Can we discuss pet peeves here? (2 Viewers)

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

There is NO WAY that there are right-handed and left-handed knives. Don't bother replying to this post with links, I won't believe it. No ####ing way.

I’m right handed but use the knife in my left hand. Never had a problem.

 

[shuke]

People that STILL wear masks in public. I'm in Vegas so see it all the time from lame tourists in hotels and casinos. If there's one symbol of somebody I know I will 100% not get along with, it's someone wearing a covid mask. I internally roll my eyes every single time.

How this is a peeve is beyond me. This is bothering you how?

Because they’re stupid. Stupid people are annoying.

That’s not even a pet peave. It’s just a regular peave.

I'll let this one go.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

This Panera ad keeps popping up. Who the heck thinks those are bagels?

 

[Keerock]

Popping in to once again remind all that if you are not ordering fast food through their app, you are doing it wrong. Saves money and aggravation of trying to communicate with those employees.

Don't want no apps, thank you very much. There are way too many of these things to have to deal with.

OK grandma.

ETA: My wife is the same way... and I call her grandma too.

Now try it with Mr R. He doesn't want that clutter either.

Grandpa?

 

[arrow1]

Contestants on Wheel of Fortune buying a vowel when they know what the puzzle is.

 

[ghostguy123]

People that STILL wear masks in public. I'm in Vegas so see it all the time from lame tourists in hotels and casinos. If there's one symbol of somebody I know I will 100% not get along with, it's someone wearing a covid mask. I internally roll my eyes every single time.

How this is a peeve is beyond me. This is bothering you how?

Because they’re stupid. Stupid people are annoying.

That’s not even a pet peave. It’s just a regular peave.

You know some people wore masks before COVID was ever a thing, right? There are plenty of legit (often necessary) reasons to wear a mask.

That said, the people who are wearing a mask incorrectly that look like it's for attention, yeah, very dumb.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Contestants on Wheel of Fortune buying a vowel when they know what the puzzle is.

I'm fifty-fifty on this one. If it makes them less likely to screw up the answer, then i can deal with it.

I'm more annoyed by the ones who don't check the used letter board.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

This Panera ad keeps popping up. Who the heck thinks those are bagels?

My Jewish, deli-owning grandparents are turning over in their graves at that ad

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

This Panera ad keeps popping up. Who the heck thinks those are bagels?

My Jewish, deli-owning grandparents are turning over in their graves at that ad

I admit, I died a little inside.

 

[the moops]

This Panera ad keeps popping up. Who the heck thinks those are bagels?

My Jewish, deli-owning grandparents are turning over in their graves at that ad

I admit, I died a little inside.

I am peeved as ****. That monstrosity is not a bagel

 

[parasaurolophus]

I am peeved as ****. That monstrosity is not a bagel

If you bought one we could still call it bagel with A hole.

 

[the moops]

I am peeved as ****. That monstrosity is not a bagel

If you bought one we could still call it bagel with A hole.

Weak

 

[Gatorade]

fine dining restaurant only carrying the one-sided designed for righties, and struggle cutting a steak.

Struggle?

My wife struggles to cut almost everything after shattering her wrist and always asks for a steak knife. At least she is a rightie.

 

[Fat Nick]

OK - I have to vent about a pet peeve re. my wife. Two related things - First, she is borderline OCD about snow removal. Let me caveat that we live in a rural area, and I grew up in a rural area. This is NOT in town. When I was a kid, if it snowed less than an inch or two, you pretty much just left it. It would usually melt in a few days. Now that we live in NJ, our street is admittedly less rural than where I grew up, but it's still not a "clear your sidewalk" cul-de-sac. Except for us....My wife has basically begun passive-aggressively going out to clear a quarter of an inch of snow off of our sidewalk and driveway because I told her I didn't feel like that amount of snow needed to be done. She said she's worried a kid or a delivery man will slip. We're not talking about a few inches...we're talking about a dusting. Anything white on the surface. Despite me saying I think it's totally fine, she basically goes and does it anyway, and I feel like the a-hole for not helping her clear an insignificant amount of snow.

