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Old 04-07-2021, 11:27 AM
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I don't know how anyone can cut a pie or cake without making a radial cut from the exact center to the outside (in the case of round cakes). When I see pizza or anything else cut off center I think 'what an idiot'.
Pizza? Shrug. Just eat it. But pie and cake - I share your concern.
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I don't know how anyone can cut a pie or cake without making a radial cut from the exact center to the outside (in the case of round cakes). When I see pizza or anything else cut off center I think 'what an idiot'.
Food is food. How can it taste any different???
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Old 04-07-2021, 04:03 PM
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illegal on all NJ bathing beaches this year
That's fantastic! Good for New Jersey.

I have another one that deals with stinky smells. Coffee shops and restaurants who make their own coffee and release the ODORS from doing so into my breathing space.

Had that happen on Tuesday when we went to the vet (Island Roasters two buildings over) and then today while working at one of my accounts (The Smyrna Yacht Club right across the bay on Riverside Drive). Thought I was going to puke it was so nauseating.
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One of the ladies I worked with talked about how she always had problems getting on the highway. She would pull to the end of the on-ramp and stop.

So I waited until the 5:00 PM rush hour to teach her how to do it in her car. Apply the loud pedal, and get as much speed as possible to match traffic speed. I did it with no issues 5 times in a row. So she tried it. Amazing enough, when going traffic speed it is easy to merge in. When a long 18 wheeler was coming, tap the brakes, and slow enough to pull in behind it.

She finally learned, and a month later mentioned she no long feared getting on the interstate.
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)
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I noticed increased number of threads started with "Do you like...?" That's pretty annoying and childish...so that's my pet peeve even though I ignore them.
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Joggers with an entire deserted street to use as they come around the far corner, but instead they decide to squeeze past a row of overhanging bushes on one side and you the dog-walker on the other with only inches to spare.
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I noticed increased number of threads started with "Do you like...?" That's pretty annoying and childish...so that's my pet peeve even though I ignore them.
Agree. Are some of us in 5th grade?
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Probably a repeat but people who walk out in the street when there's a perfectly good sidewalk they could use. And it's ALWAYS a freaking couple walking side by freaking side so I have to go into the oncoming lane to get around them. Pin heads.......
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Bicyclists who have no regard for any traffic laws and think the laws dont apply to them but get pissy when you give them a tap on the horn for being dead in the middle of the lane.
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Police and Highway Patrols that don't use their blinkers. For Christ's sake, set an example guys.
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Pedestrians who feel the need to push the button at an intersection......and then immediately cross the intersection.

They don't even know what the button is for.

They just push it like a Pavlov rat.....
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I had a white rat in college that came in first place. (psychology class)
I trained it to run from one end of the cage..thru a wheel..over a bridge...push a lever and run back faster than any other rat!!
Rats and people can be trained.
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That manufactured exhaust pop and burble on modern cars. It gets kind of tired hearing that fake stuff.
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People that do not check if a stall is occupied before yanking on the door.

Is it really that hard to tell if someone is already there? Apparently so in some cases.
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Pedestrians who feel the need to push the button at an intersection......and then immediately cross the intersection.

They don't even know what the button is for.

They just push it like a Pavlov rat.....
This one drive me nuts. Or better yet, a someone on a bike pushes the button and it takes them 3 seconds to cross and we sit and wait.

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