SMH at my family (rant)

[milee]

Jul 6, 2016 14:28:09 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

OMG, I am weirder than I thought!! 

I clean our toilets the same way Milee's BIL.  Cleaning it with a brush would not be clean enough for me.  And I do use a sponge - that goes straight into the garbage after.

You submerge your hand and arm up to your elbow in the toilet water?  

[whoisjohngalt]

Jul 6, 2016 15:04:40 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 6, 2016 14:28:09 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

I used to work with a woman who would bring all sorts of paperwork with her into the bathroom, drop it near the toilet while she did her business, get out of the stall, splash her hands with water and go on her merry way.  I avoided her office and tried to deal with her by email as much as I could

Years ago, when the Accounting rules and literature came in huge, bound books I had a boss that walked into my office and got really upset that I was reading one of the tomes that contained FASBs (accounting rules).  He asked what I was doing, implying I was wasting time.  When I explained that I was researching how to account for our foreign subsidiary's very complicated foreign currency transaction, he get even more upset.  According to him, it was wasting time to read that sort of thing during regular office/work hours.  When I asked him when he read accounting literature, he explained in very graphic details how he saves up his questions and takes the Accounting books into the bathroom with him to read during those long times he's sitting on the throne.  Remember - WE SHARED ALL THESE BOOKS SINCE THE OFFICE ONLY HAD ONE SET - and I realized that the book I was currently reading had probably been in the bathroom with him many times...  


I have no idea what the OP was anymore and will always think of this as the "what's grosser than gross" thread.

OMG that made me laugh and gag a little all at the same time.

And I have no idea how anyone can enjoy their bathroom time reading FASBs....

[whoisjohngalt]

Jul 6, 2016 15:05:43 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 6, 2016 14:28:09 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

OMG, I am weirder than I thought!! 

I clean our toilets the same way Milee's BIL.  Cleaning it with a brush would not be clean enough for me.  And I do use a sponge - that goes straight into the garbage after.

You submerge your hand and arm up to your elbow in the toilet water?  

Up to my wrist and there is a lot of cleaning solution and baking soda in that water by the time I submerge my hand.  But yes , I do.    I think brush will miss lots of tiny spaces and I can't handle that.

[swamp]

Jul 6, 2016 12:20:30 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 6, 2016 11:17:48 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

I wish I was the type of person who didn't feel the need to pay my mortgages. 

Yep.  I'm often envious of people who seem to be free of some of the weird and overwhelming compulsions I feel so strongly - like the compulsion to pay my bills.  Reminds me of how my sister and I sometimes marvel at the people who aren't germophobes.  I'm less inhibited by it than she is, but still have some general uptightness about public places.  One day I was in an airport restroom - which is objectively one of the filthiest places on earth - and watched a woman casually toss her white jacket onto the stall floor, use the restroom and put the jacket right back on a few minutes later.  I'm itching a little thinking of that jacket and how I would have had to burn it (even ignoring the fact that it was WHITE!!!)  There must be a great deal of freedom in being one of those people that doesn't break out in hives at the thought of not paying a bill or rolling around on the airport restroom floor.  

I'm more comfortable with rolling around an airport restroom floor than not paying a bill.

[Peace Of Mind]

Jul 6, 2016 15:26:31 GMT -5 swamp said:

Jul 6, 2016 12:20:30 GMT -5 milee said:

Yep.  I'm often envious of people who seem to be free of some of the weird and overwhelming compulsions I feel so strongly - like the compulsion to pay my bills.  Reminds me of how my sister and I sometimes marvel at the people who aren't germophobes.  I'm less inhibited by it than she is, but still have some general uptightness about public places.  One day I was in an airport restroom - which is objectively one of the filthiest places on earth - and watched a woman casually toss her white jacket onto the stall floor, use the restroom and put the jacket right back on a few minutes later.  I'm itching a little thinking of that jacket and how I would have had to burn it (even ignoring the fact that it was WHITE!!!)  There must be a great deal of freedom in being one of those people that doesn't break out in hives at the thought of not paying a bill or rolling around on the airport restroom floor.  

I'm more comfortable with rolling around an airport restroom floor than not paying a bill.

As germaphobe as I can be in some instances me too! 

