It was you behind me at the entrance to the Garden State Parkway 2 days ago, wasn’t it?
New York City still does. (It’s allowed at a few intersections in Staten Island.)
Hey hey hey, watch it now. You’re getting precariously close to describing us here on the Dope.
Ah yes, but we come here looking for it! All I want to hear on the radio in the morning is a two-fer of Journey, not some idiot who thinks he’s awesome because he was caller 7 and had the correct answer to a real stumper of a trivia question such as "How many moons does the third planet from the sun have? "
Deals not ringing up correctly at the grocery store.
I make a quite good income and don’t have any problems making ends meet plus maintaining a decent nest egg, but for some reason I’m a cheapskate when it comes to groceries and my purchases will be driven by sales price. So if I see a little sticker on the $7.99 sub I’m about to buy that says I can get a meal deal that includes a soda and bag of chips for $10 I’ll go ahead and splurge. But if I see that I was charged face value $1.99 for the coke and $1.69 for the chips? Well, they might as well as held me at gunpoint while they lifted $1.68 from my wallet.
Before 2006: one
2006-2007: two
2008-2017: one
2018-2020: two
2020-present: one
Yep. Ciggies are the worst, but they don’t call weed 'skunkweek" for nothing. Toke up in private please- or at least with friends.
I think you mean "Buy 3 get one free? " Yep, my local Ralphs has that but it is often Buy 3, get 2 free- a great deal, but still.
I get annoyed a LOT, even to the extent of a rant, when D&D players are called “murderhobos”. Now, I have gamed with some idiots who casually kill innocent NPCs and such- they are murderhobos.
But in general, when I play or DM- we have a base, and we fight on the side of good, only killing evil monsters. So - not murderhobos.
Things which annoy some people- but are not important-
One or two spaces after a period. It doesnt matter. Get a life.
Toilet paper roll the 'wrong way"-It doesnt matter. Get a life.
When I order at the drive thru window, do not hand my food & drink to me at the same time. I have to awkwardly twist my torso so I can use my both hands in order to grab everything without risk of dropping it. Such behavior vexes me so.
When crossing the street, do so at a 90 degree angle because it’s much quicker than if you’re walking at a 45 degree angle. I don’t mind waiting for pedestrians, but come on!
Oh yeah, I know what you mean; seems to be common on cheesy documentaries. An irksome time-filler that is, and of course, they waste your time further when they return from an ad break by giving a recap montage of what has already happened.
Similar is when at the start of a documentary they show innumerable scenes from the documentary, presumably to grab your interest. Despite generally high quality shows, Nova is particularly bad about this. I’ve seen quite a few that have about 3 MINUTES of preview at the start of the show. Goddam it, I’m already watching! Just start the content.
It’s even more complicated than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqOsM6_3Dw
(Link leads to a video of the British comedy quiz show QI)
Huh, i feel like the YouTubers i watch who have paid content are pretty clear about it. “And while we are waiting for the water to boil, to I’d like to thank my sponsor, superpots, who gave me this awesome pot we are watching right now…”
Lol, i hope we shop at different places. Can i leave off the onion? Get my water without ice? Yes, please, let me customize it.
Oh my God, that grinds my gears! My complaint is the opposite. I just gave you the zip, why the hell do you need me to recite the city and state. It’s encoded in the ZIP, damnit. And i could easily have googled it while you listened to me ranting.
Oh, yeah. I live in X, too. But there are two post offices in the town of X, and my post office is X Hills. So not only do you want me to recite my town, you don’t actually want the legal name of the town, you want the translation of the zip code. You know, the zip code i already gave you.
Heh, fine, just make it snappy, OK? Don’t take the occasion to plumb the depths of your soul’s desires while I wait behind you and watch. 
I wanted to complain about something else, but it may be too “heavy” for this thread. I am extremely bugged by serious traffic crimes, like driving 100mph, or (I see this more and more) brazenly running red lights – not sneaking through at the end of a yellow, but just blasting through as if they don’t apply at all. I feel like people like this would hurt others for fun if given the chance – they’re symbols of total Mad Max lawlessness and I’m not just infuriated, I’m offended to my core.
I think that is actually very important, and probably belongs in a different thread.
I’ve come across this often enough that my reflexes at hitting “fast forward” are now finely honed. I can now skip past this crap in a fraction of a second. I don’t care if I go too far and miss some actual content, I can’t stand the crap, especially after the attempted “clever” intro.
I’d feel exactly the same way. You can just bet that these folks (a) never recycle, and (b) after they put their shopping in their car, the best place for the shopping cart is … right where it is. Usually blocking someone else’s car.
Yep.
Let me try again. People at work who say “OH YEAH, I need to remember to do that!” If only there were some way to remember to do things, right? If someone would invent a calendar, or a task list, or a writing device, or a phone with notes and reminders built in, SOME method, ANY method, of remembering to do things without just holding them in your head, then people could remember things. But since there is no such thing that’s been invented yet, those who are not blessed with perfect memories are just hosed. Truly it is a tragedy and I’m filled with pity, yet there’s nothing that can be done for them.
I’m irrationally infuriated by jerks who park too close to my driveway. The thing is that there’s more than maybe 50 or 60 feet of empty space that they can pull forward into, but no, they have to park with the rear end of the car literally on the edge of my driveway. This makes it awkward for me to back out and turn around, and even more awkward if I need to back in, and virtually impossible if I ever needed to back a trailer in.
It just bugs the hell out of me. My next-door neighbour occasionally parks a car there but he has the good sense to pull at least 5 feet beyond the edge of the driveway. These other idiots don’t. One time, one of them miscalculated and actually had the ass end of the car about a foot into my actual driveway entrance. With nothing but empty space way in front that they could have pulled into.
That time, I actually went out and left a note on their windshield. It was quite polite but with an undercurrent of “next time use your brain and think about what how you’re parking”. That same car has reappeared several more times but it looks like they got the message. It’s really not complicated.
And yes, thank you for asking, I am an Old Fart™ who yells at clouds and fends off kids on my lawn!
I wonder what their software would do if you tried to buy 4.
We had painters do this recently. But they were about 5 feet into my driveway. Yeah, i get it, you don’t want to carry stuff farther than you need to. But there’s room in the street, can’t you leave my driveway clear?