Category: the Rant Board
Well here is one way to know if you live with people who are slobs. I'm pretty
sure it was my brother who did this as my mother doesn't drink coffee at
night. Well my brother made a cup of coffee, left it on the counter, and
didn't touch it at all. I was making a cup of tea, and I didn't realize that at
first because I had taken out a mug and didn't realize there were 2 there. I
put the sugar in the mug, and I put the sugar in the coffee that was left out
and not the empty mug my tea was about to go in. I was tempted to put the
coffee in his room, but that is a childish thing to do plus he's sleeping. What
he did is also a waste of money. I just dumped it in the sink.
Oh my god, that's just so vile. Not.
Sorry. Made me laugh.
You don't feel your mugs before you put things inside them?
I mean, what if you are making a nice cuppa, and someone else has left a dirty mug on the counter?
I live alone, and I keep up with the specific mug I'm using, or check it to make sure it is clean before I add things to it.
Loved this. Smile.
AppleGirl, once you get a bit bigger and start raising kids you'll find nobody leaves stuff out like kids do, especially teenagers.
I agree some people are real pigs, and piggy's gotta oink I guess, but this complaint of yours is not what I would call a piggy situation.
Wow, you obviously don't know what true disgusting living situations are like. Have your mom or brother describe an episode of horders to you.
Well, that was disappointing. I was expecting a story about trash, mold, slime and cockroaches but all I got was some careless blind kid who couldn't remember which cup she was using.
just wow... no. all that does is show you don't have the sense to check a mug
before you use it.
Ug, another useless post?
And, shame. I thought I was going to read about the roaches in your house.
you call this disgusting? omg, really? You clearly don't know what disgusting
is. Seriously, we can call people pigs cuz they leave a mess but you, not
checking the coffee cup and forgeting what cup you were using? grow up!
Please! I'm not that stupid! At least, I check cups that are left untouched on
the counter because my mom or nephew leave juice or something there. And
agree with lakeria; this was useless.
Clearly you've never lived in a university dorm. If that's your definition of disgusting.
Come and meet my housemates...
true, I never have but I'm not so stupid. I was expecting dirty insects in
rooms, nasty slime that came from who-knows-ware, and what not. was not
expecting this.
Yeah well "disgusting" maybe was not the right word. I had the wrong choice
of words here. I took out the clean mug from the cabinet, put it down, went
to boil the water since I use a hot shot, and didn't notice the cup of coffee
there until I put the sugar in the mug and it was the wrong one. At first, I
didn't know there was a mug of coffee left out. I guess instead of checking
the mug, I should have checked the counter to make sure there wasn't any
coffee in a mug or any other used mugs that were left out.
Oh holly... I would love to! Not.
Yeah
what? that shouldn't be there. :d
Well, I call this a good lesson learned. Now you'll know to keep up with which mug you're using, and that's always a plus.
Lucky you didn't have a sip. Smile.
Even when you get a mug from the counter, somethimes it isn't washed good, or maybe a fly jumped in there while you were boiling water.
Who knows. Before you put anything in a mug, check it. Lol
same with bowls
Here's a disgusting story:
When I was living with a couple of roommates, our living situation kinda devolved. It sorta culminated in this.
One roommate took the skin off some chicken and tossed it in the empty garbage can (bag in it, but the bag was empty). In the middle of summer. No air conditioning. I didn't know about this early on, only found out about it later.
So guess who had to take out the garbage because no one else would? And guess who had to lug a bag whose bottom was bulging with some sort of liquid sludge, all that remained of many-days-old chicken skin, all the way down nine floors to the dumpster out back? Thank christ we had an elevator and that no one was around; I had to pull a toque on over my face and muffle my nose, the smell was that bad.
Needless to say, I am very, very glad not to be in that house anymore, with those people. I am not a neat freak, myself, and I'm not trying to say I was utterly blameless in that apartment...but still. That, I think, is disgusting.
Your coffee story, by contrast, is just annoying.
AG, you aren't very aware of your environment, are you? You must have been raised in a bubble! And how have you made it to age 20, or whatever, being so sheltered that this is the first time something like this has happened to you?
This is not a big deal. I'm beginning to think you know this, and you create these posts to see how many of us will respond! LOL
Shepherdwolf, I had chicken earlier for dinner, and it almost wanted to visit a receptacle of its own just now...
Eeeeeeeewwwwwwww! Yeah this was the first time that happened to me. I
should check a mug but don't.
Well, if you don't start checking your cups, you are going to one day have a sip of cold coffee with a butt and new sugar in it for breakfast. Smile.
Um, ohmyGod lol. No this just shows how ridiculous you are. Not how disgusting the people you live with are.
