Happy Festivus For the Rest of Us: If We Only Had Grievances to Air EXTENDED!
UPDATED – EXTENDED!
Since we had a rough server transfer and in addition to a couple posts, some comments and contest entries might’ve been lost so we’re extending this contest to close on 1/2/2011 at 11:59:59 PM PST… so Sunday night. Thanks and sorry!
As the high holy day of Festivus – it’s time to air our grievances … if only we had any … I’m wracking my brain but I can’t think of anything. 🙂
Can you?
And if you’re read this far 🙂
Enter our 2010 End of Year contest – win a set of our checklist magazines! (BTW, the sale of @$1 off each issue ends on 12/31).
Enter below in the comments with the words.
CONTEST ENTRY.
(your grievance)
You may enter once every 12 hours and we will draw a winner on 12/30/2010 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time (US). Contest starts NOW.
We will select a random grievance winner.
Thanks and good luck!
(international entries are welcomed!)
UPDATED – EXTENDED!
Since we had a rough server transfer and in addition to a couple posts, some comments and contest entries might’ve been lost so we’re extending this contest to close on 1/2/2011 at 11:59:59 PM PST… so Sunday night. Thanks and sorry!
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24 December 2010
161 Comments
CONTEST ENTRY.
No, I do not want to cut my hair or trim my mustache. If you don’t like the way I look, stop looking at me. Yes, I need these crutches. No, I will not give you any money. Isn’t that your mother calling you? Go home. Didn’t your mother teach you any manners?
Dude, this contest ended last night.
Aw, man. That was my best one yet. LOL.
I’m always a day late or a dollar short.
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Parents of unruly kids in store. Please take them home or clean up the mess they make in the store.
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My Grievance- Not having enough room to store all my CARS…
quercy:
I am actually thinking about making some premade wood shelves for TFAD people.
Unfinished wood and pick your own stain
Deep enough for the length of one car so you can display them side by side, custom length for any wall
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I wish that Mattel could complete something that they started like the haulers and the mainline before throwing new products at us.
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Pharmaceutical companies can’t seem to offer their products at a reasonable cost, yet they manage to pay for some of the longest TV commercials, some of which contain WAY too much information.
Side effects include: coughing, vomiting, enlarged spleen, intestinal blockage, chapped lips, jellied adam’s apple, discolored fingernails, memory loss, hair loss, loss of hearing, floppy eyelids, halitosis, double vision, triple vision, loss of vision, anal leakage, nasal leakage, fuzzy tongue, and extreme ticklishness. Star enjoyinging your life today, ask your doctor about Didadopanatrix…
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Bluetooth headsets. I don’t care who you are, where you are, or what you do for a living: you look like an idiot.
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Rap / Ebonics / Gansta hand gestures / headbobbin
I dont get the pants around the thighs either
Pull em up. It means your a willing jail bait boyfriend thats been in the slammer, why would anyone be proud of that / want to be that
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Women being pregnant and NOT knowing it?
get real
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My grievance is that I never win anything 🙁
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60 degrees Friday… 13 degrees today! Indiana weather… UGH!!!
Contest Entry:
Socks missing in the dryer
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Conspiracy Theories ….. some are pretty far fetched
Some of them??? How about ALL of them!
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Fan-fold shades for car windshields — anyone who really thinks these reduce the inside temperature of your car, the next time you want to buy one just send me the cash instead, and you’ll still get the same results.
I would agree… except for the fact that I had at one time a set of Cars eyes!!! I think I got it at Target… and it was a licensed DP Cars item! Wish I still had it…
I had one too, for my van. It got hauled off when Crazy Larry totaled my van with his Hummer. I totally forgot about it until now. (eyes well up with tears)
I still have Cars eyes for my Truck. They don’t help with heat but they sure help with gripping a steering wheel after sitting in a hot, sunny parking lot all day. I know a towel over the wheel works just as well but I like the eyes.
CONTEST ENTRY.
