Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[Tisket]

Let me clarify. This:



is from the film PCU.

I've never even heard of the movie. And here I thought I was good with obscure movie references.

edit: okay, maybe not good but still, good enough to have at least heard movie titles before. Weird.

[TheEschaton]

So, actual reason I came to this thread: This morning my mother calls me and says that at 1 pm I *have to* go pick up this piece of jewelry for my sister's wedding from an Indian jeweler in Manhattan...it's been shipped from India, big deal, blah blah blah.

Nevermind that I don't like having to give up my lunch break to go pick up jewelry for a wedding which has utterly consumed the rest of my family, I can deal with that to an extent. So I go and pick up this necklace. Looks pretty gaudy, but in an Indian Hindu wedding sort of way (my sister's fiance's father is Hindu, so we're having a Hindu ceremony for his family). Hindu weddings are very elaborate, lots of clothing changes, lots of jewelry, lots of everything. But, the general implication is the jewelry is imitation jhumki stuff, because you need a lot of it.

30 minutes after 1, my mother calls me. She asks me if I have the necklace. I say yes, I just picked it up. She asks if I have it on me, I say, yes, obviously, because I'm heading back to the office. She then tells me to not let it out of my sight. Then she says to not let it leave my apartment once I take it home, and to not leave it in the apartment while I go out, and that she'll pick it up on Monday when she's in the city. Annoying, but let's be honest, I can cancel my social plans cause I didn't really want to go out anyways.

Then she stressed again that I not let it out of my sight. I thought she was stressing way too much over a couple hundred dollars worth of imitation jewelry. Then she says..."Alok, that necklace isn't imitation, it's real. We were going to buy imitation, but then your sister saw this necklace in [New] Delhi last December and told your father she had to have it, and he caved, as usual." This is not something I want to hear in Midtown Manhattan when I'm heading to fucking Harlem (where our office is). I ask her, how much of it is real? She says all of it. 22k gold, probably a dozen uncut diamonds, set with rubies, emeralds and pearls, and hand painted in India.

Now I'm about to shit myself. I asked her how much it was worth. My mother, who spends money like an Arab drinks water, sounds nervous and afraid for what must be the first time I've ever heard in my life. She says, verbatim, "Your father won't even tell me how much it cost. But it costs at least 10 lakh because he said it was 'in the millions'.

10 lakh = 1,000,000 rupees.

Current exchange rate: 55 rupees to the dollar.

$18,145 necklace in my briefcase. Looks like I'm taking a cab home and fortifying my apartment. I'm sitting in my office and I can't even think about work.

Necklace ruining my life and making me a shut in for the next 3 days (sorry for the quality, it's my laptop web cam as I don't have my battery charged in my camera, that's how much I use it. And when you steal laptops from autistic kids, you can't complain about the quality):



And yes, those are my fingers, fuck you very much. Each setting is hand painted on the back with various Indian symbols, but the camera is literally too shitty to pick it up.

Edit: I may have misunderestimated the number of diamonds.

[Androidpk]

But aren't you normally a shut in on the weekends.

[Tisket]

Someone needs a manicure.

[TheEschaton]

Do I? Do I?


(I have an awful nail biting habit)

[Tgo01]

Do I? Do I?


(I have an awful nail biting habit)

At the very least wash your fingernails.

[Gompers]

Last minute trip to the beach with the wife and kid.....spent the last 2 hours packing - makes me miss the days where a "last minute trip" consisted of a t-shirt, board shorts, and sandals.

[iJin]

Necklace ruining my life and making me a shut in for the next 3 days (sorry for the quality, it's my laptop web cam as I don't have my battery charged in my camera, that's how much I use it. And when you steal laptops from autistic kids, you can't complain about the quality):



And yes, those are my fingers, fuck you very much. Each setting is hand painted on the back with various Indian symbols, but the camera is literally too shitty to pick it up.

Edit: I may have misunderestimated the number of diamonds.

[TheEschaton]

At the very least wash your fingernails.

Huge insecurity, inc. Wut?

[Tgo01]

Huge insecurity, inc. Wut?

Your middle fingernail looks dirty, or is that just your brownness?