What's bugging you? (2007)

[PeaveyFury]

It's the first cool, low humidity, and downright beautiful evening we've had in weeks- so of course the farmer down the road picks today as the day to spread manure.

 

Feels just great to have the place all closed up this evening.

[trwi7]

It's the first cool, low humidity, and downright beautiful evening we've had in weeks- so of course the farmer down the road picks today as the day to spread manure.

 

Feels just great to have the place all closed up this evening.

 

Maybe the farmer didn't want to spread manure in the heat. Probably a good idea.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/laugh.gif

[1992casey]

Cell phones have made my list of gripes (again).

 

A friend pulled into the driveway to ask me a favor. I stood by her car and waited five minutes for her to get off the phone (again).

 

Last week, I was in a restaurant where the sign at the entrance specifically said, 'no cell phones'. Of course, a guy's loud ringtone reverberated through the restaurant and he carried on his conversation with the loudest voice in the room. That place was so small that he could have easily set his phone to vibrate and walked the five steps outside to talk.

 

This last gripe is three years old, but it still bugs me. We were sitting in a restaurant while people were collectively carrying on a conversation on a speakerphone they had sitting between them on the table. They may as well have brought a boom box.

 

I asked a restaurant manager friend what she'd do if someone pulled the speakerphone stunt. She said she'd either turn the house music up (to make it more difficult to talk on the thing) or turn the house music down (so everyone could listen in).

[Patrick425]

I gotta come to the off-topic page more often. There are some really good threads here.

 

I'm very easily annoyed, so if I really thought about it, I could take up one whole page with one post, but I'll limit it to things that have come to my head now (sorry if there are repeats).

 

The last post reminds me of one of the things that really bugs me. People who talk to loudly.

 

People who are still using checks to pay for their groceries. If you have a checking account, then you should have access to a check card. Use it.

 

Non-handicaped people parking in handicap spots. (Let's just put this under the general umbrella of people who think they are so special that the rules and common curtesy's of society don't apply to them.)

 

Ok, as I'm typing this stuff, I'm thinking that maybe I'm misunderstanding this thread. Maybe it's more about what bugging you at this moment as opposed to a list of life-long grievences. So, I'll stop.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/ohwell.gif

[mothershipconnection]

People who walk incredibly slow when they're in the way of traffic, either at an intersection or in a parking lot. Yeah, you have the right of way, but you don't need to be such a lazy slob - pick it up to a 4mph pace instead of taking 30 seconds to walk 25 feet across that intersection. Yesterday, I was seriously stuck at the crosswalk in front of target for over 3 minutes because people took forever to cross and by the time they were halfway, there was another person walking 3ft/hr.

[Patrick425]

People who walk incredibly slow when they're in the way of traffic, either at an intersection or in a parking lot. Yeah, you have the right of way, but you don't need to be such a lazy slob - pick it up to a 4mph pace instead of taking 30 seconds to walk 25 feet across that intersection. Yesterday, I was seriously stuck at the crosswalk in front of target for over 3 minutes because people took forever to cross and by the time they were halfway, there was another person walking 3ft/hr.

Amen, you get that all the time downtown. People who are jaywalking in the first place, they see a car coming but don't feel it's neccesary to quicken the pace a little. As I said to my wife, would hurt people to jog for 5 feet? I guess it just wouldn't be cool to do that?

 

I'll take that a step further. People need to walk in the same manner that they drive. If you were pulling out from a side street, would you pull out right in front of a car that was doing 45? I would hope not. However, people do this in malls and in other public situations all the time. I'm walking down the mall, someone comes out of a store and never looks up to see if someone else is walking towards them, they just walk right out in front of me. Happens everywhere...on sidewalks, in Miller Park, etc.

[Brian the Automator]

People who whistle along with the music in stores. Especially, those who don't know how the song goes and whistle their own weird harmonies that don't make any sense.

