Biggest Pet Peeves

[foadi]

[Spider]

You aren't doing it for the person trying to go about his business, you are doing it because the law requires it and it creates a dangerous situation for others when you fail to do so.

Do you not stop at stop signs or signal when turning, out of a childish desire to waste other people's time?

[foadi]

[Boris Johnson]

[Spider]

[uebermann]

I still get into arguments at work to this very day over passing to the right laws in Texas. Even the Texas police officers and state troopers don't know the law most of the time.

[foadi]

could be mostly a big city vs smaller city thing. like in LA the concept of "passing lane" doesn't really exist, and freeways w/ less than 5 lanes are rare. if you want to drive fast, there is no special lane for you, you have to merge, and merge constantly. then when i drive cross country i have to deal with these idiot small town people who seem to think everyone should make way for them. it's not like that in the real world. if you want to drive fast, you should learn how to merge yourself.

anyways, i mentioned my biggest driving pet peeve in my earlier post. wolfpacks or monkey-see monkey-do drivers. i hate them. when i am travelling across country, i always set my car in cruise control (usually 15 mph over the speed limit, but sometimes only 5-10mph over the speed limit in states with heavy enforcement) and these assholes are the biggest cause of me having to adjust my speed. the truckers ueber mentioned are also a pain

[jimmyz]

I don't like those stickers on fruit. Sometimes I give up picking at it and end up just biting it off with a chunk of the apple and spitting it in the trash.

And those f**k foil seals on peanut butter that invariably come off in pieces leaving foil paper seal shreds around the jar's rim that get all gloppy after a time.

Being asked if I want to donate to this or that charity when I get my morning cup of coffee. I'm here to pay you $1.75 for this coffee not save the whales or sightless orphans. My donations go out to the charities by check in larger than fifty six cent increments already!

Youths telling me how the world does or should work.

Smug lawyer types who think their choice in shoes enhances their e-cred.

[Hyperion]

I hate it when old people complain about texting and driving; typically these older drivers are high off of Xanax and can barely execute a left turn properly without jerking their vehicle.

I also can't stand charities that basically 'block' off the entrance/exit to a shop. Why are all the religious charities annoying like this? Once a particular organization insisted on carrying me through a conversation with their young recruits (Boy Scouts - I'm looking at you), so I just pretended like I was a convicted pedophile.

[Showboat]

When i'm trying to cross the road in China. We have these three lane 'avenues' that go through the city, you have time to cross because the car coming is a reasonable distance away but when you start to cross the car speeds up and switches from the outside lane to the inside one so you can't make it. Dumb ass Chinese mentality "He's not crossing in front of me". That pisses me off immensely. A friend of mine once bounced a beer can off the guys windshield when it happened to him. Not the most sensible thing to do but funny as f**k none the less.

When, in f**k China again, a bus is in the right hand lane at a stop light and when the light goes green take a f**k left turn, blocking all the traffic and making me have to wait another 5 minutes for the light to go green again.

The way the Chinese won't admit when they can't do something. You ask them to do something, they don't know how but say they will and then just don't do it. This guy in my office was asked to write a cheque, he said he would and when we needed to go to the bank he hadn't done it and was staring, confused, at a google page about writing cheques.

Petty jobsworth bureaucracy as found in any local government office anywhere in the world. These people should all be shot.