In reply to Eggy (msg # 104):

REPORT THEM ! - That is a Major health code violation. (The crickets) - and in the south you got to watch out for Locust to, they get pretty big (like up to 2 inches long and a 1/2 inch wide).
You should get your money back at the least, though that is unlikely to happen. Places like that get shut down around here. Crickets are just the tip of a much larger problem.

I reported it. I was pretty sleepy when I wrote that last post. My brain was still on West Coast time. So I didn't wake up to crickets quite as early as I'd thought :D

But I did wake up with crickets in my sheets and pillowcases. I took pictures of them. And something else. Fleas? I had some bite marks. I took pictures of those, too. And they weren't mosquitoes. I didn't hear or see a single mosquito in that room. Fortunately, I didn't unpack all my luggage from the car. I was pretty tired after driving and the run around with the housing office. I only brought in my overnight bag and laptop.

The day manager found me sleeping in the car and knocked on my window. She asked if I was the one who reported the crickets last night. I told her yes and showed her the pictures. The person I spoke to earlier didn't want to look at them. They refunded my money and paid for a 21-day stay at a better hotel.

I'd never seen so many crickets in one place before. When I was a kid we used to have them in the garden and sometimes in the garage by the utility sink. But one hopped in my mouth this morning. Waking up to them like that was a fright.

oh yeah.

And the clothes and shoes and stuff I wore last night, I put in a plastic bag and put in the freezer of the new hotel room. They can chill out there for a week I guess.

Yeesh, yeah it's the dry weather this year after last year being so nice (and wet), their populations is way up. (I looked it up)
The hard part in looking up information on the crickets is you get allot of useless stuff, from Cricket (the game) to 'bug super foods'.
All I wanted was Why there were more cricket's the bugs this year. My research shows there has been a steady increase over the last 3 years. Especially in September, because this is there mating period. So your hotel room was being used as their 'cheap motel'.

The bites are likely bed bugs more than flea's. Good of them though to get you a nice upgrade and pay for it for the next few weeks. So some good came out of this event in the long run.
This message was last edited by the user at 16:57, Sat 12 Sept 2015.

Bleh!

Well, unless an army of vermin storms this new hotel room in the night, I'd say this vent is closed. Thanks for listening. :)

So I was scheduled to do a morning shift today and got up to do so, I had very little sleep but that's my usual routine and I can survive a morning shift and then pass out when I get back.

However, today was busy and with customers coming in and out and very little to no air conditioning I was ready to pass out. Luckily my shift was coming to an end. I had voiced my feelings of needing to sit down or at least have a drink before I went.

It was then that the cash registers got a little bit busy (nothing compared to what I've seen it for back to school) I turn to my manager and tell them my shift is over and that I'm signing off on the tills. To which I get..

"Can't you see that long line of customers right there? You can't leave the till until the line is gone.."

Usually I'd be fine, but this is a Saturday. And it is a duel to whoever can get to the registers quicker than the last. So of course as I try to get the line down to a reasonable length they all start lining up near my register. Every time I tried to sign off... another came up to the till.

I was so close to passing out it was unreal, the type where you feel sick just before you have a wobble.

THEN...

My other manager told me I shouldn't be finishing at 1 as was said and I simply told him that was what I was scheduled in for and that was all I could do. Not my fault you're under staffed on the cash registers. But.. Thanks for the consideration I could've passed out!

In reply to Little_Devil (msg # 110):

Been there done that, only I really did pass out - the manager fired me because of it to. Prickly puss did not even give me my last pay check either.
(Well mine was from heat exhaustion, middle of summer, working a grill at a restaurant with a broken AC, when it got to hot there the manager sent me to wash dishes, so from the dry heat of the grill to the high humid heat of the sink, passed out with in minutes of that.
One of those times where I look back and realize that I could have sued and won for how I was treated and for being Fired for what was obviously a bad decision on the managers count).
There are laws protecting workers from over work. (At least in the US, not sure about other countries)

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 111):

That's rotten, too bad you didn't take them to the cleaners!  Firing someone for passing out (like you chose to do it?!?) would have been bad enough, but that much worse when it was because of working conditions and poor decisions on their part.

In reply to Brianna (msg # 112):

Yeah, true, but I was only 19 and did not know about that stuff at the time.

I'm just dipping my toes back into the RPol water, and I guess I'm still a bit of a noob, but I was quite active for a few months, and intend to be so again. Which leads me to wondering in idle curiosity, whatever happened to vents-2? Or is that unhistory at this point?

In reply to Holobunny (msg # 114):

Welcome back.  :)

Vents 2 went to 999 posts a while ago, and was retired.  It's still on the previous page, if you want to peruse it, though.

In reply to Holobunny (msg # 114):

Same here lol. I gota find a writing workshop or something. I just finally made my first in game post today, and I bet the gm complains! >.<

Sad part about lawsuits is lawyers are scared strudelless of companies with money. If it was a smaller place its easier to win shado.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 16:46, Mon 14 Sept 2015.

It was Burger King, so not a small place  (though last time I was down that way that store is totally gone, was a fishing tackle store in it's place).