She does the same thing with the dishes. Some nights, I get home, and I'm tired. It's been a long day, but I know I need to help out, so I'll say, "Just leave the dishes, I'll do them in a few hours once the kids go to bed. I just want to sit and decompress for a few." A while later, she starts doing them...When I ask her why, she says, "I got tired of looking at them" or something along those lines. Always making "not a big deal" out of it, just like with the snow clearing, but also clearly not just leaving it.

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Counter-points welcome.

 

[ChiefD]

I wouldn't say a word. I've learned the less I say to my wife the less she can throw back in my face.

 

[Gally]

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Don't feel guilty. It's a her problem not a you problem. By that I mean she feels better doing it than just let it sit there so let her do it. She will feel better after it's done and your life will be easier for it...................unless she is the vindictive type that is blaming you the whole time she is doing the chore because you couldn't bother being helpful and getting of your fat a$$ to do something.

It really could go either way.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Don't feel guilty. It's a her problem not a you problem. By that I mean she feels better doing it than just let it sit there so let her do it. She will feel better after it's done and your life will be easier for it...................unless she is the vindictive type that is blaming you the whole time she is doing the chore because you couldn't bother being helpful and getting of your fat a$$ to do something.

It really could go either way.

It's not your job to manage her anxiety.

 

[Drunken knight]

@Fat Nick

we have navigated this in our marriage as well. I do well with lists and my timeline. if something is a higher priority, i need to know that.
she also accepts that when i say that i will have X task done by 5p, it will be done.
neither of us should be "on demand" unless there is a true emergency (health, car trouble, etc)

good luck

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

OK - I have to vent about a pet peeve re. my wife. Two related things - First, she is borderline OCD about snow removal. Let me caveat that we live in a rural area, and I grew up in a rural area. This is NOT in town. When I was a kid, if it snowed less than an inch or two, you pretty much just left it. It would usually melt in a few days. Now that we live in NJ, our street is admittedly less rural than where I grew up, but it's still not a "clear your sidewalk" cul-de-sac. Except for us....My wife has basically begun passive-aggressively going out to clear a quarter of an inch of snow off of our sidewalk and driveway because I told her I didn't feel like that amount of snow needed to be done. She said she's worried a kid or a delivery man will slip. We're not talking about a few inches...we're talking about a dusting. Anything white on the surface. Despite me saying I think it's totally fine, she basically goes and does it anyway, and I feel like the a-hole for not helping her clear an insignificant amount of snow.

She does the same thing with the dishes. Some nights, I get home, and I'm tired. It's been a long day, but I know I need to help out, so I'll say, "Just leave the dishes, I'll do them in a few hours once the kids go to bed. I just want to sit and decompress for a few." A while later, she starts doing them...When I ask her why, she says, "I got tired of looking at them" or something along those lines. Always making "not a big deal" out of it, just like with the snow clearing, but also clearly not just leaving it.

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Counter-points welcome.

I deal with this too. I have adapted by looking at it as her love language. She likes the dishes done. She cooks and I don’t so that’s the deal.

She’s the same way with the trash and recycling which are both my responsibility. Nevermind that she doesn’t have to touch it once it exits the garage but if I don’t take it out she notices.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Don't feel guilty. It's a her problem not a you problem. By that I mean she feels better doing it than just let it sit there so let her do it. She will feel better after it's done and your life will be easier for it...................unless she is the vindictive type that is blaming you the whole time she is doing the chore because you couldn't bother being helpful and getting of your fat a$$ to do something.

It really could go either way.

It's not your job to manage her anxiety.

After years and years of putting out everyone’s fires Inhave adopted the philosophy of:

Your emergency is not my emergency.

I will help if I can but I’m not stopping heaven n earth to make magic happen. It’s exhausting.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I wouldn't say a word. I've learned the less I say to my wife the less she can throw back in my face.

This. I would rather just do whatever needs doing than ever hear another word.

 

[wlwiles]

OK - I have to vent about a pet peeve re. my wife. Two related things - First, she is borderline OCD about snow removal. Let me caveat that we live in a rural area, and I grew up in a rural area. This is NOT in town. When I was a kid, if it snowed less than an inch or two, you pretty much just left it. It would usually melt in a few days. Now that we live in NJ, our street is admittedly less rural than where I grew up, but it's still not a "clear your sidewalk" cul-de-sac. Except for us....My wife has basically begun passive-aggressively going out to clear a quarter of an inch of snow off of our sidewalk and driveway because I told her I didn't feel like that amount of snow needed to be done. She said she's worried a kid or a delivery man will slip. We're not talking about a few inches...we're talking about a dusting. Anything white on the surface. Despite me saying I think it's totally fine, she basically goes and does it anyway, and I feel like the a-hole for not helping her clear an insignificant amount of snow.

