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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (3 Viewers)

JAA said:
My biggest issue with 4-way stops, or stops in general, is NO ONE STOPS ANYMORE!! I mean, why bother, it's just less safe. A roundabout will always be safer as the driver must always slow down.
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I believe that this is true in your local community, but it is definitely not true in mine. Drivers in my town stop religiously at four-way stops. Even if there is not another car in sight, they will come to a complete stop, look around, sit for a moment, look around one more time just to be 100% sure that no other car materialized from the astral plane unexpectedly, and then go.

If I am approaching the intersection, they will stop and sit there until I come to a complete stop, and then they'll proceed through the intersection, not before. Thus requiring that I sit around waiting for them to clear the intersection before I can go.

If I arrive at the intersection within 45 seconds of another car, they will sit and and wait for me to go, even if they were there first. Usually they will wave me on, thinking that they are being friendly when in fact they are simply slowing everything down and adding uncertainty to the process by not taking the right of way when it belongs to them.

In other words, drivers in my town are way too nice and way too passive for four-way stops. We need more roundabouts to keep traffic moving.
 
IvanKaramazov said:
In other words, drivers in my town are way too nice and way too passive for four-way stops. We need more roundabouts to keep traffic moving.
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One of the more aggravating things that happens around here is sometimes when I see a car approaching a four way stop where it looks like we'll arrive at the same time, I'll purposely slow down to allow them to clearly arrive first, assuming that this will then speed up the process and avoid us both waving the other on. Instead, they'll sit at the stop sign for the 2 seconds before I arrive, then try to wave me through. Ugh.

On the roundabouts, I'm a big fan, but we do have a really poorly designed one near me. It is two lanes but with a tight radius, and gets a lot of truck traffic. The majority of the trucks are unable or unwilling to stay in their lanes due to the tightness, so you have to be extra cautious when entering.
 
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arrow1 said:
Videos that say "wait for it....."
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Related: I scroll through Google news on my phone and there's always some story/article titled "I tried X (like kettlebell swings) for a week and this is what happened." Nothing happened in a week is what happened. Shut it!
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Yes. Or the “I tried (restaurant) new (burger, taco, sandwich) so you don’t have to “
 
IvanKaramazov said:
JAA said:
My biggest issue with 4-way stops, or stops in general, is NO ONE STOPS ANYMORE!! I mean, why bother, it's just less safe. A roundabout will always be safer as the driver must always slow down.
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I believe that this is true in your local community, but it is definitely not true in mine. Drivers in my town stop religiously at four-way stops. Even if there is not another car in sight, they will come to a complete stop, look around, sit for a moment, look around one more time just to be 100% sure that no other car materialized from the astral plane unexpectedly, and then go.

If I am approaching the intersection, they will stop and sit there until I come to a complete stop, and then they'll proceed through the intersection, not before. Thus requiring that I sit around waiting for them to clear the intersection before I can go.

If I arrive at the intersection within 45 seconds of another car, they will sit and and wait for me to go, even if they were there first. Usually they will wave me on, thinking that they are being friendly when in fact they are simply slowing everything down and adding uncertainty to the process by not taking the right of way when it belongs to them.

In other words, drivers in my town are way too nice and way too passive for four-way stops. We need more roundabouts to keep traffic moving.
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Come out to Mass, we can show you ******* drivers by the dozens
 
belljr said:
I now have two no soliciting signs. One is a garden sign and one is a sticker on my storm door and I still had an MFer knock on my door today
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A question I've often wondered when I see that kind of sign... do you think most of those people who knock on your door actually even know they are soliciting? I mean, I imagine they aren't generally the brightest bulbs and it's not exactly a common word.
 
jhib said:
belljr said:
I now have two no soliciting signs. One is a garden sign and one is a sticker on my storm door and I still had an MFer knock on my door today
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A question I've often wondered when I see that kind of sign... do you think most of those people who knock on your door actually even know they are soliciting? I mean, I imagine they aren't generally the brightest bulbs and it's not exactly a common word.
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I've thought of this too.
 
nirad3 said:
jhib said:
belljr said:
I now have two no soliciting signs. One is a garden sign and one is a sticker on my storm door and I still had an MFer knock on my door today
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A question I've often wondered when I see that kind of sign... do you think most of those people who knock on your door actually even know they are soliciting? I mean, I imagine they aren't generally the brightest bulbs and it's not exactly a common word.
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I've thought of this too.
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So I basically need to make a sign. It says don't try to sell me s*** and or bother knocking on my door for nothing
 
We have a giant sign for "No Soliciting" as you drive into our neighborhood/community. It works for the most part and instead of knocking they leave fliers in your mailbox. It's the religious nut jobs though that think they are above the law.
 
