@adorkablepixie It would seem you are not alone in situations involving bodily fluids in houses without working water...
My best friend had just bought her house recently after I found out I was pregnant, and was super excited to take me on a tour as soon as she had the keys in hand. Unfortunately, I was not feeling well that day, and totally threw up in her bathroom...and the water hadn't been turned on yet. Thank goodness she's such a good friend, because she just laughed and said that if anybody was going to "christen" her new house in such a way, she was glad it was me and the baby and not something/someone else. I still felt pretty terrible about it, though. :P
I have two TW's today.
The first is the little girl in my class who laughed, pointed at me, and said "you forgot to brush your hair!". No I didn't, that's just what my hair looks like when I don't straighten it.
Second is myself, for drinking so little water I didn't poop for two days and then had to spend an hour in the bathroom, passed something the size of my forearm, and am now bruised on my rear end.
IME that's pretty par for the course when it comes to older male defense attorneys. I still haven't decided if it's a psych game or they're just sexist dinosaurs (then again, who says it can't be both?).
I have a pretty dim view of defense attorneys for a lot of reasons though, so maybe take that with a grain of salt.
That seems to be the trend I've experienced with older male attorneys on the civil side as well. I can't tell you how many times I've dealt with opposing counsel old enough to be my grandfather who thinks it's perfectly acceptable to call me "honey" or "dear" or treat me like his assistant. I was holding a deposition at my office once, and before we started this attorney handed me a stack of papers and asked me to make copies for him. I just gave him a blank stare and told him I'd have to see if my assistant had time to deal with it. I had another tell me, "Sweetie, I've been doing this since you were in diapers." Really!? Maybe it is a psych game or maybe they are just that clueless (there weren't that many female attorneys when most of them started practicing). Either way, it's hard to keep your cool and remain professional when they act like that sometimes. I'm glad I don't have to litigate any cases pregnant and have to deal with the personal body comments in court. Most of my contact with opposing counsel these days is by telephone or email, so they have no idea what I look like or that I'm pregnant.
"And I'll still be doing this when you are in diapers, whats your point?"
would be an excellent response?
Angel baby June 2013, DD born 22 April 2014, BFP 10 Sept 2015 - Due 22 May 2016
I have two TW's today.
The first is the little girl in my class who laughed, pointed at me, and said "you forgot to brush your hair!". No I didn't, that's just what my hair looks like when I don't straighten it.
Second is myself, for drinking so little water I didn't poop for two days and then had to spend an hour in the bathroom, passed something the size of my forearm, and am now bruised on my rear end.
I have so much empathy for you. Back when I had roommates for the first time, I was too embarrassed to poop and didn't for a week. When I finally did, it was horrific. I swore I would never have children because orifices should never have to push out things that large.
@TheThornBird right before my big push I said to my baby "okay I'm gunna push, but this time you need to stay put!". He literally did a wiggle dance once it was over!
It's Wednesday now but I am having some serious TW tech woes.
Does the bump technical team not run a single regression test to make sure they're not breaking existing functionality when they do a new release? Because it happens EVERY time. Maybe they figure it's the job of their user base to find the bugs instead of their own people?
And speaking of bugs, I come in this morning hoping to close out a whole bunch of them that I saw got resolved at the end of the day yesterday, only to discover the developer in question did not actually build his fix and he won't come strolling in until about 11 AM so I have nothing to do for the 3 hours I am in the office at normal person time.
Okay I am biased because I'm a software tester but COME ON people!
@TheThornBird right before my big push I said to my baby "okay I'm gunna push, but this time you need to stay put!". He literally did a wiggle dance once it was over!
Ha, I bet he thought "thank God I finally have some room in here!"
Re: TWTuesday!!
My best friend had just bought her house recently after I found out I was pregnant, and was super excited to take me on a tour as soon as she had the keys in hand. Unfortunately, I was not feeling well that day, and totally threw up in her bathroom...and the water hadn't been turned on yet. Thank goodness she's such a good friend, because she just laughed and said that if anybody was going to "christen" her new house in such a way, she was glad it was me and the baby and not something/someone else. I still felt pretty terrible about it, though. :P
would be an excellent response?
I have so much empathy for you. Back when I had roommates for the first time, I was too embarrassed to poop and didn't for a week. When I finally did, it was horrific. I swore I would never have children because orifices should never have to push out things that large.
Does the bump technical team not run a single regression test to make sure they're not breaking existing functionality when they do a new release? Because it happens EVERY time. Maybe they figure it's the job of their user base to find the bugs instead of their own people?
And speaking of bugs, I come in this morning hoping to close out a whole bunch of them that I saw got resolved at the end of the day yesterday, only to discover the developer in question did not actually build his fix and he won't come strolling in until about 11 AM so I have nothing to do for the 3 hours I am in the office at normal person time.
Okay I am biased because I'm a software tester but COME ON people!