I need to get something off my chest . . .

XMan

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Ki$$ my a$$ if you have a problem with it!

[RANT]I went on a trip to see some friends this weekend. That part, at least was cool. I drove down to there house (~250 miles) to pick them up, then we went to one of their friends' houses to have a pool party most of the weekend. I was going to do a little work on their PC for them as well.

The first problem arises when friends announce that they now have 5 fricking cats (it used to be one.) Now, I don't mind cats in short doses, but I am deathly allergic to them. Confined to a short space with one cat for a short time makes my eyes water and makes it hard to breath. Five cats make me wheeze like an asthmatic freight train. So I stopped at a CVS and got some antihistimines, which helped slightly. Of course, it didn't help that the guest bedroom is the preferred place for the kitties to hang out. So I'm laying in an uncomfortable guest bed (more on that later), and every thirty seconds, I hear this wham as a feline projectile slams into the closed door, trying to open the door. Right as I'm getting to sleep, the damn cats make it in the room, so I'm jumping out of bad, trying to herd these f*cking cats out of the room. I'm grabbing one in each hand and pitching them out of the room as fast I can. I do this for like five minutes as the cats are having great fun, dashing back in as fast as I pitch them out. Finally, I manage to get them out, and close the door. This time, I lean my laptop bag against the door so the little b*stards can't get in. They headbutt the door for about an hour before giving up. I get maybe three hours of sleep, on what has to be the most Godforsakenly uncomfortable bed I have ever slept on. So of course when I get out of bed in the morning, my lower back is killing me. No big deal, I'm used to my waterbed, so I can understand that I might not sleep well in a regular bed when I'm not used to it.

So anyway, we go to the friend's house with the pool, and we proceed to doing party things . . . it was pretty fun, they had a keg, but of course I felt like a fifth wheel because everyone there was either married or had their significant other with them.

So as the party is going on, I'm observing what royal jerks some of these guys are, and how they're treating their girlfriends. I eventually end up talking with some of the G/Fs and wives when their hubbies and B/Fs pass out by the keg . . . so on top of being stuffed up because of the f*cking cats, I'm depressed because these insensitive pricks are going to get some and I'm going to be sleeping on my uncomfortable bed listening to cats slamming into the door.

So anyway, the rest of the weekend is pretty noneventful, I get the computer up and running and come home. On the way, while I'm blowing my nose every five seconds and hacking up cat-hair infested phlegm, I'm pondering just why any self-respecting woman would want to associate with a guy who a) drinks until he falls unconscious, b) brags about the size of her breasts in front of her, and c) sneaks up behind her in the pool while she's talking to her G/Fs and dunks her. I do not reach a conclusive answer.

So, when I get home, thinking that it could not possibly get any worse, I walk in the door, too tired to unload the car. I walk in the house and basically get ready to sleep. As soon as the light is out I notice the light on the answering machine blinking. (On a side note, does anyone else get that warm, fuzzy feeling when you've got a message on the machine? It didn't last long this time.) So I listen to it . . . two messages. The first one is from Saturday, my Dad saying, "Come to Sunday dinner, talk to you later." I grumble to myself and delete the message. I told him Wednesday that I was going out of town this weekend when he asked if I could show him some stuff on his computer. The trip was my excuse for putting him off until later. So, what do I get for my second message? I five-minute lecture from my father like I was eight f*cking years old. "We're not disappointed that you couldn't come, but you could have at least called to let us know you wouldn't be here, yadda yadda." He left the message at 11:30 Sunday night.

Grumble. I laid down and tried to sleep, but everytime I started to fall asleep the damn wheezing noise from my chest woke me up.
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Ah, well. At least my back feels better now.
 

UG

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Hehe. I feel your pain. I have asthma, and am somewhat allergic to the digestive enzymes that make pet dander an allergen, yet we have 23 cats and one dog. At night, they like the bed. :p

Next time, stay at a motel.

I imagine your parents will feel a little idiotic when they discopver you weren't even in town to recieve the invitation.

Parents.

Kids.

