New peeve thread???

[RedHedd]

I am tired of the cell phone 'ring tones'- Why hasn't someone done the "Close Encounters of a Strange Kind" tones yet???

Cingular has these - I just checked

When you go thru a drive thru for food or the parking booth in a lot-MAKE SURE YOU CAN AFFORD IT!! Please? I am tired of watching car gymnastics while you look for change.

I deal with these idiots everyday when I exit my parking garage. Please, people, you KNOW you're going to have to pay, so why not be ready?

Why do we accept poor language skills?
I saw a program while I was surfing last night, A man in a cleric collar was talking to a group of kids about respecting woman....he said something like,
"don't do what I've did..."

I'm with you on this one ....

I like music, but not your music while I am at the intersection.

.... this one too ...

When I make eye contact with you and say "Good Morning" at least nod.

.... and this one ... you're on a roll, Richard!

I just work with you....You can go back to your miserable life after I smile and acknowledge you!!!

.... and this one

[Kfamr]

People who talk on their cell phones while at the drive-thru window. (I work Drive-Thru cash at my workplace.) Not only is it RUDE but it holds up our line. Especially when we ask you if you'd like and condiments numerous times then finally get fed up and hand you the bag with no condiments and you ask for ketchup. "Hey, I'll call you back in a few minutes..." EASY!

People who butt their noses into other people's business.

Slackers at work.

"When I make eye contact with you and say "Good Morning" at least nod."
-This especially pisses me off.

[buckner]

People who talk on their cell phones while at the drive-thru window. (I work Drive-Thru cash at my workplace.) Not only is it RUDE but it holds up our line. Especially when we ask you if you'd like and condiments numerous times then finally get fed up and hand you the bag with no condiments and you ask for ketchup. "Hey, I'll call you back in a few minutes..." EASY!

I'm guilty with this one, but it's for a justified reason AND I know how to deal with the people I'm talking to and the people in the window. I know to let the people hang on while I'm on the phone AND I always pay attention to the drive-thru window people. If I ever get a call from someone while going through a drive-thru, it's my mom or dad asking me to pick up something on my way home or forgetting they left off something on the order.. in which case, I drive back around and give the resturant MORE business. Remember, the annoying people pay your salary, too.

[Kfamr]

Remember, the annoying people pay your salary, too.

Uh, I'm well aware of that but when the "annoying people" hold up our lines with their rude behaviors, it's not something I enjoy (or probably anyone else who works drive-thru, OR the customers behind them.)


You're one out of 42478923742389742479284723472384723984723894723 that may possibly be able to do that, in which in this case my post had no reference to you.


*edit* And I can understand if it something absolutely important but you won't believe some of the conversations i'm forced to hear.

[Lady's Human]

Frankly, there are very few, if any, conversations that need to take place while driving a vehicle. People driving while using a cell phone is a pet peeve period. If it's that important, pull over to the side of the road and talk there. There are too many people who have trouble driving without trying to do something else. Guiding a 3000+ pound vehicle should get all your attention.

[RICHARD]

Frankly, there are very few, if any, conversations that need to take place while driving a vehicle. People driving while using a cell phone is a pet peeve period. If it's that important, pull over to the side of the road and talk there. There are too many people who have trouble driving without trying to do something else. Guiding a 3000+ pound vehicle should get all your attention.

Wait a second....

I saw two people, IN BRAND NEW CARS jabbering away on cell phones this morning-
First, how does a brand new car handle?
How is the braking different from your old car?
Where are the blind spots?
How do you balance your report, cup of coffee, cell phone and lane change?
Multitask? nope, MULTICRASH!

more phone fun???

As always, the cell convo in the store....

"WHAT KINDA ICE CREAM DO YA WANT????"

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More science....

Objects fall at the same speed, no matter what their weight is.

If you watch a piece of paper, trash or ???? fall out of your hand it will not fall any faster....


So why drop it, observe it fall and leave it for someone else to pick up?
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There was a wadded up piece of paper towel IN FRONT OF THE DOOR TO THE DOCTOR'S LOUNGE. It stayed there for four hours.

(I was bad, I usually pick things up like that, but I love to "experiment" and see how long things stay the same.)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Richard, you've hit on one. Litter is one of my all time pet peeves! How difficult is it to hang onto it until you get to a garbage can? I will not litter to a fault, and I've actually been known to pick up other peoples' litter when I'm just out for a walk. Why mess up the entire world just because you don't want to mess up your little world?

