Pet Peeves - Page 3

**HorseTechie** · 06-24-2002, 11:07 AM

aww... don't feel too bad, I used to call Machias, "Manchias".

Heh.. and there's another pet peeve... people who can't get your first or last name right (be it spelling or pronunciation).

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*Kameko* · 06-24-2002, 03:02 PM

Ahhh...my turn. *cracks knuckles*

People who crack thier knuckles *snicker*

Stupid Drivers

College recruiters

Devry Recruiters who keep interrupting your classes to tell you things you don't give a rat's a-- about, and who keep sending you flyer after packet after brochure.

Military recruiters who do the same thing.

Telemarketers

Answering machines (I hang up unless it's REALLY important)

People who complain when an animated movie has swear words or other kid innappropriate stuff in it when the d--- thing is rated PG or PG13!

People who talk or unwrap candy in movie theaters.

People who kick the back of your chair in theaters, school, etc.

People who don't know how to shut up.

People who won't quit trying to be buddy-buddy with you no matter how hard you try to get rid of them nicely untill you finally blow up at them, only to have them make your life hell later on...

Librarians who don't set computer time limits but kick you off after half an hour anyway.

Little kids in the "why" stage.

Little kids in the "no" stage.

Little kids in the "potty training" stage.

Work.

School.

Having one of your favorite tv shows pre-empted for ANYTHING...

Long president speeches that make you miss your favorite shows.

Missing the last ten minutes of a movie you've just invested an hour and 50 minutes in because the phone rings or your parents come in and turn it off without even asking.

My cd player's headphones staticking and suddenly stopping working...

The radio in my car not working.

Rude customers.

People who come to the cashier/hostess's desk to ask for a straw/drink/fork/napkin/anything else the waitress is responsible for.

People who change thier food orders after ordering and paying with a CREDIT CARD so that you not only have to get your manager, but he/she has to void out the WHOLE order and then go back and refund to the credit card, which takes FOREVER, meanwhile the lobby is filling up with other customers that you can't get to because your register is tied up with the dumba-- that can't make up his MIND!!! *pants for breath*

Wow. I feel better.

I'll add more later.

Loolaa · 06-24-2002, 11:58 PM

Wow... sounds like you really DID have something to get off your chest!!!!

Bad drivers are scaring me away from learning to drive, that's one of mine..

And putting football/tennis (bloody Wimbledon)/rugby/snooker on tv and cancelling Buffy/The Simpsons or any other programme I love so the sports fans can watch their stupid snooker, or whatever. (Who watches Snooker, anyway?!?!)

Also... my favourite comic books being cancelled that's happened to at least with 7 titles I can think of.

Hehe... I crack my knuckles..... *krack*

*Skeletoncrew* · 06-25-2002, 12:13 AM

People who don't believe in personal hygiene.

Grossly overweight people who use the electric carts our store has for the disabled and elderly.

People who ask me "Do you work here?" when I'm wearing my namebadge, and doing something behind the counter. (I am SO tempted to say "No" and continue working next time that happens.)

**HorseTechie** · 06-25-2002, 11:30 AM

*decides to edge away from Kameko before she snaps*

Another "at work" peeve: having five or so different clients come up to me with an "oh so very important" copy job, that is asking for 400, or 150, or 4 thousand of something that will clearly take a long time to do, and they wanted it by the next day.

So the latter of them is going to end up having to wait, cause I can ONLY print ONE huge ass job at a time!!

Then I find out ther hard way why one shouldn't upload other software on company computers, becuase it ends up messing up the specially designed software on there. So I have to put up with the analysis teasing me and warning me to not mess with the computer again (and so I suffer at work with nothing to do since I can't upload PS 6 and Illus 9 on that PC now).

*mutters in angony, wondering when she will get that dream graphic design job that'll pay her twice as much as what she gets now*

*clears throat... goes back to work* Now that I feel a lil beter...

*Skeletoncrew* · 06-25-2002, 01:13 PM

*pats HT on the back*

Good. Thats what this thread is for, blowing off a little steam! Its far more legal than blowing up people.

