The people at Rite Aid who ask for a GNC Gold Card and then balk when we tell them there’s a $15 fee. No, you moron, we’re NOT going to give everyone a free 20% discount on all vitamins. We need to charge a fee to ensure that only the people who buy enough vitamins to make it worth our while get the 20% discount. Otherwise we’d just MARK THEM DOWN BY 20%!
Also, people who think that since I’m 19 and a guy, I A) can’t possibly be the manager on for the evening, and B) must be trying to con old people out of their money.
And finally, women who stomp around looking confused and agitated, and when I ask them if I can help them, they say “No, but can I talk to the girl up front?” I just tell them where the feminine products are and walk away. No, I’m not going to say “Thank you” or suggestive-sell you something after you imply that because I’m a guy I can’t possibly know where the tampons are and would doubtless giggle like a schoolgirl at the fact that women bleed once a month. Gee, thanks.
~People who always have to make themselves look better… ex. I say “oh I didn’t see that” they say “well I must have keener eyesight?”
~People at school who don’t hold open locked doors on the dorms for you, even when you’re right behind them…
~People into indie rock only because they think it’s cool… and that whole attitude about how if it’s on the radio it immediately becomes pop… hello
~People telling me how smoking opium until they get sick is wonderful for their third eye… great, just don’t expect me to pay for your geriatric ass when you’re on medicare!
~People in customer-service positions who act like it’s an imposition when you ask for help (especially on campus)… isn’t that what they’re paying you for??
~Oh and I work tech support on campus… and people who really don’t know anything about their machines ramble for 10 minutes about what they think is wrong before they even tell you what’s malfunctioning…
You’re driving along a busy boulevard and need to make a left turn into a side street where there’s no signal. You wait…and wait…and wait…and wait, and the traffic doesn’t break. Finally a jogger crosses the boulevard and
the oncoming traffic FINALLY breaks to let him/her cross. Halleleujah! you say. Now’s your chance to finally make your turn. BEcause while the jogger is crossing the opposite side of the intersection, you can make your turn. The inviolate pedestrian aura of this jogger will shield you from the oncoming traffic like a magic force field. WRONG!!! Because instead of running in place for a couple of seconds at the corner, Mr. Jogger cuts the corner and you nearly run him down when you try to do your turn.
Did everyone get that? It’s sorta hard to explain but it does piss me off.
In the driving theme . . .
When, late for a movie, on the way to the theater, approaching an intersection with, oh heavenly day an actual green light! Sweet, we’ll just make it, because if we get this light we’re sure to get the next one, and then we’re there. Wait, what’s this guy in front of me doing?! Why is he slowing down? It’s green, man, keep going! My god he’s slowed to a crawl! What in the world is he doing?! Oh great, the light’s turing yellow. Now the guy’s stopping. He’s stopped. At the yellow. Now it’s red. And I get to wait out the light. Wonderful.
…when they have boy-character (or any male character) voice-overs done by women actors. I watched Rocky And Bullwinkle for years before I realized that Rocky The Flying Squirrel wasn’t supposed to be a female, because the woman who did his voice sounded just like one of my mother’s friends.
It strikes me as really stupid that the people who put these things together think they can’t find a 10 or 12 year old boy actor with enough acting chops to play, say, a 10 or 12 year old boy, so they get a 30 year-old woman instead.
Actually I’ll expand my comments to include such phenomena as Mary Martin playing Peter Pan in the movies. You’d think they could have found some male actor that had the right look. Having Peter played by a woman introduced a slightly disturbing gender-bending element which can hardly have been what the originator of Peter Pan intended.
It may seem stupid but the reason is real: Bart Simpson is voiced by a woman, as having a young boy do the voice would not have worked with a character that never ages!
A young boy would age, and his voice would change. What to do? Hire a new kid, and have a different voice, or keep the kid and have to age the characters, changing the nature of the show?
They just hire actors who can imitate a kid’s voice.
And now, for something that pisses me off…
News “teasers”. For example:
“Local water is poisoned by bacteria. We’ll tell you where at 11.”
We see this teaser dozens of times throughout the evening, until the end of the newscast, where the story is three lines long and not a real problem for anyone but a select few in a small area.
This waste of my viewing time is just a ploy to get me to stay tuned to the news show, and watch the ads, until the end of the show.
I’m a channel surfer, and I could be watching something more interesting…
If you never wanted him, you shouldn't have lead him on for ***9 months***. He fell in love with you. He bought you birthday presents when you two weren't "technically together". He brought you stuff from Mexico when you two weren't "technically together". He gave up his life for you. He gave up several other, *much better* girls for you, because he thought you felt the same way. He called you several times a day, and told us that he was in love with you all the time. He said that he was finally happy, and that he wasn't so scarred anymore from the last girl who cheated on him with his cousin, and his best friend, and a total stranger while they were together.
