Discussion: Pet Peeves

The ClubHouse: General Discussions - Jan -Apr. 2001: January: Discussion: Pet Peeves
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Adven39

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 06:26 am Click here to edit this post

Hail Canada, is right.

My pet peeve is old men in hats who drive 20 mph under the speed limit(25 km/h in Canada)when you can't pass them, but when you hit a passing lane they drive like a bat out of hell to keep you from getting around them. I just ran into one fifteen minutes ago. I think his pet peeve is impatient younger men without hats who like to lean on the horn and stick out their index finger while wishing you a Merry Christmas as they pass you on the highway.
There. I feel better.

Willi

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 06:46 am Click here to edit this post

LOL Adven :)

Norwican

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 07:15 am Click here to edit this post

Canada also gave us comedian Tom Green... thanks

Wink

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 08:42 am Click here to edit this post

You can add these to the list Willi:

John Candy, Martin Short, Mike Meyers, Dan Akyroyd, Michael J. Fox, Dave Thomas..

Wink

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 08:57 am Click here to edit this post

Then of course there's the Good - Peter Jennings, the Bad - William Shatner and the Unattractive (but talented) - BareNaked Ladies.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 09:52 am Click here to edit this post

Adven, do you live in Florida..lol Every driver on the road fits that description.

Willi

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:10 am Click here to edit this post

Wink,

Thanks!
I'm Hailing Canada some more! :)


I have another driving-related Pet-Peeve...
Drivers who do not yield to pedestrians especially in cold weather...There they sit all warm & cozy and totally unmindful of the freezing pedestrian trying to cross the street/parking lot/etc...! I was out shopping today with Edie(my adopted senior-citizen)

(Note to Adven: I'm driving)...

And, there we are...Trying to cross the parking lot in the cold and cars keep whizzing by...!

Geez Um.

Affinity

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:29 am Click here to edit this post

I think my pet peeve would have to be driving in general. Everytime I hit the road, there is always at least 1 or 2 people that don't know how to drive.

I despise the following behavior:
No headlights in total darkness
No directional signals
Driving much less than the speed limit
Driving in between two lanes
Cutting off
Tailgating
Driving slow on purpose to find a parking spot on the street or they are just lost


I also am peeved at people that sit in their car and wait for others to pull out of a parking spot in a parking lot. There are plenty of places to park if you arent lazy enough to walk. Oh, and if you are old and disabled, then you are excused.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:44 am Click here to edit this post

Aff, I have that peeve,too. The whole parking lot can be open with spaces, and I get the person who has to wait for my spot!! grrrr

Guruchaz

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:29 pm Click here to edit this post

Really? Dave Thomas is from Canada?

Enbwife

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:49 pm Click here to edit this post

We had 30 cm of snow dropped on us Monday night, and my biggest pet peeve is shovelling snow before going to work. Neil and I spent 2 hours shovelling out our house yesterday morning, then had to shovel out our back lane in order to get our little car out. The snow seriously came to my knees. Neil spent most of the time saying he's moving to California... For those of you who don't get snow, thank God now!!!

Wink

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:50 pm Click here to edit this post

Not the Wendy's Dave the Grace Under Fire Dave.

Fruitbat

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:40 am Click here to edit this post

Mine is those tip jars. They sit on the counter of places where you order and pick up your own food AND bus your own dishes. Who are we tipping and for what service?

Guruchaz

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 09:08 am Click here to edit this post

Oh, I like the Wendy's Dave.

Wink

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 01:11 pm Click here to edit this post

Gee me too GuGu. Finally something in common.

Wink

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:26 pm Click here to edit this post

I can't get into chat. When I click on members or club chat I get a blank screen. I waited 2-3 minutes for something to happen but no go. Am I just a loser or does chat not exist anymore?

Elitist

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:28 pm Click here to edit this post

it still works, wink. Some of us are in there now.

Guruchaz

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:28 pm Click here to edit this post

That wasn't the question you should have asked.

In any case, I can see how this would totally destroy one's day and complete outlook on life.

Wink

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:34 pm Click here to edit this post

Asked and answered.

Whit4you

Friday, December 15, 2000 - 09:27 am Click here to edit this post

My pet peeve is people who say

"So and so isn't doing their job, so I have to work twice as hard"

When your on the clock - your ON the clock and you are getting paid to work and do as much as you can possibly do. Now IF you are able to do "twice" as much because someone else is NOT doing their job, then prior to them NOT doing their job you were only doing HALF of what you were capable of doing.

