<ring, ring, ring> Me: “Hello?” <long pause> “Hello?”
Recording: “Please, stay on the line for an amazing offer from <insert Telemarketing company here>!” FUCK NO! Not only do telemarketers have the audacity to disturb me at home when I’m doing the most crucial of crucial tasks, but they have me WAIT for THEM to get to me?! I understand that it’s a great way for them to weed out uninterested people, like myself, but sweet Jesus! What is America coming to when I have to wait only the line a good 5 minutes to cuss out a telemarketer?
Right on red. Right on red. RIGHT ON RED. If the traffic’s clear, TURN YOUR FUCKING CAR. I’m serious! Those of us who don’t enjoy sitting just for the hell of it might want to go somewhere sometime soon. Your beautiful Honda Accord isn’t going to be pummeled by the oncoming car a mile away. If the light is red, you may turn if all is clear.
Speaking of which, if you’re in a lane with the option to go straight or turn right, and you’re leading the line of cars behind you in line who want to turn right while you need to go straight, DON’T STOP 2 INCHES FROM THE RIGHT CURB! If there’s enough room, PLEASE allow someone wanting to turn right enough space to get beside you and out of the re.
Great idea! I was kinda hoping for the cheeseburger and small coke, but since you put it so nicely, I may just want to try a value meal today. God knows I couldn’t see the huge-ass signs for them posted all over your menu board.
And on the topic of drive-thrus, I had an interesting encounter earlier at KFC/Taco Bell. The transaction went something like:
“Hello, thank you for choosing KFC/Taco Bell. My name is Curtis. Our special today is an original recipe sandwich with fries and a medium coke for $2.99.”
<pause> “Yeah, I just want a… hmm… number 4 with a coke. That’s all.” <10 second pause> “Hello?” <10 second pause>
“Hello, thank you for choosing KFC/Taco Bell. My name is Juanita. Go ahead with your order whenever you’re ready.” What the hell was that all about?!
The express lane is generally 12 items or less, not 30, fuckhead.
If you MUST write a check in said lane, would it fucking hurt you that much to go ahead and write out everything except the dollar amount? Hell, why don’t you have your driver’s license out already, BEFORE you get up to the front of the line?
Bank drive-thru’s are not the place to open a checking account or apply for a loan. Both have happened to me, the former twice.
And who the fuck cares about Godard OR Rosenbaum anymore?
Boy, you got a lot of pet peeves to start the new millenium with. Good to get them out in the open. I agree with you as to numbers 1, 6, and 7. No.5 is obviously a lack of communication: those cheap things they use in the drive-ins are terrible.
As far as right turn after a stop, my peeve is those drivers who make the right turn without stopping. Or, even worse, those who zip in right in front of you. When they have the red light or a stop sign it’s even worse. Then you have to slow down because they made a right turn on red. Even if they stop momentarily, they should not go ahead if a car is coming, for God’s sake! The law is to make a right after a stop on red if there’s no car coming.
Are you the asshole that sits back there and revs their engine, or “hops” the car foward like it’s got to pee? If you are, there is no way in HELL you’re getting by me. Even if I had been inclined to turn promptly, I’d be having serious second thoughts about letting you do it now. Impatient asswipes like that get other people killed for no other reason than they think their life should be lived at 300mph on our roads. You share the road, not create carnage and mass destruction simply to get some fast food or Gas or something else that could have waited another 10 seconds.
gee… is there a lane specifically for this purpose? If there is, I don’t block it: if there isn’t, you’re SOL buddy. Again, impatience leads to rash decisions and death. I let one prospective Mr. Andretti or Ms. Earnheart* by once, and they promptly clobbered someone making a legal turn from the opposite side of the intersection. So you’ll pardon me if I don’t let you by right away. Also, the driver might be a little afraid that you’ll scrape the car up, or tag a bumper. Personally I’m not worried, but some people get anal about little scratches and dings, and some of them get violent.
So, I understand you get angry at others driving, and I’m glad that you vent here, rather than say, by bumping the offenders bumper in traffic. Just remember, you might not get a second chance if you act like an asshole behind the wheel ONCE.
*[sub]I’m not sure of the spelling. I don’t like NASCAR enough to bother to look it up.[/sub]
Last week there was this idiot at Trader Joe’s with several hundred cans of cat food, but only 5 different varieties, who got in a loud fight when the checker and then the manager refused to ring her up in the 12 item line. After about 5 minutes of this, in peak holiday hours they booted her completely. It was very cool.
May I hone in here and add one that I just got pissed off about?
** Yoo hooo… Gap Kids/BabyGap store?** Presumably this has never occurred to you, but the fact is, your target customers just might have offspring. And some of those offspring might be in strollers. You know, like the strollers the mall provides for free? So have you ever consider leaving more than 7 fucking inches of space between your racks in the store? I expect to have trouble maneuvering a stroller in Lechters, or Talbots, or anywhere else. But in a kid’s clothing store that does everything in its power to market its ass off to parents like me? Please.
I don’t think the drive thru thing was my fault. If you notice, apparently there was a shift change or SOMETHING going on. People who ignore stop signs and red lights are dangerous altogether and I despise them.
