PEEVES AND THE STRANGE THINGS IN LIFE

[Fred]

I want to stat a thread on peeves and just plain stupidity and absurdities. Here is one I saw today.

I was leaving Winn-Dixie and the parking lot was rather full. Picture this – an area for carts, a Lexus in the middle and an empty parking slot on the right. This woman loads the groceries in the trunk of the Lexus. Takes the cart and walks to the empty parking place on her right and leaves the cart in the middle than walks around to the left side of her car and bumps into the empty cart rack before she gets in her car. Duh! Lazy or stupid :?:
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[Fred]

This is one of those stories that just make you shake your head.

Monday morning I’m driving to work and the “Service Engine Soon” light comes on. Due to the holidays, I call the dealer to make an appointment for Friday. The service manager asks me if I filled up the gas tank recently. I told him that I did fill up on Saturday. He said make sure the gas cap is on. He then asks if I filled up with the engine running and I told him the engine was off. Now, this was the same manager who when I reported that the SRS light was staying on told me to sit in all the seats and buckle the seat belts. So I was next waiting for him to ask me which directing was I facing and was my weight on my left leg or my right when I filled the car with gas. As a remedy maybe I should hop three times on my left foot while touching nose and sing three verses of Kumbaya.

The gas cap was on tight. The light stayed on when I drove to lunch and when I drove home that night and the following morning when I drove back to work. That night the light was off and has been ever since.
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[Helen]

Probably my biggest peeve is:

people unexpectedly knocking at my door or calling me on the phone, expecting immediate results... then wondering (even asking!) why it took so long for me to answer....

Like it never occurs to them that I am not sitting by the door or phone waiting for this unexpected visit... that I may be in the shower, or not prepared that instant to answer, for any number of reasons.... of which, most are none of their business anyway. :roll:

If they know I'm not expecting them, they should expect a possible delay and not ask me to explain it to them. :)

[jan]

After a long day of being on my feet, I head to the grocery store.

What ticks me off:

Having to stand in a long line, and everyone in front of me obviously did not work that day. Why can't they shop between the hours of 8 and 3 so those of us who work won't have to wait in those stupid checkout lanes?

[jan]

And a bigger pet peeve is:

Having to wait for a long list of instructions before deciding which cotton-picking number to pick, by which time I've forgotton and have to go through the whole rigamaro again.

I could go on and on with my pet peeves, but I'll leave it at that......maybe.

[DJ]

I'm with you on that one, Jan! I'm afraid to even begin! LOL :roll:

[Shane]

Me too DJ............

But one is........(following on from FRed's first)........

I park in the supermarket carpark, it's (reasonably) empty. Where I park & I choose it carefully LOL, when I come out someone will have parked sooooooo close next to me I need to lose a stone to get in my car. The rest of the parking lot is empty.

And another is............(this is the worst & tempted me to break laws) I rang a helpline once (I learned since) & the guy said " How do I know it's you ?" (as in our customer) who else would be so *&^%$ stoopid as to phone them...........

Thanks Fred, great thread (I think, cept now I'm mad all over again) :D

Oh Yeah & Helen's sooooooooo true, Helen :shocked:

[fuhgedaboutit]

LOL, yeah good post Fred, I'm getting agitated already!

Today I was on hold to the County Court's office for about 20 minutes, when all of a sudden a recording comes on and says "I'm sorry but we can't take your call right now, please call back tomorrow during regular business hours!!!" Are you kidding me? It was only 5:10 and phone hours are suppose to be till 5:30! They should have at least answered all the calls that were on hold! I'm complaining tomorrow, not that it will do any good. :roll:

My peeve that I thought of first...I hate it when I buy something either for myself or someone else and when I go to take off the sticky price tag or made in tag it won't come off or I can only get it part way off and then it looks like a big mess. Takes forever to get it all the way off.

Oh yeah, I could go on and on, but fuhgedaboutit!
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[Cartman]

In restaurants ...

