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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (6 Viewers)

When driving at night, on a mostly unoccupied highway, I'll see a car approaching from far behind me. They will eventually catch up with me, and clearly they are driving at a faster speed than I am. But suddenly as they approach behind me, they no longer want to go that fast, and they'll either stay behind me or they'll ride along side of me for a time. It's weird.

 
Tom Skerritt said:
When driving at night, on a mostly unoccupied highway, I'll see a car approaching from far behind me. They will eventually catch up with me, and clearly they are driving at a faster speed than I am. But suddenly as they approach behind me, they no longer want to go that fast, and they'll either stay behind me or they'll ride along side of me for a time. It's weird.
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Do you have a car that could be confused as an unmarked police car?  I do and it happens to me a lot.

 
Tom Skerritt said:
When driving at night, on a mostly unoccupied highway, I'll see a car approaching from far behind me. They will eventually catch up with me, and clearly they are driving at a faster speed than I am. But suddenly as they approach behind me, they no longer want to go that fast, and they'll either stay behind me or they'll ride along side of me for a time. It's weird.
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TheIronSheik said:
Do you have a car that could be confused as an unmarked police car?  I do and it happens to me a lot.
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Then they sit there and you have constant lights in your mirror.  I have slowed down to force them to pass me.

 
Tom Skerritt said:
When driving at night, on a mostly unoccupied highway, I'll see a car approaching from far behind me. They will eventually catch up with me, and clearly they are driving at a faster speed than I am. But suddenly as they approach behind me, they no longer want to go that fast, and they'll either stay behind me or they'll ride along side of me for a time. It's weird.
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This happens to me, but I am the driver in the back.   When it is an open road and I don't have cruise on, I catch myself slowly going faster and faster, when I catch up to another car I realize I am no longer going the 75mph I thought but actually up to 85mph.   I slow down and use the car I caught up to as a pace car. 

 
And my wife has added a new pet peeve to my list.  She texts me when she is on the way, or just getting to the grocery store "I am at the store, need anything?"  So I text back within a few minutes with stuff we need for dinner or to make the kids lunches for the next day.  She either doesn't respond or I get a text 2 hours later "Didn't see that, at home now".  I get home, see that she didn't get something and ask her why "Oh, I didn't see your text."  If you ask me if I need something at the store, check to see if I answered you before you leave the store, how hard is that. 

 
UOFI_316 said:
And my wife has added a new pet peeve to my list.  She texts me when she is on the way, or just getting to the grocery store "I am at the store, need anything?"  So I text back within a few minutes with stuff we need for dinner or to make the kids lunches for the next day.  She either doesn't respond or I get a text 2 hours later "Didn't see that, at home now".  I get home, see that she didn't get something and ask her why "Oh, I didn't see your text."  If you ask me if I need something at the store, check to see if I answered you before you leave the store, how hard is that. 
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TO add to this:

Text exchange

Wife:  Do you want anything from the grocery store

me: not sure let me check think about

Wife: Well Im here now and getting ready to checkout

😡

 
UOFI_316 said:
And my wife has added a new pet peeve to my list.  She texts me when she is on the way, or just getting to the grocery store "I am at the store, need anything?"  So I text back within a few minutes with stuff we need for dinner or to make the kids lunches for the next day.  She either doesn't respond or I get a text 2 hours later "Didn't see that, at home now".  I get home, see that she didn't get something and ask her why "Oh, I didn't see your text."  If you ask me if I need something at the store, check to see if I answered you before you leave the store, how hard is that. 
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This would quite honestly drive me insane. I suppose after the first few episodes I'd likely just stop bothering to answer.

 
So my newest huge peeve. Got a call from the boss today.

Boss: "Big Boss wants to know how xxxx is coming along."

Me: :oldunsure:

Boss: You know, the project they put the request in for a month or two ago.

Me: Dude, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Turns out no one ever entered the request. Worse yet, boss shares screen to show me the email trail detailing the HUGE effort needed that is already "late" and I see that both he and my immediate supervisor have been involved in the discussion for MONTHS and that the final decision was reached THREE weeks ago. Not a word to me. Now I have 20 days before I leave on my anniversary trip, my first days off since May 10th, and I will basically be saddled with 60+ hours weeks trying to get this project completed before I go. I honestly have never been so disheartened with my workplace as I am today.

 
DallasDMac said:
So my newest huge peeve. Got a call from the boss today.

Boss: "Big Boss wants to know how xxxx is coming along."

Me: :oldunsure:

Boss: You know, the project they put the request in for a month or two ago.

Me: Dude, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Turns out no one ever entered the request. Worse yet, boss shares screen to show me the email trail detailing the HUGE effort needed that is already "late" and I see that both he and my immediate supervisor have been involved in the discussion for MONTHS and that the final decision was reached THREE weeks ago. Not a word to me. Now I have 20 days before I leave on my anniversary trip, my first days off since May 10th, and I will basically be saddled with 60+ hours weeks trying to get this project completed before I go. I honestly have never been so disheartened with my workplace as I am today.
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Why are you d1cking around here?  Git to work!!!

