New peeve thread???

[Lobodeb]

Good one. Now let's bash the Chicago Transit Authority.

This happened to me last night.

I'm on the expressway heading home, it's a terrible cold and rainy night and the traffic is just as bad. I'm in the express lane minding my own business and there is a CTA bus to my left. I'm probably right about the half way point of this bus when it decides that it wants to be in my lane. HELLO! I'm driving in the lane here! I honk and swirve luckilly, there was no one to my right. But the bus keeps coming. Like I'm supposed to move for it. I get in front of the bus and realize that he's on the phone. No hands free device and he's using his elbow to steer the bus! Can this be why he didn't bother looking in the mirror to make sure the lane was clear before he tried changing lanes?

Anyway, it gets right behind me, and I mean close enough that I should have just had him in my back seat. It stays that close to me then puts his high beams on because how dare me make him wait until I pass. I'm coming up on my exit now, so I change lanes, and the MF turns off the brights.

I was on hold for 23 minutes with the CTA customer service to report that grasspole.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Boy, that one sure trumps mine, Lobodeb! And how much would it have cost the city....errrr....city taxpayers...in law suits if he had actually hit you and you and some of the passengers were hurt! Gotta love the city!

Almost time to carry your digicam or get a cell phone with a camera in it so you could have snapped a picture - yes, while you were driving - and turned that in to the news media.

[RICHARD]

Another way a cell phone can distract you.

http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/newt...newthread&f=18

[Lobodeb]

Almost time to carry your digicam or get a cell phone with a camera in it so you could have snapped a picture - yes, while you were driving - and turned that in to the news media.

What frustrates me most is that probably nothing will happen to this bozo! I made the complaint with CTA, but they kept asking me what route it was. I told them I couldn't see because he was too close to me, but I did get the bus number.

Oh well.

[dukedogsmom]

This one should be pretty much self explanitory: Men! They are so hard to figure out.

[RICHARD]

This one should be pretty much self explanitory: Men! They are so hard to figure out.

My peeve?

Women treating men like a column of numbers to be 'figgered out'

[CagneyDog]

My number one Pet peeve is when people walk*really* slow and I'm stuck behind them. IT DRIVES ME NUTS

[Van10]

1. I just can't stand it when on the bus some people push and shove their way to the front of the line so they'll be able to make it out the door first at a bus stop
I don't know why they're in such a hurry because EVERYONE is headed that way!

2. Bus drivers with attitude.

[Cinder & Smoke]

camera in it so you could have snapped a picture
- yes, while you were driving -

Reminds me of the Doggie Transport with thee mutts in mid-SNOW-storm ...

On the Ohio Turnpike, we got to a bare road section with almost no traffic ...
Tyme for a Photo!

I tried a few over-the-shoulder shots and keep *missing* the Dawgs.
Check traffic (none) ...
Wedge steering wheel wiff kneebone ...
TURN around (almost facing the BACK window) ...
Aim ~ *snap* ~ *FLASH* ... GOT em!

As I turned back to a more eyes-FORward position -
I spotted the Lady State TROOPERETTE sitting not 100 feet away
in her Troopermobile at the end of a Maintenance Outpost driveway!
(The flash had *fired* almost directly in front of her!)

*Oooopsie*!

I swear our eyes locked as I Zoomed past ...
I drove the next 30 miles looking in the mirror - expecting to see *flashin* lights ...
I was rehearsing my answer to WHAT the bloody heck were you DOING!?"

She musta figured the Judge would never believe her - she never gave chase.