Internet, in the interest of allowing you to bail out of this post as early as possible, let me warn you: There is zero content below. Instead, this post is made up solely of a series of complaints/whines.
I am just having one of those weeks (already!) where I want to scream. My veins are surging with righteous indignation. (Or possibly Recreational Anger. I am too In The Middle Of It to recognize the difference at this time.) But I’m pretty sure that screaming would freak out my neighbors. So I’m writing this post instead.
LUCKY YOU.
Please feel free to skip the complaints and head into the comments and unload your own frustrations. It will make you feel better.
Complaint 1: We are signing papers tonight and transferring our life’s savings funds into escrow. Yesterday, I got a call from my insurance agent. She said the bank (our mortgage lender) had called her to change the effective date of our homeowner’s insurance. To tomorrow. I.e. TODAY.
We have known for A WHOLE MONTH that we were going to sign the papers tomorrow. When we originally set up the effective date for the policy, we had to get the bank involved. They TOLD US to make the effective date of our homeowner’s insurance the date we take possession of the house. Which means that they KNEW what the effective date was. And yet… they didn’t spot the mistake until THE DAY BEFORE THE NEW EFFECTIVE DATE.
Complaint 2: My insurance agent was frustrated that the bank wanted her to make this change. Because apparently it is A Big Hassle to change the effective date on a policy. Seems like you would just have to delete a number and replace the deletion with a new number, no? Not according to my agent. Oh no. You have to send the entire policy back through the approval process. Which takes 10 business days. This is ludicrous! Screw your rules and procedures! It should not take 10 business days to approve the change of a SINGLE NUMBER on an ALREADY-APPROVED insurance policy!
Complaint 3: NO ONE WILL ANSWER THE PHONE. The bankers were all somehow out of the office yesterday. The insurance agent wouldn’t answer her phone. And the one banker who emailed me back didn’t do so until the work day was over and the insurance agent had gone home.
Complaint 4: So now I have to spend part of today on the phone. When I have meetings to be in and things to edit and deadlines to meet. And my husband can’t help. Not that he can be on the phone on a normal day, but today he’s in an exam ALL DAY LONG. So now I have to chase idiots around via phone until everything gets straightened out. I hope this righteous indignation allows me to be firm and irritated rather than frantic and tearful.
Complaint 5: The idiot who has the parking spot next to mine is peppering my entire driver’s side with door dings. LEARN HOW TO OPEN A DOOR. Or teach your kids how to open the door properly! It makes me furious.
(Yes, I know it’s her because I don’t drive that often and there are about 50 little dings right in the same spots. Plus, you can see the paint missing from the seam of her doors.)
Complaint 6: To make matters WORSE, this idiot parked so much in the middle of the parking spaces today that I literally could NOT get my car into my spot. (There’s a pole on the right side of my space, and this other car on the left side. I tried it from several different angles before I gave up and parked outside.)
Complaint 7: YUENGLING LIGHT DOES NOT TASTE AS GOOD AS REGULAR YUENGLING.
(By the way, I am not enjoying Yuengling Light at 5:00 in the morning. I may have written this complaint last night, Internet. SORRY!)
Complaint 8: I have a bad feeling that House is going to suck this season. Although it looks like he cuts his AWFUL hair in next week’s episode, so that makes me feel slightly more positive about the whole thing.
Complaint 9: After running through endless perfectly-phrased, perfectly-bitchy-yet-inarguable conversations that I’d like to have with my lenders, I finally fell asleep sometime after midnight. Only to wake up at 1:48 and toss and turn (why is there so much HAIR in my bed TICKLING me?) until 4:13, when I finally got up and started typing. NOT COOL, BRAIN. Please shut off so I can get some sleep.
Okay, I feel better after getting that off my chest. What’s making you scream today?
Complaint #1: They came to change the doors from the kitchen cabinets (covered by the warranty) today, after chasing them for almost a year (I should’ve counted the times I’ve had to call them). Well, they finally changed them – but they’re all dirty. Ugh.
Complaint #2: I’m also having my laptop replaced (also covered by the warranty) and they told me yesterday they’d be sending me an email as soon as we hung up on the phone; I had to answer the email agreeing to the terms of the replacement. It’s been more than a day and still no email. The worst part is that they called me from a private number so I can’t call them back. And they won’t send me the new laptop until I answer the email (which they haven’t sent).
