Thread: Pet Peeves?

Ooh time to get back on track...right!
words:
Vise...a device made to hold an object.
Vice...a habit that holds a person prisoner.
YMMV
~Richard

Sometimes I've felt my vices had me in a vise.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Being a cantankerous sort, I could write a pamphlet of driving peeves.

This is a fresh peeve that I captured a picture of today...
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Airline bottle of cinnamon-flavored whiskey in the road in front of my house. Isuspect people are driving around spiking their convenience store soda and throwing the empties into the street.

I'm going through this thread & decided to stop right here to reply. I went out to walk my dog yesterday & found an empty half gallon of McCormick whiskey in my yard. I saw another one 3 weeks ago on the street coming into the subdivision & was going to pick it up if it was there the next day but someone did as I was going to do but when I first saw it, I didn't want to give my neighbors the wrong impression. Apparently someone, possibly young teens are driving around the neighborhood getting lubricated.

Now, as for truck drivers, most of them are very respectful, a lot more than the people driving cages as us bikers call them. I rode my Harley to Milwaukee & back in '08 for their 105th anniversary celebration & on my way home, in Arkansas, it started raining due to hurricane Gustav moving up north from Louisiana into Arkansas. I had my rain gear on & it was pouring rain, so I was in the slow lane on the right. All of the truckers saw me from way back & got over way back but the cagers would come ride my ass, pass me, then pull right in front of me but the truckers would stay in the left lane, pas by & kept on for quite a ways before changing back into the right lane.

Now as for people on their call phones, that is my top peeve since people use one hand to hold the phone & are too tight to buy a blue tooth & they use the other hand to steer with unless they are reading the newspaper or texting & steering with their leg, so they can't use their turn signals at all. They might as well break the turn signal arm off since it is obviously in their way & they don't need it. Beginning March 1st of this year, my town made it illegal to drive with a cell phone unless they used hands free which is a blue tooth or like newer vehicles, is incorporated into the sound system. it was already illegal in school zones previously.

As some already know, my Harley was totaled 2 months ago when the light ahead of me was green so when I was approaching a crossover just before the light, a moron waited for me to be just about in front of them, then pulled out in front of me, then kept tried to keep going but the light changed & they had to stop behind 2 cars that stopped in front of them or they might have run the light causing another accident. People came running to my aid, at least 50 + & were asking if I was okay & if I needed EMS. I finally got to my feet, dusted myself off, bleeding & so on & said I think I'm okay, that if I felt worse by the time I got home, I would go to the ER. Then someone asked who else was involved & I pointed at the car whose occupants acted as if nothing happened, & I asked someone to call police & to also take pics of the license plate before the light changed & they get away. I was afraid I was going to get a ticket since they we're so close when they pulled out, I hit them from the rear & went down. The officer arrived & asked if I was okay & got my story, then he went over to them & got theirs. He came back to me & said our stories didn't match & I said that's because they're lying so he didn't write me a ticket & gave each of us a form to fill out which was our info & we exchanged it. My insurance company found them to be at fault because of their different inconsistencies of the stories they were giving. When they finally did get out of their cage, I noticed the female passenger looked at their rear bumper as she walked past it, so they knew something had happened. It never ceases to amaze me these days at how people are in such denial. They don't want to be responsible for their actions, instead they want to run like cowards. I couldn't tell if the driver was on a cell phone but they were trying to make the green light & just ignored the fact I was there or thought because I'm on a motorcycle, I could stop in time with only inches between their rear bumper & my front wheel.

- People who use the phrase "common sense."

- People on their cell phones driving or at the movies.

Originally Posted by engine46

It never ceases to amaze me these days at how people are in such denial. They don't want to be responsible for their actions, instead they want to run like cowards.

This right here is the most honest thing I've read in some time. People think "it's not my problem" or "I'm owed this"

You're an adult!!! Stand up and be an adult, that means taking responsibility for youself and your actions........(gets off soap box now)


Glad you're alright and things were taken care of properly

Yesterday I put about a hundred fifty miles on the vehicle.
On the freeway my really pet peev is:
Those schmucks that will hang in the driver's side rear view mirror and then...step on it to be beside me, blocking me from moving over to let someone enter the freeway off the on ramp. Three times in one day I had to dynamite the brakes to miss both cars.

