Pet Peeves

When someone writes, "alot," and/or says, "supposebly," I have to suppress the urge to smack them with a cold fish.
 
Sac Arrow said:
That's odd, the second two links didn't show up in your post.

EDIT nevermind, there they are. Looks like they are being fed more chicken crap than anything else. Regardless, the stuff I get in the store still tastes yummy.
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Sausage factory, baby.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Don't tell me you have a 12 o'clock wheelie bar on the back. Stuntin' is a habit....
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Supposebly wheelie bars work well but I don't wheelie alot.

I have to turn the traction control off, on my Concours C14 to get it to wheelie. It's a tad heavy to ride a full wheelie at the balance point though. I haven't tried that yet.
 
When I'm in line at Cabelas buying ammo and I look at every body else in line and they are buying ammo too. Who are they foolin.
 
People who don't know the proper rules at a 4-way intersection. One idiot can screw it all up.
 
41. Car salesmen who have to see their manager to give me a fair deal.
42. Executives who take in tens or hundreds of millions. No one is worth that much and it's not fair to shareholders.
43. Dump trucks with rocks dropping from the bed while going down the road.
44. Medical every 2 years after age 40. 5 years really should be fine.
45. Famous mega-rich kids who have been around a few years and I've never heard of them until they surface in the headlines.
46. Internet filters on my office computer.
47. Colleagues who spend all day surfing...causing the company to install internet filters on everyone's computers.
48. Ads for a 40 year old plane claiming the aircraft has always been in a heated hangar.
49. People who don't know the difference between hangars and hangers. It's as big a difference as aso.com vs wifelovers.com.
50. People now cursing me because they had to look.

I'm in a good mood today, really.
 
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Gerhardt said:
41. Car salesmen who have to see their manager to give me a fair deal.
42. Executives who take in tens or hundreds of millions. No one is worth that much and it's not fair to shareholders.
43. Dump trucks with rocks dropping from the bed while going down the road.
44. Medical every 2 years after age 40. 5 years really should be fine.
45. Famous mega-rich kids who have been around a few years and I've never heard of them until they surface in the headlines.
46. Internet filters on my office computer.
47. Colleagues who spend all day surfing...causing the company to install internet filters on everyone's computers.
48. Ads for a 40 year old plane claiming the aircraft has always been in a heated hangar.
49. People who don't know the difference between hangars and hangers. It's as big a difference as aso.com vs wifelovers.com.
50. People now cursing me because they had to look.

I'm in a good mood today, really.
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I'm not going to look, so can you just summarize both of them for me?
 
Skip Miller said:
ATM machines that prompt for your language of choice.

Why can't that information be imbedded on the card?
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Why can't the machine just assume that I speak enough english to operate an ATM (and just offer the 'han chinese' and spanish options on the side of the touch screen available to those who need them) ?
 
HerrGruyere said:
This one makes me sad. A lot of people don't give a crap about anybody but themselves and it's just unfortunate. This is the reason I park far away.

Yet someone thinks it's hilarious to park next to me. Good grief man.
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#235 I have one nice car, the rest are just utilty vehicles. If I am ever stuck taking it to a place with a parking lot, I park on the far end that is usually completely empty. Invariably when I return from the store, there will be at least one truck parked next to me :mad2:
 
okay, you guys just brought to mind another one. People who park sideways, taking up 2-4 parking spots so they don't get door dings. It doesn't bother me if they do that on the other side of the lot, but when they use the parking spaces up front...

I was at Home Depot this weekend and some guy had his truck and 20' trailer parked sideways, taking up 7-8 parking spots right up front.
 
People driving cars that wouldn't pass a safety inspection. Lights on "new" cars not working, especially some or all of the brake lights.
Loud radios. 'nuff said!
Ear buds. LOUD RADIO!
Most of the other drivers on the road who think "SPEED LIMIT" is a suggestion and feel compelled to honk, scream, gesture, flash lights, or tailgate because I KNOW what "SPEED LIMIT" means.
People who, upon seeing a police car, jam on their brakes to get below the speed limit. Or worse, see him on the other side of the divided highway and do the same.
Freaking HYPOCRITES!
 
