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Agreed.
(For the record, I’m in my early fifties myself.)
Narrator on the Hartford auto insurance commercial: How long have you had your insurance policy?
Upper fifties-ish guy filling up at the gas station: I don’t know, but things were sure a lot less expensive back then.
With some important exceptions, that just isn’t true. The minimum wage in 1975 was about $1.90. If you made just $20K annually, you were above the 77th percentile in terms of average family income, according to these figures (table 1a, page 9). From the same source, if you earned $25K annually you were in the top 16%.
Sure things were cheaper, but that’s largely offset by the fact that most people earned far less money in nominal terms.
For some reason it really bugs me when people drive their vehicles (usually large pick-ups) backwards into parking spaces, presumably so they can pull out without having to look behind them. But then they’re doing just that backing up into the space. What’s the point? Quick getaway perhaps? I dunno…
THIS ^^^^
There is this thing called dB recording levels…NO ONE USES THEM.
There is also a little thing called a compressor that can and will adjust volume levels after the fact…NO ONE PUTS THEM IN DEVICES THAT NEED THEM.
Like Audio Players and Television Audio Processors…which would make the master volume a nominal level across the board.
I like sleeping with the tv on…adjust volume to a whisper…then get awakened by someone screaming…
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON… HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…:mad:
Another one: if you’re going to go camping, go camping. Staying in a big ass Winnebago at a “campground” where you’ll have electricity and running water is not fucking “camping.” You may as well go stay in a fucking hotel. Get real, jackasses. :rolleyes:
While it bugs me, too, it’s irrational that it do so. There’s a lot more visibility when backing into a space than there is when backing out of one.
I was about to say that although I drive a large truck at home, I never back into spots, but then I realized that I actually did so for about a year and a half when I lived in Mexico City. My company car was an extra-long Expedition, and it had to fit into a tiny, subterranean parking lot parking space. Much easier to back in than out. So I guess it only bugs me when I see other people do it! :smack:
It’s also a winter thing. If you’ve ever needed a jumpstart and parked head-in somewhere, you find out you never want to have to physically push your vehicle backwards to get close enough to the donor car’s battery. Especially if there’s snow. Learned that one the hard way.
The corollary to that is places with plugins for the block heater you always drive into. Winter should just be outlawed.
It also makes it a lot easier to leave if there is a crowd, like after a concert.
Argharghargh yes. It’s bad enough that my skin feels all slippery, but it bugs the everloving SHIT out of me when I can’t get my hair feeling rinsed. It’s not that bad now that I have short hair, but when it was longer, I’d sometimes climb out of the shower only to find that I hadn’t washed out all of my conditioner. Soft water made it even harder to tell, and it drove me nuts.
I do this, because when pulling out of the space, it’s far easier to check for traffic which has the right of way. Backing in, when done in a single motion, is simple.
Backing out of a space, usually leaves me blind to perpendicular traffic for a while, especially if there are vehicles parked on either side of me. This means I have to inch slowly, and almost always, people will fail to care, and fly by, anyway.
Though along the same lines, I don’t like when people take 4-5 attempts to back into their space, if they’re going to do it. That makes it no more efficient than just pulling in forward (which also seems difficult for people to do). So I guess I’ll just chalk it up to bad parking that annoys me. 
If I leave my desk for a few minutes, I am certain to come back and find a post-it about missed phone messages stuck right in the center of the damn screen! :mad:
What drives me nuts are public restrooms with doors that open inward, and air hand dryers only. That means if you want to avoid touching the door handle on your way out, it’s a choice between grabbing toilet paper from the stall, or waiting for someone to open the door on their way in.
Less annoying but still irksome - public restrooms with paper towels available, but inward opening doors and no trash receptacles anywhere near the door.. In those, it’s a choice between throwing the paper towel in the general direction of the faraway receptacle after opening the door, or keeping the paper towel for disposal elsewhere - except that places without a convenient receptacle inside the bathroom tend not to have them elsewhere, either.
For some reason it really bugged me the other day when I asked for Fritos to go with my Togos sandwich and the counter person had no idea what I was talking about.
This is why I never order sausage pizza. 
I used to work in a building that was shared with a Sheriff’s office, and you could tell pretty easily which cars in the lot belonged to the cops - they were all backed in. Their personal vehicles, mind you.
It’s about a quick exit and planning ahead, going to a little trouble now to save trouble later.
We come from a place with very hard water, and when we drove over to Chicago, we ran into places with soft water. It freaked us right the hell out - why are the soap and shampoo acting like THIS?!? How do you know when to stop rinsing? AGH!
I don’t drive a big vehicle, but I often do this. IMO it’s a lot safer. Particularly if the space is against a wall or similar barrier in a garage, there’s very little possibility of pedestrians crossing your path as you back in. Contrast that with having to back out when you leave, when every imaginable pedestrian that you want to avoid hitting may be passing by–families with little ones in tow, moms with strollers, small kids momentarily free of their parent’s restraints and running around. You get the picture.