Okay, I really need to vent. not because I am mad, but because I am hurt. Why do men think we women are so stupid that we won't find out things especially when they put stuff on the internet. I have been in a relationship with someone I was planning on moving in with them as soon as they got their housing straightened, til then I was living with my friend at first in PA and since then in Illinois because I was waiting for him to tell me I could come. Well, today when he didn't tell me he loved me back, which he ALWAYS does, I don't know why but I just knew something was wrong so I began looking online under his name. I found a woman whom I won't name, calling my boyfriend babe! I followed it to her facebook account and lo and behold, she has that she has been in a relationship with him for three months! Three months he has been stringing me along, making me believe everything was fine in our relationship and that I would still be going to be with him only to find out he lied to me. Well I messaged her, told her about how he and I had been in a relationship for over a year, she blocked me but that's okay, I don't care I just warned her to watch her back when it comes to him because if he can do it to me, he will do it to her too. And then I confronted him and he couldn't tell me anything other than it was the distance, we had seen each other in April and I hadn't had the money to come back down and see him, but I guess it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Now I'm so hurt because I fell for him harder than I have for anyone else and I don't get it....what was so wrong with me that he couldn't just wait until his house was finalized and I could come be with him? I know you guys don't really know but I just need to get this out, I am hurt and so very, very confused.

In reply to fireflights (msg # 118):

I know this doesn't help right now, but be glad you hadn't moved in with him when you found out.  A rat like that probably would have done other hurtful things, and at the very least you would have been out a place to live on no notice at all.  Hopefully the other woman thinks things over and gives him some measure of what he deserves.

I hope she does too, but it still hurts really badly that he did this and he knows my past of men cheating on me, he swore up and down he was the one to always be cheated on and that he had never cheated on someone he was with. But now I believe he was just telling me what I wanted to hear.

I know you can't pick and choose I've been in your position before and it sucks majorly. However.. Some guys when they catch on you've been cheated on before see it as a gateway to do it because it's easy and because you've been through it before like you said he'll tell you things you wanted to hear.

But, he's a jerk for telling you it's because of the distance, it makes you feel at blame as well. But it's not, it's not your fault at all. He didn't need to go into a relationship with another woman, he could have told you 3 months ago he wasn't sure/happy.

For that, it makes it worse. But as Brianna said, be glad you didn't move in with him. If he wasn't willing to tell you for 3 months it could have gone on for a lot longer.

Thank god for us women, our gut instincts and FBI like minds and Internet at our ready.

Happens to us men to. I was dating a girl many years ago, we were even engaged to get married, then she married this Other guy and I only found out through a mutual friend it happened.
Ironically I had introduced her to the guy she married (he was the friend of another friend and we all met him at the first friends party).
Anyway you get the picture - even men get cheated on. It's hard to find good people sometimes.

I know even men get cheated on, he told me he had only ever had girls cheat on him and he was the one always getting heart broken. Well so was I and it seems like it's still me in the end who is getting heart broken. I'm so tired of being the one hurting, I have never cheated on a guy, I have always given my all in a relationship, so I just don't get it. But oh well. Guess it's just how my life has to go.

Some of us seem doomed to have horrible love lives.
Me, I am turning 50 this year and I have totally given up on finding someone whom I could have in my life. Been hurt far to many times to put myself out there any more.
I hope this is not so for you.

Sadly for me as far as I feel right now it is. I am tired of being hurt, I am almost 38 and I can't give anyone kids, I have multiple medical issues, one being precancer, one being my back with degenerative disc disease and two very bad knees. I'm a mess so honestly, I felt lucky I had found a guy like him, until now. So now.....I'm just done no one will want a broken woman who can barely walk.

You may be surprised on that one.
But I am in much the same boat medically speaking. Had 3 strokes (that we know of) over the last 20 years, broken bones, (shattered left shoulder with new steel joint that hurts all the time), the bad knee's (that one is actually pretty common I am finding, though the reasons vary), and many other health issue's.
Finding Anyone willing to put up with our problems is a godsend. I got some friends who help me out (between their own drama's), but nothing in the romance department.

Heh, we could problem fill a thread with our combined health issue's (everyone who visit's this thread that is). Sometimes we forget that. Which is why we have vent threads - helps us reconnect with others who can sympathize with our woe's and try and offer a little comfort to our wounded souls.

Yeah, I'm sure it's been very rough for you and I'm sorry you have to go through all of that. Me, I have arthritis on both my knees, had a surgery to repair torn cartilidge on the right one. I had a girl at 150lbs jump up in the air and slam her entire body weight onto the middle of my back when I was 21 to now cause me to have degenerative disc disease moderate in my L5 and L4 and mild in my L3, I can't get my meds right now because of a transition, I have pre cancer in my uterus and haven't had my suppression meds for almost three days now, it can come back which is why I have decided to remove my uterus, I honestly weigh 340lbs right now because I can't exercise. So I am rather stuck and he knew all of this about me, not to mention the emotional scars I have from not only past relationships but from my abusive childhood too and he said he accepted everything, now I wonder just how much lying he did to me.

This room smells like cigarette smoke! >:(

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