What about the car that is in the right lane and decides people are merging and they should move over left into the fast lane as you come barreling down in it!

I know its not really my business but seeing people ride motorcycles without a helmet on always bugs me. Even without proper gear sort of gets me. The no helmet thing is just crazy to me. I have seen some really bad things happen to people who were barely moving on their bike. I freely admit I get the joy of no helmet and gear and as a youngster I did it. These days I don't throw a leg over without full gear and helmet.

Agreed it scares me as a driver to go anywhere near them. Like smokers they are trying to kill themselves without pulling the trigger themselves. There was a rally a few years ago nearby in Pa it was for keeping the no helmet law. Guess what somebody crashed and died because no helmet

My mom always asks questions twice at once making it impossible to answer yes or no. I still answer yes or no and let her figure it out

Plus when they suffer a non-lethal head injury we all pay either through higher insurance premiums for their medical care/rehab or if they are uninsured passed on higher medical costs to the rest of us.

I live in PA and I have been riding since I was about 12 or 13. I remember back in the 1990's when PA repealed the helmet law. Back then I thought it was fantastic. I rode frequently in jeans a T shirt and no helmet. I was pissed when I had to put my helmet on crossing into NJ.

I have seen a lot since then. I am older and wiser and I am responsible for people other than myself. Add into that the worst thing for driving since alcohol, the smart phone, and its ugly out there.

It's my pet peeve because I don't like seeing people get hurt, but I am also trying to set a good example for my son if he wants to ride some day.

Pet peeves? People who need glasses but never have them when needed. Vanity?

Motorcycle cops writing seatbelt violations.

For the record, I wear glasses and wear my seatbelt...

I guess this may not actually be a "peeve", but maybe just another example of the countless dopey things that clueless people do every single day.

When I arrived at the vet's office this afternoon to pick up my dog, there were maybe ten cars in the small parking lot. The new routine here is that you park, then call in to the front desk so a tech can bring your pet out to the car. At certain times of the day, this might mean a 15-20 min. wait, so there were people sitting in about half the cars. Today, every single one of these folks had their windows rolled up and their motors idling for at least the 15 min. that I was there. Now if it were cold out, it would make perfect sense to wait in a nice warm car, or if it were really hot, to stay cool in the A/C. That wasn't the case today. It was 73°, with a nice gentle breeze all afternoon. Instead of opening the car up to enjoy some fresh air while waiting, why would people sit with their windows all rolled up and the A/C running, while just wasting their gas on such a pleasant day?

Ironically, one huge SUV even displayed a "Keep Lake Tahoe Blue" sticker while its idling V8 needlessly added more carbon to the atmosphere.

It's not a virus thing either...I've been noticing this puzzling behavior more & more over the past few years. I see it along the beaches a lot too. Even though the ocean breeze usually keeps it very comfortable, people will park near the water, keep the windows all shut with the motor idling for the A/C, then sit there playing with their phones and completely ignore the gorgeous view.

It seems like one of those "imponderables" of everyday life that I'll probably never figure out :confused:

People that feel the need to respond “ok” to every text or email. Argh!

That actually reminds me of one of my pet peeves. Drive thru windows. Not only are they a major waste of fuel, they promote poor health. Dear God, get out of your car and walk the 10 feet to go buy your Tubs of lard supersized... I wish it was illegal to use a drive thru unless it is for medical reasons or at the drugstore to pick up a prescription. Along those lines, I see cars without handicap tags sitting and idling for 5 minutes waiting for a parking spot close to the front door at wallyworld. Same thing. When they get inside, they jump on the electric cart and the basket is usually full of per-prossessed junk food all guaranteed to keep you obese.

People in parking lots who sit in the vehicles and smoke. With the windows rolled down. So it subjects EVERYONE around them to their stinky second hand fumes.

Hell.....I've gotten to the point where I will purposely park as FAR away as possible from everyone else - just to avoid this possibility. And I really enjoy the walk knowing I just stuck it to 'em!

What’s worse is when they Hot Box in the car with the windows up during a break. They come back stinking like cigarettes on overdrive.

I just walk away from the pump. I wonder if I poke a needle in the speaker, would it disable it

Hard to avoid ads these days - they're everywhere. It's annoying for sure.

Exactly! This has been mine since they were invented. Medical reasons (must display a disabled placard) parents with kids, excepted.

This tread would have been loved by Andy Rooney. “Don’t you hate it when....”

coupons they send by mail that only activate a week later.