Then you come along, and cheat on him with one of his best friends. More than twice. And then you dump him. Then you tell him you like him again, and get his hopes sky-high. Then, not feeling like you've done enough already, you tear them down, smash them to the ground, and dance an irish jig on them. So who is it you're going out with now? Oh right, Stinson. Cause he doesn't want you for sex, oh no, he's such a great guy. :rollseyes:
And so help me god, if you so much as *try* to talk to him, or give yourself another chance to get close to him and hurt him, I will hurt you. And cat fights ain't pretty sweetie, 'specially not the ones I'm involved in.
I HATE that!
Just a few weeks ago here in Baltimore, the NBC affiliate had one that said, “The number of West Nile Virus cases in Baltimore has doubled. More at eleven.”
Uh, yeah. There had been ONE person with WNV, now there were TWO. Okay, technically they were right, but come on!
People who drive slowly UNTIL the light turns yellow, and THEN they speed through it.
People who don’t use their turn signals.
People who litter.
People who talk in movies, or bring babies who start crying.
People who cut in lines, and the cashier helps them anyway.
Psoriasis, and every cream you have to use stains your clothes.
Women at the gym who let their kids play on the workout equipment.
Cashiers who tell me to tell the next person that the line is closed. The last time I DID do this, she took the person anyway, making me look like I was lying.
People who get baseball seats at the games being televised, and sit there waving constantly with their cellphones glued to their ears. Why did you come to the game? Why not just go be with whomever it is you’re talking to???
When my computer freezes… and then tells me after rebooting, that I shut it down incorrectly. * Take responsibility here, you silly machine!! *
Umm, yeah…I guess the woman who plays Bart does so pretty effectively at that, though I’ve seen other situations where the woman didn’t sound right. As I noted above, I always thought that Rocky sounded all wrong. I can see that there might have been good reasons for using a female actor beyond what you mentioned: her voice did have the effect of giving the show a gentler impact, being a nice contrast to the bombast of the Boris and Natasha characters. This might have been more appealing to some viewers. Of course, they could have decided to make Rocky female to begin with. Then again, this show is from about 1000 years ago and maybe the idea of a female flying squirrel was too far out.
The current McDonalds commercial being played on TV. I can’t even remember what in particular the ad is for, but right at the end the announcer says “We’ve got it down like science”.
“Down like science”? Excuse me, but isn’t the usual phrase “down to a science”? Not a big deal in the larger scheme of things but I find this incredibly annoying every time I hear it.
Students who ignore the teacher for the entire class period, then ask, “Hey, what’s the assignment?”
Students who complain about being given low grades although the spines of their books are uncracked.
Students who do all of their studying in front of the television and then complain about the difficulty of the reading.
Parents who believe their children’s excuses for low grades (“Why are you throwing my child’s homework away?” is a question I’ve actually heard.)
Parents who sign their children out of school for shopping trips, vacations, and headaches.
Administrators who call you out of the classroom while you’re teaching.
People who complain about the temperature in the classroom every day, insisting that they cannot study in a room that is more or less than 69.8 degrees.
People who beat their children and leave me to clean up the mess in the child’s head.
Fast food restaurants that flagrantly ignore the child-labor laws and make teenagers work closing hours on school nights.
Any paper that takes longer to grade than it took to write.
People who write letters to the editor complaining that public school teachers are overpaid, since they only work 9 months a year and 7 hours a day.
People who are old sticks in the mud,
and think that they have any right
to dictate to me what I can and cannot
wear, I LOVE MY POOH SHIRTS and OVERALLS
and dangbust it, I’m going to wear them
because they make me happy, and there
is no law that says I cannot wear them.
People who are so obsessed with being
growed up that they won’t play with me.
Oh! Oh! I thought I was the only person who’s furious about this! We need our own thread. You know what happened, don’t you? They stopped having to make change. Now the cash register just tells them how much you’re supposed to get back, and they pull it out of the drawer, bills first. When you make change, you count up from what they gave you, starting with the coins. They also used to count it back to you that way, but the people working registers at fast-food places can’t count anymore. I think it’s the downfall of civilization.
Here’s another one I hate: the In-Your-Face McDonald’s. Some of them have deliberately done away with the speaker for ordering, so you have to talk to the resentful zombie at the window. Of course you pay immediately, and they have two car-lengths to get your food ready. Not happening.
Last, but not least, when you order exactly what’s on the menu, and they can’t get it right. I mean, it’s all they do! It’s not like one person orders a burger & fries, and the next person orders a car wash & oil change.
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I hate it when people expect me to be able to sum up everything I have interest in with a simple one or two word category. I could tell you I listen to ‘alternative’, but then what about my Mozart cds? When my parents were in one of the record clubs, I forget which one, I discovered that I own at least one cd out of almost every category they listed. At least some of us say something like that because it’s true.
