Things you wish you could say

[R2elk]

You can make money, and there are people who like fame.

Money isn't everything and fame is fleeting.

 

[sourland]

I wish you wanted us buy you out on our "joint" venture of bee keeping. It's obvious you have no time for it or interest in it. I know you will expect to get half of the honey, probably forever, for your initial investment of $285.

We have put in the rest of the $$$ (probably $700-800 by now) and every bit of the work.

This NEEDS to be said.

 

[Nabiki]

Money isn't everything and fame is fleeting.

I agree, but there are all kinds of people out there. I'm happy if I have enough money to pay my bills with some left over, and I don't feel any great need for people to recognize me on the street. I think I'd prefer it if they don't.

 

[R2elk]

I agree, but there are all kinds of people out there. I'm happy if I have enough money to pay my bills with some left over, and I don't feel any great need for people to recognize me on the street. I think I'd prefer it if they don't.

Unfortunately for me, more people know who I am than I know who they are.

 

[Nabiki]

Unfortunately for me, more people know who I am than I know who they are.

I'm a little face blind, so I understand how awkward that can be. I've spent decades learning how to figure out who people are when I don't recognize their faces.

It was awful when I had a student cut his hair and I recognized him by voice. I had to say, "Sorry, I'm not wearing my glasses."

 

[R2elk]

I'm a little face blind, so I understand how awkward that can be. I've spent decades learning how to figure out who people are when I don't recognize their faces.

It was awful when I had a student cut his hair and I recognized him by voice. I had to say, "Sorry, I'm not wearing my glasses."

Most of these are people that I have never met. I don't remember names but if you never knew them in the first place...

 

[Sally PB]

If you lose the hive over winter, you can declare the joint venture over.

We split the hive a couple months ago. I consider the new hive to belong to just hubby and me. If/when the original hive dies, I will consider their part in it over.

This NEEDS to be said.

They are a young (compared to us) couple with 3 boys. They have a business to run, they homeschool their boys. They are busy. I get it. She's a mom, she's a business owner, she's a teacher. (She's been the only one I've talked to about this.)

I asked her, and put it like this: "Hey, do you want us to buy out your half of the bees? I know how busy you are, and I thought maybe you'd just rather have the money back?"

Oh, no, she says she's still interested. She "just doesn't know how 'hands on' we want her to be with this."

Sweetheart, I thought you'd at least take an interest in it. I have told you when the bee club meetings are, you haven't gone to any of them. (She knows exactly where they are: they're at the Home School Building in Grand Rapids, and they go there a lot!)

You could ask me to let you know when we'll be looking in the hive next. You could look up something on the internet about keeping bees, and then ask me about it. Like, "Hey, I read something about mites being a problem in bee hives. Does our hive have mites?" (Yes they are a problem, and yes we have had and will have to deal with it. More $$, btw.)

You thought this would be a good "life lesson" for the boys, but they haven't ever shown any interest, either.

I told hubby we would give them half of any honey we get from that hive this year, but anything from the new hive is ours.

Rant over. I'll try not to talk about this again. All it does is raise my blood pressure!

 

[azurbanclucker]

I did not just drop a pyrex baking dish on the granite counter, and it did not just explode into 10,000 pieces. That dish was a favorite, but my contortions trying to save it and its lid were 'America's Home Videos' worthy.

My condolences. I know that feel.

 

[R2elk]

I told hubby we would give them half of any honey we get from that hive this year, but anything from the new hive is ours.

Be sure to hand her a bill for the containers you put the honey in as well as a processing fee if she does not help with the processing.

 

[nuthatched]

Location of poster is not nearly as important as you seem to believe, you come across invasive and stalkerish.