I've told em to stop sending me their **** because it gives me the f'ign runs
And luckily here I can threaten to report em for illegal spam if they don't knock it off.

Gubment customer rights agency does chases and prosecutes such complaints

Here a forum related gripe.

A guy that makes a post asking for advice. The post get a dozen responses but the original poster never returns to respond. No comment, no thank yous, no nothing. As if he dropped off the face of the earth. :rolleyes:

As bad as those screens are the Chevy add with the guy on the screen at the pump that they're playing endlessly on TV these days is worse.

Those Chevy adds, the ones with the guy pretending to talk to "real people" make me want to NEVER buy a Chevy.

I go to a new website to look at stuff.

But before I can look at the actual stuff....an AI face pop-up appears and says "Can I help you?"
It blocks the screen.
Like Microsoft Edge advertisements which was already downloaded without my permission.

I can't get rid of it.

"Yeah. You can help me. GTF out of my way."

There's an OFF button right on the front of the panel...

People that dont carry cash. It always seems to bite them but they dont learn.

^^^ I had two places..Walmart and a local grocery store that I could request additional cash when paying with my credit card.
Since the pandemic...both places quit doing it because of having to use the keypad.

One can only hope :D:):D

For the umptenth time....freaking smokers!

Why do they always hang around in public places and weed?

How about going somewhere where there aren't other people around before lighting up that stinky nasty smelly freaking cig!

I come out last night with groceries to find some woman standing right next to my truck smoking a cig. I had (as I always do) purposely parked way away from other cars far from the store, thinking I'd be safe. Oh no......they always make their freaking way to you like a freaking magnet.

So I roll my shopping cart about 50' away - further away from the store - and then go back for my truck so I can load my groceries with catching lung cancer. As I'm getting in my truck - she lights up another one. Yup....freaking chain smoker. Then some other dude who parked right in front of me one space over gets out of his truck and starts lighting up. As I'm loading my groceries, there they both are. Standing in the parking lot puffing on their stinky cigs......no regard for anyone else.

How about when you get to the store, you get out and go inside and do what you came there for. And when done, come out get in your vehicle and leave - like normal people do.

/rant

First pandemics. Then the election. Now Christmas music. Not just any Christmas music, a new, more virulent strain which sounds like the singers are being held at gunpoint to produce anything, or else be shot.

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Show that special someone you love them. TEXT them a merry christmas:

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Snow flakes, globalism, loosing everything, fools driving round with no licence plates not getting nailed, i get nailed going 8mph over a day earlier, and yet a day later 2 cars with no licence plates on the front or back, and no dealer tag. Luck of the Irish. Broads trying to pick me up, and then later they want a father to take care of their kids. liberal everything. all peeves...

People that wear a Superman shirt and are not in shape.
People that have a Superman tattoo and are not in shape.
People who eat lunch in their car, in the employee parking lot.

Commuters who tailgate me 2 car lengths back, on the way to work with their bright lights in my mirrors, (I'm doing 62 in a 55 zone). The very next day I follow the same pickup truck at a proper distance, but only doing 54 mph in the same stretch of county road.

^^^The same addled incompetent who insists he travel in the next lane while stationed/travelling in your blind spot - probably been mentioned afore.

Cheers
JB

Seat belts that don't recoil out of the way properly.

Tim Horton's take out cups where the covers leak all over you and your seats.

The gutter company ad on TV, that's going to fix your gutters and lifetime warranty. "Leaf Filter Co " Hate that ad, makes men and their wives
look stupid.

I hear ya....it's unreal that they feel they have to eat. :D

Car commercials that show SUV's zipping down gravel roads/trails like they are on I-95.

No one with an experience off road does that.

Get ON my lawn!

Actually, if you look closely, those vehicles going down muddy or dusty roads have no dirt on them when they come to a stop! Amazing technology that keeps the car showroom clean. It is a know fact that a lot of commercials are done with CGI (cars doing all kinds of maneuvers indoors or around each other). They have a basic rig with the car's wheels and then CGI puts the car on top.
https://jalopnik.com/how-they-shoot-a-car-commercial-without-the-actual-car-1782499530
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^^^ That is so cool!

Tin Foil Hat Alert:
It makes you wonder if the video you see on the evening news is CGI or not...
(no I don't believe it has been done yet)

Maybe Trump isn't real? :D

Or Portland didn't really have any riots?

No kidding. Thanks Por_sha!

We could all use a little CGI...at least I do.