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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 17:40:28 GMT -5
"shake my head"
A coworker was telling me she eats healthy to keep off weight. She has to watch her diet because sugar diabetes runs in her family. As she was telling me this, she was eating a very large, frosted cinnamon roll.
What kinds of things have your heard/seen that causes you to just "shake your head"?
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Post by swamp on Nov 9, 2014 17:48:17 GMT -5
I was lectured to about the dangers of sunbathing by someone smoking a cigarette.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Nov 9, 2014 17:55:44 GMT -5
Years ago I was told by someone in line at grocery store (who saw me with a pack of cigarettes) that smoking was hazardous to my health. I told them that butting into someone else's business could be hazardous to their health.. Oh, and had a person once tell me they didn't smoke - well except pot
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 18:02:08 GMT -5
"shake my head" A coworker was telling me she eats healthy to keep off weight. She has to watch her diet because sugar diabetes runs in her family. As she was telling me this, she was eating a very large, frosted cinnamon roll. What kinds of things have your heard/seen that causes you to just "shake your head"? Do we work in the same office? I once brought donut holes and the diabetic woman ate 12 of them! I could go on and on about the crap she ate. She weighed at about 300 lbs.
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Post by msventoux on Nov 9, 2014 18:08:53 GMT -5
The female cashier at the grocery store asked me (a female) if I wanted to donate to prostate cancer research. I told her no. She said okay, but it's a really bad disease that any of us could get and she donates because if she gets it she's hoping it's after a cure is found.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 18:30:25 GMT -5
I tend to wear a coat less often than I should. One cold day day I took the bus into NYC and didn't bother with a coat because it was a short walk to where I had my meeting. A woman standing outside the building said, "Where's your coat?" I told here I didn't bother with one. She replied, "You're going to die of pneumonia". And then she lit up a cigarette.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 9, 2014 18:30:38 GMT -5
I have had a lot of heavy people giving me weight loss advice. I've never been heavy - so I think they are just talking to themselves and using me as a prop. Often their advice doesn't sound like a good idea to me, but what do I know about maintaining a healthy weight?
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Nov 9, 2014 18:33:08 GMT -5
Weight loss advice: don't eat 12 donuts
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Post by Jake 48 on Nov 9, 2014 18:36:45 GMT -5
I worked at a place where everyone in the shop contributed 2 bucks a week to a fund to pay for flowers etc.. for different occasions as the need arises. The fund would max out at $75. There was one guy who did not want to contribute because he was always broke. I would then see him at lunch time dropping $40-50 on lottery tickets
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Nov 9, 2014 19:05:52 GMT -5
Years ago I was told by someone in line at grocery store (who saw me with a pack of cigarettes) that smoking was hazardous to my health.
I told them that butting into someone else's business could be hazardous to their health..
Oh, and had a person once tell me they didn't smoke - well except pot Is it too late for us to adopt each other? I wish I had been in that line, just to hear that. My office manager regularly fields calls from her bank about her overdrawn checking account. But heaven forbid she should skip buying lunch four or five days a week - using a credit card.
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Post by dannylion on Nov 9, 2014 19:47:12 GMT -5
Many years ago when you could still choose between bottles of aspirin with and without child-proof caps, I went to the drugstore to get a bottle of aspirin. Since I do not have children, I selected the bottle without the child-proof cap. When I took it to the cashier, she said "Oh, you got the bottle without a child-proof cap. Let me go get you the other kind." I told her I wanted the one without the child-proof cap, thankyouverymuch. The conversation continued as follows:
Cashier: Do you have children? Me: No. Cashier: Are you sure? Me: What do you mean, am I sure? (In the same tone of voice Clint Eastwood asked, "Are you feeling lucky? We are ya, punk?)
She harrumphed at me but sold me the bottle I wanted.
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Post by milee on Nov 9, 2014 19:52:48 GMT -5
Many years ago when you could still choose between bottles of aspirin with and without child-proof caps, I went to the drugstore to get a bottle of aspirin. Since I do not have children, I selected the bottle without the child-proof cap. When I took it to the cashier, she said "Oh, you got the bottle without a child-proof cap. Let me go get you the other kind." I told her I wanted the one without the child-proof cap, thankyouverymuch. The conversation continued as follows:
Cashier: Do you have children? Me: No. Cashier: Are you sure? Me: What do you mean, am I sure? (In the same tone of voice Clint Eastwood asked, "Are you feeling lucky? We are ya, punk?)
She harrumphed at me but sold me the bottle I wanted. No idea who designed the childproof caps, but when I need help opening a childproof cap I have to ask one of my sons.
