What are your pet peeves?
 

We've done idiosynchrasies....how about pet peeves? Two of mine -

When someone says "lookit".

Toast that is not buttered all the way to the crust.

How about you?

Water dripped on the tile floor in the kitchen and not wiped dry...

The bed being messed up after I make it...

Closet doors left open...

That's all :D

My pet peeves are all cleaning issues and it would be mean to post them.

I've yet to live with a single man who was capable of hanging up a wet towel. Luckily, I'm over it...:D

out-sourced customer service.

- The word "alot"

- When someone calls, doesn't leave a message, and then calls back right away, sometimes more than once. Usually, I'm on a business call at the time and can't just switch over to take the other call. Just leave a message and I will return it, but stop calling and interrupting the call I'm on. I'm well aware that you want to get a hold of me.

- Cashiers who don't say thank you.

I'm not telling Leo my pet peeves! He's just going to use it against me later. No way, scadork. I'm not falling for that!

:D

Oh wow.....Where do I start?

People who forget things. If we've discussed it five times, I truly expect you might at least remember us talking about it, even if you dont remember the end result.

Conversations with people who will forever turn everything you say into a conversation about sex. No faster way to piss me off.

A partner who wont talk to you once you enter the bedroom for "that" kind of entertainment. Please, I've had enough people treat me like meat, if you like me enough to talk to me OUT of the bedroom, it wont kill you to say something, anything, in the bedroom.

Dog poop. Clean up after your dog. Thats why I dont own one.

I dont need you to make the bed, but for heavens sake, put the sheets on.

If, for once, I actually state what I want, to eat, to buy, etc, dont talk me out of it You got a decision, do you realize how rare that is?

I have to at least name one food one... Or I'll be here all day.

If the food is supposed to be hot, I would like it served hot. If cold, I would like it to be served cold. Is that too much to ask?

I wouldn't do that alot. Perhaps never.

Oh....cats that poop in my yard and their owners.

The phrase "good stuff".

The calling no message thing. Someone does this all the time, call the cell, call the house phone, call the cell, call the house phone. Hello I have caller ID I know it's you and I can't talk right now so leave a flipin message. And if it's not an EMERGENCY (defined as needing trained medical personnel) leave a message and I'll call you back for gods sakes.

Cashiers who act like you're bothering them because you want to pay for your items.

People who drive slow in the fast lane. If there are more than two cars stacked up behind you and the lane to your right is passing you, get the hell out of the fast lane.

The number of persons who have viewed my classmates profile yet I've never heard from a single one. Who are these people? Why do you they want to know what I'm doing? Why do I care?

People who email you right after they have left you a voice mail.
Not even ten minutes have passed. Usually the email comes in as you listen to the VM.

Oops....I do that when something is of relative high importance. I always apologize for dogin it, explaining to them that the same message was left on their voice mail. But that's good stuff, Ponine.

You can move in with me. I not only hang it up, I spread it out to make sure there are no folds/pleats in it when it's hanging so it can dry quickly and evenly.


Some of my peeves include:

• Seeing the non-word "alot"
  (hint: it's "a lot", as in, the opposite of "a little")
• People who feel the need to CRRRRAAAANK the water knobs in my bathroom to the off position so hard it wears out a replaced washer in a few days.
• People who feel the need to read on-screen text out loud when it appears within a film.
• The inability of most motorists to lift their left pinkie and signal a fücking turn/lane change!
  Signaling a lane change at the same time as the actual change does not count as "signaling"! That's called confirming the obvious.
• When someone calls me for help and then argues with me when I suggest a course of action.
  If you don't want my advice, don't call me, dickweed!
• When some one answers my multiple-choice question with a binary response.
• Hard butter served with cold bread.
• While dining out, when my friend orders a "large" soda, I order a "large" milk, and my friend receives a bigger glass then I do.
  Charge me more of you need to, I want my gawddamn large milk so I don't have to wait for the waitron to bring me another!
• Women who wear revealing clothing and then get offended when men look at them like sex objects.
• Screaming children.
• People who (ab)use the term "pro-family" when what they really mean is "anti-gay".
  They're entitled to feel the way they feel, just be honest.

Sorry, that turned into a rant, didn't it....

Have the married men you've lived with hung up their towels?

Heh -- I knew that would be noticed! You eagle-eyed LoT-ers you! ;)

Or the idiot who sends you an e-mail. Then immediately calls to see if you got it. All over unimportant matters. And of course if you don't answer your office phone line the cell will immediately ring.

Stores that want personal information every time you purchase something. I'll occasionally give 'em my zip code if they ask for it, but the Container Store has started asking for my home telephone number every time I buy a 40 cent shampoo bottle. Ef that.

Yeah. That really irritates me. Not only are they asking for me to reveal my address to them, but they want me to say it outloud. Maybe I should also give them my CC# and my pin as well.

I just say, "sorry, that's private" if they ask for more than my zip.

Just give 'em 382-5633

When people are late. Can't stand it. Especially when they are the one who sets the time to meet, or the time for me to arrive at their house and they are still getting ready. Drives me CRAZY!! :mad:

I hated it when my wife was late.....all three times! But that's a different story, I suppose.

OH, I hate that! I take NA's route. "That's private."

I've actually answered "Beverly Hills 90210" when asked for my zip. What are they gonna do?

Petting Peeves
 

Pet peeves about specific words or phrases, spoken or written, irritate me. Unless someone is being particularly rude, I try not take umbrage at, or be annoyed by, how a person chooses to express himself.

It bothers me when someone doesn't clean up a bit as they cook, as a way to avoid there being a sink cluttered with pots, pans, etc. after the meal. Leave a clean sink for the soon to be dirty dishes, please!

Stray hairs sticking to bathroom surfaces. My roommates hair. My hair. WHO'S HAIR IS THAT?!?!?!? Wipe up after each use! Wipe up after each use!

It angers me when someone doesn't at least stand up to let someone pass them when they're sharing a row of seats.

It bothers me when people don't offer their seat on public transportation to let someone elderly, infirm or pregnant have their seat.

When someone unexpectedly whispers hotly and loudly into my ear. My f**king God, I hate that. HATE it.

Oh, that is grating. What kind of dossier are they building, anyway?

Nuclear war, cancer, and people who don't use coasters.

I dont have pet peeves, I have peeved pets.
:D

Men who grope me in the subway

"call me" messages

thin paper towels

867-5309
555-1212

Or it's private.

Great, are the owners pooping in your yard now too??? I really think you should get one of those motion dection sprinkler thingys now......

One of mine is when people hang paper towels and toilet paper backwards. The end should be in front where you can see it. Thats the way it was designed.:mad:

Cats and their owners that poop in my yard? No, no....I said cats that poop in my yard, and their owners.:)

I may have already said this but I always wanted to name a dog of mine Peeve. Then I could say, "This is my pet, Peeve." :D


Okay, here goes. Although I run the risk of giving ammunition to scaeagles...

1. People who talk during movies. I came to see/hear the film, not you Chatty McChattins.

2. People who slurp soup or cereal really loud. Bugs.

3. Families who walk on sidewalks side by side holding hands taking up the whole sidewalk. It makes it difficult to go around and it's hard for people going the other way.

4. People who ask too many questions of cashiers when there's a huge line behind them. If you ain't prepared, get outta line.

5. People who don't know what they want at a food or movie counter after waiting in a line forever and with a huge line continuing behind them. "I don't know what I want. Let's seee. What do you want, honey?" Urrrrrrgh.

6. People who argue with pharmacists when the problem is clearly the customer's fault or the doctor's fault.

7. People who kick my seat at the movie theatres or on airplanes.

8. Cellphones that ring crazy rings or play songs. And those cellphones that are really walkie talkies. We don't want to hear you talk and we definitely don't want to hear who's talking to you.

