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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 11:28 pm
Speaking of driving, I may be weird. If I'm turning right on a red I will always stop and make sure theres not a car coming. If there is, I'll wait til they pass, I'm not in a hurry since I always leave early enough to be on time wherever I'm going. The other day I pulled up to a light just as it changed to red. I'd just stopped when a car pulled up and beeped at me to go. I got a wee bit evil. I sat and waited til the light changed green, lol. All I do is stop to make sure no ones there before I turn, don't honk at me. This really ticks me off going to and coming from the kids school. If a kids in the crosswalk I'm going to wait til they get all the way across the street because I don't trust kids. Well, not exactly that, but I know kids and you think they're one place only to realize they moved faster or slower than expected and end up right in the path of a car, I'm not taking the chance, I can sit and wait for them. Everytime I do this someone will pull up behind me and beep. I admit, I get annoyed by impatient drivers, lol. Again it's usually around the school where theres a school zone, I will drive the 25 mph and people pull right up on my tail. I'm not moving any faster, not in a school zone. Last week this guy came racing up behind me, got right up my tail and then switched to the next lane only to have to slam on his brakes cuz he didn't see the crossing guard with kids in the middle of the street. This is a serious problem around our school, a few months ago the crossing guard got hit. Thank God she only ended up with a few broken bones and that she'd just walked over one group of kids and was going back for another when it happened so she had no kids with her at the time. Couple weeks ago the cops parked there and in another school zone and between the two school zones, in one hour during the morning when kids were going to school, they gave out 90 speeding tickets. Thats scary! Especially in our school zone since going east to west theres a blind curve where until you get around it you can't see the crosswalk! Call me nuts but I just don't see any reason for some people to drive unsafely just because they're in a hurry. With the holidays coming up it seems to be getting worse around here too. Coming back from Magic Mountain last weekend, there was a spot about 6 or 7 miles long where they were doing road construction. Traffic slowed down a lot and for awhile we were stopping and going. We'd just stopped when a car in the lane next to us came speeding up and slammed into the car in front of him. Next day Darren was at Walmart, watched a car race around a corner only to smack into a bunch of carts one of the guys was pushing (didn't hit the guy, just the carts.) Later that day I was getting out of the car at the grocery store, looked up just in time to see a car not stop at the driveway and pull into the street right into the side of a truck. These are all accidents that if the drivers had been paying attention and slowed down or stopped wouldn't have happened!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 5:23 am
awe, yes, herck, that now raises the question of left vs. right side. hmmmmm
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 7:31 am
Tabby, I know what you mean about mispronounced words. Ex did this all the time and it drove me up a wall. If I tried to correct him, he'd get mad. There is "agin" (against), "chimley" (chimney"), "whateverso" (whatsoever), to name a few. And then there is trying to use big words whose meaning have nothing to do with what he is saying.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 7:51 am
Good post Wargod!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 9:30 am
People who say Warshinton are pretty weird in my book.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 10:01 am
My mother lives in the DC area and she says "Warshington." It drives me insane!!!! -- though I never correct her.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 10:06 am
oh, my! i guess i would make everyone buggy because i say warsh, yeller and ain't for wash, yellow and aunt. and, so does everyone in my family and most of the folks where i grew up. it isn't how the word is pronounced that bothers me it's using the wrong word period.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 10:33 am
My SIL says "refidderager." Drives me absolutely bonkers!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:00 am
There's no R in wAsh or yelloW, LOL...no wonder people who don't speak our language can't figure it out! LOL It drives me absolutely insane (and give me suggestions on what to do here) when my SMIL calls my daughter by her first and middle name. She has never said just her first name by, which is a fairly simple name. Even other people have commented on it. They say "why does she say her first and middle name?" I reply "to bug the living sh** out of us" Argh. That woman!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:05 am
An old uncle used to pronounce Toyota and Tie-o-tee.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:12 am
Oh, for driving I do the same as you Wargod, and I get surprised looks from people leaving the mall or stores or whatever when I actually stop to let them go into the parking lot. Especially when it's cold. I'm warm in my car and I figure they want to get to their car and not be out in the cold/rain/whatever. I hate when you're on a road or highway and there's a sign that says one lane is closed in whatever distance. Say the right lane is closed in 2 miles. So people are moving to the left getting ready and no one is in the right lane anymore. Then there's always a few who drive as fast as they can in that lane, then right when it's closed they try to cut in. Uh-uh. I will not let them in. They had just as much warning as anyone else and I'm certainly not going to reward them for "cutting". Then the person in front of me inevitably lets in like 4 cars that did this. I hate it.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:12 am
My husband says Yoter. I am so glad I don't drive one anymore for that very reason.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:22 am
Tim had a Toyota truck. he called it "Yoda". I'm glad he didn't have it when I met him.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:44 am
My MIL mis pronounces so many things but I finally figured out why DH says such weird things sometimes. Normally I don't say anything, but when she is trying to teach my 15 month old that a frog says "cribit" I must unleash. Another one that I had to say something was....On your MARCH - get set - GO! MARCH - huh?
