Question of the Day - Sunday, November 3, 2024

[fionasmom]

We are now well into the holiday season. Halloween is over and Thanksgiving is on the horizon! This is a time of year when we are often asked what we are grateful for and, hopefully, most of us reading this have a lot in our lives for which to be thankful.

To put a twist on the usual query...

What are you not thankful for? This might be something that others enjoy, or something that you just don't like or see as useful...maybe even something that is more complicating than helpful.

For me, it is conversations, phone calls, or written communications that describe mundane details of people's day or lives. I have been this way my entire life. Now, it is wonderful when we have friends, acquaintances, and even pleasant interaction with strangers. But I don't need to know that someone just folded the towels and now is heading to the market because the last time they were there the store was out of the brand of cottage cheese that they always buy. Or that someone had trouble finding a parking place, or that the mailman is an hour late.

There are a couple of very nice people in my neighborhood whose houses I avoid walking by because if they see me they will run out to talk.

I even ran down an alley once to get away. It's bad.

 

[neely]

I don't mind answering this question because I am thankful for certain things, most of all my immediate family and my animal(s). Now that I'm getting older I tell people I'm thankful for standing upright and still going to the gym.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

Talking to neighbours with dementia or brain damage. Perfectly nice people, but I hate having the same conversation repeatedly. I keep thinking "I know, you told me that yesterday!" There's one like that I just avoid. I'm also not remotely grateful for being called "gorgeous" by someone I barely know (and don't want to further the acquaintance).

 

[cheshirecat]

I am grateful that I am able to take care of myself and still live independently. I don't like being referred to as disabled but will admit my RA makes it hard to do some things. Also glad that I can pay the bills and still buy things I probably don't need.

And I have nice neighbors in my building. Sometimes I worry that I am the person to avoid because when I get the opportunity I do talk too much.

 

[denice]

I am not at all thankful for bad drivers.

People with the boring conversations used to bother me but not so much anymore. I think that often it is loneliness. We had been becoming more and more insular and lonely for a while before the pandemic and the pandemic made things much more disconnected. I am okay now with putting up with those conversations. I kind of look at it as making things a little better for a lonely person.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

Ooh I thought of another one - roadworks. The quality of the roads never improves around here, there's no information on the council website or Vicroads about what's happening, and it's all too common to get caught in heavy traffic on the highway with no option to change lanes to get where I'm trying to go.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I am not thankful for daylight savings time. I’m not a morning person; i like daylight in my evening. Its better since I became a stay at home mom. Getting out of work in the dark is blah.

 

[NY cat man]

I am thankful to reach old age, when so many of my contemporaries did not, but I am not at all thankful for the physical ravages brought on by over 40 years of hard physical labor in weather fair or foul, in heat or cold.
I am thankful for our cats, and the amusement their antics provide, but I am not thankful at all when it comes time to end their suffering and help them cross the Bridge. It is something that never becomes easier with repetition.

 

[denice]

help them cross the Bridge. It is something that never becomes easier with repetition.

Helping a cat or dog cross the Bridge never gets easier.

 

[Lari]

I am not thankful for daylight savings time. I’m not a morning person; i like daylight in my evening. Its better since I became a stay at home mom. Getting out of work in the dark is blah.

M was up before 6 this morning. I'm definitely not thankful for the time change, either.

Or my current cold.

Or that one of my toddler's newest words is "candy" in a super whiny voice.

 

[susanm9006]

I am thankful for cell phones but NOT thankful for those who love to use the speaker phone setting and believe that we all want to hear both sides of their conversation.

 

[fluffpaws]

I am not thankful for people who despise cats.

 

[Mia6]

some of my neighbors and their nosiness

 

[misty8723]

People who just parrot talking points and don't take the time to research both sides.

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I am not thankful for society being not friendly for people with disabilities, specifically autistic people (as I am autistic). Life is difficult to navigate when overstimulation happens so easily while out in public.

 

[maggiedemi]

Winter!!! Lack of money.

 

[Winchester]

I am not thankful for cold weather and those gusts of blustery winds. I usually turn in to a popsicle by the end of November.

 

[aliceneko]

Assholes on the internet and real life!