Pet Peeves & Other Grumblings/What Peeve Do "You" Have Today???? (license, free)
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If I don't vent this through my fingers onto this keyboard right here and right now, I may implode.
A few things that have made me particularly uber phlklempt as of late:
Of course there's the usual suspects:
People who yack on their cell phones forever and ever and talk really, really loudly as if they want the whole entire [Best Buy, supermarket, train station, airplane] to hear.
People who drive (ie. braking heavily, impeding traffic by going TOO slow, etc.) while talking on their cell phones.
People who will cut in front of you WITHOUT putting on a signal and then once they're in the TURN ONLY lane, put their signal on (for a light that's seven minutes long anyway). These folks really cause my nostrils to flare.
But I'm talking about other pet peeves that aren't as obvious:
Someone tell me, WHY are so many people toting their laptops into the public libraries to get the free WiFi? In other words, yes, it's free, but wouldn't it be easier to just get internet service at home? Seriously, I've seen libraries from Fairfax to PW Co. overoccupied by people sitting in the library for HOURS shyting around on the internet. Home internet service is relatively cheap, so what gives? Do you really need to pack a lunch to go to the library (or wherever) to hog a study table and all of the chairs just so you can search ebay or play card games or peruse Argentinian "beauties"? (By the way, if you have a porn addiction, shouldn't you, ahem, have some privacy for that????-- AT YOUR HOME?!)
People who tailgate you EVEN WHEN THERE ARE OTHER LANES available to just pass you. (And no, these people aren't about to turn at the "next light/intersection.")
Is it SO HARD to flush a toilet, particularly when you're using a PUBLIC bathroom? (I don't want to see your processed lunch w/ corn skins in it!!!)
And on that note, how hard is it NOT to "wee wee" on the floor?? Is the toilet bowl not wide enough for you? I DO NOT want to step in your bodily fluids!!
Here's a clue...When you're standing in a crowded store at a check-out register watching the clerk ring up your 150,000 items, at NO POINT does it cross your mind that you should pull out your checkbook and start filling in the date, the store name, perhaps put your signature on the check?
Apparently my glares aren't working.
I think venting is healing. Please join me.
(And yes, I know people are people and there will never be a perfect world, of course, but some things-- and I've only listed a mere handful-- just need to be growled out in a public place.)
A second note: I've already tried living in the woods. I hate bugs and loathe snakes and serial killers.
Last edited by 2goldens; 04-11-2010 at 07:07 PM..
Reason: Merged two Peeves threads together.
Someone tell me, WHY are so many people toting their laptops into the public libraries to get the free WiFi? In other words, yes, it's free, but wouldn't it be easier to just get internet service at home? Seriously, I've seen libraries from Fairfax to PW Co. overoccupied by people sitting in the library for HOURS shyting around on the internet. Home internet service is relatively cheap, so what gives? Do you really need to pack a lunch to go to the library (or wherever) to hog a study table and all of the chairs just so you can search ebay or play card games or peruse Argentinian "beauties"? (By the way, if you have a porn addiction, shouldn't you, ahem, have some privacy for that????-- AT YOUR HOME?!)
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I hate that the libraries are so loud. We noticed this in PW and now again in Fairfax Co. No so much at the smaller libraries, but at the larger ones. The libraries don't discourage it either with their areas that are almost like play areas for the kids.
What's up with the store clerks who LICK their fingers while counting out one's dollar bills change?! Or who lick their fingers before opening a plastic bag.
Seriously, I have actually taken the bag with my purchased stuff into it and had their aforementioned SPIT on my hand!! FINALLY I got to the point where I'll say as gingerly and kindly as I can muster, "Ma'am/Sir, please don't lick your fingers when you count out my money" to the shock and disgust of THEM towards ME. This happened the other day to me while at Shoppers Food Warehouse.
Um, how can YOU be offended that EYE don't want YOUR spit on my stuff or my own body? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Side note: I've heard that the U.S. Mint does their bi/annual paper money swipes and guess what the two most common substances on paper money are:
Fecal matter
Coca.ine.
Yep.
So I don't know how anyone with even a slow functioning brain could not just lick but repeatedly lick their fingers while in public anyways.
My biggest pet peeve are the idiots that wait until you're right next to them to decide that, if they put their turn signal on, they are entitled to enter into the lane you're in, regardless of the fact that you are already occupying the space. So they just start to come over and then get mad at you when you:
a) do not move to vacate the space by running your car off the road
or
b) don't stop in the middle of the road so they can get over
or
c) honk at them to make them aware you're already in the space.
I had some lady do that to me about 6 times the other day (white minivan-I won't post the license plate to protect her privacy). At least I wasn't singled out-she did it to about 8 other people too. But she was SO mad. At everyone.
My peeve is when people zip from the left lane across three lanes of traffic to exit at a freeway exit, nearly causing accidents with other drivers. There seems to be a growing epidemic of this, and I'm afraid it has nothing to do with forgetting.
Oh! My turn! I HATE when people are driving and they 'block the box'.
That term was new to me when I moved here, but it is when there is heavy traffic at an intersection and even though the light is green for you to go, there is no space to move forward.
In Old Town Alexandria it is horrible. So not only is someone in the middle of the intersection when the light turns red, it blocks people from moving forward when their light turns green.
Are these people in such a hurry they have to rush forward to inconvenience anyone else?
People changing their minds at the last minute. I was supposed to have a side job and the guy called the day I was supposed to go do it, and simply told me 'something came up'. No big deal, in one way, but I could have made other plans. Anyway, we rescheduled for Sunday and I hope he doesnt flake again, at the last minute! (I talked to him just the day before to make sure everything was set in stone, arrrgh!).
What's up with the store clerks who LICK their fingers while counting out one's dollar bills change?! Or who lick their fingers before opening a plastic bag.
OMG this makes me nuts !!!
I actually told one clerk " I don't need a DNA sample from you today,thanks"
At convince stores I watch and if I see them doing this for the customer in front of me I say please just give me the bag I can put my 1 or 2 items in while your finishing up the sale to save you some time
At Grocery stores or at Walmart I solved this by bagging my own stuff.
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i can't imagine what the youth of today would do without sell phones!!! the other day i was in the grocery store and some guy was talking on a hands free cell phone very loudly right in front of me and some other custermers.. it was so annoying listening to his conversation!!!! he was waving his hands while he was talking like he was talking to a person right in front of him..
Cruxan,
The first time I ever saw a Blue Tooth ear piece, I hadn't clue what it was. I was standing in Walmart line waiting and I heard a woman behind me talking loud so naturally I turned to her and I asked her "Excuse me, were you talking to me?" and she looked right into my eyes and continues her conversation - which of course I still don't what she is talking about. Not once did she say to me while looking right at me, "I'm on the phone" or anything. Is she talking to herself or what?! Much later I found out about the BlueTooth and I felt so ..... outdated and ...... silly!
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Oh, & I forgot...