9. The term "The OC". I hate that. "Are you from the OC?" "No, I'm not from the Orange County, you dinglecheese."

10. The word 'prolly' bugs me whenever I see it in a post. It's weird.

11. Preachy people on the streets trying to get me to sign something. Left and right. Piss off! The other day, someone comes up to me and says, "Are you registered to vote as a Democrat?" I say yes. "Do you want to hear what the Republican leaders are up to?" I say no. "Then you like facism?" I say, "Get the hell out of my face."

12. Hypocrits. Practice what you preach. Lead with integrity. And when you fvck up, own it.

13. People who don't vote but complain.

14. Out of touch people that think they're not out of touch.

Servers that die and the 6am calls that come with them

Prolly not much there I can use, GC. I'm not even from the OC so I don't have occassion to takl about it.:)

Ooooh, GC reminded me of one that is particularly Californian.

I hate hate hate being accosted to sign my name to a stupid petition (or multiple petitions) for a ballot measure every time I walk out of my friggin Safeway. Some jerk shoves a clipboard in my face with "Help stop the killing of cute puppies," or something equally facile. Once I realized that my signature was worth $1 to them, my newest tactic is to offer my signature on any petition for .50 each. Only seems fair. Nobody has taken me up on my generous offer. Yet.

I think it's illegal to pay for petition signatures, isn't it?

Quibble quibble.

I am just a right winger looking to stir up trouble.

In Massachusetts, it's not illegal to fool someone into signing the wrong petition. That's how the anti-marriage equality folk did it here. They told people they were signing petitions to legalize wine sales in grocery stores etc when they were actually signing ban gay marraige petitions...

The petition people drive me nuts too.

-Drinking straws that are too weak to break out of their wrapping or too weak to break through a drink lid. That bugs me.

-Running out of strawberries while eating strawberry shortcake. All you're left with is a lot of red colored cake and whipped cream.

and these folk dont read the actual petitions they're signing?
I always stop and talk to the petition folks...many times to see exactly what bill-of-goods they're selling and if its being done on the up and up.
when you start hearing "oh thats just the one to blah blah blah" and they try to rush you through it...yeah, I read every word. I've caught more than one that either has no idea what it is youre being asked to sign (most cases) or has outright lied/been so far wrong as to the intent as to be a lie.

so ok, guess that counts as a peeve of mine.

They showed people the real petition (to allow stores to sell wine) and then had them sign a second petition (the anti-marriage equality one). Often they would say, 'Oh this one's full, here sign this one where there's room.' And, yes, people were dumb not to look at the 2nd one.

I gave a lecture to one of Ted Kennedy's interns once. She was having people sign up for his email list or something outside of a Stop N Shop. I told her I didn't sign those in light of the fraudulent petitions going around. "But it's for Senator Kennedy." She told me. I responded, "Well, tell Ted from me that he should look into it. Once he does, then I'll sign up for his email updates."
She looked at me kind of stunned. (She was like 20.)

So it's okay if men grops you in other locales? ;)

"Try and." You're not going to "try AND do" something--that doesn't make sense. I stopped reading an entire website because of one writer's tendency to use this phrase in every other sentence.

The "security" guards at Target who stand around doing nothing while they could be watching people pay and then ask to see your receipt before you leave. It's already in my wallet, in my bag, next to about a dozen other Target receipts, and you could've just watched me stand around forever at the checkout and not have had to ask. If I wanted to mess with things like that, I would get myself a Costco membership.

To everyone who hates giving out zip codes and such at stores--would you mind giving a Florida zipcode at Trader Joes? Maybe they'd open a store here?

At dinner last night, I remembered another pet peve of mine. Pepper shakers that dispense very little pepper so that you have to either a) shake the damn thing over and over and over, oe b) take the top off to actually get pepper out of the thing.

anymore I go straight to B. usually makes quite the mess but eh...at least I can get the proportions right.

Not catching a spelling error until after the edit window has passed...

Ugh! It's the library here. These people have no decency either. You can be walking in/out with five bags of books a three year old dashing all over the place and a squirmy baby and they still will give you guilt about puppies dieing. Gimme a freakin break, people! I often want to start a petition forcing them to stop petitioning outside my library.

Other things that bug me:

Cute kids selling stuff. That's just mean. I don't want to support some greedy company giving ten percent of the profit to the school whose methods I disagree with. That means I have to be mean to a kid!

The phrase "pet peeve." It irritates me so.

These words: libary, jagwire, antanna, bage, and gyro (how the heck do you say that?! I've heard hero, euro, and a weird combination of the two - something like yero.)

People who call vegetables "rabbit food."

People who are so narrow minded that they can't even fathom why someone has an opposite opinion from theirs.

The word "natch." Lame.

People coming over unannounced.

When people post extremely funny things on LoT while I'm trying to put the baby to sleep. Don't you guys think?! Laughter wakes up babies. Hello!

When people say, "hello" and "duh" synonymously, or at all.

People who fish for pity and/or ego reinforcement.

Oh, me too!!


I know you mean me and my hilarious posts that elicit so many forbidden chortles. I apologize.

;) :p


Okay, I'm with NA on the pepper dealie. I absolutley LOVE pepper and often have to remove the lid, thus leaving behind..pepper dust. :(

Okay, a total pet peeve..one I'm totally guilty of, and do my best to correct. Replacing the word "said" with "like" or "all" in conversation. Example? "So, she was all "I'm going to his house tonight" and I was like, "You were supposed to come over to my place"! It's so grating and yet I catch myself doing it. Alot. :p

Hi Ally, long time no see!

~Bob

Hee hee. I figured out why that number (though it didn't take too long).

Is it illegal to sell wine in liquor stores in MA?

My pet peeve? Chicks that won't flash me their boobs.

And not being able to give mojo when you want to. Like for this post:

Oh! Tell me! I have half a mind to carry around my own mini-pepper mill. Particularly restaurants that use coarse ground pepper served up in the shakers with the eeney, teeny, tiny holes that can only dispense real pepper dust. I'm forever apologizing for being coarse and opening up the pepper shaker to pour out the desired amount into my palm.

People who pass you after flashing their lights, then cut right in front of you, then they SLOW down.

That's what sidearms are MADE for...:evil:

Road rage - when is it acceptable to shoot someone?

My pet peeve is people who don't bother to check which thread they're posting in.

What? Certainly a valid point for discussion in this thread considering the post prior to mine!

OK....so I made a booboo. But knowing it bugs you makes me want to do it more.

Ghoulish Delight is right
You should be more careful Leo
Haikus fit all threads

Hey Tracilicious
learn how to count correctly
It's five seven five

:p

My newest pet peeve
is now haiku composers
who just cannot count

Oh, if you liked the post, you'd like it even better with The Voice. Pet Peeve: Not being able to deliver one of my favorite lines with The Voice because teh intarwebs won't let me.

Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.


"Ghoulish Delight's right
You should be careful Leo
Haikus fit all threads"

There, I fixed it. Better now?



Why can't we all just get along.......

Sheesh!

Just having a bit of fun....tracilicious is a fellow Arizonan and top notch in my book.

My biggest pet peeve is if I or someone else is late for something.

For instance, I'd rather wait for the late show of a movie rather then walk in a minute into it. And the biggest display of disrespect anyone can show for me is showing up late with no excuse or apology if we agreed to meet. I don't care if you're 5 minutes late or so, or if you actually have an excuse. But if I'm not worth the effort to get there on time, then screw you.

My peeve seems to be a certain widow's needieness when it comes to my husband. 7 calls from wither her or her kids...I am also resenting the fact that he seems to get invitations to meals with them that I don't hear about until after the fact.

That might move a bit beyond a peeve, mousey.

I do believe that you are right.

I was being facitious, I know you guys are joking around. So was I!:D

You're all top notch in my book, too!:snap:

The "is" was silent
Hello and duh to Leo
Repubs are picky

Ah, but our American haikus are incorrect anyways. In Japanese it takes more syllables to say less, so they are actually quite a bit shorter. Some suggest that a correct English haiku would be 3, 5, and 3 syllables.