I hate when the waitress does not "acknowledge" you, when you sit down. Sometimes, when it's busy, a waitress will just ignore you. Then she'll come over all harried (usually after you flag her down or ask the manager where your waitress is) and gives you a 5-minute dissertation on how busy it is or how many people called off. I don't really care! I can understand "busy" ... just stop by the table and say: "Ill be with you in a couple of minutes." That's all ... just acknowledge my presence.

I also HATE when you give a waitress your check and payment (like a $50 bill for a $25 check) and they ask: "Do You Want Change?" I will always indicate that I want them to keep the change, if I do. I used to work at a conference hotel that had two upscale restaurants and if ANY of the servers asked that question, they would be fired ... on the spot.

Or better still, when they bring your change in LARGE bills thinking that you will leave them a LARGE tip because you don't have anything smaller.

I'm with you on yours, too, Dusty ... those labels. I usually end up striking through the price with a black marker or something rather than take the chance of ripping the box. But, that makes just as much of a mess. But, look at it another way. At least it HAS a price.

I love the stores today where they just have the barcodes on things ... no prices ... and have like 1 bar code scanner for the entire department store and nobody knows where it is!!!!

Or, when you get on a check-out line and your item does not have a price and the girl/guy just puts on their little light and stands there. Now, they don't get an answer after about 3 mins., but they continue to stand there. (Like the God of prices is going to appear before them!) So, I usually end up taking the item back, getting another one or getting someone to price it and come back ... and they are usually still just standing there.

OK, one more ... I'm on a roll ...

Why do stores have Express Check-out ... 7 items or less. The guy/gal in front of me, inevitably has 10-12 items and they let it go. OK, the line is Cash only ... these same people usually whip out a credit card or check and they accept it. Now, in the meantime, the "regular" lines are moving faster than the "Express". It's a joke. Kinda almost as funny as calling McDonalds or Burger King ... FAST FOOD.

I feel a lot better now ... :D

[jan]

Agree with everything you said Karen.

One thought on your statement: "I hate when the waitress does not "acknowledge" you"

I hate it when they acknowledge with a........"I'll be with you 'guys' in a second." I always want to scream, "I'm not a friggin guy, you friggin idiot" but my kids stop me.

[Cartman]

Hi jan,

Don't ever move to NJ ... "you guys" is a formal greeting!!! :lol: Even worse is "youse guys". And, yes ... some people, not just mobsters, do talk like that around here! :cool:

Another really good reason we're moving to the mid-west!!!!

[fuhgedaboutit]

Youse guys are too funny! :rotfl2: Karen I never thought of you as speaking with an accent. Shane, TC & Joe I figured. I wonder if Fred has a "nawlins" one? Imagine us all getting together...we'd probably need an interpreter!

Yeah tipping is a real pain. I either over tip or get pi**ed and don't want to tip at all. And I always tip the waiter or busboy with my phone number! :shock: Just kidding! I'd never do that. :roll:
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[Cartman]

Actually, I don't speak with a Jersey accent. I grew up here, but lived most of my life in Virginia. Just been living here last 4 years to care for my Mom ... not long enough to get the accent back! TG!!! :lol:

[FTP Guy]

Me? Have an accent? Nobody around here ever notices it! :lol:

[Fred]

Another driver that ticked me off. I was at Sam's spending money that I did not have. This dumb guy was holding up traffic waiting for the first slot to become available. The fourth slot was empty. He was not handicapped because I saw him shopping. But he was determined to wait for slot # one. Yet he will walk for 2 miles while shopping.

Another peeve is whan someone parks illegally in a handicapped zone.

[Cartman]

What I REALLY hate are people who get those handicapped signs to hang on their rearview mirror and aren't handicapped. Like they have friends working for whoever gives out those signs. Or, they needed the sign (say after an operation, like 15 years ago) and still continue to use it AFTER they have recovered!