Stuff that keeps ticking me off

“===> When I run out of chocolate because I forgot to put it on the grocery list.”

“I was gonna start this thread but decided against it.”

“I was gonna start "Stuff that ticks lizs off" but decided I want to live. ;-)”

“Flip flops..... and people that can't use ATMs. Come on people, it shouldn't take ten minutes.
Oh, and shoppers who wait to see what the total is before producing their wallet..... you know they are going to ask you for money, you'll have a rough idea how much it is... grrrrr”

“People who drive like maniacs, endangering everyone around them. Oops, the guy I saw doing that yesterday was in a courier company truck. With a phone number on the back. With the question "How's my Driving?" and a truck number. Yes, I tattled on him....”

“stuff that licks ticks off of lizs?

Wait...I don't think I read that right....”

“That reminds me of something I witnessed once, when ATM's were a new device.

I was waiting for an older lady to use the ATM. I guess she hadn't ever used one before, because it was taking her forever. She was having to read every screen carefully. Well, it was taking her longer to read the screen than the program would allow you to stay on one page, so it kept bringing up the "Do you need more time?" page and beeping at her. She finally got angry and cursed the ATM saying, "No dammit I don't want more time I just want my card back!" I think it eventually gave up and just spat the card back out to her.”

“After all that money they spent on the UI...”

“lol this was in about 1982. I think computer programmers hadn't thought about real people using their machines yet.”

“I have no problem with the elderly or infirm taking their time. It's the stupid people who must have done this a gazillion times in the past, and yet still have to slowly read the screen, running their finger across it, looking for the numbers, and then worst of all, take about 30 seconds to answer the "do you require any other services" question. grumble grumble”

“Some of those people are just terrified of computers.

I think the happiest day of my life was when I got my ATM card. I didn't have to go into the bank anymore and deal with the yucky people, yay!”

“We told the guys in our office today that we were gonna stand them on their heads next time we (the women of the office) suggested something...get the blood to run from the brainless head to the head with brains...took them about 4 hours to get on the same page as us, which of course, was the RIGHT page, LOL...”

“I'm so tempted to bite on that one twigeater, but i fear it would damage my reputation here ;op”

“Wha???

Huh???

Explain that again twiggy!”

“Have no fear, Bobo is here!!!”

“just trust me, Bobo - that's what I told 'em the second time I heard them dissecting and debating something I already assured them was OK...

c'mon ynami - bite! :)”

“I hat getting cut off during rush hour by some guy shaving his beard while driving.”

“okaaayyyy - so once they're on that page, you (the women of the office) have already changed you mind and gone back to the original page, and now have to put em the right way round so we can think with our other brains, because you're in the mood for that ;op”

“that was the mild version ;o)”

“What ticks me off?

Running out of beer in Arkansas on Sunday. No beer sales anywhere in the state on Sunday, unless you belong to a private club and you consume on premise.

Other than that, it is a trip back over to Memphis and down to the hood for a 12 pack.

The only thing that law does is force me to stock up on 30 packs on Saturday.”

“Wow, even here in Alabama we can (finally!) buy beer on Sunday. What the heck made you want to move there, chili?








Oh wait, I remember now.”

“That @#$@%#@ female school bus driver that drives 45 MPH in the FAR LEFT LANE the entire way down a 6 lane (3 each side) expressway on my way to work each morning.”

“lmao chili, you gotta think ahead here in arkieland.

we have a great micro-brewery here in fayetteville and they sell what they call a grouler. it's like a half-gallon bottle for 6 bux. you keep the bottle and reuse it.they have 6 or 7 flavors to choose from. really great stuff and they sell on sunday. they've bailed me out many timeswhen i forgot to stock up on saturday.”

“Ah got to love NY. Last call is 4am and you can buy beer after 12 on Sunday.”

“ynamiynami

How about the person with 40 items in the 15 item lane

who waits until the total

and then gets out a check book and asks the store clerk to borrow a pen.

Do you think a temporary insanity plea would be accepted by the average jury with that story.”

“Anal engineers who just don't get the fact that you don't have to have it 100% right. Sometimes the extra time it takes to do it 100% isn't worth the effort. Sometimes, 85% is good enough.”

“stupid fast food people.......you say you are in a hurry...it is 4:30 am...no other customers and she piddles around...I ordered an Egg McMuffin...and when we get to work & open the bag & there is 2 sausage biscuits.....first of all I am allergic to the additives in sausage.....second of all I paid a freakin' $1.79 for my egg McMuffin.......GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!..

so, I ate the sausage cause I was starving, had to go to the hospital & get an allergy shot & almost died.....

OK...the hospital part was a lie, but it coulda happened just like before!!!!”

“People from Minnesota who drive recklessly through Wisconsin potentially endangering our most precious resource (me).”

“I agree :)”

“Yep Manuka - the check payers.... they get me too.”

“My parents. Grrrrrrrr....



Damn relatives!”

“Assembly instructions not written by fluent English speakers.

