This week is not going very well
Yesterday I had a confrontation with one stupid person too full of himself and his little power to realise he was being abusive. Stupid ticket inspectors! Grrrr!

Today I haven't got a metro or anything else to read at the train, so I'm bored.

Prob it's too early for you to answer, but if you are there, can you cheer me up or at least entertain me?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:10, 54 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Are you familiar with the term rickets?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:12, Reply)

No
What is it?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:21, Reply)

It looks like this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XrayRicketsLegssmall.jpg
Now picture someone with this disease tying to stop a pig in a narrow street.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:22, Reply)

Haha
I can't see the picture just now, but anyone trying to catch a pig is usually quite funny.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:25, Reply)

Their legs bow out like this ( )

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:27, Reply)

My dad had rickets.
Didn't stop us laughing at him though, the bandy legged bastard.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:28, Reply)

My dad hasn't got rickets but he is slightly bow-legged
Like Manuel
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:29, Reply)

I hope Rob doesn't take that personally

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:30, Reply)

Ha!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:31, Reply)

I just saw it
That was very funny :D
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:01, Reply)

Is that what japanese people buy to enable them to go on planes and trains and buses?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:22, Reply)

Dur no
it's those little pole things off cricket
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:23, Reply)

That's stumps,
You are thinking of flids.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:29, Reply)

Did you not have a ticket and he fined you for not having a ticket?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:21, Reply)

She took a live donkey onto the train and he didn't have a ticket

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:23, Reply)

sounds like an ass

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:27, Reply)

Moomin

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:28, Reply)

morning

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:30, Reply)

has broken.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:32, Reply)

like the

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:33, Reply)

first morning.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:34, Reply)

blackbird

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:35, Reply)

singing in the dead of night.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:35, Reply)

Enjooooooooy yourself, it's
NIIIIIIICE IN THE CITYYYYY
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:37, Reply)

I'm busted
Who sang this?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:38, Reply)

I don't know either

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:41, Reply)

It was inspired by some underground Swedish folk-rap

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:56, Reply)

that's pretty obscure

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:58, Reply)

50svens?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:02, Reply)

take these broken wings and learn to fly again

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:37, Reply)

All your life.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:39, Reply)

you were only waiting for

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:40, Reply)

this moment to be free.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:41, Reply)

blaaack biiird fly

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:46, Reply)

A fine duet there.
Anyway, you are about early this morning CRI.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:50, Reply)

sending emails
I'm still poorly, so I'm limiting the damage of not being in by being as efficient as possible
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:53, Reply)

My manflu is still hanging aroud a bit, but nothing to complain about.
Get those e-mails sent, there is nothing I like less than a load of mails waiting for me when I get in, and go back to bed.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:58, Reply)

I think I've sent all the ones I need to send
I'll hang about until 9 or so just to check for reponses
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:59, Reply)

I had a return ticket
And left the second part of it at work. It's not the having to pay an extra ticket, it's the 10min of telling me off, accusing me of lying and cheating, not accepting to take my details and let me show him the ticket today, and threatening me to court.

It's a ling story for the phone. More details later.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:30, Reply)

Did he actually fine you though?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:32, Reply)

He can't fine me
If I refuse to pay the ticket he can send me to court, but he can't fine me himself.

I told him to take my details and do as he wanted, as I had the ticket in the office, and then he changed tone and told me, very condescendently, that he was letting me of.

I tried to pick my ticket then, and he started telling me off again, waving the ticket in front of my face. That he was going to be watching for me today, and making sure I had the ticket or going to court. He repeated that for more than 5 min. At one point I standed straight and move my hands like saying I didn't understand why all that, and he raised his voice and started to shout "Don't fight me back, listen to me and don't fight me back!" WTF??

There were thousands of questions of why I only had 1 part of the ticket, why I had tickets for other days, why I usually buy weeklies, why I had to send the tickets to my employer, why I couldn't give it day by day to my employers in Runcorn... and all of them I'd answer and he'd come back with "Yeah, so you say, but you could just have given your ticket to someone else before going past the barrier" Really? Why would I do something so stupid? Why? And have you seen anyone else going past the barrier with me?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:07, Reply)

Next time, ask for his name or reference.
and tell him you are going to complain to his supervisor.

You were right to keep your cool though.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:15, Reply)

I should have done it, shouldn't I?
I find it very frustrating because I can't defend myself in English as well as I can in Spanish. When I'm upset I stop thinking properly, and the words come out in a confusing way. I just wanted to go home.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:18, Reply)

You should have started explaining it slowly and calmly in Spanish.
Just to watch his confusion.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 9:03, Reply)

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman got married
Clearly following your example.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:44, Reply)

OH MY GOODNESS!
Oh wow, I'd rather share betrothal space with those wonderful people than the trollop and the baldy horse.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 7:56, Reply)

A much better class of celebrity all round

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:03, Reply)

Not really
My week isn't going very well either. I split up with the boyf last night and I feel terrible. Even more terrible because I don't feel all that bad for myself, just awful for him. Oh god, I hope I've done the right thing.
(berk, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:06, Reply)

from the sounds of it you have
sometimes things just aren't right, even if you don't hate them
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:08, Reply)

He's a lovely man
and I have utterly broken his heart, even though I tried hard not to. All I can feel is my brain going GUILT GUILT GUILT GUILT GUILT even when I remember the reasons we broke up.
(berk, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:12, Reply)

better now than it all disintergrating
over years. really.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:14, Reply)

I'm sorry you're feeling bad
Ending a relationship is always difficult; and it's very nice of you to feel bad for him, even if you don't feel so bad. Do you think you'll be happier without him?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:10, Reply)

Honestly?
I don't know. I don't know that I've made the right choice. I know I'll miss him, but it wasn't working for me anymore. Perhaps I was being too picky and just should have put up with the things that made me mad.
(berk, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:16, Reply)

Give yourself a few days and see how you feel
If the things that made you mad were more than the ones that made you happy, then you'll be fine soon. You might still miss things about him, but that could just be because you're used to his ways.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 8:21, Reply)