[happyhoix]

I was watching one of those debt shows a while back and they had a guy who hadn't paid his mortgage in a couple years. When the debt counselor told him that the bank would soon foreclose on the property, the guy was outraged. He said he had tried to make a deal with the bank to renegotiate the mortgage and they kept telling him they needed more documents from him - in his opinion, they were 'jerking him around.'

Somehow he had decided the whole foreclosure thing was the bank's fault, and therefore, nothing he could do about it.

The counselor finally gave up and wished him the best of luck before walking away. I hadn't seen one of those shows before where the counselor just throws in the towel.

I don't know, the idea of someone coming and throwing all my crap out on the front yard and booting me and my family out of the house is pretty terrifying, IMHO. I would be pretty damn sure that never happened.  

[whoisjohngalt]

Speaking of foreclosures...

MY SIL and BIL are getting their house forclosed on.  They haven't lived in the house for 7.5 yrs, btw.  So, a few months ago I mentioned to my husband that I am pretty sure they can still try to sell it.  Sell it "as is" to an investor who will gut it out, rehab it and can sell it or rent it.  The house is in a very good location for renting. 

A couple of weeks later I asked if they were considering doing that.  Well....evidently, my BIL went by the house and saw some piece of paper on the door.  But he wouldn't go and get it bc he thinks he has no right to go up to his front door.  So now it's been 3 months, no one knows what is going on and they are not even trying to figure it out.

[Tennesseer]

Jul 6, 2016 13:25:28 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Jul 6, 2016 12:47:42 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

I had to change DS on a bathroom floor before. Meh. I just put my coat on the floor - inside down - and changed him on top. Then I stripped naked and rubbed the inside of the coat all over my body and licked everything in the stall before I left. Easy peasy.

I cannot talk to you anymore. 

Put this one and you're good to go.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

I'll need one in blue and one in green. 

[mamasita99]

Eh, I'm a special ed middle school teacher. You don't even want to know. All I can say is that germs are probably overrated, considering how healthy my students are despite what they lick/touch/eat/rub.

[milee]

Jul 6, 2016 15:22:59 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

Jul 6, 2016 15:05:43 GMT -5 milee said:

You submerge your hand and arm up to your elbow in the toilet water?  

Up to my wrist and there is a lot of cleaning solution and baking soda in that water by the time I submerge my hand.  But yes , I do.    I think brush will miss lots of tiny spaces and I can't handle that.

I called my sister tonight to explain that her husband wasn't the only person out there that did this.  She didn't believe me.  She especially didn't believe me when I explained that these were normal sounding people who also claimed to have some issues with germs.  I told her that I think these people are real, functioning humans that are generally who they say they are, not 13 year olds living in their parents' basement trying to gross people out.  She still doesn't believe you are real and that you do this.  

[whoisjohngalt]

Jul 6, 2016 22:53:08 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 6, 2016 15:22:59 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

Up to my wrist and there is a lot of cleaning solution and baking soda in that water by the time I submerge my hand.  But yes , I do.    I think brush will miss lots of tiny spaces and I can't handle that.

I called my sister tonight to explain that her husband wasn't the only person out there that did this.  She didn't believe me.  She especially didn't believe me when I explained that these were normal sounding people who also claimed to have some issues with germs.  I told her that I think these people are real, functioning humans that are generally who they say they are, not 13 year olds living in their parents' basement trying to gross people out.  She still doesn't believe you are real and that you do this.  

LOL

Tell your sister that I give interviews for a nominal fee

[tskeeter]

Jul 6, 2016 22:53:08 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 6, 2016 15:22:59 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

Up to my wrist and there is a lot of cleaning solution and baking soda in that water by the time I submerge my hand.  But yes , I do.    I think brush will miss lots of tiny spaces and I can't handle that.

I called my sister tonight to explain that her husband wasn't the only person out there that did this.  She didn't believe me.  She especially didn't believe me when I explained that these were normal sounding people who also claimed to have some issues with germs.  I told her that I think these people are real, functioning humans that are generally who they say they are, not 13 year olds living in their parents' basement trying to gross people out.  She still doesn't believe you are real and that you do this.  

You'll have to tell your Sis that we all come pre-packaged with a pretty effective germ barrier.  I call it skin.

