So my car has been making a clunking sound for a little while (month or so). I know in a cars life that is probably too long to be clunking but it didn't seem to be affecting the way that it was running. Only when I make left handed turns does it affect it. Anyways, yesterday I make an appointment I bring it in. The mechanic and I take it for a drive, when I drive it the thing clunks, when he drives it there is no clunk. So anyways he tells me to bring it back in the morning and drop it off, they will put it on the hoist and look to see what it is. I dropped it off at 8am, at 1pm I still had heard nothing so I give the shop a call. The nice receptionist tells me that "there are many things wrong with your car and since 11am I have been trying to work on getting a quote." She will call me back when she has a quote. Now nothing in that sentence sounds good at all. Dollar signs are flashing through my mind, is this going to be a thousand or thousandS of dollars to fix my car. A thousand I could see, with labor and parts and stuff but if it's more than that oh MY GOSH!!! I'll be driving a horse and buggy! That is if I had a buggy or a horse that was even old enough or trained to pull a buggy! Now for something else. Language, it changes with time. Sixty years ago people with developmental disabilities were referred to as imbecile, morons, idiots. Very common derogatory slang in today's world. Nobody even recollects that you are possibly referring to someone with diminished mental capacity. Twenty years ago it was retard. Now I work in the field and use the word a lot. Do I associate it with someone with a developmental disability? Nope, I associate it with an idiot, moron, or imbecile, OH, same thing. It pisses me off when people are supersensitive to language. From now on I only want to be referred to in the womyn species because absolutely every reference to the female gender has man, male, or men attached to it. Do I get offended now that we are living in the 2000 and women are of equal opportunity? Absolutely not! So why the rant? Someone in our office bitched out one of our finance people about using the slang retard. A finance person did not take this job because they want to better the lives of people with developmental disabilities, they took it because they like playing with the numbers of our budget. Grow Up, and take a pill.