OT: You know what really grinds my gears?
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Incompetent boaters.
If you can't figure out how to put it in the water then just don't, go back home and put a for sale sign on it. No need to get between me and a nice day of fishing.
If you can't figure out how to put it in the water then just don't, go back home and put a for sale sign on it. No need to get between me and a nice day of fishing.
Parents who forget that other people's lives don't revolve around their kids. As much as I love and enjoy our kids, I don't even let our lives revolve around them, much less expect other people's lives to. Maybe we're able to keep perspective because we had kids later in life and got to witness the harm that can come from completely losing yourselves in your kids.
People who think I am wrong about something I tell them. Even if it is an opinion, mine is the right one. Just go with it and don't argue. Just like the recent post about paying NCAA Athletes. There were a few folks who immediately saw my solution as the only right one and agreed with me. Others kept posting about a myriad of stupid ways and amounts that schools should pay players. If I don't know an answer, I will tell you that.
Don't get me wrong, I will love my children to the utmost if I ever have any. Kids needs should come before the parents in my view. I just never have been a baby or toddler person, and most people in rural communities like mine think you must be from outer space if you aren't absolutely infatuated by all children everywhere. They can't understand why anyone would possibly want to do anything else but start having hoards of children the minute you're married. Number 1, I don't want more than a few children to begin with, and number 2 I would like to provide nice things for my kids once they're here. Establishing a career while I'm still young sets me up to afford better things down the road for my family and hopefully enables me to have more family time instead of being gone to work constantly.
Yepper ...
Was at Wally World last Saturday and witnessed two 300+ pound 'heavyweight' women headed for the last remaining electric cart. Thought I was going to get to see the next WWE raw throwdown. But, it just degenerated into a cussing, shouting match about 'who' got to the cart first.
Definition of Irony ... they spent way more calories and energy spitting, cussing & yelling at each other than they would if they just walked down the isles pushing a basket.
Was at Wally World last Saturday and witnessed two 300+ pound 'heavyweight' women headed for the last remaining electric cart. Thought I was going to get to see the next WWE raw throwdown. But, it just degenerated into a cussing, shouting match about 'who' got to the cart first.
Definition of Irony ... they spent way more calories and energy spitting, cussing & yelling at each other than they would if they just walked down the isles pushing a basket.
I can identify with all but the last couple.....
Don't play golf, don't have close neighbors.
I might add though some gym stuff:
People who camp out on a machine at the gym and want to sit there on it between reps texting or making phone calls.
People who work out in herds and monopolize a piece of equipment for 20 minutes while all four or five take turns.
People at the gym who commandeer the equipment intended for one thing to do another. Like take the bench for the pull down machine to do their dumbell curls.
People at the gym who leave puddles in front of the lockers. Nobody wants to wade barefoot in your mess while getting dressed.
Don't play golf, don't have close neighbors.
I might add though some gym stuff:
People who camp out on a machine at the gym and want to sit there on it between reps texting or making phone calls.
People who work out in herds and monopolize a piece of equipment for 20 minutes while all four or five take turns.
People at the gym who commandeer the equipment intended for one thing to do another. Like take the bench for the pull down machine to do their dumbell curls.
People at the gym who leave puddles in front of the lockers. Nobody wants to wade barefoot in your mess while getting dressed.
Well I guess I could respond in kind with, don't go to the gym.
But all those things you mentioned piss me off as well. Also, not returning weights to their rightful place.
Also, letting your dog bark all the time and in the middle of the night is like playing music really loud. My neighbors dogs are fine, but I can hear dogs in the distance that bark all the time. I really wouldn't stand for it if they lived next to me. I'd have to confront the owners. There are ways to keep your dog from barking all the time.
But all those things you mentioned piss me off as well. Also, not returning weights to their rightful place.
Also, letting your dog bark all the time and in the middle of the night is like playing music really loud. My neighbors dogs are fine, but I can hear dogs in the distance that bark all the time. I really wouldn't stand for it if they lived next to me. I'd have to confront the owners. There are ways to keep your dog from barking all the time.
Can you put me in your will? Because taking this **** too seriously one day will get you killed. I AM NOT saying that it is not inappropriate and I completely agree that it bothers me to no end when my kids are in the car and this happens. However, it's not worth me dying over. Case in point... http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/16/us-usa-florida-shooting-dunn-idUSBREA1E0MR20140216
Sounds like similar to things I'm talking about but more particularly would be when, for example kids are running wild in or break something in your house, and the parents say something like "you won't care that your couch has a huge stain on it after you have kids or that they put a hole in the drywall while playing." Or they ask in front of the kids for you to come to the kid's recital on Saturday night, which will last 3 hours but only feature 5 minutes of the kid you actually care about, and oh yeah the recital is an hour away, and tickets are $15 a piece. Don't ask that period but certainly don't ask it in front of the kid and get them excited. Or they will ask for a 'donation' to their kids travel baseball or soccer team.
