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Ugh.. So I decided to take a friend and her partner and three kids camping this weekend to Goldstream Provincial Park. The park is beautiful and so close to the city where we live and we love coming here. Until this trip when the candle nazis decided to start harassing me. So there is a fire ban on as of noon yesterday. That means no campfires or open burning. Fine, I get that. However propane fire pits are permitted. We don't have one, no big deal. So we decide to light some candles to light up the campsite since it is so dark here in the woods. We asked when we checked into the campground if we could use candles and were told yes, they were not part of the fire ban. Then last night, a power tripping park staff guy came down to tell us to put out the tea lights I had sitting on my STEEL BUMPER over a LARGE GRAVEL PAD. I was pissed as we had asked and I have always been able to use them at this campground every summer, all summer long, fire ban or not. But not last night. So fine, ...

It has been a couple of weeks of stressors for me again. I just don't have it in me to put up with much when things become too complex, do not go as planned, or someone says the wrong thing to me. Bam. Who is this person? I asked the dental assistant why she was such a bitch after things began to unravel with her. I have high anxiety about dental work, always have, and in the past year, ridiculously so, but they sedate me now and I can usually manage that. Well I went in for the exam to see what was causing my dental pain and I had lost at least one or two recent fillings. This new DA proceeds to shove in the X-ray apparatus in my mouth, no warning, just jamming it in there as a gag and tell her it is too big, and that they usually use a smaller one with me because of that. She told me those are just for children, not grown ups. Excuse me? You use the size needed for the space available. So I was a bit upset about that chiding from a complete stranger (I had never seen this one bef...