Pet peeve thread?

[GH85Carrera]

There is an intersection near my house that is fairly reasonable if a car trips the light and I have to wait at the light. If a pedestrian has to cross and pushes the button it was timed for the Tim Conway old man character that walked super slow. It must be a 45 second cross walk. Everyone comes to a stop for it.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

There is an intersection near my house that is fairly reasonable if a car trips the light and I have to wait at the light. If a pedestrian has to cross and pushes the button it was timed for the Tim Conway old man character that walked super slow. It must be a 45 second cross walk. Everyone comes to a stop for it.

There is one on the highway that I use when I come home. I think if the person pushes the button it is about a minute or a little more. Add to that, the 3-4 minute wait before hand. If no one pushes the button, that light turns yellow in 10 seconds.

[Baz]

We also have these crosswalks located along the main road on the island. No intersection......just a crosswalk. But the government here has added blinking lights that come to life when a pedestrian pushes a button. When that happens you have to by law stop. Until the pedestrian(s) clear the crosswalk.

I can't tell you how many times I'm the only vehicle headed toward one of these crosswalks when some brainless twit pushes the button. Instead of waiting 3 seconds so I can pass through...

[john70t]

Food expiration labels, which are in syntax instead of dates.

[WPOZZZ]

We have one near my town house. People rarely stop for that blinking light. Everytime I stop, I pray I don't get rear-ended.

[john70t]

Civil engineers. (apologies to those here)

Drove around randomly looking at properties FS just for fun.
One was beyond my price range but beautiful, on the water, and had everything.
So peaceful and relaxing.

The next minute a loud jackhammer went off in the distance.
The metal bridge made a racket to wake the entire zip code every time a car drove over it.

[shadowjack1]

I don't understand "Best by" dates on 2000 year old salt..

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by shadowjack1

I don't understand "Best by" dates on 2000 year old salt..

Marketing. Someone will throw it out when it is "outdated" and buy a new box.

[Baz]

Again today. Watched a person hit the crosswalk button and 3 seconds later walk across the intersection. Then another couple comes up....looks at the button....pushes it....looks around like they're not sure where they are or what they're doing.

It's the funniest thing - there's a button....let's just push it. I KNOW it will help. What kind of help - I don't know. I just know everything will be better if I push it.

New PP.....

Tee shirts which go into the wash right side out......and come out of the dryer inside out! I know....1st world problem but still.....happens every freaking time!

[porsche tech]

Originally Posted by Baz

New PP.....

Tee shirts which go into the wash right side out......and come out of the dryer inside out! I know....1st world problem but still.....happens every freaking time!

Underwear too...arrrrrrrgh!

[dheinz]

Canned laughter on TV shows...

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by dheinz

Canned laughter on TV shows...

How about recorded crowd noises on sports broadcasts when the stands are empty?

[hcoles]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

My pet peeve is the lack of a comprehensive drivers education requirement to get a drivers license in this country. Pitiful
(And a side peeve, me paying taxes for the damage done to streets by people who think they need studded snowtires in a town that gets MAYBE one good snowfall a year.)
(Oh yeah, one other one, 2 stroke leafblowers)

Back in the day ~1967-69 in the car driver training was mandatory at my high school.
At this point I don't remember exactly what I learned but I remember I drove a new Pontiac Firebird manual 3 speed. I was pretty good with a clutch - my Dad let me drive pickups around the storage yard at his work. My high school had a 4 speed GTO and I was disappointed to not get a lesson in that. Some months later some girl drove it (GTO) into the shop building. I bet she never forgot that but may have become a better driver for the rest of her life.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by porsche tech

Underwear too...arrrrrrrgh!

And on that note....the pockets on my shorts are always out!

Double arrrrrrgh!!!

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by shadowjack1

I don't understand "Best by" dates on 2000 year old salt..

It's for traceability during packaging. Like all food products QC has to be able to pinpoint when food is packaged.
And it gets you to throw out 1999 year old salt and buy new.

[trader220]

I am tired of absolutely everything being called racist.

[stevej37]

^^^ That's a racist comment!

[pksystems]

I'm seeing this more and more. People that take pictures of a picture on their phone. If you can't figure out how to get pictures off the first phone, stop using it and just use the 2nd device.

[911 Rod]

Is the link broken again?
Pet peeve. Broken links!

[flskala]

WTF is with the intentional turbo popping sounds.. seriously?! Always some a$$hat in a BMW. So effin annoying. I wish a baseball bat + forehead are in their future.

I happen to have an srt4. It's about the last sound I would ever want coming out of the tail end of it.

Idiots-