Wouldn’t bother me to have both of them there, so long as I get a brand-new Rolls-Royce Camargue for twent-five bucks.
You know, unless “camargue” is a fancy rich-people’s word that means “keychain,” or something.
Decent quality cookware invariably comes with an instruction similar to the following:
To which they should also add, but never do:
Uh, so, how do you feel about “adopting” an opinion?
Also, here’s one I’m pretty sure only I have-- anymore.
Over spring break (I work in a preschool), I dug the old NES out of storage, and started having fun again. I have been playing the Dragon Warrior series of games. They have towns, and for verisimilitude, have people wandering around the towns. There are shops your character can go into-- often NEEDS to go into. Sometimes these random people wander into a doorway, and then just stay there. You have to stand there and wait for them to move. It’s as annoying as that happening in real life, and you can’t even say “EXCUSE ME.”
No problem.
Our mall used to have a store that the name was “Everything’s a $1 Dollar”
Really, everything’s a one dollar dollar.
I am so with you on this one. I have had drivers do this for me, expecting me to take advantage of their extraordinary politeness, despite the fact that traffic in the other lane is whizzing by, making it suicidal to cross.
I once went to cross a road near my house. It was a period when there was very little traffic, in fact just one car coming along. I timed my crossing so that the car would be well past me before I got to his lane. The driver screeched to a halt and clearly expected me to cross in front of him. Not a chance, I wouldn’t risk my life crossing in front of someone with such clearly faulty judgement. I altered my course and walked behind him, leaving him fuming at my rudeness.
My peeve is when people use alum for alumnus or alumna. Alum is aluminum potassium sulfate, an astringent compound used in pickling. Whenever I see alum, my brain pronounces it as alum, NOT uh-LUM!
As to the proper pronunciation of Latin plurals on English words, -ae is ALWAYS properly pronounced -ee! Antennae, larvae, alumnae, vertebrae, etc. I was duly informed of this by all of my university science professors, and all my elementary school teachers since they were high priestesses of the Funk and Wagnall’s!
In this state, that is the law, the drive must stop.
My pet peeve with restaurants is when I order an appetizer and an entree and they are delivered either together or in very quick succession.
What do they not understand about an appetizer being a prelude to the main meal? It’s fine for the server to ask if I want them together or separately, but do not assume I want everything dumped in front of me at once.
If I am walking behind the car, the driver must stop?
In this case it was an absurdity and absolutely not the intent of any such law.
Are you trying to talk me out of a pet peeve only I have??
(When I make my turn, I do the half-click thing that causes my blinker to flash three times. I just don’t sit at the light with it on. If that’s wrong, well, just more reason to post in this thread!)
It’s the law here. You must indicate if turning left or right. No exceptions for turn lanes or T junctions.
And it’s not a pet peeve of mind. But I reserve the right to be peeved by stupid laws if I want to 
If you enter a crosswalk, etc, the drivers must stop unless you are on the other side of a divided highway.
And in general, the rules of the road require vehicles to yield to pedestrians.
I am sorry, he was right, you were wrong.
Appetizers are kinda my pet peeve, I rarely want both a appetizer and a full meal, and sometimes I order just the appetizer as a meal, but they usually bring that to me before everyone else’s meal.
And I dont get them, they dull my appetite, not sharpen it.
I too never order a appetizers. They just fill you up before you get an meal you came to the restaurant for.
They make sense at a dinner party, where upon arrival everyone is served appetizers and drinks, and there could be a long wait for dinner.
But they make little sense at a restaurant, since it takes them just as long to cook the appetizer as the main course, in many cases.
Getting back to pet peeves only I have, here’s another one.
Fans banging on drums during baseball games, chanting stupid shit, and general level of noise at MLB games.
I can see getting excited with something is happening, but we can do without the constant noises, can’t we?
I swear to god, I avoid going to Mariner games now when certain pitchers are scheduled, because I cannot stand the “K,K,K,K,K, etc forever”
If I lived in Oakland or Cleveland, I’d avoid all games due to excessive mindless noise.
I think I’m the only one.
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Was he in a cross-walk?
I hate a similar thing. Outside of my work, there is a road with no crosswalks. And I have to pretend NOT to be crossing the road, just so some well-meaning but annoying drivers don’t stop in the road and wait for me to cross and make me cross faster than I want to. Just drive your cars people!
I was not in a crosswalk. As I thought I made clear, there was only one car in sight for a couple of hundred yards in either direction and I intentionally timed my walk so that there would be no possible conflict with the driver. Yet he came to a screeching halt forcing me to conclude that he didn’t have a clue.
The situation could only have been more absurd if he had backed up to make sure I crossed in front of him.
DrDeth - While I respect your opinions, I was there and you were not.
(Unless by some weird twist of fate you were the driver.)
Even if there was no marked crosswalk, if you were crossing at the intersection, there’s (in many places) an implied crosswalk. If you were crossing midblock, there might still be crosswalk but even if not, the driver was doing what we’d been taught; yield to pedestrians.