Can we discuss pet peeves here? (12 Viewers)

[Leroy Hoard]

You still have a bank drive-thru that uses tubes?  Do you live in 2005?

There are people who seem to live in a vacuum.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

What do new fangled banks use to transport cash and documents 30 feet way?

Mine has girls on roller skates.

 

[Pipes]

I love roundabouts, but the guy at the roundabout I hate is the dude that flies up to it at 40mph.  You're going to stop, right dooshnozzle?  You see my and you know you don't have the right away, right dipstick?

Similar beef here. People that drive fast to a stop sign and stop at the last possible second as if they were going to blow through if there was no traffic.  Twice in the past month I thought, for a spilt second, I was about to be T boned by a car screaming up to a stop sign as I was just driving down the street.

 

[Thomas The Skank Engine]

Yesterday I saw a woman pushing a dog in a stroller at a hockey rink.

 

[Don't Noonan]

We live in a two story house and if my wife needs me for some reason she will often yell from upstairs instead of coming to the stairs where I can clearly hear her.  I don't like yelling "I can't understand you" all the time so I find myself having to walk upstairs only to find out she wants to know something unimportant like did I talk with my parents today.

Now my 11 year old son does the same thing, screaming from downstairs that he is hungry or if we have any more gatorade in the garage.

 

[Drunken knight]

We live in a two story house and if my wife needs me for some reason she will often yell from upstairs instead of coming to the stairs where I can clearly hear her.  I don't like yelling "I can't understand you" all the time so I find myself having to walk upstairs only to find out she wants to know something unimportant like did I talk with my parents today.

Now my 11 year old son does the same thing, screaming from downstairs that he is hungry or if we have any more gatorade in the garage.

can you text each other for things like that?

 

[RokNRole]

I don’t know you married guys can put up with this crap.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

My youngest kid used to do that all the time.  I figured out how to respond.  I just said to him "I have not been in the conversation going on in your head up to now, you'll need to get me up to speed."

me too.

 

[Don't Noonan]

can you text each other for things like that?

Funny you mention that, after I complained she will sometimes text me now

 

[Drunken knight]

Funny you mention that, after I complained she will sometimes text me now

i don't like the multi-level yelling either.  grew up with it.  when my grandparents would visit, it could have been a scene from sienfeld with the costanzas.  my wife and i are pretty good about this.  still working with my 12 yr old daughter to come to me with questions or whatnot from different levels.

 

[Bull Dozier]

Similar beef here. People that drive fast to a stop sign and stop at the last possible second as if they were going to blow through if there was no traffic.  Twice in the past month I thought, for a spilt second, I was about to be T boned by a car screaming up to a stop sign as I was just driving down the street.

Similar four way stop complaint, the car that waits until to come to a complete stop before they proceed.  This is not in your scenario above where the guy is coming in too fast.  I have a four way stop near my house I have to go through every day on the way to work.  At least once a week I have a car that is already at the stop sign when I'm approaching, and they sit there until I get to a complete stop.  Like I'm going to approach the stop from 50 ft away, see a car there, slow down almost to the point of stopping, but then do a roll through and not actually stop.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

What do new fangled banks use to transport cash and documents 30 feet way?

What documents?  The cash we just deposit in the ATM.

 

[Scoresman]

I dont understand the microwave one.  If my food only takes 56 seconds to get to ideal temperature,  I'm not going to let it go that extra 4 seconds and possibly burn it or my tongue.

 

[Don't Noonan]

I dont understand the microwave one.  If my food only takes 56 seconds to get to ideal temperature,  I'm not going to let it go that extra 4 seconds and possibly burn it or my tongue.

That is fine.  All we are asking is that after you take out your food hit the cancel or stop button so the microwave doesn't keep flashing 4 seconds instead of showing the current time of day.

 

[Scoresman]

That is fine.  All we are asking is that after you take out your food hit the cancel or stop button so the microwave doesn't keep flashing 4 seconds instead of showing the current time of day.