Wounded cat
dancing in the snow
Leo smiles

It's almost impossible to make conversational haikus in that format though. Although it does seem more poetic.

Oh tracilicious
your vegan mind is clouded
with democrat mush

But I will say I really liked your 3-5-3 format. Nice subject matter. :)

Not Afraid
Will not be amused
Crazy broad

Someday soon
Cat will get revenge
Poor Leo.

All roads end
Haiku conquers all
Mwa ha ha

Shoddy work.

I paid way to much to have my garbage disposal fixed by Mike Diamond Plumbing. I turned my dishwasher on for the first time since then and it is leaking all over (I never use it, and had no reason to turn it on prior to today). The people at MIke Diamond are saying they can't come out here until tomorrow and I have to pay for the repairs.

Uh no. GRRR

ETA: I found the source of the leak. A hose was not connected properly.

I think you should make sure you let them know that you are telling everyone exactly what quality of service you received from them.

A true haiku also must mention a season.

Is it just a hose clamp that needs tightening? There's a hose that goes from the dishwasher to drain into the garbage disposal. Are you renting? If so, isn't this repair the landlords responsibility?

Yup. That hose was totally not connected.

Yup. But my landlord is a total flake and it took about a year to get my garbage disposal fixed. But rent is cheap and I can't afford to move (and it's in a nice area and is nice in comparsion to other places).

Liquor stores can sell wine, grocery stores can't. The new law is trying to make it legal for big grocery stores to do it. The small liquor stores are saying that they will be shut down if this happens. The big stores are saying that they will create a competitive market (so to speak) re: wine prices. I can see both sides of this issue. We'll see what happens.

Yeah, I noticed that there's no small liquor stores here in California, where all supermarkets have a huge liquor department.


Not.



Um, do they still burn witches in Massachusetts, or are they able to get news of other places from faraway, many days travel by horseback, that have been practicing the things proposed by the commonwealth legislature?

Tell me about it. They also have something called Blue Laws where stores are not allowed to be open on Thanksgiving and Christmas. One store disobeyed the rule and stayed open last Christmas and was fined. They really need to get rid of that rule. If people wanna work, let 'em work. I think there's nothing wrong with a half day on both days. They could make a lot of money from last minute types like myself. :D

Obviously they have never seen a grocery store on Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Wow! I thought those were strictly a bible belt phenomenon. Here they've mostly been struck down. When I was a child, stores could not open on Sunday, with only a few exceptions, grocery stores being one exception.

Oh, so you want Munchkin to starve? I see how it is. :p

I knew there was a rule I was forgetting! Thanks!

I'm sure it's some sort of Puritan thing that no one reversed. I think it should be changed.
I bet it's still written somewhere that if women show their ankles in public they could be flogged.
:D

I make exceptions for people who actually own rabbits. :p I've only heard, "I don't eat salad, that's rabbit food," from a handful of people in my life, but I swear to god the next person that says it is getting a Scaeagles style sphincter enlargement via my sesame ginger salad dresing bottle.

Waiters who cheerfully say "yes" when you ask if the vegetable soup is vegetarian, and then cheerfully say "yes" when you ask if there's meat broth in this so-called vegetarian vegetable soup.

That is so annoying. Vegetable soup is soup with vegetables. It does not make it vegetarian by default.

I just got out of the shower and I thought of one of my pet peeves.

I HATE it when the when the conditioner runs out before the shampoo or vice versa. Why can't they just empty out equally?

Because they put conditioner, usually, in smaller bottles. Idiots.

I also am out of conditioner. But I have plenty of shampoos and a couple half bottles of those 2-in-1's.

Speaking of shampoo, one of my personal pet peeves is the way Ralphie likes to collect complimentary shower items from hotels. They collect everywhere in our bathroom and literally liter our shower and sink! Oy.

I like to do that (free stuff!), but then I realized that it's usually junk and I never use them. I just leave them at the hotel now.

If I give you Ralphie's email address, would you tell him for me? :D

The bottles are really small and they fall through the slats on the shower caddy. And I don't even use those shampoos and soaps and stuff. A lot of them dry my skin and hair out. Yuck!

He did take the ones from the Kahala Mandarin in Honolulu once. That stuff was great. (It was an expensive hotel that we saved up for and spent one night there. It was awesome. I wish we were rich.) :)

I take the good ones for my overnight kit. The W has Bliss products which are nice. Most of the time they are crapola though.

What would happen if you just decided to deep clean the bathroom one day and the "Tilex" just, oh, I don't know, decided at random to clean these small items right out of the house?

Lani collect the hotel toiletries and sends them as part of care packages to soldiers.

So if you really have a bundle of them and recognize you'll never use them, you might get in contact with her. I believe we'll be doing another round this fall when my brother-in-law gets deployed to Tikrit.

Gardeners who don't know the difference between "trim" and "hack". Gardners who don't clean up after they've hacked. Gardners who say they are going to do something on Monday last and show up today instead. Gardners who don't actually know anything about gardening. Gardners who have never seen a nice garden in their lives. Gardners who think Rosemary and Lavender should be trimmed into bald-looking orbs. Gardners who you have to pay extra to do major trimming because they haven't been doing trimming as part of the regular maintenance.

Maybe my expectations are too high?

By the way, climbing roses are supposed to climb and don't take nicely to be hacked with a chain saw.

People who operate spam fax lines that start calling residential phone lines every 7.5 minutes starting at 4:15 am should be charge with felonies. Multiple felonies. And forced to wear pink frilly dresses as their prison uniforms, regardless of gender. And be forced to eat only original flavor cream of wheat and listen to yoko ono's complete catalog of sounds on continual loop. For years.

Great idea. :)

The Tilex idea is a good one, too...
:D

That's a great idea.

But I don't have any--I think. The cabinet beneath the sink is deep and dark--no telling what's down there.

When I traveled frequently, I collected the samples and gave them to a women's shelter.

I take mine home and give them to my mom who does the same thing.

Right now my peeve is stupid. the boy is in full on Cleaning mode. He is driving me nuts. He wants to clean the walls, but is upset that I don't have anything for him to use. I thought I had some 409, but I think it was taken to the garage and used on the motorhome.

How are you supposed to clean a flat screen monitor? I dusted it, but it has spots...
On the other side, he is helping me dust. I just want to veg and my allergies are killing me, but the dust is disappearing. He is old enough, and careful enough to be able to handle most of my collectibles. I just need to teach him how to put them back properly.

Please send the boy to Long Beach immediately. He is needed.

How is one supposed to clean a flat screen monitor? I dusted it, but it has spots...

hehehe He is not too sure about that. On the plus side, he loves cats.

you can clean monitors with a light application on windex.
I will now sit back and wait to be corrected.

I do it that way, watch its not the right way.

If it's a flat-screen CRT, you might get away with it. If it's an LCD screen, I'd recommend specialty products.

I rest my case. ;)

Crap. It is LCD. I knew there had to be something special to clean it with. Now I have an excuse not to clean it.

bucket of hotwater with TSP for painted walls & wash from top to bottom suprising how filthy they can get.

And as for monitors use IB alchohol and amonia together. or just the alchohol and a clean microfiber cloth staying away from the edges.

My number one grip about unthoughtful roomate... Ok so you can't fathom putting a dirty dish into a empty dirty dishwasher... and It is impossible for you to take advantage of a hot teflon pans ease of cleaning morning egg residue with a paper towel. And you have to have a few personal items and all your junk out to ruin the chi of the common areas

But for the love of god do you have to use my nice chef knife to cut butter or cheese or whatever and leave it dirty... Come on!!!!!

Oh and this is great I went into my room wanted to watch TV but let him keep on with the ballgame he was watching and turned it on in my room too (shared Tivo sat box my room and livingroom) and I see him disregard a Tivo tapping so that he dosen't have to be inconvinanced to change tuners or just go watch it in his room he deletes my taping of family guy... yeah he has to go! I just am struggling with the devil you know plus kicking someone out makes for bad mojo living for awhile... Grrrrr

One of my Pet Peeves is:

Hogwarts Pet Peeves is missing from the films. I'm guessing that he doesn't have a major role in the last book, either.

