So I saw an ad last night on Freecycle Savannah from someone giving away a ton of free DVDs. I saw a few I wanted for my brother, emailed the person to see if they were still available and got an email back a few minutes later from the person saying this:

Wallace & Gromit, Joe Dirt, The Spirit, and The Wrestler can be available for pickup tomorrow @ 1:30pm. Let me know if this is an available time for you
Thanks

“Awesome”, said I. Then I went back and read the listing again and saw that some were burned copies, not originals. I decided that I was no longer interested in getting them and I knew he wouldn’t want them, so I emailed the lady back at 7am with this:

Thanks for the response. I was going to get them for my brother, but he just told me that he didn’t need them after all. I appreciate it though. Thanks again. :)

A nice gesture seeing that most people on Craigslist will leave you hanging and waiting around all day without an email or a call. I gave the lady more that enough notice that I no longer wanted them. I thought I was doing a good deed. Apparently not, because I woke up to these three emails:

I am checkin to see if you are still coming today? I think I have you down to pickup around 1:30. My address is – removed -. Please email me back if you can come~if not I will have to gift to others
THanks

I have been here waiting. Your time was supposed to be at 1:30. If your not here by 230 then I will gift to others

disregard previous email. I cannot wait if you cannot show at appt time. As of right now, the only ones available to you are the wrestler, joe dirt. call me for another time

I read the emails and I’m a little pissed. Okay, so I sent you an email at seven this morning and you have time to email me three times in 30 minutes but NOT read the email I sent you? Come on now. So I sent her this back:

I replied back to you at 7:28 this morning. Here is the email:

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:28 AM wrote:
Thanks for the response. I was going to get them for my brother, but he just told me that he didn’t need them after all. I appreciate it though. Thanks again. :)

So I sent that email, thought about it for another minute and decided that I just wasn’t going to let her off the hook for being a dumbass. So I sent this email right back:

I’m sorry that you didn’t see my email, but as you can see…I responded EARLY this morning. Thank you.

I swear to God, not three minutes later I get this email:

yes, i got your email and waited. no show. I have the ones in the previous email~wrestler and Joe dirt. If you can come pickup tomorrow after 5 that would be great(Monday)

*blinks* Okay, so you admit that you read my email, but you still think I want the movies even after I’ve told you three times that I don’t? I don’t get what’s so hard to understand about this. I’m clearly dealing with a genius here. So I wrote this back:

As stated in the previous emails, I don’t need to pick up the movies. I was going to get them for my brother, but he doesn’t want them. Thank you.

I didn’t get an email back for four whole hours and then ten minutes ago I receive this gem:

well as much as i hate to hear that, that’s fine. I just really would have appreciated a phone call instead of waiting around and having my children be antsy when we had plans.

Are you kidding me?!? You’re going to blame me because your kids had to wait around all day and got “antsy”? Bullshit. I’m clearly pissed at this point and I fire off this email:

I really don’t understand what was so hard about you reading my initial email at 7:30 this morning. I stated CLEARLY that I was no longer interested in the DVDs. I tried to at least to be courteous and give you a heads-up instead of just leaving you hanging like most people would. I’ve stated in five emails now that I don’t want them. If you waited, it’s your fault. I sent you an email early this morning so you wouldn’t wait, but you keep emailing me to set up a time to pick them up.

I don’t think I was rude anywhere in my emails and it’s kind of sad that I’m having to do so now. I am not a mean or rude person and I really do not like responding to people like this, but you’ve sort of forced my hand. I tried to give you a heads-up that I was no longer interested in the movies. I told you that I didn’t need them countless times, but you keep sending me emails. At this point, I’m at a loss as to how to handle this. You clearly are not getting it. You clearly are not understanding that I don’t want them. You clearly do not understand that you waited all day because you didn’t read my email. I’m sorry your kids got antsy, but that’s not my fault, that’s yours. I’m not going to call you at 7 in the morning to tell you that I no longer want them. An email is sufficient.

Please don’t email me anymore. This is ridiculous. I really do not have time for this.

As stated in the footer of her emails, she is a property manager for a Pooler subdivision. I feel bad for the people she works for and the people she manages, and if she handles her business any way that she’s handled this whole movie business, then damn.

I’m waiting with bated breath for her next intelligent email. I wonder what she’ll blame me for this time? War? Famine? Broken nail? Geezus, people piss me off. I hate having to take this to my blog, but this lady was just asking for it. And I don’t mind giving it.

UPDATE: I’ve been referring to this lady as the “Craigslist Lady”. It just occurred to me that I found her on Freecycle Savannah. My bad. Still doesn’t take away the ridiculousness of the situation.

Of course I just received this final email. I say final because I’m now blocking her:

i received a blank email from you~no worries. I will let the moderator know all about this,
and God Bless you

Wow, really? So you’ve harassed me all day long and accused me of making your kids antsy and now you say “no worries”? What a pill. I don’t know this woman from Adam to Eve, though her name DOES sound oddly familiar, and she may be really lovely in person, but she has come off as a complete dolt in my exchanges with her. I don’t see how she could’ve interpreted me wanting the movies after all the emails I sent her saying I didn’t. It just boggles the mind. And now she’s going to let the moderator know? Please do. OMG, please do that. I beg you. And make sure to send them all the emails I sent you, because if they contact me, you’d better believe I’m going to supply them.

Word of advice Freecycle Lady: Read every single word of the emails people send you. When they say they don’t want something, don’t badger them. People tend not to like that. If someone asks if something is still available, don’t automatically assume you can demand they show up at a certain time. In fact, make sure the people want it before you assume you can just schedule them in. Also, don’t try to throw the blame on them because you’re too lazy to read an email. K? K. Awesome.