Riph Raph · 06-25-2002, 03:49 PM

Although blowing up people sounds more fun.

I thought of another:

Getting a huge a$$ deposit (or two or three) at the drive up 10 minutes before it closes, thendo said deposit *&* count my cash *&* add all my other crap.

When the computers go down in the bank & you have to hold everything to put it in later, then end up with twice as much stuff to do, *then* finding out your checks don't add up right *grr*

I've had two very long days. Our computers went down yesterday at about 10:30am & came up at about the same time today, so for most of the rest of the day we had to do all of yesterday's work *&* today's all at the same time, while doing both the drawer & the tube of the drive up...

*frustrated sai* Gawd, where's a vacation when you really need it? Darn part time status.

*Skeletoncrew* · 06-25-2002, 11:41 PM

Wow. I've heard that being a bank teller is a very difficult job...as well as somewhat dangerous.

Well, one of my pet peeves has been fixed. I have a new namebadge with a different name on it. No more creepy people knowing my real name now!

**HorseTechie** · 06-26-2002, 07:45 AM

Rrr...? Now you go around as SkeletonCrew at Wally World too?

Loolaa · 06-26-2002, 09:00 AM

*blink*

There isn't really a Wally World... is there......?

**HorseTechie** · 06-26-2002, 10:31 AM

In America there is. Forgot how it started, but we like to nick Walmart as Wally World.

*Skeletoncrew* · 06-26-2002, 12:12 PM

Actually, I didn't think they'd let me get away with Skeletoncrew or DragonLady (Its a family store after all

) ...so I shortened the name I would have had if I'd been a boy: Alexander. I am now Alex at Wally-world, and you know what? Its SO much nicer hearing gross people say "Alex" rather than butchering my real name.

Riph Raph · 06-26-2002, 03:49 PM

Being a bank teller isn't too difficult, but if you have little patience & end up working the drive up, you tend to start cursing customers under you breath... or atleast *I* do, but I don't actually curse

Heh, I just bought a "real" Wally World t-shirt from 80stees.com

**HorseTechie** · 06-27-2002, 08:57 AM

*comes in with a new thorn in her side*

... this is no personal attack on anyone, just my own personl opinion on the matter.

But why now, are they making a big deal over the fact there was "under God" in the US pledge of alligence! Damn... like, doesn't the government have better things to concern themselves with than try to make small details "more constitutional".

But no... like hearing/reading those two words in the pledge of the alligence, or the words "In God We Trust" on our currency, is forcing everyone who is not religious to be religious.

Sorry.. but that feels like another attack on the church. Stupid state n church law... well, as long as us religious folks aren't dragged to the lions den for believing in God... I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

But if they really want to change some sayings around, how about "God Bless America"? If you really think about it, that saying is so 'stuck-up'. As my Korean husband pointed out, it feels like us Americans want God to bless us, and ONLY us, out of all the other countries in the world who really need the blessing more. No wonder half the world hates the US. *sai*

Hrmmph... reason number 126 why I dislike politics!

Loolaa · 06-27-2002, 11:16 AM

*blink*

Eeek! That was a much needed rant!
*pats HT on the back and hands her a cup of tea*

It might be one of those PC things that dies down in a while....?

**Kali** · 06-27-2002, 02:34 PM

Possibly. I have no problem with it. I don't say The Pledge, and haven't for several years. You have a choice whether you say it or not, they don't force you. I just think it doesn't need to be said in school though, they don't need it there.

*Kameko* · 06-27-2002, 04:03 PM

That's another one:

When people who are completely incapable of public speaking try to come over the intercom, interrupting your favorite class, to make you say the pledge, while somehow managing to stumble over every other word and dragging it on for an eternity, and then having you teacher snap at you to finish your work when you just started right before dumba$$ came over the intercom, when he's the one who said "stand up, we have to say the pledge" in the first place.

And there's another one: Announcements being made over the intercom in a high school. HELLO? Who came up with that one? No teenagers ever shut up long enough to here the bloody announcements anyway, and naturally they don't post the d-mn things in the hallway or anywhere where you can find them, so you end up not finding out about important things your senior year until it's too bloody late! Argh!!!

