Rant: A Shitty Ass Day

[VoldtaEngler]

So far this has been one of the shittiest days this year.

I woke up fine, minus the minor back ache because I slept curled sidways. But it went away after about an hour.
Then I see the water service people here, and figured they were checking the meter. No problem. Until I tried to get some water. And found out it was shut off!

Okie..The water bill is in my roomates name..so I wake him up to find out if he's paid the bill. Short answer: Nope.

"Did you get a disconnect notice?"
"No..?"

So he grabs the last statement he got, post dated Oct 25th, saying that it will be disconnected unless paid until 10 days.

"Um..did you not see that part?"
"Um..no.. i figured they weren't going to really come over"
"How much is the total?"
"$155..."

WHAT! Okie..water bill is literally only $15 a month. THAT'S IT!

"How long since you last paid it?"
"10 months ago"

Oh jesus christ. Okie, so i had them call it up and they had a $40 service charge so gran total..$195..

No biggie if he had the money..but he didn't. So I had to pay it. On top of the $600+ I paid yesterday for MY bills. To top it all off, He left his bank account page open on accident and I sorta snooped at the first page and see that literally after I paid the bill, he was buying things on his Xbox live account.
He still owes me $40 from two months ago! And now another $200!
AND, AND , AND! he doesnt have a job because he was late for way too many days!! And only has applied to two places and hasnt even bothered to call them after I hounded his ass about it!

Okie, so now that the water has been shut off, I decided to relax for a few hours before I started to work and watch a movie on my cable's On Demand service...until that is the movie half way through cut off saying I need to reorder it!

So by this point im getting frustrated. My wife calls them up, the person didn't even know what "On Demand" was! Then decided to start literally yelling at her for no reason because she wasn't finding a serial number on our box (what the hell does that have to do with anything? Reset the shit!)

So they hang up on her..I decide to call..nicely I tried the first person..who was literally NO help. So I called again, and finally got somebody who just hit the "reset" button on their end and service was restored. I proceeded to tell them "Ok, ive had a frustrating day, please tak no offense if I ask you not to try and sell me the phone bundle like every other time I call"

"No problem, Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"Nope, youve been a great help, Thank you"
"You welcome, if you change your mind we have a 14.99 phone bundle yadda yadda"

AAAGGHHHH.

Whatever! Resume movie! 15 minutes later...mail comes..
OOOOH! A Better Business Bureo(sp) Letter from somebody who hasnt received their order yet...from A WEEK AGO! A FUCKING WEEK AND YOUR GOING TO START SHIT WITH ME TODAY? Tommorrow would have been better...but TODAY?!

Sorry for the long rant..

I need alcohol.

[Tinman]

Shit man, id o knocked hm out, sold his fucking xbox to cover the bill n dragged him down the job centre kickin n screamin, argh! Bet u were well pissed!

Should have an option on the phone, i just need resetting dont sell me shit, press 9, lmao, if only the world was that simple, lol

No worries bout the rant, do u feel better?
if yes, please come again, if no do what i said above that ll pass the time at least, maybe feel a little better lol

[VoldtaEngler]

No I felt better after posting it. And the fact that I know Xmas is coming so that's my 2nd busiest season of the year..but I'm not covering his ass again! Bastard :p

[Buster Friendly]

oh man, that sux big time... i owe my roomie some serious coin... but then again, i DO pay him regularly, and give him what i can, when i can... i also don't own any big ticket items, like xboxeses, or any crap like that (this last month i was wondering what i could sell, and didn't think of anything... my stereo is like 15 years old...) i also apply for unemployment, and am constantly seeking work... (back to work my regular gig tomorrow.)

sorry to hear that shit dude... hate to down another slacker, but you might want a new roomie.

[Scar]

Sorry you had a bad day :-) I hope things get better!!!

Alcohol= good idea sometimes!

[Wickedanima]

Stoopid Humans! *stands beside and shakes fist at them all*

[Mr Karl]

......roommates.......

[Donald Rilea]

Bloody Hell, Voldta!!!! You had the Devil's Own Day, didn't ya???

Sorry that happened to ya, and that you were at least able to get your film restored, even if it took a day and a geological age, or seemed to, at least, to do it.

As for the rant here, don't worry about it.

Better to vent than to break.

[Tinman]

Hey glad u felt better.

but sux big ass he might leave u up to your neck in it over xmas, xmas sux if u got no cash and covering for him is gonna bite hard, gud luck X

[evilstonermonkey]

man, i know how it feels being stiffed by your housie. i live with my sister and when her boyfriend moved in he had a good paying job and everything. he started job hopping, so they were broke, and i was stuck paying to keep the roof over me, my nephew, my sister and her arsehole boyfriend's heads. a few weeks later, just when he gets his old job back and is starting to organise getting his shit together and paying me back, they break up and i never see him again.

then we get hit with the power bill, which is like three times its normal amount since he was a major technophile. big ass tv, xbox 360, high power computer on 24/7, laptop that drained its battery in an hour so pretty much had to stay on the powerpoint...

[inox]

high power computer on 24/7

The computers themselves don't tend to suck much power; it's the displays that do it.

At this point, I won't room with anyone who hasn't had (and who, by any estimation, will continue to have) a rather significant income over the past few years.

I can pay my bills, and if someone else is going to fall down on that, and disrupt my comfort, I am going to be ineffably pissed.

I've seen way too many roomie situations that were arranged out of friendship alone lead to resentment and fighting because one person, who usually has a spotty history working retail, decides to be a bum (usually a pot smoking bum) for a few months, playing video games and neglecting bills. Lots of drinking usually fits in there somewhere, too.