Lol, if they really wanted people to drive 75 mph they would have made the speed limit 65.

If you're going to drive the exact speed limit (or less) please at least move over.
 
Captain said:
Lol, if they really wanted people to drive 75 mph they would have made the speed limit 65.

If you're going to drive the exact speed limit (or less) please at least move over.
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I am neither professing to an exact speed at or below the limit nor admitting to driving faster. You can always pass. But if you catch me, you ARE speeding.
Speaking of which, you can add to my list drivers passing in no passing zones, crossing double yellow lines or solid white. And those going 5+ over the posted in a residential area.
 
Have I complained about elevator buttons yet?

Why can't I deselect a floor? If we're all going to floor 9 and 10 and someone, by mistake, hits 6 then why do we all need to stop at 6...watch the doors slowly open...wait 8 seconds (because ya know the door close button is inop or it's on the other side and the guy standing 4 inches away refuses to push it), watch the doors slowly close before proceeding on our way?
 
Captain said:
Have I complained about elevator buttons yet?

Why can't I deselect a floor? If we're all going to floor 9 and 10 and someone, by mistake, hits 6 then why do we all need to stop at 6...watch the doors slowly open...wait 8 seconds (because ya know the door close button is inop or it's on the other side and the guy standing 4 inches away refuses to push it), watch the doors slowly close before proceeding on our way?
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If you book for a nonstop from SFO to Frankfurt and you end up stopping at Phoenix, Denver, O'Hare, Dulles and Heathrow, now you will know why.
 
Captain said:
I agree with this, but would like to add people who feel the need to count items of other shoppers and give me static because I have 16 items instead of 15.
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People who think 16 is really 15.
 
On elevators: excessive use of the door close button. If you push it once the system knows it. There is no need to hold it in or push it repeatedly.

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Witmo said:
People who think 16 is really 15.
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Nobody thinks 16 is 15. We just don't care. If i knew one item over a silly limit on a plastic sign was going to tweak someone's beak I'd go looking for more crap to buy just to watch them go off.

numl0ck said:
On elevators: excessive use of the door close button. If you push it once the system knows it. There is no need to hold it in or push it repeatedly.

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If the elevator indeed receives the signal then it should let someone know by causing the doors to slide shut and get us on our way.


I guess it boils down to this. My peeve is time wasters.

At Apple some exec went to a programmer and asked if it would save a persons life could they shave 5 seconds off the Apple computer boot time. The engineer, startled, said ,"Yeah, I think I could...but how can that save a life?"

The exec showed him how many computers Apple sells. A user turns on their computer on average 3 times a day. Doing the math those 5 seconds times all the computers out there worked out to 200 lifetimes per year...5 seconds at a time. The engineer shaved over 20 seconds off the boot time.

(note to anyone who knows the real story: I don't care. It's close enough to make the point.)

This sort of thing is everywhere. People stacked up at red lights with zero cross traffic. Guy waiting to turn left behind a red arrow and no oncoming traffic. Elevator door close buttons that don't work. Time wasters. I can't stand to see time wasted.

And yet I waste so much time here...curious. :confused:
 
numl0ck said:
On elevators: excessive use of the door close button. If you push it once the system knows it. There is no need to hold it in or push it repeatedly.

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People who keep pushing the pedestrian walk button at an intersection like it will make the system move faster then arbitrarily dash out into the road in front of traffic. THEN, we hav to wait through the pedestrian light for nothing!
Speaking of which, why did the DOT allow traffic signals to not post a red and yellow during the pedestrian light?
 
1. Speaking of elevators, I get the daily ride of 20 floors. Without fail, someone gets on at 12 and off at 14; and there is no 13. Take the steps for one friggin floor!