She does the same thing with the dishes. Some nights, I get home, and I'm tired. It's been a long day, but I know I need to help out, so I'll say, "Just leave the dishes, I'll do them in a few hours once the kids go to bed. I just want to sit and decompress for a few." A while later, she starts doing them...When I ask her why, she says, "I got tired of looking at them" or something along those lines. Always making "not a big deal" out of it, just like with the snow clearing, but also clearly not just leaving it.

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Counter-points welcome.

You're only in trouble if she starts calling her dad/uncle/elder family man to come fix stuff that you haven't gotten around to yet.

 

[Fat Nick]

Thanks all! Nice to know I'm not alone here - at least in terms of the circumstances. I'm very similar to @Drunken knight - mentally, I set internal timelines and will have things done by then. I'll pair tasks up for efficiency, etc. I also need time to re-center after a day of work, travel, etc. There are times where her expectations for chore #1 don't consider my pairing with other tasks, etc. Maybe that's a communication gap to work on.

@STEADYMOBBIN 22 - I hear you re. love language - I think my challenge there is I sometimes feel like my "give" is expected, and when I don't "give," it's an issue. Said another way - For the last 14 years living together in our house, I have cut the grass, done the landscaping, fixed nearly every single thing that has ever broken or stopped working, and generally kept and improved our family home without relying on contractors or outside work. It's work that we could 100% afford to pay someone to do, but we don't because...well, we don't have to. But it is time out of my free time. I've never once complained about it, asked for help, or expected anything...but I get put through the ringer if I don't do the dishes on her timeline because she's tired of doing laundry and packing kid's lunches, etc. I 100% appreciate all she does...but I also don't expect her to drop what she's doing to help me edge up the front walk.

Anyway - I'll end by saying this is one of the very very few complaints I have. My wife is generally awesome. We have our philosophical differences but what couple doesn't...this one just irks me and is always one that is hard to reconcile.

 

[ThaPenguin]

Anyway - I'll end by saying this is one of the very very few complaints I have. My wife is generally awesome. We have our philosophical differences but what couple doesn't...this one just irks me and is always one that is hard to reconcile.

Honestly how I view this thread, using it to vent something irritating me without picking a stupid fight. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Maybe leave your dishes on the snowy sidewalk, so she can consolidate the chores you’re shirking?

 

[Ministry of Pain]

OK - I have to vent about a pet peeve re. my wife. Two related things - First, she is borderline OCD about snow removal. Let me caveat that we live in a rural area, and I grew up in a rural area. This is NOT in town. When I was a kid, if it snowed less than an inch or two, you pretty much just left it. It would usually melt in a few days. Now that we live in NJ, our street is admittedly less rural than where I grew up, but it's still not a "clear your sidewalk" cul-de-sac. Except for us....My wife has basically begun passive-aggressively going out to clear a quarter of an inch of snow off of our sidewalk and driveway because I told her I didn't feel like that amount of snow needed to be done. She said she's worried a kid or a delivery man will slip. We're not talking about a few inches...we're talking about a dusting. Anything white on the surface. Despite me saying I think it's totally fine, she basically goes and does it anyway, and I feel like the a-hole for not helping her clear an insignificant amount of snow.

She does the same thing with the dishes. Some nights, I get home, and I'm tired. It's been a long day, but I know I need to help out, so I'll say, "Just leave the dishes, I'll do them in a few hours once the kids go to bed. I just want to sit and decompress for a few." A while later, she starts doing them...When I ask her why, she says, "I got tired of looking at them" or something along those lines. Always making "not a big deal" out of it, just like with the snow clearing, but also clearly not just leaving it.

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Counter-points welcome.