Magazine subscription cards in magazines I already subscribe to. There's not just one, there's 5 or 19 or 300.

Also, magazine "renew now!" mailings when my subscription has over 6 months left on it. Ask me in March already!

TS - Roommates suck. But he is not a mind reader. Have you discussed your grievences with him?

Edit to remove stuff for another thread.

Government officials "erring on the side of caution".

Translation: We don't know what to do so we'll just do something so that you feel like we know what were doing.

Changing formats is a pet peeve of mine. Beta, VHS, SVHS, DVD, Blue Ray or whatever it's called. Bleh. I don't want to re-buy anything any more. Where's my iTunes-like download thingy for my computer for movies?
:)

Those sticky security tags on the inside of CDs. Sometimes they put it on the paper underneath the case itself. You try to peel it off and it rips. Urgh!

Also, DVD stickers. Why do we need stickers on 3 sides of a DVD? Sometimes the stickers adheres to the picture on the front. I peel the tape off and it rips. Next time that happens, I'm returning it.

I can't remember the name of the company, but it exists. And Netflix is apparantly working on developing their own version.

There are two types of scenarios that happen here at work (help desk) all the time that will eventually cause me to murder someone.

1) We'll get an e-mail that says, "Can you send someone over to my office to look at my computer, it isn't working."
No phone number, no office location, no actual description of the problem. We're just supposed to have a fleet of techs ready to be airlifted to any location at a moments notice. (Many problems can easily be resolved over the phone.) And, of course, we're just supposed to KNOW where everyone is located!

2) An underling of some blowhard calls in for their boss. Of course the underling has no idea what the problem is, doesn't know what OS the boss is running, can't access the boss's computer to check any of this, but needs everything taken care on NOW!

Stupid bureaucratic rules! Some former co-workers were laid off when their funding ended. One in particular has been sending out gobs of applications and taking advantage of every re-training available to her and has had several interviews but no offers yet. So they're not sitting on their butts just accepting welfare without making any effort themselves. Now the state is denying them unemployment over the summer because the university is a "school" and school employees don't normally work over the summer so they're not eligible. WTF? Apparently no matter what your former function was, even if it was supporting year-round research programs, because the university is a "school" no former employees can get unemployment over the summer.

Of course, if you were to actually take the summer off you'd lose your benefits because staff and many faculty have 12-month appointments, and therefore you're required to work year-round; 9-month appointees can take the summer off and continue their benefits uninterrupted. But now that they want unemployment they work for a 9-month employer.

Gah! Petty power trips!

So I'm at work. And I theoretically start at 7:30. And the lights are on. And it's clear that I'm here. And once again some VP's flunky comes by and turns them off, because it's not 8:00. Doesn't matter that I am officially scheduled to be working. Doesn't matter that with the lights out I can't see what I'm supposed to be doing. She has some damn control issues and her department takes up more of the floor than the department I'm in, and she doesn't want the lights on until 8 because I'm not important enough to merit electricity. No one can have lights until her department starts.

Of course, she has lights in her own office. It's just the overheads in cube farm land that she wants to keep off until her own people show up.

Go turn them back on P. And if she says anything tell her you need to work and if she has an issue to take it up with your boss.

Screw that - it's too obvious.

Go turn the flunky's lights off :evil:

I'm with Kevy. Put her lights out!
:D

And then turn off the lights in her office!

Those cartons of orange juice that have a screw top cap on the side of the carton top. I thought the deal was that they made the top of a carton that way so you could open the top of the carton by unfolding it?
Have we become so inept that we can't open a carton that way any more and need the screw top?

AND

Once you open the screw top, there's a funky inner lid with a ring to pull. You pull the ring and juice squirts out at you.

Urrrrgh!

Though I don't know it for a fact, I believe the folded top juice/milk/etc. carton has an economic advantage (read: it's cheaper). However, people have probably complained about the openability of the folded tops (if the glue isn't "just right", they don't open easily) and the screw top is probably preferred.

The inner seal is there for anti-tampering. No it is not a fail-safe solution, but it significantly lowers the probablity of the casual mischief-maker doing anything.

Or should I just shut up and let you bitch in peace?

I would probably stand up in my cube and scream "I'M TRYING TO WORK HERE!"

I don't like the cartons with the screw tops on the side because sooner or later I need the flap at leas 3/4 of the way open. I use the cartons (which are getting harder to find) for the girls. They sleep in them.

I hate having icky sinuses. I am battleing another infection. Luckily my mom keeps me supplied with anitbiotics.

It just becomes a tug of war. I turn them back on, she stomps down and turns them off. I'm a pawn in a literal turf war. there's not enough office space and the other department feels like they own this floor, and the building manager is on their side. There are just three of us in one small portion of prime, right on red square, with giant windows, real estate and they other floor residents would like us to leave. Usually I don't care because the large windows let in enough light, but this morning it was quite overcast and I didn't have enough light for what I was doing. I just count the months until graduation and hope flunky slips on a ball bearing while walking back to her office with a false sense of triumph.

Perhaps you should bring in a giant-size container of jawbreakers and... OOPS, it broke right in front of her office door and maintenance hasn't had a chance to come clean them up yet. :evil:

Prudence,

I'm assuming that your company has a Risk Management Department. Contact them and report it as a safety violation.

Hel-lo? You're supposed to let me (the bitch) bitch in peace. :D
Okay, this is a stab in the dark but here goes... I used to have a lot of sinus infections. A lot. Then I found a really great ENT doctor. She told me I had a devated septum and it was causing sinus infections. Do you have that?

Ya, what he said.

A pet peeve - yes, we know the system is down. We sent a company wide email that the system is down. Please don't call/email/sumbit a ticket saying the system is down after we tell you it is down.

Thank you.

Folks who don't push their chairs back in after getting up from the table. This is especially annoying when in an area with limited space, like a break room.

Any chance of going for a compromise position and asking for a lamp?

Not a lot of desk space for a lamp, but since I'm in charge of the financials that's what's going to happen if the power trip keeps up.

And risk management? HAHAHAHAHAHA! I think we're suppose to be grateful they let us use electricity at all.

Wait a minute...

She knows you are there and STILL turns the lights off?!? I just assumed that she thought no-one was around and was trying to save electricity. What a freakin' bee-ach!

Not that I have heard of. I just deal with it. Luckily this is the frist full-blown infection since I was enlightened by flax seed oil pills.

I just thought of another pet peeve. I hate people who wear shirts featuring a band, yet they don't even like the band.

If I went up to every girl I saw wearing a Rolling Stones shirt and asked what her favorite song was, I bet most wouldn't even have an answer. Most I have asked don't at least.

If I'm going to wear a shirt featuring a band or movie, I make sure I like the band/movie. I love the Beatles, I have a Beatles shirt, I love Van Halen, I have a Van Halen shirt.

Let fans be fans, don't make me look like some teenager who's clueless to classic/better music.

The bitching continues... :D
If people could just open the top of the carton like we used to as kids, then they wouldn't need to use all that plastic to make the cap and the inner seal.
Right?



I hate all these new products that are coming out that are disposable. Disposable toilet bowl brushes, disposable mops, disposable dust rags. So much waste. If you have a good toilet brush use it. You shouldn't have to buy something over and over again. One toilet brush is plenty. Get a hardy mop, it'll last you forever. Get an old shirt and use it as a rag.

Same with vacuum cleaner bags. Get a vacuum that doesn't need a new bag when it's full. Get a freakin' bagless vacuum cleaner.

:)

A pet peeve involving my own idiocy: I hate it when I prepare for coffee -- measure and grind the beans, place filter in basket, turn on warmer, pour water, put ground beans in filtered basket, insert basket into slot in brewer, then walk away...without turning coffee maker ON!!

I do this twice a week at mimimum. :blush:

It sounds like you ought to have a cup of coffee first. ;)

I did this once with a crockpot meal. Came home and it was pretty gross.