Lesson learned: When it comes to replacing stuff through warranties, you’ll have to be on their toes all.day.long. Here’s hoping I get my new laptop in the next couple of weeks…
Also, I had been meaning to check out the new House episodes, but now that you say it sucks, I’m not so sure I will…
So sorry…these days, the mortgage industry is NOT easy! But, what you speak of is the norm..(no, I am not in the industry,just have friends that are…and have done a mortgage or two myself over the years, it was frustrating BEFORE the whole Bank Industry went crazy! But Now…)
It is normal to feel scared before such a large purchase, like a house….especially if it’s your first home. So, our tolerance level, gets effected, I think….but, all will be over soon…you will be fine!! You will be so happy in your new home!!…Till then, Grab one of those scrumptious looking muffins!! Or a glass of wine would work too! Can you tell that I am a foodie?
What’s bothering me? EH….the fact I do not get to see my boyfriend till Saturday (5th yr surgical resident) He lives at a bit of distance…so, cannot come if he is on call.
Once I move next year, things will be easier,but, till then…..frustrating.
How do you all deal with the time restrictions of your hubby/mate’s work? Any input or advice would be very welcome!
1. 12-year-old hitting snooze alarm, waking up siblings.
2. 6-year-old being incredibly sulky over NOTHING.
3. Memos from the school, full of typos.
4. MOTHER-IN-LAW’S ESTATE STILL NOT SETTLED.
Complaint #9 made me laugh: why DO I have so much more hair in the middle of the night than at any other time.
My complaints:
1. It’s too hot in here but I am too lazy to get up and shut the doors so that I can turn on the air conditioner.
2. My husband is in Beijing on a business trip and so I have to care for my (easy going) daughter all by myself. I know all the single mothers feel especially sorry for me.
3. I ate all the chocolate in the house and now there’s nothing unhealthy to snack on.
4. I need a pedicure but due to #2, don’t have time to get one right now. So hard, right?!
Haha. I am going to refrain from posting any complaints TODAY because I feel like most of my blog is one giant complaint. But I feel for yours, and your other commenters’, if that helps.
I especially understand #s 5, 6 and 7.
I would have left a nasty note/had that car towed. I have NO patience for people who can’t park or don’t care that they took up two spaces. That is NOT ok! My complaints?
-I have to drive to Cleveland this afternoon for a conference tomorrow. I’m less than excited about this.
-I keep having horrible nightmares, the likes of which I haven’t seen since I was on antimilarial pills.
I work for a St@te Farm, and I change effective dates constantly. Here it is: you delete the old date, and you enter in a new date. Duh. Or if the policy is already submitted I have to dial a phone number and ask an underwriter to delete the old date and type in a new one. We do it all the time. Sorry it has been such a hassle.
Would love to list my complaints but dang I have to leave to get to school drop off/ work and my hair is still wet.
Oh, I totally agree about House! And my hubby and I commented on his hair last night, too. I do like the new Asian girl, though.
My complaint today is that yesterday was a skeleton crew day at my office (which I worked), and today everyone is back. So I have 20 people asking me questions this morning, on my busiest day of the week! Why can’t I tell them all to go away?!
Ummm I think I’ve done enough complaining to you for the week (or the month!) so I’ll just say closing on a house is the most annoying, frustrating thing EVER. Hang in there, it will be okay.
Also, I would be infuriated at the lady parking next to me. Who does that???
Very valid complaints!
My turn?
1. Cleaning out my desk drawer at work in preparation for a new job….why are my very expensive lip sticks that I’ve been looking for for year stuck in the very back??
2. Working out. Why am I not losing weight?
3. Scrubs. Why are scrubs so dang expensive??!!
Oh gosh! I just want to hug you. This reminds me so much of my house buying experience. We got ALL THE WAY to the lenders office to sign when they said “Oh didn’t you get our message we have moved signing until tomorrow.” We were like “Uh no!” They had called the wrong number.
So we leave and come back the next day. When we come back the papers to sign was there but there were NO KEYS, and we had some money coming back to us from the lender. And there was NO check. We were going to deposit that money to buy furniture with.
I thought my spouse was going to have to kill someone; We ended up waiting for about 4 hours. INSANE in the membrane. I am telling you!
This will all work out, and damn, feel free to bitch, compalin, kavetch, whine or whatever.
Want me to make a voodoo doll out of the bank lender and begin to pin poking:)? xo
Yikes! The politics behind everything is ridiculous! I spend more time at work putting paperwork through processes then actual productive work-related things. It’s absolutely frustrating. What SHOULD take roughly 1 hour turns into a week (oftentimes longer) because it has to go through a ridiculous string of approvals, blah blah.