This is good, lot of us have similar types of encounters with our wives
I'll tell you why I sometimes just take the lead and do things around the house myself
My wife likes to eat watching TV and then just tosses the plates on to the table next to her chaise and I'll say, "Who's picking those up, the house staff?"
And sure sure she'll get to them later after she decompresses and then I wake up in the morning and those dishes are still there and that's when Mount Vesuvius appears
So rather than have an eventual blow up with someone I've loved for 25-30 years, I just grab them when I take my dishes into the kitchen
Plus she would just toss them in the sink and leave them piled up vs just quickly rinsing them off and putting them in the dishwasher

-You have to pick and choose your battles
I make coffee every single morning like clockwork, every once in a while it's made for me and I love that but mostly I make it
That sink better be clear of any dishes when I go to put my coffee pot in there (early morning I might add) to possibly rinse out or fill up with water, nothing disturbs me more than pots, pans, dishes, glasses and any other items people have decided to toss into the sink. It's a sink, it's not a cupboard, it's not a place for the dishes to hang out and get to know each other, it's meant to clean pots and pans and not meant to be abused like it's a storage unit

Just being the Devil's Advocate of course

 

[General Malaise]

Wives

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Wives

Makes you wonder how the Mormons did it.

 

[fatness]

I wouldn't say a word. I've learned the less I say to my wife the less she can throw back in my face.

Well hopefully you get to throw something in her face once in awhile.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

OK - I have to vent about a pet peeve re. my wife. Two related things - First, she is borderline OCD about snow removal. Let me caveat that we live in a rural area, and I grew up in a rural area. This is NOT in town. When I was a kid, if it snowed less than an inch or two, you pretty much just left it. It would usually melt in a few days. Now that we live in NJ, our street is admittedly less rural than where I grew up, but it's still not a "clear your sidewalk" cul-de-sac. Except for us....My wife has basically begun passive-aggressively going out to clear a quarter of an inch of snow off of our sidewalk and driveway because I told her I didn't feel like that amount of snow needed to be done. She said she's worried a kid or a delivery man will slip. We're not talking about a few inches...we're talking about a dusting. Anything white on the surface. Despite me saying I think it's totally fine, she basically goes and does it anyway, and I feel like the a-hole for not helping her clear an insignificant amount of snow.

She does the same thing with the dishes. Some nights, I get home, and I'm tired. It's been a long day, but I know I need to help out, so I'll say, "Just leave the dishes, I'll do them in a few hours once the kids go to bed. I just want to sit and decompress for a few." A while later, she starts doing them...When I ask her why, she says, "I got tired of looking at them" or something along those lines. Always making "not a big deal" out of it, just like with the snow clearing, but also clearly not just leaving it.

End result - I now feel guilty for a task that in one case, I didn't feel needed to be done at all, and in the case of the other, it's not even about IF I help with dishes, it's making sure I do it on her schedule. It's so frustrating. There's an element of control in it that just really irks me.

Counter-points welcome.

You're only in trouble if she starts calling her dad/uncle/elder family man to come fix stuff that you haven't gotten around to yet.

I made it very clear to my wife when we were first together that I had no skills at and no interest in fixing stuff. She married me anyway, so she was willing to accept that and doesn't hold it against me.

At it so happens, right now my brother-in-law lives with us and doesn't pay rent, so he's the one that fixes stuff.

 

[General Malaise]

People starting political threads in the FFA based in conspiracy theories and asking posters not to get political. I cannot believe that's permitted after we've been told to drop politics completely.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

This is good, lot of us have similar types of encounters with our wives

My wife has a beard. He hasn't shaved in two weeks.

 

[3C's]

This is good, lot of us have similar types of encounters with our wives

My wife has a beard. He hasn't shaved in two weeks.

Bet he eats tuna like right in your face too.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

This is good, lot of us have similar types of encounters with our wives

My wife has a beard. He hasn't shaved in two weeks.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

People starting political threads in the FFA based in conspiracy theories and asking posters not to get political. I cannot believe that's permitted after we've been told to drop politics completely.

