In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

[Ecmaster76]

Bought a new vehicle in December

Few weeks ago guy in a parking lot forgets to put his car in park, lets off the brake, and bashes the front of mine

Yesterday, sitting in traffic, a woman on a motorcycle decides she's going to ride between my lane and the curb to get past everyone. Scuffs my mirror with the handle bars and keeps going without even glancing back

Fortunately I don't have mind bullets so no one was hurt.

 

[Ecmaster76]

I struggle with Waze, since yeah, it seriously puts a strain on surface roads that were never designed to handle a bunch of idiots being led around by their phones. But it does come in handy when my wife and I are driving back from her sister's house, she gets antsy about how slow traffic is going, decides to take on navigator duties (sans navigation app assistance), and invariably attempts to direct me to a route that adds at least 45 minutes to the trip than had we just stayed on the freeway. Now Waze usually will back me up when she does her usual "we should get off here" suggestion, and I know it's a terrible idea.

My mom was super prone to this. Until she got a smartphone. Now she separates the feeling of progress that you get with side streets with actual progress, which is what you get on a highway, even in traffic.

Stop signs and stop lights straight up kill forward progress. Stop and go highway traffic is almost always faster than surface streets, all other things being equal.

All true but one advantage to side streets is you have more options for stopping at a place with food/restroom/AC/etc to wait it out. If traffic is bad enough we might not have the time/patience to cook

 

[Ecmaster76]

I'm beta testing our corporate version of Windows 10. It's seriously pissing me off. Between some lockdowns I'm working around that slow me up, the sheer fact that I can't find what the hell I'm looking for half the time, and some of my essential peripherals acting up now I'm about to have an aneurysm. My print driver failed and I noticed when I go to 'devices and printers' it takes a number of minutes just to come up. So I'm curious as to if this is a common thing so I started to look it up..... and got quite a chuckle.

Spoiler

So it's a known issue. This sucks.

Get a new IT department? Windows 10 is fine

EDIT: If your user name implies a government job, then my sympathies....

 

[Ecmaster76]

Idiotic small software vendors and their idiotic scripts. Part of their script is they *have* to run a defrag, a checkdisk and a windows memory diagnostic scan before they can do anything else with this particular error. Which is great, except a windows memory diagnostic isn't going to tell you jack shit on a virtual machine, there's no way in hell I'm letting you defrag a couple of TB worth of data on an all flash based storage array, and what the hell does a checkdisk have to do with a bad SQL query that shits out umpteen trillion unnecessary log files?

LOL

It’s like some jackass distilled all of answers.microsoft.com into script form.

Most support centers build in a certain base level annoyance factor to discourage anyone who isn't sufficiently in need from wasting their time. Then they double it...

 

[Ecmaster76]

Attention inattentive drivers: Look the F*k around yourself while stopped at an intersection.

I was walking to work this morning and was in the process of crossing an intersection where the 'walk' light was lit, so I was in the clear. This car zooms up from my left and stops because he's on a red light but the guy was only looking to his left (me starting walking across the crosswalk on his right). He's clearly trying to gauge a gap in cross traffic so that he can make a right turn and proceed wherever the hell he was in such a hurry to get to.

I'm now in the crosswalk and I watched this guy make two stalled attempts at gunning into the right hand turn. This guy still hasn't looked right and I'm clearly about two feet from his bumper. This dumbass has no clue that pedestrians are crossing the road. So I stop a number off feet off the curb, you know, not wanting to meet my demise by some dumbass.

Oh, and it's been raining off and on the whole week so I have a largish folded up umbrella in my hand. Almost a golf sized umbrella.

Well, as I surmised, this guy who is still looking left guns his vehicle into a gap in traffic while I'm standing off his right front quarter panel. I proceeded to take my umbrella and like a one armed lumberjack firmly slammed my umbrella across his hood as he crossed right in front of me in his turn. His head jerked up as he finally looked right and I was quite amused/pissed off to see the realization of his fuckup cross his face. The obligatory one hand, palm up 'my bad' was all that I got in return.

My umbrella is fine but I hope I left a mark on his hood. Not once did this asshat look to see if the intersection was clear.

I have been sore tempted to hold out a piece of sharp metal in front of me in a cross walk. Anyone who scrapes their car on it deserves it. Only the very real possibility of getting shot restrains me.

 

[Ecmaster76]

So the great garbage truck saga continues...

