TW Tuesday

thepen15ismighty

LadyFleck

My job requires me to travel between offices 30-40% of the time. Every few weeks I end up in this one office that is comprised of mostly old biddies who fuss over me. Every time they see me you'd think they'd never seen a pregnant woman before and always, always comment on how big in getting and give me a hard time about going up and down stairs in heels. Just shut up. Just fucking shut up and let me ride out the last couple of weeks of pregnancy in peace. TWs. 

HenchBytch

We were watching the news while eating breakfast this morning and my son says, "Mommy, I think Hillary is nicer than Donald Trump. He wants people to be mean."

Yes, a 5 year old can sense the hatred too. TW Trump.

fantasticmrsfox

DS woke up early yesterday, took a nap that was 2 hrs shorter than usual, and went to bed late, and still woke up at 6:30 this morning. I JUST WANT TO SLEEP. 

joleri23

@HenchBytch Well at 5-years-old, your daughter is much more mature than Trump, so I'm not surprised.

adough27

TW is my mother, who is for some reason making giving us a gift for the baby a competition between her and my MIL.  OMG, why does it matter who gets what! The baby is not going to come into this world, being like this grandma loves me more because she bought me more stuff. I don't have time for this pettiness.

rnyland1

this might have went better in Monday Bitchfest but I was too tired to even look at my phone last night:  I was proud of myself for cooking a "kid-friendly" meal last night.  It consisted of shake n bake chicken tenders, mac n cheese, mashed potatoes, and blueberry muffins (homemade!). The kids (9 and 11) literally ate maybe TWO bites of everything!! By that age you'd think they would have grown out of their picky eating but I guess not. A few minutes later the 9 YO was asking if she could have dessert. I was like heck no!! ...and then I proceeded to eat two popsicles (but I actually ate more than two bites of dinner). I guess they can eat frozen corndogs or make PB&J for dinner the rest of the week.

thepen15ismighty

HenchBytch said:

We were watching the news while eating breakfast this morning and my son says, "Mommy, I think Hillary is nicer than Donald Trump. He wants people to be mean."

Yes, a 5 year old can sense the hatred too. TW Trump.

I hope my son will live up to kick ass Ronin name expectations.

HenchBytch

@thepen15ismighty With you as his mother, there's no doubt about it.

soberkfell

My TW = the alley behind my office building/our back elevator. Pretty much everyone enters our building through the back entrance as all non-metered parking is located behind the building. I'm not quite sure how I have successfully avoided vomiting while walking into the building the past 9 months, but today I came pre-tty close. It just smells like hot trash and steaming dog poop. To top it off, the back elevator always smells of one of two things - dried pee or pot... I don't mind the pot smell that much, but stale pot smell is still not my fav. I guess this is the fitness gods trying to tell me to either walk around the building and go in the front entrance or hold my nose in the alley and hike my pregnant ass up the stairs. Ugh.

LF93

The construction workers are my TW today, without any notice, they've decided that it's a great opportunity to start preparing to dig up the pathway outside our drive way. I don't know how long it's going to take to have done or when they plan to officially start so we can move the car out of the drive way so we aren't stuck. Now there's none of them around for me to even ask what's going on. We need access to our car at all times in case of emergency hospital trips, we do live close to the shop but still. Walking hurts so much right now. I couldn't be dealing with that!

dolewhipper

I don't know who to direct this TW to, either my managers or myself, since I'm the one being bothered by it. With Saturday night's events taken place in my city, my work management team hasn't said ANYTHING. Our HR dept did send out a very PC email that included information on help and grieving services at our main offices, but we are all scattered and work independent locations so we don't see our managers or co-workers daily. None of them have sent out emails of support or called their individual locations to see how everyone is. Just some support/feelings of solidarity would be nice! 

brandiK

My TW is the woman who cut me in the microwave line. We get a very strict 30 minutes for lunch and have 2 shitty microwaves. My bowl is in front of the empty microwave while I'm throwing my can lid away. I walk back to put my stuff into my bowl and she moves my bowl over and puts her food in and pushes 5 minutes. This is her one freebie for cutting the pregnant lady in line. 

austinjl

Today's twatwaffle is the dude who had about 40 items in the 20 items or less checkout lane.  Wtf dude.