I agree, that daggum frozen pizza thread by @Willie Neslon is just a cover for a direct pipeline into the World frozen fish market

-I have a slew of thread titles that I think would make people chuckle but dare not post them because I know some would start raising fists
Example..."Describe the 5 things you accomplished at work this week"
There's nothing political about that sentence UNLESS you were following the news the last 24 hours

I love this specific thread, we've all had a lot of great laughs over the years
@mr. furley is my nominee for Hall of Fame in this thread
I have had some days where I want to pull my hair out from work or 1st World type issues and that guy makes me laugh out loud

-You're a sharpie GM, rise above it and look for others who do likewise

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

I fully recognize that complaining about curbside grocery pickup at Whole Foods may be less "pet peeve" and more "white whine", but nevertheless: If I ask you to put the groceries in the trunk, in what world would I not want you to close the trunk when you are done? The woman seemed genuinely surprised that I wanted that. Of course I'm going to immediately drive away! That's the whole point of curbside!

More white whining about Whole Foods: When you put in an online order, you have to designate whether you want substitutes for items that are unavailable. We put in an order last night that included two items from the deli: Sliced turkey and sliced cheese. They were out of turkey, so the shopper decided to substitute ... more cheese! I went on the website to get a refund (which, to their credit, they make very easy) and there was a question of whether the substitute was acceptable and, if not, what I would have preferred. I click on the drop-down menu and the options were all things like uncooked chicken breast. Hey, stupid algorithm (and stupid human shopper), don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat? At least make that one of the the options!

 

[arrow1]

I fully recognize that complaining about curbside grocery pickup at Whole Foods may be less "pet peeve" and more "white whine", but nevertheless: If I ask you to put the groceries in the trunk, in what world would I not want you to close the trunk when you are done? The woman seemed genuinely surprised that I wanted that. Of course I'm going to immediately drive away! That's the whole point of curbside!

More white whining about Whole Foods: When you put in an online order, you have to designate whether you want substitutes for items that are unavailable. We put in an order last night that included two items from the deli: Sliced turkey and sliced cheese. They were out of turkey, so the shopper decided to substitute ... more cheese! I went on the website to get a refund (which, to their credit, they make very easy) and there was a question of whether the substitute was acceptable and, if not, what I would have preferred. I click on the drop-down menu and the options were all things like uncooked chicken breast. Hey, stupid algorithm (and stupid human shopper), don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat? At least make that one of the the options!

Why not go in and shop?

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

I fully recognize that complaining about curbside grocery pickup at Whole Foods may be less "pet peeve" and more "white whine", but nevertheless: If I ask you to put the groceries in the trunk, in what world would I not want you to close the trunk when you are done? The woman seemed genuinely surprised that I wanted that. Of course I'm going to immediately drive away! That's the whole point of curbside!

More white whining about Whole Foods: When you put in an online order, you have to designate whether you want substitutes for items that are unavailable. We put in an order last night that included two items from the deli: Sliced turkey and sliced cheese. They were out of turkey, so the shopper decided to substitute ... more cheese! I went on the website to get a refund (which, to their credit, they make very easy) and there was a question of whether the substitute was acceptable and, if not, what I would have preferred. I click on the drop-down menu and the options were all things like uncooked chicken breast. Hey, stupid algorithm (and stupid human shopper), don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat? At least make that one of the the options!

Why not go in and shop?

I do sometimes. But didn't have time to do so yesterday and needed the meat and cheese for my kid's lunch

 

[Gally]

don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat?

To be fair, they don't know if you have an aversion to a different type of deli meat while they know you do like the cheese. It would be safer to provide the cheese (that they know you like) vs picking pastrami when you can't stand pastrami (or some other deli meat that you don't like).

Now, common sense says you probably don't want double the cheese when you have no meat so maybe just don't include double the cheese but at least it's likely you won't throw out the cheese because you did choose that.

 

[offdee]

Yay marriage!

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Yay marriage!

Trouble in paradise?

 

[mr. furley]

Yay marriage!

you didn't... did you?

 

[the moops]

don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat?

To be fair, they don't know if you have an aversion to a different type of deli meat while they know you do like the cheese. It would be safer to provide the cheese (that they know you like) vs picking pastrami when you can't stand pastrami (or some other deli meat that you don't like).

Now, common sense says you probably don't want double the cheese when you have no meat so maybe just don't include double the cheese but at least it's likely you won't throw out the cheese because you did choose that.

Cheese sandwiches are delicious

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat?

To be fair, they don't know if you have an aversion to a different type of deli meat while they know you do like the cheese. It would be safer to provide the cheese (that they know you like) vs picking pastrami when you can't stand pastrami (or some other deli meat that you don't like).