Let me get this straight... You took a mug out, you put it on the counter, then went to boil water... and so between the time you took your new mug out of the cupboard and the time your water finished boiling (she's using a hotshot, guys, that doesn't take more than a minute...). You 1, forgot where exactly your cup was located on the counter; lost track of it. and 2. you went and tried putting sugar in an already full cup... that was not yours.
I mean, that takes a special kind of slow, sweetie. it really does.
I'm not sure whether it would be more appropriate to laugh and point at how ridiculous you are, or feel sorry for you concerning the very obvious brain injury you apparently have but possibly don't realize you do... ugh.
You know, seriously, you've posted about your relationship issues, about your lack of skills, about how blatantly careless you are--so much so that you don't even bother to check whether the cup you're trying to use is your own or someone elses... All you've told us so far leads me to conclude that, despite not being much younger than I am, you're a baby. Seriously. A baby. Close your legs and get some life skills. Or get sterilized if you plan on having any further sex with anyone else. lol. Because you're the type of person that, should you happen to procreate, it would be incredibly alarming.
Ugh.
Just... No.
shakes head.
Meanwhile, teenagers leave shit out, half empty bowls on the counter, chuck stuff in the sink, piled up blankets in the living room where they did the sleepover or whatever, the occasional smear from I guess nail polish and other beauty products.
Goodness Bernadetta, usually it's me being a bitch.
But seriously Kristin, the useless board posts need to stop. I think that the majority of people on this site don't care about the stuff you're posting. If you were posting legitimate things, then sure, but this is just a waste of space that actual board posts can go.
No no, by all means, keep posting! Really! This bitch needs some entertainment between boring jobs. lol. It's so awesome, you're like the zone's latest favorite basketcase. My own personal little Jerry springer episode. Please. By all means. Post. I need somewhere to get my inner bitch out.
lol.
jk.
almost.
For anyone who remembers, its like Mabilyn the second
Maybe it's mabilyn!!??? lol.
Oh my Christ.
Nah, it's not, but damn close, Bernadetta. LOL
Holy shit. I kind of forgot about her.
I'm gonna stick my neck out again for her and say she can post her feelings and ideas and such if she wishes?
Put up your dukes. Lets go a few rounds. hahaha.
Okay...so I do want to add a little more. And Danni, I'm sorry about almost making you sick. Didn't intend that; just wanted to contrast with a much more disgusting story.
Anyway, here's my two cents' worth:
Some people are not taught the skills that are necessary for doing for themselves. Some are even coddled to the point where a lot is done for them. I don't know AppleGirl's background, but this sort of mistake, plus the soup thing found in another board post, make me think maybe she just has really weak living skills. This isn't something she should be ridiculed for, but it is something she should try and work on.
AppleGirl, hopefully this is a lesson learned. If you're putting your empty coffee cup on a counter that has other stuff on it - or even if you're just unsure - check around, figure out where your cup is, and remember it. That way, even if there -is someone else's cup there and you don't want to just dump it out or whatnot, you know where your own is, and will steer clear of anyone else's. It's a sort-of-understandable mistake to make if you're not paying attention, but I wouldn't call people disgusting for it either. If you'd been a little more careful it wouldn't have happened. I hope you can learn from this.
She's working on it.
She has posted and gotten the Zone's **opinion**
grin!!!
Guys, I sincerely think she's a troll who's just looking to ruffle some feathers.
No no no no no no no no! That ain't disgusting. watch the show Hoarding- Buried Alive and have it described to you. That'll make your coffee cup mishap look like child's play. Feel countertops next time before you fetch a clean mug for tea.
And she's succeeding. For the amount of "useless" topics on here - and you'll note useless is in quotes - they seem to be the ones getting the most attention. Apple Girl, I'll admit that someone forgetting a coffee cup is annoying - I deal with abandoned cups full of what I consider sewage on a daily basis at work - but trust me, and everyone else when I say that slobbery this is not. But honestly, for those of you who are tired of "pointless posts", the easiest way to deal with them is to not keep them up at the top. If you don't like them, don't comment. Trust me, as one whose topics usually get buried rapidly due to apparent disinterest and topics - well, like this one - I feel qualified to testify how well that works. There's obviously some enjoyment to be had with such discussion, otherwise it wouldn't rise beyond a few "go away" replies. And yes, I realize my mediation is only inflating the reply count. adding yet another comment. But that little voice in my head doesn't call me the topic killer for nothing. Ah heck, since I'm here, how about a shameless plug? If you're really looking for a few minutes of entertainment, why not take a look at my "my first ever completed
song" topic on the Jam Session board. It's got a link to some music and a couple audio theatre pieces, and for better or worse I believe it may entertain you from anywhere between two minutes to an hour. And heck, for those of you who just love to critasize, fire away!:)
do you want to watch disgusting? watch I Bet You Will and there, they do
some very disgusting stuff for money! Oh god... I don't even want to
remember the disgusting things... and gregg, yeah that chicken story...
ewww! :d
I echo Becky, I think she just make some post and bang, wait for our reaction. Honestly, if that coffee got left out on the counter for some time, and your tea is hot, how can you not able to tell between a hot mug and a cold mug? or are you just, senseless in all kind of imagination?