2. People who leave the rental planes in disarray.

3. Gate agent announcements of slight mx delays. Lies.

4. Restaurants that only have cold water in the bathrooms. That is a guarantee I won't come back and usually a sign they are going to go out of business.
 
When the captain of your flight from Paris to DC says, "Sorry, we have a slight fuel leak. This will probably take an hour or so to fix" when in reality, I could see a large puddle of fuel under the left engine. An hour later, they canceled the flight.
 
I'm a Fireman/Paramedic... At the top of the list is hispanic people that will tell me they do not speak english and then when I get them to the hospital they talk to the doctor like it was their first language!

Second is when people have the "You work for me attitude" most of them start with the classic "I'm a tax payer and I pay your salary!" line.
 
Speaking of speed limits.

The doofi that line up in formation with the person(s) in the next lane(s) and just sit there. I don't care how slow you drive. I don't care which lane you do it in. But why block the entire road?

No place to go, all day to get there, and **** everybody else.
 
When you put your blinker on to change lanes and the person in the lane you want to be in speeds up so you can't get in.
 
Captain said:
Have I complained about elevator buttons yet?

Why can't I deselect a floor? If we're all going to floor 9 and 10 and someone, by mistake, hits 6 then why do we all need to stop at 6...watch the doors slowly open...wait 8 seconds (because ya know the door close button is inop or it's on the other side and the guy standing 4 inches away refuses to push it), watch the doors slowly close before proceeding on our way?
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Hold the close door button, while holding it push the floor you want - it should bypass others and go straight to yours. at least that's what I saw online.
 
jpower said:
When you put your blinker on to change lanes and the person in the lane you want to be in speeds up so you can't get in.
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or just leave the blinker on, mile after mile after mile.

How about the genius that takes the left turn from way over on the right side of the lane, preventing anyone from going around.

How about the doofus that turns short onto the side street which has a signal strip, thereby tripping the red light. Hey GOMER, square the turn.

Even dumber is the idiot who parks a dumptruck on the signal trigger, and then wonders why the light keeps cycling.
 
The uselessness of the FTC and the do-not-call list.

Does anyone know of anyone fined/prosecuted by the FTC for illegal phone calls?
 
A company department called 'Office of Continuous improvement'.
 
People who go to the effort to set up a perfectly fine eBay auction for a vehicle that is really desirable and then sell it for far too little money to the first doofus that shows up with cash.

Especially when I am the second doofus with cash.
 
Back to express lanes...

If you feel that you're so important---and that your time is so much more valuable than everyone else's time---that you are justified in going though the the express lane w/ a 20 item limit when you actually have 30 items then by all means, knock yourself out, just do it! I wouldn't have a problem with it at all if the stores did the following...

What the retailers should do (and I've told many about this idea and, of course, it goes nowhere) is to charge extra for each item over the limit and that charge doubles with each add'l item scanned.

i.e.

Item 21 = $0.25 premium

Item 22 = $0.50 premium

Item 23 = $1.00 premium

Item 24 = $2.00 premium

Item 25 = $4.00 premium

Etc.

And the money collected goes to a local charity. If some one thinks they're that impotent and wants to pay the premium, then I say go for it!

But my favorite express lane experiences have been when the lady in front of me explains her rationale as to why her 40 items are only 20.

"Okay, these 8 green peppers @ $0.75/ea are all peppers, so they're really only one item. These four boxes of Kleenex are only one item, again, because they're all the same thing. These three boxes of saltines are really only two items because they're buy two & get one free. This yogurt is on sale for 1/2 price so these 6 tubs are only 3 items. These 20 cans of Fancy Feast for my Precious are just one item."

I've, quite seriously, witnessed something like that at least three times since the advent of the express lane. It's pretty hilarious.
 
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catmandu said:
People who go to the effort to set up a perfectly fine eBay auction for a vehicle that is really desirable and then sell it for far too little money to the first doofus that shows up with cash.

