Having dispatch call & beg me to take a 100+ mile run, only to cancel just as I was ready to fire up the GPS.

"It's OK, I got it covered now."

"Ah...fuck you very much." (No I didn't...but I wanted to :hair: )

fucktards

bunch of loud ass folks on the other side of my cubicle walls. cant concentrate.

The "SYSTEM"
 

Yep, another rant from your friendly Pixie member. :D

I've been sitting on this since the first of the month and it has not dimensioned in irritation so it's time I share it with my Pixie family.

When my granddaughter turned into a 'legal' adult under the laws of my government, I, for a number of reason/lessons, attempt to give them a passport as their birthday present. The 'hoped' implications of this I'll discuss in another thread, but our 'SYSTEM' is the point of major PISS-OFF now.

After acquiring the proper legal forms and having her parents fill in and supply the supporting documentation, I scheduled a lunch with her and went to the prearranged setting for the needed passport photos. After a polite lunch and kibitz about her new status in the worlds view, we went to the US post office (the 'official application accepting agent') to apply for a US passport from the US Department of State for a US citizen. The only issue was they would NOT accept US currency for the processing fees. :hair: That's right! The US government, working through all and only it's US government departments WILL… NOT… ACCEPT… US MONEY… for exclusive US government business. :banghead:

They will take personal checks processed through any commercial bank. They will accept any commercial credit card. They will accept money orders from any commercial issuing company or are even willing to 'SELL' you a postal money order of their own in exchange for US currency, but they will NOT accept US money unless it is processed through a profit making/charging organization that is suppose to be separate from my government.

Does this piss me off? You bet your fucking ass it DOES!!!! :mad:

Ya just gotta luv USGOV.inc. :eek:

Is this some bizarre fixation on having an audit trail in case you turn out to be Osama bin PantyFanatic?

They'll take cash to buy the scrip which will let you pay the fees, so it can't be one of those "cash shall not sully this transaction" things.

Alas, yes. Cash leaves no trail.

Unless you subscribe to the myth that the metallic thread in money can be used like the magnetic strip on credit cards to encode information, act as a tracker and talk to satellites.

This is distinct from the myth that the eye on dollar bills is a printed camera for keeping an eye on the masses.

Marked bills?

Yo! Conspiracy Theories Über Alles! :thumbs:

It's only a theory when it's wrong. LOL

It's amazing the crap some people can be talked into.

My car overheated and I can't figure out why. It's more sinister than a coolant leak it seems.

I hope you're not seeing white clouds of smoke from the exhaust. :wish:

Nope, just white clouds from under the hood. My dad suggests head gasket. We're both hoping the heads aren't cracked.

Then again.....if they are we can combine the 302 and the 351w we have in the garage we can create a 348 stroker and sink that into my ranchero..........Oh the possibilities of smoking tires!

:rofl:

White smoke just isn't good to see anywhere but I guess it's better under the hood than out the exhaust. Head gasket is a nice wish. :rolleyes: Even if there aren't apparent cracks you may want to have them magnafluxed if you're going to try to assemble a real engine. Regardless, you 'will' need to check for warp if they overheated badly. :2cents:

PF, we're way ahead of you. Once they're off I'm taking them to a head shop (not be confused with a hed shoppe). They'll give them a thorough make over making sure they're not cracked, level, sealed, etc. I might also have an idea of where another set of heads for it might be. Not sure the cost on them though seeing as how the 351m isn't exactly the most common of Ford's engines.

What pisses me off is that I can't get head in a head shop.

. . . but you might get a root in a root cellar.

Scotz, you have to go to a massage parlor to your head rubbed. A head shop works on car parts, not human parts.

In Australia would you get volunteers for the task!

Well all right then, I'll just be pissed because I can't get head. Anywhere. Period.

Have you looked here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMM77ldrfV4

Have you tried the TA truck stop on Old Hickory Blvd off I-24?

Signs of a well-spent youth, LS?

Nope. I have never been a patron, nor do I really plan on it. I prefer abstinence.

I certainly didn't see anything there that solves my problem.

OTOH, now I can be pissed that someone has a Strat that's more road-worn than mine. Dammit.

No, but I've had my share of late night offers at Spence Ln. & Murfreesboro Pk. when I worked nights. If they only made whole-body condoms in my size...

KIDS KIDS AND MORE KIDS.....You know that show Finding Nemo? Where the seagulls say mine mine mine mine mine mine mine....until you want to slap them...well the kids at the store today were constantly saying mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom....and she would never answer them. It is like just answer them and tell them no. I wanted to strangle them and they weren't even mine.

Know that feeling, where I work. UGH!!


Stupid Facebook!! Either I can't read all my feed or it won't let me post. Grrr!!

im kinda pissed cuz im stuck at work & would rather be at home giving carnal favors to & receiving them from my honey.

im VERY pissed. my husband lost his job tonight. they fired him due to him missing days due to illness & doc appts. he had documentation of said appts & of being under a docs care, & his job said it didnt matter. ***GRRRRRRR!***

Tight economic times bring out the bastard in some employers.

Doesn't help that this is a "will to work state". Means that an employer can fire you for no reason what so ever.

Sorry to hear that SD.

nope, LS, that doesn't help at all...But, makes me even more pissed that I have to miss yet another PAGAN! :banghead:

Bugger on a number of levels.

Getting turned down for low income housing. I'm going to be stuck at my sisters forever!!!!!! Should have stayed in Colorado!!!!!

My antenna ball is gone! 7 years and 2 cars and its gone!!!! GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

I totally got scammed. Thought i won a cruise. nope. ugh....

Getting thrown under the bus by a coworker.

Only in a metaphorical sense, we hope.