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[ChinaBuck]

A little backstory..

My wife is a teacher, which means she does not work from late May until mid July. I'm generally up for work between 4:00 and 5:30 and, to avoid waking her up, I keep all of my bathroom stuff, hair products, razor, toothpaste, etc, in our downstairs bathroom.  Despite doing this for the entire summer, I still constantly forget that my toothpaste is downstairs and end up opening the medicine cabinet to grab it when I'm getting ready to go to bed.

This past weekend, we took our travel trailer up north to escape the heat. Anyone that owns a travel trailer will tell you that you try to minimize how much stuff you bring, because travel trailers don't have a lot of space. So, I bring a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, not my normal tube of toothpaste.

Last night, I get out of the shower and open the medicine cabinet to grab toothpaste which, as I mentioned, is actually downstairs. Well, I see a small tube which, in a dimly lit bathroom, looks like my travel sized two of toothpaste. It's not until I'm several seconds into brushing my teeth that I realize it's actually a tube of triple antibiotic appointment.

Oh my, at least your mouth is now fully sanitized. I bet that tasted good. I used a bathroom in the basement rather than the one adjacent to out bedroom so as not wake my ex-wife (the world's lightest sleeper), and yes, found myself without my standard supplies often as she raided mine when she ran out and of course did not tell me or replenish them. But I caught on, I actually started to secretly keep a National Reserve of bathroom supplies that she didn't know about. Put them in my workshop in a Lowes bag next to the belt sander. Worked like a charm.

[sparky454]

My brother has a routine in the morning where he sits on the edge of the bed and puts eyedrops in his eyes and puts in his contacts. A few years back he put the first drop in his eye and it started burning like crazy. He ran into the bathroom and flushed his eyes until the pain subsided. Turns out what he picked up off the nightstand was the dogs ear mite drops and not his eyedrops. I have to put that at the top of list of his dumbazz moments.

[Buckeyechick]

A little backstory..

My wife is a teacher, which means she does not work from late May until mid July. I'm generally up for work between 4:00 and 5:30 and, to avoid waking her up, I keep all of my bathroom stuff, hair products, razor, toothpaste, etc, in our downstairs bathroom.  Despite doing this for the entire summer, I still constantly forget that my toothpaste is downstairs and end up opening the medicine cabinet to grab it when I'm getting ready to go to bed.

This past weekend, we took our travel trailer up north to escape the heat. Anyone that owns a travel trailer will tell you that you try to minimize how much stuff you bring, because travel trailers don't have a lot of space. So, I bring a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, not my normal tube of toothpaste.

Last night, I get out of the shower and open the medicine cabinet to grab toothpaste which, as I mentioned, is actually downstairs. Well, I see a small tube which, in a dimly lit bathroom, looks like my travel sized two of toothpaste. It's not until I'm several seconds into brushing my teeth that I realize it's actually a tube of triple antibiotic appointment.

I do the same thing since I get up earlier than my family for both jobs (aside from my oldest daughter who also works at a hospital.) Normally I have my tooth paste contact solution etc in a bathroom on the otherwise of the house. Fell asleep and forgot to get things ready the night before yesterday. Tried to tiptoe to get them…dropped my coffee that was in my hand…didnâ€t wake anyone up, ran into a door (no joke) only woke the cat up, accidentally kicked the dogâ€s kennel and cussed under my breath which some how woke my son up because I hear “Mom stop cussing.” They sleep through my “grace” filled gymnastics through the house but I cuss under my breath and itâ€s like a shot gun went off apparently and that gets heard.

[Bonebuck]

Public speaking?  No chance in hell.  I could probably put that in the phobia thread.

 
Same. Iâ€m incredibly shy in real life, like painfully so. Yet I am somehow interviewing for a job tomorrow that requires public speaking daily. Admittedly to teenagers but Iâ€ll still have to get over myself to be able to do it. Thankfully itâ€s teaching future medical professionals clinic info which is my Boo so thatâ€ll help.

Sounds like a challenge.  Holding younger people's attention is probably going to be more of a problem.  Is this going to be a total job change and be stressful?  Sounds like you've pretty much recovered from your latest medical issues.

Still have pneumonia but no longer stuck in bed. Nah, this would be less stress and better hours. Currently I work my days in the schools and then some evenings as well as call at the hospital. It kicked my butt. I would still keep at least one nursing job but work it a bit less. This job would be teaching Medical Accedamy students. Long shot, in my opinion, that I get it but I think Iâ€d love it.