HenchBytch

brandiK said:

My TW is the woman who cut me in the microwave line. We get a very strict 30 minutes for lunch and have 2 shitty microwaves. My bowl is in front of the empty microwave while I'm throwing my can lid away. I walk back to put my stuff into my bowl and she moves my bowl over and puts her food in and pushes 5 minutes. This is her one freebie for cutting the pregnant lady in line. 

twinpeaksmama

My TW is Babies R Us, particularly their endless earnings program. I checked on my endless earnings for the first time about two months ago and discovered that none of the purchases made from my registry had appeared in the account. I called customer service and a few days later some of the purchases were finally there, but two of the most expensive items still were not listed. Normally I wouldn't care, but these two transactions would have added an additional $40 to our gift card. I have called customer service 5 additional times to get this resolved and was basically told today, "Sorry, it looks like your registry wasn't scanned when these items were purchased so there's nothing we can do." Obviously the registry had to be scanned somehow because the items showed up on my registry as fulfilled. I have now removed everything from my BRU registry and placed it on the Target registry since their completion coupon is better anyway. Please check your Rewards R Us accounts if you have a registry with them to make sure that you get credit for all of your items.

dolewhipper

Mbondi0 said:

My TW is Babies R Us, particularly their endless earnings program. I checked on my endless earnings for the first time about two months ago and discovered that none of the purchases made from my registry had appeared in the account. I called customer service and a few days later some of the purchases were finally there, but two of the most expensive items still were not listed. Normally I wouldn't care, but these two transactions would have added an additional $40 to our gift card. I have called customer service 5 additional times to get this resolved and was basically told today, "Sorry, it looks like your registry wasn't scanned when these items were purchased so there's nothing we can do." Obviously the registry had to be scanned somehow because the items showed up on my registry as fulfilled. I have now removed everything from my BRU registry and placed it on the Target registry since their completion coupon is better anyway. Please check your Rewards R Us accounts if you have a registry with them to make sure that you get credit for all of your items.

 I had a very similar thing happen to me as well. Did you buy them and give them your BRU Rewards card? You can't "double dip" from what I was told, so if they scanned your rewards card it wouldn't go to your endless rewards also, if that makes sense. If someone else bought them, or if you bought them but didn't give your rewards card, then that's a different story. One thing you can do is return the item and turn around and rebuy it with them not scanning your rewards card and it'll go to endless. 

twinpeaksmama

@dolewhipper these were items that were purchased by others. Customer service originally suggested returning and rebuying the items but I don't have the receipts and these two purchases were made back in February which exceeds their return window. Thank you for your help though, because I didn't know about the rewards double dipping. That is great information to have going forward.

TiffRox81

@Mbondi0 Currently fighting with BRU about my registry rewards also. Even the employees tell you their system is screwy!! So annoying!!

Kellyj103

@dolewhipper thanks for clarifying that for me. I had no freakin' clue how any of that worked nor did I realize you get a gift card at the end. LOL! 

My TW  is anyone who emails me at 4 AM and writes, "if you happen to see this before 7 AM". Um, no bitch. I'm really pregnant and tired. I am not going to be checking email and getting back to you ASAP just because you're up sending emails at 4 AM. Anyone, work or personal, should know email is not checked until 9 AM. And if you get mad about that all I have to say to that is...

HMcDade1

The patients family this week that asked me how far along I was. I told them I only had three weeks left. Then the daughter proceeds to tell me that I'm still in the chubby phase ? Seriously lady. WTF. 

dolewhipper

@mboni11 in that case I was told that after you get the gift card you can submit a form to try and get that money.

joleri23

@Kellyj103 What?! What kind of moron writes an email like that?! Heeeellllllllllllll no.

blackgirlmagic

HMcDade1 said:

The patients family this week that asked me how far along I was. I told them I only had three weeks left. Then the daughter proceeds to tell me that I'm still in the chubby phase ? Seriously lady. WTF. 

Why are people so fucking rude?! 

PhoebeJune1984

HenchBytch said:

We were watching the news while eating breakfast this morning and my son says, "Mommy, I think Hillary is nicer than Donald Trump. He wants people to be mean."

Yes, a 5 year old can sense the hatred too. TW Trump.