But I'm leaving you an extra 4 seconds!

Buy a watch!

 

[Arizona Ron]

Mine is easy. She loves to just start talking out of the blue. When I'm reading, watching a video, whatever. i.e. When I'm obviously engaged in something. Blurts out a one liner. Doesn't get my attention first. Doesn't give me a heads-up to stop what I'm doing and pay attention. Just pukes out a statement. Then immediately gets ****** off when I have no idea what she said. As if I am totally at fault for not paying attention. It's aggravating.

My wife will do this while using pronouns.  The amount of times I have to say "who's her" is annoying.

 

[Pipes]

Similar four way stop complaint, the car that waits until to come to a complete stop before they proceed.  This is not in your scenario above where the guy is coming in too fast.  I have a four way stop near my house I have to go through every day on the way to work.  At least once a week I have a car that is already at the stop sign when I'm approaching, and they sit there until I get to a complete stop.  Like I'm going to approach the stop from 50 ft away, see a car there, slow down almost to the point of stopping, but then do a roll through and not actually stop.

4 way stop intersections are the worst. You always have the people that don't wait their turn which is annoying but to me they people that don't go and try to waive you through, even when it's clearly their turn are far worse.  4 way's are way too complicated for the average driver especially if there are multiple lanes in each direction. 

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

We went to war over this in my freshman dorm. War. 2nd floor kids used to constantly go up and down 1 floor instead of taking the stairs, in both directions. 8 floor dorm, there were three elevators and on each floor they opened into the common lobby living area. Whenever we were going down and had to stop on 2 before getting to 1 to pick up some lazy ### who didn't want to let gravity take his feet down the stairs, it was death stares at the start. They didn't get it. So we started taking our trash out in the elevator... ride it down to 2, then *DING* and when the doors opened, we'd throw our trash into their lobby, doors close, we're out. Over and over for a full weekend. Kids would be there, watching TV on the couches, then *DING* *SPLAT*. After some shouts they started to understand.

At one point we also commandeered one of the three elevators exclusively for floors 6-7-8.  Got it to go up to 8 and wait there instead of the lobby at the bottom, and somehow rigged it to not stop on 2 on the way down. We all had an agreement that once you got off at the lobby, you hit the button for 8 to send it back up empty, where it would hold until needed. It was heavenly.

Fourteen story dorm.  Same deal.  Their justification was that they paid the same amount for their dorm room.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Retirees going to lunch at 12:00pm on a weekday...

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Yesterday I saw a woman pushing a dog in a stroller at a hockey rink.

It would have been perfect if the dog was wearing a little hockey jersey.

 

[Drunken knight]

4 way stop intersections are the worst. You always have the people that don't wait their turn which is annoying but to me they people that don't go and try to waive you through, even when it's clearly their turn are far worse.  4 way's are way too complicated for the average driver especially if there are multiple lanes in each direction. 

yes.  add an extra lane to each direction and its mayhem..... turns into an 8-way stop.

 

[Christo]

I dont understand the microwave one.  If my food only takes 56 seconds to get to ideal temperature,  I'm not going to let it go that extra 4 seconds and possibly burn it or my tongue.

Then set it to 56 seconds

 

[GregR]

If you take the elevator to the 2nd floor from the lobby, you're an awful person. If you take the elevator to the lobby from the 2nd floor, you should be placed into a rocket and shot into outer space.

Prob the 3rd time I've mentioned this one in here... It has been happening more frequently lately. 

We went to war over this in my freshman dorm. War. 2nd floor kids used to constantly go up and down 1 floor instead of taking the stairs, in both directions. 8 floor dorm, there were three elevators and on each floor they opened into the common lobby living area. Whenever we were going down and had to stop on 2 before getting to 1 to pick up some lazy ### who didn't want to let gravity take his feet down the stairs, it was death stares at the start. They didn't get it. So we started taking our trash out in the elevator... ride it down to 2, then *DING* and when the doors opened, we'd throw our trash into their lobby, doors close, we're out. Over and over for a full weekend. Kids would be there, watching TV on the couches, then *DING* *SPLAT*. After some shouts they started to understand.

