The Vent and Rant Thread

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Oh Dear Lord! When did this happen? Are you in a hospital or anything? What all was broken or bleeding? Ricky, you have to get yourself a suit made out of bubble wrap and not leave home without it! Are you OK?

Originally Posted by pshrynk

I'm pretty certain that, at this point, Ricky mostly gets up and brushes herself off, checks for a pulse and, finding one, says, "Well that happened," and walks on to where she was going.

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Ricky is no longer allowed outside her home.

Originally Posted by phenomshel

What she said!! Dangit, woman, we're going to lock you in pshrynk's ward in a nice padded room! Not for mental issues, but so you can't get hurt anymore!

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

But is she safe inside? Isn't there some sort of padded thing we could keep her in for her own safety? Oh, right, phenomshel just suggested that. Well, let's do it, okay?! Who's up for a construction project at Ricky's?

Originally Posted by pshrynk

The need for pathologists on a psychiatric unit is, in fact, minimal...

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Oh, she'll be safe. If she falls, she's bound to fall on a few of her 259 cats.

Oh, sorry .... SORRY .... that was a true story out of my ancient history. I guess I should have mentioned that. It was around 1990 when it happened.

Yes, they finally pulled me out from under the car, I stood up, did a quick triage, and the only damages were a skinned knee and ripped nylon (from when I fell) and a tire track across my butt (really showed up nicely on the black skirt, I might add).

I was on my way to a computer trade show (for the law firm at which I was an associate). Went to the trade show (cleaned up a bit in the bathroom at the Convention Center), and then went back to the firm.

Typically, when I told people there about what happened, they asked me if I'd gotten the driver's license and insurance information. I kept telling them I wasn't HURT, skinned knee, small dry cleaning bill, new pantyhose max less than $10 (back then).

They kept insisting that I might have dire internal injuries, mental anguish!! I'm a transactional attorney .... it takes a whole lot of something more than a skinned knee to push me over that edge.

[DixieGal]

I aspire to someday be as powerful and invincible as Ricky. :genuflects:

[Lady Blue]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I aspire to someday be as powerful and invincible as Ricky. :genuflects:

I think that's why she rescues cats. When she rescues them they probably no longer need all nine lives they each get, but Ricky does . . . so, in appreciation they donate their extra lives to her.

Sounds like she's going through them at a pretty fast pace too.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

I think that's why she rescues cats. When she rescues them they probably no longer need all nine lives they each get, but Ricky does . . . so, in appreciation they donate their extra lives to her.

Sounds like she's going through them at a pretty fast pace too.

That explains it!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

I think that's why she rescues cats. When she rescues them they probably no longer need all nine lives they each get, but Ricky does . . . so, in appreciation they donate their extra lives to her.

Sounds like she's going through them at a pretty fast pace too.

:shudders: For some reason, even with the bolded bit, that creeps me out!

Someone needs to write a horror story based on that premise... (Moejoe? )

[Lady Blue]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

:shudders: For some reason, even with the bolded bit, that creeps me out!

Someone needs to write a horror story based on that premise... (Moejoe? )

Supernatural ? ? ? ? (and spooky)

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

:shudders: For some reason, even with the bolded bit, that creeps me out!

Someone needs to write a horror story based on that premise... (Moejoe? )

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

Supernatural ? ? ? ? (and spooky)

They sort of already did. Made it into a movie too. Not with the cats donating lives or anything, but I do have friends who swear up and down that the move "Unbreakable" was based on me. I get kidded all the time about how Bruce Willis did such a remarkable acting job portraying me. I'm not sure whether they are trying to say that I "look" like Bruce Willis (in which case, I think they are crazier than your average bed bug), or that they just like Bruce Willis generally (in which case, fine .... so do I).

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

:shudders: For some reason, even with the bolded bit, that creeps me out!

Someone needs to write a horror story based on that premise... (Moejoe? )

They sort of did this in one of the Batman movies with Michele Pfeiffer as Catwoman. She fell off a building and the cats she had been feeding kind of brought her back to life.

[Lady Blue]

Originally Posted by kazbates

They sort of did this in one of the Batman movies with Michele Pfeiffer as Catwoman. She fell off a building and the cats she had been feeding kind of brought her back to life.

Couldn't resist.

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

Attachment 31126 Couldn't resist.

Great find!!

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by kazbates

They sort of did this in one of the Batman movies with Michele Pfeiffer as Catwoman. She fell off a building and the cats she had been feeding kind of brought her back to life.

I'm surprised they didn't just chow down. Beware cats!

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I'm surprised they didn't just chow down. Beware cats!

Hey! I'm definitely a dog person (I have 3) but I would never denegrate cats. Their owners can be kind of mean!

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oh, sorry .... SORRY .... that was a true story out of my ancient history. I guess I should have mentioned that. It was around 1990 when it happened.

Yes, they finally pulled me out from under the car, I stood up, did a quick triage, and the only damages were a skinned knee and ripped nylon (from when I fell) and a tire track across my butt (really showed up nicely on the black skirt, I might add).

I was on my way to a computer trade show (for the law firm at which I was an associate). Went to the trade show (cleaned up a bit in the bathroom at the Convention Center), and then went back to the firm.

Typically, when I told people there about what happened, they asked me if I'd gotten the driver's license and insurance information. I kept telling them I wasn't HURT, skinned knee, small dry cleaning bill, new pantyhose max less than $10 (back then).

They kept insisting that I might have dire internal injuries, mental anguish!! I'm a transactional attorney .... it takes a whole lot of something more than a skinned knee to push me over that edge.

Well, ok, but if I had tire tracks on my butt, I'd have mental anguish! And I bet you were at least sore the next day.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by kazbates

Hey! I'm definitely a dog person (I have 3) but I would never denegrate cats. Their owners can be kind of mean!

Sorry, Kaz. You're right. A cat is just another living soul. With beady eyes. And sharp teeth. And a wicked disposition. And evile.

Oh, wait. That's me. Never mind.

[Lady Blue]

Originally Posted by kazbates

Hey! I'm definitely a dog person (I have 3) but I would never denegrate cats. Their owners can be kind of mean!

Is that how cats come by that aloof, sometimes arrogant reputation? The company they keep? Their owners?