 
DallasDMac said:
So my newest huge peeve. Got a call from the boss today.

Boss: "Big Boss wants to know how xxxx is coming along."

Me: :oldunsure:

Boss: You know, the project they put the request in for a month or two ago.

Me: Dude, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Turns out no one ever entered the request. Worse yet, boss shares screen to show me the email trail detailing the HUGE effort needed that is already "late" and I see that both he and my immediate supervisor have been involved in the discussion for MONTHS and that the final decision was reached THREE weeks ago. Not a word to me. Now I have 20 days before I leave on my anniversary trip, my first days off since May 10th, and I will basically be saddled with 60+ hours weeks trying to get this project completed before I go. I honestly have never been so disheartened with my workplace as I am today.
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I gave you a like in support, not because I like this situation for you. This kind of lack of communication is terrible.

 
Hov34 said:
Why are you d1cking around here?  Git to work!!!
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Oddly enough, yesterday was the only day I logged out after "only" an eight hour day in as long as I can remember. I was definitely in a "what's the point?" mood.

 
This is really peevish, but it's starting to bug me.  With all the recent talk about vaping, we get to see stock footage of teens blowing vapor from every orifice.  (I watch the off-brand news channels.)  It's pretty disgusting.  Could we just stop with the intense close-ups, please?

 
It's still the motion activated toilets that flush every 10 seconds while you are sitting there, even if you remain more frozen than the Night King. Then proceed to the motion activated sink that refuses to dispense water no matter how many ninja hand movements you throw at it. 

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
This is really peevish, but it's starting to bug me.  With all the recent talk about vaping, we get to see stock footage of teens blowing vapor from every orifice.  (I watch the off-brand news channels.)  It's pretty disgusting.  Could we just stop with the intense close-ups, please?
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Along those lines, close ups of people eating. 

 
belljr said:
UOFI_316 said:
And my wife has added a new pet peeve to my list.  She texts me when she is on the way, or just getting to the grocery store "I am at the store, need anything?"  So I text back within a few minutes with stuff we need for dinner or to make the kids lunches for the next day.  She either doesn't respond or I get a text 2 hours later "Didn't see that, at home now".  I get home, see that she didn't get something and ask her why "Oh, I didn't see your text."  If you ask me if I need something at the store, check to see if I answered you before you leave the store, how hard is that. 
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TO add to this:

Text exchange

Wife:  Do you want anything from the grocery store

me: not sure let me check think about

Wife: Well Im here now and getting ready to checkout

😡
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And a different side of that...I do the cooking in our house and also the shopping since I know what I need.  Ill ask her if she wants/needs anything from the store.  No...I think Im good.

It takes me about 10-15 minutes to get the store and maybe 20-30 inside the store and Im done.  Pretty much every time I go.  It never fails...Im almost home already almost a full hour after I left and I get "if you are still at the store...we need _____".

 
Restaurants that don't refill the paper towel dispenser in the bathroom.

I understand that your staff is busy, but it only takes 10 seconds to place a roll on the counter. You don't even have to install it. Just give us SOMETHING that we can dry our hands with.

 
Seemingly every time I go to back out of a parking spot, some dipstick feels the need to walk right into my path. You can see my red car a lot easier than I can see your dopey, oblivious to your surroundings, meandering to your 83 Monza self . If a car is moving any direction, DON"T GET IN ITS PATH! 

 
simsarge said:
Seemingly every time I go to back out of a parking spot, some dipstick feels the need to walk right into my path. You can see my red car a lot easier than I can see your dopey, oblivious to your surroundings, meandering to your 83 Monza self . If a car is moving any direction, DON"T GET IN ITS PATH! 
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BUT I HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!

 
Hearing someone for years say they're bound to be homeless when they make 6 figure salary. 🙄 

Note, this person doesn't have  a lot of large expenses and has always been a tight wad.

 
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I've probably said this in this thread a couple times, but I'm old and don't remember for sure, so here we go (again?):

I hate stations that put up graphics to advertise other shows on their network.  They all do it, but the Discovery Channel is the worst.  For Shark Week, they had a graphic taking up almost a quarter of the screen that was counting down the time to Shark Week.  During the show I watched, it was 40 some hours away.  No one is counting down from 40 hours out.  And the worst is when they have subtitles that are blocked by their own graphics.  That is moronic!

Oh, and no one likes Shark Week.  It's like the Pope of cable events.  Everyone loves to talk about Shark Week and count it down and post the stupid clothes they bought for SW.  But no one actually WATCHES Shark Week.  

 
Commercials where the people are intentionally trying to sing bad. So you have these people doing this high to low octave singing trying to sound like bad singers.