*pants for breath* I'm ok, now, really.

Loolaa · 06-28-2002, 01:54 AM

We don't have anything even remotely like The Pledge over here... and whilst we did have a tanoy at school that made announcements, it was only really used for fire drills and announcements in the morning.
I can imagine it being really annoying if you miss important info...

**HorseTechie** · 06-28-2002, 08:23 AM

Oh yes.. have I mentioned before how much my Leo streak comes out when it's the sucky time of the month? Everything that seems much too liberal really peeves me off.

Oh.. but then hubby bought this used DVD last night called New Port South. It's a weird thriller where the high school students start rebelling against their school, cause they think it's becoming way too institutionalized (like a prison or something). Kinda like the Faculty, with a more realistic twist to it.

Samantha · 06-28-2002, 04:09 PM

Personally I think they should take out the "under God" line in the pledge. *shuffles feet as everyone in the thread glares at her* I remember when I was in Kindergarden in this private school where they DID force you to say the pledge and at the time I was an athiest. I always felt very uncomfortable when it came to that line. Today I do believe in God, but I can still easily imagine how athiest's must feel. It IS just like saying "under Zeus" or "under some other God" (in my opinion).

Reason #122 why high school sucks. You are technically supposed to say the pledge. Of course if you just stay seated you don't really get in trouble, but my global studies teacher (whom I sadly had year round) gave all the seated kids nasty looks. Sorta makes things a bit, aggrivating.

06-25-2002, 12:13 AM	#44
Skeletoncrew Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Bearing in on your spicy brains Posts: 3,275	People who don't believe in personal hygiene. Grossly overweight people who use the electric carts our store has for the disabled and elderly. People who ask me "Do you work here?" when I'm wearing my namebadge, and doing something behind the counter. (I am SO tempted to say "No" and continue working next time that happens.) __________________ Adult TMNT fan art and fiction contest Now accepting entries!

06-25-2002, 01:13 PM	#46
Skeletoncrew Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Bearing in on your spicy brains Posts: 3,275	pats HT on the back Good. Thats what this thread is for, blowing off a little steam! Its far more legal than blowing up people. __________________ Adult TMNT fan art and fiction contest Now accepting entries!

06-25-2002, 03:49 PM	#47
Riph Raph Thug Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North Adams, MA Posts: 69	Although blowing up people sounds more fun. I thought of another: Getting a huge a$$ deposit (or two or three) at the drive up 10 minutes before it closes, thendo said deposit & count my cash & add all my other crap. When the computers go down in the bank & you have to hold everything to put it in later, then end up with twice as much stuff to do, then finding out your checks don't add up right grr I've had two very long days. Our computers went down yesterday at about 10:30am & came up at about the same time today, so for most of the rest of the day we had to do all of yesterday's work & today's all at the same time, while doing both the drawer & the tube of the drive up... frustrated sai Gawd, where's a vacation when you really need it? Darn part time status. __________________ Where's "The Green Defender" when you really need him? snorts "I know, I know... we have to save the world" ~Raphael Meets His Match~

06-25-2002, 11:41 PM	#48
Skeletoncrew Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Bearing in on your spicy brains Posts: 3,275	Wow. I've heard that being a bank teller is a very difficult job...as well as somewhat dangerous. Well, one of my pet peeves has been fixed. I have a new namebadge with a different name on it. No more creepy people knowing my real name now! __________________ Adult TMNT fan art and fiction contest Now accepting entries!

06-26-2002, 12:12 PM	#52
Skeletoncrew Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Bearing in on your spicy brains Posts: 3,275	Actually, I didn't think they'd let me get away with Skeletoncrew or DragonLady (Its a family store after all ) ...so I shortened the name I would have had if I'd been a boy: Alexander. I am now Alex at Wally-world, and you know what? Its SO much nicer hearing gross people say "Alex" rather than butchering my real name. __________________ Adult TMNT fan art and fiction contest Now accepting entries!