Now, common sense says you probably don't want double the cheese when you have no meat so maybe just don't include double the cheese but at least it's likely you won't throw out the cheese because you did choose that.

You know, I started reading your response thinking you were wrong but by the end I kind of came around to it. You're right, we will use the extra cheese in a way we wouldn't have used, say, roast beef.

Then again, to paraphrase Hanlon's Razor, never attribute to ingenuity that which can be explained by incompetence. I think the best explanation is that the shopper made a poor decision on what to substitute.

 

[Instinctive]

don't you think that if someone orders deli meat and it's not available, they might want to substitute another kind of deli meat?

To be fair, they don't know if you have an aversion to a different type of deli meat while they know you do like the cheese. It would be safer to provide the cheese (that they know you like) vs picking pastrami when you can't stand pastrami (or some other deli meat that you don't like).

Now, common sense says you probably don't want double the cheese when you have no meat so maybe just don't include double the cheese but at least it's likely you won't throw out the cheese because you did choose that.

You know, I started reading your response thinking you were wrong but by the end I kind of came around to it. You're right, we will use the extra cheese in a way we wouldn't have used, say, roast beef.

Then again, to paraphrase Hanlon's Razor, never attribute to ingenuity that which can be explained by incompetence. I think the best explanation is that the shopper made a poor decision on what to substitute.

I'm mostly surprised there's no room when ordering to comment "if out of turkey, would like ham" or something

 

[Payne]

I don't know when this became an acceptable thing to do but this driving around at night with your brights on is a big pet peeve of mine. The first few times it happened, I thought "there's no way this idiot is doing this intentionally, right?" Yeah, people do this intentionally all the time now. Regular headlights have never been better since I've been driving (1984) yet people still insist on driving with their brights on, in a full lit up city with streetlights every 3 feet. "No, no, I need to have my full blinding brights on because a deer might jump out in between these two office buildings. . . because everyone knows that your brights keep the deer away. . . and there's so many deer running around downtown grazing in the parking lots." Just stop it already, please!

In a lot of cases those are the new headlights.

This happens ALOT out here in the country. I've flashed a bunch of people only to find out those bright lights are the lower setting.

It's a serious problem if I'm being honest. And really dangerous. On a two lane road you can't see anything when people with newer cars have their regular lights on.

My Telluride lights are bright. It seems to annoy people at times.

 

[offdee]

Yay marriage!

you didn't... did you?

Hell no! Not even in a relationship. Just reacting to the last page of posts about guys annoyed at their wife constantly and not wanting to communicate with her. Sounds fun.

 

[jhib]

Cats. More specifically people that just let their cats roam.

I figured this would have already been mentioned at least once, so searched before posting. I'm really starting to get annoyed by outdoor cats. It's one thing when one comes up to our glass door and gets our two indoor cats worked up. No big deal. It's not cool when one lurks near my birdfeeders, but whatever as long as it's not that often. But...
A couple days ago, we were cleaning out some stuff from the house to donate and I was putting bags and boxes out on the driveway near the car as we did so, figuring it would be easier to pack the car up all at once when we were done. Of course, I realized late that evening that I hadn't done that last part yet, and I didn't want to leave it all out overnight in the elements, so went out and quickly packed up the car. Next day, I hopped in the car and drove off only to be hit by a stench. Turns out one of those f'ers peed on one of the boxes while it was outside and I hadn't noticed the night before. Figured out which box it was and junked it with all its contents (confirmed the other boxes/bags didn't smell before donating them) but I'm still working on getting that smell fully out of the car.

 

[Chris B.]

Why do men and women have different sizing numbers for clothes and shoes? It's not about the cut of the clothes it's the weirdness of a size 9 women's shoe isn't the same length of a size 9 men's. Women's size 42 pants means what??? It's a minor gripe but I'd like to know WTF the relative size of something is just based on a number... but no.

 

[Instinctive]

Why do men and women have different sizing numbers for clothes and shoes? It's not about the cut of the clothes it's the weirdness of a size 9 women's shoe isn't the same length of a size 9 men's. Women's size 42 pants means what??? It's a minor gripe but I'd like to know WTF the relative size of something is just based on a number... but no.

And kids! Every brand is different and they're based on age...well they're different sizes at different ages why not put a weight range on there instead of also...