The Not Happy Thread

Sorry to hear that, I thought you guys were writing your new piece together.

Maybe we should start a dating area on the forum.

 

@Lewdog
Forum + dating = BAD idea LOL trust me ...

@Alesia But really, though, I'm saddened to hear of your misfortune.

 

Several times, and each one escalated into an argument that got so heated that I left the house to keep the police from being called.

 

This makes me sound like a real tool here, but maybe the best thing to do is just to say "If you want to talk, call me." pack your bags beforehand, and leave! You could stay in a motel for a few days, and if that's not getting anywhere, rent an apartment. A good deal of them take cats.

 

There lies the next problem. I have no car at the moment, so I have to walk to work. The closest motels are 12mi down the road in the next town over otherwise I would go live in one on a weekly rate until I find a new place.

 

And even that is a pain. Always questioning me about why am I not writing it faster, etc... How can I write it at all if I'm supposed to be watching movies and hanging out with you 24/7? Telepathically?

 

Could you buy or rent a car?

 

This would make me want to shoot myself. You're a strong person.

 

My CA license is suspended (long story) and I can't get one in Tennessee partially because of that and the fact that I don't have a certified copy of my birth certificate which they say ill take 8-10 weeks to deliver.

 

Being as I still feel like giving you advice, I'm gonna just message you.

 

Oh wow, I'm sorry to hear that. If that's the case, maybe a split really is the best way to go. Do you have any friends or family or cheap housing you can afford? Is there a risk of her running off to her family and stiffing you with the costs of your current residence if you break up? If you two could get along enough to pay the bills and live together long enough to work out new arrangements, then it may work.

You really are caught between a rock and a hard place, and I'm sorry about the predicament. Hopefully a solution makes itself present.

 

Really need a personal computer... People are gross. I'm sitting in the college library and everybody's coughing--which I can live with because I've still got a light cough. What I can't live with is these people not covering their mouths at all... Home boy next to me didn't turn his head or lift his hand, just like the dude who sneezed right on the computer keyboard like it was nothing (this guy also picked his nose and wiped it under the desk like nobody saw. Where did these people grow up???

Gaagh... I need some fresh air.

 

@Andrae Smith. You need either a personal computer or a hazmat suit!

 

Seriously! At a school with soooo many people from around the world, who know's what's floating around? And this library get's so much traffic at this time of year, people just bring whatever they have with them in and whatever they pick up out...

 

That's terrible, 'Drae. Also, slightly nauseating.

 

Libraries? What are those? I thought with the internet those became extinct.

 

No way! I use the library all the time - free books, ones you can't read for free online.

 

Hand washing, waterless hand cleaner and social distancing - you really can control your exposure risk despite the inconsiderate idiots around you.

 

OK, I hope you're sitting down when you read this. I read an article a few years ago about how dirty the keyboards are in university libraries. They tested a large number of keyboards for bacteria and the like and found fecal matter on all the keyboards they tested. That's right. Fecal matter.

I'm praying for you buddy.

 

If they found fecal matter on keyboards, fecal matter is everywhere. Everyone's hands are covered with it by now, I guess. It must flow through the air conditioning and is everywhere else. It's unavoidable. It's been that way for many years.

The question is, are you sick?

 

Well when someone farts, the bad smell that comes with it, has bits of small fecal matter in it.

 

Your definition of fecal matter is problematic. Most people don't include chemicals that trigger the olfactory nerve in the definition of fecal matter.

 

This is why I never fart, ever. And I fully support the Terran Repel All Farts (TRAF) organization, which asks people and cows to sign pledges to never, ever fart again.

 

No, they do indeed have fecal matter in them, and quoting some of the sources I have read, "the hotter and wetter they are, the more fecal matter they contain."

 

We all have gobs of fecal matter in our intestines. Guess what, it doesn't cause disease.

People don't get it. Of course the news media doesn't help, 99% of the reporters are ignorant of microbiology and infectious disease.

So what are the facts? Fecal coliform bacteria are markers for potential fecal oral spread of pathogens, but they aren't typically the pathogens themselves. In fact, the vast majority of fecal coliform bacteria are normal flora, aka, harmless.

Then there is the whole E-coli story. That's confusing to people. There are many strains of E-coli, some are deadly, some cause minor traveler's diarrhea, and many are normal flora in everyone's intestines and we need them.


Anyway, back to the keyboards. All you have to do is break your habit of putting your hands in your eye, nose or mouth and wash your hands well before you eat. That's usually enough. I tend to slather on the waterless hand cleaner here and there, I keep a bottle in the car. I think it helps. It probably doesn't work against norovirus, but it probably kills the more serious respiratory pathogens. But what it surely does is help one break the habit of putting your hands in your eyes, nose and mouth. You can taste the alcohol, it's a reminder. It stings the eye, another reminder.