Thread: Pet Peeves?

Originally Posted by Butzy

I've always wondered if this is done on purpose? I'm not trying to start a battle here, but I've just always wondered that... is it on purpose or can they really not see the truck beside them and 50 cars lined up behind them
(honest question to the truckers out there, I dont know any to ask in person)

Yes, especially at a merge of lanes. It increases the speed of one lane at the cost of the other. Then the one will let the other in at the end.

I predict that this thread will go for many pages...

Here's another one in traffic. I don't know if this is just in the South, or if these obnoxious jerks exist all over. Okay, I own a pickup truck, a newer, loaded Tacoma 4x4 that is my pride and joy. But it is not 'Mercan (though it was made in Brownsville TX), and it is not jacked up so tall that you can walk under it without stooping over. It is not straight-piped , nor does it have aggressive decals all over it. Or truck nutx, jeez-how pathetic. It doesn't "roll coal."

But there are a LOT of guys around here with trucks like this and, invariably, they drive very aggressively, tail-gate, and are just like insecure punks on steroids in traffic. My wife calls these trucks "substitutes" (you know for what), and I concur. I don't know, as someone who has taught teenagers for 20 years, a hyped up sense of ones's masculinity that is invariably based on insecurity is just exhausting (and often dangerous) for others to be around.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

I predict that this thread will go for many pages...

Here's another one in traffic. I don't know if this is just in the South, or if these obnoxious jerks exist all over. Okay, I own a pickup truck, a newer, loaded Tacoma 4x4 that is my pride and joy. But it is not 'Mercan (though it was made in Brownsville TX), and it is not jacked up so tall that you can walk under it without stooping over. It is not straight-piped , nor does it have aggressive decals all over it. Or truck nutx, jeez-how pathetic. It doesn't "roll coal."

But there are a LOT of guys around here with trucks like this and, invariably, they drive very aggressively, tail-gate, and are just like insecure punks on steroids in traffic. My wife calls these trucks "substitutes" (you know for what), and I concur. I don't know, as someone who has taught teenagers for 20 years, a hyped up sense of ones's masculinity that is invariably based on insecurity is just exhausting (and often dangerous) for others to be around.

I'll bet they shave with straight razors too[emoji3]

Okay

Standardized urinal installations in restaurants & department stores. Not everybody is 5'7" and I'm tired of peeing up-hill.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Okay

Standardized urinal installations in restaurants & department stores. Not everybody is 5'7" and I'm tired of peeing up-hill.

that's good John

and Aaron, that is my number one peeve of all time,, talking texting, emails lipstick doing your hair,, you know its against the law, and it kills people,, my son is a Paramedic in St Louis, and had the misfortune of working a fatality, turned the young girl over and turned out to be a girl he went to school with and was family friends with since grade school. shes dead and the the phone was being used for texting when she drifted into oncoming traffic. not only killed herself but an innocent family lost 1 child and the dad Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

that's good John

and Aaron, that is my number one peeve of all time,, talking texting, emails lipstick doing your hair,, you know its against the law, and it kills people,, my son is a Paramedic in St Louis, and had the misfortune of working a fatality, turned the young girl over and turned out to be a girl he went to school with and was family friends with since grade school. shes dead and the the phone was being used for texting when she drifted into oncoming traffic. not only killed herself but an innocent family lost 1 child and the dad Tc

Yep, just as dangerous as drunk driving statistically. Speaking of phones, here's one: You see her in restaurants, at the movies, etc. She's a stereotype I call the "real estate lady." She takes a call, and walks around talking real loud so that everyone can see how important she is, the big deals she's making, etc.

Now that I think of it, most of my pet peeves seem to involve cell phones. in some way.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Yep, just as dangerous as drunk driving statistically. Speaking of phones, here's one: You see her in restaurants, at the movies, etc. She's a stereotype I call the "real estate lady." She takes a call, and walks around talking real loud so that everyone can see how important she is, the big deals she's making, etc.

Now that I think of it, most of my pet peeves seem to involve cell phones. in some way.

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One from me.
I am in the fast lane and the traffic is heavy. A car fast approaches behind me, clearly the driver is in a hurry, they pass me on the right speeding up way more than the speed limit just to end up right in front of me. Tell me what kind of advantage in time is that? It sure brings risks to the other vehicles around them. I admit that sometimes I put the pedal to the metal and do not let them pass me.

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Almost as bad as the driver blocking both lanes when driving are the Oblivious people at Walmart, that decide the middle of the aisle that I am trying to get through is where they need to stop and discuss life in general.. The best part is that they seem to think you are the rude one when you say "Excuse me"