The other thing I would note is that there is a huge difference between placing the needs of the kids first versus the kids being the parents purpose of existing. My spouse and children are by far the most important thing in my life, and their needs come first, but the kids wants/immediate desires don't always come ahead of my spouse and me. They'll have everything they need to start out life way ahead, and it looks like we will be blessed enough to fulfill many 'wants' also, but you won't see us beating ourselves up because they are not going to a several thousand dollar summer camp, driving a brand new car, playing on travel teams for 7 different teams/activities, etc. And you certainly won't see us doing things like that if we're not comfortably paying our bills and saving for retirement.
What really sucks is the cashier is only trying to be personable/outgoing/etc. I am sure they are trying to enjoy their job and help customers have a good experience. Its just so frigging annoying to be forced into a conversation about a topic you have no desire to discuss with people you don't know. Especially when you have 2 kids with you that are ready to get the 17 out of the store.
Ha! Maybe I'll take up golf .....
I am sure I would find those things you mentioned on the links very annoying as well! .
I liked all of your driving gripes but especially the drivers who won't pass but insist on staying in your blind spot and drivers who play leapfrog down the interstate while I am trying to use cruise. Another for me is believe it or is lack of standardizing the fuel port side for vehicles especially since left side fueling outnumbers right at least 10-1. That never used to bother me until I bought a car with right side fueling. Now on many occasions I have gone to a very busy gas station and found no line going the direction needed for right side fueling.
I am sure I would find those things you mentioned on the links very annoying as well! .
I liked all of your driving gripes but especially the drivers who won't pass but insist on staying in your blind spot and drivers who play leapfrog down the interstate while I am trying to use cruise. Another for me is believe it or is lack of standardizing the fuel port side for vehicles especially since left side fueling outnumbers right at least 10-1. That never used to bother me until I bought a car with right side fueling. Now on many occasions I have gone to a very busy gas station and found no line going the direction needed for right side fueling.
This in spades. Let me preface this by saying my wife and I never had kids. We waited late to try and it wasn't a disaster if it didn't happen but we set an age limit. If it didn't happen by a certain age we would eliminate the possibility. Parents don't know when to hire a babysitter or leave there kids at home. It's like they are afraid the kid may fart and they won't be there to smell it. We go to old friends who we knew prior to children and now all they want to talk about is how little Suzie should have been head cheerleader or the coach isn't giving little Johnnie enough playing time. Then there is the snide remarks about how they had soccer practice Saturday morning so it's not fair that we flew to Vegas for the weekend. Children below the age of 13 shouldn't be allowed in restaurants that serve alcohol , nothing befuddles me more than to go into BWW in the bar area and the entire little legue team is running barefooted through the bar. Take them to Chick Filet, I'm trying to have a beer and watch the game.
People that can't figure out those white lines in parking lots are not targets to aim the center of your car for. And you know good and well when you get out you just took up two parking spots. Get back in straighten your car up.
People with 148 items in the express lane at walmart and the cashiers that let that slide.
People driving 15 miles under the speed limit but refuse to move to the RH lane.
People in restaurants that think we all should hear their conversations and those that refuse to take their screaming kid out until it settles down.
McDonalds ice cream machine always being down.
People with 148 items in the express lane at walmart and the cashiers that let that slide.
People driving 15 miles under the speed limit but refuse to move to the RH lane.
People in restaurants that think we all should hear their conversations and those that refuse to take their screaming kid out until it settles down.
McDonalds ice cream machine always being down.
When some somebitch in NY
tells us/people that we can't buy a BIG COKE!
17 the COKE, that is just the small stuff, It's somebody that thinks they know EVERYTHING, trying to tell us/me what to do.
God Help us!
tells us/people that we can't buy a BIG COKE!
17 the COKE, that is just the small stuff, It's somebody that thinks they know EVERYTHING, trying to tell us/me what to do.
God Help us!
Parents who allow their kids to interrupt adult conversations.
Generally parents who don't parent.
Generally parents who don't parent.
Here are mine...
(1)
People that fail to grasp what the 1st Amendment really means, as it pertains to free speech. You may have a "right" to say anything you wish and generally the government can't lay a finger on you, but that does not mean you are shielded from repercussions from society or public ridicule if you say something stupid.
(2)
I want to preface this by saying I am 100% pro-self defense/pro-gun rights, but the Yosimette Sam open carry ilk that insist on going heeled everywhere they go get under my skin. If I am ever paranoid to the point that I have to carry a loaded gun to a place like Pinelake Church, I might as well just lock myself in the basement.
(3)
Christians in America that constantly complain about being "persecuted". Go to Sunday school and church in Islamabad or Riyadh next Sunday, and come back and talk to me about persecution.
(4)
People who take forever at an ATM, or even worse, make withdrawals using multiple ATM cards.
(1)
People that fail to grasp what the 1st Amendment really means, as it pertains to free speech. You may have a "right" to say anything you wish and generally the government can't lay a finger on you, but that does not mean you are shielded from repercussions from society or public ridicule if you say something stupid.
(2)
I want to preface this by saying I am 100% pro-self defense/pro-gun rights, but the Yosimette Sam open carry ilk that insist on going heeled everywhere they go get under my skin. If I am ever paranoid to the point that I have to carry a loaded gun to a place like Pinelake Church, I might as well just lock myself in the basement.
