# Minor Pittings of the Week **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 12, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684 "2006-01-12T17:28:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/21 "2006-01-13T14:59:32Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Actually, what makes the most sense is to approach the light gradually. Not to stop 6 lengths back and then creep up, and definitely not to approach at the speed limit and stop at the last possible second. The former is annoying, and the latter wastes gas. Besides, what difference does it make? The following cars are not going anywhere until the light turns green anyway, right? What difference it makes is if there’s another light shortly behind it, people get stuck behind that light for no earthly reason. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/22 "2006-01-13T15:09:59Z")
People who don’t understand that batteries do not last forever. You have to PLUG THE MACHINE IN every now and then. DO NOT give me a piece of equipment and say that it’s broken because it says ‘low battery.’ Well did you try pluging it in first? No? Well, go do that. If after a few hours of being plugged in it STILL says that, then I will repalce the battery. These things don’t tak AA batteries that cost $2 a pop, they take lead-acid batteries that cost anywhere from $10-$100 a pop. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/23 "2006-01-13T15:22:55Z")
I’m feeling pretty easy-going this week, but I can come up with a couple: 1. People who follow you around in parking lots hoping to get your spot. Stop it. There’s lots of spots at the ends of the rows, and your fat ass could probably use the walk, anyway. 2. People who leave the shopping cart from the grocery store all over the lot, or at the bus stop, or in another store. 3. People who write graffiti! I never get this. It looks like crap, and don’t you realize someone’s gotta clean it up? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/24 "2006-01-13T15:25:34Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > What fetching annoys me is gringos putting other peoples excrement on Phred’s body armor. Which makes them exactly like Hitler in every way. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/25 "2006-01-13T15:30:23Z")
People who drive in heavy fog without turning on their headlights. Especially if they’re driving a small white or silver car. I seriously think people should have their license revoked for doing this. If you can’t manage to take such a basic safety measure, you shouldn’t be driving a car. You forgot? Tough shit. Driving around like that makes you a menace to everyone on the road, far more so than speeding or performing a rolling stop at a stop sign. > [@Audrey Levins](#): > > People who cheerfully wander around shopping all day without an actual paper dollar to their names, despite all of the ATMs that abound, thus purchasing cups of coffee, and other equally minute and mundane items, with their fucking credit cards, are a major pet peeve of mine. To the Pit with them! It’s A DOLLAR NINETY EIGHT! WHY THE FUCK DON’T YOU HAVE A DOLLAR NINETY EIGHT IN CASH? POCKET CHANGE? WHEN’S THE LAST TIME YOU SAW AN ACTUAL PIECE OF AMERICAN CURRENCY, YOU ANNOYING TIME-CONSUMING-MAKE-SURE-YOUR-SIGNATURE-IS-PRETTY-AND-YOU-TUCK-YOUR-RECEIPT-AWAY-CAREFULLY-IN-THE-VERY-SPOT-YOU’RE-SUPPOSED-TO-KEEP-REAL-FUCKING-MONEY-MOTHERFUCKER? Funny, I get equally irritated with people who pay cash. This is the twenty-first century, cash is backwards and unnecessary. Look at the steps involved. Paying with a credit card: 1. Swipe card while the cashier is ringing up your items. 2. Sign receipt. 3. Pocket receipt. Paying with cash: 1. Wait until cashier has determined the amount you have to pay. 2. Fish in your wallet for the right combination of bills. Optionally, dump all your change on the counter and laboriously count up pennies, nickels, and dimes. Because you can’t bear to part with your quarters, for some reason. 3. Wait for the numbskull behind the register to figure out the right amount of change, and count it up. The numbskull will stuff your change, in dollars and coins, into your hand along with your receipt. 4. Put the contents of your hand onto the counter, because it’s impossible to handle all three at once (not being sarcastic here). 5. Pocket your receipt. 6. Put your coins away. 7. Put your dollars away (they don’t go in the same place, do they?) Granted, if you do manage to give exact change, you can skip some of the last steps. Not to mention, carrying around coins is such a pain in the ass. Everytime I do have to pay cash and I get coins, I fling them into the street. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/26 "2006-01-13T15:31:01Z")
People who park at bus stops because they only dashing to get one thing (or coffee). I’ve taken to leaning on their driver’s side door so they can’t get in the car when they get back. “I’m just waiting on the bus. Only be a minute.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/27 "2006-01-13T15:34:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > People who park at bus stops because they only dashing to get one thing (or coffee). I’ve taken to leaning on their driver’s side door so they can’t get in the car when they get back. “I’m just waiting on the bus. Only be a minute.” You’re my new hero. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/28 "2006-01-13T15:48:26Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > What difference it makes is if there’s another light shortly behind it, people get stuck behind that light for no earthly reason. When it backs traffic up into an intersection behind it. Or you want to get into the 300 foot, two lane set of lefthand turn lanes which only have 4 cars in them, but everyone is keeping a car length of space between one another in the left hand lane when there’s half as many cars in the two right hand lanes. Not that it ever happens to me. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/29 "2006-01-13T15:54:04Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > When it backs traffic up into an intersection behind it. > > Or you want to get into the 300 foot, two lane set of lefthand turn lanes which only have 4 cars in them, but everyone is keeping a car length of space between one another in the left hand lane when there’s half as many cars in the two right hand lanes. Not that it ever happens to me. Wow, are you me? I have exactly this situation on the way home, even the 300 foot two lane set of lefthand turn lanes. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/30 "2006-01-13T16:05:40Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Wow, are you me? I have exactly this situation on the way home, even the 300 foot two lane set of lefthand turn lanes. With the really short green arrow for the left hand turn? It fills me with Grrrrr every time I go to the gym. Of course, it’s better than it was, before contrstruction was finished this year. Anyway… Whatever part of vBulletin Version 3.0.7 sends me the same damn post to my e-mail like 5 times in a row! I think there’s a bunch of discussion on a thread I’m in, but nooooooooo it’s one person with a snarky remark repeated 6 times. Of course, that’s probably what other folks think when they get my posts that many times. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/31 "2006-01-13T16:31:22Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Which makes them exactly like Hitler in every way. Stop gang raping me you bastards !!! 🙂 (for those who don’t get the current board meltdown and pit refferences) ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/32 "2006-01-13T16:34:25Z")
I just looked in the mirror, and it looks like Carl Sagan got dressed in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/33 "2006-01-13T16:49:39Z")
People who drive the wrong way in parking lots. Especially if there are arrows pointing the way one is suppose to be driving. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/34 "2006-01-13T17:13:10Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > People who drive the wrong way in parking lots. Especially if there are arrows pointing the way one is suppose to be driving. I’ll never forget the woman I saw driving up and down a large parking lot, going the wrong way in every single row, obviously looking for a parking space and looking completely puzzled why they were all facing the wrong way! I went into a store, and when I came out 15 minutes later she was still doing the _same damn thing_. I pit the idiots in the office I work for. They’re all very nice people, but they (a) don’t answer their phones, (b) don’t respond to emails in a timely fashion, and (c) _never talk to each other_. So when I finally can raise _one_ of them either by phone or email and explain a problem they need to know about or give them some vital information, it never fails an hour later I get a phone call from another person in the office asking for the _same damn thing_. Also, I pit my dog’s delicate digestive system. Even though we watch his diet like a hawk and make sure he never eats _anything_ he’s not supposed to, nevertheless about one evening out of four he will lie right next to me and start producing eye-wateringly dreadful gaseous emissions. Is it stress? What does he have to be stressed about, when his every need and wish is catered to? Why can’t we figure out what’s causing it? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/35 "2006-01-13T17:17:37Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > People who drive the wrong way in parking lots. Especially if there are arrows pointing the way one is suppose to be driving. Oh man, that burns me up. Then they have the nerve to give me the finger because I’m “in their way”. Fuck you, dipshit. You may be illiterate, but even a four year old knows what an arrow means. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/36 "2006-01-13T17:20:04Z")
On the hells of the parking thing: People who drive too fast in parking lots. HEY, I’M WALKING HERE! Upon preview, that should be “heels” but “hells” seems to work just fine, so I’m leaving it in there. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/37 "2006-01-13T17:30:29Z")
Hey Dipshit! It’s YOUR TURN. At a four-way stop you do not have to wait for the other three drivers to all use simultaneous hand mothions to tell you its YOUR TURN. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/38 "2006-01-13T18:03:12Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Hey Dipshit! It’s YOUR TURN. > > At a four-way stop you do not have to wait for the other three drivers to all use simultaneous hand mothions to tell you its YOUR TURN. Well, with so many people thinking “I wait for one car at most and then I go,” I can understand people showing a little caution, even if it is their turn. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/39 "2006-01-13T18:17:28Z")
I’ve got a couple: People who take up more than one sink in the bathroom. They’ve got their purse on one, they’re using another. HEY! There’s only 4 sinks! People who talk on cellphones in the bathroom. STOP IT. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684/40 "2006-01-13T18:57:13Z")
And speaking of the bathroom, women who splatter liquid foundation all over the sink. Especially when they do it every afternoon. I’d also like to Pit the pedestrians in my neighborhood. Sure, it’s a very quiet street, but it’s still a _street_. If you see a car coming, you should move from the middle over to the side, so I don’t have to kill you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-pittings-of-the-week/339684.md?page=3)