Yet again the garbage truck decides to hook a right only to back down the road to save time. So this time I call the township rather than the waste collection company since that didn't do any good the last few times we spoke. The very nice woman told me she's get in contact with them and let me know what they said. Only once I hung up did I realize I never told her my name nor any of my contact information. Hmmm. Like the scene in the equalizer movie ("Your hands wouldn't look like that if you were really working the power lines").

So I pondered. Do I let the civil servant have a day or so to get back to me giving them the benefit of the doubt? Or do I call the trash people again. I decided while a "wait and see" approach was the polite thing the last few times and *that* didn't work. That and they'll be back tomorrow so one more day of potentially dangerous behavior so I call yet again. Before then I do some research and yes, you can travel in reverse on any public road whenever you want but it's an automatic reckless driving charge should you be involved in an accident in my state anyway. In other words you're always, always at fault big time with massive points attached.

<Sigh>

So I call the rubbish folks and they're remarkably forthright it was wrong and won't be done again, that it's going up the chain, etc. Overall I felt pretty good about the call. But dear reader that wouldn't be a reason to post in the PO thread now would it?

So, that call I made to the township did in fact make it to the dumps r us haulers and I did receive a call later from one of their "safety" managers. Let me preface this with I've known of bunch of them from the "just shoot me you're so boring. And an absolute idiot" to the wannabe HR busybody, to those who really do care and engage the subject in an intelligent and engaging manner. So I talk with the guy and explain what everyone should know regardless of what they drive - reverse is the riskiest thing you can do in a vehicle short of being blindfolded (since you are sort of). He agrees and yes there's another way they could go but if they do that's and extra 15 minutes on their route. Safety manager says risk is worth it to save 15 minutes. "No I didn't!" Yes, yes you did.

So now trying to just get the problem resolved of needlessly driving a fully loaded 30 ton vehicle in reverse I offered to share his number with the other parents at said bus stop to they can talk to him about what they see so he can make an informed decision without relying on my perceptions alone. Guy balked so fast it wasn't even funny. Icing on the cake was this guy was a "supervisor" last week and is now a "safety" manager. Didn't realize it until I saw the numbers I called were the same.

Grrr. If it wasn't for the object lesson I'm teaching the kids at the bus stop I'll be honest and say I'm tempted to be petty and mess with the walking colostomy bags. But I left behind that long ago. Still....

Have you tried reaching out to your local police precinct? They might be interested in preserving public safety... and the chance to hand out a guarenteed ticket on a weekly basis. Often time you can reach them on Nextdoor, etc for this kind of thing

 

[Ecmaster76]

Why can't Fage put the expiration date on the outside of the container or on top of the clear lid instead of on the disposable liner in the container?

The expiration date changes once you open it.

Or does it?

Schrödinger's Expiration Date?

I'm not sure if yogurt mentions it but a lot of products have the "to avoid food poisoning consume within 7 days of opening" disclaimer on them in addition to the expiration date

Canned food, for instance, has a shelf life of basically forever as long as it stays sealed. In fact it pisses me off that a lot of products like canned food and bottled water have a CYA 2 year expiration date that ends up causing unecessary waste

 

[Ecmaster76]

Speaking of passwords. I just had to create a new one that is at least 12 characters long, contain at least one lower case, upper case, number, and special character, and at least one number had to be between the first and last character (no slapping a 1 at the end). Thus they guaranteed that I’d write it down, because there was no way I’d remember it. Also, my “secret” question is my mother’s maiden name. It’s like putting a DNA scanner lock on a screen door.

At least you can outsmart it by putting a passphrase as your answer. Or do they actually have your mother's maiden name on file?

 

[Ecmaster76]

Speaking of HD, apparently 2x4s cost $4 now


Perhaps pissing off Canada was a bad move

 

[Ecmaster76]

Speaking of HD, apparently 2x4s cost $4 now


Perhaps pissing off Canada was a bad move

$4? Surely, you mean 2 for $4.