(3)
Christians in America that constantly complain about being "persecuted". Go to Sunday school and church in Islamabad or Riyadh next Sunday, and come back and talk to me about persecution.
(4)
People who take forever at an ATM, or even worse, make withdrawals using multiple ATM cards.
I feel you. We all make choices, the rest of society shouldn't have to suffer your blabbering kids on a weekend night because you wanted to go see a PG13 or rated R movie but couldn't afford a sitter. I get really pissed off when I go out to eat somewhere nice with my wife and spend $30 a person to hear someone's teething baby screaming its head off one table away while the 17 year old mother is on her cellphone.
In reference to your #1...one of my favorite quotes...Andrew Wilkow, "your freedom to BE you includes my freedom to be free FROM you."
"Fixed" a tailgater...between Stark and Louisville
Dead 4-lane and he stayed right behind. Slow down, speed up, left lane, right lane didn't matter. He stayed on my ***. The Bride has a Tahoe and I cruised over a semi's tire cap and the Ford Focus was...not well.
Wanna get pissed... People that speed up on the passing lanes of HWY45 once you get into Alabama after they have a line of traffic behind them.
Dead 4-lane and he stayed right behind. Slow down, speed up, left lane, right lane didn't matter. He stayed on my ***. The Bride has a Tahoe and I cruised over a semi's tire cap and the Ford Focus was...not well.
Wanna get pissed... People that speed up on the passing lanes of HWY45 once you get into Alabama after they have a line of traffic behind them.
One of my absolute favorite things to do to a tailgaiter is to clean my windshield when they are close to my bumper. This is especially fun when it is a top down convertible. They either will back the 17 off or they will go ballistic. Both are fine by me.
1. Too much information when a person goes into labor. I seriously don't want nor need to know about centimeters. Just tell me when there is a baby.
2. On-ramp weenies. Give it the gas. Get up to the damn speed limit and merge into traffic. If you need to hit your brakes you are doing it wrong.
3. People who slow down on the interstate to look at a wreck in the opposite lanes. Traffic should not slow down for north bound when south bound, separated by a damn median, has a wreck. Just. Go.
4. People who ask if I saw something on facebook. I always respond "no. I don't have facebook." They then proceed to tell me all about it when I clearly don't want information from facebook. If I needed to know about long lost acquaintances from elementary school, then they wouldn't be long or lost.
5. Parents who can't understand that their kids occasionally not performing well in school may teach them more than the course content.
6. Mid 40s recently divorced people who are trying to relive their lost years and end up looking like total jackasses. Your new tattoo, fake tan, and flat billed hat are not cool to 20 somethings. They ONLY tolerate you because you have disposable income and will buy the drinks.
2. On-ramp weenies. Give it the gas. Get up to the damn speed limit and merge into traffic. If you need to hit your brakes you are doing it wrong.
3. People who slow down on the interstate to look at a wreck in the opposite lanes. Traffic should not slow down for north bound when south bound, separated by a damn median, has a wreck. Just. Go.
4. People who ask if I saw something on facebook. I always respond "no. I don't have facebook." They then proceed to tell me all about it when I clearly don't want information from facebook. If I needed to know about long lost acquaintances from elementary school, then they wouldn't be long or lost.
5. Parents who can't understand that their kids occasionally not performing well in school may teach them more than the course content.
6. Mid 40s recently divorced people who are trying to relive their lost years and end up looking like total jackasses. Your new tattoo, fake tan, and flat billed hat are not cool to 20 somethings. They ONLY tolerate you because you have disposable income and will buy the drinks.
dog people- just because you love your mutt and let it jump/hump/do whatever it wants, doesn't mean i want the damned thing to jump on me, lick me/ whatever...
Runners- IDGAF how far you've run, you're not special, your not an athlete, you aren't even good at it and no one really cares.
Runners- IDGAF how far you've run, you're not special, your not an athlete, you aren't even good at it and no one really cares.
When people keep asking when are you going to have kids and you and your wife are going through infertility issues. I swear I wanted to punch people in the face sometimes when they would ask my wife over and over.
For some reason, at my company a ton of people have taken to using the verb "ask" as a noun.
It's generally used where you would normally use a word like "request", only I guess it sounds smarter if you're saying "The ask from the VP is that you do [pointless crap]."
What's especially ironic is they're never ASKING when they use it.
It's generally used where you would normally use a word like "request", only I guess it sounds smarter if you're saying "The ask from the VP is that you do [pointless crap]."
What's especially ironic is they're never ASKING when they use it.
Worst. Thing. Ever.
I started making them feel bad by just saying "stop asking about our sex life" or "our doctors say the chances are slim."
THIS x1000. A good rule of thumb: If someone's been married more than three or four years and hasn't popped one out, then they've either not had children by decision, or because it's out of their hands, and whichever it is, if they wanted you to know about it, they'd tell you, so shut your trap. Sadly, there's enough Fertile Myrtle's out there who can't wrap their tiny brains around the idea that someone just CAN'T get pregnant.
We had this friend who just boo-hooed the fact that her second child wasn't able to be born naturally and she had to have a C-section, and we were just infuriated that she couldn't simply be happy that she had one, without giving a damn how it got there.