Seriously though, you should call them. I had a coworker give them a call when she got some bad carpal tunnel and they did come in and help change things a bit for us. I think they usually don't know what's going on, but when they're called they do their job.

Not here. They've already paid out on my L&I carpal claim and nothing changed. I guess I don't have much faith in them.

My pet peeve is they won't let you use fastpass after your return time. :(

Sure they will!

There, one peeve eliminated

My pet peeve is people at work asking for FastPass...

Not in Tokyo !! :eek:

Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "No."
Lisa & Bart: "Can we have a fastpass?"
Coastermatt: "D'oh!! OK!!!! Here's your stinkin' fastpass !!"

:D

My pet peeve is FastPass. It causes all sorts of problems.

My pet peeve is always being the last to know.

What are you not telling me?

My pet peeve today (well, yesterdays actually. I didn't have a chance to post) is "organic food". All food is organic! <<grumble, grumble, world's going to hell, grumble>>

This weekend's peeve:

The handicapped bathroom stall is not like the legally marked parking spaces - other people ARE allowed to use it. If my bladder is near to bursting, the other stalls are full of people clearly in no hurry, and there are no other people needing that stall in the area, then I'm going to use it. And the peanut gallery can keep their snotty comments to themselves.

I do the same thing. Those stalls aren't restricted. Besides, when there's no one around, someone should use it. I love all that space.

Speaking of handicapped spaces - What is with the new spaces for pregnant women at malls? Pink parking spots?? What happens if I park there? Will people ask me if I'm pregnant? All I see is another empty spot.

Who else wants a designated spot? "Parking For Women With At Least Two Screaming Brats", "Parking For Anyone On Their Lunch Break That Doesn't Have Time To Walk Far", "Parking For People Who Walk In The Middle Of The Driving Lanes Like Idiots - let's put 'em closer, at least"

Funny... I've never seen those anywhere but the parking lot at Babies R Us... never gave it a second thought since the women I see using them look about ready to burst.

I like the lunchbreak idea though. But isnt that what the 20 spaces are for?

In Monterey they had Senior Parking in front of the grocery stores. I parked there. I was a Senior in High School...
:D

Conversation that just occured - interrupting my lunch:

"Someone wants the sole source justification for a WIRB contract created sometime between January and June 2005."

"Okay, do you have some more info about this?"

"No, I just need it right now. I'll wait while you pull it. [I swear she said this verbatim:] It must be in one of your files here." (waves arm in the direction of my file cabinet which contains completely unrelated files.

So, you want the sole source justification - which is entered on line and can be retrieved only by entering the PO - which you don't have.

You don't even know which of the approximately 150 budgets I have records on it's for.

AND, it's from last biennium, which is about 4 budget analysts ago and I'm still trying to track down records for the first 1/4 of *this* biennium?

AND, assuming I could find the proper budget for the proper time frame, you don't have any particulars like item description, amount, anything?

Sure, let me just grab that one for you.

People who call for someone else, and upon finding out that that someone hasn't had this phone number for over three years, say "Well maybe you can help me. I'm from the Republican--"

Sorry. Not interested. I didn't ask for you to call me. I don't want to help you (regardless of political affiliation).

Trigger-happy automatic flush toilets that flush when you lean forward to wipe..or reach for the TP...shift your weight at all...or breathe. And then, invariably, said same toilet fails to flush once you stand up. If you're lucky, there's a manual overide button. If not...you're the jerk who can't be bothered to flush :mad:

Hear hear!!! I agree! DLR is a BIG offender for me.

The Playhouse Disney show Higgleytown Heroes is a huge pet peeve of mine. A pizza guy is not a hero. Nor is a grocer, a mailman, a librarian, a seamstress, a taxi driver, or any number of other people with average jobs. They are just doing their jobs! And what kind of parents do these kids have that they can't even find their own bread in the grocery store? Are they really that stupid?!

A fireman can sometimes be a hero, as can a policeman, ambulance driver, or a doctor. But a dance teacher? Unless she gives a kid CPR because he drowned in his own sweat during class then it's not likely.

Get a clue disney people! And stop liking this stupid show preschoolers!

New pet peeve...

Room mates who attempt to play my records (particularly my Beatles ones) with no knowledge of how to run a record player....

Another one I thought of today: people who feel it necessary to grab a three-inch wad of napkins at fast-food restaurants. Fer cryin' out loud people - don't waste!

Personally, my pet peeves are very limited.

I cannot stand rude people under any circumstances.

People who push others out of their way...people who make others feel stupid for something that they may have said...people who fight over the last item in a store...

...can you tell I work in retail? :D

Waking up at 8am on both Saturday and Sunday after having a loooong week and late nights.

Especially when no one is posting and there is nothing to read.








Hey... it's been a while since we've played with hidden text!!!

Ah, working in retail! Those were the days.............................................. ....


NOT! Been there, done that, never again. It was interesting to meet people at times, but I hated those who felt you were their personal servant, or that they were responsible for your paycheck!

And welcome Jughead!

First of all, thanks for the welcome, RStar!

And, boy...lemme tell you, when you live in a small town where jobs are incredibly hard to come by, you pretty much have to take what you can get. But, whatever pays the bills I guess. :)

Why, just today for instance, I came into my department (I work in the food section), and I ended up having to cover pets, seasonal, toys and housewares in addition to that.

Yeah...not a good day.:mad: LOL!

People who relinquish their right-of-way at stop signs. If it's your turn to go, freaking go! I don't want to play the "You go. No, you go" game with you, all it does is cause more confusion. Know when you're supposed to go, and go!

Sing it brutha!!!

In the distant past, when someone would wave me on, I would wave back at them to go. If they then STILL insisted I go, I've been know to put my car in park, get OUT of the car and wave them on.

Wouldn't do that any more.

Isn't that the truth. We have shopping center next to where we live and it is filled with stop-sign laden intersections. Not only is everyone playing the "You go. No, you go" game but they are all driving SUV's which are much larger than the vehicles they had in mind when they built the parking area. You also get to play the afformentioned game with each and every one of them who start to back out, then stop, then start, then stop. Nobody with the guts to make a decision is anywhere to be found.

I feel like I'm risking my life, or at my truck, every time I have to drive through there.

More driving pet peeves:

You MUST pull over for an emergency vehicle with flashing lights. Just slowing down in your lane is NOT acceptable.

When you come to a school bus stopped on either side of a road with the bus's red lights flashing, you must stop, and remain stopped as long as the red lights are flashing. Do NOT honk at me to go when I am stopped for this purpose.

Pedestrians have the right of way in when crossing the street at a corner even if there is not crosswalk painted on the street. But, pedestrians, please use a craosswlak if there is one close by and don't just cross a busy street whenever and wherever you feel like it.

Bikes follow the same rules as cars. Don't ride on teh wrong side of the street doofus.

If you are turning right onto a multi-lane highway, keep to the right lane when you turn.

And stop signs and stop lights are for you bikers too. You learned all those hand signals at the bike rodeo in 6th grade for a reason, cause you're supposed to use them so people can tell what you intend to do.

And if there is a bike land provided please use it, just because there are 20 of you doesn't mean you get to take up the whole dang road for yourselves.

(obviously I work in a bike heavy area and they drive me nuts)

If you're going to attempt to insult me, make sense in the attempt.

In a confrontation with an angry man and his friend at a gas station over the weekend they called me, within seconds of each other, a "fat wop" and a "punk ass nig ger."

First of all. Who the hell says "wop" any more?

Does my ass look punk in these jeans?

Can I just intergect that knowing you, neither of these 'insults" makes one damn bit of sense?

Well, I am fat.

You DON'T need to stop for an ambulance on the other side of a divided hiway.

If you are on a main road, don't just suddenly stop to let someone turn right off a side street.

Don't stop to dial your cell phone in the middle of the road.

You ARE allowed to actually go the speed limit. You can even go a little bit faster without fear of being flogged.