The last business I owned was a HVAC company (heating and air conditioning) I made it very clear what I expected of my employees and when one of them worked up to those expectations I'd walk up and give him a dollar an hour raise in front of the other employees. He wasn't working "twice as hard" because they weren't doing their job, because he worked as hard as he was able regardless.

You should always be looking for ways to save your company money, to save the company time - by finding quicker and more creative ways to do the things you do, so you have time to do *more* things. You should always do what you can to try and save resources and serve the clients/ customers better and give them better service using less time and resources then you currently use.

If I ever had an employee complain to me about "having to work twice as hard, because someone else isn't doing their job" they'd be LOOKING for another job.

<end rant>

(got 101 other pet peeves - but shutting up now :)

Fruitbat

Friday, December 15, 2000 - 09:49 am Click here to edit this post

Whit....good one. I had never thought about that yet I have heard it many times.

Soeur

Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 05:35 am Click here to edit this post

My pet peeve at the moment, and it rubs me wrong at this time of year, EVERY year...

the year end double issue of PEOPLE. I can never stand the selections they make for the '25 Most Interesting...blah, blah, blah of the year'. It is a dud read just at a time when I could really enjoy picking up a 400 page issue of that magazine and getting lost in it for an long afteroon. They should have the best/worst dressed issue now (well, let's say half the issue be best/worst dressed - with LOTS of pictures in the 'worst' section, tons of 'lil Kim and Celine Dion) and the other half of the issue could be human interest stories about people and their lives. Triumph over tradgedy stuff, stories of secretaries who fulfilled a long held goal and now have personal staffs of 73 people working for them... How could that magazine get it so wrong???

Another wee thing...Helen Hunt (in the issue I flipped through at the newstand - catch me dead BUYING it) filed for divorce from her husband of 17 months citing irreconcilable differences. Irreconcilable differences? explain how they could know they are 'irreconcilable' after only 17 months? It has taken me and my excellent partner well over ten times that amount of time to figure out what our 'issues' are and new ones are still being discovered as we speak...
Whoa! This is morphing into a marriage thing...better go decorate the tree now...ho! ho! ho!

Fruitbat

Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 06:32 am Click here to edit this post

Souer...I thought the very same thing when I found Helen and Hank are divorcing. The question, why did they marry in the first place, hangs in the air. They had lived together long enough to see irreconcilable differences coming upon them in 17 months, one would think.

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 01:31 pm Click here to edit this post

In Hollywood doesn't "irreconcilable differences" usualy mean one or both have found someone else they want to have sex with, or have had sex with???

Max

Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 03:36 pm Click here to edit this post

Well, let's see. Helen Hunt has been working on pictures co-starring Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, and...I know there's another hunk in there somewhere. Temptation abounds. :)

Optics

Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 03:58 pm Click here to edit this post

Heck I didn't even realize Helen Hunt was married!

Soeur

Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 06:49 pm Click here to edit this post

Guys, thanks for your support with my Helen Hunt peeve.

Now, can we work the PEOPLE magazine problem? That one rubs me the wrong way every December...Another thing they do is mini tributes to people (usually celebs) who have departed this earthly plane during the past year. The tributes are usually one pager lightweight stuff and that just gets me scruff up. That just wastes space that could be better used by fashion trend pics like bead skirts, mood bracelets, glitter skirts & fuzzy sweaters...By the way, did anyone see the profile they did on Michael J. Fox earlier in the year. Now, that was great piece. What a guy!

Fruitbat

Sunday, December 24, 2000 - 08:52 am Click here to edit this post

Soeur....here comes support.....posthumus palavering of any kind has no place in magazines OR Award shows. Giving a dead actor an award is nonsense and life time achievement honoring deserves a super plus in the forehead.

Lance.....Oh course! how silly of me. Your are right. Someone fell in love with a co star.

Fruitbat

Sunday, December 24, 2000 - 08:53 am Click here to edit this post

Oh, and Merry Chrismas.

Lafatme

Monday, December 25, 2000 - 12:13 pm Click here to edit this post

soeur,

STEP AWAY FROM THE MAGAZINE.

don't you know that PEOPLE, like all mags, is nothing but an excuse to sell advertising space?

they would only replace the useless drivel with other useless drivel anyway. get a good book.

merry christmas.

Pooh66

Wednesday, December 27, 2000 - 07:59 pm Click here to edit this post

I have to agree with all the driving pet peeves. It seems like everyone forgets how to drive once they hit the road. Forget it in bad weather, they drive as if its a sunny day, & honk at you for driving for the road conditions.

Also, adults playing childish games thinking that they're being adults about the whole thing.

Ocean_Islands

Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 06:28 pm Click here to edit this post

I don't have any pets.