Discussion: Pet Peeves
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Discussion: Pet Peeves
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Adven39 | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 06:26 am  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  LOL Adven |
Norwican | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 07:15 am  Canada also gave us comedian Tom Green... thanks |
Wink | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 08:42 am  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  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  Adven, do you live in Florida..lol Every driver on the road fits that description. |
Willi | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:10 am  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  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  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  Really? Dave Thomas is from Canada? |
Enbwife | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:49 pm  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  Not the Wendy's Dave the Grace Under Fire Dave. |
Fruitbat | Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:40 am  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  Oh, I like the Wendy's Dave. |
Wink | Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 01:11 pm  Gee me too GuGu. Finally something in common. |
Wink | Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:26 pm  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  it still works, wink. Some of us are in there now. |
Guruchaz | Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:28 pm  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  Asked and answered. |
Whit4you | Friday, December 15, 2000 - 09:27 am  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  Whit....good one. I had never thought about that yet I have heard it many times. |
Soeur | Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 05:35 am  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  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  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  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  Heck I didn't even realize Helen Hunt was married! |
Soeur | Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 06:49 pm  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  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  Oh, and Merry Chrismas.  |
Lafatme | Monday, December 25, 2000 - 12:13 pm  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  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  I don't have any pets. |
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