Your hi-beams have NO use in a densely populated area.

Thank you.

well, okay, if you say so.
But I reserve that word for people much, much larger than you. Or larger than me.... since I dont want to use that word on myself, i cant say it about you.

But.... yeah.... wop????

And what kind of description is punk?... I'm with NA...

Ok. This is thoroughly off topic but makes me curious.

What is your honest guess of my weight (don't worry about hurting my feelings and if anybody else has guesses to offer I'm interested; public or PM)?

Alex,

I have seen you in person, and while I don't even care to guess your weight (because numbers are misleading) you are not fat. Unless you gained a ton of weight between the last MA and now. No, you are not waif thin, but you are not fat.

I realize this is a gold standard complaint, voiced many times before by many, many people, but I'm going to be peeved here anyway.

People who talk in movies. Bad. And, everyone pretty much (unless they're the ones talking during the movie) that it's bad.

But it also grates my cheese when people talk during the previews.

I don't mind gasps of giddy anticipation. I don't mind, "Oh, I was really hoping to see this!" I don't. In that way, I talk during the previews, too. Shared excitement gets my approval.

But people who carry on their unrelated conversations irritate the crap out of me. The trailers are, as far as I'm concerned, part of the movie going experience. Very likely, they'll be the best thing about the movie I've paid to see.

When the lights go down, zip it!

I'm so with you on this one.

Awhile back I went to a movie, it was late enough that no kids should have been there, yet almost as soon as the movie started people started yelling at the screen. Some of them even got up and danced, or sang along. It was very distracting. Fortunately I happened to have some toast with me that I was able to throw at them!

I agree with BTD.

No, your ass is just punk - the jeans have nothing to do with it.

I don't guess people's weight because I'm bad at estimating such things.

I'm going to add to the "you're not fat" chorus but with this honest statement, since you asked - you are overweight. I'd say an easy majority of the people I know are overweight. We do live in the land of the large milkshake, and most of us don't hunt buffalo or work in the fields, so big surprise, we're not living up to our potentials anymore.

The only reason I'm not overweight is good genetics. I get no credit for it. I eat crap and don't exercise, just like everyone else. :) I am, however, extremely weak.

Pet Peeve - not being able to run very far at all. Was reminded of this today.

The one thing that annoys me more than people who talk during movies are people who talk during movies on their cell phones.

When I was in college, I was sent to watch a free screening of the movie Antitrust so I could review it for the college newspaper, and unluckily, I was seated right next to a teenage girl who kept yabbering away on her cell phone all during the movie. Granted, the movie wasn't Academy Award material, but still...her rudeness and ignorance drove me nuts!

I was almost tempted to write a rant within my movie review.

Too bad there was a 400 word limit. :D

Did you get rained on??

The talking during movies is a big problem for me. I refuse to go to the movies with Dawn or any of her offspring. they are incredibly loud. I don't care what movie it was, but her son would always feel the need to ask me 3-4 times when it was going to be over. They went yesterday to the dollar theater to see Cars. I refused. I will wait for it to be on DVD and watch it at home, without the excess noise.

I hate movies with good ideas that are executed poorly. And I REALLY hate movies that are built on good ideas, keep me interested for most of the movie, then fall to crap at somewhere in the middle or at the end. I'd almost rather watch a movie that's bad from beginning to end.

Pet peeve.. people waiting until the last minute to confirm plans. I'm not talking about major money/time consuming plans nor am I talking about making sure one doesn't have to work or check and make sure nothing is conflicting. I am talking about something simple mentioned a few days before and the only reason people wait is to make sure nothing better comes along.

Really annoying.

Pet peeve...

People who spend $100 bucks per person on Front of the Line passes, then get up to me and ask "So, what are these, anyway?" - Then after I go through an entire spiel of how they can use them at EVERY ride and EVERY show, without fail they ask "So we can use these at the rides, too, right?" Oh how I've wanted to use those cardboard passes to slit somebody's throat...

Alex,

It occurs to me that as our waistline grows, our definition of "fat" has grown with it. I reacted the same way as others here, and wouldn't call you fat. Overwieght perhaps. But you carry it well.

It use to be that there was two catigories, fat and thin. Now I think there is overwieght, chunky, fat, portly (which could be any one of the first three), and obese. Also, their are a few in the Grossly Obese area (like the 700 lb. man).

I'm currently about 25 lbs. over wieght because of my accident and surgery. I've been sitting around so much. I would consider that overwieght. But really, in the end it is all symantics, and how you feel about yourself. And I don't consider someone fat until they are at least 50% over their ideal weight (I.E. a 200 lb. man wieghing 300lbs).

But Wop? Nig? Where the heck are these guys from, Watts? Sorry to hear you had to be in the presence of such slime of the Earth......

My pet Peeve.... people who go arround cutting peoples throats with cardboard passes! It really ruins my day.....;)

Fat? I call myself fat all of the time, but it's all relative. I used to be rail thin and had no figure to speak of. NOW, I'm about 40 pounds over where I'd LIKE to be. But, I define "fat" for me as when I start to get wide in the middle. It's more about how I carry my weight than how many pounds overweight I am. I certainly don't want to be rail thin again. I like having curves and I think a bit of weight helps you look better as you get older.

Well, then by this definition I am still fat. I know I carry it well, but I asked elsewhere for honest guesses (since no one here was) and almost everybody was 50-60 pounds short.

Now, I don't think I'm unfit. I do, after all slog my way through multiple half-marathons every year and can do strenuous 20 miles hikes without too much issue. But I'm still fat.

I guess I'm looking forward to seeing you soon, Alex. I'll be looking for girth. ;)

And just for the record, this isn't new weight. I'm down from my maximum but when most of you met me for the first time I weighed in at just a few pounds shy of 300.

Maybe that's why I thought you were shorter than me. ;)

My peeve is with myself this morning. It irks me when I know that I need to take Nick to the dentisit. I knew his appointment was Tuesday, the 29th at 4pm. Then on our way home from the grocery store yesterday he said he thought it was Wednesday. So I am trying to figure out how to change my claw appointment for the 2nd time (it is every other tuesday at 4pm). Since I am anal about things like this, I worried all night. This morning I realized that I had better triple check the appointment card. Yep, I was right, it is today. When I checked it yesterday I misread it. grrrr

Weight is simply one part of the overall fitness picture. There are plenty of overweight people in good shape.

What I hate is the stupid BMI index. I'm not fat (I have gained enough weight back to be about 10 lbs over what I consider to be my ideal weight), but the only time I've ever fallen within the range of what my BMI says is a good weight is prior to my first surgery after I'd dropped 30 lbs or so.

I would have never guessed. In part because frankly I don't look at people quite that way. I take in personality, manerisims, language and intelect; the whole person. Looks are only a small part of the picture, and I can only retain so much information.

At least you are honest about yourself, and in a healthy way. Good for you, Alex. I know too many overwieght people who are messed up because the have an unhealthy view of themselves.

Oh, and I was going to guess 235 lbs. How does that compare to what the others said?

I agree! Well said, RStar.

Alex. I myself am on the heavy side (I currently weigh 260 lbs.), and I was made fun of CONSTANTLY through high school based on my looks and size. For years, I dealt with self-esteem issues because of the teasing I went through in elementary school. It wasn't until I graduated and moved on to college that I realized that all those people who chose to make fun of me instead of getting to know me...their loss.

Yeah...if I went by the BMI index, I would look downright skeletal. Everyone has a different body type.

I hate job interviews.

I hate people who make weight the defining attribute that determines an individual's worth.

okay, lets put it this way.... I know you are taller than I am, and you are broader than me in a few areas. But you were also heavier the very first time I did MA, and I still have those pics....

I am 235, so my guess would be 260-270

(Now I will go back and read the rest of the posts, in case you answered later)

I have this image of you running away from a horror movie psycho, and it's cracking me right the frig up.

You're not alone there! Back when I was applying for jobs, it didn't matter that my resume was properly spelled and formatted, and that I was dressed for the best day for the job. When the interview process took place, 90% of the time, I blew it!