[happyhoix]

Jul 6, 2016 19:04:19 GMT -5 mamasita99 said:

Eh, I'm a special ed middle school teacher. You don't even want to know. All I can say is that germs are probably overrated, considering how healthy my students are despite what they lick/touch/eat/rub.

I grew up with three sisters, so I never experienced boy dirt until I had a son.

He went through a stage in late elementary school where bathing and washing his hair were just for special occasions, and I caught him rubbing dirt into a cut because one of his friends told him that was the thing to do. After you let the dog lick it. The same beagle that eats dried cat poops out of the litter box.

Fortunately, this stage ended with DS started noticing girls, and figured out that most girls were not into grime. Of course, that only meant keeping himself personally clean and didn't extend into cleaning the science experiment that was his room.

However - he survived and has an iron constitution, very rarely getting sick, which I attribute to close interactions with the poop eating beagle and whatever grew in those old soda cans and pizza boxes under his bed.  

[Opti]

Jul 6, 2016 12:47:42 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

I had to change DS on a bathroom floor before. Meh. I just put my coat on the floor - inside down - and changed him on top. Then I stripped naked and rubbed the inside of the coat all over my body and licked everything in the stall before I left. Easy peasy.

[Deleted]

Jul 6, 2016 15:05:43 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 6, 2016 14:28:09 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

OMG, I am weirder than I thought!! 

I clean our toilets the same way Milee's BIL.  Cleaning it with a brush would not be clean enough for me.  And I do use a sponge - that goes straight into the garbage after.

You submerge your hand and arm up to your elbow in the toilet water?  

That's the way I clean toilets.  Just by hand with a microfiber towel.  I don't think the brushes do as good of a job and then you have that brush to deal with after. 

Germaphobes crack me up.  My kids and I should have acquired every disease in the book by now but we're almost never sick. 

[Bonny]

Jul 6, 2016 15:55:30 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

I was watching one of those debt shows a while back and they had a guy who hadn't paid his mortgage in a couple years. When the debt counselor told him that the bank would soon foreclose on the property, the guy was outraged. He said he had tried to make a deal with the bank to renegotiate the mortgage and they kept telling him they needed more documents from him - in his opinion, they were 'jerking him around.'

Unfortunately he might have been right based on my experience negotiating with my deceased mother's bank eight years ago.

Not only did the mortgage modification people keep losing the documentation sent, based on my conversation with a modification supervisor with 20 years of experience, he didn't even know his own bank's rules.  They dragged out what should have been a 60 day process into 8 months right up to the date of publishing the auction on the county courthouse steps.

Then five years later they tried to tack on those foreclosure costs to my loan. I successfully fought those too.

It still makes me sad when I think about how many people may have lost their homes because the loan mod people didn't know what they were doing.

FWIW, my comments are limited to the loan modification experience. I'm not someone who uses my house as an ATM and can't understand people who are so out of control with their consumer spending.

[milee]

Second funniest cultural clash... my sis meets her soon-to-be-DH's grandma (Nana) for the first time.  Nana is awesome.  She's stereotypical NY Jewish - 4' tall with huge hair and painted fingernails.  They have a good first meeting, even though Nana is devastated that her little Bubula is marrying a Shiksa.  At the end of the visit, Nana hands my sis a plate of homemade Mandelbread to take home.  My sister thanks Nana, but has a few questions.

Sis: Oh, thank you so much for the delicious cookies.  I'll return the plate to you... wait, uh, is um this the, uh, ... (gulp) ... do you need this plate back?

Nana:  Well, if it's not too much trouble, yes.  I'll keep filling it with Mandelbread for my Poonum each time you visit!

Sis: Of course, of course.  Sounds... great.  Uh, Nana?  [Sis is turning a little green while carefully looking at the plate she is holding in her hands.]

Nana:  Yes, dear?  

Sis:  This looks a little like the styrofoam trays that grocery stores use to hold raw meat.  [hesitantly] Heh, heh, heh, that is such a funny coincidence because I'm sure it's not the styrofoam tray that was holding raw meat.

Nana:  Oh, it is!  Those trays are the perfect size and I hate to waste.

Sis: [Minutely examining the small bits stuck onto the styrofoam]  Uh, what was on the tray before the cookies?  

Nana:  I think that was hamburger.  Or - no - maybe chicken?

