Peeve: Stupid people who consistently apply their license plate renewal “tabs” (tags, renewal stickers, etc.) to a different location of the plate year after year, even though the directions CLEARLY state where to affix the tab (in the same location). Over the years, they end up with 4-5 stickers all over the plate. If I were a cop, I’d pull these people over for obstructed license plates!
Just wondering why this occurs (what is their thought process), and if anyone shares this peeve or if I am just too anal about this.
Not sure why it happens, but i think those people share some deep rooted characteristics with, for example, the type of person who visits a message board such as this and posts to the wrong forum.
Well, depending on the intersection (width of the crossing road, height and placement of the light, and placement of the white line), I may stop a little further back. I’m a tall guy, and I gotta be able to see when the light changes. So… you can get mad at me for being a little behind the white line, or for not moving when the light turns green!
They want to allow a bigger margin-for-error for bad drivers who are making a turn.
I once pulled all the way up to that line, and then remarked to myself, “This snow is awful. I hope that guy over there doesn’t slide into me. I should have stopped further back.” But I couldn’t back up because there was already someone behind me by then. And a turning car did damage the front-left corner of my car!
After Photog appropriately reminded me of posting to the incorrect forum (my bad, subsequently reposted appropriately), I thought that this thread would have died a quick death. Here we are 12 posts into it…
KnK, next time you notice that you’ve posted in the wrong forum, you can click on “Report this post to moderator” and let one of the friendly mods move it for you. We don’t like cross-posting (posting the same topic in multiple forums).
There’s a good logical reason to this: it’s to avoid “stacking” your year stickers. Here in M’waukee it used to be a cute little crime for people to remove other people’s stacked stickers and place them on their own license plates to avoid paying for next year’s renewal. Don’t know if this little stunt is still being pulled, but several of my fellow bank employees were victims of it a couple years ago. Yeah, I know, it makes your license plate look like some rug rat’s sticker collection, but the cops actually recommend it in these parts. Of course, it’d be nice if the D.M.V. would just issue new plates every year instead of ripping us up to $60 for a stupid little reflective date sticker. Ten years’ worth of stickers around a license plate look pretty tacky.
My stupid people pet peeve: Those who can’t do simple math at restaurants.
If I go to a nice restaurant, I usually include the tip in the money I’ve given the waiter or waitress, so no problems there.
At a fast food restaurant though, I’ll order something and the total will come to $6.46. I have a ten, a one, and lots of change. Because I don’t want to get a handful of ones, I give the cashier $11.46. About 1/3 of the time, I get this quizzical look and a very confused, “Why did you give me eleven?” So I answer that I’d like a five dollar bill back (at this point I haven’t shown my frustration). So the person will shrug and punch the numbers into the register, and then see that the change, in fact, is five dollars. Yet another confused, disgruntled, who-the-hell-is-this-math-wizard look is given to me as my change is handed to me as he or she asks, “How did you know that?”
What’re you talking about flex727? Can’t you see the “ghost” cars at the white line? You wouldn’t want them to run over them now would you?
This one makes me curious. Why does it bug people that others don’t pull all the way up to the line? (pssst, I pull all the way up also, I was just curious).
One of my biggest peeves at work is the phone. When you dial our main number, we have an automated system that greets you. There are only 4 menu choices: Nursing, Billing, Social Work, and Head Nurse. I am in the nursing department, and I can’t tell you how many people think I am the Social Worker. Did you not listen? There are 4 choices!
Another one that gets me is the girl who bursts into my office every day to ask me if she should call the patients rides. I tell her yes, every day, but she still likes to fling that door open at warp speed, and bellow at me.
I suspect I have a learning disability because I can’t do even simple math. Numbers just don’t make sense to me, and get switched around in my head if I try to mentally come up with a sum. I have to write it down, and chances are, I’ll still get it wrong.
CanvasShoes, it bugs me when people don’t pull all the way up to the stop line because they might miss triggering the sensor that tells the lights that there is a car present and waiting to go. The people that leave like 50 feet between them and the car in front of them at the stop light just bug me because I’m anal and I can’t see any reason for it (except to creep for the entire duration of the light, which also drives me bugeyes because I drive a standard and don’t like doing the clutch-in, clutch-out all through the light).