Especially when I am the second doofus with cash.
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Wow, your experience with E-Bay for vehicles is really different from mine.

Usually, the ad says it's in great shape, and then you drive 100 miles to see it and it looks and drives like it's been a planter in a frat house for 20 years.

My favorite was the late-model Corolla I went to see in Tracy (about 80 miles one way) that was "in great shape," but it turns out it had been a dealer shop car and the techs had beat up the driver's door with a sledgehammer, among a lot of less major issues (window crack, lopped off mirror, scuffed bumper, unsafe about-to-break balljoint). Of course the photos were of the other side. I couldn't make that **** up.
 
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> Why can't I deselect a floor?

I'm not the only one?!?! Whew!

My #2: Doctor's office says, "If we don't call you, it means the test results
are clear and no follow-up is required." They fail to grasp that it could also
mean:

- They dialed the wrong nbr.
- Voicemail ate it.
- They forgot to call.
 
rainsux said:
> Why can't I deselect a floor?

I'm not the only one?!?! Whew!

My #2: Doctor's office says, "If we don't call you, it means the test results
are clear and no follow-up is required." They fail to grasp that it could also
mean:

- They dialed the wrong nbr.
- Voicemail ate it.
- They forgot to call.
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- They are so bad you don't want to know.
 
timwinters said:
Back to express lanes...

If you feel that you're so important---and that your time is so much more valuable than everyone else's time---that you are justified in going though the the express lane w/ a 20 item limit when you actually have 30 items then by all means, knock yourself out, just do it! I wouldn't have a problem with it at all if the stores did the following...

What the retailers should do (and I've told many about this idea and, of course, it goes nowhere) is to charge extra for each item over the limit and that charge doubles with each add'l item scanned.

i.e.

Item 21 = $0.25 premium

Item 22 = $0.50 premium

Item 23 = $1.00 premium

Item 24 = $2.00 premium

Item 25 = $4.00 premium

Etc.

And the money collected goes to a local charity. If some one thinks they're that impotent and wants to pay the premium, then I say go for it!

But my favorite express lane experiences have been when the lady in front of me explains her rationale as to why her 40 items are only 20.

"Okay, these 8 green peppers @ $0.75/ea are all peppers, so they're really only one item. These four boxes of Kleenex are only one item, again, because they're all the same thing. These three boxes of saltines are really only two items because they're buy two & get one free. This yogurt is on sale for 1/2 price so these 6 tubs are only 3 items. These 20 cans of Fancy Feast for my Precious are just one item."

I've, quite seriously, witnessed something like that at least three times since the advent of the express lane. It's pretty hilarious.
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Hey, you changed the numbers. I'd be torqued if someone brought a cart full through the express lane. I said 16 items in a 15 item lane. I can live with 1 or 2 over. I've had lady's complain befor I'm 1 over. I just laugh at their pitiful hobby and offer them to go ahead of me.

By the way...two of he same item counts as two. If they are packaged together ie 6 pack of Coke or 4 boxes of Kleenex wrapped together then it counts as 1. Five apples in a bag counts as one item.
 
I just think it would be a great way to make money for charities because you know people would still go thru the express lane with 4 or 5 add'l items.

And I agree with your analysis of what constitutes an item and what doesn't. Many receipts list the number of items at the bottom these days. I've been tripped up myself in counting on a few occasions, once because I had a bag of green 4 peppers and counted it as one. Receipt said 22 items...wait I only had 19! Reviewed receipt...Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

And, I wasn't speaking directly at YOU in my example. I was just using the word "you" in the generic sense. I really think the charging extra for every item over is a helluva idea.
 
Going overseas for Uncle Sam then finding out upon returning that "Position and Hold" has been changed to "Line Up and Wait".

I'm not a 2-year old. "Position and Hold" sounds so much more professional. Who cares what the rest of the world says?
 
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