Peggy said:
We have a giant sign for "No Soliciting" as you drive into our neighborhood/community. It works for the most part and instead of knocking they leave fliers in your mailbox. It's the religious nut jobs though that think they are above the law.
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My redneck sister has a handwritten sign taped to her door, very explicit: No Jehovahs, No Mormons, etc. Guess it works for her.
 
Peggy said:
We have a giant sign for "No Soliciting" as you drive into our neighborhood/community. It works for the most part and instead of knocking they leave fliers in your mailbox. It's the religious nut jobs though that think they are above the law.
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We get plenty of the flyers now which I'm fine with
 
I know this has become the "bad drivers" thread, but my God...

There's a 4-lane street that I take every weekday morning to get my son to school. 2 lanes each way with a center lane for left turns. I turn right onto said street from our neighborhood and accelerate to between 35-40 (speed limit is 40). I'm going westbound, and there will always be a line of cars in the center lane facing eastbound waiting to turn left into a church/school for student dropoff. I would say about 4-5 times a month (so at least once a week), a car will turn directly in front of me even though there's a car ahead of them which is slowly creeping up the driveway into to the parking lot... making me hit my brakes.

Now, I would bet there's no one behind me, either... as I had recently just turned out of my neighborhood and made sure no one was coming down my lane. It would take this person an extra 2-3 seconds to just let me go along my way, but NOPE, pull right in front of me, almost causing a t-bone if I wasn't paying attention.

Fricking jerks. I have about 10 more days of driving son to school and then NO MORE EVER (going into middle school next year and will just ride his bike or walk).

I laid on my horn this morning to the scum that did this to me. F them!
 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
treat88 said:
I don't like it when people get in front of you when you're in the line somewhere. Hate it.
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You mean like when you’re standing in line and then, say another lane opens and rather than offering it to you, the person behind you jumps in?

ZERO respect for those people.
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YES! but belive it or not there are people that just go in front of you without even asking because they thought I wouldn't mind... yes I wouldn't have minded if you asked first... jerks
 
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but if so it definitely is worth complaining about it again. Just hate it when I grab a piece of fruit and then have to peel off the little sticker that is attached to each peach, plum or apple. Its hard with my nails and its harder if I have rinsed it beforehand. I wonder if there's some poor stock boy that has to spend hours labelling thousands of pieces of fruit each day,

Additionally I forget more about the stickers on bigger produce like peppers or tomatoes. Irritating to see a sticker floating face up on a green pepper segment in a pot of chili.
 
Moonlight said:
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but if so it definitely is worth complaining about it again. Just hate it when I grab a piece of fruit and then have to peel off the little sticker that is attached to each peach, plum or apple. Its hard with my nails and its harder if I have rinsed it beforehand. I wonder if there's some poor stock boy that has to spend hours labelling thousands of pieces of fruit each day,

Additionally I forget more about the stickers on bigger produce like peppers or tomatoes. Irritating to see a sticker floating face up on a green pepper segment in a pot of chili.
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There's a grocery store here in town where if you are only getting a few things and don't have or need a bag, the cashiers put this little red "PAID" sticker on each of your items. It drives me nuts. I mean, there's no one checking things at the door or anything like that, and even if there were I have this receipt you just handed me that proves that I paid for this gallon of milk in my hand. If anything, I think it would make it easier for someone to start stealing things because they would just need to find some of those little stickers and use them.
 
jhib said:
Moonlight said:
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but if so it definitely is worth complaining about it again. Just hate it when I grab a piece of fruit and then have to peel off the little sticker that is attached to each peach, plum or apple. Its hard with my nails and its harder if I have rinsed it beforehand. I wonder if there's some poor stock boy that has to spend hours labelling thousands of pieces of fruit each day,

Additionally I forget more about the stickers on bigger produce like peppers or tomatoes. Irritating to see a sticker floating face up on a green pepper segment in a pot of chili.
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There's a grocery store here in town where if you are only getting a few things and don't have or need a bag, the cashiers put this little red "PAID" sticker on each of your items. It drives me nuts. I mean, there's no one checking things at the door or anything like that, and even if there were I have this receipt you just handed me that proves that I paid for this gallon of milk in my hand. If anything, I think it would make it easier for someone to start stealing things because they would just need to find some of those little stickers and use them.
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One of the local supermarkets tried this. It didn't last long.
 