She hadn't put the water in the mug, just sugar.
I personally don't put the sugar in the mug befor the tea, but other do it different.
Awe, Y'all are so mean to poor AppleGirl. She posts this stuff because she loves you all and wants to entertain you, and this is the only way she knows how to do it. She's got a big heart and a cup full of... cold coffee.
Omg I hate Mabelin! She got me banned from audioboom and that's not for
this thread.
But yeah the coffee incident was an honest mistake. I put the sugar in
before the hot water so it's easier. If I do it the other way around, some
sugar might stick to the spoon.
People still using Audioboom? I haven't in awhile, I thought it was gonna drop
dead. They made it so only Audioboom users can view the content there I think.
Who's Mabelin? You can get banned from a service like Audioboom?
What did you Ssay? That is more interesting then sugar in cold coffee. Smile.
On a serious note. If your drink is hot it is actually better, and you use less sugar, to add it after.
Use two spoons. One for the sugar, and one to stir.
That way, you can taste what your drink will be like as you add the sweetner.
Give it a try.
Um. seriously, even the mug is empty, and another mug with cold coffee, naturally you will know if you put a spoon in a mug that is full of liquit or an empty mug. no?
I believe a 4 year old kid can even differentiate that, hell, even my 2 years old niece can differentiate a cup with liquit and an empty cup...
Yeah I didn't know I was putting the sugar in the full mug; it was an
honest mistake.
Yes, audioboom does still exist. People who use twitter can also see
audioboom stuff, so that isn't necissarily true. I have mine linked to my
twitter and people who don't use audioboom can still hear my stuff; they
just have to click on the link in the tweets. I got blocked from audioboom
for masterbating. Mabelin actually got me blocked because her friend
Lance is one of the admins, so she told him what I was doing. She along
with some others reported my nasty boos and they got taken down.
Mabelin is a bitch who nobody likes.
Why in the holy hell would you masturbate on AudioBoom? I just...don't get that.
they seriously remind me of each other... referring to apple and Mabilyn.
Ummm? OMG? lol. Thats, just... Ewwwwww.
No, not the masterbating thing in general, apple whatever-the-fuck you are today. lol.
The eeewwww factor is you masturbating and recording it for posterity... for public consumption, no less...
aaaah, I'm crying and laughing, and I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. lol
Some people. I tell ya.
lol
Thanks for being my favorite clown. lol
sorry for this off-topic post, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Literotica is the place for that kind of crazy stuff if you're really into putting yourself out there for the public, not audio boom. the fact you both recorded yourself engaging in that sort of activity, and openly admit to doing so without a shred of shame is kind of scary. If that kind of material is in violation of audio boom's terms of service, then it's only fair that you be banned from using audio boom.
And FYI, masturbating or any other form of that word has a u in it, not an e.
Good day.
Well people should be able to post what they want on the Internet.
Oh. Rest assured you are. But that right does not extend to the possible consequences you face for posting crap. If you post stuff that's ridiculous, you aren't exempt from the possibility of being ridiculed by others. If you post on someone else's site, you risk the possibility of being banned from posting again if it's not to the liking of the site owner or admin.
Hey, I have news for you. the internet is not the wild west. lol. It's not unchartered territory. You actually can't just post whatever and whereever you like, because, guess what? Individual domains are the virtual property of a sole owner or group of owners. People actually pay to host and register and maintain their web sites. Contrary to what you may think, the web is actually not a free for all.
I'm calling bullshit on the whole masturbatory story. Bull fuckin' shit. A pair of chicks doing that? Would obviously be getting paid to do that shit, and AudioBoom isn't monetized. So got my doubts that actually happened.
Sounds like our original poster is a member of the subspecies homo trollus.
Apple girl did. Or at least, she was doing an impression of it. Nasty.
Damn. I love it. I was correct. Surely more interesting then the coffee bit. Smile.
Honey, you have places to post this sort of thing if you wish.
You can post what you like on the internet, you just need to post it on a site where it is allowed.
Nasty, or not, if it is what you wish to do, use the correct place.
I think your buddy talked you in to something she knew she could use against you though.
There used to be erotic audio sites where it sounded like amateur posters
posted things, but I don't know where they are these days. Back in the 90s
there was EroticRadio.com
But AppleGirl, count your lucky stars you're not a man because if you'd been a
man and done this on a non-sexual site, you'd have probably went to jail for
that. Double standards are what they are.
But yeah there's surely places for that.
Even though there's no denying, masturbabing on Audioboom and announcing it here as if she were proud of it is just disgusting, as long as erotica etc isn't against the TOS (which I haven't read) it should legally be OK. But wow!
