So Sad I am very sorry your daughter, and you, have to endure the insults. People should just know better, but alas they do not. I agree with you, too, bd, there are many places you cannot find a phone. Heck, if I broke down on certain parts of a freeway just going somewhere there might not be a phone for miles. If I were to drive cross country or through Canada, someplace very remote, you would have areas that do not even have cell service. One of my cars has a satellite phone installed (it came that way I didn't order it), but that satellite phone was a life saver once on a trip down the Oregon coast. No cell service and I came across an accident. Two other people were there but no one had service. Nobody was hurt, just needed to get some tow trucks. The calls are expensive but it has only been used twice. You can rent satellite phones too, which is a good idea if your are going to rural areas. rushlan
Posted by: Tanya
Date posted: Sat Jun 21 9:22:12 2008
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My kids use a combination of 'gigantic' and 'enormous' often. It comes out as 'gi-nourmous' (I don't even know how'd you'd spell it, lol). Anyway, it drives me nuts.
Another thing is when people broadcast their opinions ALL OVER their cars. I can understand 1 or 2, esp. in an election year, but some people go nuts. I was following a car the other day that must have had 10 or 12 bumper stickers on the back, covering the driver's opinion on every imaginable topic! It's like, 'ok, enough already, we all have an opinion'.
People who enter intersections that they can't clear before the light turns. Then the opposing traffic gets backed up too.
Fast food places that don't put a ketchup in your carryout bag unless you ask. Those little packets can't possibly cost that much.
People who feel the need to discipline everybody else's children as well as their own. I have a friend who does this often. Mind you, I'm right there to correct my kid when he gets out of line but she seems to enjoy beating me to the punch. There's also another mother on my son's ball team who does this. It's irritating, because when it's my child....it's my job..
Posted by: Peaches
Date posted: Sat Jun 21 8:18:04 2008
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My pet peeves:
-When men wear ''do-rags'' in public
-People who don't even try to control their kids in restaurants, at the store, in church, weddings, etc. When hubby and I got married, my aunt took it upon herself to bring her two grandchildren to our ''adult reception'' and the kids were running all over the place and almost knocked over the photographer's lights and backdrop. The aunt just sat there.
-People who loudly discuss their personal business on their cell phones in public.
-When I'm on the phone with someone and the person I'm speaking to, meanwhile, is simultaneously having an ongoing conversation with someone who's in the room with them. My best friend - love her to death - has this bad. I'm on the phone with her and she spends more time talking to her daughter, her niece, sister than to me. When she starts in with that, I just tell her I'll call her back later.
-Because Chicago has lots of narrow one-way streets, I see this all the time (especially in the 'hood'): when the driver in front of me stops their car right in the middle of the street to have a conversation with someone, while the drivers blocked behind them are waiting but cannot go around them because cars are parked along the street and the street is narrow. And if you say something, you may get cussed out or shot. Why can't they just pull over to the side?
-People who are constantly late. It especially bothers me when someone is late for a gathering or event and they have the nerve to get offended because you (gasp!) started without them.
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Posted by: Peridot
Date posted: Fri Jun 20 22:17:01 2008
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Gail, I agree with you about the parking space hogs. It always seems to happen in places where parking is at a premium, too. Selfish, selfish, selfish.
Another pet peeve is people who are habitually late. I understand that sometimes things come up that are beyond a person's control but someone who ALWAYS keeps the group waiting seems to be saying that their time is more important than everyone else's time.
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And how about when they show up late with a new cup of coffee!?!? -cook
I agree! My very best friend in the whole world is ALWAYS late. I've heard it is a power thing. But to me it is telling everybody to F-off, I'm more important than your time schedule!!! How utterly rude. I've started just leaving my friend if she is not where we are supposed to meet at a certain time. It's never worked. She just shows up and says
Posted by: DiscoDiva
Date posted: Fri Jun 20 22:04:46 2008
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My current one (!) is definitely ppl who are in the grocery store check out line waiting until the last item is rung up and THEN break out their check book and BEGIN to write a check!!! UGH! With a line of ppl behind them too. This just kills me! It actually goes along with my other major pet peeve of ppl pulling up to the drive up window at the bank and THEN sign their check or whatever. Let's get it moving along folks!!!!!!!!!!
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ITA...that's one of my big peeves too. Not only not have their checkbooks out but actually 'balance' their register while you wait. If they're paying cash, they wait til the clerk holds her hand out, like, 'what, I have to PAY for this' , then they search through their bag, haul out the wallet, and decide they need to be exact on the change. They take forever looking for that illusive nickel or penny. GRR. Same with ATM, balance register, search through several accounts, and push more buttons then a keyboard. Maybe I'm impatient but I just go have my card out, get my cash and leave. Elaine
i couldn't agree with you more. It is so irritating that ppl don't think about paying until the total has been rung up. I don't write checks anymore, b/c the debit card is way too convenient, but when I did, I made out my check BEFORE I went to the store and filled in everything, incl d/l info and ssn and just had to wait for the amount. And even then, pen was poised and waiting to write. One day i AM going to lose it and say to someone 'oh, i guess you didn't think you would have to pay for this one, huh?'
Social Security Number on your check? Really???? -cook
Posted by: tomorrow
Date posted: Fri Jun 20 21:09:28 2008
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People who cannot, or will not, put their grocery carts in the cart corral. No, they just leave them in the middle of a space and drive away.
Posted by: cook
Date posted: Fri Jun 20 18:37:07 2008
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Trash bags that you can see thru. All trash bags should be black.
Paper napkins. This one even effected me as a child! And my paper towels can only be Viva "Feels like cloth" brand.
Mean drivers!
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Cook, in our area we now have a law that states all garbage MUST be in a clear bag. We have a huge recycling program and currently pay a bag tag fee to have regular garbage picked up. In order for your garbage to be picked up, it must be in a clear bag. If the handler feels you have too much recycling waste mixed in, he has the right to refuse it, tagged or otherwise. If you have to reopen the bag to sort, you will break the tag and lose your to dollars for that too.
oops...that should be TWO dollars. Sorry about that!
Posted by: DebS
Date posted: Fri Jun 20 18:33:23 2008
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- I don't mind cell phone use at all (this is 2008, after all), but I do get irritated at people who feel the need to SHOUT into their phone so that everyone else can hear what they're saying to the person on the other end. I see this on the bus all of the time and it irritates me so much! Honestly - I DON'T CARE how important you think you are, STFU!
- Along those same lines - I hate it when people use the "walkie-talkie" feature on their cell phones! Unless you're a construction worker, police officer, fireman, or any other position that actually requires the use of walkie-talkies, get over yourself and use the phone like everyone else. Instead of looking like you're "oh SO important," you look like an idiot
- Another thing that I'm seeing lately (especially among the younger generation), is people who are on their cell phones, and everytime they talk, they have to move the mouthpiece right over their mouth (therefore taking the ear part away from their ear). then when it's time to listen, they put the ear part back on their ear. It just looks dumb
- I love iPODs, but I absolutely hate it when peopel have to put the volume all of the way up so that I am forced to listen to their (usually horrible) choice of music
Can you tell I take public transportation every day, LOL? Anyway, I have many more, but those are the ones I can think of right now.
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LOL Deb! I have a friend who is one of those people who thinks she has to talk loud into her cell phone. When we are out somewhere and she gets a call, I walk away from her cuz it embarrasses me! GJ