jhib said:
Moonlight said:
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but if so it definitely is worth complaining about it again. Just hate it when I grab a piece of fruit and then have to peel off the little sticker that is attached to each peach, plum or apple. Its hard with my nails and its harder if I have rinsed it beforehand. I wonder if there's some poor stock boy that has to spend hours labelling thousands of pieces of fruit each day,

Additionally I forget more about the stickers on bigger produce like peppers or tomatoes. Irritating to see a sticker floating face up on a green pepper segment in a pot of chili.
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There's a grocery store here in town where if you are only getting a few things and don't have or need a bag, the cashiers put this little red "PAID" sticker on each of your items. It drives me nuts. I mean, there's no one checking things at the door or anything like that, and even if there were I have this receipt you just handed me that proves that I paid for this gallon of milk in my hand. If anything, I think it would make it easier for someone to start stealing things because they would just need to find some of those little stickers and use them.
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That’s really dumb
 
jhib said:
Moonlight said:
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but if so it definitely is worth complaining about it again. Just hate it when I grab a piece of fruit and then have to peel off the little sticker that is attached to each peach, plum or apple. Its hard with my nails and its harder if I have rinsed it beforehand. I wonder if there's some poor stock boy that has to spend hours labelling thousands of pieces of fruit each day,

Additionally I forget more about the stickers on bigger produce like peppers or tomatoes. Irritating to see a sticker floating face up on a green pepper segment in a pot of chili.
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There's a grocery store here in town where if you are only getting a few things and don't have or need a bag, the cashiers put this little red "PAID" sticker on each of your items. It drives me nuts. I mean, there's no one checking things at the door or anything like that, and even if there were I have this receipt you just handed me that proves that I paid for this gallon of milk in my hand. If anything, I think it would make it easier for someone to start stealing things because they would just need to find some of those little stickers and use them.
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Walmart used to do this for any large item back in the 90s. People did start using rolls of the stickers and walking out with electronics. Stickers went away and they had people at the door checking just prior to the theft detection that they use now.
 
People who can't walk in a straight line in the airport...

I have flown a few times over the last few weeks and it is chaos trying to walk through a moderately busy airport. These morons staring at their phones, people watching, looking out the windows, or whatever they are doing keep veering off their path at angles cutting other people off. I can handle it if you are walking slower, no big deal. But quit cutting me off as I try to pass you!
 
Galileo said:
People who can't walk in a straight line in the airport...

I have flown a few times over the last few weeks and it is chaos trying to walk through a moderately busy airport. These morons staring at their phones, people watching, looking out the windows, or whatever they are doing keep veering off their path at angles cutting other people off. I can handle it if you are walking slower, no big deal. But quit cutting me off as I try to pass you!
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Hip check 'em.
 
Our system of road tests for drivers licenses is absurd. It's a 10 minute test under unrealistically easy conditions and once you have your license, you never get tested again. Most failures are for doing the one thing where you can't possibly kill anyone (parallel parking), while the test doesn't even include any of the more difficult things where you can kill someone.

How about instead of requiring six hours of professional lessons, we reduce that to five hours, but give a one hour road test that includes highway driving, lane changes on busy roads, etc. And then require being re-tested every five years starting at age 75. Heck...we could require retaking the eye test every five years starting then, and we'd eliminate a lot of unsafe drivers.
 
My driver's ed was a semester-long class in high school. Simulators, advanced maneuverability, etc. I really wish it was still the norm.

With that said, in Ohio, first license requires 50 hours of driving with an adult in addition to drivers ed. I know it's the honor system, but I definitely made my son do it and will with my daughter.
 
zoobird said:
Our system of road tests for drivers licenses is absurd. It's a 10 minute test under unrealistically easy conditions and once you have your license, you never get tested again. Most failures are for doing the one thing where you can't possibly kill anyone (parallel parking), while the test doesn't even include any of the more difficult things where you can kill someone.

How about instead of requiring six hours of professional lessons, we reduce that to five hours, but give a one hour road test that includes highway driving, lane changes on busy roads, etc. And then require being re-tested every five years starting at age 75. Heck...we could require retaking the eye test every five years starting then, and we'd eliminate a lot of unsafe drivers.
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My AZ license is still valid for 10 more years. I haven’t lived there for 23 years. Neat system they have.
 
shuke said:
With that said, in Ohio, first license requires 50 hours of driving with an adult in addition to drivers ed. I know it's the honor system, but I definitely made my son do it and will with my daughter.
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Pennsylvania requires 60 hours, but talking to other parents it sounds like pretty much everybody lies about it, which sucks. I get the impression most kids get 20-30 and the parents deem it close enough.
 
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