I wish. I did a double take when they rang up and went back to lumber sectioto make sure I hadn't grabbed the free range, grass fed, organic lumber by mistake. No cheaper ones were to be found

 

[Ecmaster76]

Email unsubscribe links

You click one that takes you to a page where, if you are not super careful, you will actually end up asking for even *more* emails

In Example:
Hyatt

I should not have to uncheck every one of your damn subsidiaries to prevent from being signed up for *their* mailing lists. Its a f'ing minefield on that page :facepalm:

 

[Ecmaster76]

Windows 10 is seriously pissing me off today. Programs that pop up a window in the middle of my work saying there is a new version available would I like to download it now is pissing me off. I'm not even using the damn program and haven't for at least a year so that I said F'it, this keeps annoying me way to often so I'm going to uninstall it.

So I search for remove in the search bar knowing it will pull up the location for 'Add and Remove Programs' and, bing, there it is. And I click. Where's my program listing and what is this 'Apps and Features' bullshit? I don't want apps, which is just lazy for application, and f'k features because I'm looking for where the damn program is, because I clicked on 'Add and Remove Programs'.

Look, we all grew up on programs, you can call it an application if you like, but we're so F'ing lazy that everything is an 'app' nowadays.

And what the hell is calling even the most mundane of objects a feature?

Either Win10 is a cluster of an UI or I'm getting old. Maybe both but I'm siding with Win10 bullshittery. F'k it, I'm going outside to yell at clouds.

The real Programs and Features panel is still on the Control Panel (which they have also made hard to find). You can make shortcuts to both

It doesn't let you manage Windows Store apps whereas the "Apps and Features" version does

Agreed about "Features" on the new "Apps and Features". It doesn't actually let you enable real features like IIS or RSAT :facepalm:

 

[Ecmaster76]

Microwaves with dials instead of keypad. There should be a law against these

Best microwave has a keypad where I push a few numbers then press start. A "cook time" button that must be pressed before arbitrary time input is not a deal breaker since the numbers usually default to 1 minute/2 minute/etc which is also easy

 

[Ecmaster76]

Windows 10 is seriously pissing me off today. Programs that pop up a window in the middle of my work saying there is a new version available would I like to download it now is pissing me off. I'm not even using the damn program and haven't for at least a year so that I said F'it, this keeps annoying me way to often so I'm going to uninstall it.

So I search for remove in the search bar knowing it will pull up the location for 'Add and Remove Programs' and, bing, there it is. And I click. Where's my program listing and what is this 'Apps and Features' bullshit? I don't want apps, which is just lazy for application, and f'k features because I'm looking for where the damn program is, because I clicked on 'Add and Remove Programs'.

Look, we all grew up on programs, you can call it an application if you like, but we're so F'ing lazy that everything is an 'app' nowadays.

And what the hell is calling even the most mundane of objects a feature?

Either Win10 is a cluster of an UI or I'm getting old. Maybe both but I'm siding with Win10 bullshittery. F'k it, I'm going outside to yell at clouds.

The real Programs and Features panel is still on the Control Panel (which they have also made hard to find). You can make shortcuts to both

It doesn't let you manage Windows Store apps whereas the "Apps and Features" version does

Agreed about "Features" on the new "Apps and Features". It doesn't actually let you enable real features like IIS or RSAT :facepalm:

Of course not. Those aren't features, those are SaaS subscriptions, right? Uh huh.

Nah, Windows client runs a suprising amount of stuff.

IIS (web server), LDS (LDAP server), RSAT (remote server mgmt tools), Containers (Docker), and more are all included in the various clients. Home might not support everything but Pro and Enterprise have em

 

[Ecmaster76]

Ok, you guys know you could just buy like 1,000 rolls of electrical tape for $5, right? You probably already have sciossors

Electrical tape not only covers bright LEDs but it also covers unwanted web cams and keeps the wires from making the house on fire

EDIT: White and colored electrical tape are also a thing if that's a concern. Personally I use blue painters tape in most cases since I can still barely see the status depending on how many layers I use (occasionally useful on some devices) and it doesn't leave a residue

 

[Ecmaster76]

Techs who show up half an hour late for a Saturday morning service appointment, then when they arrive it turns out they're just smart hands whose strategy is to establish a wireless logmein session to the console so a remote eng can do all the work. Great strategy except I already told them the firewall is adjacent to the engine room deep within a large iron ship. 3G comms worked about as well as expected.

Only half an hour late?

 

[Ecmaster76]

I hate it when people arrive at my house uninvited, period, for any reason. I can't imagine an ex dropping in, staying for a week, and expecting me to provide transportation and food. I would not abide, no way.

