New peeve thread???

[gemini9961]

Stupid people with stupid questions.......

Today when ordering lunch I told my co-worker who was on the phone with another co-worker what I wanted.....a vegetarian cheese sandwich. He proceeds to ask if I want meat on that.....um, that would be a negative, hence forth the vegetarian part.

Ahh, such is life. Might reconsider my very old plan of living in an igloo far, far away.

[Lobodeb]

Stupid people with stupid questions.......

Today when ordering lunch I told my co-worker who was on the phone with another co-worker what I wanted.....a vegetarian cheese sandwich. He proceeds to ask if I want meat on that.....um, that would be a negative, hence forth the vegetarian part.

Ahh, such is life. Might reconsider my very old plan of living in an igloo far, far away.

I'm sorry but I had to LOL at that one!
This can also go in the Stupid Quotes thread.

[joycenalex]

this happens a lot. listen up people of columbus!!!!!
this is an XRAY DEPARTMENT, NOT A BABYSITTING SERVICE! you cannot bring an infant, toddler or small child into the xray room while you have films done. it can be unsafe for a child to be exposed to radiation, if it's not medically indicated. i considered duct taping one very bumptious child to a chair today, as grandma was having her mammogram. look i know it can be hard to get sitters sometimes, but for petes' sakes, xrays can be dangerous, so don't expect your kids to be babysat by the staff, bring your friend to watch little fred or irma. thank you...whew i feel better
**edited** let me say, this is a scheduled test, not a walk in , i got hurt, i need to see that my arm isn't broken type thing. this woman had an planned for, timed study that was to last an hour. sigh

[RedHedd]

People who drive on the freeway (or anywhere for that matter) in the insane rain we've been having with their wipers on, but not their headlights. Hello? It's the LAW here in California - wipers on = headlights on. Otherwise, we can't see you. It was SCARY driving to work this morning in a DELUGE. At least people weren't driving insanely or too fast - you just couldn't! There was way too much water coming down and on the roads and NO CHP in sight, anywhere.

[slick]

Cyclists who refuse to obey the rules of the road.

- a stop sign means stop.
- cycle along with the flow of traffic and to your extreme right....not in smack dab in the middle of the lane.
- wear your helmet.
- use hand signals.
- more importantly, wear clothes. LOL
This really happened one stinking hot summer evening. I was driving home and the traffic was crawling. I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Then I came upon it....a topless female cyclist. All the lookie-loos were slowing down to get a better look.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

a topless female cyclist.

As if traffic wasn't bad enough to start with.

My peeve for the day is people who blow lights. An accident happend right behind me today just as I was leaving home. Some idiot thought he could make it through the yellow light a full minute after it turned red. The poor person coming the other way didn't have a chance and slammed right into him. I saw the poor innocent person in the back of the cop car so I believe she was ok - thanks to her air bag - but the idiot who blew the light was still in his car. I think he was trapped because the door - and front and side of the vehicle - was quite smashed. She was proabably going 50, he was probably going 30. Instead of being a minute late for work, he's lucky if he makes it in by next week! This happens sooo often around here. I think people expect the rest of the world to watch out for them, but what they don't realize is that sometimes the rest of the world has their own problems to worry about and they may not notice that you're priveliged and allowed to go through red lights a full minute after they turn.

[Cataholic]

this happens a lot. listen up people of columbus!!!!!
this is an XRAY DEPARTMENT, NOT A BABYSITTING SERVICE! you cannot bring an infant, toddler or small child into the xray room while you have films done.

Maybe it is an Ohio thing...but, a similar vent, with an opposite view (Of course, right? I am nothing if not oppositional )

Jonah and I have an emergency trip to Children's hospital (note- Children's Hospital, emphasis on the word -Children). We are stuck in an exam room that looks like a toddler's DREAM! Chock full of things to climb, drawers UNLOCKED, just begging to be opened and shut a million times, cords to plug and unplug, an exam table to climb on, a sink to get into, buttons to push, get my point? The lady says to me (not a nurse, or medical person, but, the person that is in charge of stocking the drawers) when I point out to her that someone left the drawers of medical supplies OPENED, "well, YOU are responsible for your child". Hello? Do you think I don't know that? BUT, I am in your facility, your CHILD friendly facility, waiting in an exam room for OVER ONE HOUR (with a toddler, that translates into about 4 hours and 13 minutes)
and when I point out your staff's forgetfullness in locking the drawers up, you get pissy with me? (Note to medical community, when a new mom has a bloodied faced child in the ER at 730 am, back off, she isn't in the mood).

So, after a few terse paragraphs with this woman, we waited about another two minutes, and I took Jones and walked down the hall. Someone said, "where are you going"? I said, "to the waiting room, I can't wait in that type of room with a toddler". She immediately said, "oh, no, you should wait over here..." and put us in a nice, child friendly exam room, with books, little toys, etc. We were in a dental exam room I coulda given that other lady a little bloody nose.....


