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Rant Restaurant!

Rant Restaurant!

Hello! Care to come in? Would you like a table? 

Yes? A little, medium, or large Rantstaurant table?

Ok, maybe I'd better explain what we do here. All we are is a place to go when something's on your mind that really BUGS you.

The only requirement is that you say what size Rantstaurant table you want, the table referring to the length rant. And, to make it easier for the admins, PLEASE rant on subjects they allow in order to save them lots of editing.

Thank You, and Welcome to The Rantstaurant. 

~Violet~ 

P.S. I'll be adding menus soon! Plus I'll give you a receipt after you rant. Don't worry ;) it's free.

P.P.S SpamBox says 'ttya' thank ya! 

submitted by Violet, age 12, Here
(December 21, 2013 - 8:33 pm)

I'm sorry for that rant. Was it really that...bad? Sorry!

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 9, 2014 - 10:18 pm)

rant topic: my math teacher

rant size:

As I've said before, my math teacher is kind of really awful. He doesn't explain things well, and he's incredibly condescending, and he's just...ugh. So we had a notebook check about a month ago, and some of the stuff he was looking for in the notebook check was from the week that I was out of school because of my surgery. He gave us a sheet with all the stuff we needed to have in our notebooks for the notebook check, and I exempted myself from the things that were from the week I was out, and then I had most of the other stuff, but somehow I got an 84. AND MY MATH GRADE RIGHT NOW IS A D AND THE QUARTER IS ENDING IN 12 DAYS AND I'M GOING TO FAIL THIS IS BAD THIS IS REALLY FREAKING BAD. Oh. Wait. He always puts in, like, 90% of the grades for the entire quarter in the last three days of the quarter, because he's really disorganized. 

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 10, 2014 - 12:14 am)

OK, I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!!

Size: Small

Over break, my LA teacher assigned us 3 post-its to do about our independent reading novel. I worked really hard on them, added a few more things than she asked for, and when I was done, I was very proud of myself. I should be, right?! So, when we got back, I showed them to her. She gave me a very long answer, but the overall message was this: your claims stink. You have to do them all over. I was so INFURIATED!!! Especially because I had already done over half a book report on one of them!!!! GRRRRRR!!!!!! I will do them much better next time though.

submitted by Kikikat, age AGELESS, Over the rainbow
(January 10, 2014 - 11:49 pm)

Yesterday I had a pretty freaking terrible day at school. In math class my teacher got mad at me because I didn't have some of the assignments from the week I got surgery. The thing is, when I returned to school after the surgery, he said I didn't have to make up the assignments I missed. Then at lunch Brikena was going through my purse. She found my iPod and asked if she could play a game on it. I said no, because I don't trust people with my electronics. So she took my book and refused to give it back until I let her play a game on my iPod. So I was basically about to start crying and then our humanities teacher yelled at ME because Brikena had put my book in an empty locker on the 7th grade hall and she was guarding the locker and the teacher SHOULD have yelled at Brikena. But no. She yelled at me. My seat in language arts is surrounded by loud people, and I was begging them to PLEASE shut up do I could do my work and they wouldn't and the kid who sits behind me was just making random noises to annoy me and one kid handed me a note that said, "you are annoying and everyone hates your writing". Nothing awful happened in Latin class, thankfully. So my mom picked me up from school and I was ranting about how bad my day was. My brother was getting on my nerves and I asked him politely to stop and he didn't and so I yelled at him and then my mom yelled at me. 

submitted by Maggie , age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 11, 2014 - 5:42 am)

Maggie, don't listen to them. You are not annoying, and you are a great writer. Everyone on the CB would tell you exactly that. Just go read a book. That always makes me feel better after a bad day.  -Evan

submitted by Evan S., age 10, Somewhere pleasent
(January 11, 2014 - 11:43 am)

Thank you. I know they're lying, but still. They say they don't like my writing because it's "too depressing". They don't seem to understand that, along with being incredibly depressed, I'm incredibly pessimistic. I have difficulty seeing the positive side of any situation. So I'm entirely incapable of writing happy things. 

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 11, 2014 - 6:05 pm)

@Maggie, I know how you feel about your math teacher. My math teacher also doesn't explain stuff, and he won't let kids do extra credit to get their grade up. How am I suppose to pass the test when you do a horrible job teaching?!

@Kitkat, I know that one of our reading teachers is like that. My friend wrote a whole book report, and she made them rewrite it because she didn't agree on their opinions. 