I understand it's your kids mother and all, and I don't profess to know the dynamics of your relationship, but that would be one of the few instances where I'm pretty sure I'd go apoplectic.

Dude.

I'm keeping my mouth shit for my daughters sake. That is it. Daughter is here for good now (woohoo! no reason WHAT SO FUCKING EVER to go back to San Antonio or Texas in general) and she had to "move her daughter to California" and has been bellowing about it since the beginning of the year. Daughter is 18 Friday so she is here. I heard not from her mother, but from daughter that her mothers ability to pay for her hotel "fell through" so I asked her where she was gonna stay and she just said "she can stay in my room?" and I told her I wasn't comfortable with that.

Well she shows up with just some suitcases and yeah, she's staying in my daughters room. WITHOUT EVEN ASKING ME OR BRINGING IT UP DIRECTLY WITH ME. She has this delusion that we are a "co parenting unit" and her and her family consider me family. I've never, ever entertained that idea, we haven't been together since my daughters birth. She's a mooch and an idiot who I cannot stand. But what the fuck am I supposed to do? Kick her out and have my daughter devastated? She did this because ultimately she knew that I wouldn't kick her to the curb for my daughters sake.

I'm either too nice or an idiot. Or both.

I just moved into a new place and am stressed an on edge that I have to fake being nice to this cow until Saturday.

Youch!

Don't know if it'd be a conversation to have or not with your daughter, but perhaps after this situation is over have a discussion about it all? Perhaps your daughter would be on board enough as well so next time you can just direct her back to the airport? Good luck and all.

Hm, I'm passing down through that way on Sat afternoon down to San Diego. Want me to drop off a bottle of decent whiskey for you?

That would be nice. But you don't have to do that. Especially since I just finished off my last bottle of four roses....

You might want to look into applicable eviction laws in your neck of the woods. I think you can usually kick a guest out but there may be a statuatory definition of residence, that once met, makes getting rid of someone nigh impossible. IANAL but have heard horror stories

 

[Ecmaster76]

@Pocky: Ouch, I kind of figured it revolved around the kid. Having two myself I understand. you have my sympathies.

Lounge advice: Dear God man, don't drink around the woman. Whisky goggles and blackouts are a real possibility. Come to think of it, that's how my first kid came into existence. His middle name wasn't Spank-A-Lot for no reason. :bigdumbgrin:

I would be dead from the amount of alcohol necessary for me to find that.....thing attractive.

Is she a crow?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ia/565442/

Bing of "dead crow sex"

 

[Ecmaster76]

Speaking of taxis and being mildly pissed off.

Last year in London, we couldn't find our hotel near Paddington Station (I ordered a SIM card to our hotel so I didn't have connectivity on my phone).

Decided we'd just bite the bullet and take a taxi. The driver said (in much nicer wording) to not waste his time, the hotel is just down the street. We thanked him and went to our hotel.

Same thing happens in Japan. Can't find hotel, decide to just get a taxi. We get into the taxi and give the name of the hotel. The driver acknowledges and drives. Half a block later he pulls in front of the hotel. 740 yen. At least, no tipping required.

And yes, I realize that my wife and I just give up too quickly when it comes to finding our hotels.

740 yen is ~$7. More than I thought off the top of my head. But yeah, Japanese work ethic is a straight line.

 

[Ecmaster76]

When you order from Amazon, it says Order by X hours from now and get it delivered Friday. I order. I get "Your stuff has been shipped" notification Thursday late/evening. I look at tracking, says "Arriving between Friday and Monday". W.T.F.

Guaranteed* delivery!!!

*If we fail to deliver on time... too bad?

 

[Ecmaster76]

Starbuck used to have a menu. Now they have oversized posters of crap I don't want and possibly one vestigial price list that basically has nothing on it. :facepalm:

 

[Ecmaster76]

The Office Depot closest to me closed, renovated and re-opened in the same spot but only half the size (maybe less than half). They seem to be focused on selling overpriced printers, etc and not so much on actual office supplies


This of course happened after the Office Max had closed post-merger

 

[Ecmaster76]

*sigh*

I understand that shop environments can be destructive.

But... in 18 months, one of our shops has managed to destroy:
- two dell rugged tablets
- four surface pro tablets wrapped in otterbox cases with gorilla glass screen protectors
- the fucking built-in control tablet on an automated cellulose insulation robot.

