What, am I back on Bubblews?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205131)
Walnut Creek, California
December 29, 2016 12:44pm CST
This is a bit of a rant. I teach at a Community College. I am a good teacher, and take pride in getting student assignments back to them the very next class period. When my Fall class was done, I got the grades done in a timely fashion, and tried to enter them on the appropriate website. I entered my id and password. That's when I entered the land of Bubblews.
"Your password is incorrect. There is now one strike against you." One strike against me? YOUR website is screwed up (as it often is) and you're accumulating strikes against me? I tried to "reset my password." That led to another strike against me. Once I had accumulated five strikes (seven leads to death), trying to get into my own account, I called User Support. "We are closed for the Holidays..."
Finally, I found a (time) window where I could e-mail User Support. They actually got back to me, reset my account, and I was able to rest my password and turn in my grades. I found it funny that when I was in the "you've got to be kidding me" zone, it made me think of Bubblews. The psychologists call that feeling "learned helplessness" or "feeling like one of Seligman's dogs." I call it "that Bubblews feeling."
Have you ever had something similar happen--where something happens and you're suddenly reminded of something else?
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I believe the US IRS operates that way too....?
@marguicha (215133)
• Chile
18 Mar 18
Technology escapes me, but still I need it.
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@marguicha (215133)
• Chile
18 Mar 18
@TheHorse I don´t remember how many years have passed since I went to a post office for the last time.
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@TheHorse (205131)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Mar 18
@marguicha I go there to mail small packages.
@kevin1877uk (36988)
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30 Dec 16
Oh, Bubblews they were the days, good days until they changed things.
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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30 Dec 16
@TheHorse I agree with you I never felt comfortable either. When I first joined once you hit the minimum amount you could cash out, then they move the amount up and then to monthly,
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Dec 16
I am not sure why that reminded you of Bubbs? I only felt hopeless there when they screwed me out of money!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Dec 16
@TheHorse I would rather not re-live those days LOL! I made a lot of money there so I can't really complain.
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@TheHorse (205131)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 16
@AbbyGreenhill I made some decent money there too. And I'm only owed $200 or so. But I never felt "proud" to be a part of that website. Here, I do.
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Dec 16
I get random flashbacks,often due to a sound, like the emotion in someone's voice. Certain levels of anger cause me to shut down, have a bit of a case of what maybe PTSD there.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Dec 16
@TheHorse I unfort have trouble sleeping and concentrating sometimes, and more panic attacks and the like. I can still mostly hide those in public though they are getting harder to do so
@TheHorse (205131)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 16
Interesting. I may have just a touch of PTSD because of my last job, where there was a lot of trauma, discrimination, etc. But only have occasional flashbacks to the bad times (most of the times were good) and I have no trouble sleeping or concentrating.
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I have been somewhere or done something and sometimes get that deja vu feeling!
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
29 Dec 16
Yes, it happens quite often all over the Internet but yesterday it was my Fitbit account!! Sigh, it makes me crazy I may just go out and spitball someone or something!!! lol
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
30 Dec 16
@TheHorse That sounds like quite an excellent idea but with only the dogs and hubs my choices are very limited!! I will have to just steam!!
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@TheHorse (205131)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 16
@BelleStarr Oh dear. No, try something else.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
30 Dec 16
@TheHorse Yuppers, it's like one very long, braided rope.
@just4him (305338)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
30 Dec 16
@TheHorse You do know that the bubbles will never go away if you don't stop blowing them? Now put that little wand down and save those bubbles for your kid clients. Or maybe tomorrow night you can blow them along with the bubbly you'll be drinking as you ring in the new year. 
@averygirl72 (37715)
• Philippines
30 Dec 16
It's like a deja-vu.Good thing I don't experience something like that
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@zebra2222 (5269)
• United States
30 Dec 16
It happens from time to time. For example, I may laugh at an inappropriate time and then think back at a time when I had done it and the reaction of people around me.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
29 Dec 16
Oh yes, all the time. It's just a glitch in The Matrix.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
29 Dec 16
That's awesome. I always liked finding out my grade right away. Sometimes when I get on my laptop I have that dread in me - will it freeze up in 2 minutes or will it actually let me type? Is that Schroedinger's cat analogy?
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