What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Akashimo]

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@_@ Getting calls for orders at my new job that are almost impossible to understand, or have thick accents that should be a different language. That and getting no tips when I get to the place in no time.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

People who call me at my home phone number then ask me where I am.

Why?

Just why?

[Durahansolo]

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People who call me at my home phone number then ask me where I am.

Boost Mobile is their service provider.

[Caramis]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

indiana drivers.. every winter same damn thing..

runnin up to a stop sign on snow covered road doin 40 or 50.. then wondering why they cant stop.. slide through intersection and if lucky enough not to get hit take out 10-20 foot of the fence across the street.. get out and rub their head and ask how the hell that happen?

cmon.. its snow we get the shit every freakin year..

out of town drivers going to the casino.. there are two major hotels.. french lick springs, and west baden springs hotels.. french lick has a casino.. west baden the high end hotel.. i work in the jewelry store in wb.. well one road is kinda a main road to get there..

it follows a creek.. so yeah quite a few turns.. nothing major.. not really sharp.. speed limit is 55.. can easily still do 60-70ish and still stay in your own lanes so they arent hard curves by any means..

riding along doing 50ish.. have to slam on the brake cause some outta towner screams "oh god save me!!" and slams on his brakes to take the turn doing 20...

when i was a teen and stupid (30ish years ago).. had our prom out there at french lick.. took my moms old thunderbird elan and ran it back to town (had some friends covering a fire escape door.. had like 10 min to get to town and back unnoticed). car had an electronic dash that only read 85mph.. ran the whole way there and back with it pegged out..

so i know for a fact ya dont need to slow down to 20-30 for any turns unless its wet or snow covered.. cmon people..

one thing that really really annoys the hell outta me are journalists.. when they put stupid comments in a paper.. there was just a news story right after thanksgiving.. guy withdraws 12k outta his bank accounts.. goes to thanksgiving dinner.. kills like 4-5 people in his family then takes off.. goes on the run... goes into hiding.. disappears..

he gets profiled on americas most wanted..

news story reads:: "phone calls to the phone number listed to this person went unanswered."

ya think? really? guys on the run you expect him to be sittin at home to answer the phone.. really?

another one i read last week.. murder / suicide.. guy kills wife.. shoots himself.. in hospital icu in coma or something..

news story reads:: "call to number listed for whatshisname only reached an answering machine"

hmm guys in coma in hospital.. killed his wife.. no kids (stated in story earlier) so yeah i wouldnt expect anyone to be there..

things like this make my head hurt..

[fairyoracle75]

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How it seems everyone on the planet seems to expect Real Estate agents to have amazing super powers and can work 24 hours a day with no sleep and should never relax.

I was told by a super annoying client this morning I messed up because after getting up at 7:00 AM I spent all day with hertaking her to houses, had the nerve to go to dinner and a movie with a friend, and had the nerve not to stay up past midnight researching more properties for her when we stll had a list of 5 to see this afternoon in a 2 hour period.

Why do so many people think non-urgent things are urgent and I should work past midnight?

[TheGrandMom]

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Current peeve....

My mother going out in this hellishly cold weather to bring me a brownie pan. The woman won't listen to anything the doctor or I say to her. If I have to go live with the woman in order to keep her put.....just watch for a murder-suicide in Wisconsin of a mother and daughter...it will be me. ><

[Firewind]

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People (always young or middle aged and always very clearly middle class couples) on the train who try to kick me out of a perfectly good, unreserved table seat. It's even funnier when they don't think to check the table seats on the other side of the carriage but they decide that because I'm sitting alone at a table seat that I must be some kind of selfish monster.

No. I just like the leg room. Like any other person using a train, if I see a table seat that is empty and not reserved you'll bet I'll take it. And I like being able to put my laptop bag on the table where I can see it rather than in the overhead storage where my last one was stolen from.

Most civil people will just ask politely if I will move it. Most civil people won't mind me leaving it on the table after explaining that I don't want a second laptop stolen from the overhead storage and other Civil people don't mind me just stowing it under the table.

These "Table Gestapo" (for lack of a better term) will also yell at me when I am very clearly working on my laptop as though me deciding to start an assignment while commuting is far more selfish than the couple of teenage girls trying to build a card pyramid on thiers or the drunken frat boys who are using a table to place a single burger on it because they're too lazy to hold it, or the old lady who sat at a table seat to put her fucking Rat on Stilts (my pet name for those handbag sized dogs old ladies have) on the table.

It's actually pretty funny when they have reserved the seat number I'm in but it was in a different carriage. This happened to me the last time it happened and it was very satisfying

How it seems everyone on the planet seems to expect Real Estate agents to have amazing super powers and can work 24 hours a day with no sleep and should never relax.