06-24-2002, 11:07 AM	#41
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	aww... don't feel too bad, I used to call Machias, "Manchias". Heh.. and there's another pet peeve... people who can't get your first or last name right (be it spelling or pronunciation). _________________ Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. <font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: horsetechie on 2002-06-24 18:08 ]</font>

06-24-2002, 03:02 PM	#42
Kameko Sister to the TMNT Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Posts: 2,756	Ahhh...my turn. cracks knuckles People who crack thier knuckles snicker Stupid Drivers College recruiters Devry Recruiters who keep interrupting your classes to tell you things you don't give a rat's a-- about, and who keep sending you flyer after packet after brochure. Military recruiters who do the same thing. Telemarketers Answering machines (I hang up unless it's REALLY important) People who complain when an animated movie has swear words or other kid innappropriate stuff in it when the d--- thing is rated PG or PG13! People who talk or unwrap candy in movie theaters. People who kick the back of your chair in theaters, school, etc. People who don't know how to shut up. People who won't quit trying to be buddy-buddy with you no matter how hard you try to get rid of them nicely untill you finally blow up at them, only to have them make your life hell later on... Librarians who don't set computer time limits but kick you off after half an hour anyway. Little kids in the "why" stage. Little kids in the "no" stage. Little kids in the "potty training" stage. Work. School. Having one of your favorite tv shows pre-empted for ANYTHING... Long president speeches that make you miss your favorite shows. Missing the last ten minutes of a movie you've just invested an hour and 50 minutes in because the phone rings or your parents come in and turn it off without even asking. My cd player's headphones staticking and suddenly stopping working... The radio in my car not working. Rude customers. People who come to the cashier/hostess's desk to ask for a straw/drink/fork/napkin/anything else the waitress is responsible for. People who change thier food orders after ordering and paying with a CREDIT CARD so that you not only have to get your manager, but he/she has to void out the WHOLE order and then go back and refund to the credit card, which takes FOREVER, meanwhile the lobby is filling up with other customers that you can't get to because your register is tied up with the dumba-- that can't make up his MIND!!! pants for breath Wow. I feel better. I'll add more later.

06-24-2002, 11:58 PM	#43
Loolaa Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,018	Wow... sounds like you really DID have something to get off your chest!!!! Bad drivers are scaring me away from learning to drive, that's one of mine.. And putting football/tennis (bloody Wimbledon)/rugby/snooker on tv and cancelling Buffy/The Simpsons or any other programme I love so the sports fans can watch their stupid snooker, or whatever. (Who watches Snooker, anyway?!?!) Also... my favourite comic books being cancelled that's happened to at least with 7 titles I can think of. Hehe... I crack my knuckles..... krack

06-25-2002, 11:30 AM	#45
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	decides to edge away from Kameko before she snaps Another "at work" peeve: having five or so different clients come up to me with an "oh so very important" copy job, that is asking for 400, or 150, or 4 thousand of something that will clearly take a long time to do, and they wanted it by the next day. So the latter of them is going to end up having to wait, cause I can ONLY print ONE huge ass job at a time!! Then I find out ther hard way why one shouldn't upload other software on company computers, becuase it ends up messing up the specially designed software on there. So I have to put up with the analysis teasing me and warning me to not mess with the computer again (and so I suffer at work with nothing to do since I can't upload PS 6 and Illus 9 on that PC now). mutters in angony, wondering when she will get that dream graphic design job that'll pay her twice as much as what she gets now clears throat... goes back to work Now that I feel a lil beter...

06-26-2002, 07:45 AM	#49
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	Rrr...? Now you go around as SkeletonCrew at Wally World too?

06-26-2002, 09:00 AM	#50
Loolaa Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,018	blink There isn't really a Wally World... is there......?

06-26-2002, 10:31 AM	#51
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	In America there is. Forgot how it started, but we like to nick Walmart as Wally World.

