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Gauge -> RE: Pet Peeves (3/20/2006 12:19:57 AM)
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Men who blow their noses and shove snot rag back in pocket... to use again...
:::Quietly removing a tissue from my pocket and depositing it in the waste basket:::
Pet Peeves:
Cashiers that place the coins on top of the bills so they slide off and hit the floor and then they say sorry... BULLSHIT!! You put them there!
When you hold the door in pure kindness for someone and they are compelled to hold it open themselves as they go through. Do I look like I want to fucking slam the thing on you or something?
Someone that goes to the store and buys two small items and has to write a check for it. It is inevitable that something goes haywire and the cashier has to call someone over to help them... meanwhile I am rapidly aging. Does anyone use cash anymore?
People on cell phones, driving in parking lots with swivel-head syndrome looking for a space. Um... cell phone, not watching where you are going... BRILLIANT!!
Opening a new box of tissues... you only need to start the pack with one, so you dig in there and you always... always pull out two or three.
Packaging some electronic items and some other things in a package that you must mangle, cut, and generally have to fight with to get it close to the point that you can slip your fingers inside so you can actually feel what you bought. Who thinks of this shit? I bought a printer cable. It came in a clamshell package. It took me 5 minutes to open the thing. It was too short so I had to return it. When I did, the clerk hassled me about returning it because the package was torn to bits. I glared at him... smiled my best evil smile and said, "Go get one off of the shelf and let's see you open the fucking thing!" I got my money back.
You buy a new dress shirt. It has 4,000 straight pins hidden in it. You most always miss one and impale yourself with it.
Where the HELL does all that dust come from that settles on the television screen? It is scary!
People who let their children run around in a nice restaurant. You want to goof around at McDonalds... fine... don't do it in a classy place.
Gas prices. Enough said.
People that call me after 10 at night just to chat with nothing important to say. I don't know about anyone else, but if that phone rings after 10 PM I am thinking disaster has struck.
DVD packaging. It is sealed in plastic... they have those things that never come off in one piece taped on the three sides that open, then they put those case locks... you know, the little tabs that you always forget are there and you try to open your DVD and you go insane until you rember them.... yeah... those. And they are all there because some idiot can't keep their hands to themselves and not shoplift. Thanks buddy...
Car ads on TV or radio that contain great amounts of shouting... You know the ones... "COME TO BIG BILLY BOB'S THIS WEEK BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE." Yeah... those.
People that open a doughnut box, see there is one doughnut in there and NOT take it and eat it because it is the last one. Several days later there is a rock solid doughnut in the same box... Way to go Ace.
The faucets in public bathrooms that you either have to push to make work or that are motion sensing. How can you wash your hands when you have to keep pressing the faucet handle down? And for the motion ones... I find myself waving my hands in the sink bowl for five minutes because the water won't turn on.
When you go to someone's home and they offer you something to eat and you politely decline and they say, "Come on, eat it... we are only going to throw it away." Gee.... thanks but I'll pass.
A neighbor in an apartment building that never expects to hear a single solitary sound from anyone else and when they do they become the very spawn of Satan. I don't get it.
People who drink and use firearms.
People who put ketchup on everything from eggs to steak. Steak? Leave it the hell alone!! What did it ever do to you?
Parking meter readers that have the authority to ticket your car but act as if they are from the FBI.
People who can't take a hint. I have my coat on, my car keys in my hand and I am standing there sweating my ass off while they are still on the couch talking and not standing up and getting ready to go.
People that put popcorn in the microwave for longer than it should be, walk away from the microwave and not keep an eye on it (like you are supposed to do) then have the audacity to bitch that the popcorn is burnt. Here's your sign.
People at a yard sale trying to talk someone down from a quarter to twenty cents.
Having to walk a block to get to the apartment complex dumpster and lugging a heavy bag of trash out only to find the dumpster overflowing already.
Energy drinks... who in the hell thought of this... I mean, it is brilliant. They sell a product that tastes like shit, package it in snappy colors and give it fancy names and then charge three dollars a bottle. People buy this stuff.
Someone who drops a jar of pickles in the grocery store and saunters away as if nothing happened. Yeah pal... don't go tell someone you made a mistake and have them clean it up before some old person slips and breaks their hip. Nicely done.
OK... I am off my soapbox, but I am sure I will think of more. Stay tuned.
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