, and I remember it back when I lived with him in a small dorm room freshman year. I know that he showers regularly and cleans his clothes and everything…but some people are more prone to that kind of thing. And you don’t want to embarrass him, so you don’t say anything about it.

And the icing on the cake was today: another friend of mine who works at the vet hospital told me that basically everyone at the vet hospital knows about my friend’s B.O. problem and they’ve talked about it behind his back and that just sounded to me like the most embarrassing thing in the world. Honestly, that’s my worst nightmare; having something embarrassing about me that I’m relatively oblivious to that everyone talks about…and what are you gonna do? No one wants to tell him, and even if you do tell him, what are you supposed to do about that kind of thing?

Oh how awful @DominicX. Poor guy. By the sound of it he’s totally oblivious.

What about asking a question here about very effective deodrants/antiperspirants. I think I’d be honest with him. Nicely. Perhaps you could buy some of a recommended product and wrap it up and give it to him and say you’ve been thinking about him and this product has always worked for you. It could be a health issue though. I remember a girl when I was at college who had a very strange smell about her.

I had the day off from work and spent a combined 6–7 hours reminiscing and goofing off on Skype with my childhood best friend who lives in Brazil before she left for and after she came back from school, and another 2 hours on the phone with my other best friend who lives in Texas and had just returned from her week-long honeymoon in Belize. I’m so glad I had them to keep me distracted today, otherwise I would’ve spent the whole day thinking about the very thing I shouldn’t be thinking about…

In other news, I’m terrified to wear shorts again this summer. The other night I was eaten alive by bugs and have huge, itchy bumps all over my legs and I swear I’m traumatized to wear anything other than long pants and long sleeves, summer heat be damned!

@WestRiverrat Sorry about your puppy. =/ Sending virtual hugs your way.

My brother is going to be 49 in one more month. He is still having trouble trying to find a real job. He is still single. His life is fcuked up. He complains all the time that he hasn’t got money, but he’s got more money than me. And I support myself, and my daughter and am the only sibling who will look after our mother who lives with me.

One sibling wants it all handed to him on a silver platter. And the other just decided that after I had a bipolar episode decided that we were no longer her family anymore and she has not talked to us since.

I’m feeling discouraged. My brothers last words to me were if he could go to sleep and never wake up he’d be happy. I feel like I have struggeled my whole life trying to keep things together and one thing I really loved that helped me which was my husband who passed away. The next best thing I have in life is God. Now I know we are supposed to suffer but I’m done with suffering and I find myself falling into the same death trap I once was so fond of. I find myself constantly trying to hold and encourage but others my physical and emotiomal body is paying the price, shutting down would be an easy invitation and then just for once maybe once people could finally see through my eyes.

But I can’t change the world, I can’t even change myself.

About a bit more than a month or so ago, some guy broke into my apartment block’s basement section. It has four apartments, and the basement is divided in four, for each tenant. In my section, I had a bunch of beer bottles. Due to a drinking problem I sometimes still kinda nurse. Anyways, tons of bottles down there. I’m just sitting in my living room, and I hear bottles lightly clanging against one another. Coming from underneath me. I knew someone was down there, and I know it wasn’t my roommate, who sometimes grabs a few bottles and brings em at the store if she’s missing a buck or so for some smokes. She was in her room, but she’s deaf as shit, she would have never heard it.
So I grab a knife from the kitchen, and I venture down there. Then I see some guy putting some bottles in a big plastic box. He had his back turned to me, he never even saw or heard me. Of course, I’m familiar with the basement, so I used my uber ninja Halloween skills to that advantage. Seriously, I could have fucked that guy up so bad. Lol. But I’m all like, scuse me, what the hell are you doing down here?
He gave a silly excuse, telling me he thought the building was for the public. I told him he knew damn well it wasn’t.
I had a bunch of backpacks stuffed with things down there, and boxes. He made a mess by snooping in them and spilling all the shit out, as I saw. A day later I found an empty box of sardines, had not noticed it during my intrusion on the intruder. Guess he ate em in there.

Two of my old backpacks were filled with bottles. So I’m like, you’re stealing from me, are you? Then he answered that he was homeless. Not saying he wasn’t, but he had very nice clothes on, actually. Dress pants, a nice black leather coat. I commented, nice jacket for a homeless guy. He said he got it at some charity place. Maybe, maybe not. His face looked ravaged though. Like he was in the first stages of leprosy or something.

Of course, I’m making myself sound all brave here, but I was really scared, and I’m sure it showed in my quavering voice. This guy on the other hand, he seemed very used to it, and was talking nearly casual like. Like he was used to this. I told him to keep the bottles, and fuck off and never return. So he picked up the box, two backpacks, then I stuck the knife in his face and told him again to never come back. He promised he wouldn’t, and asked me not to cut him. I said I wouldn’t, and as he was leaving with my bottles, I stuck the knife in the small of his back and led him out the building, making sure he could feel the knife the whole time.

He never came back. I bought a lock for the basement door. If all he wanted was the bottle, all right, I don’t care. It’s not like I was ever gonna go cash em in, for as long as they’ve been down there, despite how poor I am. Guess maybe I should have called the cops or something. I suppose if he found something worth stealing, he would have. Sept I kind of felt sorry for him, busting in a place just for some fucking empties. Plus, saves me the trouble of cleaning out all those bottles once I move out of here. Lol. Learned a good lesson though…lock your shit up lol.
And my roomate? After it was all over, I went up and told her, of course. She said she thought she heard voices. Fucking chick could sleep right through the Apocalypse, I’m telling you.
Despite all that, I slept better than I thought I would that night. lol?

