Daily Gripe...(Have we done this before?)

Sorry if I'm starting something that's been done to death before. Post your Gripe of the Day here.

November 5 -

Call Waiting - I hate it. It's rude. I call someone long-distance, and not one minute into the call, along comes the dreaded beep. I'm either asked to hold on for a minute, which eventually turns into five minutes of my money, or, I'm told I'll call you right back. Hello!!! Vice Versa in my opinion is equally as rude. Someone calls me, then I'm summarily dismissed for another incoming call. A pox on their houses!

Middle Laners - People who amble along at 90k in the middle lane of the highway. You're behind them, and you think there must be a string of traffic in front of them. You finally get the chance to pass them, only to discover there's about a mile of free lane space in front of them. MOVE OVER.

Gillian

Daily Gripe: The BEES this time of year! What was God thinking??? These ******** are about to die, and they want to take everyone with them! God forbid I wear some kind of hairspray or perfume! I wish I had an itty bitty ray gun that could zap every bee that came after me!

People standing without moving at the top of a moving escalator! What are we supposed to do? Jump over them?

And people smoking in front of non-smoking signs. :mad:

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Traffic jams ... every day :p

Having to remove the ice from my car windows :(

My cat being sick with diarrhoe (sp?!) :( :(

Otherwise, I have had a great day so far :D

Drivers who don't check their blind spots...grrr!

1. The flu bug, I've been sick for 2 freakin' days!!! :mad:

2. Drivers with fast cars driving slow in the left lane. Those are the ones I cutt off!!! http://216.40.249.192/s/cwm/3dlil/mad.gif

3. Toll booths!!!

people who dig for change at the grocery store!

People who don't use their BLINKERS!!! IT TAKES A PINKY MOVEMENT...THAT'S IT! Can you tell it's a big pet peeve of mine? Every day as I go home people drive me nuts with this one.

So people...please, please, please use your blinker!


Also, people asking me why I'm still single. No, there is nothing wrong with me. I just haven't met anyone worthy of me yet. It's OKAY to be single.

You guys will convince me to stop my driving lessons, I am sure I'll do all those horrible things :D

I don't like people who cut the queue in front of me just because I'm small... :mad:

A day late, however, I do agree with you, Nessa. Toby getting shut out, I definetly did not like. I think people were reluctant to award him anything, becuase he creates too many waves. I personally think he should of won artist of the year...

As well as for his collaboration with Willie Nelson on "Beer for my horses"

Of course, I'm one to think that Cledus T. Judd should of won for his parody of Brad Paisley's "Celebrity"....one where he parodies the Dixie Chicks leaving country. *LOL*

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Here's a short list of people I think are cretins and need to be taught a lesson...preferably with a golf club...

- People who drive while talking on thier cell phone. I look around at stop lights and I see these people. You can always tell, because there cars are dented and dinged. If you need to talk on the phone so bad, PULL OVER! Or, since you drive like crap, you can talk like it...and shove the phone where the sun don't shine!

- Teen boys in pseudo fast and furious cars. You know these idiots. They are the one's that, once they saw these movies, had to go out and buy one. AND, they make them look GOOD AWFUL by putting UGLY spoilers on. I LOVE to be sitting next to one of these acne covered punks at a stop light. You can hear them rev thier engine up when the light is green. I have an automatic tranny car...I still drive two footed. One of the brake, one on the gas. Light turns, I drop the hammer....and my lil ol 1990 Chrysler Lebaron Sedan v6, smokes them. Heck, the 1979 Dodge Monaco car I sometimes drive, STILL smokes them. *LOL*

- People who can't be bothered to look up the right phone number. I've made mention of this before, about what I do to people who call my house repeatedly looking for a pizza shop. (I take thier orders and do one of a few things with it.) If you are too lazy not to look up the correct number, you got what's coming to you. *LOL* Even if it is everything with the works and topped with mice cheese."

- People who tell me my relationship with Becky isn't real. Hey, do you want to be able to type your next email with your biscuspids? *LOL*

- People at work that don't take the training courses the IT Department offers for smart classrooms, and then whines and complains when they don't know how to run things. Hey, we do this for a reason...take advantage of the fact that we are willing to even stay after hours to give these tutorials out. *LOL*

I am sure there are more and it will come to me. *LOL*

~Dan

Ppl that don't clean up after their dogs! ............ Ppl that try an distract Ella (The Chocolate Labrador in my avatar pic)when it is obvious that she is on a training session, strangely these r the same ppl that complain, loudly, about poorly trained dogs GRRRRRRRRRRR

Here are my pet peeves....

When you are walking straight down the aisle in the grocery store and someone coming out of a side aisle cuts right in front of you.. and they know it! They look right at you and don't even say excuse me.

People who use the express lane to check out more than they should. For example, the sign says 10 items and they have 20. :mad:

People who talk on their cell phones in restaurants.
WHY do they have to talk so loud? I don't want to hear their conversations. What on earth did they do before cell phones? Did they rush out of the restaurant to get to the nearest phone so they could have a conversation??

People who interrupt other people while they are talking. I cannot tell you how often this happens to me each day at work. :confused:

1. I too hate people who talk loud on their cells on the bus, although I do talk on my cell too, i keep it quiet and within 3 mins or less. only enough time to pass along info or confirm reservations.

2. People who send their kids out to play on their bikes with no helmet. Adults who do the same.

3. People who light up at a bus stop, just because their outside. They don't consider the fact that that may annoy others.

4. And this really ticks me off, sitting next to a guy on the bus or train who must have the biggest set of nuts in the world and has to sit with his legs wide open thereby, not giving me any room to lay my fat butt in the seat. I always, always try to sit next to another woman because of it.