No cost of living increase for Social Security benefits.
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My grievance that the TFAD had a rough server transfer 😀
JK guys 😀 Keep up the good work
Contest entry:
I have a grievance with Kevin Costner’s hair in Waterworld.
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Movie theatre ticket / popcorn prices
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Postal Rate increase in January 2011
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My Grievance- All these promised cars for 2009 and 2010 from Mattell (According to the posters and collector guides) who haven’t been released… yet
contest entry:
im perfect! NOTHINGS WRONG LOL
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People who do not use turn signals.
Contest entry:
Time does go by faster as you do get older. I want to be like Mork (Mork & Mindy) and do it in the reverse fashion, start out old and go younger 🙂
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My grievance is with trapezoids. Worst shape ever.
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“phishing emails”
get a life you crooks
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Once again (post didnt take the first time)
Catheter commercials
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References to other Cars sites. This is akin to blasphemy!
contest entry
automated sales calls, if you can’t pay a person to interrupt my nap there is no way I am going to listen to your spiel.
or how about sales calls in general. if I need something I will go looking for it, it does not have to come looking for me.
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My grievance… having to get up in another 4 hours or so for a nice long car trip to celebrate the holidays! (The grievance part is the early wake up after new years!)
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Ebay Bidding:
Auto increase amounts, why dont they still have it go up at 50 cent or whole dollar amounts? is it really needed to have it jump to 5.00 and 10.00 and 25.00 auto increments at times when current prices are at a specific height?
Contest Entry:
Self entitled “Know it All’s”
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I can’t find the remote!!!!
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My Grievance- to post grievance for a contest 😉
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My grievance is people who abuse their pets. They give unconditional love. Why get them if you do not want to treat them right? One of my little gems was found dumped on the street with a separated shoulder after being used as a breeder dog. I wish I could keep them all.
CONTEST ENTRY.
NO MORE STORE EXCLUSIVES.
Yes, I know I was shouting.
Scream it out loud. No more exclusives. No more exclusives.
No more exclusives. No more Nukes. Oops, sorry wrong board.
Ok, yeah. No more Nukes too.
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My grievance is with creamed corn. Why take a perfectly fine vegetable and make it all slimy like that?
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Grievance.
Target clearance prices vary from store to store. Store Managers say they won’t price match to other Target stores nearby. What?
Isn’t Target a national chain? Prices are 13.98, 9.98 and 4.98 on the same Chief and Pitty sets in different stores.
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My grievance… Having to teach the employees at the post office about services offered on USPS.COM!!! Have been told several times that I haven’t paid for postage/not enough postage/etc. etc. etc…. only to have to ask for the person in charge to come out and explain to them the way things work! You think they would get it by now!!!
I once taught a postal clerk to page down to find the First Class International option. He had been charging Priority Mail rates on all international parcels until I came along!
Contest Entry
“You know What Grinds my Gears”
Your cell phone company calls and says you can upgrade , but when you go to do it, they tell you its to early..you have to wait longer…
Contest Entry:
Not being allowed to completely rip the crap out of some of the idiotic comments that are put through on this site because all comments have to stay PG rated; especially when said comments are full of grammatical errors, misspellings, and show little or no knowledge of the language in which they are written.
Contest Entry:
LARGE Chromed wheels and small tires
what fool buys a 22 inch rims or larger and them puts small or no sidewall tires on them?
What part of potholes do you not get, especially in the winter when metal breaks easier
Contest Entry:
UtahHyundai.com / Honda Christmas sale commercials.
these two fools and their own band singing christmas carols and its being played to death
Honda commercial where the singer cant seem to pronounce holiday, comes out as oliday oh….. oliday
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Fog Lights.
Hey pal, there’s no fog!! Turn those things off, or I’ll pull a “Walking Tall” up ahead at that stop light.
CONTEST ENTRY.
People who whine and cry about not being able to find an item at their local stores. Just be thankful that you even have that store. OR even better yet, be thankful that you have a job and the money to buy anything extra; above food and shelter.