Sort of changing the subject a little, but speaking of legalities, I could have so easily handed someone over to the police because someone i use to follow put all this stuff up there about her crimes she committed which she was getting away with.
Yes, anyone can do/say anything on Audioboom it would seem.
Crimes might be hard to prove based on someone telling a story, for instance
though, Rachel. How many people online have told drug trip stories from their
college days? But nobody could prove they were telling the truth enough to get
the police interested. You'd have to submit a lot of corroborating factors not just
someone saying puff puff, far out, we had a great time ... or whatever her crime
happened to be.
My opinion is if your going to do this sort of thing, get paid.
Add some video, via webcam, and you got a job.
It isn't worth doing as a dare or fun with your friend, unless she's your lover.
You still aren't getting anything out of it if it is only turning her on. Smile.
Hey applegirl, there's always phone sex. lol.
Bernadetta, with phone sex, she'd have to find a willing listener.
With Audioboom, she can put herself out there and people can choose to listen or turn away
in disgust.
I also think that Leo's got a good point at #56... if you were a male and doing that sort of
thing, you'd be in a heap of trouble.
Yeah I was really doing it, but I was just making the sounds; I wasn't actually
doing anything. I did it for shock value. If you went on facebook and posted
a video of something like that, you wouldn't get banned.
sure about that? lol.
Think again.
Facebook has a report feature. Some of the things that can be reported fall under the category of "lude, obscene, and inappropriate." You could get banned or your post can be flagged if someone feels bothered by it and if facebook sees their case.
Make no mistake. lol.
She really did do this, they were posted here on the zone for all to here...
Wow. how much more attention-starved can you get. lol.
Hahahaha! Nearly choked on my hot tea. I was not expecting to read anything like this.
Shameless, common behavior, missy. Tsk.
LOL
Let me be clear on something, just in case.
There's nothing at all wrong with a woman masturbating. In fact, I wish women in general felt less shame over this.
There's also nothing wrong with masturbating (or faking it) on the internet, if that's your thing. I personally wouldn't, and it's not to my taste, but that doesn't matter a damn.
The only reason this is a bad idea is if it's being placed where it doesn't belong. There are websites where that sort of contribution is openly welcome, so just go there. Putting it on audioboom seems like it was guaranteed to bring trouble...and it did. You've basically got no one but yourself to blame there.
I clarified here only to be sure I was giving the right message. It's not shameful to masturbate, be you a woman or a man. It's not even necessarily shameful if you want to share. If it's your thing, then go for it.
Just...for heaven's sake, use a little more sense, would you?
omg, *pukes* Why did you do that, apple? why? that's disgusting! but, I
kinda agree with Gregg here. but, there is always a place for everything and
masturbating on audio boom is not one. God...
or not.
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Agree with Greg. No problem with it, just where that material is placed, especially if it does not belong there.
Sheps the man. Still, get paid.
I have a friend that earns pretty good money pretending she's somebody on the telephone.
For fun and pleasure, find the person that enjoys it, not the people you make mad. Lol
Oh, and Writer, that is ApplePeaches.
Oh wow, I didn't know they were posted on the zone.
you didn't? What the... I didn't know either so...
Leo, in reference to my prev post, this girl would have been caught because she was saying one thing in one post and then denying it in the other, but we could easily put two and two together.
Ah. The problems of posting things yonline.
Once you post it on a public place, it is easy for anyone to repost it.
If you didn't post them here, how were they put here?
The Zone only has audio profiles, so?
I've not tried to locate them. I prefer hearing the live versions, but that's a different subject. Lol
Well back to the topic that this thread is intended to be about. So my
mom used to buy soups for me to heat in the microwave, and the cans
were a flip top like a soda can since it's easier to flip the top than to use a
can opener. She also bought other stuff in cans with flip tops like that.
She would get things such as corn, beans, etc. etc. So they were all
together in the cabinet. So I didn't know she had other canned goods with
a flip top until after I did this. But I opened the cans, or I just flipped the
top since it lets the air out of it and you can smell what's inside once you
do that. They didn't smell like soup, so I opened the cans, smelled them to
see what was in it, and then I put the cans back in the cabinet like that
and they were in there for months. My mom noticed it one day when she
went to make chili and found all of those cans open and threw them all in
the garbage. She was pissed! One of the cans I opened were kidney
beans which is what you need to make chili, but luckily she had more. My
reputation was saved, as she put it. She said we could have got bad
bugs. Now that's a definition of disgusting. It's an honest mistake to make
since I can't read cans, but I shouldn't have left them in the cabinet like
that. Another time we had a party and we had soda and celtzer cans in
the fridge. They were all together on the shelf, nobody bothered to
separate them. So I wanted soda, so I opened the cans and they were all
celtzer, so I kept opening cans. I opened like 8 cans of celtzer and put
them back in the fridge and wasted them. My mom made me dump them in
the sink, throw the cans in the garbage, and give her money to replace
them. I actually was cracking up about this one.