This doesn't really help. At all. But I want you guys to know for every two to ten great teachers, there's going to be one that's not a good one. You just have to put up with them. Sadly, so far, I haven't really seen evidence that they ever change.

submitted by Theo W.
(January 12, 2014 - 10:31 am)

rant size

rant topic

My parents actually go through my internet history and today when I got home from school I found my mom reading a story that I'm working on. (it's on a website, so...yeah). She went through the browser history and found it and she read it, even though I specifically told her not to. 

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 13, 2014 - 6:07 pm)

I want to buy my own laptop, because as you know, the laptop my parents bought me is terrible, and my mom said that if I buy my own laptop, she's going to monitor it. The whole point of me buying my own laptop is that I can write without my parents seeing it. If they were to scan my laptop it would defeat the purpose.

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 13, 2014 - 6:17 pm)

Small

Kyra at theater said I hate little girls right when I walked in the room then tried to cover it up. 

submitted by S.E.
(January 16, 2014 - 9:29 pm)

Who does this person think she is, making my name look bad?  

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(January 22, 2014 - 1:02 pm)

rant size: small
rant topic: my parents

My parents are getting mad at me for having a B in social studies. A B is perfectly acceptable...right? And also they don't seem happy with the fact that I'm an atheist. They're constantly asking if I'm through with my "atheist phase" yet. GAH! 

submitted by Maggie , age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 20, 2014 - 11:27 pm)

I agree, a B is TOTALLY acceptable. Grr....parents can get on your nerves:)

submitted by Abigail A, age 12, VT
(January 23, 2014 - 9:16 am)

Size: Large

My room has had its door closed for years. I'm allergic to cats, but we have them anyway, so the door is closed to keep the cats out and to keep them from getting hair over everything so I don't get allergic reactions. The door being closed has allowed me to have a little bit of privacy. My home is the place I feel least threatened in and my room sometimes almost feels safe. (I haven't felt safe in so long, it's almost a bit of a joke. "Hey, did you here about that kid who felt safe? Hilarious!") However, today I had a bit of an accident. I didn't know I had a History Bowl meeting after school and was dragged along to it by Number Four. I thought I could be home before my parents got home, but my dad decided to come home early. I wasn't there, he freaked out, and before you know it, he, my mom, and a number of family friends tore through our (admittedly pretty shady) neighboorhood looking for me. I was super freaked out that I would be punished (cold sweat time!) but my parents said they wouldn't punish me. Or so they said. In actuality, my dad was so mad at my messy room (he looked in to make sure I wasn't in there) (it's really not that bad, the couple of other "messy rooms" I've seen are worse) that he forbade me from closing the door and told me that anything on the floor on Sunday morning would be thrown away. I have no doubt he'll do this. I can distinctly remember being three years old and having my favorite toy thrown away (not even donated, just dumped in the trash!) because I wasn't neat enough. 

I hate having the door open, though, because the cats come in and try to lie on things and get hair on my pillows, and then I can't sleep because I can't breathe. My mother stays up until midnight every night, leaving all the lights on, which I know can't block out because of the lack of door. Even when it's dark, the hallway outside my room is really freaky and I hate sleeping with the door open because I can hear things that aren't supposed to be there and I feel like something's coming to get me. I can't sleep all that well normally, so I often get up and walk around my room or sit on the floor and do things quietly in the dark, but I won't be able to do that anymore because if I make a noise, my parents will come check on me. My dad also goes to the bathroom (the one right outside my room, even though he has one connected to his beddroom) every day at three a.m. and makes a large amount of light and noise that could even wake me up with a door in the way. I know if I wake up at three I can't get back to sleep. If I make the noises, my dad will yell at me. I know a door is really stupid and trivial to complain about, but my room is almost like my brain. I like to think that it's mine, I don't want people touching it, and I completely panic when people go in. I liked having a somewhat flimsy sense of security. Now I won't be able to close the door and my security is all gone. 

I'm sorry I talked about something so stupid and meaningless. Please don't pay attention, it really doesn't matter. 

submitted by Ruby M.
(January 22, 2014 - 12:27 am)

That's bad. I hate when people go in my room. It isn't like I'm hiding anything. (oh wait...yeah I am) Anyway, it isn't like there's anything in my room that could get me in trouble. It's just that I don't like when people go in my room. My sister's school starts a couple hours before mine, and she can never find socks. So she comes into my room at like 6 o'clock in the morning, when I'm just waking up, and turns on my light and starts looking for socks. It irritates me to no end.

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 22, 2014 - 9:33 pm)