[hawing]

People who walk incredibly[/i] slow

 

This happens to me regularly when I'm running errands on State Street in Madison. For example, I'm on a break from work and need to pick up something at the pharmacy; this often means I'm doomed to get stuck behind a group of visitors (vacation or "back to school" this time of year, Christmas shopping at the holidays, and WIAA tournament visitors in spring) who walk at a snail's pace. "Oooh, look at that (pointing to store window display)! A Bucky T-shirt! That's so cute!" Or, worse yet, they encounter another group coming the other way and manage to block the sidewalk in the process. Then I look like the bad guy for cutting through so I can get back to work.

 

The WIAA tournament visitors almost (not quite) warrant a separate thread. Yeah, you own downtown Madison. That's great. Please move. And then there's the clink-clink-clink of the medals on the letter jackets. Apologies to any posters who competed in WIAA tourneys in Madison and actually did the clink clink clink thing.

[mothershipconnection]

Yeah, oblivious groups when you're on foot are as bad as snails when you're driving. I hate the groups of tubby people who line up across the aisle and barely waddle along while everyone behind them is just stuck there. This most often happens in Wal Mart (big surprise). Of course, those of us under 350lbs can compensate for our lack of girth by adding a cart and walking really slow - preferably with whoever is with you walking beside the cart so nobody can get by. Then, you suddenly stop to look at an endcap display with absolutely no awareness of all the people you're forcing to stop.

 

I've noticed a striking lack of store etiquette since moving to Minnesota. There seem to be a lot of people here who are really into their "right" to do something - like make cars stop and wait forever at crosswalks, but it's weird that this would stick out to someone who moved from Texas. I've heard in conversation or overheard many times things that start with "well, they have to let you...it's the law". It's like everyone in the Twin Cities is an amateur lawyer who's into flexing their rights, even when it makes no sense to do so. We had someone at my work go off about OSHA compliance (our work is essentially an office with near-zero danger), and bring in printouts of OSHA rules. Nevermind we're way too small to be governed by OSHA, but why would anyone do this other than to pretend to be an expert? I do offer the caveat that the majority of people I've met here work in a certain field, so there may be something about that which engenders this stupidity.

[1992casey]

I'm extremely patient with pedestrians, bicycles, and buggies. What worries me is the drivers that aren't patient and think it's absolutely fine to pass a bike or buggy in a no-passing zone.

 

While I might jog to get out of a crosswalk more quickly, I wouldn't expect anyone else to do it.

[Patrick425]

What worries me is the drivers that aren't patient and think it's absolutely fine to pass a bike or buggy in a no-passing zone.

Really is this the law? I guess I wasn't aware of that. So, are you saying that if a bike or buggy (not sure what that is?), is riding on the side of the road, you are not allowed to pass them until you get to a passing zone??! Sorry, I think that's a little unreasonable to expect cars to possibly ride behind a bike (that's on the side of the road) at 15 mph on a 55 mph county hwy for miles until they get to a passing zone. I think most people can safely pick a spot to edge a few feet into the other lane and pass.

 

On another note. It really bothers me when someone is making a left hand turn on a two lane road and there is plenty of room to pass the car on the right as they wait for oncoming traffic to clear. However, instead of doing that, cars line up behind the turning car. I don't get that at all.

[1992casey]

I live by a couple of really nifty hills where it's absolutely unsafe to deviate over the center line at all. So in this case, I'm talking about the more extreme type of situation. Also, it's not practical for all types of bicycles to use the gravel shoulder. So, basically, ya gotta stay behind the bike. If there's a reasonable line of vision to get around a bicycle, I'll do it. I'm not sure how legal that is, though.

 

Passing on the right on a two lane road is absolutely illegal unless there's 'lane' created for that purpose. You have to wait or risk a ticket.

[Roscoe Chill]

fair-weather Brewers fans. I'm getting sick and tired of people saying, "the Brewers are done...they're not going to the playoffs....they're playing like crap....they don't deserve to go to the playoffs...etc" I'm sad to say that some of these 'fair-weather' fans are some of my good friends, too.

So, the Brewers are playing good? Do you really think right now that the Brewers are on their way to the playoffs? Does any team in the NL Central deserve to go to the playoffs? Speaking the truth does not make someone a fair weather fan. We can still root for the Brewers, but I guess what's bugging me is people on this site that refuse to accept the fact that the Brewers are playing not just bad, but awful over a long stretch...and it's OK to admit it...there wouldn't be many Brewer fans at all, if they were fair-weather.