And the faculty wonder why I’m always swamped with work. (I’m not saying anything negative about faculty members – I come from a long line of teachers in my family. But when they don’t realize the process of what they think are “simple things” and they come complaining, that NEVER makes me a happy camper.
Is it Friday yet? :/
Federal Holiday yesterday, probably why no one picked up their phone. Just so you don’t take it personally…
I’m not complaining…..But the insurance thing is ridiculous…..if your ins. agent had the correct date in writing and someone else made the error; it should be an easy fix. As a previous comment said; it just means changing the date in the computer….not a big deal! How does the mortgage company expect the closing to go through without a proper ins. policy?
Once you have completed the closing; I am sure most of your worries will go away. And problems like this always happen late on Friday or right before a holiday….ALWAYS!
Every single one of those complaints is 100% valid.
My complaints of the day:
1. I am freaking sick. A headache that I have been trying to fight off for the week Will. Not. Go. Away. I’m laying on the couch and do nothing today (but drink water) in hopes that I feel better soon. The cold and congestion can take a hike too.
2. My youngest was SO bad this morning getting ready for school. Just put your coat and shoes on. JUST DO IT!!! He made me yell, and that sets such a horrible tone as we’re loading into the car to go to school. Not the way I like to start the day.
3. I miss the mister and wish he was here just to support me through all the insanity. I need the backup.
Hope the day gets better!
Gack, you know nothing is as worse as closing on a house. I have never, ever EVER heard of a closing that went smoothly, or things that were done in a timely manner. i cannot even imagine what the people who work there are like. Do they realize at 11:59AM that their children will need lunches in ONE MINUTE at school and then rush over and tell them that it will take ten business days? That’s how I imagine it. (Here via Swistle. Am staying. Forever.)
Another reader here via Swistle. Miraculously, I have no complaints at all all today. And yours are all valid. Especially the door dings. I mean, seriously. It’s not rocket science.
mundane!
I spent forever on the phone yesterday with the pharmacy and Matt’s doctor’s office. I started LAST THURSDAY trying to get a simple prescription refill. And I picked it up from the pharmacy last night at 8:48pm. The doctor’s office makes me call the pharmacy to tell them what refill I need. The pharmacy then faxes a request to the doctor’s office. The doctor’s office then faxes the prescription to the pharmacy. Normally, apart from extra steps that I think they could do without, this works pretty well. But do you know when it doesn’t work well? When the doctor’s office’s fax machine isn’t working. And they haven’t told anyone this. And when the pharmacy said “they haven’t responded to our faxes, I will call them” and then apparently THEY DO NOT CALL THEM, this is also a problem. And then when I call the doctor’s office myself (because the pharmacy hasn’t done it four times like they said they would), tell them that I know I am breaking their policy but OH MY GOODNESS and they say, sure, we will do that today. And then they don’t. And then THEY CALL IN THE WRONG PRESCRIPTION. GAH. It is a wonder that I did not explode.
The single neighbor guy came over to invite MY CHILD and I to a fun trunk or treat festival DURING MY WORKOUT and couldn’t stop looking at my boobs. Seriously? It’s a tight tank top, get over it.
This just brought back all of the horrible memories from my first home purchase 6 years ago! Our lender was a complete A-HOLE. He secretly added a point to our loan so that we would have the rate he quoted us because he apparently forgot to lock it in when he said he would and then the rate went up the next day. He CLAIMED that he was going to pay for that point himself, but he neglected to TELL us anything about it and the point kept showing up on paperwork he mailed us. I called and emailed him several times about it and he always just said it wouldn’t be on the FINAL paperwork. But never explained why it was there in the first place. So I continued to pester him about it each and every time I saw something with that point and I pretty much FREAKED out on him as it got closer and closer and I MAY have made threats and contacted his boss? I DEMANDED a meeting in person with his boss present and that is when he finally admitted to why the point was there. I found out later from a co-worker who knows him that he ended up hospitalized with “stress” after dealing with me. HAHAHAHA!!! I was SO happy to find that out. Am I a bad person?
My husband is sulking. And I don’t know why. And he won’t talk about it. He, also, decided he was going to play WOW while our daughter was finshing up dinner tonight, then she was playing and SCREAMING his name (well, “Dada!”) and he decided to KEEP PLAYING. No. So. I guess my complaint is my husband in general?
Also.
When we were trying to close on our house our bank screwed up everything and we had to delay even though we had set the closing date IN ADVANCE (as you did) and they wanted to delay 2 weeks, and we said NO. We had been staying with my dad for 2 weeks already and had already been under contract and everything for a month and I was SO! FRUSTRATED! and I complained and complained until they did things as we had originally decided. I’m glad things are going to work out for you!