Paris

When you have to admit that your BF is right and you were wrong. Geez.....I hate that (and love it too) :)

When I wake up and I am out of Diet Coke... I know, I only have myself to blame... but I get cranky without my Diet Coke.

When my daughters call me before 9 AM KNOWING that I sleep late! (This is after 35 years of getting up at 5:30 AM or earlier to work!)

The construction guys working on the apartments next door parking on MY GRASS where there is clearly a NO PARKING sign.

Really, not much phases me these days.. but I wanted to put something just to see myself post. :D

I'm with Mrs. H. in this, I hate, abominate, detest (I don't care if it's not English :D ) when people park at the handicapped places. If I were the responsible for keeping the order in these places, I'd block the car.

My ex-father -in-law is in a wheelchair and I lived this problem with him. These people should just be condemned by law to live a day with the handicap of others as a penalty for their horrible behaviour.

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I hate that I am on this computer too darn much!
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Oh Tru....you're too funny. I like you alot.

Originally posted by MrsHedgeHog
1. People who park in the handicapped parking and are perfectly fine, just lazy. Same for people who use the handicapped toilets. Although I used to do this too until my brother dated a girl who was a paraplegic. They need those bathrooms and sometimes quickly due to spastic bowels (common in paraplegics)



I agree completely with this one, but I'll tell you another thing about that that really peeves me.... I don't like it when people still use the handicapped parking tag when they truly no longer need one. It's a big problem where I work because all the handicapped spots are filled, despite having about 30 spaces. We are a large company.

I know, for example, 3 different people at work who obtained a tag when they were having medical problems. All have since had surgery to correct their problems. For example, one had a herniated spinal disc and had surgery to remove the disc. Another had an arthritic knee and eventually had a total knee replacement. Both ladies had the surgery between 4-5 yrs ago, yet they still use their handicap tags. When you ask them how they feel, they say they feel wonderful now. So, why take up space someone else might need just for the sake of parking closer?

Hi Kookie1 -

Enjoyed your post about cube world. I work in one too. Apart from Managers and Directors offices, and Admin. Assist. "work stations" I guess their called, the rest of the floors consist of cubicles containing the engineers, technicians and drafts-people. Cubicle World has a culture all its own. I can't remember the name of it, but there's a movie I've heard of that I was told was a must-see if you work in Cubicle World. Maybe it's called "The Office" - I'll have to see if I can find it on the www.

I enjoy peeking into people's cubicles and checking out their decorating styles! Pictures, plants, calendars, their personal "collections" - souvenirs from overseas trips, beanie babies etc., and all kinds of photo-copied Dilbert cartoons.

Gillian

WHAT I HATE

they have little meetings in the cubicle which I share with the Network administrator

They do not keep their voices down AT ALL. Four people are standing in my cubicle including my boss who I cannot be rude to.

I have some ear plugs, like they use on manufacturing floors. I pop them in my ears in a VERY OBVIOUS way to tell them all to please take their meeting elsewhere. Doesn't help. They look at me and laugh.

I'm sorry sometimes I actually need to concentrate. Lately I have noticed that another woman has purchased some. Sometimes the distractions are too much to deal with.

Kookie I love that movie. That would be GREEEAAAT! LOL My boss said that once and we haven't let her live it down.

My Gripe for today.

I went to my garage to pull out the ole leaf blower/sucker/mulcher.. and it was gone! The garage door was not closed all the way.. someone went into my garage and stole it! I just bought the thing last year, and only used it once. Nothing else in the garage was taken. I am mad.

We just spent two hours outside raking and bagging leaves. :(

I am certain that their are many people who used Handicapped parking when they are not handicapped or it is not necessary...

However, sometimes people have a disability that you do not see. I had a friend named Brenda, who at 36 came down with terminal cancer. She was given a card to use. When we parked to go into the mall, she seemed fine. When we left the mall to go to the car, she could barely walk. Her energy would be zapped all of a sudden. Plus her breathing would get very labored. But that girl loved to shop! In fact she went white water rafting 3 months before she died. But again... to look at her going into the mall... you would have thought she was just another bratty YUPPIE.

Now I go into the handicapped bathroom stall. I have a L4-L5 deteriorating disc and some other back problems that are too tech and long to explain. I have a difficulty getting up from those commodes unless they are high and/or have side handles to hold on to. I get my nerves along my spine burned off every 8 months to a year to reduce the pain. To see me going into the stall, you would not know that anything was wrong with me.

So please don't give someone a dirty look, one really can't always tell who needs the assistance and who doesn't.

Came home and found this thread...

I am NOT in a happy mood...

In a 30 minute drive home, I was almost involved in THREE accidents...caused people that think they can drive but have NO CLUE what they are doing out there...

Not to mention, one of these mental giants got out of his car and threatened to beat my behind. That is, until I stepped out of my car holding my damn breaker bar....

Spineless little scumbag backed down and went back into his car awfully dang fast...

God...next time one of these cretins does this crap in thier car, I may not be a nice guy.

~Dan

Relax Dan. Getting angry back just feeds into their rage as well.

I should know. I deal with 15 miles of bumper to bumper traffic each day. We have 3 main bridges that cross from Indiana into Kentucky and if just ONE of them is backed up, then the entire area is backed up. I was an hour and a half late getting to work the other day because some semi shifted its load just before the main bridge. :mad:

All this and endless construction going on here right now with roads closed and detoured everywhere.

I used to get angry at the morons, too. But, I learned that it did me more harm than good.

So, drink a nice glass of wine and relax. You are home safe and sound now. That's all that matters.