now, that's disgusting! I did that a lot! so, my dad always puts beer in the
fridge. sometimes, mother puts soda on the same place. So, we were eating
and I thought I had the right can of soda. Nope, oppened it and smelled and
it was beer. Not drinking that! My mom luckilly came in after and told me to
give it to my dad. He was working outside on his car. so I was like, oops? :d
oh, and not only that, once my dad left a beer can on the table. there was
also a soda that wasn't open. I didn't know at the time and was pretty
thirsty. I accidently drank some beer thinking it was soda.
Why would you put the opened cans back into the cupboard?
Did you not think that the contents of the can would go off and begin to smell? Not only
that, don't you think that open food might attract ants or cockroaches or other icky things
that feed on opened food?
That's really nasty, and if I were your Mom, I'd be furious with you for wasting food like
that. Yes, she should have told you that there were other cans in the cupboard beyond
your soup, but you are just as much to blame because you put the opened cans back into
the cupboard! If you'd left them out, your Mom would have seen them sooner and then
she could make other arrangements for the storage of the non-soup cans in a location
other than where you have your soup.
If you accidentally open the wrong can, put its contents into a Tupperware or similar sealed container and put that in the refrigerator.
Canned food's preservation depends entirely upon the can remaining sealed.
And yes, cans with ring tops are far more common now, as I have learned being involved with a community hunger project. A manual can opener isn't hard to use unless you're arthritic or otherwise impaired. I've opened cans with a pocketknife in a pinch.
We distribute ring top canned foods because people may or may not have a can opener, or may or may not be able to use one for a myriad of reasons. Something I had no idea of until getting involved with the projects I'm into now.
Anyhow, you open the wrong can, *don't* put it back int the cupboard.
Actually this stuff is easier when either living alone, or if you're like me and a telecommuter, you're responsible for a majority of domestic duties around your place.
I've been on both sides on this one, for the past 9 years working from home, but for many years before that being in the office all the time, so others placed things where they would.
Also when you live by yourself you'll know the relative shape and size of cans that you usually buy. Things like beans can be detected by shaking the can first. If yu're looking for soup concentrate, it at most sloshes, it doesn't rattle. Kidney beans and the like will rattle.
Also mark things that are yours with a notch from your pocketknife.
This is the sort of stuff I do but have no idea what the independence types say one way or the other.
This independent type buys fresh or frozen, no canned.
If I want sauce, I buy it in a jar.
If I'm making something that requires a base, I only have these cans.
Also, if you open a can, learn it isn't what you want, stop? Get some help?
That is what happens when you're the person that has to buy that food. Lol
Yep, should have put it in the refrigerator.
And, oh yes Kristin, that's what happens when you put stuff like that out. It gets shared for all the world to hear, and be disgusted by. Also, I agree with Greg.
Ok. so it's clear to me that you really do lack common sense.
You live in a shared home. Why would you think that only your cans were being stored in the place where you found them? And furthermore, why wouldn't you ask someone, if you couldn't identify the cans of soup or soda by yourself, whether they could help you locate what you're looking for?
Instead, you open can after can after can after can, unapologetically wasting food and placing it back into the cabinet... Taht's not something a normal person does. Not even a normal blind person. Correct me if I'm wrong, people... but seriously, that defies logic in the worst of ways.
I have been totally blind since birth. If I can't identify something on my own, my next logical step is to get a pair of eyes to identify it for me. I'm not going to open item after item after item until I find what I was looking for. that's something a four year old might do... or someone with a mental deficit.
You made fun of and ridiculed your ex FWB's new girlfriend saying she's no good because she has a brain injury.. I suggest you take a good hard look at yourself and how mentally illogical and incongruent your own actions are. If you were living with me, I'd probably whoop your ass if you opened all our shared canned good just to find some soup, then replaced them opened back into their storage space. I never resort to violence, but seriously... Blindness is no excuse for this one.
I have been unsure and opened the wrong can before. As in, one can. I've done it a couple of times, and in each case either there was no one handy or they were busy, I think. In one case I wanted clam chowder (which is quite thick, by the way) and got beans of some kind. In another case, I wanted canned pears and got a jar of tomatoes. In both cases, I shoved the open can on the top shelf of the fridge, in a tupperware container. So it's still opened and it's still got to be used pretty soon, but it's not a dead loss. I did not return to the pantry to open more cans of which I was unfamiliar.
What I learned to do is to either be extremely deliberate about where I put my cans, or to start marking them in some fashion. I live alone right now, and it's dead easy knowing what stuff is because I know where I put it. In my mom's house (which is where the situations above occurred), things would get shuffled, so I had to mark cans somehow.