F that s in the a. I will defenestrate you.

Personally, I solve this problem by living alone. I know I can count on me.

[Lady Alias]

Kill him and sell his organs in the black market...or loan them out...

/que Genetic Opera

He won't have to worry about paying anything more, and you get your money. Everybody wins.

[VoldtaEngler]

Kill him and sell his organs in the black market...or loan them out...

/que Genetic Opera

He won't have to worry about paying anything more, and you get your money. Everybody wins.

heh..i was asked to do hair for the Genetic Opera movie..but my emails responding Yes i will! never went through until it was too late. But they are keeping me in mind for their next one

[Lady Alias]

That my friend, is rather rad. (Yes. I said "rad".)

[Tinman]

I thought that word had been put in stasis in the hope it might come back round, guess u opened it early lmao x

[VoltaireBlue]

If It was me, I'd kick that lazy fuckhead out.

[OliX]

that's why I live alone
sweet privacy and my bit of silence...
collective living sucks....

[VoldtaEngler]

If It was me, I'd kick that lazy fuckhead out.

Yea im getting to that point..ive known him for a long time and he's done this once before (spending rent which made us lose our nice 2006 built house) and he's been somewhat decent the past year so I gave him the benefit of the doubt..but yea..it's getting ridiculous lately. I dont have time for bullshit.

He lives in flith (literally..cake and cookie boxes all over his room) and probably a good hundred porn magazines all over the place..and the bathroom..rooooooo i won't even go into how filthy his bathroom is.

[VoltaireBlue]

Yea im getting to that point..ive known him for a long time and he's done this once before (spending rent which made us lose our nice 2006 built house) and he's been somewhat decent the past year so I gave him the benefit of the doubt..but yea..it's getting ridiculous lately. I dont have time for bullshit.

He lives in flith (literally..cake and cookie boxes all over his room) and probably a good hundred porn magazines all over the place..and the bathroom..rooooooo i won't even go into how filthy his bathroom is.

I used to live in a punk house in oregon that was filthy like that. It drove me crazy. I guess I was lucky because none of our utilities were ever shut off, except the landline phone, which I never used, So i didn't care.... I'm just getting too old for shit like that. I like just the boy and me. I could never live with a room mate ever again.... I might kill them.

[malcolm]

i could see that made into a movie. on demand ofcourse, hope youre feelin better now

[VoltaireBlue]

i could see that made into a movie. on demand ofcourse, hope youre feelin better now

sorry I'm laughing voda, but that was priceless....

[malcolm]

sometimes i get the jokes in there and theyre actually funny.in all seriousness though-hope things are better.gotta do laundry now. byesh!

[mmmcherry]

Better to vent than to break.

awesome. very good point
yeah voldta... not fun. steal his xbox and shit, give it back after hes done cleanin up his fuckin messy ass mess, then whenever you get a bill in his name, take his xbox again till he pais the fuckin bill!!! muhahaa.

god damn, can you tell im a mom? thats what moms do... YOUR GROUNDED FROM VIDEO GAMES UNTIL YOU CLEAN YOUR ROOM!! ITS A PIGSTY!!!

[Donald Rilea]

Voldta: in regard to Ms. Cherry's suggestion above, don't think of it as stealing. Rather, think of it as holding a sterling bargining chip in your negotiations with your roomie.

[evilstonermonkey]

but make sure youre wearing your justice khakis

[VoldtaEngler]

but make sure youre wearing your justice khakis

Funny you mention that..im wearing my army green cargo kaki's. Then again I also sleep with my combat's on 90% of the time, so justice is always served..even in my sleep.
I wake up ready to kick ass, chew bubble gum and take names...and im all out of....aw man i got bubble gum on my kakis.

[Mr Karl]

..........I used to have roomates, and people wonder why I ended up in a shack on top of a mountain for all those years

[mmmcherry]

craaaap nothing gets gum out of clothes. seriously all those myths about putting ice on it and then smashing it with a rock or some shit... that just mushes it in more. haha... justice khakis sound sexy though

[poison]

i'm lucky i actually have a flatmate who gives me bill money whenever i ask her.

my boyf though was another loooong story. i just kicked him out last week after i had to pay all the rent and bills since july, whilst he 'supposedly' looked for a job and sat staring at world of warcraft. Guess people just eventually snap.

[OliX]

craaaap nothing gets gum out of clothes. seriously all those myths about putting ice on it and then smashing it with a rock or some shit... that just mushes it in more. haha... justice khakis sound sexy though

no ice! freeze it in freezer and thn use some pointy metal object to remove it...

this reminds me on geting money out of money case without having that anoying color all over "your" money freeze it in freezer and then freeze it even more with liquid nitrogen and then smash open it

[evilstonermonkey]

now where the hell would i get liqui nitrogen?

i swear, id only use it for good...

[VoltaireBlue]

so, how's it going voda?

[VoldtaEngler]

so, how's it going voda?

It's better than last week doll. Thanks for asking

But he's still jobless, but im getting on him for that. Too much work, such little manpower, and no time in the day hardly. Bleh!

Come work with me, we can make fun hair :]

[VoltaireBlue]

It's better than last week doll. Thanks for asking

But he's still jobless, but im getting on him for that. Too much work, such little manpower, and no time in the day hardly. Bleh!

Come work with me, we can make fun hair :]

I like to make fun hair... infact, I am going to get my liscense ibn this state.... I just need to find a school I like that can give me a really cheap brush up course.