As for cell phones, I hate the idiot driver with the cell phone as much as anybody, and I'm glad there's actually a law in Chicago where cell phones have to be "hands-free." It's ok to be talking on a cell phone when you're in your car but you are stopped. Well.....I can't wait for the first person to challenge that law because I am "stopped" in traffic all the time! I see absolutely nothing wrong with talking on the phone when traffic is creeping along at a snails pace. Also, if I'm on the interstate and someone calls me, I immediately go to the right lane and just stick there until I'm done. I just love the person, like others have mentioned, going 80 mph, weaving in and out of traffic and not only are they on the phone, they are putting their makeup on, eating, smoking, yelling at the kids, you name it. If you're going to do all this while driving, at least have the curtesy to pull into the right hand lane.

I have plenty more pet peeves, but I'm in a good mood today so I can't think of any of them.

[Kfamr]

I don't think anyone was critisizing EVERYONE. No one mentioned people that were careful while driving with a cell phone. If you don't fit in the catagory as a "idiot driver who uses their cell phone and gets made when the drive-thru person doesn't give you ketchup up after they already asked you 5345435345 times, while you were yakking away" then no one was referring to you.

My main issue was the rude people at the drive-thru. This also includes the folks smoking at the window and blowing it in my face as 'm taking cash or handing them food. Now, I'm not deathly allergic to cigarette smoke but I have been known to has a nasty coughing fit over it. It's not a polite thing to do, IMO. There are even people who come through REEKING of marijuana, making the whole store smell.

[Sevaede]

More science....

Objects fall at the same speed, no matter what their weight is.

If you watch a piece of paper, trash or ???? fall out of your hand it will not fall any faster....


So why drop it, observe it fall and leave it for someone else to pick up?

That reminds me! Troy and I had a conversation concerning this subject kind of except that it had to do with velocity. He argued that a bullet shot out of a gun would not fall at the same speed or time as one dropped from a persons hand (equal in every other aspect, though, such as heigth). It derived from a passage from The Rule of Four. He also said the same thing about an arrow.

[Oggyflute]

*edit* And I can understand if it something absolutely important but you won't believe some of the conversations i'm forced to hear.

I've been managing retail business's for 18 years, so yeah I can Kay.

[gini]

I go to the post office almost every day in my business. I went the other night and a young man ON A CELL PHONE drove into the parking lot. I was turning left into the lot, but waited. What he was doing was turning around - not entering the lot at all. Behind him another car was waiting to turn right into the lot. Just then another woman was exiting the lot - and she wanted to turn left in front of me and behind the guy on the cell phone.

What happened? Everyone had to come to a complete halt - because he was now boxed in.

What did he do? He just kept right on driving in reverse - so everyone had to back up to get out of his way. He never shut up on that phone - and all of us were honking our horns at him.

All of us gave way so this idiot could continue rudely blocking everyone.
Did he care? Not a whit - in his mind - HE WON!

There is also a sign at each window at my post office that I couldn't believe had to be posted. It reads:

PLEASE COMPLETE YOUR PHONE CALL BEFORE APPROACHING THIS WINDOW!

[mruffruff]

Our library has a sign posted that requests that phone calls be conducted outside and ringers be turned off while in the library. But it doesn't stop some people.

Any kind of rudeness bugs me. And cell phone rudeness is at the top of my list.

[wolflady]

...There is also a sign at each window at my post office that I couldn't believe had to be posted. It reads:

PLEASE COMPLETE YOUR PHONE CALL BEFORE APPROACHING THIS WINDOW!

OMG! It's pretty sad when messages like this have to be posted. I have a lot of cell phone pet peeves also. I mean, how important can the conversation really be? Unless someone is dying, in an accident, etc...people don't need to be on the damn phone...especially when it makes their bad driving worse! If someone can drive well and talk on the phone, that's one thing, but it always seems like the bad drivers are the ones talking on the phone!
I can't even count how many times I've seen bad driving (speeding, cutting in and out of traffic, tailgaiting, cutting people off, etc.), and when I looked at the driver, they were on the phone! *sigh*
I've been guilty of driving while on the phone, but then again, I'm lucky if the traffic is moving faster than 10 miles an hour, and I'm one of the few that can drive normally! If the traffic is moving at a good clip, I usually tell the person I'll call them back, because it's the bad drivers I need to watch out for just to make it home alive...heh...
I also love it when people get calls in the movie theatre! Even after seeing the bit about not adding your own soundtrack to the movie!