New peeve thread???

[popcornbird]

I don't feel the need to justify it at all. I will talk on my cell phone while I drive for whatever reason I want, regardless of some people's peeves about it. It is legal here, and I like it. What gets me is people not looking behind the cell phone to see that maybe there is a reason the person is driving erratic. Maybe they just stink at driving!

Johanna, I didn't mean you need to justify it! I don't see anything wrong at all with talking on the phone while driving...I do it myself. It is not a pet peeve of mine. I was refering to my brother justifying it (to my dad) because my dad always tells him to concentrate while driving and not yak so much, so I meant that he justifies his cell phone usage when someone tells him he shouldn't. Not that he needs to justify it...I don't see anything wrong with it. Perhaps I should've used another word, as I didn't quite mean 'justify' as it seems. I talk on the phone while driving myself. Just not that much. Its just what you were saying totally reminded me of my brother.

[RICHARD]

Another peeve of mine?

People who are so engrossed with their cell phone calls that do not realize they cut someone off...

They look at my middle finger like this....

"What????"


Peeve #2.

People that attend events and do not use common sense, then get pissed off at the event organizers..

At the airshow last weekend a couple showed up with their chihuahua.....

NO PETS ALLOWED.......

Then you have to listen to them whine about the rules, government, tax dollars.....

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Since this had sort of turned into a on-the-cell-phone-while-driving bash session, how about this one:

I was on my home from work Friday night. Beautiful evening, lots of people out and about in the city and of course, lots of traffic. I'm at a red light, maybe 4 or 5 cars back. I faintly here the wail of a siren off in the distance. The light turns green and the siren gets closer, but it's the "winding down" part of the siren, no "winding up" part. In Chicago this usually means that a cop is coming upon a red light that he doesn't want to wait for and he's really not speeding on his way to an emergency, so the first few cars go. Then the ambulance comes into view. Red lights flashing but still the "winding down" sound with no "winding up." People finally stop because the ambulance is right there. There's only 1 car in front of me at the intersection now....so I can clearly see that the ambulance driver is on his cell phone....and we're not talking hands-free here either! Don't you think it it's a law in the City of Chicago that cell phones only be used hands-free while driving that they would equip the ambulance drivers with headsets? And yes, it was a CFD ambulance, not a privately owned own. I really have no idea, but I'm thinking there are different switches to flip depending on the kind of siren you wish to use, so this guy couldn't flip his "yes this a real emergency" siren because his hands were full.

Anyway, couldn't help but comment since the subject is at hand.

Oh, amazing how often daily events make one think of PT. I thought of you, Kay, when I was in the drive through at a McDonald's the other day. I noticed a nice big sign right before the order board "PLEASE DO NOT USE YOUR CELL PHONE IN THE DRIVE THROUGH" and it had a little picture of a cell phone with the circle and red mark across it for those who couldn't read the sign. Maybe an idea for your restaurant?

[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.

[Lobodeb]

I was at an airline ticket counter checking in with one of our consultants from work. She asked if we could get seats toward the front of the plane and the agent told her, "ya know, the WHOLE PLANE is going to the same place!"

[RICHARD]

Peeve 172-

Showing a person, who has more initials behind their name than you will ever have, how to use a fax machine, over and over and over and over again.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Got one.

Total incompetence and total lack of willingness to help.

I just had to make a call on an order my boss placed with his friend. My boss probably talked directly with his friend to place this order - there is no PO, I don't have an order number, I know nothing except that the order was placed, a general idea of what the item is and where it was supposed to be delivered. The friend is out of town - as is my boss - so I had to talk to one of the girls in his office. She kept repeating over and over and over "I can't look it up unless I have a PO number." "You mean you placed an order and you don't even know who your sales rep is?" in a snotty tone of voice of course. "I can't help you unless I know the PO number."

I'm thinking come on lady, can't you look at our account and see if there are any open orders on it? Or even look at the deliveries going out and see if there is one going to Northbrook. Sheesh, give me access to your friggin computer and I'll find the friggin order!

Finally, about an hour later - after she got it through her head that I really couldn't give her a PO number - she called me back with exactly the information I was looking for! Now really, was that so hard?

[RICHARD]

Got one.

Finally, about an hour later - after she got it through her head that I really couldn't give her a PO number - she called me back with exactly the information I was looking for! Now really, was that so hard?

Oh, but let the end of the month come around when they have to reconcile their purchase orders and they can find ANYTHING!

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Lobodeb,

Vindication???

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_306174843.html