Contest Entry:
My Grievance- to buy Mater and McQueen over and over to get the exclusive one in a pack…
Contest Entry:
Audio books that are not on CD and or not unabridged.
kindles suck, gives drivers something else to read while driving
Contest Entry:
Lost contest entries from server changeover
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My grievance is with the Movie Moments featuring Guido and Ferrari Fan Guido. Besides the fact that there are still about a hundred clogging the pegs, in what moment in the movie can you find both these cars? Morons.
CONTEST ENTRY
When networks “blackout” games from my viewing area.
Contest Entry: Replacement missing entry due to server change over:
People that buy the Super ultra starbright white nuclear neon head light bulbs
if your that blind, get an eye test and or get off the road
Contest Entry: Replacement missing entry due to server change over:
anyone have a copy of this mornings post I made? lost it in the server change
Replacement entry found:
Contest Entry:
Facebook spam links which auto send
(thanks john in missouri)
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My grievance is almost getting mugged walking into a Toys R Us last night. Guy jumped in front of me and accused me of using some words I do not use. Scared my mother to death. I stood my ground and he ended up leaving but why do people use boredom as a reason to hurt or scare others.
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My grievance… Pit Crews! Where O Where are all of the Pit Crews??? N2O Cola & Easy Idle are out there…. somewhere!!!!
contest entry
too few Frank the Combines found in the Wild. Too Many Jamie and Johnnys found in the wild.
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My Grievance – lenticulars, color change and GIL… no more to say.
quercy says:
December 28, 2010 at 9:56 pm
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My Grievance- To Mattel to let us figuring how to list this collection…
CONTEST ENTRY.
Badges. Badges. We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.
Contest Entry:
Psychics:
Why should I call you when I need you and tell you my information? Wouldnt you already know that I need your help and call me direct? oh yea dont you know my information also?
one other thing: psychics, …. Tell us, …..
Just where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Did O.J. really do it?
Why dont ALL of you psychics consistently hit the lotteries?
Thank you.
Contest Entry:
people who bring their little rat dogs into grocery stores and have them ride around in shopping carts where they can take a s*&^% or P*** in the cart where people put the items they buy like food and clothes later on.
Dog owners who do this:
NOT every place is Pet Smart you idiots.
Leave the animals at home.
You dont need them on your lap driving and in macdonalds either.
Or real dog owners like myself will bring their 123lb+ dogs and show you how fast they can eat rat dogs.
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My grievance is with ebayliens who slap a “rare” or “vhtf” designation on cars that are anything but. “Color changer Doc vhtf mint in hand…buy it now for only $49.00” “rare Look My Eyes Change yellow Ramone BIN $19.99”. Sheesh.
agreed, see:
Item number: 290514262415
then compare to what know from my own website (linked above on my screen name) these were made almost 2 years before Boyd died. wayyyyy more than 100 made since I have sold at least 128 of them just this year alone, and last year about 70 and own about 30 more. Oh and not worth 299.99 but are a decent rc car at 150ish and less depending upon the box condition
No doubt. Type in “rare pixar car” and on the first page alone, you’ll find a loose Mater(!), loose Doc, Shake-N-Go Sheriff, Final Lap Johnny, and a lenticular Duff. It makes me want to poke my eyes out.
Contest Entry:
My Greievance : My Work (I guess I’m just lucky to have a job)
Contest Entry:
Winter itself
Contest Entry:
Home heater blower motors die one month after the 1 year warranty
contest entry
being given a week off as a year end bonus, only to have the boss ‘suggest’ that I put in hours for the ‘health’ of the company.
Contest Entry
my grievance is incessant drug commercials on television.
There wasn’t a sequel after Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
CONTEST ENTRY
(tie) When you’re in line at the store, and the current customer not only pays by check, but waits until the last possible second to not only write the whole thing from scratch, but to enter the transaction into their checkbook register as well. MOVE IT ALONG!!