06-26-2002, 03:49 PM	#53
Riph Raph Thug Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North Adams, MA Posts: 69	Being a bank teller isn't too difficult, but if you have little patience & end up working the drive up, you tend to start cursing customers under you breath... or atleast I do, but I don't actually curse Heh, I just bought a "real" Wally World t-shirt from 80stees.com __________________ Where's "The Green Defender" when you really need him? snorts "I know, I know... we have to save the world" ~Raphael Meets His Match~

06-27-2002, 08:57 AM	#54
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	comes in with a new thorn in her side ... this is no personal attack on anyone, just my own personl opinion on the matter. But why now, are they making a big deal over the fact there was "under God" in the US pledge of alligence! Damn... like, doesn't the government have better things to concern themselves with than try to make small details "more constitutional". But no... like hearing/reading those two words in the pledge of the alligence, or the words "In God We Trust" on our currency, is forcing everyone who is not religious to be religious. Sorry.. but that feels like another attack on the church. Stupid state n church law... well, as long as us religious folks aren't dragged to the lions den for believing in God... I guess I shouldn't complain too much. But if they really want to change some sayings around, how about "God Bless America"? If you really think about it, that saying is so 'stuck-up'. As my Korean husband pointed out, it feels like us Americans want God to bless us, and ONLY us, out of all the other countries in the world who really need the blessing more. No wonder half the world hates the US. sai Hrmmph... reason number 126 why I dislike politics!

06-27-2002, 11:16 AM	#55
Loolaa Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,018	blink Eeek! That was a much needed rant! pats HT on the back and hands her a cup of tea It might be one of those PC things that dies down in a while....?

06-27-2002, 02:34 PM	#56
Kali Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California! Posts: 11,101	Possibly. I have no problem with it. I don't say The Pledge, and haven't for several years. You have a choice whether you say it or not, they don't force you. I just think it doesn't need to be said in school though, they don't need it there.

06-27-2002, 04:03 PM	#57
Kameko Sister to the TMNT Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Posts: 2,756	That's another one: When people who are completely incapable of public speaking try to come over the intercom, interrupting your favorite class, to make you say the pledge, while somehow managing to stumble over every other word and dragging it on for an eternity, and then having you teacher snap at you to finish your work when you just started right before dumba$$ came over the intercom, when he's the one who said "stand up, we have to say the pledge" in the first place. And there's another one: Announcements being made over the intercom in a high school. HELLO? Who came up with that one? No teenagers ever shut up long enough to here the bloody announcements anyway, and naturally they don't post the d-mn things in the hallway or anywhere where you can find them, so you end up not finding out about important things your senior year until it's too bloody late! Argh!!! pants for breath I'm ok, now, really.

06-28-2002, 01:54 AM	#58
Loolaa Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,018	We don't have anything even remotely like The Pledge over here... and whilst we did have a tanoy at school that made announcements, it was only really used for fire drills and announcements in the morning. I can imagine it being really annoying if you miss important info...

06-28-2002, 08:23 AM	#59
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	Oh yes.. have I mentioned before how much my Leo streak comes out when it's the sucky time of the month? Everything that seems much too liberal really peeves me off. Oh.. but then hubby bought this used DVD last night called New Port South. It's a weird thriller where the high school students start rebelling against their school, cause they think it's becoming way too institutionalized (like a prison or something). Kinda like the Faculty, with a more realistic twist to it.

06-28-2002, 04:09 PM	#60
Samantha Hench Mutant Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 337	Personally I think they should take out the "under God" line in the pledge. shuffles feet as everyone in the thread glares at her I remember when I was in Kindergarden in this private school where they DID force you to say the pledge and at the time I was an athiest. I always felt very uncomfortable when it came to that line. Today I do believe in God, but I can still easily imagine how athiest's must feel. It IS just like saying "under Zeus" or "under some other God" (in my opinion). Reason #122 why high school sucks. You are technically supposed to say the pledge. Of course if you just stay seated you don't really get in trouble, but my global studies teacher (whom I sadly had year round) gave all the seated kids nasty looks. Sorta makes things a bit, aggrivating. __________________ "Why did you bring her here?" "Cause I wanted to redecerate. A couple throw pillows, a tv news reporter, what'd you think?"