I hear that coming up with potential questions to ask and researching the company you work for are great tips to master any interview setting, though. It's had limited success for me, but it's worth a shot.

That is what I have been doing. I know I'm not blowing the interview, it is just the waiting that bugs me. "Come in for an interview today, we will let you know in 2-3 weeks."

People who unload [computer] viruses at work and think it's funny.
People who think the rules don't apply to them.
People who submit new trouble tickets for status reports instead of just following up with the person helping them.
People who don't understand that their issue is not the most important one right now.
People who request an update on their [non-critical] issue every hour.

But I really do love my job.

:( Still getting the occasional zit at 29.....

Still getting the occasional zit at almost 40.....

For me (and this is for me at this point in time and not referring to anyone in this thread or anywhere) when I'm in a good mood, I can't think of a single pet peeve. I must be in a good mood. I'm blank.
:)

^
gonna back slowly away from thread...not gonna say a word...

still getting the occasional zit after 40....

Occasional? Call me jealous.

According to BMI, I should be 8 feet tall

BMI = Bloody Maddening Idiocy

(Okay, it's not my best material...it makes sense, okay? :D )

I love 'em.

I'm weird

Along the lines of "I'm not fat for my height, I am too short for my weight"

I hate that Kevy keeps saying things I totally agree with...

It's freakin' scary! :D

Shoot, I never had a zit growing up, but after I hit 40 I started getting "Adult onset acne". More like small deep boils that cause massive scars. Problem is they are caused more from hormones than teen acne (caused by a blend hormones, skin oils, dead skin, and dirt) so it's harder to treat. And more painful!

Not to mention hair that grows in places I never knew could grow hair! What's up with that? Am I going to start howling at the moon next?:mad:

I told my mom I would bring something by for her when I go to get my claws done, but now I can't remember what it was.

Barking dogs are a huge peeve at the moment. 1 in particular. One of the dogs behind us has been barking all freaking day and now night. Nonstop. Loud. It's bark is bouncing off the back of our house. The owners don't seem to be doing anything about it.

Now...if I could only remember what I was supposed to do for mom I might get some sleep...

I hate when I wake up at 3:30 in the morning thinking about all the things I need to get done amd then can't get back tp sleep.

I like job interviews, too. It's getting them that's the challenge.

As for weight, I used to be 160lbs. Always. For the longest time. And I used to be a size 32 waist. But then I hit thirty and now five years later seem to be at this 168 zone and size 33 waist jeans for all eternity. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get back to the 160 I was.

When I was 16, I worked at McD's and gained a lot of weight. (It was the free food that did me in.) I have the stretch marks to prove it. But I did lose it but was ridiculed nonetheless for being pudgy.

Ralphie used to be like 280 or so when he was in his teens, early twenties. But he put himself on a strict diet and lost almost 100 lbs or so. He went back up a little, and I know he worries about his weight constantly, but to me it matters not. I love him no matter what size he is. :) That goes for all my friends. :)

Hoity toity rich ass bitches.

:eek:

Where?

I hate it when people use an old food container for something else. Like homemade chili in a washed out cottage cheese container. Its just not right.

"Hey Hon, whats wrong with this cottage cheese??"

Reminds me of the old George Carlin routine: "Ice Box Man."

"Does anybody want this? I'm only going to throw it away."

I can relate...I went to a high school that was full of them.

Graduation day was the happiest day of my life...I never had to see them EVER AGAIN...

I hate people who think that the “2 or more persons” rule for carpool lanes doesn’t apply to them; the ones who weave in and out of the carpool lane like it is just another lane of traffic. (Bee-otch in the gold Lexus on the 91 this morning… I’m talking to you!)

My daughters school has the worst communication ever. They've bought some voice calling system. They record messages and then the machine calls your house. Few problems -

1. My machine tends to cut off half or more of the messages.
2. If the munchkin answers the phone she listens to half the message before handing me the phone.
3. If I'm doing something else and the phone rings I'm not immediately ready to receive information.

So I must not have been the only parent with this problem and now they email you a copy of the voice recording as well. Why they can't type out the message is beyond me. So at least I actually get them.

Now here's what made me nuts yesterday. There is a mention in a note from her teacher that Back to School night is Thursday, but no time. So I finally call the school yesterday morning. Phone rings and rings then goes to a voice mail box that isn't activated. OK. Call again and get a person. She tells me the time and I mention that the event is tomorrow and we haven't received any information yet. I get a snippy "we're sending a call out today". Whatever. Just nice to have some notice especially as you aren't supposed to bring the kiddies, parents only. So you do have to make arrangements.

Lastly the schools website has some limited information, all badly formatted. The PTA section hasn't been updated for over two years. They quit newsletters home on a regular basis three years ago. It's frustrating especially if you work and aren't in/around the school daily. You have no idea what's going on.

Oh and I did say, more than once, that I'd be happy to help update the website to the PTA people but they tell me so and so is doing it. Ummm apparently not.

I know we've discussed this, but I really think our kids go to the same school.
Lets gang up on the PTA president.
Obviously whomever is updating the web site doesnt know how to UPLOAD.

Done.

I did the yearbook the last two years mistakenly thinking it might help me be more in the loop, no dice.

Definatley the same school.
I swear the PTA is a huge clique, and its DANG hard to get into.
And I'm going on year FOUR now ladies.... its not like I dont work every damn event. And get there before half of y'all!

I'm on year 6 and yea, same thing. Very cliquey. If you work forget it. Most of the meetings etc are during the day. And no one makes any accomodiation for the working parents (it would cut into their "family time").

The yearbook took me at least 80-100 hours to complete, all by myself. Asked for help from everyone and got nada. All I got was a "thank you" from the PTA Pres when she ran into me the last day of school. Not that I was in it for the glory or anything but all the other "projects" got public thank you's in the infrequent newsletter.

And being a single, working parent, um yea might as well wear a scarlett letter. When the munchkin was in 1st grade one of the other girls told her she couldn't come play with her because her mom didn't let her go to peoples houses who are divorced. Nice no?

Wouldn't let her play because you're divorced? Is it contagious?

yes, didnt you know?

We have a parent who doesnt let my son come over to their place to play because they dont want to be responsible if the wrong parent picks my son up.
They actually said that didnt want to be in the middle of a "kidnapping thing". Whatever.

Lovely. People just amuse me sometimes. And if it didn't effect my kid I'd think it was funnier.

Umm, what, are the incapable of asking, "Is dad allowed to pick him up without prior permission?" Twerps.

IMO? They dont want to take the extra two seconds.
If I had ever told anyone he wasnt allowed to pick the kid up.... or if maybe they didnt see Dad at a good majority of school functions... I MIGHT understand.

Whatever... nine out of ten, you're gonna see me at the door.

What the hell is wrong with people? Is the concept of right of way completely dead?

For some time now I've noticed that people no longer yield as directed. For example: when driving forward through a green light while people coming from the opposite direction are waiting for a break in traffic to make a left. It seems that at some point now people just decide they've waited long enough and just make their turn, causing all the forward-moving traffic to slam on their breaks.

And tonight, I just got back from feeding my brother's cats. I was driving down the absolutely deserted road and about to make the left turn from the street into his complex when another car heading left out of the complex swerves over to the right-hand side of the entry (my right-hand side, if that makes sense) so that I'll have to wait for him to leave before I can enter. Because he needs to be on that deserted road 2 seconds earlier than if he had to wait for me to turn into the complex.

What the hell is wrong with people? Why can't they wait their turns like civilized individuals?

I blame FastPass :evil:

Along those same lines, when did turning on your blinker become a signal for other cars to speed up so that you can't change lanes?

Because most people seem to think the world owes them a living and forgot to pay up.

My driving pet peeve today was the guy on the interstate going 40 mph. Yes, it was raining, but it wasn't raining enough to make 40 mph reasonable. Then, just as soon as there was an opening for me to pass this jerk, he cut me off.