At one point we also commandeered one of the three elevators exclusively for floors 6-7-8.  Got it to go up to 8 and wait there instead of the lobby at the bottom, and somehow rigged it to not stop on 2 on the way down. We all had an agreement that once you got off at the lobby, you hit the button for 8 to send it back up empty, where it would hold until needed. It was heavenly.

You guys pony up for my third knee surgery and I'll stop taking the elevator one floor.

 

[mr. furley]

We live in a two story house and if my wife needs me for some reason she will often yell from upstairs instead of coming to the stairs where I can clearly hear her.  I don't like yelling "I can't understand you" all the time so I find myself having to walk upstairs only to find out she wants to know something unimportant like did I talk with my parents today.

Now my 11 year old son does the same thing, screaming from downstairs that he is hungry or if we have any more gatorade in the garage.

said to my 9 year old last night "maybe we need walkie talkies in this house"

feels like a pretty good investment at this point

 

[Jobber]

Able bodied people opening doors with the handicap button. And don’t try to tell me it’s for germ purposes because if you do this you are probably the same guy who strolls out of the bathroom stall and walks right by the sink.

 

[Christo]

Able bodied people opening doors with the handicap button. And don’t try to tell me it’s for germ purposes because if you do this you are probably the same guy who strolls out of the bathroom stall and walks right by the sink.

Sorry, but if there's a handicap button inside a bathroom I'm hitting it every time with an elbow so I don't have to touch the handle. Specifically because I wash my hands and lots of people don't.

 

[Jayrod]

Able bodied people opening doors with the handicap button. And don’t try to tell me it’s for germ purposes because if you do this you are probably the same guy who strolls out of the bathroom stall and walks right by the sink.

How is this annoying at all?

What are you an automatic door technician or something?

 

[parasaurolophus]

Able bodied people opening doors with the handicap button. And don’t try to tell me it’s for germ purposes because if you do this you are probably the same guy who strolls out of the bathroom stall and walks right by the sink.

I use them all the time. I used to try and just open the doors, but they are such a pain to open and I feel like I am breaking them. I am not going to wait for 6 people to filter through a revolving door just so I don't use the handicapped doors. If there are two sets side by side, I will use the regular first, but they arent a special entrance. They are just doors and I dont limit a handicapped person from using them. It isnt like I am stealing a stall or a parking space.

 

[DallasDMac]

Able bodied people opening doors with the handicap button. And don’t try to tell me it’s for germ purposes because if you do this you are probably the same guy who strolls out of the bathroom stall and walks right by the sink.

Actually, where I used to work, we were instructed to do just this. Apparently it is very bad on the door mechanism to open it by hand. Probably grinds gears or something, I don't know.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

said to my 9 year old last night "maybe we need walkie talkies in this house"

feels like a pretty good investment at this point

I've texted my daughter who was upstairs to tell her dinners ready

 

[belljr]

I've texted my daughter who was upstairs to tell her dinners ready

I have land line cordless phones that have an intercom feature 

 

[Scoresman]

Retirees going to lunch at 12:00pm on a weekday...

That’s not lunch.

they’re there for the senior early bird dinner discount. 

 

[shuke]

4 way stop intersections are the worst. You always have the people that don't wait their turn which is annoying but to me they people that don't go and try to waive you through, even when it's clearly their turn are far worse.  4 way's are way too complicated for the average driver especially if there are multiple lanes in each direction. 

Worst are the douchebags that stop 10-20 feet back from the intersection so they were there "first".

 

[DallasDMac]

Worst are the douchebags that stop 10-20 feet back from the intersection so they were there "first".

