Is there a single smoker out there that doesn’t hold his/her cigarette out the window because stinking up the world is better then stinking up their own car, and of course then dropping the butts instead of disposing of them properly.
Many newer cars do not have an ashtray at all, so it’s been made difficult to dispose properly. Also, there’s a helluva lot more air outside the car than inside, and carbon monoxide buildup can be a problem for serious nicotine addicts.
Mine: People who gather at a choke point (like the narrow part of a corridor because there’s one of those newfangled copiers rightfuckingthere) and have a long involved chitchat while not paying an iota of attention to the people who have to dance and weave around or through their conversation. Move it. MOOOOOOOVVVVVE IT!
Also, people who leave a huge gap between themselves and the car in front of them, particularly when they’re in the left go-straight lane, blocking everyone who needs to get into the left turn lane, screwing all of them out of a light cycle and creating more backups and gridlock. I don’t mean leaving a safe amount of space between you and the car in front, I mean “I could parallel park an extended cab pickup in that space” people. Oooootch up. OOOOOTCH UUUUPPP!
I know they don’t have ashtrays, haven’t seen one in years. I don’t have a garbage can in my car but don’t throw my trash out the window.
Sure there is more air outside, doesn’t mean everyone at the stoplight wants to smoke secondhand smoke. If I can smell it I am inhaling it and I’d rather not smoke. If the build up in the car is too much maybe one shouldn’t be smoking.
I realize I’m all alone on this one - but what bothers me is foul or disrespectful language. F-bombs, shitty this, God damn that. This thread alone is packed with it. Why, oh why, can’t people express their frustration without “offensive” language? So often I agree with the frustration, but am put off by the way it is expressed.
The frequency of updates for adobe - it seems I’m always getting a pop-up saying there’s a new version to download.
Hard, tasteless tomatoes.
And the fact that cigarette butts aren’t considered litter. At least where I live, the storm drains drain to the local lake. So where do people think the butts go? Whimper.
People who take zero responsibility for their own actions. I get people bringing in computers asking me how to avoid this in the future, so I say avoid music and movie torrents, porn, infomercial type stuff. They of course come back a week later with the machine all virused out demanding we fix it as warranty work. We look at it and the 3 torrent programs we took off before are back and the first item on the history is a porn site (or I am tottally misunderstanding 5mancreampie.site.)
A subcontactor I use fairly regularly goes on long screeds on fb about how his life sucks, and how broke he is (he made about 2k just from my jobs) and how he cannot believe google, tesla, microsoft, etc are not bidding for the right to hire him. He was over an hour late to two assignments last week one because he “overslept” the job started at 11am. He also owns 2 cars 1 3 years old, the other about 1 year old. He has about $900 a month in car payments. Part of his explanation for his financial woes is I dont pay fast enough. normally its within a week of the job.
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September 11 hysteria. I’ll need to stay off Facebook that day to avoid the endless, “Never ever forget.” and patriotic nonsense posted that day. I especially don’t need it from a local pizza place’s Facebook feed.
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Similarly, get rid of God Bless America at baseball games. We don’t sing Take. Me out to the Ballgame at church. Also, I’m sick of soldier worship. I’m really sick of the endless daddy surprises kid when he comes home from deployment.
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I know never read the comments section. But can people ever leave politics out of it?
That just happened to my mom last night. She called road side service about her car and after that long a$$ automated process, the person who was live asked her the same damm questions
lol
My pet peeve is when I go clothes shopping and after I bring the clothes to the counter to pay for them, the cashier askes me
What is your telephone number
what is your email address
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When I get asked those questions (email, phone number) at checkout, I simply refuse to give that information.
My peeve is people who moan about a wisp of cigarette smoke drifting out a car window. You’re getting more pollution from the car exhaust. I’d agree on littering; I never drop butts out the window. It is relatively easy to find an ashtray that will fit in some portion of your car’s interior. But spare me the whining about a little smoke and ash. Jeez Louise.
My itchy back. I can’t ever reach the damn itches and they drive me absolutely insane. I have a big jagged scar on my back and it frequently itches along the edges of the scar tissue. That I cant reach without special tools.
Things that reasonably can be done online that AREN’T able to be done online. Restaurants that don’t even have a free facebook page with just pictures of their menu as jpgs, for example. I don’t need a custom app or a fancy website. I just want to know if you have $4 grilled cheese sandwiches or $14 ones.
When you’ve already started making the turn doesn’t count either.
People at the Supermarket that park their shopping carts right in the middle of the aisle so you cannot go by them. Or just stand in the middle of aisle comparing brands/prices. Move out of the way!
Trains! We got so many trains in my hometown. I live on side of the tracks and most of the businesses are on the other side. Probably confirmation bias, but every time I am in a semi hurry to get across town, there is the stupid train.
people not having their money ready when they get to the cashier. They start digging for the wallet when they had plenty of time to do that
Passengers in my car who take it upon themselves to remind me of upcoming stop signs, alert me to oncoming traffic, ask me why I’m not passing another vehicle or driving .5 mph under the speed limit, or ask me why I’m taking street A instead of street B.
Pointing at a link with a mouse and a split second before clicking aforesaid link the page readjusts causing the link to move up or down forcing mouse pointer repositioning.
Bonus rant: barreling down the road with green lights ahead and som unthinking cad appears on a side street causing my green light to turn red. Grrrr
It peeves me that every storm in the country is reported as “massive”.
Also, that year after year reporters feel the need to stand outside in a hurricane, rather than just pointing the camera from safely inside the building. Thanks, Dan Rather (:55).
They also have to stand “in” whatever they’re reporting on, be it flooding, drought, mud or cow shit. This has become standard reporter procedure (SRP). It’s become a running joke in our house. “I’m standing in potato salad; back to you.”
I actually hate it when actual people actually use the word actual in front of every actual noun in all actual sentences they actually speak.
Also, in no dictionary ever has there been an i after the v in mischievous, so quit saying one there!!
sure I get more from the car exhaust but why add to it? If I make the choice to be around smoke I’d never say a thing but on the street I shouldn’t have to inhale any smoke I don’t want to. Cigarette smokes stinks and as a throat cancer survivor I’d rather no inhale any that I don’t have too.
Keeping your butts in your own car places you in a very small minority of smokers.