[Patrick425]

Passing on the right on a two lane road is absolutely illegal unless there's 'lane' created for that purpose. You have to wait or risk a ticket.

Going around a car that has stopped and is waiting to make a left hand turn is considered illegal? What if it's an intersection (without lights and the cross road has stop signs)? Wow, I have been driving for 24 years now, didn't know that.

 

One road of many that I'm thinking of is Grandview (between Northview and Summit) in Waukesha. During rush hour it's pretty busy with cars turning down side streets all the time. Are you saying I'm not allowed to go into the parking lane to get by the turning car. If that's the case then it should never be legal to pass on a two lane highway. That's more dangerous than carefully going around a car that's making a left hand turn.

[davego]

One World Government...I'm getting tired of waiting for it already. Let's get going!

[mothershipconnection]

Going around a car that has stopped and is waiting to make a left hand turn is considered illegal?

 

I got into an accident when I signaled a left turn on accident and quickly switched it to right before turning. In the meantime, a car was going around me to the right. The cop said that as long as he didn't have to go off the road to get around me, he was legal.

[1992casey]

mothership's description (as long as there's room on the actual road) coincides with my understanding. A small added lane to the right would be part of the actual road.

 

A friend of mine who was compelled to attend 'traffic school' said lesson #1 was "How to avoid tickets". Going around traffic on the shoulder was example #1 in that lesson.

[strawbossisevil]

All the posters who feel like they have to "set straight" anyone with any optimism what so ever. Yeah, everyone realizes that the team is playing poorly. But that doesn't mean we have to be considered foolish for having at least some hope that the team might get on a roll by the end of the season.

 

That and the posters who feel they have to knit pick every single decision Yost makes as if he's a flipping moron. And make thread after thread after thread about how they feel about it.

[brewdude15]

fair-weather Brewers fans. I'm getting sick and tired of people saying, "the Brewers are done...they're not going to the playoffs....they're playing like crap....they don't deserve to go to the playoffs...etc" I'm sad to say that some of these 'fair-weather' fans are some of my good friends, too.

So, the Brewers are playing good? Do you really think right now that the Brewers are on their way to the playoffs? Does any team in the NL Central deserve to go to the playoffs? Speaking the truth does not make someone a fair weather fan. We can still root for the Brewers, but I guess what's bugging me is people on this site that refuse to accept the fact that the Brewers are playing not just bad, but awful over a long stretch...and it's OK to admit it...there wouldn't be many Brewer fans at all, if they were fair-weather.

 

i know the Brewers are playing like crap lately, but it's the fact that it's practically getting thrown in my face.

[M Skjellyfetti]

The thing that really ticks me off is slow walkers who cross in the crosswalk when they don't have a green light. If you're going to cross at the end of your walk signal, hustle up and get across the street before I get a green light, please. Otherwise, don't cross. I almost had to wait out an entire green light at an intersection in Madison waiting for a group of slow teenagers crossing the street. That was craptacular to say the least.

[NeedMoreFans]

People who, without prompting, start talking about politics and controvertial issues with you. This especially bugs me when I don't agree with what they are saying, but for whatever reason, they assume I agree with them 100%. At work today, I had a guy talk to me about some stuff..."The government should do this, you know?" or "The government shouldn't do this, you know?" But I don't agree with you! All I could do is nod my head and smile, because I'm not going to start a political debate with people, especially at work.

[Brian the Automator]

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[Patrick425]

Do those trucks actually carry anything, or do they just drive around all day? If they just drive around all day, what does the driver get paid? Seems like kind of a sweet job.

[1992casey]

All I know is that the admobile web page starts playing music when I visit it. I hate that. I hope the trucks don't play music, too.

 

I'd have to assume that the trucks carry something and probably belong to people in the cargo business.

[chuckiehacks]

I'd have to assume that the trucks carry something and probably belong to people in the cargo business.

Nope, they just drive around all day. Each driver has a set loop that they repeat over and over. We used to advertise on them at my last job. The crazy part is that the side costs more than the back. No one gets a good luck at the side, but the back has people following, stopping at lights, etc. Anyway, it was not effective.