The last one is a doozy. It'll probably be a $5,000 repair when all is said and done, because someone decided they needed to kneel *right* *there* and broke the screen.

Check the workers for wooden shoes

 

[Ecmaster76]

Apropos to the thread title, what pisses me off about this is that my dental coverage is capped at $2k per family member, and my son's orthodontics alone have cost ~$10k. And yesterday I found out that I'm going to need a $6k implant

I've always wondered why dental/vision/etc insurance are separate things from health insurance. Dental being the worst usually

My employer provided dental policy covers orthodontics in minors but not in adults because reasons...

 

[Ecmaster76]

Food truck had its menu on a TV

Items they were out of had a piece of tape stuck onto the TV covering the item name :facepalm:

 

[Ecmaster76]

Food truck had its menu on a TV

Items they were out of had a piece of tape stuck onto the TV covering the item name :facepalm:

Having seen the back-end software that runs those sorta things up close and personal (unless they were just playing a GIF off a jump drive, which I've seen done too) I'm super not surprised that they were doing that. The back-end software, at least for the couple restaurants we support who have TV menus is horrible. And don't get me started on the software/equipment to make those community TV channels work in gated communities.

Yeah I strongly suspect this was more JPEG running in a full screen photo display than anything that was programmed. Many trucks have chalkboards/whiteboards which seems sensible

 

[Ecmaster76]

You know, if you seemingly purposefully make a wall wart that blocks both outlets, I feel like you should be forced to sit in a bathtub full of water, as the exposed wires extending out from multiple copies of your design are periodically dipped into it.

That's not funny. We take electrical safety very seriously here

Put the wall wart in a sock and flog the bastard

 

[Ecmaster76]

When I was little I liked to eat loud and “hear” my food. It seemed natural. But it’s taboo in the West and I was corrected. So now my first reaction is that it’s impolite to make sound, but upon momentary reflection I realize that’s stupid.

I think Asia’s culture is correct, and we are just brainwashed. There, making sounds when you eat means you are enjoying your food.

Its not even consistent across the west. In some countries you are supposed to burp/slurp etc.

In some you places you should clean your plate but in other countries its considred rude to not leave a little food on the plate.

 

[Ecmaster76]

I don't care. Teachers do not have a legal right to eat in the classroom. Children have the absolute right to be safe in the classroom and, almost as importantly, to feel safe so they can actually learn. I've already had a teacher's contract terminated for cause in middle school over this bullshit. I'll do it again if I have to. I have literally zero sympathy for anyone who knowingly puts a kid's life at risk because they can't be bothered to walk to a lunch room.

This. My oldest has a relatively lightweight nut allergy, but one of his friends can't be in the same room with a peanut. The number of times we've had to fight teachers and especially other parents about life threatening exposure to toxic chemicals is amazingly high. I've had a couple of pleasant conversations with other parents who deeply, deeply resented the fact that their snowflake couldn't bring PBJs to school. I had to point out to one of them that if they murdered my kid with a PBJ, I'd come after them with cops, or a shotgun, or maybe both, did they have a preference? That's what it took to shut them up.

Good on you for getting that teacher fired.

Haha, yeah! Screw those diabetic teachers! They can just go die horribly in front of their students!
Airborne peanut allergy issues are largely a myth. Sure, a few teachers have been extremely stupid and selfish in the past (trying to force students to eat because they didn't believe the kid had any allergy) but getting someone fired because they ate a sandwich at the other end of the room is so far from reasonable I am surprised you aren't facing a lawsuit yourself for that one. Maybe there were other circumstances involved, I certainly hope so.

I'm not qualified to comment on whether or not an allergy is severe enough to warrant firing (and the teacher definitely isn't qualified to make that decision) but I can say for sure that a diabetic teacher has untold food options that aren't peanuts for their snack

 

[Ecmaster76]

I wrote an application 15 years ago that has been used every day since by multiple users in our company. It's probably installed on 400 boxes. It's an Active-X DLL and it has to be in a particular place and properly registered with Windows to work.

Recently the help desk came to me because it wasn't working on one user's computer. All I could tell them was 1. Make sure it's in the right place and 2. It's properly registered. That's it, that's all I can do to help. So, my instructions didn't help, it still doesn't work for this one person and they're demanding I tell them what to do.

My reply. Give the user a computer that works. Haven't heard back yet.