I've also done the mistaking-beer-for-Coke thing once or twice, but after that happened, I learned that you can often tell a soda can because it has more compressed air in it. The metal has just a little less give to it than a beer can does. And if that wasn't good enough, I'd make sure beer and pop were in two different parts of the fridge. Never made that mistake again.
Even when young, I never ever put opened cans back in the pantry. I never ever opened a whole slew of cans - drink or soup or whatever - after making a mistake. That's irresponsible, wasteful and inconsiderate. I wish your mom had really kicked your ass for that, if for no other reason than that it sounds like no one's really stepped up and shown you how to get on in life. Your living skills are rather on the weak side, and hopefully you get to polishing them up really soon.
And yes. Leaving cans of open food in the pantry is way, way worse than leaving a coffee cup on a counter for you to stumble across.
I'm not sure if you cook your own meals or not, but judging from your posts, you need to stay out of the kitchen before you seriously hurt yourself.
Well you can't ask for help if you are home alone. During the situations I
mentioned, I was home alone, so I didn't have a pair of eyes to ask. If you
have pop and beer (I just was told this after the celtzer incident last year)
yyou can take the tab and just turn it sideways and then when you want to
open the can, you just turn it back the way it was.
I think your mom should have spent more time with you, and arranging things.
I still think she and your brother should even now.
If you lived in my house, I'd spend time teaching you things. Even at home alone, I'm not sure why you'd open can after can though.
As to soda, and other drinks on a table, they smell different? I tend to smell everything I'm about to eat, or drink even if I open it fresh.
If I have beer and soda, I put them on different sides of my fridge, or buy the soda in can's the beer in bottles.
Sometimes I think a bit of help, or training solves many of these issues. That help or traing should have started when you were a child.
So, I don't fault you completely. Smile.
I don't fault you for opening the cans. I fault you for putting them back in the
cabinet. I don't think you can blame that on blindness. Your eyes don't prevent
you from knowing that can goods shouldn't be opened and put back.
I do fault you. If not for any other reason than simply because you won't, and can't, make yourself take even the teensiest responsibility.
"My mom didn't tell me she put other cans that looked like mine in the cupboard. so I opened them till I found my soup."
Moms fault, is it? Yet the bigger problem is the incessant opening of cans, not the fact that they were placed in a way you didnt' understand.
"nobody bothered to divide the celtzers from the sodas. so I opened the celtzers till I found a soda.."
Again, someone else's fault, right? Because they "didn't bother to" put the soda's away from the celtzers.
Guess what, sweetie.
You're a full grown blind person, living with some sighted people. Key word, full grown, and key word blind. One blind, several sighted. Do you think that the several sighted people are going to think to put cans in specific places for the one blind person in the house? No. And you know why not? Because they can f--ing see! lol. They can identify the cans easily.
And you know what? In the midst of life, you know, and jobs and things, people forget about your needs unless you speak up about them yourself. I know. I was the only blind individual in my family until my partner came along. I know my family members love me and I know they mean well, but I've always had to be my own advocate even at home from time to time. You can't expect people to do what's best for you unless you speak up and let them know what that might be! But of course, you don't have enough common sense to be resourceful, do you? You didn't think to label the cans you'd like to use...
And the home alone argument isn't a good excuse either.
If you're too daft to ensure that you can be independent in your home at 22, then you don't deserve to eat soup or drink soda at your wim. lol. Wait for someone to come home and gently guide your sorry little blind self to what you need. If you're going to hbe helpless, you're going to eat and drink on someone else's time. Maybe that would teach you to take an initiative and learn what you need to do to function more independently in your home without doing outrageous shit like wasting six or a dozen cans just to heat up a little soup.
goodness gracious. I get that we are all skilled at various levels. I get that many of us don't have optimal independence skills, that maybe we lack some social skils, make up for them with others, etc. But jeeze, that's just borderline obnoxious, to create a bigger problem for others because you've got one yourself.
Are you saying you can't, or shouldn't be left home alone?
lol
You kind of remind me of a brand new, untrained puppy. If you leave it at home alone, it'll chew up all your shoes.
If you leave Kristen home alone, beaware, she'll open all your cans... But don't worry, she'll put them back where she found them. lol.
Yeah, I don't feel sorry for this girl. Because she sounds pretty disrespectful and in my house I would have been yelled at for doing that. Actually, I wouldn't, because even at 8 or 9 I was never that irrisponsible and stupid where food was concerned.
Ever heard of TapTapSee? Or camfind, which btw is free? Use your resources.
I'm sorry but this is 2015 and we have technology available to assist us, and you know, our brains too.
I here you Writer, but seriously, her mom should have done some helping a long time ago.
You've got to train a puppy, right?
She'd not have that problem at my house. I don't buy canned food often, so.