Not that this fits what you were asking but I was dying to tell it, and therefore, looking for a serviceable excuse to do so. XD

I just moved home and a sort of old friend wants to date. He is still married to his first wife but left her and had a defacto relationship with another woman for like 10 years and just left her. He is also in mlm which he tried really hard to hustle me into, like almost when I got off the plane. I read up on it and you would have to be a complete and utter moron to buy into it. He’s also not physically attractive to me. I peg all my washing up on a big rack thing in my laundry and that’s where my electric-gas meters are and where the meter readers go. I noticed my daughter’s and my bras missing. lol

Last year, I let my best friend (who I’ve known for ten years) stay over my house for a few days. Well he ended up stealing 10,000 dollars worth of things from my house to buy drugs. And he did it under my nose over a period of 5 days. I called the police the first time I noticed something was missing, and my friend actually talked to the police, suggesting who might have done it. I assumed it was a burglar, and I was on edge for an entire week, and my friend saw how I was emotionally drained, but still acted as though nothing was wrong. He suffers from mild Asperger’s Syndrome, so I’m not surprised.

He confessed a few days later, and I ended up getting 90% of my things back from pawn shops that he had sold my stuff to. I ended up not pressing charges, so now he’s been living in a half way house for a year. I’ve communicated with him a few times on Facebook, but that’s about it. Judging from his Facebook posts he seems to be doing well.

To be honest, I’m not that upset that this happened, because it made me handle the depression and anxiety that I was already feeling. Now I’m eating healthy, exercising, and making new friends.

Ha, Fluther evolves into grannies gossiping over a nice hot cuppa…
“Eeh Edna, did you hear about Beryl from number 42 & that carry on with the milkman?”

I’ve been up since 2:30 with jetlag. Second day of it. I am pissed off. Contractors are at the house so I can’t nap this afternoon. Other than that, life is fairly peachy.

——there are 12 seasons of Friends?? I only know about 10 seasons, and then the last episode of the 10th season ends with Ross and Rachel back together, the new babies, Monica and Chandler leaving the appartment, all so I-want-to-cry and well.. there are seasons after that?——

At the end of an excellent Memorial Day barbecue, an acquaintance in my group of friends drunkenly kissed me on the lips before bestowing me with numerous homophobic insults. The guy is in his 40s and has not progressed past the emotional maturity and self-awareness of a 14 year old.

I just landed a sweet housing situation in Paris for 6 months. I have so much in common with my new roommate, it’s almost spooky. I wish I were writing from there right now, but I still have another few months of tangling with bureaucrats before I can get over there.

A friend tried to sleep with another friend on my sofa two nights ago and I was rooting for him but it didn’t happen.

A friend of mine cheated on her wife with two different blokes very close together. I didn’t realise there was a problem with her marriage (which is only ten months old at present) as both her and her wife’s Facebooks give the impression that they are very much in love (sickingly so sometimes) but clearly something isn’t right.

This morning, I read this question and realised there was no drama in my life. Six hours later I got a text…and since then I’ve been thinking about a good friend of mine. He killed himself on Monday. I wish I could go back to this morning.

@longgone I’m really sorry for your loss. {{{{{{U}}}}}}

I haven’t told my family this yet, but my company offered me a position that I feel like I can’t say no to. They want me to move to Tokyo, because I have been flying back and forth from there at least one week a month. So they figured since I am well liked out there at the Japanese office, and get work done. I would be the best person to ask. I just haven’t decided yet I have until August to make my decision. Plus I am trying to figure out the best time to tell my dad and husband.

My daughter who lives 800 miles away is in need of a baby sitter for about a month this summer. I (reluctantly) told her that she could bring the little angel home and I would take care of her. But, I also put a guilt trip on daughter by telling her I would have to take off a month from work in order to babysit. What I didn’t tell her was that I’m glad to be taking off work. Its been over a year now that I started this part-time gig and I’m ready for a break. Maybe I can participate in Fluther more:-)

@shego that is exciting and nerve wracking all at once! Congratulations?

@shego You haven’t told your husband?

Thank you,
@JLeslie I haven’t told him yet because I was told last week and I wanted some time to think it over by myself. He knows it is my dream to live in Japan one day, but it seems like a dream right now. I know he will be in full support of my decision, but I don’t know how to approach him.

Will his work allow him to go with you? I hope it works out for you @shego. If this has been your dream, I hope you can grab the opportunity.

@Bellatrix I am not so sure his company will have any openings out there. But he does have a couple of masters degrees, and I’m sure he can become an English teacher. He has mentioned that if we ever move out there that is something that he wants to do. So, I don’t think it will be too hard for him to find a teaching job.

:-) fingers crossed then. I’ve known quite a few people who’ve taught English overseas and they’ve loved it. Big transition for you both.

Thank you, @nofurbelowsbatgirl

Ok all, so I told my husband and dad last night about my opportunity to work in Japan, and wow they went crazy, but not in a bad way. My dad is happy because now he’ll have a reason to travel outside the US, and my husband will have a reason to learn a foreign language. So I have full support.

@shego Yay!

That is so fabulous @shego! Happy for you. Wow, now you have to start planning :-)