So how did it go??? I bet you knocked it out of the park!!!

[Sanitarian2]

So I try to deposit a grand into my daughters checking account for her this morning. Her bank is in the city I work in, about 25 minutes from where she lives. She has ten hundreds and the deposit slip all filled out and signed, the teller won't put it in her account. Says she has to do it in person since its cash, I explain that I'm not taking money out but putting it in, no dice.

Since I have an account there as well, she says I can steal my daughter's cash, put it in my checking account and then transfer it immediately. Claims it's the government regulations to prevent drug cash from being put into accounts. FCK you, its none of your freaking business teller/government.

[stxbuck]

My brother has a routine in the morning where he sits on the edge of the bed and puts eyedrops in his eyes and puts in his contacts. A few years back he put the first drop in his eye and it started burning like crazy. He ran into the bathroom and flushed his eyes until the pain subsided. Turns out what he picked up off the nightstand was the dogs ear mite drops and not his eyedrops. I have to put that at the top of list of his dumbazz moments.

Good seeing you post!!!

[AlumneyeJ93]

A little backstory..

My wife is a teacher, which means she does not work from late May until mid July. I'm generally up for work between 4:00 and 5:30 and, to avoid waking her up, I keep all of my bathroom stuff, hair products, razor, toothpaste, etc, in our downstairs bathroom.  Despite doing this for the entire summer, I still constantly forget that my toothpaste is downstairs and end up opening the medicine cabinet to grab it when I'm getting ready to go to bed.

This past weekend, we took our travel trailer up north to escape the heat. Anyone that owns a travel trailer will tell you that you try to minimize how much stuff you bring, because travel trailers don't have a lot of space. So, I bring a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, not my normal tube of toothpaste.

Last night, I get out of the shower and open the medicine cabinet to grab toothpaste which, as I mentioned, is actually downstairs. Well, I see a small tube which, in a dimly lit bathroom, looks like my travel sized two of toothpaste. It's not until I'm several seconds into brushing my teeth that I realize it's actually a tube of triple antibiotic appointment.

Look at the bright side, at least it wasn't the tube of hemorrhoid cream.

[ChinaBuck]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing "Didn't it Rain, Children." She is always a fun listen. 

From 1964.

[Alabuckeye]

So, I switched jobs in May. Back to my original company I started with and worked at for 18 years. Back as a contractor. Company at this point is global, 72,000 employees and the onboarding process is like seal training where only the fittest survive. Iâ€m 6 weeks in and still working thru Jira and other ticketing systems trying to get appropriate access just to be able to do my job.

Not much direction either. I report in some way to 7 different people. Two project managers, two squad leaders, the person training me, my actual manager and a scrum master(for those not in the know, this has to do with Agile project management)……the federal government is not the only bureaucracy thatâ€s screwed up.

Speaking of the feds, my former company lost their contract when the Thrift Plan(FRTIB) went with a different vendor….which has been an absolute disaster…….Iâ€m sure they were promised the moon but so far all theyâ€ve gotten is irate participants in the plan

[3rdgensooner]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing "Didn't it Rain, Children." She is always a fun listen. 

From 1964.

She is flat out bad azz. She comes out and you're thinking why has grandma got a Gibson SG custom? Then she shows you why.

[3rdgensooner]

So, I switched jobs in May. Back to my original company I started with and worked at for 18 years. Back as a contractor. Company at this point is global, 72,000 employees and the onboarding process is like seal training where only the fittest survive. Iâ€m 6 weeks in and still working thru Jira and other ticketing systems trying to get appropriate access just to be able to do my job.

Not much direction either. I report in some way to 7 different people. Two project managers, two squad leaders, the person training me, my actual manager and a scrum master(for those not in the know, this has to do with Agile project management)……the federal government is not the only bureaucracy thatâ€s screwed up.

Speaking of the feds, my former company lost their contract when the Thrift Plan(FRTIB) went with a different vendor….which has been an absolute disaster…….Iâ€m sure they were promised the moon but so far all theyâ€ve gotten is irate participants in the plan

[Hightop77]

So, I switched jobs in May. Back to my original company I started with and worked at for 18 years. Back as a contractor. Company at this point is global, 72,000 employees and the onboarding process is like seal training where only the fittest survive. Iâ€m 6 weeks in and still working thru Jira and other ticketing systems trying to get appropriate access just to be able to do my job.

