another thing that really irritates me..

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I hate bad drivers. Hate. Hate. Hate. It’s the little things that count. My fiance is really great at forgetting signals and such, or breezing right through stop signs and lights without a glance in either direction. The scary part is, when I mention it, he says he didn’t even see the sign! If you choose to ignore these things, that’s one thing…but when you’re so oblivious you don’t even know what you’re not doing…

Neenah

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Cristi,
In NY, (at least in my area) they are incorporating “Stork spaces” in our parking lots. They are “reserved” (but not legally) for expecting women or women with small kids. They aren’t enforced by law, but most people seem to be good about saving them for the purpose they are intended for. They are right next to the handicapped spaces.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

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UncleBeer: “Turn signals, turn signals, turn signals. Up for left, down for right. What’s so hard to figure out?”
Holly: “Maybe my car is defective, but my turn signals work just the opposite.”

You know what Holly, I think its my car that’s defective. The turn signal stick is on the right side of the steering wheel. I’ve asked several friends about their cars and they all have the sticks on the left side of the wheel. Hmmmm. Still waiting for the factory recall.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce

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It drives me nuts to watch smokers just throw their used cigarettes on the ground.

Whenever I see that, I’d really love to pick up the cigarette, tap the person on the shoulder, and, when they turn around, say, “Excuse me, sir/ma’am, but you dropped something. Here it is.” And then I’d shove the thing back in their mouths.

Boy, fantasy’s got reality beat by a mile.

Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@schicktech.com

“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

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Women who wear tank tops and slip dresses with bra straps showing–for pete’s sake go buy a strapless bra! They’re not that expensive.
In re: bass players–don’t you wish that one day someone would come up with a sound vacuum! Blasting them out with some gosh-awful chinese opera would be poetic but it would be mean to innocent bystanders! (I know it’s politically incorrect to hate chinese opera but that is the worst music I have ever heard!)

Smart mouth kids who call me by my first name–I am 42, dammit, and I deserve a little respect!