Give 'em up ladies!!!
I will nominate myself today...I left my purse on the trunk of my car and drove away. After turning around to look for it, it was gone. Stolen within 5 minutes. Silver lining....i left my wallet at home that had my bank cards, ID and other items. Only thing that was lost was my work badge, some makeup and other misc. purse items
Re: Twatwaffle Tuesday!
I love Tuesdays
Today I will nominate the mother of one of my students.
This wonderful parent missed the deadline to pay for our trip last week to a local childrens museum. Her child was supposed to be excluded from the trip because tickets were already purchased. We gave parents a week notice of said deadline, and explained that there would be no care provided if the deadline was missed. The evening beofre the trip, she was told that her child could not attend. She cried, literal tears, screamed at the girl at the front desk, and stomped her feet in a full out child's temper tantrum until my boss came out and agreed to allow her to pay for her child to attend the trip and charged her a nominal late fee, which she also stomped her feet about. I was waiting for her to throw herself on the floor. Really lady? What a twatwaffle. Her kid doesn't even behave that way, and he's only 4.
I have so many other nominations, but this one takes the cake...
My MIL threw a very similar tantrum recently - over the phone to us when we told her we were moving (an extra 30 minutes on her flight. She lives at the opposite end of the country). She said some pretty unforgiveable things, while screaming and banging around before dropping the phone entirely (not before she declared that we should have asked her permission to move...did I mention I'm over 35 years of age and entirely self-supported?). Since then, FIL has been calling and telling us to apologize to her - or variations on that theme. Both ILs throw regular tantrums and are prone to accusing us of various thought crimes. I'm often accused of ruining DH's life - mainly his career..which is odd because I have helped him through school..but on occasion I am called immature, cold, unfeeling, unappreciative and a failure (at my career..at which I'm doing fairly well). My family is referred to as "unimportant" and I am/they are apparently responsible for my husband's drop in visits from his college-era 5 flights a year to see his parents to the 2 flights he can manage with his work schedule.
Sometimes the accusations get really out there - I was once accused of being part of a conspiracy to crush legitimate efforts to integrate religion into biology classes in the same breath as I was told that I knew nothing about my field of study...in which I have PhD (very much concerned with evolution) and which I practice, win grants...publish.... They are both atheists. We've never discussed intelligent design - so why they were on me about it this "mass conspiracy" is completely beyond me.
Suffice it to say, they have issues with boundaries. They have flown here during our move week (still packing), when I also have a major project due and are calling/sending notes asking to see us. We asked them to hold off, and yet here they are in all their retired, no-concept of time, no-respect-for-other-people's time, insulting and tantrum-y goodness. So I nominate their needy a$$es as twatwaffle of the week.
I would like to nominate my BF's ex wife. She can be a really big biatch sometimes and yesterday she was in rare form. He tries to be a good dad to his 2 boys. Pays his child support and more and is civil to her. She is always wanting more money and says horrible thing to his kids about him. Yesterday he found out that for the second time recently she had forged his name on a check and cashed it to herself. This one was a refund check from an insurance company that had his name on it. Last time she stole one from an old check book that had been left at their house and made out a $2000 check to herself. He didn't prosecute her at the time but now is reconsidering.
Even after a horrible day of dealing with his ex, my BF made me meatloaf, homemade biscuits, and mashed potatoes for dinner last night. Yep that's the kind of guy he is.
I nominate the associate in another department who came into the cafeteria to pull me from my (already shortened) lunch break because she didn't check I was in my office first before telling a guest I could give them a tour. When I told her I was on lunch and to see if my assistant was back yet, she freaked the eff out and said she wasn't, and SHE couldn't help him because it was almost time for her to clock out. Mind you, this is an hourly associate telling an exec what to do, and rudely. I had no choice but to help the guest, and of course I'm glad to get the business, but I had to leave my food. Betch owes me a sammich.
That's a keeper.
Again, I nominate my placenta. Had my fourth major bleed last night, but managed to stave off the inevitable c-section. I am just terrified to have my son so early. My placenta is a twatwaffle.
Sorry you lost your purse, quintonsmummah. Glad to know none of your essentials were in it! My debit card was cloned a few weeks ago, so I can relate to that stress!
Bun, keep baking!
I will also nominate myself for my inability to find a way to make my work situation bearable.. apparently killing them with kindness, being super professional in my demeanor, trying to pretend that nothing is wrong lets-be-buddies are all not not worthy efforts it MUST be my fault that she cannot be an adult be a decent human being.
She emanates evil to the 10th power, is rude not only to me but to patients and the other doctors in the office
But again, the twatwaffle must be ME
Awesome.
I used to travel a lot for work, and my bank would freeze the account every. single. time. I would call and they would tell me the card was compromised and used in different states in the same day. Yeah, AIRPORTS in different states. I feel like we have the same bank.