(tie) When you’re in a a long line at Target, and the Cashier asks the current customer if they’d like to apply for the Target debit or credit card. The process takes about 10 minutes to complete! Couldn’t the Cashier just send them over to Customer Service to do that? MOVE IT ALONG!!
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My grievance is paying to being double covered for dental and medical ins.and being told that all the providers in my area are not contracted with them and having to pay anyway.
Here in Utah a married couple cannot be double covered
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My grievance is that I don’t have all of these TFAD checklist magazines already!!!
Contest Entry:
The 3 idiots that made a “last second decision to run their left turn lane light” to left turn in front of me tonight. It was either broadside and kill someone or evasive driving and try to escape. It didn’t work. Thanks to each an every one of you 3 D.A. drivers that left the scene.
Contest Entry:
Drivers who cannot make up their mind who goes first.
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My Grievance – to have to wait until summer 2012 to enjoy Cars Land….
How about people who go through the self-check out lanes and have a huge line behind them, that they are aware is there, but they have no idea how to do the self-scan and take an extremely long time to figure out and have to have the cashier come over a bunch of times to help them!!
People who celebrate Festivus a day late. Not to be a nit-picking, rule dominated, obsessive-compulsive, axxl retentive, law and order type and Festivus Purist, but… I don’t believe you can air a grievance after December 23rd since that is the CORRECT day of observance. How easily we are led astray by the “new media.” If we err on this my friends, what is next?
(MET: IN the Reform Festivus, the celebration is 13 days 🙂 ).
Very Good!!!
Contest entry:
Only six episodes of The Walking Dead this year, and then making us wait til Halloween for the next season to start. Torture, plain and simple.
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My Grievance – Wish the Targets and TRU were better for cars in my area
people who say “just kidding”, so they can say the most nasty, evil things to another person and think it’s funny.
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My Grievance – To not have start collecting in 2006.
contest entry
“Why can’t we all just get along and stop the foolishness “
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My latest grievance… not being able to figure out how to turn off the alarm on my newish digital watch, which goes off every morning at 3 AM… and being pretty sure my 5 year old set it some how!
Contest Entry:
Over used term “Mint in the Box” when things are not. Extremely dusty and broken chrome trim items still described as “Mint in the Box”
Contest Entry:
People who ignore their own animals for food and water
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Kmart, Kohl’s, and other retailers who slap price labels on toys. Haven’t they ever heard of (a) scanners, and (b) collectors???
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People who have to buy those hard-to-find Cars on eBay, because that’s the only place that seems to have them.
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Not being able to find my receipt to return a video game that my brother also got from someone else.
Contest Entry:
Ex druggies and ex alcoholics who feel the world owes them everything because they “beat it”
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Short texting
is it really that much trouble to spell out whole words?
texting whole novels, just make a 3 min phone call for pete sakes
Contest Entry
email spam
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My grievance is wishing I had more time with my 5 year old
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Stores that keep food & drugs on their shelves that are past the expiration dates.
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My Grievance – Mattell does not releasing Cars in numerical order for each series.
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SDCC ticket fiascos
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All the time and money spent on resumes, employers still want you to fill out an application COMPLETELY by hand
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My Grievance – The car in the fast lane doing 20MPH that will not move to the slow lane. I am behind these people everywhere I go.
contest entry
grievance- Too many Cars cars, not enough shelf space. the fact that the one Car I wanted all those years ago- Doc Hudson, who can pass up a Hudson Hornet- now has 200 plus friends to keep him company.
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Why can’t I ever get the last slice of cake?
Contest Entry:
My grievance is that my Walmart has a giant cube full of old Cars. They are all old cars that I already have and no one will buy them. Because of this, my Walmart does not put out a lot of new Cars stuff
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My Grievance… My Cars Pit Row seems a bit incomplete… I think we may be short a few teams!
