Share Your Faults

[ejp626]

I do have a temper. I hate to lose. I hate it when my causes lose out.

I don't have much patience. I am willing to explain techniques and protocols to people twice. After that if they still don't get it, I write them off as idiots.

I carry grudges too far.

I can't keep my office straightened up. I have thousands of pages of reports I won't read, but I can't throw them out.

[catesta]

I don't have much patience. I am willing to explain techniques and protocols to people twice. After that if they still don't get it, I write them off as idiots.

I don't understand.

[ejp626]

I work in transportation planning, and we deal with lots of different computer programs. I'll walk someone through the steps once, wait for them to forget and come back. If they can't get it after the second time around, I think they probably need to be in a different line of business. That doesn't mean I won't try to solve their problem, but I just don't think well of them after that, and that probably shines through.

I am difficult to live with, and I am amazed that my wife sticks with me. Whenever I think about that, I bring her home flowers. (At least, I've never needed to bring her home flowers, let alone jewelry, for bad behavior.)

Edited October 15, 2004 by ejp626

[catesta]

I can't keep my office straightened up. I have thousands of pages of reports I won't read, but I can't throw them out.

I'm in that club.

My office is a disaster.

When I moved the office in January, I had the girls label the box for everything they took off the floor, and off my desk. Most of those boxes are now sitting on my floor against the wall and never unpacked.

I don't know why I don't throw shit away. Every time I try it seems I come across something I believe will be useful at a later date, so I put it in the "keep" pile.

It's some sad shit.

[catesta]

I work in transportation planning, and we deal with lots of different computer programs. I'll walk someone through the steps once, wait for them to forget and come back. If they can't get it after the second time around, I think they probably need to be in a different line of business. That doesn't mean I won't try to solve their problem, but I just don't think well of them after that, and that probably shines through.

One more time.

Just funnin', I knew what you meant the first time.

[ejp626]

I don't know why I don't  throw shit away. Every time I try it seems I come across something I believe will be useful at a later date, so I put it in the "keep" pile.

It's some sad shit.

You wouldn't believe some of the crap I save. I have some stuff from when I was a math teacher 10 years ago! I keep thinking that I will use it as background for the novel I want to write (don't laugh). I actually have started this novel, and if I quit my job next month as planed, I will work on that at least. (No, I am not so deluded to think I can live off an advance. I just need some time away from the many idiots I deal with. Yeah, you got me Catesta.)

But I do get around to using a lot of what I have saved, including the 3000 or so non-fiction books I own. Still, if I only knew now what I would use in the future, I might actually get somewhere.

[Noj]

Ah yes, pack rat syndrome. I've got a rabid case of it myself.

[Alexander]

My biggest fault? I BUY TOO MANY FUCKING CDS!!!!

[Jazzmoose]

I must admit to holding grudges as well. As an example, some asshole sold my younger cousin this damned Torino years ago that completely broke down soon after he bought it. If I ever find this clown...

[Guest Chaney]

I must admit to holding grudges as well.  As an example, some asshole sold my younger cousin this damned Torino years ago that completely broke down soon after he bought it.  If I ever find this clown...

[Leeway]

I tend to get REALLY, REALLY impatient when my CD order doesn't show up within a month

[connoisseur series500]

I tend to get REALLY, REALLY impatient when my CD order doesn't show up within a month

Didja have to take that public?