I've never seen this. But folks in my current home of record do seem genuinely baffled by the entire four way stop concept. Sometimes it's just amazing to watch the entire thing play out as four befuddled drivers try to figure out what they are supposed to do.

 

[kwille]

My wife will do this while using pronouns.  The amount of times I have to say "who's her" is annoying.

Wow. I'm thought I was the only one dealing with this particular affliction. Annoying as hell but I take it as a compliment, like, I must have mind reading superpowers.

 

[jhib]

Fellow pedestrians at the intersection outside the county library where I have meetings a few times a week.  The walk signal turns on in both directions at once while all traffic has red lights and no turns on red. I guess in theory, it's for safety.  The problem is that if you get there at a bad time, you're in for a longer wait to cross than at typical intersection, so at least half the people cross on the don't walk signal. 

To make matters worse, the walk signal doesn't turn on at its usual time in the cycle unless someone crossing in any direction pushes one of the buttons indicating their presence and desire to cross. I used to assume that when I got to the intersection at a time when 10-20 people were already waiting to cross from the various corners, someone must have already pushed the button.  But it happens too many times where it turns out nobody has and you have to wait through an extra cycle to cross, so now I push the damn thing no matter what.

Really, I don't know if I should be more frustrated by the pedestrians or the designers, so I switch back and forth.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Fellow pedestrians at the intersection outside the county library where I have meetings a few times a week.  The walk signal turns on in both directions at once while all traffic has red lights and no turns on red. I guess in theory, it's for safety.  The problem is that if you get there at a bad time, you're in for a longer wait to cross than at typical intersection, so at least half the people cross on the don't walk signal. 

To make matters worse, the walk signal doesn't turn on at its usual time in the cycle unless someone crossing in any direction pushes one of the buttons indicating their presence and desire to cross. I used to assume that when I got to the intersection at a time when 10-20 people were already waiting to cross from the various corners, someone must have already pushed the button.  But it happens too many times where it turns out nobody has and you have to wait through an extra cycle to cross, so now I push the damn thing no matter what.

Really, I don't know if I should be more frustrated by the pedestrians or the designers, so I switch back and forth.

To be fair here, a lot of crosswalks have buttons that don't actually do anything.  They are just props to make the pedestrians feel like they are doing something.  The lights on those crosswalks are on a timer.

 

[mr. furley]

people that don't have school aged kids or aren't parents or who have daycare in place on school snow days.. that ##### about kids getting a day off for a weather event.

makes me wonder just how miserable they actually are if they can expend energy and time moaning & #####ing about kids having a day off school. 

which, as i recall, was possibly the single greatest thing that could happen to you as an elementary school kid.

lighten up, you miserable bastards. the world won't cease to function because Patty Sue and JR had 1 day off from 3rd grade.

 

[Arizona Ron]

Cyclers.  Traffic sucks in Northern VA/DC, throw in some dip#### that decides he/she needs to go for a bike ride during rush hour.  On the road basically taking a lane away from the road.  There are bike trails ALL OVER THESE ####ING CITIES, RIDE THERE!

 

[otb_lifer]

Cyclers.  Traffic sucks in Northern VA/DC, throw in some dip#### that decides he/she needs to go for a bike ride during rush hour.  On the road basically taking a lane away from the road.  There are bike trails ALL OVER THESE ####ING CITIES, RIDE THERE!

all my likes 

 

[Bull Dozier]

said to my 9 year old last night "maybe we need walkie talkies in this house"

feels like a pretty good investment at this point

Sometimes I wish I had one of those Sprint/Nextel direct connect phones so I could just beep my kids and tell them whats up.  I can text or Snapchat them or whatever but whenever I try that is always the 30 seconds of the day they happen to not be looking at their phone.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Cyclers.  Traffic sucks in Northern VA/DC, throw in some dip#### that decides he/she needs to go for a bike ride during rush hour.  On the road basically taking a lane away from the road.  There are bike trails ALL OVER THESE ####ING CITIES, RIDE THERE!

