New peeve thread???

[Lady's Human]

I've been extremely irritated over the past couple days by some ridiculous statements some of my co-workers have made. It drives me nuts when theoretically intelligent adults make statements like these:

First, let me give a little background on "Bob". He's in his late 40's,has been promoted twice in the last year (about a 10K raise) his youngest of two is just starting college, his sister is a year older. He has just refinanced his first mortgage and has taken out a second because he doesn't want his kids paying for college themselves. He also is using an additional loan to remoel his house.
Bob: "I hate the President, 'cause in the last two years I'm making more than I ever have, but I can't pay the bills the way I used to. Everything is dubya's fault"

Um, Bob, maybe you can't pay the bills because your income has gone up 10K but your expenses have gone up roughly 25k per year? But it's all Washington D.C.'s fault.

Second, also from "Bob".....

"This soap ate right through the drip pan under it! I wonder what it's doing to our hands?"

Me: "Bob, can you put caustic soda in a metal container?"

Bob: "No, it will eat through it"

Me: "Bob, caustic soda is a base. Soap is a base. The soap has had 2 years to eat through the drip pan. Soap is a weak base, but given enough time, it will have the same effect."

Bob: "No, it doesn't work like that. Soap isn't the same as caustic"

To understand why the second is frustrating, we work with chemicals all the time, and have to read the safety sheets on them before use. If you can't understand my comments about the soap, how in hell can I trust you to be working with chemicals near me?!

[RICHARD]

I've been extremely irritated over the past couple days by some ridiculous statements some of my co-workers have made. It drives me nuts when theoretically intelligent adults make statements like these:

First, let me give a little background on "Bob". He's in his late 40's,has been promoted twice in the last year (about a 10K raise) his youngest of two is just starting college, his sister is a year older. He has just refinanced his first mortgage and has taken out a second because he doesn't want his kids paying for college themselves. He also is using an additional loan to remoel his house.
Bob: "I hate the President, 'cause in the last two years I'm making more than I ever have, but I can't pay the bills the way I used to. Everything is dubya's fault"

Um, Bob, maybe you can't pay the bills because your income has gone up 10K but your expenses have gone up roughly 25k per year? But it's all Washington D.C.'s fault.

Second, also from "Bob".....

"This soap ate right through the drip pan under it! I wonder what it's doing to our hands?"

Me: "Bob, can you put caustic soda in a metal container?"

Bob: "No, it will eat through it"

Me: "Bob, caustic soda is a base. Soap is a base. The soap has had 2 years to eat through the drip pan. Soap is a weak base, but given enough time, it will have the same effect."

Bob: "No, it doesn't work like that. Soap isn't the same as caustic"

To understand why the second is frustrating, we work with chemicals all the time, and have to read the safety sheets on them before use. If you can't understand my comments about the soap, how in hell can I trust you to be working with chemicals near me?!

lololol,

That is precious..

I have a friend who's step daughter put 10 k down for a Toyota truck.

He is ticked because he is paying her way thru school.

(It goes back to the "I'll pay your school as long as you go.." Thank god i don't haave any kids.....I'd tell them to pay their own way and when they get their degree we will settle up....think about the interest he could make making the kids pay their own school and look towards a nice nest egg when they graduate!)

AHA!

I thought I was the only one that read the MSDS sheets!.

But then again I find cereal boxes good stuff to browse!!

[smokey the elder]

Hey, at least you didn't put solvent-laden water into a plastic drum...*boom*. only a little one though. This happened at work last week and the kitty output sure hit the ventilator blades!

[Lady's Human]

Oopsie?


Smokey, I'm afraid one of Heinlein's predictions has come true.

[Lobodeb]

Pardon my stream of consciousness writing here, but I have a few to add:

Manners. A friend of mine went to apply for public aid and asked me to go with her since the wait is very long. While we were there, a lady who worked there would occasionally come out and hand out coloring pages to the little kids. She must have come out 3-4 times and handed out 10-15 pictures. Not once did I hear any child say, "thank you." What's worse is that none of the parents told their child to say thank you! When I was little, if I didn't say please and thank you, I didn't get what I wanted.\

While we're at the public aid office, a young guy walks in to receive his monthly aid. I'm not one to look down my nose at the less fortunate, but when this guy walked in the office with a knee length fur (real) coat, dressed in Girbuad from head to toe and both him and his baby have Nike shoes on (the baby's shoes must have cost $40+). Actually, the baby had a Nike outfit on. If you can drop that kind of cash on your wardrobe, do you really need public aid?

There were more, but I forgot them at the moment.

[RICHARD]

While we're at the public aid office, a young guy walks in to receive his monthly aid. I'm not one to look down my nose at the less fortunate, but when this guy walked in the office with a knee length fur (real) coat, dressed in Girbuad from head to toe and both him and his baby have Nike shoes on (the baby's shoes must have cost $40+). Actually, the baby had a Nike outfit on. If you can drop that kind of cash on your wardrobe, do you really need public aid?

There were more, but I forgot them at the moment.

I have to commend the woman who was in line at the grocery store with gold, Nikes, a leather jacket that cost more than I had in my cheking account and her son, dressed the same way..

They paid for their groceries with food stamps.

[RICHARD]

Two real fast peeves....

The Uhura.


Those ear pieces that people wear for their phones. I am just getting used to the gauging thing.....you know the buttons that men are putting in their ears..(that really gives me the creeps).. you start to talk to them and they stop paying attention to you so they can answer a call...

There is a gal that comes into the office with one of those speaker things in her ear...I want to ask her to "open me up a hailing frequency"

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The moron in the park.

I saw this huge Siamese cat in the parking lot of the L.A. Zoo that I pass on the way to work....there are coyotes in the area, that I have seen in the last few weeks. The cat was sitting next to the curb, he had on a harness and a collar.


I drove a ways and had to turn around..

The cat was next to a lone car in the parking lot when I approached it..

It ran under the car, and I tried to coax him out..a few seconds later I heard,

NO NO NO, NO NO NO, he is OK!!

The voice was coming from a woman who was about 40 feet away talking to a park employee.

HOKAY!...As I drove past her I wanted to scream at her (yes I do have a foul mouth and it probably would not have been pretty) DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE COYOTES OUT HERE? she used a cane and I cringed at the picture of her chasing her cat, in the coyote's mouth yelling, NO NO NO, NO NO NO...


UGH, then she would sue the city for her stupidity and win a ton of money....

I was ticked off......But I did pray for the cat...


And I saw the same woman driving into the same parking lot this morning.....closer to the area of scrub around the parking lot...the area where the coyotes prowl!