Thread: Pet Peeves?

A working lunch with ready-made sandwiches that have too much sauce in them. The first bite gets you the sauce dripping down your hand and arm onto your clothes.

Originally Posted by Kees

A working lunch with ready-made sandwiches that have too much sauce in them. The first bite gets you the sauce dripping down your hand and arm onto your clothes.

This is opposite of a Pet Peeve but why I like that part of my employment is paid uniform service!

I just got to bring it back up because i seen it again, and normally once a week. People smoking while putting gas in vehicles. Im sorry but if you do this and dont care about your life, i dont want you risking my life too. Plus im the guy standing on the open fuel tanks for the store. Grrrrrrr.....

One of the smokers hangouts at my work is near the liquid oxygen tanks.....

Originally Posted by 32t

One of the smokers hangouts at my work is near the liquid oxygen tanks.....

Really smart folks at your work. Ha. Maybe you should warn then. Some people are just to stupid to help. Ok, im done now. Sorry for the rant.

This pet peeve is really occupation oriented. It is when you meet a fishing boat with sodium vapor lights on. Brilliantly on. I suppose that they are nice for the fisherman, he has everything around him illuminated. Unfortunately he also has the wheelhouse of every other vessel near him illuminated to the point that the other vessel's navigational watch is blinded. It's not only thoughtless it's (obviously) dangerous. And yet many of these fisherman are impervious to radio pleas to shut the lights off for a moment until the close quarters situation is past. How bright are the lights? There used to be many Norwegian fishermen in working in Alaska. We had a pet name for the bright lights. We called them a Norwegian sun rise. And its just about what they looked like when they were on the horizon.









alas

Originally Posted by kruppstahl

This pet peeve is really occupation oriented. It is when you meet a fishing boat with sodium vapor lights on. Brilliantly on. I suppose that they are nice for the fisherman, he has everything around him illuminated. Unfortunately he also has the wheelhouse of every other vessel near him illuminated to the point that the other vessel's navigational watch is blinded. It's not only thoughtless it's (obviously) dangerous. And yet many of these fisherman are impervious to radio pleas to shut the lights off for a moment until the close quarters situation is past. How bright are the lights? There used to be many Norwegian fishermen in working in Alaska. We had a pet name for the bright lights. We called them a Norwegian sun rise. And its just about what they looked like when they were on the horizon.











alas

Could be a Norwegian put some super bright lights on his boat one day & his next time out, he pissed off all the others, so they started buying their own & now it has gone from being P O at others & became a competition between all of 'em. Kinda like these young heathens that drive around with these bass boom boxes in their cars with "let's see who can get the loudest amp & most powerful speakers". They cause things to fall off shelves & those poor cars are no good after. I'm sure they rattle like crazy but while the system is in it, the loud volume covers it up. I imagine once removed from the vehicle, they have plenty of rattles.

Not sure if all of mine would fit in one post.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Why not blow off a little steam and share some of your minor annoyances? I know, I know..."Think Positive!". Sometimes a guy's gotta vent over the little things though IMO.

One of my pet peeves is related to pronunciation and it's something that I've perceived as making its way into U.S. English vernacular only in the last decade or so:

Pronouncing "st" like "shht". No idea where that came from. Instead of "street" ......a pronunciation of: "shhtreet".

I was wondering who would pronounce street like that, then I realized I probably do.
I'm from Alabama, so you might find speaking with me a very uncomfortable experience.

Originally Posted by ZipZop

Woody Woodpeckers. Not funny in real life, that's for sure.

I had a home once that was stucco with cedar trim. Carpenter bees love to burrow in cedar. Woodpeckers would tear whole eaves apart looking for one carpenter bee. I made a joke once to a neighbor that a BB gun would eliminate the problem, and he reminded me that if you shoot a red headed woodpecker, you're looking at serious jail time for killing an endangered species.

How can you blame the Woodpecker for trying to get back what you took from his house in the first place?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNxujJGnbB4

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