Complain Here

AnnBanks

Posted: Sep 24, 07 9:03am

A good friend and I have a pact. We accept that growing older comes with a fair share of annoyance, occasional indignities and at times physical pain. But we've promised each other that we're not going to complain about it. Or at least we're going to try not to. This is for several reasons. 1.) It's not good for morale to dwell on the little annoyances of life, even if they seem to be coming faster and faster. 2.) There's always going to be something new to complain about, and if we're not careful we are going to present ourselves to the world as serial complainers. 3.) Overall we have nothing to complain about, given the larger misfortunes that have visited some of our friends. Not to mention the human misery we hear about every day in the news.

This stiff upper lip attitude would have pleased my mother, whose credo it was. But it doesn't come as naturally to me. For example, there was my recent root canal, without Novocain. (Don't ask.)

The fact is, I need a safe outlet to complain a little bit without inflicting my woes on the world at large. Sort of like the homespun practice of writing down your troubles and putting them in a jar. TeeBeeDee can be that jar. A place where we can complain away, and no one else has to know unless they click on something with the tag ''root canal." In that case, they have an idea of what they're letting themselves in for.

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Posted: Sep 25, 07 4:08pm

A good friend and I have a pact. We accept that growing older comes with a fair share of annoyance, occasional indignit...

New complaint: It appears I have a stress fracture in my foot -- just before leaving for a vacation where the walking is the point. I have to wear one of those horrible "walking casts" which looks ugly and makes me tired.

Posted: Sep 25, 07 4:19pm

A good friend and I have a pact. We accept that growing older comes with a fair share of annoyance, occasional indignit...

And another one: I just learned today that the tooth that had the root canal needs to have a filling as well to complete the process.

Posted: Sep 25, 07 4:23pm

New complaint: It appears I have a stress fracture in my foot -- just before leaving for a vacation where the walking i...

Poor Baby - I wish you lived closer, I'd bring some chicken soup - sounds like you could use it. Try to enjoy the vacation anyway if you can.

Posted: Sep 25, 07 4:35pm

And another one: I just learned today that the tooth that had the root canal needs to have a filling as well to complet...

Be grateful for that filling, else your root will be filled with foodstuffs, seeds (sesame or poppy), ferment and fester, and make your breath rotten and (STOP-LanSr - no need to gross out here) other um, other nasty stuff. I had two wisdom teeth pulled out w/out benefit of novocain, as well as my front tooth root canal. I can relate. So for you and Talia, I'm cybershooting you both bowls of my home made chicken soup and dumplings. I haven't mastered matzoh balls yet...

Cyber smooch to make the boo-boo all better...

Cyber smooch to make the boo-boo all better...

Posted: Sep 25, 07 4:41pm

A good friend and I have a pact. We accept that growing older comes with a fair share of annoyance, occasional indignit...

While standing in a very long and slow moving line at the post office during one holiday season, I was able to see a bit down a side hallway and saw a large banner on the wall:

"The more you complain, the longer God lets you live." ;-)

Posted: Sep 25, 07 4:57pm

While standing in a very long and slow moving line at the post office during one holiday season, I was able to see a bit...

I love it. Permission to complain in exactly the place you most need it.

Thanks for the kind words, LanSr and Talia. They are appreciated. I didn't mean to be angling for sympathy though. Am I the only one who wants to vent? No companion complainers?

Posted: Sep 26, 07 10:13am

A good friend and I have a pact. We accept that growing older comes with a fair share of annoyance, occasional indignit...

Well, I lost my parking garage spot after 11 years. Can I complain about that? I am sorely bereft. They want to convert the building into a trendy bar.