Now the person that opens a beer, drinks the beer. My rules.
If she opens 6 beers, well. Lol
That will teach her to be more careful next time.
Wayne, my mother didn't teach me or train me about shit where blindness was concerned. Some people just dont' have that capacity. You say you'd teach her because you're blind yourself, you know what goes into it. Should her mother have taken more of an initiative? Maybe. But what's to say she didn't. Maybe she did; judging by kristen's attitude, things just seem to bounce off that little brain; nothing of substance seems to get through.
I was criticized at home when I was twelve for trying to cut an apple, because god forbid I hurt myself, you know, with my siteless misfortune and all. But even then, I had something we all like to call, common sense. I know you're familiar with that one, wayne. You have a great deal of it, no? I'd say.
Common sense is at fault here, that's the major culprit. or, rather lack there of.
I don't care that Kristen's 22, I would have spanked her wasteful butt! Act like a child, be treated like a child.
The parents apparently never made her suffer consequences of her actions, and that's why she thought it would be okay to keep opening can after can. What gets me about this is that Kristen seems to be proud of her stupidity and inconsiderate ways.
I hope the family asks her to pay for a share of the groceries, after this.
You may have something, Write Away.
My mother didn't teach me much, either, that would have taken too much time, she didn't know how, and she was just simply lazy, when it came to that. It was the school's job, she thought. Grr! This has made life difficult, sometimes, but it certainly helps to have common sense, which Apple seems to lack. Even if no one tells you directly that cans aren't placed, opened, in the pantry, as a curious child, you should realize that by investigating the pantry, and seeing that there never is an open can in there, or on the countertop, or anyplace else!
wasting food? Perfect solution. Contribute financially to groceries as part of your parents' household, especially if someone else manages your SSI or SSDI money for you. This does not mean you allow the parents to take money from your account and spend it. Instead, you accompany them to the store and use your card to purchase items you need, but do it on a strict budget. for every wasted food item, take a dollar off your next grocery run budget. that'll teach in a damn hurry not to pull any of that childish nonsense ever again.
agree about using tap tap see or other apps for canned food identification. Once the food has been identified, use a labeling system so you know what's what in that cupboard.
Do bear in mind that this occurred some time ago. It didn't happen, like, yesterday or something. It's entirely possible she's learned the error of her ways about this already, and will never ever do it again.
The fact that she made the mistakes in the first place speaks more too not thinking than it does to blindness. I don't know a single other blind person who'd have done what was done here.
Growing up, I didn't have technology at my disposal to identify canned foods before opening them, and people did shuffle stuff around. I had to speak up and ask them to try not to do that, if they wanted me to be independent. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. My mom did get into the habit of showing me which cans were which, and I got into the practice of memorizing can sizes, can shapes, even imperfections. "Okay. That one with the dent is spaghetti sauce, don't open it. That one with the ring-pull is soup I can eat, so it's safe. The narrower can with a weird ridge around the bottom is a can of kidney beans for chili." Stuff like that. Some of us don't have the sort of memory required for this, and that's cool.
Really, I just hope this was a serious lesson learned. It doesn't seem the topic creator is actually pleased with this, however. She did admit it was a mistake and said it was disgusting. She does seem to think it was funny though, and it's not. Not a bit. If it had been me who found that rotten food, I'd have been disgusted and furious.
Same here, my mom doesn't teach me anything. Her attitude is "let someone help you." So I really don't know in this situation.
I doubt most of us got taught. I'm a bit deterministic in my thinking I guess. That's what I've been told anyhow. But I think it's a nature thing, you either got it or you don't. Figure shit out or don't. I don't really know though.
I know people in the helping and social type professions, peple like the Wife and daughter, don't like it when I say this. But I think there's such a thing as a point of no return. Think about it. Hard drive poops out, it's done. Motherboard shorts out / cracks, can't rectify. Well some people, like maybe the O.P, same thing. I'm not qualified to say so as to when that is, I dunno who is. But look at what we got here, people. Provided this isn't a rather elegant hoax.
Something's already pooped out, I doubt you all can fix that shit.
Thank you leo. Yep. Lost cause. Mean, maybe. Sorry though. lol.
OMG, I have soooooooo much on which to comment here. I'll try to go in some sort of order.
1. Disgusting is not a cup of coffee left on the counter. Leo is right. Wait until you have kids and one takes a sippy cup of milk up stairs and leave it in the playroom only to be found a week or two later by following my nose.
And before the "I'd never let my kids take food and drinks out of the kitchen starts, just shut it b/c none of us is impervious to mishaps.
Disgusting were many of the houses I used to have to visit as a VRT. I'm talking about kitchens with plates of congealed food everywhere, packages of green rotting meat less than 2 feet from a trash can, used diabetic needles laying around, dirty diapers
and God knows what else ankle deep; I could go on and on. I honestly had no idea people lived like that. Gaaaaaah!
