Posted by
MouthyGirl on 10/14/2009 |
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I got this in my email from a former boss, of all people, lol. In light of recent events at home, I’m thinking this is a well timed email.
Yesterday, as I spot checked my son’s text messages, I came across a rant in his drafts that was apparently destined for me at some point. He says he was just expressing his feelings. Which I immediately addressed and told him that he can feel any way that he wants, but if I think he’s wrong, or could use a change in perspective, I’m going to take the liberty of correcting him.
He was essentially cussing me out because he doesn’t think it’s fair that I have him make tea and don’t often make it myself. Even went so far as to tell us what I should do with my money.
The boy had enough cojones to type that out on his little cell phone but was instantly in tears when called on it.
Due to the difficulties I have been facing in my life because others don’t realize the following rules are always in effect, I’m posting them for all to see. Read them, memorize them, know them – they are all true.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Show the kids!
Tags: boss, burgers, car phone, cell phone, clothes, dignity, email, feelings, grandparents, parasites, rain forest, rant, rule 1, self esteem, text messages, vice president, whine
Posted by
MouthyGirl on 07/22/2009 |
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I don’t know why this guy emailed me instead of commenting on the post, but since commenting on the post was his intention I thought I’d take him out of hiding. His name is Dave and he went searching for Tammy Dombeck on Facebook and found MouthyGirl 
and my post Weather Girl vs. Traffic Girl Fun on the News.
So rather than comment on the post here is what he emailed me:
Mouthy Girl
Do you even know what you are talking about when it comes to local tv personalities? I think not… your love fest with the anorexic and completely annoying Samantha Davies is sad. You obviously haven’t watched enough to know that she can’t get through a weather cast without taking a huge gulp or a breath, she is the joke of our office. Met her one night in Dallas and she was the biggest snob. Bring back Rebecca Miller and lose the skeletal-no personality Samantha, get a clue.
Dave
WTF??! I laughed aloud when I read the email the first time. Then I read it again and it got funnier. He is clearly commenting about the post. I treat email as a personal thing because it’s a means of contact and to me, it’s personal. So for him to have emailed me a comment kind of seemed like a personal affront to me and slightly stupid. Like he was calling me to the carpet…I thought, “Who the hell is this guy? Fruit loop.”
So here is what I wrote back:
“Dave,
I would hardly call one post about her being sassy a love fest. I respect your opinions, I prefer rebecca over jennifer lopez any day but your personal email to me about it is what I think is sad. I am free to write about whatever I choose and you are free to comment on it, but to email me personally over a post written lightheartedly is a tad over the top.
I hope you are a reader who visits regularly, but the tone of this email leads me to believe you just happened by and in that case, you should stick around, I think you might find we agree on a lot of things.
To you I say good day.
MouthyGirl
I didn’t say much because I responded by email while I was at work, eating lunch. The funny thing is that Samantha Davies has only filled in maybe three times on the local news and I know this because I watch everyday. I’m not focusing on how much she has to swallow or take a breath because it seems natural to me that she would have the need to breathe. I’m not watching the news to watch her, I’m watching to get the news. Aren’t we all or am I missing something?
It’s clear Dave is a fan of Tammy Dombecks’ so he definitely didn’t appreciate my comments about her. Ultimately it’s a matter of preference, I didn’t appreciate the tone in his email to me, I felt like I was being scolded and to end it with Get a clue? Was he serious?
I’m gonna venture a guess that Dave here met Samantha Davies at that club in Dallas and hit on her. Maybe she has a boyfriend, a husband, a girlfriend, I don’t know, but she turned our poor Dave down and he didn’t appreciate that for one minute! So he develops these strong negative feelings about her, starts one day believing she’s anorexic, studies her when she’s on the news for any mistake, any flaw. Creepy much?
How about this Dave, you get a clue. When a girl doesn’t like you, she just doesn’t like you, get over it and move on to the next girl. Go back to your searches for Tammy Dombeck, if you get lonely call Texas Instruments, I hear it’s her voice on the phone system, you could be mesmerized for hours. Come by and read D, comment even, I welcome that but don’t be a creep and email me your comments, we’re not going to have some email fight, I’m a grown up.
Tags: dombeck, email, facebook, fruit loop, intention, jennifer lopez, joke, local tv, rebecca miller, tv personalities, weather girl
Posted by
MouthyGirl on 06/03/2009 |
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I got this email from my stepmom as a forward and wanted to share it, it’s cute 
THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE, AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:
1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.
2. I see your face when I’m dreaming.
That’s why I always wake up screaming.
3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.
4. I thought that I could love no other –
that is until I met your brother.
5. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar
bowl’s empty and so is your head.
6. I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But please don’t take that bag off your face.
7. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Darn, I’m good at telling lies!
8. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?
9. My feelings for you no words can convey,
Except for maybe ‘Go away”
10. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.
Tags: brother, contest, cute, dreams, email, inspiration, intelligence, Love, vodka, want
