Saturday, September 1, 2007

Pet Peeves

Okay...this has been a long time coming, but here are a few of my pet peeves, in no particular order:
When traffic is narrowing from two lanes to one and people stay in the lane that is closing until the last possible moment, THEN try to merge...I also don't like it when people reward them by letting them in.
When people are telling you about something that happened sometime and try to remember which day, "On Tuesday, or was it Monday....Sunday? No, I think it was Tuesday.." IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! Just tell me the story and what happened, okay?
Not flushing toilets after use, ..especially urinals. Why do you want to leave your "leftovers" for the next person to see and smell. This is why technology has had to resort to those toilets that flush themselves after you're done. I'm assuming that men are worse than men on this, but I have nothing to base this on...
Bad spelling. No excuse for it, and spellcheck doesn't help if you misspell the word and it's still a word. Typo's...okay, some leeway. But I have receive official Government documents riddled with spelling errors. These documents (trust me) have been seen by AT LEAST three people, and probably more, before they are posted.
When people, while driving, are in the right lane while you are trying to enter the freeway, and they won't move over and let you on...There's no one in the next lane, Bubba, scoot over!
When people hit the on ramp going a blinding 35 mph and don't accelerate to merge into traffic. It's called an "acceleration lane" for a reason, Missy. (why, yes, I was on the road a lot yesterday, why do you ask?)
That's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure something else will piss me off soon...


...didn't take long...The "Express Lane" at Wal-Mart: The "people with more than 20 items, but can't count" problem seems to have been taken care of...but a NEW irritant has emerged: FRIEND OF THE CASHIER! They're either done with their purchase, or haven't started, but they just HAVE to "catch up" while I'm in line behind them...the worst offenders? OTHER WAL-MART EMPLOYEES - either on- or off-duty, they haven't seen this particular cashier in the past 15 minutes or so, and just have to update the cashier on their life in that time span.

...sorry for the negativity today, but I yam what I yam...