Getting in the left lane to allow someone to merge onto the interstate only to have them not allow you back in the right lane. I usually have to speed up to pass or slow down and get behind them. If you do get behind them, they usually slow down a few mph and then nail it as you try to pass.:mad:

- Left lane idiots. I drive home on Rt. 80 westbound in NJ every day. Seems just about every other day there is some bozo with PA plates parked in the fast lane driving 5mph below the speed limit. Hey buddy - I know your exit isn't for another 2 hours, but would you do me a favor, and "keep right except to pass." Here in NJ, that's how we roll.

- People driving under the speed limit in the fast lane that give you the finger as you pass them on the right. Hey pal -- nothing personal - I'm just tryin' to get home...

- People who violate my personal space. Stop touching me!

- People who use your tools and return them dirty or damaged

- People who do ALL of their banking at a drive-up ATM. Also - people who stare blankly at an ATM machine because they forgot what the heck they went to an ATM machine for! (My ATM routine: insert card, tap in pin, hit 'fast cash' button, remove cash, remove receipt, remove card, leave. 30 seconds and done)

- People who attempt to finish my sentence for me. I have been known to say, "No, that is NOT what I was going to say. Now, would you let me finish my sentence NOW?"

- People who complain about something ad nauseum yet don't do anything to change the situation

- People who never admit they are wrong, and will argue their point until you either walk away or cave in.

- People who point out your faults all the time. I play tennis with a guy who makes it a point to tell me what I just did wrong. I know I messed up a shot, and I know why I messed up the shot. I don't need someone criticizing a shot I missed, especially when that player's game is worse than mine! (He also tells the trainer we work with during drills WHY he missed the shot and how it isn't his fault!)

- People who use the same stupid phrase over and over and over again. Whenever I cough in my office, a guy will ALWAYS say, "Smoking those cigars again?" It is 'haha funny' for the first 5 times, but after the 5,000,000,000 time, it gets a little old.

- People who say "Me and my friends went to the store"

- People who sign their SMS messages and emails, "Sent from my iPhone." Why do you think that makes you so special??

- Parents who cannot control their children

- Reality TV stars who think they are talented

- People who clip their toenails on the airplane

- People who keep up those 'icicles' Christmas lights up on their houses all year long. Hey man -- they aren't invisible and look foolish in June, lit or unlit.

- People who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom

- People who don't have aim when using a urinal

- The entitlement attitude that seems to be the prevailent theme among the youth of today. You don't DESERVE anything -- you want something -- get a freakin' job and earn it!

- People who go to Costco / BJ's / Samsclub and hover around the free samples stands, and take 5-6 servings of the samples. This isn't a free dinner pal!

- Spam phone calls. I don't care what the FBI says, stop trying to sell me a home security system!

Z-man.

This happened last night....
Got thirsty so i go to the fridge and there's a brand new plastic bottle of cran-somethingorother.
Set it on the counter and crack open the cap grab it to pour and about a cup of juice squirts out of the top all over the counter and floor:mad:
If your going to use paper thin plastic how about putting a GD handle on it so you
don't have to squeeze the F'n thing to pick it up:rolleyes:

- People who asnwer and talk on the cell phone while in the bathroom. Makes me want to rip a loud, wet fart audible to the party on the other side of the phone!

That was you?!!

Hey, that sounds pretty nasty. How about a courtesy flush over there?:D

Folks talking on a cell phone in a public bathroom do not deserve a courtesy flush! :D

Another pet peeve:

When I say "Thank you" to a waiter or waitress, and they respond, "No problem," instead of "You're welcome." (Brings to mind another pet peeve: people who write "Your welcome" instead of "You're welcome.")

-Z

When a waitress or waiter comes over and asks how everything is, as they see you shoving a fork full of food in your mouth.

Wow...relax Francis.

Agree. BTW....I believe it's "you're welcomed", depending on the context.

When someone has their pet peeve wrong....I hate that.







Relax....I'm kidding.

" People who sign their SMS messages and emails, "Sent from my iPhone." Why do you think that makes you so special??"

Zoltan, I think the iPhone does this automatically with no input from the user. If this shortens your pet peeve list and helps lower your stress level, my work here (on this thread) is finished!

You're welcome vs. you're welcomed -- did some research on the interwebs -- seems both are acceptable. (But never your welcome ;) )

Not hard to remove - Settings --> Mail, Contacts, Calendars --> Signature. Then you can change it to whatever you want.

Me? Wound up a little too tight? Nah. But my anger management classes are going real well...

-Z

I did not know that.

People who smack while they eat.

I think they get some sort of secret, jedi-waitstaff training that only allows them to ask how your meal is while you're chewing. I don't think I've ever had one not come ask right after I took a bite.

Two things:

1. The waiter that comes up and asked "How you guys doin'? When it is me, my wife and my daughter. They are not "guys".

2 People who are sick and continue to come to work and sit there spreading their germs all over us.

And here is another one.....

This past weekend we took our daughter for her/our first college open house tour of one of the schools on her list. The tour was guided by current students, 19-22 years old.

I wish they would learn to talk! "like", "amazing", "laterally" :rolleyes:

Everything is not "Amazing". Learn another adjective please. I had to get up and walk away from them. My wife knew it was driving me nuts.

If they come in to interview for a job or try to sell me something, I'll kick them out the door. I turned to my daughter and told her if she came home talking like these kids the college fund will be closed.

Signed,

The Angry Old White Guy that I am

As seen today coming home from work:

People to place their windshield mounted GPS units right in the line of sight, AND do not dim the screen at night. Ya might as well shine a floodlight in your eyes while you're at it! :D

-Z-man.

