Random peeves

[Thornir Alekeg]

You know what I hate? People who don't use their turn signals. It takes zero effort, and it does absolutely nothing negative.

You obviously haven't driven in Boston. Using turn signals here is like dumping chum into shark infested waters.

 

[Aeolius]

My favorite was the potato chip delivery guy who yelled at me for parking in a handicap spot in front of City Hall. I patted my gun and said "When they let me carry a gun into a court house, they let me park wherever I want".

If it had been in my town, I would have parked behind the offending vehicle, called the cops and the driver's supervisor (might even mention that their driver threatened me with a gun), and not let them out until they had been ticketed. Morons who park in illegally in handicap-designated spots happen to be MY pet peeve.

 

[Chimera]

If it had been in my town, I would have parked behind the offending vehicle, called the cops and the driver's supervisor (might even mention that their driver threatened me with a gun), and not let them out until they had been ticketed. Morons who park in illegally in handicap-designated spots happen to be MY pet peeve.

As I said, I am authorized to park pretty much anywhere I want. We are an Authorized Vehicle, able to drive down special lanes and even park on sidewalks if necessary. In that particular spot, I am surrounded by Police vehicles, I have dozens of Police officers walking past me. Not ONE has ever asked us to move.

We've only been asked to move from a handicapped spot at a government center ONCE (Juvenile Court), and that was by a new security guard who was quickly over-ruled by the County Sheriff's Deputy who was also in the building. "No, they're allowed to park there."

If you did this, they'd likely tell you to shut up and move on. Then, if you told them that we threatened you with a gun, we'd make sure that you were arrested for filing a false police report.

Board rules prevent me from saying what I truly think of you for even suggesting that idea.

 

[Chimera]

People who won't take no for an answer. If you ask me to a party, and I say no, asking me a hundred times won't change my opinion. It'll just make me angry.

I've had to explain this one to a number of people.

"Look, I said No. I meant it. After the third time, you are just being rude and disrespectful. You obviously don't care what I think or say, you just want to badger me into doing what you want, and I'm not interested. Do not EVER ask me the same question more than twice, three times at the outside. Please."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Members of certain religious groups who come to my door and offer their views on the universe. Door stickers that say "Sects, stop! We're catholics and don't need your pamphlets" or somesuch. Especially if they do it before 11 am, between 2 and 5 pm.

How about "No Sects, please- We're Catholics!"

 

[jaerdaph]

How about "No Sects, please- We're Catholics!"

As Catholics, we're not allowed to have sects until we're married...

*rimshot*

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Word!

Original RC in the hizzy, role-playas!

 

[bodhi]

If someone is deliberately obstructing you, that's different. Again, the money and the gun are irrelevant. Obsruction of another person is rude, and rudeness is an acceptable response.

But your money and your gun have nothing to do with it. They are not more important than my grapefruit.

Once, I was pushing a pallet load of monitors down a corridor. It was pretty obviously a large and somewhat heavy load. I approached a cross-corridor intersection where two people were talking. Now, rather than moving together to one side or the other (and getting out of the way), they each moved to their own side, and stood next to the doorway, leaving the minimum space possible, while still "allowing" me to pass.

I don't think they were deliberately trying to obstruct me. They were just too self-absorbed to see how stupid it was.

I've seen people obstruct an ambulance because they couldn't figure out how to get out of the way.

A few years back, in the Bay Area, I read about a guy whose truck got hit by a train because he drove around the gates that drop to block the crossing. This was the second time this had happened to this particular driver.

Sometimes, it's not about being polite. It's about being observant. And if someone's business is such that they carry a firearm (or a medical kit, or a firehose), I'm inclined to yield right-of-way.

 

[bodhi]

Willfuly stupid people, that is those people who have the required barin power to actually think, but won't. Because they have their idea on how the world works, and no matter what you say or what proofs you offer, they won't accept it.

A friend of mine once encountered someone who was proud of the fact they hadn't had to learn anything new in the past year. People like that make my brain hurt.

Like someone other said, people who think they're experts in a field they have no connections to. Don't talk to me about fishing problems if you can't tell purse seine nets and trawling nets apart.

A different friend once commented that a peeve for her was people "correcting" her on matters Chinese when their experience was along the lines of having had a Chinese girlfriend once, or having seen the latest Jet Li movie.

 

[Hatchling Dragon]

One of my pet peeves are people that are willfully ignorant, reality is right in front of them and they choose to ignore it. This often, but not always, goes hand-in-hand with the "The world revolves around me!" crowd. Sometimes these folks can mearly be missunderstanding something, so please bear with me if I'm mistaken and this is the case here.

OK, but that wasn't your description. You described yourself pushing past people, and them taking exception to that and remarking on it. In which case, good for them!

Odd, I read the same post and I had a totaly different impression. I saw him appologising when he tried to move past/through people that are blocking traffic in halls or what-not. I'd figured that if he was in the institution that he was doing a pick-up/delivery at they'd know better and stay out of his way as he did the job they are paying him for. Also, I've always found it easier to move around the road blockers, and assumed he thought the same way, thus if he had to go trough it was from a lack of alternatives. That or he figured he was being 'herded' and didn't want to play that game.

Frankly, whether or not you're carrying someone else's money and/or have a gun is irrelevant. It may be relevant to you, but someone else's money and your gun not being delayed 3 seconds is not relevant to me. Someone else's money can wait 3 seconds if I want to get the the grapefruits in the supermarket. Those aims are not more important than mine - which I will value, at the moment, to the exact amount you are carrying.

If someone is deliberately obstructing you, that's different. Again, the money and the gun are irrelevant. Obsruction of another person is rude, and rudeness is an acceptable response.

But your money and your gun have nothing to do with it. They are not more important than my grapefruit.

I'm realy at a loss here as to how you have that opinion. That's the entire point! He's got his job, which involves carring the gun and driving the Armored truck, because there are 'scum-bags' out there that are constantly thinking up ways to seperate people from thier money. His job is to safely move it from one safe storage area to the next. His truck is safe, the spots he picks up and delivers to are safe. The area he's got to worry about has the least safety of the whole trip, and thus he'd be a fool not to assume that anyone that's blocking him is trying to do so on purpose and thus endangering himself and/or the money he's protecting.