One of the things that totally irritates me is when someone talks down to me and treats me like I’m stupid. My mother and I call it the ‘Little Lady’ syndrome. It’s usually a man doing the, “Don’t worry your pretty little head, Little Lady.” and it makes me see red. It happened to me last time I went into the Apple Store, the dude assumed I knew jack about what I was talking about and just shot me a look that said, “I’m smarter than you, Little Lady.” He might have been right but that type of thing never happened in the Apple Store in California because everyone worked for Apple so they just assumed everyone was on the same level or could crush you with their career/money/power. But here… I’m digressing. My ongoing saga with computers and my website and my love/hate/fear of them/it has apparently been resolved. And according to the help desk Website Dude who totally pulled a “You’re stupid, Little Lady”, I’ve been posting things to the site wrong. See, I write everything in Word because I’m Dyslexic and Word helps me out with what I think I’m trying to say and then corrects my spelling on everything I did say. I write, fiddle then cut and paste to the website, fiddle some more, and then publish. But, according to Website Dude, I need to cut/paste into a text edit thing THEN cut/paste to the site. “But WHY,” I asked, “When for the last two years, I’ve been cut/pasting from word with no issues? Why now?” And he freakin’ Little Lady’d me and didn’t answer my question, just patted me on the head and told me not to worry about it and to do what he said and everything would be okay. ASSHAT!!! Now I’m grumpy and want to punch his stupid face and take my business elsewhere but I know I’m not going to because I’ve paid up and because I’m lazy and yada yada yada… grumble/bitch/moan. Anyway, my ability to cut and paste has returned so here’s Monday’s post. Totally not worth the wait but, whatever. Blame Website Dude and my inability to know I should be pasting to text edit first even though it was never an issue before... grumble. ... Mr. Spider came back Friday night. I thankfully spotted him just as I opened the storm door and it skimmed over his hairy back. After the obligatory squeal, I let the dog out for her pee and got my camera to take a picture of him. Because nothing is true unless it’s on Facebook and there’s commentary. A few hours later, after a Facebook comment asking for a size reference – massive apparently not being accurate enough – Husband and I went looking for Mr. Spider armed with a camera and measuring tape. By this point Mr. Spider was no longer on the ground at ankle biting level but in the corner of our front door porch area, at hair jumping and consequent nest laying level. More squealing was had, mostly from me, while Husband and I took pictures with the measuring tape as proof of Mr. Spider’s massiveness. Yes, Australian readers, I know this is nothing compared to the moose you guys call spiders but here, this dude is big. Anyway, proof posted to Facebook, I noticed I’d gotten a message from my new friend, Bob. You remember Bob from last week? The one who ditched his promising date when she spotted a spider and asked him to do something about it. Well, Bob sent me this message, which made me happy to know him even more. Because Bob is not kidding. And I love that honesty in a place where everyone is blowing golden smoke up everyone else’s "You're so talented" ass. Be more like Bob, people.
P.S. - The Pest Guy came, Bob. You can come over and hang out now, Bob.
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Q.D
10/4/2015 12:08:14 am
I have been in Vietnam (true story) so hadn't seen all your spider posts, but i do want to say that Mansplainers are some of my LEAST favourite people on earth!!!
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ej
10/10/2015 05:34:30 pm
Q.D. - "mansplainers" is the best term for them EVER! I just want to punch them in the face over and over again... ugh.
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