Not much direction either. I report in some way to 7 different people. Two project managers, two squad leaders, the person training me, my actual manager and a scrum master(for those not in the know, this has to do with Agile project management)……the federal government is not the only bureaucracy thatâ€s screwed up.

Speaking of the feds, my former company lost their contract when the Thrift Plan(FRTIB) went with a different vendor….which has been an absolute disaster…….Iâ€m sure they were promised the moon but so far all theyâ€ve gotten is irate participants in the plan

TSP administration does seemed to have declined.  I couldn't log in to my account due to "improved" security procedures and then they promised to send me a code to get back in my account through the mail a week ago.  Still waiting.

[Alabuckeye]

So, I switched jobs in May. Back to my original company I started with and worked at for 18 years. Back as a contractor. Company at this point is global, 72,000 employees and the onboarding process is like seal training where only the fittest survive. Iâ€m 6 weeks in and still working thru Jira and other ticketing systems trying to get appropriate access just to be able to do my job.

Not much direction either. I report in some way to 7 different people. Two project managers, two squad leaders, the person training me, my actual manager and a scrum master(for those not in the know, this has to do with Agile project management)……the federal government is not the only bureaucracy thatâ€s screwed up.

Speaking of the feds, my former company lost their contract when the Thrift Plan(FRTIB) went with a different vendor….which has been an absolute disaster…….Iâ€m sure they were promised the moon but so far all theyâ€ve gotten is irate participants in the plan

TSP administration does seemed to have declined.  I couldn't log in to my account due to "improved" security procedures and then they promised to send me a code to get back in my account through the mail a week ago.  Still waiting.

Accenture is the new primary contractor……we were a sub under the former one. In all prior contract renewals, even if the primary was replaced, the Board would keep the subs in place. This time they pretty much did a clean sweep other than a couple call centers. 

there was never any request for knowledge transfer for our contracted work to Accenture. Donâ€t know if they did that with all subs, but gotta imagine they did.

[ScarletHayes]

So, I switched jobs in May. Back to my original company I started with and worked at for 18 years. Back as a contractor. Company at this point is global, 72,000 employees and the onboarding process is like seal training where only the fittest survive. Iâ€m 6 weeks in and still working thru Jira and other ticketing systems trying to get appropriate access just to be able to do my job.

Not much direction either. I report in some way to 7 different people. Two project managers, two squad leaders, the person training me, my actual manager and a scrum master(for those not in the know, this has to do with Agile project management)……the federal government is not the only bureaucracy thatâ€s screwed up.

Speaking of the feds, my former company lost their contract when the Thrift Plan(FRTIB) went with a different vendor….which has been an absolute disaster…….Iâ€m sure they were promised the moon but so far all theyâ€ve gotten is irate participants in the plan

This is funny.  My wife is dying to get out of teaching and is considering becoming a scrum master.  Your post is now the second occasion Iâ€ve ever heard someone refer to that position in my entire life

[dkeener67]

A little backstory..

My wife is a teacher, which means she does not work from late May until mid July. I'm generally up for work between 4:00 and 5:30 and, to avoid waking her up, I keep all of my bathroom stuff, hair products, razor, toothpaste, etc, in our downstairs bathroom.  Despite doing this for the entire summer, I still constantly forget that my toothpaste is downstairs and end up opening the medicine cabinet to grab it when I'm getting ready to go to bed.

This past weekend, we took our travel trailer up north to escape the heat. Anyone that owns a travel trailer will tell you that you try to minimize how much stuff you bring, because travel trailers don't have a lot of space. So, I bring a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, not my normal tube of toothpaste.

Last night, I get out of the shower and open the medicine cabinet to grab toothpaste which, as I mentioned, is actually downstairs. Well, I see a small tube which, in a dimly lit bathroom, looks like my travel sized two of toothpaste. It's not until I'm several seconds into brushing my teeth that I realize it's actually a tube of triple antibiotic appointment.

Look at the bright side, at least it wasn't the tube of hemorrhoid cream.

A good friend of mine did something similar to this after a few too many beers. Before he went to bed he brushed his teeth. But he didn't use toothpaste. He used Desitin. He didn't realize it till the next morning when he woke up. I still blow him shlt about that.