Come visit your neighbors just to the north. We all know how to use them. In fact I go through 8 on my 3 mile commute to work. My commute time is half what it used to be.
Just avoid the ones by the hospitals just off of Meridian because the out of towners coming in to visit definitely do not know how to use them.
Do you really think someone driving a sports car, or a classic car, or really any car that anyone cares that it should look nice should be required to put butt ugly mud flaps on them?
And where do you live that the slightest precipitation is “gooey?”
Not the original poster, bit yes. On the list of functions cars are supposed to perform, safety and utility are way above aesthetics.
If you, as an owner of a car, are willing to compromise on safety or utility, I don’t care if you only inconvenience yourself. As soon as you mess things up for others, you can fuck right off.
The credit card shuffle. Person stands there doing nothing (or even worse, texting) while being rung up, then when the cashier gives them to amount, has to find their wallet and go though a buttload of credit cards to find the one they want to use, while the other people and the cashier wait. And if they pull out a card that is rejected or a card that the store doesn’t take, it’s another wait while they have to find another card. And the people who have to check their balance and transfer funds to their debit cards are no fun either.
Find the damn card before getting on line and have it at the ready.
Safety? When did mud flaps on cars become a safety device? If they were they would be required along with seat belts, air bags, lights, brake lights, turn signals, mirrors, bumpers, etc. I think I can safely bet that mud flaps are not even a factory option on 99% of passenger cars. I looked on my way home tonight and not a single passenger car had mud flaps.
There were a few SUV type vehicles that had something that could be described as mud flaps but they were built into the wheel well and it is not an option to remove them.
I drive in all kinds of weather and the only time it gets to the point that my vision is impaired by the spray from a vehicle in front of me it is usually a truck… and almost all of those have mud flaps.
As far as your final sentence I’m pretty sure that isn’t allowed outside of the Pit (and maybe not even there).
I’ve usually found that LED in my Bluetooth headsets id so bright that it turns that entire end, where the battery, mic, and controls are, into a miniature lamp. So it isn’t enough to just cover the little hole where the LED is; you have to wrap the whole thing in at least two layers of tape. And then you can’t see the charging indicator light.
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People over the age of 9 that go to a restaurant and order something that they can make at home for 90 percent less than I’m paying
Like my cousin who orders a plain ham and cheese sandwich that I’m paying 6.95 for when I can go to supermart and pay 89 cents for a pack of ham and another 89 cents for a cheese like substance
And since she doesn’t care much about quality in the first place…
It’s one on the they.ings I hate about Seinfeld…going too a diner and eating Cheerios when there’s 3 boxes at home …
Most of mine involve bars:
When a bar is full, a patron gets up to leave but leaves their drink behind to smoke outside for 20 minutes, barring anyone from taking the spot.
The local sports bar doesn’t have the local game on; after requesting it, the bartender and the manager fumble the remote trying to find it. It’s a SPORTS BAR. Cant the manager find 2 minutes to check that nights TV listings and make an educated guess as to what patrons want to see? Even worse is when I find out I CANT get the game because the idiots who run the place have satellite T.V. and the game is blacked out on their service. IDIOTS.
When a large male pulls up next to me at the bar, and immediately turns their back to me the entire night to talk to their buddies. Now my view of the rest of the place is blocked, my only view is of this assholes sweaty ack, and subconsciously I feel like they are cutting me off from any contact with anyone on the other half of the bar because I’m not as good enough as them. VERY arrogant move.
People that constantly elbow me or bump into me at a bar. Doesn’t that bother YOU? Cant you tell you are bumping into me??? What the fuck is your problem??? Corollary: a bar with a BIIIIIG wide open space on the other side, but it seems everyone and their buddies have to congregate on the narrower other side, where I’m trying to eat a steak. It’s the old “why is everyone at the party congregating in the tiny kitchen” deal.
Beer served in anything but a wide mouth 16 ounce glass.
Others:
I’m cruising along in left lane at 70-80 and all of the sudden a fucking 18 wheeler turns on his left blinker and pulls into it to pass a vehicle in front of him. Uphill. At 25 mph. Asshole!
Hotels that provide shampoo but no conditioner. That don’t have ice machines forcing you to have it delivered to your room, which is a wait plus a tip. Hotels with TVs that only carry Fox News, and not CNN or MSNBC. What is the deal with hotels that only carry 13 channels, anyway? What is it still 1986???
Yes I am an angry person and miserable bastard and will think of 100 more!
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Probably in uber-conservative, far-right, deep-red areas that seem to be of the belief that FOX News is the only news to be trusted, and that anything else is, as our current President puts it, “fake news”-- would I be wrong in any way?
I have not seen this, but yes, either would piss me off to no end.
The ones by the hospitals in Carmel are pretty bad too. But Indy is full of terrible drivers. A semi ran a red light next to me today, and THREE cars followed it through. When the light turned green, I took a moment to look and make sure everyone had actually stopped, and that was long enough for the asshole behind me to lay on his horn. I’m not getting T-boned so that he can get to work 1.345 seconds earlier. If he’s running that late, he can bloody get up earlier.
Similarly, the 1972-77 ABC police/detective series The Streets of San Francisco (w/the late Karl Malden as Lt. Mike Stone, Michael Douglas [1972-76] as Insp. Steve Keller, and the late Richard Hatch [1976-77] as Insp. Dan Robbins) is titled for its DVD releases as The Streets Of San Francisco. I do not know why the DVD releases put it as “Of” instead of “of.”
I think it is a “computer thing”. All titles on the TV on-screen program guides are all capitals, all words, now. I think it’s easier for the computers, nobody has to know any grammar, or think. Every word gets capitalised automatically.
Good point! Did not realize. The packaging of the CBS DVD condensed all-in-one (my term for any complete series release) contains both forms (the one with the capitalized “Of” on the front, and the non-capitalized “of” on the back).
I also have one of the individual volumes (which I had gotten prior to getting that all-in-one), and it is the same way.
Also, the version with the capitalized “Of” is a trademarked form-- didn’t know if you knew. I also do not know why the “Of” form is a trademarked form.
News or how-to items online that are video only, because I can read instructions much faster than the time it takes me to watch the video.
Complicated appliances or furniture that come with just tiny diagrams but no textual instructions for assembly. This must be the latest solution for dealing with the problem of bad translations.
Yes!!!
I suspect I’m not the only one who hates the question “Hey! Whaddya reading?”
I mean, it’s annoying enough to be interrupted while in the middle of a good book; but then you want me to give you a quick precis of the novel I’m reading, too?
Makes me incandescent.
Sometimes I think that people do this so they can pass judgment on what you’re reading-- they might not want you to be reading what you’re reading, so they give you the third degree. Would that be true in this instance?
Every time I have done it, it was a way to start a conversation.
Good point! It’s great that you’ve done it that way, but I just thought that some others might have done it the way I described just to indict something they didn’t like in what you were reading.