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:48 am
Oh, another thing while I'm on the MIL subject. I cannot stand baby talk and talk to children just like I would talk to anyone else. I really have a problem when she asks my son if he would like to go for a "waggy" ride. It's a freakin wagon lady not a waggy. ARGH!!!!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:49 am
I hate folks that can't merge or get mad at you when you merge in front of them, when they have the yeild and I have the right of way. I have been flipped off, swerved at, screamed at, etc. and folks, it's merging from two lanes into one, it's not rocket science. I also will break check tail gaters. I know this is immature, but I hate someone's headlights blaring in my window or during the day, someone who's close enough to see what station I have my radio on. Most of the time it's people not paying attention, and a quick break check will wake them up. I'd rather do that then have to slam on my breaks and have them rearend me with DD in the car and me being 6 months pregnant. Often times I will veer to the right so people can pass me, but this just seems to tick people off. I am not going to speed and break the law for anyone other than myself. Your lack of planning is NOT my emergency.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:54 am
Spitfire: What's worse is when people baby talk to you while insulting you. Just because your talking like an idiot doesn't mean I don't know your insulting me, doubly now because of the way you are speaking to me. I have called people on this, they get all flustered. It's funny. I used to work in a medical office, and the horrible front desk woman, and I mean horrible, would baby talk down to elderly people. I would say to her "they are old, they aren't stupid" She would literally go "pfft" and brush it off, but 9/10 would complain once I came to get them to see the doctor. I finally started saying "Oh it's not directed at you, she has mental disabilities", they'd say "ahh" and then often they'd talk to her the same way next time they came in. We got a huge kick out of it because everyone disliked this woman.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 3:14 pm
I hear people say "ast" instead of "ask" and worse yet...happy birfday. What the hell is a birFday???
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 3:48 pm
I hate phrases like "I axed you a question" or "where you live" "What he drive" "Where you work" HEY your forgot a word in there! When I hear someone talk like that, I immediately think uneducated. Which is a cop out too, because I hear people on TV talk perfectly normal, and I know that these people here that too....*sigh*
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 6:00 pm
I cringe when a server in a restaurant asks, 'What can I get you 'guys'.'. I am not a guy. Grrrr!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 6:10 pm
a lady golfer i know says wal mark, save mark and k mark. drives me bonkers. (well, now a bunch of us who know her say it to each other in fun)....i have tried to correct her by making sure i say 'wal mart' in front of her, but she never picks up on it! this lady's golf partner is named mark so we all call him 'mart'. lady golfer and mark don't get it, but the rest of us giggle.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 7:01 pm
tabby, i hope your house sells soon. you know i sincerely mean that. (i've "spoken many time to you about it and "other things") right now, sorry, but i'm very offended by your above post) tabby, i think that's a bit mean and childish to humiliate a person like that. i know she isn't aware of it. however, it's a mean thing to do to a person IMO. giggle all you want...but it's not a kind thing to do. eta: if you kept it to yourself fine. however, you had to share it with others at work and make it an inside joke. that's cruel IMO.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 7:15 pm
Oh P'sha. Is it a speech impediment? My gramma cannot get her best friends grandson's name right. His name is Tyler and she insists on calling him Taylor. It makes her friend very angry. SHe says if you don't have the common courtesy to get his name right, yadda yadda yadda..... Next time she says it say "hey, when we drove past the store the other day, I noticed that it actually said wal marT, and all this time we've been calling it wal-mark. Funny, huh?" Some folks are oblivious, and it's your pet peeve, do with it what you will. The question was "is that weird" and no, it's not, little things like that bug the heck outta me too.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 7:23 pm
you are right, Escapee. the question is "is that weird". i should have put my post somewhere else. the post i responded to... is not weird. however, it is in a way....to me. i'm not sorry about my reply though.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, November 07, 2005 - 7:40 pm
I hate... "There you be" (when being given change at the gas station today) and "What can I do you for?" No, it's "There you are" and "What can I do for you?"
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