MORON Just fired another Client today..... Don't yell at my Mother edition.

[pauldingbabe]

I LOVE that!! Of course, I made a cake. They came to church today. Her son was thrilled. She was thrilled. And she said she felt like the Lord was looking out for them.

Good for you. The happiness of the child is the reward here.

 

[ShadowMan]

You just can fix stupid!!

 

[Satanta]

Y'know< I don't tell Lawyers they don't know what they're doing because i go to them because **I** don't know what THEY're doing.
Same with Doctors (though I may have specific fact based discussions with them in which case sometimes I DO know more than they do).
I don't tell engineers they are dumb (though on occasion we may have Physics and Thermodynamics discussions).
Accountants, same-same, except that the MBA carries a bunch of Accounting knowledge.

LOTS of folks are damn fools.

I try to have friends who are more Intelligent than myself-which is not hard to do. If I know more about a Subject than the other person-even if they have a Degree I simply say "Ok" and find someone with a Degree who knows more than I do but, at least knows as much as I do.

Anything less is relegated to the Expendables Section of my world. Useful but not going to cause issues at their loss.

20Guage, we had some of those in the Veterinary Biz as Clients but none of them everraised their voices so we rarely told them not to return. They were just enough of a pain in the ass for us to not schedule a client after their time slot as it always went over and the Vet had to slip out when we saw them pulling in unanouxed as they had no issues simply walking into the Vets Office, in on another Client or wanting to come in during Surgery. That sort of nonsense.

 

[Randy in Arizona]

So - this is not a client - but it's another frustrating people situation. (Thank you for letting me vent.) I am currently a Bishop's wife. My husband is the Bishop of our local ward (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) - so I have the opportunity to help with people who are investigating the church. A couple of weeks ago our missionaries asked me to pick someone up for church - a woman and her son. Pick them up, had a nice conversation, sat with them at church, explained the ropes. During our time together, she told me that she'd just recently got custody of her son, had been in a homeless shelter, was currently unemployed and I picked her up in public housing. But, hey, people often go through hard times and hard things - and I really hoped that she was making some positive changes in her life. In the ensuing weeks, she has messaged me to see if I could drive into town and drive her to a doctor's appt that she hadn't made yet. (I'm about 15 miles out of town and there is public transportation in town.) I actually asked someone (another member) in town if they could help her - they could. She canceled at the last minute. Then she messaged me on Thursday and asked me if I knew of anyone who had a fishing pole to sell. It was her son's birthday and that's what he wanted. So, we have a local church Facebook page and I knew that someone probably had a fishing pole sitting around and asked if they wanted to donate it. One lady - whose kids are all grown and gone - had one in her garage. She said that she would get it and some tackle put together for the boy. I let the Mom know and she replied, "Tell her we need bait too." I told her, "No, she will not have bait because these are things she had in her garage that's she's putting together for you. You'll have to get your own bait." Then she messaged today and asked if anyone could bake a cake for her son. (I know that she has a link card and I know she has money.) What has happened to people? What happened to take care of yourself and your loved ones and don't depend on everyone else?

Long, long ago, in a far distant ward I had to deal with similar 'members.'
The 'prizes' I remember best:
While taking a food order - - - We want more of the canned beef chunks, the puppy really likes them!
The overweight welfare widow that wanted the ward to buy her a VCR so she could exercise to some tape or another. [ A then popular song got transformed into ' Oh Ward won't you buy me a VCR, my friends all have Betas, I must make amends. ]

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[adgal]

Long, long ago, in a far distant ward I had to deal with similar 'members.'
The 'prizes' I remember best:
While taking a food order - - - We want more of the canned beef chunks, the puppy really likes them!
The overweight welfare widow that wanted the ward to buy her a VCR so she could exercise to some tape or another. [ A then popular song got transformed into ' Oh Ward won't you buy me a VCR, my friends all have Betas, I must make amends. ]

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Well, she messaged me last night. She said she wanted to send her son balloons at school. I said that she'd better check with the school to make sure that was okay. She responded - well, I think it's okay - but I don't have any money. I replied that I hoped she could figure someway to work it out - but if not, he would have to be happy with what she would do within her budget. I then explained that one of the basic premises of the church was self-reliance and living within your means was important - and a wonderful lesson for children. So, she hasn't messaged me back.