I don’t live in a fantasy world, amigo. Perhaps you should try opening your eyes to reality?
People who claim they want fuckbuddies, but then complain (and want tons of sympathy from their friends) when their fuckbuddies turn out to not be interested in anything beyond having sex with them.
People who take 3 days to back out of a parking spot.
Seriously. Open your fucking eyes, pay attention, look in all directions, and back out of the fucking spot already. The longer you take, the more you inconveniece everyone around you and the more people there are who are being inconvenienced.
A perennial: People who walk in a door and stop dead. No one but you in your world, fuckhead? No chance other people are trying to walk through that door too? Absolute worst: Doing it at a convention or a tournament, where there are a very large number of people going in and out of those doors.
A long with this, people who don’t realize they can turn while they are reversing. You don’t have to back straight out, turn a bit going forward, back straight back again, turn going forward. Seriously, the steering wheel works in reverse.
This… and people who immediately stop at the top or bottom of an escalator and are oblivious of the pileup forming behind them.
I think the Op’s list could be shortened. People who drive fast in parking lots are a subset of bad drivers.
Another pet peeve, oblivious people. It’s like watching a bad horror film when the victim knows the killer is behind the door but still opens the door anyways:rolleyes:. How can some people be so clueless?
the prevalence of SUVs means there are plenty of situations where I can’t fucking see in all directions thanks to the hulks on either side of me. So I’m going to back out at whatever rate feels most likely to not have someone tear the ass off of my car. So sorry if that’s such a fucking inconvenience. Suck it up, buttercup.
That’s not what I’m talking about. It makes sense to slowly back up until you can see something, because idiots do go racing through parking lots paying no attention to people backing up. It’s when they’re pretty much out of the spot, blocking the lane and still moving slower than walking speed that pisses me off.
Is it just my area, or is it prevalent everywhere: wide turns. I mean super wide turns, like someone is driving a 747 maybe. This may be confirmation bias, but it seems like the norm now. When I was taught to drive a thousand years ago, my dad taught me (for example) that for a left turn, get as far left as you can (safely, not straddling the middle line or something). He taught me to always use turn signals, but the position and movement of your car should let anyone know which way you’re going anyway. Also, that way, people can get around you.
Not any more. On a road where there is ample room to get by, now we all have to wait, because someone in an Accord has to allow for the turning radius of a thresher. And even if they don’t stop, they have to veer WAY wide the other way first, before they make the turn, onto a street that could accommodate a couple of tanks going both ways.
Seriously, did they start teaching this different in the last 25 years? That it’s safer somehow? I hate it…
This might be the wrong place for this, as it seems to be a bigger, deeper issue than parking lot behavior, but:
People who don’t know the whole story, so they fill in the details with assumptions that fit their own world view, and then get mad when someone with more knowledge tells them the real story. We all do the first, but the second has been driving me nuts this year. Too much personal experience with it when I happened to be in the US when my adoptive country experienced its worse peacetime tragedy ever, and people began aggressively defending explanations that were just plain wrong wrong wrongitty wrong.
Nope. That’s one procedure I will never hurry up. Too many small children running loose who are almost impossible to see without exercising maximum caution.
The following has been a late-2011 peeve, and I’m sure will continue into 2012:
People that, when presented with facts and logic as to why they should/shouldn’t do something, insist on holding on to their old wrong reasoning. Examples:
“I like to handwash my dishes instead of putting them in the dishwasher. I think it’s cleaner.”
“Actually, dishwashers of today are extremely efficient, plus the water gets hot enough to sterilize them, whereas you could never handwash dishes in water that hot. So, you’re wrong, and therefore you should clean your dishes in a dishwasher if you have one.”
“No, I’m going to continue handwashing. Just in case.”
Or,
“I don’t get flu shots, and I’ve convinced my whole family not to get them, either. The last time I got a flu shot I got the flu! I’m not going through that again.”
“Actually, you getting sick after a flu shot was a coincidence. It’s impossible for the flu shot to give you the flu, because it’s a dead virus. You should get the flu shot, and get your 100-year-old grandmother with cancer and AIDS to get one, too.”
“Nope, I’m still not getting one, and neither is Granny. Just in case.”
Or,
“I can’t be around my grandchildren at Christmas, woe is me! One of them has the chicken pox, and I don’t want to get shingles from it.”
“Actually, shingles comes from your own nerve endings that contain the virus after you’ve gotten the chicken pox. You can’t catch the shingles from someone with chicken pox. In fact, being around them may even protect you from getting shingles.”
“Nope, still not going to be around them. Just in case.”
And I think for a lot of people, believing in God is just this same sort of thing- just in case.
Sigh. It’s taking a lot longer than we thought.
Then I had 12 incredible coincidences for 12 years in a row when I was required to get a flu shot every year while I was in the service. It might well be “impossible” to get the flu from killed flu virus, but I somehow managed to do so for 12 years straight. It is documented in my medical records.
And no, I don’t get flu shots any more and haven’t had the flu since.
You cannot get the flu from the flu shot. We’ve had numerous discussion on this board about that particular myth.
Yeah, well, he’s still just not going to get it. Just in case.
I’ve been noticing that lately, too, and I don’t get it, either - is it really beyond the skill level of so many drivers that they can’t manage to aim their car into the lane that they’re supposed to turn into? (Don’t answer that - rhetorical. 
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Either you got the vaccine too late to convey resistance, or the vaccine just didn’t work on you/didn’t have the right strain for preventing that case. Because if you had actual, antibody-testing-verified influenza, I don’t see how you got it from a killed vaccine.
People bitching about parking lots need to take a chill pill. That would be my peeve. Everybody needs to take a chill pill.
‘Almost’ accidents mean nothing, it’s not an argument against this or that. It’s proof that, with good reason, people are, and should be, ever cautious, in parking lots. Whether someone parks nose in or tail, drives a large vehicle, ends up parked beside you when it was clear, of cars, before, distracted chatting pedestrians, kids being wrangled - none of these things are ever going to change. Because people are just people.
‘Almost’ accidents are proof that people are being, what the moaners and complainers, all claim they want to see, people driving slowly and cautiously.
Just take a chill pill and accept it takes all kinds to make a world, and no amount of miff, on your part is going to suddenly convince everyone else that your’s is the only way, and we should all just emulate you. Save your energy and chill!
People who steal hospital property. More specifically, people who care enough about a sick friend or relative to visit them in the hospital and sit around for a day or two and bug the staff with often stupid and repetitive questions and, yet, also think it’s perfectly ok to steal the hospital property that is there for the benefit of said patients and their relatives/friends.
Like the a$$holes who took the new flat screen TV from the waiting lounge. The one the staff held bake sales to outfit because we wanted to have a place nicer for visitors than old, worn, lopsided couches & a TV circa 1990. Oh, and thanks the the guys who sliced open (probably with stolen scissors from your relative’s dressing tray!) the new couches.
You are trash, trash, trash.