Soooo many…
Complaint #1: My ex is annoying me to the point where I can barely be civil to him with his “no, I can’t help with the girls because I have things to do” rubbish (he’s unemployed, I have 1 full-time and 1 part-time job, plus the girls more or less full-time).
Complaint #2: Money. Oh Lordy. It doesn’t seem to make any difference how much I work, I’m always in debt. Right now, I have 3 months’ teaching from January-April this year still unpaid, and I haven’t had time recently to do my freelance gig invoices so NO MONEY is coming in and a ton is going out for expenses.
Complaint #3: This single mother rubbish is killing me. I’m so lonely for a companion I could die. Sitting watching MasterChef on my own strikes me as one of the most depressing scenarios out there.
Complaint #4:Cyclists here in France drive me totally insane: they ignore the highway code, they run through red lights, ride on pavements, ride the wrong way up one-way streets, expect pedestrians to make way for them…
OK, I’ll stop now. But I could go on, I promise.
My sympathies with your mortgage hassles – I’ve been through that too and it sucks, big time.
Courage!
I’ve just had to read through your previous 7 posts or so – I’ve been out for over a month now. But I guess I couldn’t stay away. I’ve so missed your random thoughts and humor. I can’t believe you are buying a house!! I’m so excited for you. The cupcakes look divine. Would love your recipe. I’m impressed you are stepping out of your comfort zone to meet others. The initial aspect of that is always difficult, but then is rewarding (especially once you get past the small talk…!). Good luck with closing. It’s nice you have time to paint, clean, pack. Sometimes it is helpful to have a deadline though…
Oh, I want to complain!
I have a manager who keeps making plays for sympathy because her project is not going well and she feels it’s all the fault of external people that our team has to keep redoing things. When we bring her questions about things that aren’t her decision to make, she makes snap decisions herself and then– surprise– when the person who should have made the decision sees it, we have to redo. This is not the fault of the external person for making us redo. It is her fault for not going to them in the first place. She also doesn’t want to tell external people that we need to move deadlines because the final inputs (from other teams) are late. So instead, we’re working with interim inputs that we know are being changed by the other teams and we know we’re going to have to redo everything when we receive the final ones. It’s a complete waste of time and–again– her fault. Every time she talks like we should feel sorry for her because the project is SO chaotic, I think: it would be less chaotic if you would do your job! But of course, I can’t say that.
Last night, I dreamed that I threw a phone, dragged her into a hallway and said, “I like you, but you’re making me crazy!” And then I went to scrub a bathroom because it was better than dealing with her project. And I hate cleaning bathrooms. Why should I have to clean them in my dreams?
I’m kinda sorry to say that both my closings went super smoothly. Hoping yours gets solved quickly.
My complaint of the day:
Brother in law calls out of the blue to say he and family coming to visit this weekend (does not ask if we have plans… we do, lots of plans). Husband offers them to stay here. NO! We do not have room for 4 extra people AND bathroom fans are taken out and waiting for electrician to install new ones, but can’t be done until next week. And husband working overtime so can’t help get messy house ready for company. Plus we have a history of not getting along (me and brother in law, not me and hubby, usually). Checked hotels to offer one to them (it’s worth the $$, in my opinion) but ALL booked for huge wedding in the area. Every.single.hotel.booked.
SO frustrating! I have been complaining about EVERYTHING lately. I don’t know if it’s because I’m suddenly not sleeping well, if I’m just a royal bitch, or if people are really actually doing annoying things, but dang am I annoyed at the world in general!
I am sure that I must be SO much fun to be around right now
I hope everything went through on the house! and I’m going to treasure this advice: “YUENGLING LIGHT DOES NOT TASTE AS GOOD AS REGULAR YUENGLING”. I’m a very big Yuengling fan, although they do not sell it in CT! Or MA! How nuts is that? And as for House, I haven’t made up my mind just yet…
#1 – Surging veins sounds like a very serious medical issue.
#2 – I can’t even follow all that crappyness but it sounds awful, I’m so sorry!
#3 – Totally agree with you about this season’s House.
Just checking in to say I miss you, and that I hope all of your house craziness has settled down. Take care!
I wish I could give you a hug! I can’t believe there is so much red tape!! Do not get me started on banks. I think everyone is pretty much fed up with all banks right about now.
I hope you are doing well, enjoying the new paint and the new house! Hopefully moving and closing weren’t too stressful!!