Actual verbage from a kid's scooter instructions--

Be sure children wear "appropriated" footwear

Do not use in swim pool”

“the local residents from the local Mexican store that barter with ---You guessed it Mexicans---but not stupid white people that can't speak their language---and leave the wrappings of their purchases in my yard, driveway, sidewalk and alley. Welcome to little Mexico.”

“People who don't have children that #&%!$ about people who do.

People who can't wait patiently in line.

Politics.

Lack of sox.”

“how did you come up with THAT ynami?! LOL...
We stayed on the page we started on, never waivered once.

Nope, we didn't beat them into submission, we made a suggestion, and when we couldn't take the fruitless, round and round discussion anymore, we went back to our cubes, and waited for them to get to the same place we were, which they did.
:)”

“sunshine needs socks, yea, I'm sure that's what she meant! ;-)”

“Stuff that ticks me off is on the "speaking of fishing thread".”

“when my kids team is winning 9-1 and the coach pulls the pitcher for NO REASON and they loose 10-9

DOH!”

“A couple driving things that get to me:

4 lanes, 2 each way, and a school bus, going the opposite direction, stops to pick up a kid. Drivers traveling your direction stop for the bus (obviously because they don't know the rules of the road). Arrg, they're going to cause an accident with they're ignorance!

That was a non-conservative-driving-gripe. This one is a conservative-driving-gripe.

I get peeved by drivers in left turn lanes, who are turning onto two lanes traveling the same direction, not staying in the left lane throughout the turn. Same with drivers making a right turn who actually turn into the left-most lane. I would blame this to the proliferation of behemoth vehicles that are difficult to negotiate around turns, but it is not limited to drivers of those vehicles. Learn the rules of the road people.

End rant.”

“the bus thing... is this a divided highway we're talking about? because, at least in mn, even 4-lanes non-divided both directions of traffic have to stop. That's what i was taught anyway if i remember correctly - it's only been like 4 years since driver's ed”

“Nope - not in Illinois. You should only stop with four lanes if one of them is not a through lane (i.e. a turn lane).

A bus driver never stops to pick up children on the opposite side of a four lane road.”

“maybe the people that are stopping are from mn then, lol”

“Maybe simer.

Since those people's error is on the side of caution, that doesn't bother me as much as the other scenario.”

“In Michigan drivers must stop no matter how many lanes, unless it's a divided highway.


What I hate: packing up for a trip, can't find the floor to my shelter, unloading all the gear bins (6 total) and still can't find it. I start to think "Did I really buy it? I thought I did, and didn't I use it once even?" Birch is in NC so I can't ask him. Finally give up, dig out an old sheet of tyvek, get the pack out to start loading and find the freaking floor in the bottom of the pack!”

“Ha Sass,

I've been there.

""Dam, where is the tarp?! Oh well, let's pull out the hammock...wait there's the tarp dammit!!""”

“when i realize we're out of milk at 10:05 and the store nearby closes at 10:00.....”

“People that drive through a stop light when the power is out and the thing isn't working. Even worse are the ones that blow their horn at me when I treat the intersection like a 4-way stop like you're supposed to.”

“When I run out of chocolate chip cookies late at night and the store is closed.”

“LOLOLOLOL... some of youse were needless picking on me.

Snake Eyes, here is part of my column from this week:

Out-of-state trouble

Canoeing is something else I need to try around here. I recently went canoeing somewhere and had fun. However, I’m being a stick-in-the-mud and refuse to talk about it due to the unfriendly highway patrolmen in that state.

Let’s just say I can fly to At-lanta for less money – roundtrip! – than the fine this state slapped on me for speeding. (I can tell you where I will and won’t be going the next time I decide to cross the Mississippi River.)

I was excited to head off on a Friday afternoon to somewhere I’d never been before. Oops, the foot got heavy on the four-lane road.

So, think about it… Why not greet an out-of-stater with a friendly, “Hi, welcome to our area. I see (looking at the Jeep’s outdoor contents) that you must be on a trip. I hope you enjoy our area. Oh and here’s a warning, since you were going a little fast.”

And then -- and only then -- the tone would become stern and the smile turn to a frown as the patrolman would continue, “Let me catch you going that fast around here again and you’ll be ponying up a fine that will make your hair turn gray… or earning a free pass to jail.”

Aaaah. That’s the way things would be handled in my world. I consider that fair. And it would put the fear of God in me, too.

As it is, however, I’m just mad about the whole ordeal. So I’ll just be petty and never return there… again… ever. I lived my whole life without visiting that area. Who needs to go back?

I feel better getting that recent unpleasant experience off my chest. Now lets move on to more pleasant thoughts.


My column had to to do with planning summer trips. It ended like this:

Just plan well, save up, and take those summer trips. They’re the “stuff” memories are made of. Even when they’re – ahem – not quite so pleasant.”

“Y2Y... so I guess I can never meet you in Wisconsin. Well, at least nowhere north of La Crosse. (I've never had highway patrol problems in the southern part of the state. I think it's a "we have little economy here in the northwoods, lets slap hefty fines on out-of-state speeders" thing in the northwoods!)”