Sis:  [trying to steady her breathing and keep a poker face]  But, but it's no big deal because you totally sterilize it, r-r-r-right?

Nana:  Of course!  After I use the meat, I rinse the tray off.  Enjoy your cookies, dear!


[Sis thinks back to the fact that she has yet to discover any sort of handwashing or dishwashing soap in Nana's house and tries not to drop the cookies or pass out...]

[zibazinski]

DH has an aunt just like this. We just threw the stuff out after we left her house. Problem solved!

[MJ2.0]

Jul 7, 2016 9:48:31 GMT -5 milee said:

Second funniest cultural clash... my sis meets her soon-to-be-DH's grandma (Nana) for the first time.  Nana is awesome.  She's stereotypical NY Jewish - 4' tall with huge hair and painted fingernails.  They have a good first meeting, even though Nana is devastated that her little Bubula is marrying a Shiksa.  At the end of the visit, Nana hands my sis a plate of homemade Mandelbread to take home.  My sister thanks Nana, but has a few questions.

Sis: Oh, thank you so much for the delicious cookies.  I'll return the plate to you... wait, uh, is um this the, uh, ... (gulp) ... do you need this plate back?

Nana:  Well, if it's not too much trouble, yes.  I'll keep filling it with Mandelbread for my Poonum each time you visit!

Sis: Of course, of course.  Sounds... great.  Uh, Nana?  [Sis is turning a little green while carefully looking at the plate she is holding in her hands.]

Nana:  Yes, dear?  

Sis:  This looks a little like the styrofoam trays that grocery stores use to hold raw meat.  [hesitantly] Heh, heh, heh, that is such a funny coincidence because I'm sure it's not the styrofoam tray that was holding raw meat.

Nana:  Oh, it is!  Those trays are the perfect size and I hate to waste.

Sis: [Minutely examining the small bits stuck onto the styrofoam]  Uh, what was on the tray before the cookies?  

Nana:  I think that was hamburger.  Or - no - maybe chicken?

Sis:  [trying to steady her breathing and keep a poker face]  But, but it's no big deal because you totally sterilize it, r-r-r-right?

Nana:  Of course!  After I use the meat, I rinse the tray off.  Enjoy your cookies, dear!


[Sis thinks back to the fact that she has yet to discover any sort of handwashing or dishwashing soap in Nana's house and tries not to drop the cookies or pass out...]

Omg, get a grip!!!! Lmao

[zibazinski]

Take hand sanitizer 

[toomuchreality]

I truly do not understand the people that think they don't need to wash their hands, they just use sanitizer.  Seriously?!

[zibazinski]

There are some places that are so gross sanitizer is better. I use sanitizer after the "peace" at church. I hate shaking strange people's hands, a bunch of them I wish that fad would stop. 

[gs11rmb]

Jul 7, 2016 9:32:03 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Jul 6, 2016 15:05:43 GMT -5 milee said:

Germaphobes crack me up.  My kids and I should have acquired every disease in the book by now but we're almost never sick. 

I have a friend that doesn't allow shoes in her house, sterilizes everything, wouldn't have dreamed about simply rinsing off a pacifier after her kid dropped it outside.  Both her children were sick a lot when they were little and now have to have regular allergy shots... she doesn't see the connection.  My house is clean and not cluttered but also not sterilized.  My kids are not sick often and neither have allergies.  My natural laziness appears to have paid off!

There's increasing evidence that children who grow up on farms, where there is a lot more dirt, have few allergies.

[Anne_in_VA]

I was out tile shopping yesterday with DD and two of the grandkids.  Both boys had to use the restroom and when they came out, the oldest one announced "That bathroom is way too nice to be a public restroom". Cracked us up that he would even notice.

[andi9899]

Jul 7, 2016 8:38:28 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Jul 6, 2016 19:04:19 GMT -5 mamasita99 said:

Eh, I'm a special ed middle school teacher. You don't even want to know. All I can say is that germs are probably overrated, considering how healthy my students are despite what they lick/touch/eat/rub.

I grew up with three sisters, so I never experienced boy dirt until I had a son.

He went through a stage in late elementary school where bathing and washing his hair were just for special occasions, and I caught him rubbing dirt into a cut because one of his friends told him that was the thing to do. After you let the dog lick it. The same beagle that eats dried cat poops out of the litter box.

