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Grenouille
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 Posted - April 01 2008 : 10:54:12 PM
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Originally posted by Christina
I am loving this thread. I can so identify with EVERYTHING people are saying! And Seamus, I have never heard a better description for those horrible Bluetooth headsets than the "big blue Cootie!"
When I first saw one of those contraptions, I was ready to call the white-coats on this lady who I saw walking down the street that was holding a lively animated conversation with herself -- until I saw that plastic growth bulging out of her ear...
Call me paranoid, but what I think what it might be is an alien invasion  , and all those people who are wearing those ear devices are getting detailed instructions from the "mothership"  on how to drive human civilization crazy by annoying the h e double-fiddlesticks out of everyone!!!
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Obediah
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Posted - April 02 2008 : 11:49:38 PM
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| Out here in the Golden State, starting on 7/1/08, every vehicle driver must use a "hands-free device" so I expect to see those ear cootie thingies all over the place. BTW, I purchased one about 6 months ago & used it twice in the first month & not at all since. They're not too comfortable & the reception on the other end is pretty lousy... |
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Wilderness Woman
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Oh my, what a fun thread! I just discovered it today. (The things you miss when you go on vacation!)
You have all pretty much covered all of my pet peeves, and I agree every single one of them. I just have to add something for the benefit of those of you who live in states that have just passed the No Hand Held Cell Phone While Driving Law. I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't work.
Here in New York state, we have had this law for a number of years. At first, some people obediently purchased their plug-in headsets (before the Blue Cooties came along) and began using them. I recall seeing one man who was driving down a highway, using both hands to attach, adjust and fiddle with his headset, that was meant to allow him to keep both hands on the wheel. Right. I presume he was steering with his knees. How safe.
Anyway, it didn't take long for people to realize that all they have to do is keep an eye open for a police patrol car. When they see one, they tell the person to whom they are talking, "Hold on a minute" and they lower the phone. When the patrol car is out of visual range, the phone comes back up and the conversation continues. Now, I see people blatantly talking on their cell phones while driving... constantly... every day. No one cares about this law. It doesn't work because it is unenforceable. The Blue Cooties will help, I suppose, but there will still be those who must hold their phones to their ears to feel complete.
And that's my pet peeve -- people who blatantly disobey laws that are meant to help keep me and my children safe, like drunk drivers. |
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 11:10:49 AM
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Ditto to almost everything being said, except the part about women not washing their hands in the bathroom? They won't let me in to check yet?    |
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 10:40:25 PM
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Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
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You have all pretty much covered all of my pet peeves, and I agree every single one of them. I just have to add something for the benefit of those of you who live in states that have just passed the No Hand Held Cell Phone While Driving Law. I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't work.
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Belive me, many of us here are already aware of that sad fact. Howsomeever, it remains to be seen just how many will even bother to obey this law anyway.  |
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Light of the Moon
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 10:42:01 PM
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Hmmmm....interesting thread. And just why would you want to go into the women's restroom KY?
Okay...my pet peeve....
I can't stand people who pretend to be your friend while they are gossiping behind your back or just waiting to bury the hatchet that they've agreed to bury.
That and liars....can't stand either one of them for nothing! |
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| Still sticking with my neighbors...she called the sheriff on me when I got home this week because I passed her on our road - a windy day and a dirt road. I guess she claims that I revved my tires like a teenager at her - while having my two small children in the car - just to creat a dust storm that she had to endure...Why? I ask? *sigh* I can't win with this loony. |
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Posted - April 06 2008 : 11:30:53 PM
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Caitlin,
You never will win with this type of person. Just ignore her and hopefully one day she will either move or give up harassing you.
If you do anything to retaliate, it will only add fuel to an already well lit fire, so just have your fire extinguisher ready. 
Okay, time for a pet peeve....... THE MASTERS!!! Oh my gosh, all I will hear on the local channels is golf, golf, golf!!! Thank heavens for satellite.  At least it is just once a year.
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 11:15:56 AM
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Thanks Kay, no need to worry, I won't stoop to her level  though I can always dream..
