Example of a Worse Problem

[mrissa]

You know how I said earlier that there are worse problems to have than thinking my book is cool? Yah. Six days of breakthrough bleeding certainly qualifies as worse. But what's even worse than that is having George Carlin's voice in my head, all faux-enthusiastic: "We've had a brreeaaaakthrough!" That is what we call insult to injury.

Not fair not fair not fair.

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[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

Snicker.

From a "not happening to me right now" point of view the Carlin thing is pretty funny.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

There is an irritating current commercial that ssays something like, "There's nothing worse than paying too much for cable TV."

I keep thinking that betrays a *serious* lack of imagination. I don't have to go further than the last half hour to find worse things.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hell, the first day it happened to me, it was pretty funny to me, too. It's just gotten old from in here.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There is a reason that "could be worse" is a major feature of my vocabulary.

I mean, besides the whole Minnesotan thing.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

But do you also use, 'Can't complain'? That's common in Boston. Possibly common the world around, I don't know. It always makes me argumentative: "Why not? Try harder! Bet you can. Hell, bet you have within the past three hours!"

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I currently have Urban Shaman out from the library specifically because it starts,

"There's nothing worse than a red-eye flight.

"Well, all right, that's wildly untrue."

[anne-mommy.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Bleeding isn't my favorite way to pass the time. {hug}

[songwind.livejournal.com]

It's been my experience that people say "can't complain" right before they start.

It's like they're saying, "Not only is my arthritis acting up, I'm a big ol' liar!"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Really? Because "can't complain" is the top of my Minnesotan how-are-you list. "Can't complain. Sold five novels yesterday, and all of my family members with health problems had miraculous recoveries, and I heard they cured poverty somehow."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, as I just said to songwind, "Can't complain" is pretty much the height of Minnesotan how-ya-doin' answers, in my world. It's the Northern equivalent of flinging yourself on someone, shouting, "REALLY, REALLY TERRIFIC!" So I don't use it much, but when I do, it really means that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks. After seven (sigh) days, I'm going a little nuts.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Ah. Probably another one of those Minnesotan vs. Southeastern things. I'm more used to "Can't complain. I can't hardly walk most days, and my daughter in law won't bring the grandkids over to play anymore, but I can't complain."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Aheh. Yah.