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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Whine Wednesday
I realize it's late, but I just remembered how my dentist appointment was ruined this morning by an ad I saw while flipping through a magazine in the waiting room.
Because what every household needs is to be using paper towels in their bathrooms instead of regular towels. And because "Your hands are only as clean as the towel used to
dry them." I don't know about y'all, but my towels look nothing like the ones they have on their homepage!
Re: Whine Wednesday
I saw the same ad in a magazine when I was at the chiropractor's office. I too was irked by it. At the same time, I was impressed with their marketing strategy and by the cleverness of the design of the box, to use the towel bar to turn it into a pull down dispenser.
In Japan, everyone carries their own little hand towel to use. I was annoyed with myself that I didn't buy more than one each for DH and I, and a couple for my grandsons when we were there in Feb. We only bought ours the last day or so of our trip, but our daughter had loaned us some of hers to use while we were there.
My whine is my freakin' office, who can.not.figure.out.how.to.recycle. It's not that hard people! The big blue bin with THE RECYCLING SYMBOL ON IT is for..wait for it...recycling! And there's a big notice on the front showing you what can and can't be recycled in our county. It even has pictures! So please, for the love of God, stop trying to recycle coffee grinds and filters, used paper towels, and plastic drinking cups, among other crazy things. These items are not recylable, and I do NOT appreciate fishing them out of the bag I bring home with me from the office at 10 p.m. when I'm taking all my recycling to the curb.
Learn to follow directions. Your kindergarden teacher would be very disappointed in you.
okay here's my complaint. ugh, why can't we have a commuter train here? I live about 4 miles from my downtown office so I ride the bus to work almost every day and I love it.
But a couple times a month I have to drive to a satellite office in the "burbs" and I get stuck in the car for 30-45 minutes each way, driving in stop and go traffic with a million other stupid "1 person per car" cars. Why does everyone want to drive alone every day for hours just to get to and from work? Why can't there be a train so we can read or look at the internet and zip along without traffic.
Ugh, and along the lines of the paper hand towels, there is currently a thread on another message board I'm on about how terrified everyone is of germs in public restrooms. The "I just wash my hands when I'm done" people are severely in the minority to the "OMG! Gross! I put down three seat covers, flush with my foot, open the stall door with TP, wash my hands, use hand sanitizer, and then use a paper towel to open the door" people.
I would say something, but I lectured them about a woman's right to breastfeed in public recently and don't want to add to my dirty hippy virtual persona right now. Hmm...I'm seeing a trend in my whines today!
Belovedbride, I love your hippy persona! Don't hide it!
IMHO, I think people like who you described are part of the reason Americans are so sick all the time. Their parents didn't let them touch or do anything remotely nasty, like eat their homemade mud pies or play with nature outside. Everything is indoors, Lysol, and hand wipes. They grow up to be people like that who can't touch doorknobs, so when they do get sick they get really sick because they haven't built up an immunity to anything via low-grade, continuous exposure. Then they teach their kids to never do anything because of all the times they've gotten really sick. While I don't want my kid to eat paint chips or something like that, I fully intent to allow them to get dirty and do what they want while playing outside so they don't grow up to be grossed out by everything.