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Archive through June 22, 2007

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Apr. 2007 ~ Jun. 2007: Free Expressions (ARCHIVES): The return of The Return of the Gripe Thread (ARCHIVES): Archive through June 22, 2007 users admin

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Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol yeah pod = cubicle. Lol Rosie I gave away the cd player and walkman but kept the tv.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
How rude! I hope you wore gloves, Mocha. Anyone that nasty I wouldn't want to touch their stuff. I always left my cube spotless when I left one.

Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
My gripe is about people who talk on their cell phones the public restrooms stalls. Come on people! You may not mind sharing your bathroom experience with someone on the phone, but I mind you sharing MINE!

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    


Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rofl Spy!! I thought some woman was talking to me one day and I'm like is she talking to me?? Should I answer?

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
My gripe is about women who wear shoes that tell you they are coming before they round the corner and your desk is 40 feet from that corner. And ditto for the stairs.

Jan
Moderator

08-01-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
My gripe is that some people can eat anything they want and never gain a pound. I only have to look at the food :-(:-(

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That is awfully funny Spy. Plus it's true. People will talk on those things anywhere. Worse I've had people tell me that they are going to the bathroom while talking to me on the phone. Far to much information.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
really?? talking on cell in a public toilet stall?


I swear, I'd burst out in Song or something. when they say "hey be quiet, I'm on the Phone"

you can say "I agree!! be quiet when you're on the Throne!"

LOL

Yoda
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08-11-2005

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yoda a private message Print Post    
My gripe is that I can't find the Right Now thread to say that:

RN I'm getting ready to leave work for the day!!!!

Yoda
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08-11-2005

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yoda a private message Print Post    
I might try that one Sun...too funny!

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
RN, Spy that might have been me. I am usualy just listening to my lil sister so I am really confused on how you knew, lol.
oh, this isn't the RN thread.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Spy, that was great. TY.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I have a public restroom story... there was a guy in our office building who used to talk on the phone in the men's room all of the time. And it used to bug the heck outta some of the guys who worked in my office. This one guy I worked with wa sa total crackup and serious joker. So, one time when he was using the facilities and this idiot came in talking on the phone, well, he (my coworker) let loose with a really LOUD, er, um, sound. REALLY LOUD! (He faked it but he said it sounded really realistic!) The phone talker? He immediately ended the call, and apparently just as quickly finished his business and left. I think that was the last time he spoke on the phone while using the facilities! And I still crack up, to this day, thinking of David making this gawdawful noise that must've sounded like something crawled up and was trying to escape!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL, NT. Some of my long skirts have ties at the waist with little bells on 'em. Guys at the office used to tease me that they always knew when I was coming. I always said it was so they could run away if they wanted. They never did! :-)

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Same here, Costa! I was wearing some of those shoes today in fact. I've had comments that they like those shoes best because they know when to duck and hide!

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 7:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Costa, bells I can handle. But the constant every single day of slapping (and I'm talking loud) is driving us all nuts. This has been for a couple of years now. We've been waiting for them to be worn out but they must be the best-made pair of shoes ever.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
In Downtown Dallas, we have parking meters with signs up prohibiting parking or standing (I've learned this means sitting with motor running) from 6-9am and 4-6pm (I think the pm is right). This, of course, is during morning and afternoon rush hours when that lane is used for traffic, especially entering and exiting parking garages like mine where there is a stop light following by just enough street for three parking meters which run right up to the turn-in for the garage where I park. Now I don't know if the people who park there during those prohibited hours can't read or just have no regard for the law, but I can't tell you how many times I've had to sit 20 feet from my turn waiting for some kind-hearted soul to let me into their lane just so I go around the vehicle. This morning it was a woman who stood there long enough to see about five vehicles backed up in the intersection (you can't always tell a car is there unless you are in the lead in that lane) and what a problem it was causing. As I passed her she was getting back into her car and by the time I came down from the garage she was gone. That was the first time in 11 years that I've seen that happen.