Where if they just let these people naturally sing, it would most likely sound awful anyway. Fake bad singing =  :hot:

 
This one's probably been mentioned, too, but radio ads or show intros/bits that have emergency vehicle siren sounds. There really should be a law against it or something.

 
jhib said:
This one's probably been mentioned, too, but radio ads or show intros/bits that have emergency vehicle siren sounds. There really should be a law against it or something.
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I don't listen to too much radio anymore, but I have a couple of songs on my iPod that start or end with police sirens.  Always scare the crap out of me.

 
TheIronSheik said:
I've probably said this in this thread a couple times, but I'm old and don't remember for sure, so here we go (again?):

I hate stations that put up graphics to advertise other shows on their network.  They all do it, but the Discovery Channel is the worst.  For Shark Week, they had a graphic taking up almost a quarter of the screen that was counting down the time to Shark Week.  During the show I watched, it was 40 some hours away.  No one is counting down from 40 hours out.  And the worst is when they have subtitles that are blocked by their own graphics.  That is moronic!

Oh, and no one likes Shark Week.  It's like the Pope of cable events.  Everyone loves to talk about Shark Week and count it down and post the stupid clothes they bought for SW.  But no one actually WATCHES Shark Week.  
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I think ESPN is the worst as far as on screen graphics.  They'll have graphics on the screen that you can't fully see because they are blocked by the scroll that is now constantly on screen regardless of relevance.  For example, I don't need to be updated on the latest Winston Cup standings every 3 minutes when I'm sitting down to watch a baseball game.  A couple times a game?  Sure, knock yourself out.  But no, I don't need to see it on average once per batter.

 
Hate the strike zone box they show with every pitch now. It conditions a person to see where the ball was vs actually watching the ball hit the bat. So as a viewer, I find myself waiting for that ball to show up on the screen indicating the pitch.

That and it takes away the fun of dissecting the location of the pitch. Takes away the mystery and one of the intricacies of baseball - each umps strike zone. Bah.

 
ChiefD said:
Hate the strike zone box they show with every pitch now. It conditions a person to see where the ball was vs actually watching the ball hit the bat. So as a viewer, I find myself waiting for that ball to show up on the screen indicating the pitch.

That and it takes away the fun of dissecting the location of the pitch. Takes away the mystery and one of the intricacies of baseball - each umps strike zone. Bah.
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I love the box and get upset when I watch a game without it.

 
Tow trucks that have red and blue flashing lights.  Those should be for emergency vehicles only.  Tow trucks should have yellow only.

 
ChiefD said:
Commercials where the people are intentionally trying to sing bad. So you have these people doing this high to low octave singing trying to sound like bad singers.

Where if they just let these people naturally sing, it would most likely sound awful anyway. Fake bad singing =  :hot:
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There are two ads on Pandora - both for Tide - that feature this.  I immediately pull my earbud outta my ear.  It's the worst.

Oh, and there it is again...... 2-3 times a day, if not more.  

 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
How often is this happening to you?  You may have a creeper.
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You could be right as I really fill out a pair of Dockers nicely.  It's mostly one guy I work with who waits for the beep, then audibly inhales deeply, and then leaves a 3 minute message on my phone.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Oh, and no one likes Shark Week.  It's like the Pope of cable events.  Everyone loves to talk about Shark Week and count it down and post the stupid clothes they bought for SW.  But no one actually WATCHES Shark Week.  
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Wait... what? Who are these "people?" I have never remotely experienced any of that. Buy clothes for SW? WT bloody H?

 
Why do the slowest drivers feel the need to get out in front of traffic?  I'm usually a 10 over the speed limit guy, especially on non highway roads.  Driving into work today and I'm on a road that's 25 mph.  I'm doing 30.  Guy pulls out in front of me from a side street and proceeds to do about 16 mph with a parade of cars behind him.  Luckily he was only in front of me for a little over half of my commute.  :angry:

 
TheIronSheik said:
Why do the slowest drivers feel the need to get out in front of traffic?  I'm usually a 10 over the speed limit guy, especially on non highway roads.  Driving into work today and I'm on a road that's 25 mph.  I'm doing 30.  Guy pulls out in front of me from a side street and proceeds to do about 16 mph with a parade of cars behind him.  Luckily he was only in front of me for a little over half of my commute.  :angry:
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Because they are stupid self absorbed jerks. Its actually worse when they do it to one car imo. 

 
bryhamm said:
What the hell kinda screwy logic is this?
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Becuase it is one thing for someone to jump out in front of traffic when they can tell there is no other opening coming.  But, to cut one single solitary car off when you could have waited 5 seconds and not slowed them down is a total jerk move.

 
Bull Dozier said:
Becuase it is one thing for someone to jump out in front of traffic when they can tell there is no other opening coming.  But, to cut one single solitary car off when you could have waited 5 seconds and not slowed them down is a total jerk move.
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Yep. I can come up with a thought process for the guy that does it in heavy traffic. Still a jerk for driving so slow.

 
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