MORONS - who don't realize there are others on the road.....and *some* of them are actually in a hurry to get *somewhere*.

What fool would burn their sick leave when they're actually sick? :D

The fools who got sick because a couple of morons decided to come into work despite a 102 fever, hacking cough, swollen glands, nasal congestion and overall flu-like symptoms.

Just sayin'

SmileWavy

My friend is going on some job interviews and he's getting interviewers asking him logic puzzles like: "You are on an island and you have two bottles and 3 nuts with you. How many lights are on in the basement?"

My take on these are:
1. Yippee! The interviewer likes to get his jollies off by searching google for lame logic questions that do not related to the job description, and bear no evaluation of how logically the candidate can think.
2. Even if there is some worthy evaluation of the answer to the logic question, the interviewer probably has no idea how to properly interpret a candidate's answer.
3. I would much rather discuss logic as it relates directly to the job description rather than deal with stupid scenarios that are the "in thing" to ponder. Parlor games are for the parlor, not an interview!

-Z

PS: The actual question he was asked was: "you are in the basement, and there are three light switches that turn on three lights upstairs. You cannot see the lights from the basement. You can turn on and off the switches as many times as you want before leaving the basement. Once you leave the basement, you must determine which light switch controls which light. You cannot return to the basement"

Whip out your smart phone, google the answer in 30 seconds, and give it to him.

That shows resourcefulness and that you know how to use modern technology to get answers quickly and efficiently.

Paul. get used to it because we're doomed by the younger generation. In fact, food service (what ever happened to waiters and waitresses?) has gotten so bad that I don't eat out anymore. And that's not to mention the garbage sold as food these days.

And the answer to the above lighting/switching question won't work if the lamps are LED's.

That was my exact reaction after learning the correct answer. I guess that shows I'm more 'green-aware' than others?!?

If I'm ever asked such a quesiton in an interview (fortunately, I never had that pleasure), I may answer with, "Before I answer that, I have a question for you. So, you're on this island, and you have two bottles and three nuts..." :D

-Z

The low-life "baby daddy" who moved in next door to me with his "baby momma" who together have 4 children, who lives with her unemployed drunk mother to pay rent to keep from loosing their house...

Who is always blaring obscene rap music when arriving/leaving at ALL hours...

Who deals drugs in front of my house....

Who doesn't work so when I'm on the phone closing a sale in my home office I might as well sprinkle the ca$h out the window while he and his "boys" sit on the porch and drink/smoke all day..

Who has ultimately lowered my property value and brought less than desirable people into what was once a very nice/quiet/tight knit neighborhood.

Realizing I'm getting old because I care about this stuff now...

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LEDs are not perfectly cold after use.

The way to do it with LEDs would be turn the middle one on for a long time (let it heat), never turn on 1st one, turn on last one.

1st switch the light is cold, middle the light is warm, third the light is on.

GPS directions. :mad:

Coming back from the track to the hotel, typed in the address for the hotel and hit the go button. The GPS took us through what looked like a really rough neighborhood around Sebring and further took us down a toll road. Cost something like $6 for this little side adventure. Almost 1 am through a rough neighborhood is not fun. If it would have taken us up 27 we would have been ok, but no, it wanted to turn off onto side streets and depressed neighborhoods... :rolleyes:

Every GPS and turn by turn device should have a "keep me out of the Ghettos" mode. My GPS took me into places no one wants to go.

Have you had the pleasure of being lead to a dirt dead end or fire access road.

I would go down them but the rocks, logs, and chains across them in CT slow down my Altima;)

I hate it when I am describing a new app for my smartphone to someone, and they ask, "Was it free?" "No - it was freakin $0.99. Oh, but I see you've spent your last $6.89 on that half-late double-shot espresso-cappoccino from Starbucks, so I guess you can't afford to spend a lousy buck on an app. Oh well..." :rolleyes:

Women raised with the "Princess" mentality..........

Pet peeve number one: People who make a lot of unnecessary noise...like the person who'll fire up a gas-powered leaf blower to clear a few leaves off the driveway instead of using a broom.
Or like those already making lots of useless noise by running straight pipes on their big V-Twin motorcycles who install mega-watt stereos so they can rock out while they ride. To be heard over the racket that the bike is already making, the music is so loud that you can hear it blocks away. If you're cruising out in the middle of nowhere, it's not a problem. But when riding around town, you're already annoying everyone around you with your un-muffled exhaust...TURN THE MUSIC OFF!

Another one: People who let their kids run loose in restaurants.

And don't even get me started about driving...

While on my lunch hour at work, I often eat at my desk for half the allotted time in order to get more work done throughout the day. So -- when I am eating lunch - and it is pretty obvious -- don't bother me with work stuff, unless it is an emergency! Also -- once I tell a person "Let me get back to you when I am done eating" then LEAVE -- don't continue telling me about work stuff.

This thread is quite theraputic for me....

:)
-Z-man.

buzzwords:

Kudos = "I'm gay"
opportunity = "I failed but you get to fix and pay for it"
systemness = "We sucked so bad the mother ship took it away"

+1 for........"People who make a lot of unnecessary noise"

People who feel entitled to government help, and people who are enablers.

Fat guys in compression gear.
It's good that they're exercising, but compression gear does not make them look athletic.
It makes them look like a fat guy in compression gear.

Do the alarms on cameras and gps units in the big box stores really need to be that sensitive? I picked a camera up and was looking at the menu and suddenly the whole store got a nice high pitched scream. Worker drone came over to turn it off and said it does this all the time. Really? And someone still wants to buy the merchandise after that. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/chix.gif

Vertical video is my big pet peeve right now.

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