I need a Tylenol.

Eighteen minutes in and I have to say, Biden’s spanking Palin. She’s gotten a few jibes in, but that’s not what a debate is about. It’s about facts, how you plan to lead the country, and answering tough questions. Palin’s coming off as a cheerleader who was given a set of lines to remember and she’s reciting them word for word.

Round One: Joe Biden

Palin certainly got better as the debate went on, but I’m still holding to the fact that if it’s not a very close draw, that Biden is coming out on top with this debate. I respect Joe Biden. I think he’s a good man and he certainly has the experience and knowledge of Washington to back up everything he said tonight. Palin has the “down home” thing down pat, and I believe that’s very much who she is, but I didn’t see a lot of information coming from her. I felt like she was rehashing some of her stump talking points and I actually found myself finishing some of her statements…because I’ve heard the soundbites over and over. She was very pleasant though and I think it’s her inexperience on this sort of stage that lent to some of her answers. She was far better than I thought she was going to be, I’ll give her that. I do like her comments on personal responsibility and I think it’s something that all Americans can agree on.

What are your thoughts about the debate? Who do you think won? What was the best points that both candidates made? What were their weakest?

I spent most of my night at a late soccer game and my head hurts from all the dust that was kicked up, so you’ll excuse me if I’m not eloquent with my thoughts. I’ll see if I can find some links to those who are saying what I’d like to.

Warning: This post is definitely NSFW.

Wow…just wow.

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that she said these horrible, violent, and let’s just go ahead and admit it…racist comments, or the fact that these little sheep are standing beside her cheering her on. We as humans believe in a lot of different things…religion, social issues, etc., and we disagree with each other every day on these issues, but there’s a line in the sand that no-one should cross and Sandra Bernhard just blew right past it.

Oh but wait…it was comedy…she was joking. Right. Barbara Mackay of the Examiner says that Bernhard’s message was “oddly and subtly” positive and that it “delivers enraged optimism”. Subtle…yes…quite. Optimism…of course! *slaps forehead* Ari Roth of Theater J is totally psyched about Bernhard’s show and that, in the end, it’s a part of who we are. We? Um…no…I don’t have an ounce of “that” in me, thank you very much.

Bernhard said that Palin was going to be gang-raped by a bunch of black guys if she ever came to Manhattan. Does anyone else see the problem with this???? Hello????? Come on!!!!! If you don’t agree with her, then say it, damnit. Someone has to say that she’s wrong. If you’re a Democrat and you think what she said was wrong, then say it, damnit. If you’re a Conservative and you think what she said was wrong, then say it, damnit. If you’re a black man from Manhattan and you think what she said was wrong, then say it, damnit. If you’re a woman who’s been violently gang-raped and you think what she said was wrong, then say it, damnit.

Damnit!

The older I get, the more I realize that the world is full of really fucked-up individuals who wouldn’t know a clue if someone threw it at them. They have no decency or tact. Where’s all this tolerance I keep hearing about? Remember folks, it’s a crime punishable by death if a Conservative “jokes” about something as horrible as gang-rape by black guys, but you get a free pass if you’re a Liberal woman. It just isn’t the same. Nope. Not one bit. *head explodes*

If I were Barack Obama, I’d be on my hands and knees BEGGING for these Hollywood “stars” to keep their stupid mouths shut from now until November. Personally, his “base” is starting to scare the fricking crap out of this potential voter. Every day I wake up and read stupid things like this, I have to ask myself, “Do I really want to be associated with these fools?”. No, I do not. There’s only so much crazy racist, violent crap I’m going to put up with. I like Obama and there’s a good chance he’ll have my vote, but I’m going to be completely honest here folks, when I read stuff like this from people who are shoving “change” and “positive politics” down my throat, my stomach turns and it makes me not want to vote at all…or vote the other way just to piss those assholes off. It’s those moments when I have to stop and remind myself of the bigger picture. But it’s getting hard…really hard…to focus on that picture.

Recommended Reading:

Newsbusters: Sandra Bernhard: Palin Would Be Gang-Raped By Blacks in Manhattan
Sister Toldjah: Liberals are losing it – PLUS: “Joking” about gang rape?

I swear to God, I want to drag this hateful judgemental heffer out by her hair and just beat her ass. I saw this at the gym while I was sweating my fat ass off and I did one of things that you see in the movies where someone’s on the treadmill and they see something that they just cannot believe and they stop and sort of fall off the end. Yeah, that’s what I almost did.

I was SOOOO furious when I saw that interview. Call me sensitive or whatever, but I think that women is just nasty. I don’t like her attitude and I think it’s people like her that give little girls a complex about their image. Nobody is saying that obesity is a good thing, but come one, Whitney Thompson is a size 10. That’s healthy! This woman is saying that she’s borderline obese. Where? Where is this obesity? I don’t see it, do you? I see a very attractive young lady who isn’t pencil thin and feels good about her body. How is that a bad thing? She’s not overweight!!!

This MeMe Roth chick is making a habit of going around bashing celebrities who she labels “obese”. She did the same with Jordin Sparks and now she’s got it in for America’s Next Top Model Whitney. Maybe she’d be happier if people like me and Whitney were to start sticking our fingers down our throats after every meal. I swear to you, when she held up those shorts and said how disgusting it was and how she didn’t want to see that in her models, I almost came up from the treadmill and attacked the television. What a spiteful little skank. Why does Fox News keep giving this woman airtime? Ugh!

I could probably think of something more intelligent to say, but I still have fire shooting out of my ears and I can’t think straight. I’ll come back to this one when I come down from my pissy mood. In the meantime, I’d love your thoughts.

Oh and btw, I’ve lost 20 pounds. Suck on that, MeMe.