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Post by dannylion on Nov 9, 2014 20:02:13 GMT -5
Many years ago when you could still choose between bottles of aspirin with and without child-proof caps, I went to the drugstore to get a bottle of aspirin. Since I do not have children, I selected the bottle without the child-proof cap. When I took it to the cashier, she said "Oh, you got the bottle without a child-proof cap. Let me go get you the other kind." I told her I wanted the one without the child-proof cap, thankyouverymuch. The conversation continued as follows:
Cashier: Do you have children? Me: No. Cashier: Are you sure? Me: What do you mean, am I sure? (In the same tone of voice Clint Eastwood asked, "Are you feeling lucky? We are ya, punk?)
She harrumphed at me but sold me the bottle I wanted. No idea who designed the childproof caps, but when I need help opening a childproof cap I have to ask one of my sons. I just pop the outer cap off. That usually leaves an inner cap that can be opened by an ordinary mortal. Sometimes it doesn't work, though, and I have to take the tablets out and put them into something my arthritic paws can open.
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Post by teen persuasion on Nov 9, 2014 21:25:40 GMT -5
A patron had racked up well over $100 in library fines, after I had forgiven previous fines when she claimed she'd had the flu as the reason for (months) overdue items. In April, she agreed to pay $50 and return items she still had out. She didn't return until October, and couldn't understand how her fines had grown from the $50 we'd agreed to (hint: you never returned the items, they accrued overdues and were eventually declared "lost").
Last week she actually returned and had (most) of the lost items. Somehow she thought the $50 agreement would still stand! She seemed to think we would reduce it even more, simply because she couldn't afford it. I did reduce the current charges another $35+, to $65, and told her she could pay it over time. She handed me a fifty. After some hemming and hawing, she handed over the last $15 from her "bail money" !!
Her son's card still has >$150 in fines on it, of course.
It takes a lot of work to rack up hundreds of dollars in overdue fines, but she's a pro at doing everything exactly wrong: checkout more movies than books (movies are $1 / day overdue), renew them only after they have maxed out at $10 each (resetting the overdue clock), keep/lose items.
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Post by cronewitch on Nov 9, 2014 23:01:00 GMT -5
My elderly CPA male boss once heard us discussing who was to bring doughnuts the next day, we took turns bringing them on Saturdays. He told us doughnuts are the worst thing you can eat, we should eat blueberry muffins, they are mostly fruit, he would bring them. He brought us huge sugar coated blueberry muffins.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Nov 9, 2014 23:18:57 GMT -5
I had a lady scream at me about not having a headlight on my bike while riding. It was right after dark (On a really well lit urban street). The SMH part came from the fact that she was riding the wrong way in the road (I was riding without a headlight in the bike lane with traffic, she was riding against traffic with a headlight). She was ranting about how what I was doing was illegal and dangerous yet ignoring how unsafe riding against traffic on a busy city street with lots of cars and pedestrians is.... FWIW, I knew I forgot my headlight and was riding home as quick as I could. I was about 10 blocks from home and the sun set faster than I expected.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 9, 2014 23:33:14 GMT -5
Many years ago when you could still choose between bottles of aspirin with and without child-proof caps, I went to the drugstore to get a bottle of aspirin. Since I do not have children, I selected the bottle without the child-proof cap. When I took it to the cashier, she said "Oh, you got the bottle without a child-proof cap. Let me go get you the other kind." I told her I wanted the one without the child-proof cap, thankyouverymuch. The conversation continued as follows:
Cashier: Do you have children? Me: No. Cashier: Are you sure? Me: What do you mean, am I sure? (In the same tone of voice Clint Eastwood asked, "Are you feeling lucky? We are ya, punk?)
She harrumphed at me but sold me the bottle I wanted. No idea who designed the childproof caps, but when I need help opening a childproof cap I have to ask one of my sons. To be fair - I think the caps are designed to keep children younger than 5 out of the pills. My kids didn't have the dexterity until they were 7 or 8 ish. By then, we had "the talk" about medication.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Nov 10, 2014 1:24:06 GMT -5
The female cashier at the grocery store asked me (a female) if I wanted to donate to prostate cancer research. I told her no. She said okay, but it's a really bad disease that any of us could get and she donates because if she gets it she's hoping it's after a cure is found. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And now I miss toughtimes. She used to wish testicular cancer on me when she didn't agree with me about Andrej. People that eat a Snickers candy bar while drinking a diet coke. But in my defense I really don't like overly sweet sodas with my candy bars. Oh, and the one that cracks me up is a vegetarian/vegan who smokes. They eat for health (per them) but they smoke because it's healthy? Or are they trying to break even?
