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05-23-2019, 10:40 AM #26
This is good marital advice in general. I started to enthusiastically fold our towels and sheets very “incorrectly” right from the get go. Now I never have to fold them ever again.
Every few months I will conspicuously start to fold a towel around her which resets the whole thing again.
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05-23-2019, 11:20 AM #27
I have written a few TYs lately for the nice ladies who have been helping me thru the retirement process.
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05-23-2019, 12:46 PM #28
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05-23-2019, 12:47 PM #29
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05-23-2019, 12:48 PM #30
My eldest just graduated from HS, and probably would agree with the OP's assertion.
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05-23-2019, 01:02 PM #31
I have relatives who are still angry with me for not getting thank you notes from my wedding in 1992.
They probably deserve a thank you note for shunning me all these years.
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05-23-2019, 01:21 PM #32
Thank you emails is as close as I get and only when I mean it.
In any case, anything in that vein is better than trying to write obituaries.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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05-23-2019, 02:02 PM #33Registered User
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Give the kid a break. I have been through loss similar to that. At that time, almost all of my mental energy was focused on trying to get out of the situation, take care of my family and bring back some normalcy. It fucks with your head. I would suggest checking in with him. The initial shock may have worn off but the long game can be even harder. I recall feeling extremely worn down from fighting all the fucking time to get ahead, feeling isolated, etc. It took me years to get back on my feet.
Of course I say this without knowing the kids situation. Maybe you don't either.
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05-23-2019, 03:08 PM #34
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05-23-2019, 05:53 PM #35
This. I've contributed to dozens of go-fund-me's and never expected or gotten a thank you. These are people who are in trouble have much more important stuff on their mind. I don't expect any sort of acknowledgment for helping them--I would rather they spend their energy putting their life back together as best they can.
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05-23-2019, 06:15 PM #36Registered User
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Just wait until you have to get the kid to write thank yous.
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05-23-2019, 07:22 PM #37
I do. There's more to it that I won't bore you with, but I stand by my position. I was solicited by his mom and I never heard from her either.
I've given money to the wives of 2 patrollers killed on the job (before crowd funding existed)--those I certainly didn't expect to hear from (not people I knew personally).
This is not a generational thing either--I've gotten plenty of thank you notes from Gen X, Y, and Z (I think, I get my generations mixed up).
Now the tradition of bringing a bottle--usually wine--to dinner I could do without. Some friends and us have been trading the same bottle back and forth a few times. Not on purpose--we forgot where it came from, they forgot they'd given it to us once before. I'd prefer reciprocal invitations and skip the wine, but I'm in the minority on that one. Bringing us wine makes me feel like they're paying for their dinner, when it's their company that we want, the food is just an excuse.
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05-23-2019, 10:21 PM #38
The only thing worse than writing thank you's is licking envelopes.
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05-23-2019, 10:25 PM #39
Licking envelopes and smelling diesel are two small pleasures of my life.
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05-23-2019, 11:39 PM #40
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05-24-2019, 12:52 AM #41
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05-24-2019, 04:14 PM #42
I don't care about thank you notes (as in handwritten and mailed), but I am sometimes truly amazed at people who don't even say/email "thank you" when you go out of your way to help them.
Examples:
- Someone sends an email at work to everyone asking for information/assistance/referrals, and you send a reply to them with a referral or information. A simple "Thanks!" email is all that is required, yet many don't even bother. This boggles my mind. When I ask for this type of info, I make sure to respond to every single person (most of whom I don't know).
- I was a mentor for a 3rd year law student. Now, over time we had a lot of back and forth and he did say thanks in many of those correspondences for the advice I offered. But the last time I heard from him, he gave me an update and sent a resume and cover letter asking for my review and advice. I read them and marked them up with edits and comments, and never heard from him again.
- Someone posts a thread asking for help or advice, then disappears, never to return and acknowledge the help posted.
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05-24-2019, 04:27 PM #43
An old-school mag pm'd me for some legal advice for which he could find no lawyer to assist, and would really affect his day-to-day life.
I laid out his do-it-yourself strategy for him and got a heartfelt thanks.
Totally forgot about it, and he pm'd me the other day, said he followed the plan, got an excellent result, and had something he wanted to ship to me.
There is hope, at least in the maggotverse.
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05-24-2019, 06:19 PM #44
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05-25-2019, 11:24 AM #45indentured servant
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the whole baby shower/wedding shower/wedding gift thing is a load of crap
so are the corresponding noteswhat's orange and looks good on hippies?
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05-25-2019, 09:13 PM #46Funky But Chic
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ooh, drama
I would think if someone offers to buy you beers someday for a ticket, and you say cool and send the ticket, they don't owe you any more thanks than that. Wait for your beers.
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