Oh, the entire state of California is a driving peeve whenver it rains.

That guy must've been a Californian.

Probably. A state full of people who don't stop for even a red light (and certainly not a stop sign) and yet are reduced to driving like septuagenarians at the first drop of rain.

(Yes, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest but driving in rain isn't all that dangerous. Yes, I know that western Washingtonians are equally stupid drivers at the first flake of snow.)

I don't really have a lot of pet peeves but one came up tonight. When I rule the universe the crime of not counting out change correctly will subject to corporal punishment. Tonight I had a cashier just set my money down on the counter and walk away. Nothing so fun as trying to scrape 97 cents off a dirty counter.

Western Washingtonians may mock the East side for whatever it is they like to mock us about, but they are really sad when it comes to snow. One inch and Seattle goes to pieces. Pussies.;) For those not in the weather loop, Eastern Washington often gets hit with an amazing amount of snow, at which time we go skiing.:cheers:

That would be everything...

It really is limited to Seattle. Or maybe King County. It is not nearly so insane up north. But man, Seattle is a nightmare. One snowflake and half the cars creep at 5mph and the other half fly around in their 4-wheel drive vehicles and delusions of invicibility. I am *so* glad I moved up to Snohomish County. We even have plows! I think Seattle sold theirs to Bellevue.

The State Troopers calling to ask for money for the children of dead State Troopers.

It's even worse when they call twice in two days. (Why would I give you money today if I didn't want to yesterday?)

It's even worse when they call at 8:30 AM on a HOLIDAY.

I remember a small unexpected snow storn in, 1994 or 1995. It wasn't more than a quarter inch and there were people who abandoned their cars on I-5 and walked. The swath of stupid Washington snow drivers extends, I would say, from Everett in the north to Longview in the south. The gorge brings enough cold air to Portland/Vancouver that they get enough snow each year to provide a minimum education.

I have a policy that I never give to an organization calling on the phone. If it is something interesting, I ask for the official name and then check them out on the web, or I ask them to mail me something. Too many scammers out there.

I don't, either. I also think I will never give to an organization that ruins a holiday or a souffle.

Is there a way to file a complaint about the timing of this call? I realize that charities are supposed to be exempt from the no-call list thing, but aren't there rules about what times it's inappropriate to call?

The jerk who keeps honking his horn in the parking lot is on my pet peeves list right now.

I HATE that!

Men who drive around in their cars without a shirt on. It happens a lot in Los Angeles. I had a guy pick me up for a date like that once. Friggin' farm animals!

Personally, I don't see a problem with it if they are hot! :snap:

Ringing the Mexican doorbell?

I don't care if they're a God in man's skin clothing. Put a damn shirt on.

My pet peeve of the day:

There is a contractor who, for reasons unknown to me, is giving out my home phone number as his business number. (Well, technically I have two numbers with different rings, and he's giving out the one I don't use, but they both go to the same phone and the same voice mail box.)

I have received calls from Dunn & Bradstreet, the State of Washington Employment Securities division, and more banks than I can count. Just today a message was left from Wells Fargo regarding information needed on their business loan application. Which tells me that yes, they are indeed currently giving out my number, as I doubt Wells Fargo has so much expendable man power that they're calling on abandoned loan applications from 3 years ago.

I have had this phone number since March of 2004. I get TONS of telemarketer spam on that line because it theoretically belongs to a business and is therefore exempt from the do not call list.

So, today I am finally annoyed enough to put the mad librarian skillz into action. The State of WA puts their contractor license stuff online. And wouldn't you know it, there's their entry, complete with *MY* phone number. So I called the contractor licensing people, who were Not Amused and pulled the file for "further investigation." Oh, and delisted my phone number right away. Which won't stop European Installation General Contracting Inc. from giving it out nonetheless, but may perhaps get them into some sort of trouble.

I'd post their address here and invite you to send them obnoxious mailings, but their address is probably someone else's, too.

I can tell you that they won't be getting a loan from Wells Fargo, who isn't amused by applicants who give out false numbers. Something about lacking confidence...

I am ticked. This Saturday night one of my closest friends is taking me to Brews in the Village for my b-day. Dawn has been trying to invite herself for a month. I kept blowing her off. I don't want her to go because when she is around I am ignored by my husband. She called this morning, she is going. Not with us, but with 2 other women that I can't stand. Luckily it is a huge place and we may not even see them. Unfortunatly I know her well enough to know that she will try to hang out with David the entire night. It is a public place and I can't stop her from being there, but gosh darn it, it is my b-day and I don't want to spend it with her!

Ok, now that I feel small and petty I will say that I don't even want to go now. If it wasn't for the friend that I am going with, and her looking forward to it, I wouldn't be going.

Have you told David your issue with Dawn? Have you pointed out how he ignores you when she is around? At the very least can you make it crystal clear to David (or your friends) that you want a Dawn free birthday? Can you get your friends to take you somewhere else, or move the time? Or tell Dawn you're going to another place? Or for that matter, tell Dawn to back the FVCK off? I'm ticked for you :mad:

ASAP means as soon as possible. Not right-this-very-second-and-if-you-don't-fix-it-right-now-i'm-going-to-throw-a-fit.

Your issue is not job critical. Get over it.

I have told him this, he doesn't care. It does me no good to try to talk to him about it, he just twists it and throws it back at me.

I just talked to the friend who is taking me out. She is such a good person. She said that we will just not have anything to do with her, and do our own thing.

We would go somewhere else, but this is a once a year thing and we have been looking forward to it. We went last year and had a blast. It is about the only time you can go out and drink and not have to deal with drunk teeny boppers. http://www.bakersfieldbrews.com/care.html

Hopefully we won't even see them.

Somedays working on campus is a big ol' pet peeve. I know it's a university and I'm prepared to deal with the usual associated noise of students and protesters and bad performance artists and the like. But geeze louise - a 2 hour amplified hip hop concert RIGHT OUTSIDE ME WINDOW?!?! There comes a point where the disruption is significant enough that we should be sent home or at least given an alternate work space. How am I supposed to focus on balancing budgets and projecting for the next biennium when there's a big ol' amplified concert right outside?

* Crossing guards at intersections with traffic lights.

* Sheltering children from the concept of winning and losing. Case in point, my company picnic where the youngest children played a game of musical chairs and each "winner" (i.e., loser) was given a prize when they failed to get a chair (although I do give them credit for at least playing the game as intended, unlike a version I saw once where there were as many chairs as participants :rolleyes: )

It's all a misguided interpretation of the concept of building self-esteem. There seems to be a belief the one must never let your kid think that they can't lose or do anything wrong at anything ever. THAT'S not the definition of self esteem, and sheltering them will simply leave them unequipped for times in life when they will, inevitably, indeed lose or do something wrong. Self esteem is instilling in them the idea that even if they lose, that doesn't affect their self worth. It's not about preventing them from losing, it's about showing them that losing is not a reflection of who they are. All this "everyone's a winner" crap does is teach them that losing is the worst possible thing that can happen, and it simply isn't. Grrrrrr.

The gods must be with you, I read you post after finishing this NPR feature, Failure is a Good Thing.

omg I couldnt agree more!

some of the strongest lessons in life are obtained through falling short of a goal.
lessons like:
if at first you dont succeed, try try again
nobody's perfect
sh!t happens
forgiveness begins in the mirror

and the ever popular
get over it

(I'd mojo ya iffin' I could)

I agree as well. Also how to you learn to be a gracious looser if you never loose?

This is why we do not like Barney around here, everyone doesn't win in real life.

That and all the kids in the Barney shows are freaky looking.

stepford kids?

What The Fück!?! That's not even a game. That's just Prance Around Chairs to Music. Is that even remotely fun?

unbelievable (ly pathetic)

Well, at least none of the participants wil wind up in therapy, obsessing about how they were always the one left standing. Now, they'll all be in therapy, wondering why their parents forced them to partake in such a silly and pointless activity.