No, I’m not one of the impatient SOBs who revs the engine and tries to jump you. I hate those people. What I DO hate are idiots. I know the law says you can turn right on red when it’s clear. That was exactly my point. If it’s clear, turn! What irks me are people who don’t know that you can, thus just sit there until the damn thing turns green. I don’t, however, resort to revving my engine or inching up closer. That irks the hell out of me, so I try not to do it to others.
No, there’s really no other lane for it, but all the lanes around here are wide enough at such junctures to accomodate two or even three vehicles easily. Perhaps it’s simply my smaller community, but it’s a common practice around here. Let’s try to demonstrate what I mean…
| <- | /\ -> | Like I said, maybe it’s only where I live,
| | | | | | but this lane is usually wide enough so
| | | that if there IS a person in the front of
(left (straight the line going straight, another car can
turn or go to the side of it and check to see if
lane) right turn) a turn is possible. Maybe I should
instead be bitching to the DOT for not
separating the two lanes. Obviously if
they can make one lane large enough for
even three vehicles sometimes, they can
split it into two lanes. For some reason,
they don’t.
Ah, a good rant. Honest, crisp and to the point, subject matter well-founded, the use of obscenities good overall, avoiding the merely repetitive, but perhaps could have been a little bit more creative in that area. Still, not bad for a maiden effort. I give it a solid 8.5.
One of my pet driving peeves is the right on red issue.
But-at several interstate exits here in Atlanta, there are signs that say right lane keep moving. To me, that means, keep moving. Yeah, if you’re going to get into the left lane, you look first, and no you don’t keep going at 70mph onto a 45mph road. But don’t come to a dead stop, then be afraid to keep going.
KFC has this fantastic idea of playing you a recorded ad before they will accept your order. This is so moronic I can’t even express it. Hello! I am here. I am waiting to purchase food from your establishment. You are going to get my money. Why O why do you feel the need to convince me to eat here for hell’s sake??? They only thing this could possibly do is make me less likely to return. Idiots.
how about those people who drive the 4x4 while it is snowing and expect that it would be like driving on dry roads. I have been driving in near blizzard conditions and have been passed by people driving 4x4s like all was ok in the world. I have been told by people that “since I have 4 wheel drive, I can drive like this in the snow”. I then tell them that I have 4 wheel brakes, doesn’t help me stop any faster on snow packed/ice covered roads any faster. Getting started is good, but stoping tends to keep you alive, or at least out of trouble.
Alibey, formerly of Arabia and now in the great white north.
Could somebody please explain to the asshole who honked at me today because I was sitting at a red light waiting to turn right at an intersection I drive through virtually every single day that has a “No Right Turn On Red” sign that I had no desire to get a ticket for running the damn sign? Please?
What REALLY bugs me are the people around here who, when they get a left turn light without an arrow, they just SIT THERE at a green light. What the hell happened to moving into the middle of the intersection so that you can go when the light changes? And then so can I, and the guy behind me, and the cop behind HIM?
Earlier today, you were sitting behind whiterabbit at a stop light. If memory serves, you honked your horn at him because he was waiting to turn right because the light was red. Unfortunately, the concept of a **No right turn on red** sign is obviously a bit advanced for your pea-sized, numbnutted brain to imagine. Now, we are willing to allow this to pass once; however, be forewarned that, in the future, if you want to entice people to get tickets for running lights, you had better have terrific auto insurance because I will surely BACK OVER your ass in my SUV. I know my insurance is great.
Personally, I find pulling out into the intersection to be a bit dangerous with all the dumbassed drivers in these parts. I sit behind my little white line until I can visible see an opening approaching. Then again, I don’t take my sweet ass time getting across the intersection like some people… but that’s another whole discussion.
I get pissed at this too, but I get more pissed when some moron honks at me for not going when it’s not clear to go!
There is this one intersection where I have to yield into a highway. I am at a dead stop (not lane allowance for yielding) and oncoming traffic is going 55-60 MPH. On top of this, some asshole put one of those huge green electric boxes (for the cameras, I guees) right in the line of dight for people trying to yield. So I stop as far into traffic as I can, then crane my head at an extremely uncomfortable angle and try to see oncoming traffic. Usually I can’t, so I wait for what looks like a big break. But some assfuck always has to honk.
Hey! Maybe you don’t have a huge fucking box blocking your view. Maybe you can see oncoming traffic. But I’m NOT taking your word for it! When my entire front side is removed by an SUV going 65 MPH, my insurance company won’t care that “the person behind me thought it was okay!” I’ll turn when I think it’s safe to turn. If you want to drive me to work and pay for all the fucking gas, fine, you drive. But I’m in MY car, trying to see MY right of way, and not interested in buying a new fucking car because YOU’RE late for work! OKAY?? If I can see and the way is clear, I go. If not, kiss my fucking ass! It takes a second to go from 0 to 55, OKAY, and unless you are driving over me and my big Oldsmobile, you’re just gonna have to wait. Keep honking and I’ll wait for the green light, you impatient motherfucker!
And a special fuck you to the dickhead who, while I was waiting to make an unprotected left turn during rush hour from work, drove around me (crossing the yellow lines and fucking over three people waiting to turn into my work) so he could make a right turn in his stupid fuckign SUV. Now you’re on time, asshole, but every one else is held up because YOU’RE an inconsiderate moron.