Give the truckers a break, Back off and block the left lane so they can move over in the same situation! Then block the right lane so they can move back in; I don't think that adds any time to my trips.
YMMV
~Richard

Originally Posted by Dieseld

This right here is the most honest thing I've read in some time. People think "it's not my problem" or "I'm owed this"

You're an adult!!! Stand up and be an adult, that means taking responsibility for youself and your actions........(gets off soap box now)


Glad you're alright and things were taken care of properly

Thanks my friend. I would post pics of my road rash but this is about pet peeves & I do not want to disrespect this thread. Anyone interested can pm me for them.
The world has changed & it's a terrible thing when some want to run like cowards after something they caused. It's been 3 months now & I'm still healing. I avoided accidents everyday due to peoples actions but this was one there was no escaping. I'm so glad my town made it illegal to drive while talking on the phone & I'm okay with that except for those who may be husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend driving & might be arguing or fighting. They do not have complete attention of what is going on around them. For those of you who do ride, please ride safe & I mean that, even for some who may not even like me. I love everyone & hate no one.
Another peev I have is when one lies about another to make a better name for themselves.

Originally Posted by Dieseld

This right here is the most honest thing I've read in some time. People think "it's not my problem" or "I'm owed this"

You're an adult!!! Stand up and be an adult, that means taking responsibility for youself and your actions........(gets off soap box now)


Glad you're alright and things were taken care of properly

Agreed - what's the saying from Marcus Aurelius, IIRC:

"Straighten up. Never be straightened up."

Originally Posted by ZipZop

Aloha!

Well, you know you are becoming a senior in society when you think 30 is young. I'm there with you, so I understand. When I was 17, I thought 30 was old. How your perspective changes, yes?

My pet peeve with the some of the younger generation lately is the entitlement attitude and the belief in lack of consequences. No matter what happens, some of my younger friends believe that mom and dad or their lawyer can get them out of a jam. And many of them feel entitled to do whatever they want and entitled to get whatever they way.... without working hard for it. When I was 18 you got served your butt when you did something illegal or outrageous, and you got fired if you didn't work hard.....and I knew it. The fear of that helped mold my functioning as a gentleman and (I hope) be a decent employee even at an early age.

Before I started my own comapny 20 years ago, I was in a higher management role with a Fortune 500 company. I was in charge of a team in their early 20s, right out of college. It was like babysitting. I was shocked at the change from when I was their age, because I was only about 15-20 years older at the time. But I suppose all things change. I'm sure when I was 21 and entering the workforce, my manager thought I was a bit different too. Although I was in deadly fear of losing my job so I tried to be a model employee. Sometimes I think fear is a good motivator as long as it is not over the top. Just a little fear is sometimes a good thing.

-Zip

Fear is nothing more than an awareness of consequences.

Originally Posted by ZipZop

Before I started my own comapny 20 years ago, I was in a higher management role with a Fortune 500 company. I was in charge of a team in their early 20s, right out of college. It was like babysitting. I was shocked at the change from when I was their age, because I was only about 15-20 years older at the time. But I suppose all things change. I'm sure when I was 21 and entering the workforce, my manager thought I was a bit different too. Although I was in deadly fear of losing my job so I tried to be a model employee. Sometimes I think fear is a good motivator as long as it is not over the top. Just a little fear is sometimes a good thing.

Just curious here. As a manager of those employees, who's responsibility did you think it was to instill this motivation in the employees beneath you?

As a member of the "younger" generation I find it painfully ignorant to assume that a group of people is just inherently flawed because they happened to be born between a certain time span. Speaking for a group that is perhaps even a little younger than the employees you described of 20 years ago, I entered the workforce at a time when the economy was at the lowest it had been since the 1930's, there was not a job to be had and the entry level positions that were out there were happily taken up by people who had been laid off after working elsewhere for some time. The housing market had crashed which created new requirements to get mortgages (which still exist) that are almost impossible to satisfy if you are under 30 years old and have a short employment history. And then the economy was plagued even more by multiple conflicts internationally that were draining any additional resources that the government may have had to help in any way. When looking for a job I was told that the education i'd been told all of my life that i needed to have was pointless because there were people with experience out there looking for the same job.
None of those situations were created by my generation. In fact, one could very reasonably argue that those situations were all created by the greed of a very different generation. But we as a generation live in this reality and try to navigate it as best we can.
I was one of the lucky ones. I got a job because of pure luck and timing. I also managed to work steady for long enough to get enough credit to buy a home, and a car. But for every person like me there are +10 people that didn't find a job and spent hours and days and months looking for one, constantly being turned down. These people worked no less hard than I, and yet they have to move back in with their parents or other family because they literally have no more money. And now work for minimum wage as a bank teller or convenience store worker, etc. Not because they're lazy or because they're mama's boys/girls but because they've exhausted their options.

It's easy to make blanket statements about groups of people, but it's important to understand that situations dictate our lives and ability to appear successful. I know of no one in my age group that would insult the work ethic of the generations before them. I think perspective is very important before making judgments about a younger generation that may very well be dealing with just as harsh circumstances as any previous living generation, albeit different. and then questioning their work ethic.

I'll get off this big ol' soapbox now. sorry for the long text, but it's an important topic to me