Well, if you're talking golf, you can't forget bowling. That along with pool is something I could never figure out watching on TV. In person, maybe... |
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Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 11:38:01 AM
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One: How about store clerks who cannot count out change, but hand you a pile of change(which the register says I am owed) with your receipt intertwined instead of putting the receipt in the bag, and, related, Number Two: the people behind you in line who get agitated while you stand there and put your change away in your wallet? I purposely arrange the bills the right way and place them in my wallet in order and put the receipt in the bag if I have not already told the clerk to do it.
Don't they teach kids how to make change anymore in school?? No....they don't.
I love stirring up those old biddies behind me! Gets me loads of nasty, dirty looks and an occasional comment! Sometimes I will drop a coin just to mess with them. My bad!! |
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 12:48:12 PM
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I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but forgive me if it is a repeat.
How about the people who have the enormous speakers in their cars and go booming down the street so loudly that the all of your windows and pictures on the walls vibrate? Or when they pull up beside you at a stop light and their so-called music is so loud you can't hear the other person in the car talking to you? I haven't done it yet, but I am so tempted to roll down my windows and blare my classical music as loudly as I can. I'm just not sure my hearing would recover! |
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Good one WW and definitely has not been mentioned before. That too annoys the heck out of me. Notice they are never listening to anything good are they always some "crap" they are subjecting us too.
Seamus you are a "naughty boy". Sounds like something Obi would do. |
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I totally agree with the annoying loud music in cars!! That irritates the heck out of me! Especially if it's coming from a car that's a piece of tin and everything rattles when they bump up the music. Or how about the little street racin' cars that are all souped up and they have like an enormous tailpipe that makes them sound like a fart in a tin can? (I have no other way to describe that!) I like to just drive right over them cars!  |
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 4:01:58 PM
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| I live in a large stone home with 17" thick walls. Those automotive boom boxes make IT vibrate when they go by, and particularly if they get the stop light out front! |
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 4:18:40 PM
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| You might pick up one of those little "air horns" that boaters use, - they're LOUD! Next time someone pulls up next to you, - give 'em a REAL BLAST. ;) Of course there's always a loud whistle, - just don't be shy. ;) |
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Little Lady of Fire
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 4:46:34 PM
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Many of those seem like common pet peeves to me.
My only pet peeve that I can add is dealing with unfair parents.
Yes I am 18. Yes I know I can do more around the house. But what about my 16yr old brother who doesn't even know how to wash dishes, load the dishwasher, or do a load of laundry. Yes they tell him to vacuum the floor, but it hasn't been vacuumed in monthes.
So let me say my pet peeve, are parents who think there is still such thing as work a man cannot do. Sorry my dad does the dishes every now and then and even can do laundry.
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Posted - April 07 2008 : 7:07:51 PM
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| The thinking processes of the "Powers that Be" would always point to the potential millions of dollars in medical bills that brain dead bikers would rack up if the helmet laws were not passed. Funny how there is no hew and cry over the astonishing medical bills these deaf or tinnitus, or ringing in the ears caused by exposure to loud noises, suffering young people are going to be draining the system with in years to come..... |
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Posted - April 08 2008 : 07:06:53 AM
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Good one WW and definitely has not been mentioned before. That too annoys the heck out of me. Notice they are never listening to anything good are they always some "crap" they are subjecting us too.
Seamus you are a "naughty boy". Sounds like something Obi would do.
Sounds like something Obi does, quite regularly, except for dropping change. I'll have to give that a try.
You realize, of course, that the noise from those boom box speakers is louder outside the vehicle than inside it? Truly...
Lastly (for now), don't even get me started on the stupidity of any motorcycle rider who doesn't wear a full-face helmet! What are riders who don't wear helmets called? "Future organ donors!" |
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Posted - April 08 2008 : 07:21:28 AM
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I to have a pet peeve.
if your a young person about 18 years old and go for an interview. and have no experience. The Interviewer clearly states that "You have no experience".
So the question is " How do you get experience if they wont allow you the oppertunity to get the experience...
another pet peeve I have is getting text messages and the person has no patients with you to wait for you to answer " they think your mad or something" There is a time and a place that you can answer text messages! Then there are times when you DONT answer them.
