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2003-01-03
ive decided since im still in a snarky mood, im going to make a list of everything im sick of. well, not everything, there's not enough time in the world for that but, here's a pretty good list. im sick of people calling me at work. this is a problem as i work on the phones. im sick of talking to people who don't understand their insurance, im sick of talking to people who always have a bad attitude about their insurance and im sick of talking to people who get shitty with a freaking data entry monkey. im sick of unsolicited advice. the advice that begins with "you need..." or "you don't need..." or "do you really think that..." you know what, just because a mouth has the same shape as an anus doesn't mean you should talk out of your ass. if i didn't ask for advice, there's a reason. it's because i don't trust/want/care for anyone else's judgement/assessent/whiny assed opinion. and that segues nicely into needs vs. wants. at this point, im fairly lucky because they are the same damn thing. i'm not settling for shit anymore. if i can't have what i want, then i'm not going to settle. you see, this really goes back to the unsolicited advice bit. i wish i could draw some sort of diagram. but since i can't, let's see if i ever could be a technical writer. Unsolicited piece of advice #1: (UNSA) "You need to pay your bills first." Uh, thanks jackass. Did you pass 12th grade economics, too? There is nothing more I need to or want to do. Is there any lack of desire on my part to pay my bills? No. But, when you make approximately enough to barely pay your bills, put gas in your car, and put food in your mouth, and buy an occasional book, rent a movie, or see a concert every once and again. There really isn't a way to get ahead, you see? Sure, I could save the $1.67 i spend on gummi bears every week, but you know what, I'd rather have the gummi bears. You can only pare down to the barest essentials before you freak out. Thusly, people advising me to pay my bills, doesn't actually help me pay my bills. That and it seriously pisses me off. UNSA #2: "You don't need to buy a $200 rug." Uh, if I need a rug, and the rug I like is $200 then I should buy the $200 rug and give up gummi bears for three years. You see, it's actually cheaper for me to buy the $200 rug, if I need a rug. Here, let me do the math. Ex. I buy a rug for $35, good deal for a rug. But it's an ugly rug and I hate it. And it bothers me a lot. So I complain about it and it stresses me out. Because it freaks me out, it makes my skin break out. So I have to go to the pharmacy and get more medicine ($8 plus gas to the pharmacy.) So I get an extra $200 bucks somewhere.... who knows, the kindly and gracious rug fairy, or tax returns or bonus for having a truly shit job... So I go buy my new rug. The $200 rug has now cost me $243 plus gas. If I need a rug, I'm going to get what I want because I'm not going to settle for crap that's going to make me unhappy. UNSA #3 "Do you really think that (whatever that may be) is going to work out. I mean, for real?" This is a tricky piece of UNSA. It's a nice way of saying, "It's not going to work out so you need to not go for it/do it/whatever." If I didn't think something was going to work out, would I bring it up. Or if i didn't think it was going to work out, wouldn't I of all people, an insurance wench, precede (sure it's a verb...) it with a disclaimer? And even if what I was talking about lent itself to being that scrutinized, again, let's ask the first basic question, did I really ask for your advice, or did I ask you to listen to me? Well, that's pretty much what I'm sick of for the moment. I'm going to go home now.
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