Yes, I do get to go home on time and other stories

[Food Lady]

I just got off work. I was checking out my last customer and noticed it was 5:00, so flipped my light off. Some woman came up to my lane (and she was not even near the front lanes when I flipped my light) and I said, "I'm closing this lane." The only reaponse was cat-butt face. I punched out and went to get a couple of items and waited patiently for the lady ahead of me. It was a situation where a supervisor had to take over the transaction, since my coworker was too young to sell alcohol. It was not a big deal, but a bit time-consuming, as sup had a customer at the service desk. Well, that was all about finished when another lady came up and almost cut ahead of me as I was waiting with my stuff on the counter. OK--brain burp--but then she asked if she could be rung up at the service desk. Shouldn't that have been me, since I was there first? And I only had 2 items.

bonus kind-of work sighting: My coworker told me that on the way in to work she received word her boyfriend was breaking up with her. Via text message. Did I mention on the way to work? Now, that's sucky.

[cashierbex]

bonus kind-of work sighting: My coworker told me that on the way in to work she received word her boyfriend was breaking up with her. Via text message. Did I mention on the way to work? Now, that's sucky.

My ex's/roomie's ex husband asked for a divorce 3 weeks after their 5th year anniversary, on the anniversary of her brother's death and close to the anniversary of both her grandfather's death through a text message at work. We got drunk together the next night. She can be a bitch sometimes, but she never deserved that type of treatment. She later found out he was cheating on her with his ugly ass coworker.

[Draper Mel]

bonus kind-of work sighting: My coworker told me that on the way in to work she received word her boyfriend was breaking up with her. Via text message. Did I mention on the way to work? Now, that's sucky.

That calls for some Kelly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTKI9OUGVGU

[mosspack1]

My daughters BF broke up with her via text message at 6 am, before she even woke up to get ready for work. I later found out it was also 3 days after she loaned him $200.

[telecom_goddess]

I used to be in a poly relationship, and my ex bf and gf broke up with me during a therapy session in my therapist's office. I tried to quit therapy after that because I was so humiliated but he wouldn't let me so I ended up going back, finishing and starting therapy again a couple years later with the same guy.

[AccountingDrone]

I had a BF pack all his stuff and half of mine up while I was off at work [I worked nights] and he moved out.

I had a BF break up with me by phone while I was in the ICU with a pair of kidneys in the process of exploding from an infection. He 'wanted to stay friends' so when I got out, we went bar hopping with my friend Eddy. We left him very drunk on the dance floor of The Liberty Pole in Rochester NY [back in the day it was a notorious gay hangout]

[Gizmo]

I've dumped someone (eventually over text but that was the 3rd breakup in two weeks or so) before and he tried to stop me by telling me he was dying. I might have been 18 but whilst it upset me it didn't work.

A close friend had their husband hand them divorce papers the week before Christmas (with no notice) and then couldn't understand why she wouldn't really want to spend Christmas Day at his parents.

[drunkenwildmage]

A friend of mine, who was 40 at the time, was told through instant messenger that her parents are getting a divorce, and her farther is 'coming out of the closet'.

[PepperElf]

My daughters BF broke up with her via text message at 6 am, before she even woke up to get ready for work. I later found out it was also 3 days after she loaned him $200.

and that's 200 she'll probably never see again.
i had a friend do that to me. after our friendship bottomed out he never attempted to pay me back for the computer i bought him.

cos he was a user like that

[AccountingDrone]

I've dumped someone (eventually over text but that was the 3rd breakup in two weeks or so) before and he tried to stop me by telling me he was dying. I might have been 18 but whilst it upset me it didn't work.
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LOL a guy I was in the process of breaking up with [at that point, I was walking out of a couples therapy situation] took a bunch of my 'painkillers' and was nonplussed when I handed him a bottle of colace.

He took about 10 222s [fairly low dose codeine] he was more at risk of constipation than dying.

Dude, if you are going to attempt suicide, take something that can actually kill you ... learn to use a physicians desk reference... At the time I had morphine, midrin and valium in the bedroom, he could have really caused some stir at an ER with the contents of my desk. Knowing the kind of people he hung out with, I wasn't putting any of the 'good stuff' where anybody wandering into the flat could grab it. Though in retrospect, he probably didn't realize that I never took codeine, it doesn't work on me but the university clinic handed it out like candy back then.

[Gizmo]

Dude, if you are going to attempt suicide, take something that can actually kill you ... learn to use a physicians desk reference...

I've known a few people like that. In my case he was claiming he had a terminal illness and had a few months to live... totally forgetting that I was friends with his best friend so when he didn't know of any such thing it made it obviously a ploy.

Surprise, surprise I was also being conned into paying his phone bill by topping up his phone (via mine) so he could talk to me. Today me looks and realises what a patsy I was at the time.

[Demonpriest]

My exwife hit me with divorce papers on Dec. 22 2010, while I was in the hospital with a staf infection so bad that I was told that there was a decent chance that I would either lose my foot or die. Glad to say didn't die or lose foot. Somedays are easier than others when I think on this. Sone people shouldn't ever be in relationships if this is the way they treat people.

[Peppergirl]

I just don't get this. Heck, I even went against my lawyers wishes who wanted to serve divorce papers to my (now) ex husband at work instead of at home, because 'there's a better chance he'll sign for them at work'.

Yeah, and there's also a chance he'd be humiliated needlessly too.

So when I hear shit like this, it makes me doubly angry because it's so insensitive and mean. I feel like I *can* judge, because I've been there...but I chose the high road.

Side note: He then, of course, acted like a total jackass at the final divorce hearing and made me almost regret taking said high road.

/end threadjack