51st Annual Hateful Biddies of America Convention

[Kogarashi]

Later, the bitches sat down to breakfast and complained to nearby guests that we stupid North Carolinians don't know what foliage is.

"They call this fall? They call this autumn? Massachusetts has foliage. This isn't foliage."

Um...foliage is leaves. Not leaves of any specific color (or set of colors), just leaves. They've got plenty of that in NC (and just about anywhere that has plants).

[Cvstos]

Oh GOD I wish I would have been there has a guest. I would have fought for ya! I love taking people like that down a peg.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I can put up with a lot of crap from guests. I can even sympathize in most cases. This went beyond what is reasonable to complain about though, and even though a coffee maker that hasn't been cleaned has a high ick factor, it's no reason to demand that a bunch of people lose their jobs.

What boils me though was the badmouthing going on over breakfast. What idiot expects fall colors this early this far south? Yes, the trees are starting to change. Starting. What's more, this year is going to be a very good year for color -- what few trees that have changed are blood red, and blaze orange and yellow. When we're at peak color, Vermont will have nothing on us. We know what fall is.

The last time this kind of thing happened and really pissed me off, a snotty lady from Charleston, SC -- known for its old money -- disdainfully said she could tell this area was rich. She had mentioned that my city looked grubby and rundown, and I told her it's actually one of the wealthiest areas in the state, which is true. I don't know why that kind of thing bothers me, but I suppose wars have been fought over less.

I just don't like it when someone baselessly trashes the area I call home.

[ArenaBoy]

I sympathzise with you Hauntedhead, anyone who spouts off does not deserve to be catered too at all. Insulting one's home, making complaints up, and gord knows what else I think that they don't deserve to be down there.

[powerboy]

Maybe it's their personally warped Christian "The world is against me" view that they were at the conference ABOUT!!!

I am Christian, and I do not think like that. You shouldn't sterotype like that. That is not cool

[Pagan]

What idiot expects fall colors this early this far south? Yes, the trees are starting to change. Starting. What's more, this year is going to be a very good year for color -- what few trees that have changed are blood red, and blaze orange and yellow. When we're at peak color, Vermont will have nothing on us. We know what fall is.

Seriously! I just got back from the UK a couple of weeks ago, and the leaves had just started to turn there! And I think that might be farther north than Massachusetts. They're the same people who will come to New Mexico and complain about how brown it is here. Um, hello, it's the freaking desert! Of course, it's brown (well, not so much this year with all the rain). I get damntourists all the time trying to get me to agree with their low opinion of the state. See, they think that simply because I'm an anglo, I must have moved here. Guess again, pendejo, I'm a native born New Mexican!

[friendofjimmyk]

*The guest found a baggie of pot in a dresser drawer and was not exactly unhappy about this development.

Hee hee, I missed this line. When I was a housekeeper at the ripe young age of 15, the hotel I worked at had these plastic brochure holders that sat upright on the dressers and held various pamphlets with info regarding the surrounding area. My friend who worked there with me found a bag of weed stuffed next to one of these brochures! It was awesome because we were the biggest stoners at the time.

I can imagine if I still partook in the habit, finding one in a hotel room and walking up to the desk all glassy eyed and cottonmouthed saying something like, "Nice room mints!" with a big ol grin on my face!

[Gurndigarn]

Damn, they complained about that too? Like you have control over anything and everything geographical?

Hmm, maybe they have a point. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to write a letter of complaint to the governor here in PA about the lack of oceanfront property.

Hey! You're on Lake Erie, what's your complaint?

[RebeccaOTool]

That sucks! We used to get this one older lady in the tutorring center who would always compalin that we were being to loud, that she wasn't the tutor's top priority (over students who'd gotten their FIRST, mind you), etc. She would come in the morining ans STAY ALL DAY, taking over the private room for studying and hogging it all day. HATED her so much...

[AFpheonix]

Hmmm....maybe get the roomkeeper to sprinkle a little "happy herb" from the other room in the biddies' coffee maker next time. Perhaps they'll be happier chowing on the breakfast bar than complaining

[Cosmic Cat]

Old ladies can be really crazy!

So they were mad about the lack of fall foliage? They should come to Texas. We have no fall. Or winter.

[Gawdzillers]

Nice Athena reference.

[TonyDonuts]

"They call this fall? They call this autumn? Massachusetts has foliage. This isn't foliage."

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Because, of course, what the seasons look like is deliberately set by the state's residents.

So get on that foliage! We want colors!

<SLAPPPP!>

Sorry, slipped into character there, never happen again.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Wait, haunted head-you actually had travelling old people?



And I thought that I they did was crosswords, and bragged about how perfect their grandchildren are.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Nice Athena reference.

Thanks. I always liked that image, myself.

Because, of course, what the seasons look like is deliberately set by the state's residents.

So get on that foliage! We want colors!

Ironically enough, we're at peak color now, here at the end of October. Isn't that wild? Who would ever suspect that? Obviously the magical fairy princesses who paint the leaves promptly on October 1st, were detained. We'll be switching temp agencies because of that little infraction, rest assured of that.

Wait, haunted head-you actually had travelling old people?

The entire population of Florida summers up here, retirement centers and all. By the time July hits, there are tumbleweeds rolling down the deserted streets of Ocala and Sarasota, because there can't possibly be anyone left down there.