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My grievance is gas prices and bridge tolls. $5.00 to cross a bridge. Half the paycheck people earn is spent on getting to work in the first place.
CONTEST ENTRY
Why has Pixar shelved “Newt”?
(MET: No third act).
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My Grievance – Cars 2 will be here in less than 6 months and we all know line won’t be completed when item from line will appear on the shelves to promote the movie….
Contest Entry:
Middle east fighting. GET OVER IT PEOPLE. this is 3000 to 5000 years argument ?
Lets move on….
Contest Entry:
LOUD Keyboard tapping sounds on commercials, come on people they dont need to be that loud
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My grievance – relatives buying toys for your children without clearing it with you (the parent) first. Usually those toys are annoying!
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My Grievance – Someone who stole “A Christmas Story DVD” @ Target… come on… that is just sad… I mean… can you honest say I’m going to watch my stolen Christmas Story DVD copy on Christmas Eve with my family? That is just disgusting. 🙁 Really… such a shame…
Steal something else at least… 🙁 [No I do not like thieves at all or do I endorse stealing… should be off with your hand like the old days 😀 ]
CONTEST ENTRY.
Why couldn’t the 60s last more than 10 years.
Contest Entry:
Mechanics being dishonest
Contest Entry:
States charging taxes on a vehicle that sold the previous year to the same owner over and over again, year after year
contest entry
my grievances- bacon should be healthy for you and chocolate should be a food group
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My grievance is… no High & Low Ramone, Mood Springs Pitty, N2O Cola Pitty, or Shiny Wax Hauler yet… where are you?????
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My Grievance – Evil-bayers!
Those that buy all the cars right off the shelf, just to take them home and list them on e-bay, so that no child can appreciate them without paying double (or more) the retail price. When Sarge’s Boot Camp set was released, my husband and I took our children to Toys R Us to find the set. When we got there we discovered that: the sets were still in a box and a guy was waiting there for the box to be opened. He was planning on buying all of them, and he said to me, “I’ll save one for you, you can buy it from me once we leave the store.” Or the vultures that wait for the cars to be dumped from their cases into big bins at K-Mart Cars day and collect four to five sets to take home and sell on-line.
My son would love to look at the pics!!
CONTEST ENTRY:
Computer hackers, get a real job and get a life!!
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If your not legal…. your ILLEGAL
get the paperwork done. you have no excuse
Aunt Judy, is that you? It’s me, Chris! Merry Christmas, I miss you!
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My Grievance – Mattel’s crappy distribution… seriously… such a shame…
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A Cars grievance:
Arse-faces who take exclusive cars out of 4-packs, replace them with pegwarmers and return them to the stores. Grr!
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My grievance has nothing to do with CARS. Somehow,it’s seems that it is not that important when you start to think about the war. My grievance is not bringing our troops home before any more fighting, ends another life-life is too precious.GOD BLESS THE USA and GOD, watch over our troops, bring them all home.
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My grievance is that I can’t share the holidays with those that I love, and have lost. Seems a bit empty feeling at times while we are rushing around trying to get ready for Christmas, when all that is really important is who we spend it with!
CONTEST ENTRY.
Wish Mattel would tell us where all the Shiny Wax Haulers are?
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My grievance is with Target’s hours — why can’t they open at 7:00am so I could stop before work?
Contest Entry:
Employers who use peoples application SS numbers for identity theft or fake employer / employee counts for business loans
Contest Entry:
People who TEXT on the cell phone and drive
Worked late tonight. Sweet family of five came in very concerned. Youngest child quite ill. Did what we could but unable to keep her from needing admission. Mom and child get to spend Christmas (maybe longer) in the hospital. Dad and older children home, waking up without their mother and younger sister on Christmas morning. Just one of many I saw today that will not have the Christmas they planned.
Life and health are fragile. I know I’ll give extra hugs a few hours from now.
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My only beef is really with that darned belly button lint that continues to show up embedded within the umbilicus that highlights my six pack.
