True, but the $1,000 - $3,000 for an operation is due RIGHT NOW, whereas a kid sucks you dry slowly, over 18 years.
I thought of another one last night on the drive home-
I don’t get people who won’t let you merge into their lane when my lane is clearly fixing to end. I have my blinker on and nowhere else to go but to merge into your lane, so why be an asshole and speed up to ride even with me?
Oh yes, speed matchers. Those I don’t really get. Even if not in a merge situation. Why did you catch up with me to then match my speed and ride on my door? Or do it to someone ahead of me so I cannot overtake either of you? shoo! Why would someone want to ensure they are in the most dangerous possible configuration where they have no room to avoid an obstacle on the road?
Or clothes that would cost me 3 month’s salary to buy? Even better, having a pet or pets that you can’t afford to spay/neuter, much less feed and take care of?
I’m guessing your SO has no complaints about this. He’d be nuts if he did - my husband keeps telling me (only halfway in jest) that I should do the same. Given that I’ve had a kid, there’s a snowball’s chance that’s happening.
FWIW, I’m assuming you’re a girl given the Hello Kitty pajamas comment.
Yep, I am a girl and my boyfriend thinks that my desire to be free of clothes is just one of the many things that make me super awesome. He laughs when I wander into his kitchen naked because he has no blinds in there but that is still not enough to make me get dressed.
Having been to nudist/naturist/clothes-optional/whatever-they-call-it-these days events, I can state for a fact that you get used to Total Bodily Nakedness after ten minutes or so. Asserting this never fails to cause heads to explode in the burqa-wearing sector of the population.
And while I’m on the topic, could we please get some nice dressy shoes that don’t do nasty things to my feet when I’m walking around the city? Or don’t have shiny soles for zero traction on polished floors? Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?
I’m in the opposite camp: I HATE watching TV with my roommate because she insists on flipping through all the other channels at every commercial. This invariably results in missing the first few seconds of the show after the commercial break. I find it much preferable to simply hit the mute button and tune out the TV until the thing I’m watching comes back on (and I’ve been known to read a book in the interim).
JRB
Speaking of TV, I can’t stand people that “watch” a show while they try to talk to you or do chores or whatnot. When I watch a show, I really watch it, and listen to every word. Otherwise it’s just noise and pretty pictures.
You just caused the entire Catholic Church to die a little inside, do you realize that? 
JRB
Not using your signal light. I can’t imagine why. Yes, yes, I’ve read all the stupid-ass rationalizations here on the board, but they are BS.
Today I was crossing the road and I heard a car coming. I turned to look to see if she were turning onto the road I was crossing. No signal. So I went on across. She did turn, couldn’t wait until I was across, so had to turn into the wrong lane to get around me.
I’m sure she would report that she always uses them when she needs to, no doubt this was just an oversight.
Exactly! Except that I’m a he, not a she
I agree. Some people have their TV on in the background literally all day long. They like the “company” or whatever. I’ve been to houses like this, and I get a headache pretty quickly. For me, the TV get’s my full attention or it’s off. Some leeway for baseball games…
the opposite of this: speeding in parking lots. You are there, you can slow down now already.
I heartily second this. Someone gave me the finger on the freeway yesterday for not letting them in when they were hovering next to me. I just thought we happened to be going the same speed, but apparently he was getting more and more ticked off that I “refused” to let him over and finally cut me off, then laid on the brakes to presumably teach me a lesson. Giving me the finger was just a bonus I guess. Would that someone had informed me that psychic abilities were a requirement of driving.
Incidentally, has anyone ever “learned their lesson” by having someone be an asshole to them? I’ve been driving for 17 years, and I’ve never once thought, “Oh, gosh! I’m so glad he did that - I’ve finally learned the error of my ways!” after someone has tailgated me, cut me off or given me the finger.
Whoops! I guess you won’t be asking to borrow my shoes, then!
Eh, I’ve done this. It’s just social lubricant - it’s easier for me to say I’m allergic to onions and make sure I don’t get them than to convince people that NO, I will NOT eat that if it has onions in it, no, not even if they’re really small, I don’t LIKE onions. I’m picky, sue me. It’s not something I tell people I know well, but for a waiter, it’s the simplest choice.
I’m cheap? Seriously, I have a few decent shirts I got at H&M, but mostly I’ve got sweatshirts I’ve had since high school and t-shirts I got for free. If I made more money I might spend some of it on clothing (although spending more than $25 for a piece of clothing still rankles) but for now I need all my moolah for typewriters and watch movements.
What?
Read my posts again. Nowhere I say that you are cheap. It just baffles me that people choose to wear non-stylish clothes. Still, if it’s your choice who am I to judge you? Which I’m not. I just don’t understand it. Just like you might not understand that I play role-playing games and am a smoker, or that I choose to spend my money on traveling in stead of repairing my jarring door. Remember that the point of this thread is to poll what people don’t understand from other people, not to pass judgement.
Er, sorry, that was my response to why I do it. I’m calling me cheap. :smack:
On a related note, I will NEVER get the hang of message board sarcasm… which is unfortunate given how sarcastic I am.
A lot of television just gets on my tits. So I just stopped watching years ago.
Why for example do people put up with so much forced advertising? And that’s just the commercial breaks…
…Then there’s reality TV, soap operas, talent (freak?) shows, the propaganda, sorry news…
Pissing on the seats in the toilets in work. That is just vile. I mean really, point your dick at the big hole, or if you’re that bad of an aim, sit the f*ck down and go.
Politics & politicians; especially when they evade their civic duty - something all too common in my wee country.
Those who would waste countless billions on nuclear programs; a completely pointless money sink, power struggle, lunatics chess game. Politicians and those who crave power have always struck me as the worst of humanity.
Curiously, overuse of words in popular press/media. Eg the word disingenuous. Suddenly everyone picks up on it and all of a sudden its overused by newscasters the world over. Try prevarication instead maybe.
Oh yeah, and people who think it’s funny to fart in the plane on the ride to altitude…