Maybe they are using the bike to commute during rush hour.  They pay the same taxes.  Get over yourself.

 

[mr. furley]

Maybe they are using the bike to commute during rush hour.  They pay the same taxes.  Get over yourself.

in the road during rush hour traffic? 

seems a mite dangerous and unnecessary

 

[Ditka Butkus]

said to my 9 year old last night "maybe we need walkie talkies in this house"

feels like a pretty good investment at this point

We just use our cell phones..

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Cyclers.  Traffic sucks in Northern VA/DC, throw in some dip#### that decides he/she needs to go for a bike ride during rush hour.  On the road basically taking a lane away from the road.  There are bike trails ALL OVER THESE ####ING CITIES, RIDE THERE!

Them and the joggers who jog in the bike lane...Everybody is impressed that you are working out and staying in shape now move to the sidewalk Wang Junxia.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Cyclers.  Traffic sucks in Northern VA/DC, throw in some dip#### that decides he/she needs to go for a bike ride during rush hour.  On the road basically taking a lane away from the road.  There are bike trails ALL OVER THESE ####ING CITIES, RIDE THERE!

Huge hill in my area that has a very narrow road. There is a beautiful offstreet bike path that runs through the woods about 50 feet off of the road. It is very straight, well paved, and very wide. It branches off right before the hill. It rejoins the road just after the hill.

I despise the jerks that think they are greg lemond in their spandex that refuse to branch off and use the path. Dude. You are going up a huge hill at 7 mph. GTFO the road you moron. It doesnt bother me when people ride down the hill since they move pretty quickly.  

On the weekends you will sometimes get a group of riders. There is a hospital right nearby and every time I pray some old lady will drive her huge 1992 northstar 32v caddy right into them.  

 

[ChiefD]

Biker riders are a different breed. Everytime I go out for a run, if I encounter another runner usually both gives a hand wave as you pass by.

Just try and give a hand wave to a bike rider. The look of disdain and disgust on their faces that a lowly road runner would waste their time with a hand wave tells all about the kind of person they are. 

Wankers. All of them. 

 

[wlwiles]

The baggage claim one is one of those things where I agree that everyone should take a few steps back to wait, but I’m not going to be the first one to do it because I’ll just get crowded out. 

Just flew last week.  I got crowded out and apparently some guy got my bag thinking it was his.  Made it all the way to the shuttle lot to his vehicle before he realized it wasn't his.  Luckily he brought it back.  Meanwhile I'm still at baggage claim, the belt has stopped, and I'm filling out the paperwork for a lost bag because this chucklehead is too concerned with elbowing up to be the first to get his bag that he doesn't even notice it's not his own.  He had to get them to dig his unclaimed bag out of the bag since the belt had stopped ages ago by then. 

My suitcase - medium size, brown, 2 wheels with two red zip ties looped through the handle at the top (easy identifier). 

His suitcase - large size, also brown, different brand, 4 wheels, and a blue plastic name tag off the handle.  

 

[jhib]

To be fair here, a lot of crosswalks have buttons that don't actually do anything.  They are just props to make the pedestrians feel like they are doing something.  The lights on those crosswalks are on a timer.

Stop defending people and let me be annoyed at all of them!



Yeah, that's why I reserve a lot of frustration for the designers. The button doesn't even make the time any quicker - all the lights are all still on a timer, but the walk part of the cycle just gets skipped if no one pushes the button. You'd think they'd at least put a simple sign by the button expressing that fact. 

 

[Christo]

Cyclers.  Traffic sucks in Northern VA/DC, throw in some dip#### that decides he/she needs to go for a bike ride during rush hour.  On the road basically taking a lane away from the road.  There are bike trails ALL OVER THESE ####ING CITIES, RIDE THERE!

Cyclers suck. When I'm driving they get in the way and I want them on the sidewalk. When I'm walking they get in the way and I want them in the street.