ANOTHER: Is men that think they are all that and a bag of chips and a soda, and women that look down their noses at others because they dont have the high fashion ware that makes them look like they have money and dont.
Women that are on State aid for their children running around in Hundread dollar shoes and clothing while their children are running around in diapers with out clothing. Getting their nails and hair done for a hundread dollars and their children dont have the nessesities they need like "food, clothing and diapers"
These Men and Women that do this need to get a Job. and find out if they would pay the expences like that on their own salary.
The end of pet Peeves for now.
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Kaylynn44
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Posted - April 08 2008 : 11:43:22 AM
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Many of those seem like common pet peeves to me.
My only pet peeve that I can add is dealing with unfair parents. Yes I am 18. Yes I know I can do more around the house. But what about my 16yr old brother who doesn't even know how to wash dishes, load the dishwasher, or do a load of laundry. Yes they tell him to vacuum the floor, but it hasn't been vacuumed in months.
So let me say my pet peeve, are parents who think there is still such thing as work a man cannot do. Sorry my dad does the dishes every now and then and even can do laundry.
*goes back to hidden corner*
LLOF,
Believe me, this is an age old pet peeve.
I only have a son, so I can't say whether or not I would expect my daughter to do more housework than my son, BUT, I do believe that most parents expect their daughters to help around the house and expect their sons to help out in the yard or doing some kind of mechanical work.
Let's say that y'all were on a trip and the car got a flat tire. Your father has a broke arm, so he can't change the tire, would he expect you or your brother to change it? I would think that he would expect your brother to change it, so we all have chores in life, just different ones.
Now, come out of your corner and go do some housework.
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Posted - April 08 2008 : 12:55:02 PM
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Lastly (for now), don't even get me started on the stupidity of any motorcycle rider who doesn't wear a full-face helmet! What are riders who don't wear helmets called? "Future organ donors!"
I agree wholeheartedly with helmet pet peeve Obi.
Another pet peeve is judgmental people and that was what I was being earlier about organ donation. Everybody has the right to do what they want with their body. Nobody said anything to me, I just thought about what I said and it sounded like I was being a jerk, and I really didn't mean to. Oh well, now that I have that off of my mind, I can go to bed and get some sleep now. 
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Posted - April 08 2008 : 1:01:42 PM
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| Kay great advice you gave to LLOF. Having two boys and two girls I do notice a difference in the chore line-up. I expect my daughter to do her laundry whilst I do not expect my son to do his. He does help more with the yard work and stuff outside with dad. It is just the way of things I suppose and comes naturally to us parents. Having said that though I really should make sure my son knows how to operate a washing machine as some day he will not have me around to take care of his dirty laundry. As Obi would probably say....that's what wives are for. |
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Posted - April 08 2008 : 11:59:53 PM
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| Obi would never say that (at least if the wife was in range!) |
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Posted - April 09 2008 : 09:11:18 AM
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The helmet issue, to me, is not a pet peeve. I look at it as a way to significantly improve the gene pool. Maybe it would eliminate one of the stupid genes.....and there are MANY!
Future organ donors? You bet your sweet patootie!!!
Full face mask? Uh-huh...I cannot even imagine the pain of catching a June Bug between the eyes at 80 mph! Maybe that's one of those things they'd never feel...the lights would just go out...instantly.(Wonder if that bug would penetrate?) |
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Posted - April 09 2008 : 09:45:44 AM
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In Defense Of Cell Phones
I was driving to Columbia yesterday. For the past two weeks I have been trying to contact the Rifle Shoppe to discuss my parts order, the grade of steel used in the frizzen, and the proper method to use when hardening it. Since the stretch between Newberry and Columbia is a very boring ride, I decided I would try their number one more time. I GOT THROUGH. With my little Motorola Razr! While driving my car. At 65 mph. I turned a meaningless boring ride into something productive.
Also, I replaced the batteries in both my cell phones (yes, I have two) with the high capacity ones and it makes a world of difference. I don't have to charge them but maybe twice a week now. But you do have to buy the larger cover which makes your phone not as slim as before, but not that big either. Both my daughters have given up their land lines and use cell phones only. We pay around $55 a month for our land line. For that you can get a good cell package. |
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