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Lazy0ldGamer

Lazy0ldGamer

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Those pet peeves, thorns in your side, bee in your bonnet. Let us all know, get it out! lol.

Mine? I really despise people spitting in public. There's no need. It spreads germs and is generally disgusting.
I also really hate people who chew their food with their mouth open. Seeing it all mushed up and moving around like some fleshy cement mixer... gross
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People (mostly young) that assume I'm stupid since I have white hair. Especially when it comes to computerized things, I let them know that I was working with computers before they were born.
 
People with white hair thinking the know about computerised stuff..... Only joking :D

People driving while using their mobile phone with no hands free, especially the ones that nearly crash into you but don't even notice.
 
Oh god, this could go on forever...

People that stop in the doorway of shops trying to work out what they're doing and completely blocking the exit...

...same at the top/bottom of escalators...
 
People who think they are better than others and have somehow earned the right to treat others like shit.
And also the carbullies who drive totally irresponsible and make me wish they die before they kill anyone else. >:(
 
People that block doorways? YES. Same as people who hover around public transport doors, like trains, when you're trying to get off.

Also people who are on their phones driving or going too fast. Drink drivers. People who don't put seat belts on their kids (it's your CHILDREN. How can you not want them to be as safe as possible?!!)

Also people who let their dogs shit all over the pavements and don't pick it up.. And people who smoke in a kids playground and leave it on the ground.

Ok I'm done. Maybe I need to start a "happy things" thread :D
 
The "doorway" thing is a big one in my life. When I am on a shoot and trying to carry gear in/out of a room for setup/teardown and the producer and the client decide to hold a conversation right in the doorway. I can excuse the client, but the producer should know better.
 
That's why I always preferred night shifts in the hospital, because doctors would do their rounds in the morning with a massive team that stood around and got in your way while you were trying to get everyone up and all the jobs done.
 
-people who wear hats while eating at the table.
-people dont throw away trash when the bin is 2 feet from them.
-the SHARE button
-talking at the movie theater
-drivers that wait last minute to get over and cause traffic to come to a stand still because of their incompetence.
-"responsible" gun owners that cant seem to keep their firearms out of reach of children.
-snobby disrespectful teenagers
-putting a lift kit on a truck and adding giant tires
-people who post things before reading other sources to determine what is real and what is fake.
 
I'm live in a city that is basically populated with far better off people (doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc) than most in central mississippi. these high school kids go to mommy and daddy and beg for a truck. lets say a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado. then they go to daddy and say, my brand new truck needs a better sound system ( $900 +). then they come back and say they want new tires($800+) and rims (600+) but the tires wont fit so they now have to lift it 3 inches($800+). their excuse is that they want to take it through mud but it will never see mud. then they put these long LED light bars (100+) across the top of the windshield. now they need their truck to pull a trailer. the hitch to pull trailer is now ($350+). then they go back to ole dad and say he wants the whole neighborhood to hear when steps on the gas. so they had a new exhaust ($40+).

lets math:
truck (new) : 26,000
audio : 900
tires : 800
rims : 600
light bar : 100
hitch : 350
exhaust : 40
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28,790 ( not including tax)

now if you want to sell it, your market of buyers goes from 100 people to like 5

negatives:
- poorer gas mileage (doesnt matter, mommy and daddy pay for the gas)
- short people need a ladder to get in
- quicker depreciation of vehicle
- little peepee problems


maybe im just jealous. after all, I'm a country boy that drives a corolla
 
2 things = 1...TV series that never end or they just don't finish the end to a series
2...Dying in a portal ....absolutely the worst when u r carrying the best equipment :(
 
Just one thing?

Anyway: People who act as follows in busy shops:

  • Place items in front of teller.
  • Stand there and watch teller totting up all items and passing them to one side
  • When teller has finished, then, and ONLY THEN!, start putting items into bags
  • Ask teller to sell them additional bags, as they only have forty or fifty with them, and only one item goes in each bag.
  • When finished packing, greet tellers request for money with something midway between shock, grief and surprise.
  • Start digging around in purse(f) or many voluminous pockets(m) looking for wallet.
  • Place contents of purse/pockets, including stacks of tissues, keys, medicines, on tellers area while doing so.
  • Finally locate wallet, hand money or card to teller
  • Replace wallet in $location
  • Replace detritus in pockets/purse
  • Look shocked AND horrified when teller proffers them their change, or tries to return their credit card
  • Repeat hunting, unloading, locating operation AGAIN so change/card can be returned to to its proper location, then repeat reloading operation
  • Start collecting the bags, which have now spilled over onto the floor and look like making a mad desperate dash for freedom.
  • Suddenly stop, return to teller, restart unloading bag while muttering "I forgot I have this coupon!"

Usually at that stage, a kindly manager will come over and offer to buy everyone in the queue a drink at a local hostelry. Everyone flees, but not before calling an ambulance for the poor long-suffering teller, who's brains are at this stage slowly coalescing in a pool around their feet.


Does that count as a pet peeve?
 
Ohhh, standing in line with a "nice" old lady, who insists on having the teller correct an error in the price of two products she purchased, with 8 people standing behind her at 5pm on their way home from work.

This even though there is a completely empty counter just 10 feet away where they can actually help her correct the error, instead of her taking up everybody's time only to learn that the teller is not allowed to leave her station to go check if the prices is correct.

Then as I politely (VERY POLITELY, as I'm getting angry with her), remind her to take her problem over to the other counter, she looks at me with a look somewhere in between angry, shocked and annoyed, and says: "this does not concern you, just let me do this..."

I then repeat my request, and let her know that what she is doing is quite rude to the rest of the line.

She looks at me, completely unable to see anything but herself, the teller and me being a huge pain in her side, looks at the teller again, and completely ignores me.

I had to literally bite my tungue and slowly count to 20 to not lift her over to the other counter. By the time I got to 18, she finally got though her head, that the teller could not help her, and she moved to the other counter. Not a single time did she consider that there were anyone else in the store but her. THAT can make my blood boil.
 
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