I was told by a super annoying client this morning I messed up because after getting up at 7:00 AM I spent all day with hertaking her to houses, had the nerve to go to dinner and a movie with a friend, and had the nerve not to stay up past midnight researching more properties for her when we stll had a list of 5 to see this afternoon in a 2 hour period.

Why do so many people think non-urgent things are urgent and I should work past midnight?

Probably because of that

[Feba]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

People (always young or middle aged and always very clearly middle class couples) on the train who try to kick me out of a perfectly good, unreserved table seat. It's even funnier when they don't think to check the table seats on the other side of the carriage but they decide that because I'm sitting alone at a table seat that I must be some kind of selfish monster.

No. I just like the leg room. Like any other person using a train, if I see a table seat that is empty and not reserved you'll bet I'll take it. And I like being able to put my laptop bag on the table where I can see it rather than in the overhead storage where my last one was stolen from.

Most civil people will just ask politely if I will move it. Most civil people won't mind me leaving it on the table after explaining that I don't want a second laptop stolen from the overhead storage and other Civil people don't mind me just stowing it under the table.

These "Table Gestapo" (for lack of a better term) will also yell at me when I am very clearly working on my laptop as though me deciding to start an assignment while commuting is far more selfish than the couple of teenage girls trying to build a card pyramid on thiers or the drunken frat boys who are using a table to place a single burger on it because they're too lazy to hold it, or the old lady who sat at a table seat to put her fucking Rat on Stilts (my pet name for those handbag sized dogs old ladies have) on the table.

It's actually pretty funny when they have reserved the seat number I'm in but it was in a different carriage. This happened to me the last time it happened and it was very satisfying

What I got from this: Haha, trains! England is so quaint.


Pet peeve: Superpowers that don't have trains. Come on America, seriously. You put a really big fucking engine on metal tracks that go across the entire country. How do we not own this shit.

[BurningPanther]

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What I got from this: Haha, trains! England is so quaint.


Pet peeve: Superpowers that don't have trains. Come on America, seriously. You put a really big fucking engine on metal tracks that go across the entire country. How do we not own this shit.

The shame of it being that locomotive technology in the United States has been mostly unchanged since the turn of the century.

Where the hell are my bullet trains?

[Caramis]

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Pet peeve: Superpowers that don't have trains. Come on America, seriously. You put a really big fucking engine on metal tracks that go across the entire country. How do we not own this shit.

america has them.. america for the most part just doesnt use them.. trains = time to get there.. most would rather spend the extra hundred or so for a ticket to fly there..

but from time to time i do see passenger trains going down the tracks.. at one of the train hubs in indianapolis there are several commuter trains / passenger cars around quite a bit..

america has the "need it now, have it now, get there now" attitude so yeah trains arent really that compatible with that mentality.

for example: drive car 5ish hours from louisville ky to chicago il... train approximately 2-3 hours.. plane about 60-80 minutes.

in todays mentality what one do you think will win? cheapest would be driving by car, but time consuming.. second about twice the cost of car half the time.. third about 190ish but in there before your next trip to the bathroom..

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

What I got from this: Haha, trains! England is so quaint.


Pet peeve: Superpowers that don't have trains. Come on America, seriously. You put a really big fucking engine on metal tracks that go across the entire country. How do we not own this shit.

Well what you have to consider is how much eaiser it would be to run a train system in a country that can easily fit inside Florida along with the rest of Florida then it would be to run a train system for all of the US.

That and what Caramis said. Due to the distances involved it's probably easier to just save for a plane ticket instead.

[Yellow Mage]

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The shame of it being that locomotive technology in the United States has been mostly unchanged since the turn of the century.

Where the hell are my bullet trains?

I actually remember on one episode of The Daily Show where they were interviewing the Secretary of Transportation or something, and he seemed to hint heavily at a bullet train-like network being in our near future. I specifically remember Jon objecting to the Northeast being the last area to get this update.

[Feba]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

america has them..

Like hell we do. Saying America has trains is like saying China has human rights.

Yes, covering America with railroad is a much more daunting prospect than a densely populated island country (although I will point out that the EU, if seen as a rival superpower, is still beating us). Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. Yes, American trains now are slow compared to air travel-- the entire point is to fix that by upgrading to modern technology.

[Nuriko]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Static Shocks!!!! How I hate thee!!!!!!! My shoes have collected an abnormal amount of static so I always get shocked when touching metal objects at work. I assume it is my dress shoes because I always get shocked 10x worse when I have them on. I generate enough static electricity to run all the tube lights in the building LOL!

It sounds like the humidity is too low where you work. People don't seem to notice low humidity as readily as high.

[DakAttack]

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