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Post by Jaguar on Nov 10, 2014 1:33:27 GMT -5
My sister smokes but refuses to eat red meat cause it's unhealthy, go figure. LOL
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Post by Formerly SK on Nov 10, 2014 1:52:30 GMT -5
My elderly CPA male boss once heard us discussing who was to bring doughnuts the next day, we took turns bringing them on Saturdays. He told us doughnuts are the worst thing you can eat, we should eat blueberry muffins, they are mostly fruit, he would bring them. He brought us huge sugar coated blueberry muffins. Reminds me of high school when my friends and I dieted by eating "healthy" bagels with cream cheese.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Nov 10, 2014 7:14:50 GMT -5
The female cashier at the grocery store asked me (a female) if I wanted to donate to prostate cancer research. I told her no. She said okay, but it's a really bad disease that any of us could get and she donates because if she gets it she's hoping it's after a cure is found. Maybe she is really a he
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Post by Shooby on Nov 10, 2014 7:24:56 GMT -5
The whole diet soda thing blows my mind. First, I find it totally disgusting. But, it's like, oh if I buy a diet pop, then I can order a large fries, kind of mentality.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 10, 2014 8:38:35 GMT -5
The whole diet soda thing blows my mind. First, I find it totally disgusting. But, it's like, oh if I buy a diet pop, then I can order a large fries, kind of mentality. I worked at Baskin Robbins in high school and a lady ordered a QUART - no lid, just a spoon, and an XL diet coke.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 8:50:36 GMT -5
The whole diet soda thing blows my mind. First, I find it totally disgusting. But, it's like, oh if I buy a diet pop, then I can order a large fries, kind of mentality. I worked at Baskin Robbins in high school and a lady ordered a QUART - no lid, just a spoon, and an XL diet coke. I get that one though. I hate the taste of regular pop, so I'll choose Diet Pepsi to have with my Big Mac or cheesecake.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 9:02:33 GMT -5
My elderly CPA male boss once heard us discussing who was to bring doughnuts the next day, we took turns bringing them on Saturdays. He told us doughnuts are the worst thing you can eat, we should eat blueberry muffins, they are mostly fruit, he would bring them. He brought us huge sugar coated blueberry muffins. Yeah, you name it and the food industry will super-size, over-sweeten and load it with fat. I've read the nutritional info on some of those muffins. Scary.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Nov 10, 2014 9:06:40 GMT -5
My mother always said she just handed those child proof bottles to my brother. He was 2-4 years old over this age range she's referring to. He also caught 10 guppies out of the aquarium one night and laid them out in a row on my pillow by my head.
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Post by swamp on Nov 10, 2014 9:12:07 GMT -5
The whole diet soda thing blows my mind. First, I find it totally disgusting. But, it's like, oh if I buy a diet pop, then I can order a large fries, kind of mentality. I just prefer not to drink my calories. Unless it's alcohol or milk.
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Post by swamp on Nov 10, 2014 9:12:56 GMT -5
My elderly CPA male boss once heard us discussing who was to bring doughnuts the next day, we took turns bringing them on Saturdays. He told us doughnuts are the worst thing you can eat, we should eat blueberry muffins, they are mostly fruit, he would bring them. He brought us huge sugar coated blueberry muffins. Yeah, you name it and the food industry will super-size, over-sweeten and load it with fat. I've read the nutritional info on some of those muffins. Scary. Why do muffins have to be the size of a pillow?
Why can't I have a normal sized one?
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Post by 973beachbum on Nov 10, 2014 9:29:58 GMT -5
The whole diet soda thing blows my mind. First, I find it totally disgusting. But, it's like, oh if I buy a diet pop, then I can order a large fries, kind of mentality. I just prefer not to drink my calories. Unless it's alcohol or milk. I went to McD's and ordered an iced coffee. I swear to God it came in a bucket. And it had probably a pint of whole milk and sugar too. I should have had a snickers bar.
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Post by Tiny on Nov 10, 2014 9:30:16 GMT -5
The whole diet soda thing blows my mind. First, I find it totally disgusting. But, it's like, oh if I buy a diet pop, then I can order a large fries, kind of mentality. I think it comes down to what kind of beverage you are use to drinking with your food. I drink diet coke the way people drink bottled water. I didn't start drinking diet coke as a way to loose weight - back in HS and college -- I only had soda or juice drink choices (back before bottled water became ubiquitous). I didn't like the syrupy sweet taste of regular sodas, and drinking apple juice or OJ or hot chocolate or coffee with my lunch sounded icky. I didn't like Tab or diet seven up so that left Diet Coke.
I mostly drink it out of habit - it's the taste I expect as a beverage when I eat. Or when I need a caffeine hit.
Now, someone who's obviously overweight/obese going on and on about their new weight loss diet or their slow metabolism or how they need to get in an hour at the gym (when you are pretty sure they NEVER go to the gym) when ordering a diet soda AND a 1000+ calorie lunch does kinda deserve a head shake.
FWIW many many fast food restaurants currently list their offerings and nutritional info (calories) on line. I highly recommend reviewing that information for an eye opening experience on all those 'healthy' sounding offerings...
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