It is a problem when they don’t pull up far enough to trigger the light. And it’s always at a really long light, so we have to sit there for a few more minutes until the light changes again. I also hate people who are in a straight-through lane, and I need to get into the right turn lane, but the driver in front of me has to inch up veeeeeeeerrrrrry veeeeeeerrrrryyyy slooooooooowly so I can’t change lanes and make a right on red. Or there are several people who’ve left enormous gaps, and if they would just pull up a little, I could change lanes. Rawr.
I just ordered a custom paint-by-number set (using a photo I submitted) as a gift for a friend. While paying for the item, the site assured me I would receive an e-mail with verification of the order, order number, and tracking info. OK…sounds fine.
Instead, I get an e-mail with a link to install the Shop app from Shopify in order to get any verification or tracking. The e-mail does not have any information (item, price paid, date, method of shipment, etc.) about the order at all…only the name of the seller. There’s not even any contact info to reach out to the seller.
Nope. I’m not going to install an app like that and register an account just to get confirmation of an order I placed. In fact, I guess this IS something that has “actual importance.” Sorry.
Have you ever tried passing them to fit in the spot between the “stop bar” and their car?
No, nor have I…but it’s a satisfying thought.
On reflection it seems to be a ghetto/blighted neighborhood thing. No idea why, no idea of the ethnicities of the drivers, but I see this aberrant behavior on my commute to work much more than elsewhere.
Could also be a suburb thing. Seen it there too.
Or maybe timid animals wearing skin suits are helming the wheel, rather than licensed adults.
I wouldn’t know.
It also might not trigger the light.
Yep.
Also, when stopped, please do not leave two car lengths in front on you. Half a car length is okay.
That’s true, but IME, it’s easy enough to tell when the lights are equipped with photo/laser/robot beams vs. the old standby Magneto Cerebo buried just under the macadam.
But, yes, it can certainly be an “actually important” thing for older systems. And explains why one sometimes still sees cyclists laying their bike down against the asphalt near the magnet (?), as we used to do in the day.
Mostly, though, it’s just idiotic. Anyone who doesn’t know where their car begins and ends needs to be excised from the road, and reëducated.
No, it is always sidiotic. Just sometimes also delaying for them and everyone else.
Gabby Johnson is right!
“I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.”
???
Once again, Gabby Johnson is right.
Now who could argue with that?
I also don’t much care for people who don’t pull their receipts from the machine at grocery stores’ printers at the self-check kiosks.
Bunch of lazy dumbskis.
No, I don’t ever need my receipt…it just irritates me. I know the self-checkout people make fun of them regularly, so I feel vindicated and righteous, proud and good.
Can you explain what you have been saying here- twice? what do you mean?
I assume it was a chance to quote Blazing Saddles. Or that and a reference to being idiotic.
Could be both.
Might could be. Hard to tell with Gabby Johnson.
Strenger Johnson is right about Gabby Johnson being right.
markn_1 has said one of those truths which need repeating again and again…that Strenger Johnson was right about Gabby Johnson being right!
May we have a moment to let Gabby Johnson speak in authentic frontier gibberish, in a speech which he wrote in his very own hand.
(Also I don’t care for those flimsy paper sacks they sometimes foist on you at convenience stores…very unsat.)
I don’t mind them, because they leave me an occasional bonus, which is welcome on days when I don’t need a lot.
At my local supermarket, if you buy over $50 worth of stuff, you get a discount coupon for the store’s gas bar. The more dollars you spend, the bigger the discount. A few times, I’ve pulled the previous customer’s receipt to find, to my delight, that it’s got a nice discount coupon attached. This is especially welcoming when I only needed a few things; nowhere near $50 worth.
It doesn’t always happen, but it’s nice when it does.
Around here every supermarket pharmacy has a sign somewhere near the counter saying, “FREE FLU SHOT,” in large letters. Much smaller are the letters saying, “with most insurance.”
In other words, it is exactly like any other vaccination or medication of any sort from that pharmacy. If you have good insurance, the insurance will pay. Otherwise it comes out of your pocket. There is nothing free about it ! !
Makes me want to take their “FREE” signs, smash them to bits, run over the bits with a steamroller and exit, with said steamroller, through the pharmacy.
If you’re stopped on a steep rise, however, please do leave some space. It’s just possible that the person ahead of you is driving a stick shift; while a skilled driver may manage to start up on a hill without rolling back even fractionally, it’s still a good idea not to be right on their bumper.
Carry your own nice sturdy canvas.
In their defense, most people have no idea what insurance does and doesn’t cover. “Insurance will pay 100%, with no co-payment or deductible on your part” is useful information.
Yes, true.