I will be fielding no more complaints.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:46 am

After 27 straight hours of international travel, including an extended stay with customs and immigration, with a five year old who doesn't speak English and has to pee every 20 minutes, followed by two hours of terror as the kid and the dogs who were super-psychotic to see us had to get used to seeing each other, I shall be fielding no more complaints about your very stressful and difficult lives of having to park across the street or whatever your latest very troubling difficulty is.

Thank you.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:08 pm

pinback wrote:I dunno, you guys. Parenting seems pretty easy. But maybe taking care of a household full of broken animals for ten years helped "soften the blow".

^ you should hit that guy up!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 5:58 pm

BU YAO!!!!!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 8:30 pm

Also, this means that Retro can't complain about the ancient software used to run this electronic bulletin board any more.

Ha ha sucker! phpBB2.0 for life!

Good God, is there anything in life that happens that ISN'T to my benefit??

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 9:17 pm

Flack wrote:
pinback wrote:I dunno, you guys. Parenting seems pretty easy. But maybe taking care of a household full of broken animals for ten years helped "soften the blow".
^ you should hit that guy up!

You're picking out a single 30-hour day starting in Guangzhou, China and ending in Murfreesboro, TN with a newly adopted child to play the "see, not so easy is it?!" card?

You may want that one back.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:36 pm

pinback wrote:
Flack wrote:
pinback wrote:I dunno, you guys. Parenting seems pretty easy. But maybe taking care of a household full of broken animals for ten years helped "soften the blow".
^ you should hit that guy up!
You're picking out a single 30-hour day starting in Guangzhou, China and ending in Murfreesboro, TN with a newly adopted child to play the "see, not so easy is it?!" card?

You may want that one back.

If I understand this correctly, are you saying that the 30-hour day will be an outlier to the job of parenting in general?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:00 pm

Well, I'm not the expert. Flack, how many 30-hour days have you racked up so far in the pursuit of quality parenting?

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 6:41 am

pinback wrote:
Flack wrote:
pinback wrote:I dunno, you guys. Parenting seems pretty easy. But maybe taking care of a household full of broken animals for ten years helped "soften the blow".
^ you should hit that guy up!
You're picking out a single 30-hour day starting in Guangzhou, China and ending in Murfreesboro, TN with a newly adopted child to play the "see, not so easy is it?!" card?

You may want that one back.

And you're complaining after spending one day with a five year old. Every parent who didn't get more than 2 hours of sleep in a row for six months and cried for days when they learned that the terrible twos are immediately followed by the terrible threes is laughing their asses off right now.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 6:43 am

pinback wrote:Well, I'm not the expert. Flack, how many 30-hour days have you racked up so far in the pursuit of quality parenting?

Spoiler alert: there are no experts.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:07 am

Flack wrote:
pinback wrote:
Flack wrote: ^ you should hit that guy up!
You're picking out a single 30-hour day starting in Guangzhou, China and ending in Murfreesboro, TN with a newly adopted child to play the "see, not so easy is it?!" card?

You may want that one back.
And you're complaining after spending one day with a five year old. Every parent who didn't get more than 2 hours of sleep in a row for six months and cried for days when they learned that the terrible twos are immediately followed by the terrible threes is laughing their asses off right now.

Well, you understand, "spending a day with a five year old" was not what made the day challenging.

But that's fine. Let's begin anew. Just saying, it was a very long, uncomfortable day, and the shit people complain about here is pretty mild by comparison. That's all I was saying.

If you have a complaint about the thread, though, I will not field it.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:37 am

I've served in the army. You have no idea what a tough day is.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:44 am

I'd wager you're fielding no complaints your damn self, yes?

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:23 am

Wrong answer, maggot. Hit the floor and give me 50.

FlyingCarp · Post by **FlyingCarp** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:30 am

The best part is Pinback's still in his honeymoon period. Just wait till those moments come when he's sick of the little brat and only wants some time by himself to play Boats. Or when, for the tenth night in a row, the gourmet braised whoopdey-doo he fixed gets dumped on the floor with a "BLECH!"

Though, I gotta hand it to him that he made it through that trip back. I really wondered how that would go. I thought the flight itself would be the worst part, but it seems that arriving home with the dogs was the true capper on a trying day. What a scene! I imagine it like an alternate ending to A Christmas Story where the Bumpus Hounds bust into the Chinese restaurant.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:42 pm

On the plus side, he won't have to wake up to a crying baby at 3am to change diapers.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:16 pm

RealNC wrote:On the plus side, he won't have to wake up to a crying baby at 3am to change diapers.

Funny, but I have to do this every time my knee goes into agony mode and I have a bad diarrhea incident, which, coincidentally, often happens at 3am.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:56 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
RealNC wrote:On the plus side, he won't have to wake up to a crying baby at 3am to change diapers.
Funny, but I have to do this every time my knee goes into agony mode and I have a bad diarrhea incident, which, coincidentally, often happens at 3am.

"Funny" might not be the word you're searching for, Commander.