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People at the grocery checkout who wait for all the scanning of this items to be done, then suddenly make that move and reach into their purse/wallet and search for a personal check which is neither filled out to the payee, nor dated, nor signed. Then they have to search for their drivers license, which takes more time, then the processing of the check, both manually and electronically by the clerk. :mad:

I haven't seen someone use a check at the grocery store in a LONG time...but I remember the frustration. Especially if you just have a couple of things to buy and you're next in line.

Both kids were. Only difference is that the girl had better social skills and realized that the servers would have to talk to her.

There's always child protective services.....if there's a kid wandering around with no supervision, report an abandoned child.

There are whole forums devoted to this. I remember one 7 y.o. who was at a restaurant with her parents, who totally ignored her. They let her run around and bother the servers during a peak brunchtime. The servers had to send her on "errands" to get away from her and finally had to hide from her altogether.

 

Another mom jabbered away on her phone while her 10 y.o. kid ran around and joined random people sitting alone. He eventually came to my booth and sat right next to me. Then he went to the terrace and bothered random people walking by. Mom could care less.

That 2nd kid was probably starved for attention.

I would have told him to go hide in the bathroom and wait for his mom to come looking for him. Call it a game of hide 'n' seek.

It’s wild that there are gay people who actually think the DSM is some kind of authority on anything. Seriously??? You don’t know enough by now to know that it’s flawed and biased???

 

Any behaviour that is harming someone, which they desire to stop but return to and repeat compulsively is an ADDICTION. Regardless of whatever the fucking DSM has to say about it.

 

The DSM had transgender people defined as inherently mentally ill until only this year. And some of you think it’s a worthy authority to define our issues by. Amazing. Critical thinking skills are severely lacking sometimes.

 

Maybe some people are coming from a place of feeling defensive because they have been accused of being sex addicts for being promiscuous. Promiscuity is not sex addiction. But sex addiction is certainly real.

I'm sorry if you're pissed off at psychiatry/psychology because of things in older manuals that no longer apply.

For the record, the current DSM-5 was published 5 years ago, not 1. The older one (DSM-4) was published in 1994. "Transgender/Transexualism" was not in DSM-4, either...though Transexualism was in the DSM-III (published in 1980). Without tracking down a copy of the IV and flipping through it, I can't comment with any certainty on other diagnoses that might have been more "round about" in their definitions, etc. If you're referring to the DSM-IV diagnosis of "Gender Identity Disorder," one of the disqualifying criteria for that diagnosis was "if the individual has a concurrent physical intersex condition..."

Does new information become known that necessitates a change in diagnostic criteria? Absolutely. That's why things get updated regularly...to reflect newer knowledge. That's kind of the point of science.

And as part of formal wear....

I have this credit card company that keeps bugging me every quarter to ‘sign up to activate a bonus cash back’ at specific merchants or categories (eg restaurants). It just annoys the hell out of me! I already pay the annual fee, just service my account already!!

 

Do you have similar annoying things that pushes your buttons? Please share/vent (even if it is a ‘first world problem’, I will totally judge you!!)

 

Here, I’ll get you started:

1. Public transportation delays (it’s a train, it runs on a rail...how complicated can that be?)

2. Misbehaving kids at a restaurant (where is that duct tape?)

3. Bicycles on the sidewalk (it is called a sideWALK!)

4. Road works with most of the crew standing around doing nothing (don’t even get me started!)

5. Those ‘extra charges’ you don’t know about but seems to show up everywhere (airlines, cable bill - you know it!).

That's why I go with no-frills CCs through my credit union. No annual fee, low interest, but no "rewards." Must less hassle.

What grinds my gears:

1. Stupid people. Not to be confused with ignorant. (Ignorant = doesn't know. Stupid = can't learn.)

2. Petition gathers who can't take "fuck off" for an answer.

3. People driving on the hi way and going 20 MPH below the speed limit.

4. Exterminators, etc., knocking on the door saying "I'm spraying your neighbor's house and have extra chemicals...." (If you can't name the neighbor, then you're lying. Also, please note the "solicitors will be dismembered" sign I have hanging over my front door.