The pet peeves thread

Harley Davidson motorcycles are a true engineering marvel. No other vehicle can turn gasoline into noise and vibration as efficiently as they do.

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BM trouble you

Last evening, driving north on 13th East a care was literally gunning it and squeezing between cars i.e “Brickyard 500” I mean inches off the rear bumper. Now the speed limit is 35 MPH. Well, at least 5 or 6 cars had to panic break because this ■■■■■■■ was suddenly injecting himself in between a normal safe distance. It’s about a 2 mile strip and the car probably shaved a total of 20 seconds total. WTF!!
I simply can’t imagine what kind of personality disorder incites someone to drive so recklessly.
I sometimes fantasize about the joy of a mounted grenade launcher for people like this.

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People who insist on cutting though neighborhoods at 50+ miles an hour to shave maybe 20 seconds from a known traffic light. We have a ton of kids in our neighbourhood. I worry someone will be grievously injured some day. WTF!!!

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Now doing that would really tie up traffic.

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This one comes up for cycling officials several times a year, and is one of my greatest peeves. Racers who don’t check results when they are posted, and missing the protest period. Then coming back a week or longer to get the results changed because they’re wrong. When asked if they checked the results— crickets, then but the results are wrong. So in the hell didn’t you let us know during the protest period? Crickets, then awhile later “the results are wrong.”

It used to be even “better” when it was the parents telling us they were wrong. We, Carolina based, officials started telling the kids (and their parents) at the start that if the results are wrong the kids have to come talk to the officials, NOT the parents. The kids were great, we would show them what we were doing so they understood the process, and if we could we adjusted the results.

Moral of the story, we’re happy to make adjustments if things are wrong. Coming up 7, 8 or even more days later is mostly a non-starter. There is a caveat in that sometimes when results are sent to USAC they get muffed up, we’ll try to fix those. Otherwise, stfu, and check your results day of the race.

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My favorite part about this peeve is that it is not about motor vehicles.

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I’ll work on adding a motor vehicle in next time. :laughing:

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You ever had a fart so bad it made your eyes water and stunk up the living room to the point it set off the HEPA cleaner into high gear?

My son did that.

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What’s important is that you are giving your son a life you never had as a child. That’s all a parent can hope for.

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I thought you were asking for a "friend " til i got to the end. : )

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But one of the beautiful things about having kids is not having to blame your “friends” for things…

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Places that make you take your kid through the gift shop to get in or out.

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kids

Here’s one. I actually handle these just fine but I would rather make small talk with a cashier.

Self-checkout is a failed experiment

https://archive.ph/DGt0s

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I will only use self checkout if there are no manned checkout lines available.

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The Sams Club self checkout is amazing. It’s an app on your phone. Scan as you pick stuff up and put in your cart. Pay on the app. Leave. Life changing.

Why?

Are you the poster formerly know as Brian on other message boards?

Dan the Laptop Man has been running an ad for well over a year where he describes his latest PC by exclaiming, “She’s a stallion.” For crying out loud, can’t anybody close to this guy tell him that makes no sense whatsoever and what a stallion is?

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