So...while I do agree that taking kids to an adult appointment is usually a 'no no', I have to ask for some understanding with toddlers. Something I never really recognized pre-Jones. Life with a toddler can be a little bit challenging, and often, the parent is doing the best he/she can. Can't leave them at home, can't bring them with us....

[Kfamr]

Jo is going to hate me because my peeve today happens to be child-related...


Sometimes working in an establishment with a playground REALLY stinks especially when you are trying to concentrate on your job and all you hear is little kids screaming their heads off!!

Okay lady.. I helped you bring your order to your table... you didn't even ask.
Seeing as you had a toddler on each hip, and one trailing along) after sitting them on my CLEAN COUNTERSPACE, WHICH I HAD TO THEN SANITIZE DURING A RUSH, the least you could do is keep your children from screaming their heads off, throwing food around my clean diningroom, and running around like maniacs. We have a playground, yes. But, our diningroom is NOT for playing. Oh, by the way... barbecue sauce does not double as finger paints on our windows.

Not cute.

[Lady's Human]

Kfamr,

Just ask Marylin Jean and Axel how far that behavior gets them......

As a parent of children who have boundaries, it is incredibly annoying to try to control your own children when someone else's little hellions are running amok.

[RICHARD]

Thanks K.

When I was a kid, mom swatted me for hanging on the counter at a bank.

Why?

People were sitting their kids on the counters.....and this was in the days before plastic diapers.

LH,

The stages of learning discipline.

The swat after we left the establishment.
Then the 'Vulcan Skin Pinch' (the meaty inside part of the upper arm)
Should you flinch, back to the swat.
Then it was the "look"...

The look froze you in your place, while you contemplated the punishment.

Then one day, while getting the dressing down from both out parents, the little voice at the ent of the couch says.....

"Mom, can't you just hit us and get it over with?"

[Cataholic]

Jo is going to hate me because my peeve today happens to be child-related...

Not at all, not at all. Somedays, I would be the first one posting about Jonah's latest and greatest. There have been times, and there will be more, I am sure, where all I am doing is standing still- no forward progress.

While I can't say he has thrown a major tantrum outside, or finger painted with ketchup, he did lay down on the sidewalk, and cry, right in front of a bunch of people. What did I do? I pretended to stomp on him, and within two stomps, he was giggling away. I got more than one stare. But, I picked up a giggling child and walked on my way.

[Cinder & Smoke]

I pretended to stomp on him,
and within two stomps, he was giggling away.

I got more than one stare.

You're lucky no one in The Crowd grabbed their cell and dialed 9-1-1!

[slleipnir]

Jo is going to hate me because my peeve today happens to be child-related...


Sometimes working in an establishment with a playground REALLY stinks especially when you are trying to concentrate on your job and all you hear is little kids screaming their heads off!!

Okay lady.. I helped you bring your order to your table... you didn't even ask.
Seeing as you had a toddler on each hip, and one trailing along) after sitting them on my CLEAN COUNTERSPACE, WHICH I HAD TO THEN SANITIZE DURING A RUSH, the least you could do is keep your children from screaming their heads off, throwing food around my clean diningroom, and running around like maniacs. We have a playground, yes. But, our diningroom is NOT for playing. Oh, by the way... barbecue sauce does not double as finger paints on our windows.

Not cute.

Parents really need to learn to control their children. I see a lot of this in the bar I work at. I don't understand why parents want to bring children into a bar in the first place...but many, many do. I've had kids run around and collect ALL my menu's off every table. When I put them all back, they went right behind me and did it again. People came in and had no menu's. I went and told the father that I needed the menu's to stay on the tables for guests. He said "Oh, well sorry kids. I guess you can't play waiter any more......." It's like...uh, excuse me, this isn't a day care. I feel some parents really aren't doing their jobs. It's the parents fault those children act up or misbehave. The parents honestly didn't care they were doing something they shouldn't be. They were running around yelling too. It bothers the other people. I think the parents were glad to have the kids out of their hair. Honestly.....that really bugs me. If I had done this as a child...no, wait...I WOULDN'T have done that as a child...that's why I'm still alive *sigh*

Ok, so maybe they wouldn't have killed me, my parents weren't that mean, but I just knew better.

I just wish people wouldn't let kids run around like that in a public place where people are trying to work.

[RedHedd]

Staffing at retail stores on a Saturday. This happened to me at both Petco and Walgreen's this past Saturday. What does a store manager do these days? Isn't Saturday one of the busier retail shopping days? Almost everyone is off work and running errands, picking up stuff, etc. One would think the store manager would staff their stores to provide the highest level of service to bring in the $$.

At both stores they only had ONE register open, a LONG line of customers (at Petco there were pets in line too - which I love, but even they were getting impatient). and invariably the staff that's working on Saturday are the newest, least trained people and no supervisors available when problems arise which delays the line even more.

It was all I could do to restrain myself from having a fit (I was having a bad day too) and the delays and incompetent staff weren't helping my mood.