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I'm pretty easy going, but have to agree that missuse of language gets me such as:
between you and I
using apostrophes in plural forms (loved the Oreo's example)
I feel badly. IMO, ''feel'' here is a state of being verb and should be followed by an adjective rather than an adverb. So when you say you feel badly, it means your sense of touch is below par.
Now the other pet peeve already mentioned is when people don't use their turn signals. Funny thing happened a while back. I was at a four way stop. The car coming toward me did not have turn signals on, so I figured it was just going forward and so I started across the intersection and it turned left in front of me. I put up my hands in disgust. Turned out it was a cop car. I proceeded and the cop car turned around and pulled me over. The policeman said he had the right of way. I said yes, but he should have had his turn signals on. The guy (who was quite young) sputtered and said it was not a law that he had to use his turn signal. So I (a little old lady), just patted his arm and said, ''That's all right. I'll let you go this time.''
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I have so many! But most of them have been covered here. I am glad the ''people dragging their feet'' was mentioned. I HATE that! How can anybody be too lazy to pick their feet up off the floor while walking?? And drivers who are way below the speed limit until you finally get a chance to pass, then they speed up to prevent it! I followed an old man doing this for 20 miles the other day when I was in a hurry and running late. I can understand road rage some days! And cell phones...PERIOD! I even have idiots come in to my office for an interview and answer cell phone calls! You can bet that these people will not be renting from me!
I have several for work, too. I can not tolerate copied copies, when forms start stretching, get dirty and warped. I have gone off on several assistants who can't comprehend copying from original documents even after getting chewed out for it. Also, my assistant answering the phone with ''yes, she's here...may I ask who's calling'' when I tell her to screen my calls. DUH! How am I going to dodge this one if they know I'm here? Or ''she's tied up'', LOL. I've never been TIED UP in my life! Or yelling at me from her office instead of walking a few steps to tell me something.
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People who drive under the speed limit in the fast lane of the interstate
People who hang on my bumper when I'm already going 10 miles OVER the speed limit and there's no place for me to pull over to let him pass
People who back into a parking spot because it takes them so #$&% long to maneuver while everyone's waiting
People who spit on the sidewalk and then you have to walk past the big ol' gob
People who don't pick up after their dog craps on my lawn
People who don't pack their groceries themselves when there are long lines and not enough packers.
People who pick up things in the grocery store and eat them without paying-- like a banana, grapes, loose pack candies, donuts, etc.
Incorrectly spelled advertising signs. Last week there was a sign in the grocery store for "OREO'S" um. Oreo's what? Oreo's wife? Oreo's red car? Last time I looked, the plural of Oreo is Oreos.
Boy, do I sound like a sourpuss!
Years ago, I saw a mother put her baby down in a store. The store had a tile floor, and it was very dirty. She put the baby on the floor and walked a ways away, and called him to come to her, to show someone how he could crawl! I just CRINGED!!!
People that put their purse down on the FLOOR in a public restroom. My own MOTHER does that! That also makes me cringe!
Dropping napkins in a restaurant, and then picking them up off the floor and using them! Picking up things you drop in a parking lot and handling them or putting them in your purse! As I told my sister's boyfriend's son, rednecks SPIT all over the place in the parking lots. You walk over this with your shoes, and track it wherever you walk. Do NOT pick up things you've dropped, because they have redneck spittle on it! He was only 7 when I told him that, but apparently it made an impression! My sister said when he was 12 he would still jump all over people that picked stuff up off the floor! (Somebody LISTENED to me!)
Those things just gross me out! Stupid people in their cars on their cellphones not paying the slightest bit of attention to what's going on out on the road! People that pass in their cars when NOTHING is coming! People who have to turn out in front of you and make you slam on your breaks! People who are going straight through an intersection and had a green light that has turned red, but people still go through it, and then the people on the other side who need to turn on there VERY SHORT green arrow don't get to turn, because the other people hogged their time while going through the red light! (And the longer the people on that side had their green light, it seems the more people drive through it when it's red!)
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Cell phones!
And no, I don't have a cell phone!
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