2. People still get paid for phone sex? Really? Where? lol Hell, I faked it for 12 years for free so what the hell, I'd fake it for some extra Christmas cash. lol
3. My mom would have beaten my ass good for pulling a stunt like waisting all that food. Damn, girl! Please tell me you were very very very very young, like 4 or 5, when you did that shit. Braille labels are a beautiful thing. If not that, something as simple as a piece of tape or a tare in the label of your cans will go a long way toward helping avoid this situation in the future.
4. This post has reminded me why I should log in here more often. It's cheap entertainment.
Ok, I think I'm done now.
Here here, domestic.
Although I actualy do never let my kid leave the kitchen with food or drink other than water. He gets in big trouble for that, and now he's four, he already knows better. I'm super strict about it, for the precise reason you just described. I was a little compulsive about only giving him sippie cups when he actually needed to drink. lol. But I totally get it. You turn away a second, and boom.
And yeah, phone sex for pay certainly exists. i wouldn't know where because I'm not into making money like that, but I know some people who say they support their babies that way. lol
wow, this board made me laugh.
See, we have two mothers that trained there puppies. Smile.
Yep, phone sex pays. Cam sex even better. Advances, you understand. Lol
No overhead, unless you're got some interesting position you'd like to display on your cam show.
As to common sense, well, depending on how long ago this happened, again mom's you train your puppies.
Even the lazy mother does some teaching, like, don't be wasteing food.
Here's the interesting thing. Why did it take her mother or others so long to find that food? It wasn't hidden?
Oh, good question, Forereel. Haha. I hadn't even got as far analyzing this silliness as to wonder about Apple's mama, and why she didn't find open cans in her pantry sooner! But I'll let her off the hook, not so, her offspring, who needs immediate NFB-style rehab. *joking, since my mild sarcasm doesn't ring through, in everyone's Jaws settings. Well, joking about the NFB part.*
Hey, maybe I need to sign up for that phone work! I could do with a few extra bucks.
I had a friend who did this for a short while, a few years back. It makes for some great stories to laugh over, with your friends! She had another girlfriend who also did this, and would actually walk around the grocery store, while on calls! LOL
Sign up. Call me to try out your skills though. Lol
The friend of mine that does it says men are sick. hahaha.
She claims it is really easy once you understand how to pretend.
Some days, she only might get 5 or 10 minutes in a day. Other times, she'll get 30 50 minutes.
She doesn't use a cellphone, but land line. The company she works for won't allow cellphones.
She calls and signs in, after that calls come to her. So, she reads, or whatever while waiting on a call.
Oh my god! Such first world problems, oh NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo! The pain, the pain AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
So much problems indeed. I don't want to be mean but I think that apple guirl just posts these things just to see what she would get out of people. About the coffee I would've least put it in the fridge and when my brother woke up in the morning I would let him know that he forgot his coffee on the counter and that I had put it in the fridge the night before. As for the masturbating issue you can't post those things anywhere. You would have to put it on a sex related site. And finally about the cans that was very stupid. I remember I was looking for a can of corn and a few was similar I opened the 1st by mistake and it was peas and carrots So I just emptied it in a container and put it in the freezer I took another can still looking for the corn though and I opened it it was samon. I did the same thing. Emptied it in a container and put it in the freezer. After can 2 I stopped opening cans because I know I would've opened another wrong one by mistake again. So that was very foolish of apple girl and I don't think she should be left home alone.
Yes, and there's iPhone apps for this too.
Laughing.
There's an app for that?
hehehe.
There's taptapsee. I used it but sometimes it doesn't always recognize the cans. I have to move the cans around and keep taking pictures till I get it to recognize something.
Sure, but that wasn't what I meant.
Smile.
Ah I can't use tap tap see to save my life but I was aiming that at apple peaches as she's an apple fan so she should get those apps and at least try them, and Be My Eyes too is good but obviously it can take more time.
Lol Wayne, I wondered what you were talking about but then I got ya. I have no doubt that those apps are out there too. :)
well that is if apple girl has an apple phone.
I happen to know she does. :)
well then that was no excuse for that kind of behavior by her then.
Where is she, anyway? I miss the free entertainment.
she's probably reading our posts and not feeling to reply.
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Not reading. Maybe the internets off.
maybe she found a new friends with benefits to stalk and harass?
Anythings possible. Smile.
Computer may have given up the vhost, so she's working on new.
Well I will miss her entertainment though. lol
Send her a private message.
"I miss you."
Laughing.
she hasn't logged in for a while. I hope that she really didn't do those stupid things and just entertaining us because if she did that's real sad.
something tells me she did. What a waste of oxygen.
some people could just write these things to get attention and since she has an apple phone I can't believe that she doesn't have the sense to put the taptapsee app on her phone to recognize stuff.