I don't like police cars that don't use their blinkers. It seems to me that the police should set an example.

I don't like others that don't use them as well.

^^^ I was taking our 74 bug to the dealership for service one night. As I drove down a dark road, I saw a car pull out behind me. It had one headlight, so I figured it wasn’t a cop. I was wrong. He got me doing 42 in a 35 zone. First ticket.

On my way to Quest this morning to get my blood test in advance of next week's checkup......the truck in front of me was stalled - not moving. At the same time there was a fender bender in the right lane. This was at an intersection on a very busy 4 land divided road. I was going to try to get over to the right lane to get around the truck when all of a sudden an unmarked cop car does a u-turn right between me and the truck to get to the accident site. I took advantage of the maneuver and immediately got right on his tail to get over to the right lane. Worked like a charm and off I went! Was driving the Volvo so was very easy to do. Cop had his lights going too so everyone sorta froze....except for me....lol....

People who don’t respect my do-not-ring-door-bell sign stuck to the wall just above the door bell. I work from home and have court hearings and other work related meetings by video conference and can not have my dogs barking when the bell rings. A few weeks ago someone stole the sign. I replaced it. The UPS guy drops packages and rings bell anyway every time because he doesn’t approve of the sign I guess and yesterday a kid from Verizon rang it. I asked him why he rang the bell despite the sign and he gave me a nasty attitude and said I shouldn’t assume he could read and that I just missed a chance to win $10. My shotgun was sitting there and I was temped to blast his head right off but instead tried calling his employer to make a complaint but there is no possible way to get ahold of anyone to do that. The vast majority of people suck

While we're rubbishing incompetent & inconsiderate 'crap-can' driving - how about the dickwads in their jacked up 4-by's or suv's who feel the centre line is merely for decorative purposes only. These fools have absolutely have no dimensional perspective with respect to their vehicle footprint; ignore & cross said line thus forcing you to take evasive action - head for the curb, ditch, or flat out stop to avoid a possible collision. (End of rant)

Cheers
JB

You should have asked to use his citation book and written him up for the non-functional light. I knew a guy who worked for the Department of Transportation and did exactly that. :D

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Les

Huge one for me.......

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^^ lol
Speaking of .... there is lots of room between 2 cars on the road/highway and you signal and pull in between the 2. The asshat at the back tries to close the gap. Then they throw up their arms like you cut them off. Get the f##k out of my way!

Don't signal and they won't be able to react quickly enough.
When they throw up their hands and have the angry face you just smile real big, wave, and mouth the words "thank you".

Damn weather reporters that stand in the blowing rain, knee deep water, in harms way etc. to report. Then have the nerve to say, "Don't do this".
They all look so stupid.

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I love that Baz! Yeah, can't even guess how often I've wanted to say "GTF out of the way!"
People yapping on their phones while wandering down the grocery aisles is the worst for me.

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What’s with so many manufacturers mounting the turn signals or brake lights so low, down below the bumper? This one is a newer Buick but I,ve seen Hyundais and others with the same configuration. Doesn’t seem real safe and I’m a little surprised the DOT allows it (what with all their other rules and regulations).

Those reverse lights that stay on 5 minutes after shutdown.
(I'm sitting there, blocking the parking lot, waiting for them to move)

The DOT allows it because they successfully regulated that rear glass brake light into existence many moons ago.

Turn signals down low should be fine unless you're following REALLY close.




One of my pet peeves (this happened to me recently) is when you're in slow-moving drive time traffic, two lanes in each direction... 10 cars back from the next intersection and 10 or more cars behind you... and some flea brain wants to be let in from the right, pulling out of a parking area or street with their left turn signal on. So it's obvious they expect both lanes to stop and let them come across... holding up you and all the vehicles behind you.

The only ones more flea brained than that person is those who stop and let them get away with it. :rolleyes:

I'm for being courteous and all that, but I don't believe one has the right to hold up 20 vehicles to let one dummy in.

In my incident, there was a broken-down delivery truck blocking the right lane about 5 cars up ahead, so it was already a bad situation... and the dummy couldn't go through because of oncoming traffic, so it just sat there blocking all of us for 30 seconds or so until there was an opening. It took me 3 more lights to get through that intersection and by that time, the traffic was backed up 30+ cars behind me.

Or there’s another car between you and the down low guy. I wouldn’t buy a vehicle with that set up.

HOV lanes that allow electric vehicles with the green plate.
Last week I see a Jeep with a 3" exhaust pipe that managed to get a green plate because he has an emblem that says 4 X e. WTF?

Someone is driving 60mph in the right lane. Good for them.
You switch to pass them. They speed up to 80mph.
Now you have to drive 90mph because there are impatient cars behind you.
You finally have room to pull right. They slow down to 50mph and are quickly a dot in the mirror.
Passive-aggressive.

Called a local bank today. After going through a bunch of prompts and extra buttons pushed.......I finally get ringing on the other end. Then a message saying "everyone is busy right now.....da da da..."

Is it too much to ask for a bank to have an operator who actually answers phone calls? :rolleyes:

I got an advisory from my bank asking me to make an appointment with a financial advisor to update my rrsp preferences. So I go on to their website and follow all the prompts to select an appointment date and time. At that point the system advises my there are no appointments available.
F it. It's going to switch over in 17 months anyway.
I must admit I miss the days when I could walk in and 'have a minute' with the manager. Of course, back then I didn't have enough money to bother him or her about.

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Les

DVD menus are all over the map.

Most don't have enough contrast to see what button is highlighted. Some don't label or number the episodes. Some have super obnoxious background music. Some auto-play the entire content after a few minutes without being clicked. Some have twenty minutes of un-skippable previews (looking at you there Universal Studios). After an episode is done, some select the next one and some don't. Some use take five seconds to respond to a click because there are fancy effects programmed into it. Almost none of them go into a simple standby mode screen.

I'm now watching the old British Mi-5 tv series. It starts with a two minute mini-movie of a masked man breaking into a house (yours lol), split screens, instruction voice over from command, and lands at an unlabeled photo of a desk with objects. Oh it's a puzzle I didn't want.

Game of Thrones? Oh where to even begin. It's all wrong. Click on anything. Any episode. Any bonus feature. It will always say "Insert disk x". What? Why even show it then? Some bonus features are all on the last disk. Some are on the current. Some are on another. You have to know the secret code or resort to 'Play All' from the start.