When we had to do our voting, my four year old asked what I was doing. When I told her that we vote, and then we are going to vote again (and what we were voting for), she said "Mom....I don't care who you vote for, as long as you don't vote for Trump...." I have no idea how she even knows who Trump is, but my husband started laughing and told her she didn't have to worry about us voting for Trump...

twinpeaksmama

@dolewhipper Thank you so much for your help! I will definitely try that once the gift card is issued.

HMcDade1

@BeachTigress yeah I was kind of like... excuse me ? Hah people are so dumb. 

Kellyj103

@joleri23 I know right? People have a very elevated sense of how important they are in my life right now. It's like they don't get it, at all!

erin7264

The lady working the McDonalds drive thru (don't judge me!) just told me I've dropped super low and the baby is coming any time. Excuse me?! 

How all these strangers I've never even seen before just KNOW that I've dropped is beyond me. 20 days to my EDD and no, baby hasn't dropped, I'm still getting feet shoved up under my ribs and into my lungs. Even more props to the McD lady who can apparently tell even when I'm in a car in a seated position... Ugh. STFU! 

mamafox14

First TW of the day is a friend of a friend who decided to just drop by unannounced today because he wanted to see if we had the baby yet. What? Why would you think that's a good way to find that out? What if I did just have the baby? GTFO. Then he stood there talking forever while my husband and I were trying to install the car seat and then SITS ON MY NEIGHBORS CAR, LIGHTS A CIGARETTE, AND ASKS MY HUSBAND IF HE CAN VISIT US IN THE HOSPITAL. 

I COULDN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP. 

TiffRox81

Omg @stellaluna14 The dummies in your life would make me have a breakdown!! Wtf is all I can say. If anyone dropped by UNANNOUNCED hoping to meet the baby I would have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. Icing on the cake that he smokes!!!

Kellyj103

@stellaluna14 WHAAAAATTTTTT??!?!?!?! WHYYYYY?!??!?!? What is wrong with people!?!?!?!

blackgirlmagic

Today's TW goes out to my office building. Keeping the air at 74-76 is not freaking cool. I have been sweating all day at work. I finally found an empty office to sit at until my laptop dies. I'm way too damn pregnant to be this hot for ten hours a day. 

mamafox14

Kellyj103 said:

@stellaluna14 WHAAAAATTTTTT??!?!?!?! WHYYYYY?!??!?!? What is wrong with people!?!?!?!

No but seriously I think that was the exact face I was making. I couldn't even talk because I was so blown away at the stupidity. 

Jodi1980

stellaluna14 said:

Kellyj103 said:

@stellaluna14 WHAAAAATTTTTT??!?!?!?! WHYYYYY?!??!?!? What is wrong with people!?!?!?!

No but seriously I think that was the exact face I was making. I couldn't even talk because I was so blown away at the stupidity. 

LOVE ME SOME MISS. J!

brandiK

@erin7264 that was my first thought - how in the world can she tell from her little window?!

joleri23

Work is definitely the TW today. We just had a meeting where we were assigning staff to go and visit people (I work in financial development) and I got assigned to like all of them. Like, within days of my due date. I finally said, "Yes, if I'm still here," and two people were like, "Oh, you'll be here." Umm, excuse me? Are you a doctor? How the flup do YOU know? More and more I feel like my symptoms are pointing to this being a June baby and not a July one... so they can all kiss off when I'm NOT here!

I just feel like they've all been so unsupportive, like my pregnancy is getting in the way of their plans. So over it.

MollyH1987

My TW is the red wasp that crawled up my pants leg and stung me 4 times on the calf while I was letting my dog out at lunch. Now my entire calf is cramping up and swelling. I guess it's a half day of work for me as I now have to elevate and ice my calf so that it doesn't swell up like a balloon.

Kellyj103

@joleri23 that's exactly how it was at my work!!!! I would always ask for a backup plan or what's going to happen when I leave and nothing. And now that I'm kinda gone (like not in the office) all these questions are being asked. I totally feel you. I hope you get to go on maternity leave ASAP!

twinpeaksmama

@MollyH1987 ouch! That sounds incredibly painful. Hopefully the ice and elevation will help.

kapowfal

TW: Me. A thread devolved into Sharknado. Yet I still posted.