;)
 

XMan

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<< But were you as good looking as all those drunk bastards? >>



Junkie, I don't care if you're Mel Gibson, there's no excuse to treat a woman like the way these guys where.

And yes, I was as good-looking or better than most of the guys. I just must not have the a$$hole-gene required to attract a woman.
 

Double Trouble

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I feel your pain :) I too am alergic to cats, and my GF has one. Now it's a pretty decent cat (not pissy, doesn't shed, doesn't bug me), but still, if I don't take claritin for a couple of days I start sneezing like crazy :|
 

Ulfwald

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Cats are only good for one thing, catching mice and rats. Otherwise, they all belong out in a barn, not in a house. I hate litterboxes.
 

geno

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Something tells me you'll be having nightmares about cats soon...


sorry if I junxed ya :)
 

ltk007

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This was too long for me to read, but I wanted to post anyway. I'm a nef :) (I'm not, but I am bored).
 

HomerSapien

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Man that sucks....I hate those situations where they just keep getting worse and worse. I know what you mean about how worthless cats are. I had one claw me in the back every thirty minutes at a friends apartment after a long ass day and then wake up with it standing on your chest a few inches from your nose.......


KILL THE CATS...


side note, why is it that females are attracted to assholes? They go to nice guys to talk, but assholes for everything else. I know a guy who probably has one of the most wonderful people in the world for a girlfriend, but treats her like a slave and doesnt do anything for her. hmmm.
 

Wingnut

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I know what you mean Xerox...I guess we live in a day and age where it seems that the majority of women like jerks, although in your description, it didn't really sound like they were doing anything out of the ordinary except for the guy bragging about his G/F's breast size, then again, she might have liked it!

I see way worse examples of this...i.e.

-Guys just leaving their g/f's stranded at parties

-Calling them every deraugatory name in the book in front of friends

-Pushing or even hitting them at parties when they get drunk (these guys usually get their a$$ beat though)

Etc...Etc

The thing you fail to realize though is that these same buttheads are crying like little infants to their G/F's the next morning, begging to be accepted back and apologizing with the best of them and of course, the women accept them back! When will these women learn? Just another reason why they say Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Some women just really get off on being treated crappy I guess and it stems from a bad childhood and a lack of self-esteem. It's always the good-looking ones that are crazy! :);)
 

Daedalus

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I am the same with long haired cats. 5 minutes and you better call an ambulance for me. No problems with dogs.

The other situation is self esteem related I think. Unfortunately those women sound like they don't have much if they go for neanderthals like that. They may have gotten some that night but I doubt those guys had much of a gameplan being full of alcohol.
 

KarsinTheHutt

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I think I'm allergic to cats as well and do not own any pets - but for some reason I like ordinary housecats.

And yes, I'd have to agree that the mean guy usually wins and the nice guy looses. I've been on the nice, and loosing end of the deal. Usually I get to hear from the girls how terrible these guys were...

 

Imaginer

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That has got to suck for you Xerox. My brother gets like that too.

And it goes the same for life. There is no breathing room for the nicer crowd when jerks butt in with their attitudes. Kind of like cat hair in the nose, they make the rest of the body feel bad.

But it is good you did not pass out or something.
 

BlackFalcon

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I don't get it either. Almost all the girls in High School dated Jerks (and still do). I saw the way the treated the girls. You shouldn't treat anyone that way much less your girl friend. I mean come on. Your suppost to be in love with this person and the best you can treat them is like trash?
I just don't get it. The nice guys (not just me-other guys I know as well) that treat people nicely are always considered &quot;just friends.&quot;
It also appears that the tendency is to go for dumb guys a well. Anyone else notice this, or is it just where I live? Out of the 10 or so guys that were considered &quot;smart&quot; and treated women like humans not a single one had a girl friend. Not for lack of trying. They weren't geeks or ugly or anything either. We had a band (won the talent contest several years in a row), some played sports, etc.
Ahh, women. Who can understand them? Well, theres a min-rant of my own.
 

Imaginer

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<< also appears that the tendency is to go for dumb guys a well >>



That and guys who appear that they have money.