Comments on: Random Reader Rant and/or Revel

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:07:04 +0000

rant: i am sick to death of people with maryland plates driving like assholes up and down new hampshire ave. a toll tax for anyone entering DC from maryland!

rave: massive amounts of daffodils in my front yard.

By: Golden Silence

Golden Silence — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:50:27 +0000

I am “frustrated” not “frustrating.” Damn, I wish there were a way to edit my posts.

By: Golden Silence

Golden Silence — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:49:21 +0000

Rave: After a month of unemployment, my temp agency finally found a job for me and I was scheduled to start today.

Rant: I get all the way out to where the job was, just for my temp agency to tell me that the place I was going to work at had a huge overhaul and that I would not be needed. I wasted round trip fare which I didn’t have, and am still unemployed. I am really starting to worry because I send resume after resume, yet no one’s replying. And when I contact them myself I get the runaround.

I am frustrating and getting nervous, because I don’t have much money for anything and I don’t think unemployment checks will cut it. I NEED TO WORK!!!

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:16:39 +0000

“Man Up! Rip off your band-aids and burn your bridge… if it’s something worth reconstructing let her be the one to put it back together with the charred matchsticks and discarded bandages.”

This is the best advice, IMHO, urban poetry too…

By: InDistress

InDistress — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:50:25 +0000

Thank you, everybody, for the input. I was finding that talking to friends/family just wasn’t helping. Out of all of the outlets in my life, it’s really weird to solicit and receive the best advice from blog commenters I don’t know, but what I’m hearing here confirms what I didn’t want to admit to myself. As much as I am dreading saying goodbye, it needs to happen.

I’ll post an update on this thread next week (maybe the week after). Thanks again.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:48:54 +0000

Not to diminish your pain, distress, and I think you’ve gotten some really good advice here, but does anyone else now have that line from Friends “We were on a break!” running through their head?

By: Flipflopirate

Flipflopirate — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:15:14 +0000

@InDistress – I feel for you, like so many others I’ve been there; In addition, I also happen to agree with all the others. It sounds like you graciously took her feelings and your future as a couple into consideration when she asked for a break; plain and simple, she wasn’t willing to do the same. She had a romantic rendezvous on ‘break’ …understandable, perhaps even acceptable, but within 3 weeks of functionally ending a long term committed relationship with her potential life partner? If you were mature enough to come to terms with her indiscretion you have every right to ask that she put it behind her as and individual before y’all put it behind as a couple, and that isn’t happening, is it?

Man Up! Rip off your band-aids and burn your bridge… if it’s something worth reconstructing let her be the one to put it back together with the charred matchsticks and discarded bandages.

By: Thorough

Thorough — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:30:03 +0000

Rant: I got drunk Saturday night and made an a$$ out of myself

Rave: The guy I was with overlooked my drunkness and still likes me =0)

By: Emmaleigh504

Emmaleigh504 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:04:33 +0000

I agree with Been There “there are people out there who won’t ever want/need to find a way to cheat on you.

Rant: my last reply got lost (and will prolly show up later so I’ll have a stupid double post)

Rave: Spring flowers in DC are Beautiful!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:00:54 +0000

and, as a PS to my comment at 2:58pm, I don’t think the “cutoff” practice is appropriate for all relationships. But this one seems to have become particularly toxic and perhaps exploitative, so that’s why it’s best just to end it completely and rebuild.