What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Hobie-wan]

Technically it was yesterday, but these little guys made my day.

[fastbilly1]

Hobie, what are those? They those look like yarn.

[Hobie-wan]

Hobie, what are those? They those look like yarn.

They're sewn. About an inch tall.

[Forlorn Drifter]

I'm totally going to put the moves on her tonight.

I endorse any efforts to guide that anger into frenetic angry sex.

I'm not gonna lie, I get turned on when girls are legitimately mad around me.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Today was a pretty good day and I was feeling pretty good. This lady on eBay is/was giving me a real and fiscal headache though. Something about the situation (the angry all-caps spam emails she was sending me most likely) really set me off. Had just about the worst anxiety attack I've ever had. I don't remember it. Woke up here in the doctor's office about 10 minutes ago. I guess my landlady was kind enough to have been walking in the house at the time and took me here.

[3DSStrider]

I'm getting texts from people I don't know. It might be someones from school, but only four people there have my number, two friends and two old friends. One of them asked who someone on my contacts list was, and when I ask them who they are they don't answer and ask that to me.
I'm scared.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Was freaking out about my physics class because of a huge project that we would have to construct with 4 other people was causing a sever panic attack. Not to mention that 8 of the 10 labs we will do will be written up by someone other than me and we will be graded on that write up. I am not making any friends in this class.

Got my group and we got the luck of the draw on our huge semester long project... doing the old 7th grade stand-by, the Egg Drop. Thank god. This project is supposed to go through into December, but I can get that guy done in a week. Some people were not so lucky, having to construct and record their process of making Rube Goldberg machines, or constructing a compound pendulum etc.

One of my group members had a 3DS on him. Tried to talk to him about it and he was really freaked out that I knew what it was, because of my age. Turning 30 on Thursday. I'm getting old...which is fine by me.

[noiseredux]

One of my group members had a 3DS on him. Tried to talk to him about it and he was really freaked out that I knew what it was, because of my age. Turning 30 on Thursday. I'm getting old...which is fine by me.

Youth is wasted on The Young.

[3DSStrider]

Apparently it was a group text from my cousin's new phone... I think. I really don't understand kids these days and their twenty-first century technowoozits and doohickies.

[Valkyrie-Favor]

My little sister, a sophomore in high school, asked me to help her solve her math homework. That's fine. But my parents were also trying to help her, so I had to try and explain how to solve quadratic equations to three people, two of which haven't done anything more than personal finance in decades. They kept asking the same questions. I thought my answers were satisfactory, but it came down to reminding them that "anything multiplied by zero is zero, meaning the other coefficient could be anything."

Reply - "No it can't. It's one number."

It took almost half an hour to explain why a quadratic equation could have one or two solutions, real or imaginary, and I'm pretty sure they didn't get it. I ended up giving them the quadratic formula and walking away. Hopefully she'll remember to do it twice.

I don't expect anyone to remember what they did in high school or to be interested in math as a hobby. I don't expect them to know anything about imaginary numbers, but they aren't necessary for these problems anyway. But to let your critical thinking skills get so dull...I don't understand it. Adults should be much smarter than they were at 16, right?

Maybe I'm just a dumb teenager who just finished school and doesn't get "real life." It still bothers me.