Thread: Pet Peeves?

I agree with what TC said 100%. Can it happen, yes. But... i dont want to tell people that dont have a clue what the odds of it happening. Id rather they know its possible.

I happen to be in New Mexico at the moment. Here is the sticker i was talking about on a pump...


And, the lady that has to take all 8 of her kids to the grocery store and block the isle so noone can get by. Leave a few kids at home or something!

It's really amusing more than it is annoying when at the grocery store I came upon an aisle I wanted to go on but there was a pole & I could have gotten by if the woman standing there who was looking through the corner of her eye at me while looking back at something she picked up, was reading the label thinking I didn't notice her looking through the corner of her eye. I just left the basket where it was, walked past her & grabbed what I needed & when I got back to my basket, I laughed letting her know what an inconsiderate b*tch she was.
Some think they are better than others & can intentionally make others wait on them but I didn't. It was actually easier for me to walk & get what I needed & go about my business but she thought she was creating a problem for me yet she was only showing her ignorance.

Speaking of grocery store - it really bothers me when people peel open the fresh corn-on-the-cob a little then put it back. I see them doing it all the time like it's normal. It's not normal! Would these same people peel open an orange a little then put it back? How about a banana?

Today just about every corn in there had been peeled open a bit.

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Speaking of grocery store - it really bothers me when people peel open the fresh corn-on-the-cob a little then put it back. I see them doing it all the time like it's normal. It's not normal! Would these same people peel open an orange a little then put it back? How about a banana?

Today just about every corn in there had been peeled open a bit.

I was at the same store the other day & I love those Nutter Butter cookies & so does my dog but the last two times they have been out of the ones I like, the individually packaged ones of 4 per pack. I saw one box the other day & I grabbed it but it had been opened in the back & about 3 packets were missing from it. Some people..................

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

People who take 'selfies; all the time on Facebook. There is a tobacco pipe group where guys ugly as sin dipped in misery daily put up one or more 'selfy' with an even uglier pipe hanging out of their gob.

Now Jimmy, Ugly Pipe Smokers need love too !!

Originally Posted by engine46

I was at the same store the other day & I love those Nutter Butter cookies & so does my dog but the last two times they have been out of the ones I like, the individually packaged ones of 4 per pack. I saw one box the other day & I grabbed it but it had been opened in the back & about 3 packets were missing from it. Some people..................

You and your dog have very good taste. My dog loves anything that resembles peanut butter. I haven't had Nutter Butter cookies in years. I'll have to pick some up for me..... and my dog.

Aloha!

Speaking of food...

I'm not a fan of social media in any form. I just don't care for it. But I have to do Facebook and Twitter and Linked-In to promote my company as a business owner. Otherwise, you'd never catch me on social media.

Many of my contacts, and I mean the vast majority, love to post pictures of what they are eating at the moment. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and anything inbetween. It's just post after post of, HEY! Here's my breakfast! Here's my mid-morning snack! Here's my lunch! Here's my mid-afternoon snack! Here's my dinner! Here's my desert! Here's me eating my desert! Here's me after eating my desert!
Here's me eating some leftovers before bed! Day after day. Yikes.

Don't get me wrong, I love food and don't mind hearing that someone had a great steak dinner, but posting your food all week long? I honestly don't get it. Even Anthony Bourdain would get tired of all the food photos after a while.

-Zip

Originally Posted by Gasman

I see this sitting in the car while fueling all the time. Well, sense that's where I spend a lot of time I guess that's a no brainier. Ha. I've warned people and they don't seem to care. Or the guy talking on his phone while fueling. Static is a big thing when your at this elevation and with dry weather. People just don't seam to understand. Or if they do, they don't care.

I had a guy that I wanted to slap in the head just the other day. This is something that a lot of folks don't know about so I just warned him at first.
ALL gas stations have vent pipes that goes from the tank to up in the air 10ft or so. Sometimes they are on top of the canopy and other times they are just three steal pipes sticking up out of the ground. This guy was having a smoke and heard the check valves on top of these three pipes hissing. He walked over to them to see what it was. I politely told him what was going on and he just said Oh' OK. But kept standing there having his smoke. I then yeld at him from 50ft away telling him to "get the hell away from those pipes with that cig". Guess it then sunk in.

Some people.

Well, it only takes one encounter with Darwin's law for that kind of problem to self-rectify.

Grocery shopping (or being in any large store) bugs me to no end. Folks stopping to stare at the things on the shelf as if they're going to find the secret meaning of life there in the cereal aisle. You get fruit loops every week, grab the box and GO. Folks walking at a snails pace - particularly ones younger than me (I don't get impatient with elderly folk, they've earned the right to be pokey). People blocking aisles to piddle with their phones.

I've gotten to the point now I only go to 24 hour stores around midnight when they're about dead unless there's no way to avoid going earlier.

Aloha!

I was driving behind a woman today (she looked perhaps 45 ish so not a youngster) and she was all over the road. I decided I had to put her behind me for my safety. As I passed her I saw she was playing with her phone. This was on a major beltway around a major city during a busy Saturday afternoon. Hokey smokes Bullwinkle, are you nuts lady? Goofing around with a smartphone while driving is really a national epidemic, and it has to be stopped. It's more than dangerous, it's downright suicidal - and you may take some poor unfortunate others with you.

I broke down on I-75 in Georgia once and had to get a tow. I drive a German Import and have the 200 mile tow package from AAA. The nearest dealer for my car was about 180 miles away, so I got a long ride in a tow truck. A very BIG tow truck, the kind that sets you up about 10 feet in the cab. After a while, I notice we're handily passing cars. Odd I think. How fast is this driver going? So I ask him, "How fast are you going?" He says, about 65. Really? And we're easily passing so many cars on a major highway in a 70 mph zone? So I start looking at the people in the cars we're passing and I notice they are ALL playing with their phones and not paying full attention to their driving. No wonder we're passing them so easily. The tow driver told me he sees this all day every day.

That really alarmed me. I am usually driving and don't get a chance to peer into cars I'm passing, especially from a high vantage poit. Makes me want to trade in the car for an armored vehicle.

-Zip