Okay, I feel better now.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL NT. And today, in my Palo Alto office, I'm wearing flip flops. Regular flip flops. The kind that flap when you walk. Didn't even think how noisy they'd be when walking down a hallway!!!!! (And yes, I notice it myself!)

People. Never fail to amaze me. I've come to think that half are clueless, half have no regard for the law, and half are so self-centered that they don't even notice that they are both inconveniencing others or just don't care they are. (And yeah, I can add... that was 150%!) I think the percentage of those who do NOT do stupid things when driving/parking is small. And I'm sure all of us are here on TVCH! <wink>

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
I think you pretty much summed it up there, Costa. I'm sure I do stupid/clueless things from time to time myself, but I do try to always be aware of and considerate of others. And parking is a big pet peeve of mine - specifically, people in parking lots, who will pull up and park in non-spaces, blocking the way, when there are perfectly good EMPTY parking places right there. The other night I was coming back from the park with Whitney, the car in front of me in the complex parking lot, started slowing down to stop and then just sort of pulled up at this weird angle. I thought they were, perhaps, going to back into one of the 5 empty spaces behind them...but that didn't happen...so I thought maybe they were going to pull into the empty space directly in front of them. Nope. They just stopped there, pretty much blocking off one lane and making it hard for me to even get through on the other side of them, while the passenger got out and went in to get something. Because, apparently, pulling either straight ahead or straight back a few feet was too much trouble. That kind of thing happens all the time and it just drives me insane.

Of course, I actually just came in here to say:
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Bad day, too many gripes to list, but driving in Atlanta traffic is at the top of my list at the moment. I left work at 2, drove to Alpharetta (about 30 miles) to pick up a couple of freebies from a Freecycler, then went straight home (about 40 miles). The whole trip took 3 hours. 3 hours of driving....and that is mostly interstate driving...which should't be that slow. Accidents, road work, poorly designed roadways, and just too much traffic. And it wasn't even rush hour. So, once again, AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! On the positive side (are we allowed to include those in the gripe thread?), I now have a free gas fireplace set-up with logs for my house.

Bamaroots
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08-30-2006

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bamaroots a private message Print Post    
I have a gripe about the AF 100 Greatest films. Actually, I just want to know who selects these. I couldn't make my own list because I like too many movies and I don't think I even have a favorite. But 10 years ago AFI first selected the 100 greatest films. They did it again this year and I am wondering why so many changed. I guess they must have had different judges this time around. Because the changes didn't just include movies that came out since the last list was made. My biggest gripe is that I even spend any time thinking about this.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
My gripe is about staying in hotels. Why is it that when it's 8:00 AM and you're either 1) on vacation and trying to sleep in for the first time in months, or 2) on a business trip and getting dressed in the morning -- that housekeeping is always trying to come in to clean the room.

But when you come back to the room at 3:00 PM, early to quickly change or to send emails or make business calls, that someone is always in your room cleaning it? It's Murphy's Law.

I'm not ungrateful to those doing the job, just griping about the timing of it all.

Lyn
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08-07-2002

Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lyn a private message Print Post    
I have a gripe...everytime I see this thread I read it as "Return of the GRAPE thread". It's driving me batty

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 6:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Lyn, I have a gripe that you made me laugh at your gripe! LOL It's like when you don't get someone's name right the first time and then keep calling the new acquaintance by the first name you heard instead of their real name! LOL

Yankee, I agree.

Neko
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Neko a private message Print Post    
I'm griping about people who drive so close behind you, that you might as well be one car cause you can't even see their lights in your rearview anymore.

And people who open their car doors, knowing that they're close to another car, and STILL manage to HIT the car HARD enough for paint transfer.

AND people who don't respond to their email quickly enough, when they don't give you any other way to contact them.
Hello?! If email is the only way anyone can reach you, why don't you actually CHECK IT.

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