Happy Holidays!!
Jon
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My Grievance – To have opened Lizzie…
CONTEST ENTRY
Paying full price for car sets that are now 30% off!
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Not sure what happened there, but let’s try this again…
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My grievance is those who are giving to receive or looking to receive without giving…forgetting that we should be giving from the heart without expectation…a simple thing that we should be learning from a young age…
(I could go on but this is neither the time or place…)
As I said before Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, Happy Holidays to those who don’t, no drinking and driving to all and please make sure you’re around to celebrate 2011…
MIL
LOL!
CONTEST ENTRY
Not enough time……- sure we make time to do the things we love, but is it really enough??
Merry Christmas everyone!!
CONTEST ENTRY
My Grievance- can’t seem to get all the car’s for my 5 year old
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my grievance
never got tractor darrel big fred rusty and dusty elvis big tj storytellers real dale jr bessie lightning mqueen(just kidding) and some other big ones
Not grieving the half off, just informational. Didn’t know how else to get the word out.
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Grievance: That I wasn’t born a billionaire.
Just think of what the Cars display would look like in one of the wings of a palace. Not to mention a real Lightning in the garage and a Yeti to snow plow the grounds and ….
Besides that thankfully life is good.
Happy Holidays everyone and a very Merry Christmas.
No grievance from me. Life is too good.
But a Merry Christmas to all my friands on TFAD from Perth Western Australia.
Plenty of Cars in thier pile of presents from Santa
Contest Entry:
Employers who hire and TAKE ADVANTAGE of people wanting to work and dont pay on time, give lame excuses for not paying on payday or NEVER pay them at all, knowing they probably cannot afford an attorney to collect their own wages…. and wont pay them even 20.00 – 30.00 before Christmas because “they are in good standing with the church” and “”honestly I don’t have to pay people on time””.
WRONG: proven fact. Payday is Payday. Its the law.
They are currently being garnished for these payments.
man u must be in the masonry field. i have dealt with this same situation plenty of times before. i feel for u man. don’t let the stress take over.
-flop
contest entry
my grievance is not being where i want for christmas.
-flop
CONTEST ENTRY
Employers who blame employees for their mistakes after they tell them to do it that way anyway then cant admit THEY “made the call” and customers complain
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I have a grievance with the people who tear open the Hot Wheels Mystery packages. I believe that they should be kept in the Pharmacy with the Claritin.
I don’t have any grievance! I just watched on CNN a tribute to those who are serving; being greeted by their families upon coming home; under fire in Afghanistan; and being laid to rest at grave sites under a volley of rifle fire. I have nothing to complain about at all. Merry Christmas and a Merrier New Year to come!
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My grievance is listening to some folks try to, uh, well, you know, put a thought together; but I totally lose the meaning of, you know what I’m sayin’, the idea that like they are kind of attempting to convey because they have totally used so many awesome “filler” words that have absolutely buried any possible meaning.
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My Grievance–Apples’s given us 4 Iphones, 5 to 6 versions of Ipod, and Ipads and Itunes everywhere. Yet, I still can’t get an official Apple Icar.
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My Grievance: Too many Cars, too little money/space/etc.!
Happy Festivus everyone! Let the feats of strength begin!
Our local Target had the Heavy Metal Mater set half off. Not a bad deal for $15.
yup .. half off here too, as well as the Christmas sets… can’t say that would be a grievance though …. unless you count the fact that they were way overpriced to begin with.
Contest Entry:
My Grievance- My brother is a self centered selfish miserable member of the family thinking only of himself and what is easier for him and his family to do always commenting about the trials and tribulations revolving around having 3 kids (seeming to forget that my folks had 4 of us including the aforementioned brother and I being unexpected twins to start their family off) and just changing everything we do to suit his needs…
ahh… feel better… family strife… had to get that out… It’s a Festivus Miracle!!!
And that Chair in the photo looks strikingly like the old country blue set my parents have had since time began I think…