Fortunately, this stage ended with DS started noticing girls, and figured out that most girls were not into grime. Of course, that only meant keeping himself personally clean and didn't extend into cleaning the science experiment that was his room.

However - he survived and has an iron constitution, very rarely getting sick, which I attribute to close interactions with the poop eating beagle and whatever grew in those old soda cans and pizza boxes under his bed.  

Thing 2 was the same way and is never sick. She started bathing herself without being told when she discovered boys. She's 16 and hasn't even had an ear infection yet.

[happyhoix]

Jul 7, 2016 13:33:37 GMT -5 gs11rmb said:

Jul 7, 2016 9:32:03 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

I have a friend that doesn't allow shoes in her house, sterilizes everything, wouldn't have dreamed about simply rinsing off a pacifier after her kid dropped it outside.  Both her children were sick a lot when they were little and now have to have regular allergy shots... she doesn't see the connection.  My house is clean and not cluttered but also not sterilized.  My kids are not sick often and neither have allergies.  My natural laziness appears to have paid off!

There's increasing evidence that children who grow up on farms, where there is a lot more dirt, have few allergies.

I heard there is also a link to a reduction in allergies/illness with kids who are raised in homes with pets.

I guess if you can survive a poop eating beagle's lick you've got a pretty robust immune system. DH was raised with two/ cats, a dog and a bird - plus he went to day care when he was little, which also seems to make a pretty solid immune system. All those other little grubby hands and mouths touching everything around you all day, I guess!

[Plain Old Petunia]

Jul 6, 2016 11:09:58 GMT -5 lexxy703 said:

Jul 6, 2016 8:07:26 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

She's the "the Lord will provide" type. That thought process is only helpful IMO once you've done everything in your power to change something. It doesn't mean sit around doing nothing and wait for something great to just happen. No, the Lord is not paying your mortgage for you!

My ex's step mom was the same &  it drove me bat shyt crazy. She went so far as to say that the Bible says women should not work outside the home. Not sure where she found that but she swore by it. Then had no problem mooching money off of us.

It's in there.   Teach the young women to be "keepers at home", "to work in their homes" to be "workers at home", depending upon translation.   Just Google it. 

[chiver78]

Plain Old Petunia - can you edit your post? no quoting holy books outside the religious discussion sub-forum.

please and thank you.

-chiver mod

[Chocolate Lover]

Jul 7, 2016 9:48:31 GMT -5 milee said:

Second funniest cultural clash... my sis meets her soon-to-be-DH's grandma (Nana) for the first time.  Nana is awesome.  She's stereotypical NY Jewish - 4' tall with huge hair and painted fingernails.  They have a good first meeting, even though Nana is devastated that her little Bubula is marrying a Shiksa.  At the end of the visit, Nana hands my sis a plate of homemade Mandelbread to take home.  My sister thanks Nana, but has a few questions.

Sis: Oh, thank you so much for the delicious cookies.  I'll return the plate to you... wait, uh, is um this the, uh, ... (gulp) ... do you need this plate back?

Nana:  Well, if it's not too much trouble, yes.  I'll keep filling it with Mandelbread for my Poonum each time you visit!

Sis: Of course, of course.  Sounds... great.  Uh, Nana?  [Sis is turning a little green while carefully looking at the plate she is holding in her hands.]

Nana:  Yes, dear?  

Sis:  This looks a little like the styrofoam trays that grocery stores use to hold raw meat.  [hesitantly] Heh, heh, heh, that is such a funny coincidence because I'm sure it's not the styrofoam tray that was holding raw meat.

Nana:  Oh, it is!  Those trays are the perfect size and I hate to waste.

Sis: [Minutely examining the small bits stuck onto the styrofoam]  Uh, what was on the tray before the cookies?  

Nana:  I think that was hamburger.  Or - no - maybe chicken?

Sis:  [trying to steady her breathing and keep a poker face]  But, but it's no big deal because you totally sterilize it, r-r-r-right?

Nana:  Of course!  After I use the meat, I rinse the tray off.  Enjoy your cookies, dear!


[Sis thinks back to the fact that she has yet to discover any sort of handwashing or dishwashing soap in Nana's house and tries not to drop the cookies or pass out...]

Those things have gone through my mom's dishwasher and been used for various things.