Ugh. Its bad enough when server admins treat systems like pets. Client systems shouldn't be worth more spending more than an hour on before just swapping or re-imaging

 

[Ecmaster76]

The last couple of times I was at McDonalds I realized the whole concept of fast food was dead when orders frequently took more than 5 minutes and once almost 15


THEY ONLY HAVE LIKE THREE THINGS AND JUST SELL THEM IN DIFFERENT SIZES AND FLAVORS. THIS IS NOT HARD

 

[Ecmaster76]

The last couple of times I was at McDonalds I realized the whole concept of fast food was dead when orders frequently took more than 5 minutes and once almost 15


THEY ONLY HAVE LIKE THREE THINGS AND JUST SELL THEM IN DIFFERENT SIZES AND FLAVORS. THIS IS NOT HARD

why are you surprised? they're mostly staffed by children.

Sadly its usually not the staff that's the problem when orders take forever

 

[Ecmaster76]

I've found that gas stations seem to have more reliable ice cream these days. And better lines

 

[Ecmaster76]

Amazon search.

Why is it when you get to a small enough number of items, say a couple hundred, and you want to sort by anything other than "Featured", it breaks. I will get "No items match your criteria", or there are 267 items in the results and I sort by "Lowest Price to Highest" I will get 4 results.

Been that way a while. Working as intended is my best guess

 

[Ecmaster76]

The first season of Black Adder you can barely hear the dialogue over the laugh track

 

[Ecmaster76]

$5/month per line? Or $5/month total? If the latter... :facepalm:

 

[Ecmaster76]

This whole FEMA alert thing is pissing me off this morning. Calling it a presidential alert galls me. NPR had a pretty good piece that summed up my thoughts pretty well.

But Redlener has some qualms, especially, he says, when it comes to this president — like worrying it could be used for political purposes "or to create a diversion, if he felt the presidency was under threat." Redlener says "these are not powers many Americans would want to give to Donald Trump."

I thought the suit brought on in New York had halted this, but I suppose I'm wrong.

The suit states the plaintiffs are Americans "who do not wish to receive text messages of any kind on any topic or subject from President Trump." They say the government is violating their privacy and the sanctity of their homes and that it wants to turn people's cellphones into "government loudspeakers that compel listening."

^^ Pretty much the above. I don't trust the current president not to abuse a system wherein he can force a message upon everyone in the nation regardless of its accuracy or not. And let's be honest here, Trump plays fast and loose with the truth. I hope I'm just being pessimistic here, surely there are some robust checks and balances at play. I hope.

The ire shall be raised about 2:18 ET methinks.

I'm not sure what makes a cell phone much different from any other method the government can hassle you with. Emergency alerts have been a thing for decades

 

[Ecmaster76]

You can turn your phone off or put it on mute. You can disable emergency alerts in the phones settings

 

[Ecmaster76]

Fucking hell, my kid's school is in lockdown and has been for over an hour now. He's hiding, terrified, under his desk in the dark while the police investigate a "perceived threat online". This, literally just as the kid comes out of his anxiety shell due to having been held down and beaten by half a dozen kids at his last school (different district). Fuck!

Hopefully it is a false alarm. I hate it that he's going through that but at least he's safe.

 

[Ecmaster76]

He's home. They had a "controlled release" where they had staff watch as either got on a school bus, into their own car, or you had to come sign them out at the front door. The parking lot was like Mad Max with parents freaking out. :/ My kid and one of his friends are sitting here watching Sword Art Online right now. The friend's parents were happy he could hang out here instead of up in Shoreline with a missing classmate who is planning something awful.

Fucking hell, my kid's school is in lockdown and has been for over an hour now. He's hiding, terrified, under his desk in the dark while the police investigate a "perceived threat online". This, literally just as the kid comes out of his anxiety shell due to having been held down and beaten by half a dozen kids at his last school (different district). Fuck!

Hopefully it is a false alarm. I hate it that he's going through that but at least he's safe.

Not a false alarm. One of the kids who attends the school made a specific threat online that was deemed "highly credible" according to my law enforcement contacts. They couldn't find the kid anywhere outside the school. Even his parents don't know where he is last I heard (those poor parents!) and he wasn't in any of the classrooms. They had to clear every nook and cranny of the school before they could allow anyone to leave.

Yeah, I meant false alarm as in no one will actually get shot at in the school today and I'm glad that was the case. Props for SAO as well, good show