Things that bug you (spin off of Goldmoon's thread)

[awayfarer]

Funny enough, my city has roundabouts - Indianapolis, IN is built around one large one at the center of the city, and then there are random roundabouts around the area.

It's even worse here.... no one knows how to drive in them, because I don't think anywhere else in the States has them. Tourist season is hell around here...

Oy, don't get me started on those. You can't fart in Mass without it hitting a rotary. The roads around here (particularly in Boston) are so tangled they look like they were designed by drunk spiders.

 

[Raven Crowking]

How about people who don't pull over for emergency vehicles? That makes me grit my teeth and hope it's their house on fire.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

People who waste a whole "What annoys you" thread on traffic/driving talk.

 

[bodhi]

......... Upon reflection, other drivers in general bug me.

Indeed. I really enjoy driving, except for all the other people on the road.

 

[bodhi]

Now imagine that same situation, but you are going straight ahead through the intersection, instead of hanging a right. Next, imagine that you are riding a bicycle instead of driving a car.

That happened to a friend of mine. He was on a motorcycle, guy turned left in front of him. He told stories about landing on the guy's hood, grabbing onto the windshield wipers, and yelling at the guy to stop his car. He's fine now, but he was in the hospital for quite a while. He enjoyed his morphine clicker, tho.

 

[nerfherder]

2) They want to leave a space, in case they need to maneuver out of the way, if some unforseen accident starts occuring behind them.

I was trained to do this - the recommendation is to stop while you can still see the rear tyres of the car in front.

 

[Torm]

People who waste a whole "What annoys you" thread on traffic/driving talk.

Hey! I listed 15 things and not one of mine was about traffic or driving!

Although, the not-pulling-over-for-emergency-vehicles thing does make me pretty perturbed.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

The office I work in keeps weird hours, so I frequently leave messages or send emails that I need to have returned to other people and businesses. I've found that people, quite often, don't listen to anything I say in the message and/or don't read the email.

So, when I *do* have a chance to speak with them, they are unprepared or cannot answer my question without instruction or information that I already provided.

For example, we got a letter from a professional psychological organization the other day that said: "We see your company has applied for International SomethingOrAnother Status."

Upon taking a look at our records, I noted that we did not, in fact, apply for the International SomethingOrAnother Status. So I called the woman that signed the letter. She wasn't in the office because it was well after five. No biggie.

In my message I give our ID number, my name, my phone number, and explain the situation slowly and carefully (I do this a lot, so I like to think I'm good at it). However, when she returns my call the next day, the first thing she says is: "And what was your call in reference to?"

So I explain the situation, once again and she says: "What's your identification number?" So I give it to her, again. Then, she puts me on hold for 15 minutes while she looks up our account.

And I find that deeply annoying. I gave you that information. You should have looked up our account BEFORE calling instead of calling ot get the information I already gave you and wasting my time by putting me on hold.

 

[Cabled]

When my hamburger slips through the grill and falls in the briquettes...which although they appear intact are in fact this magical pile of fine powder that can hold the shape of a solid object.

 

[Aeson]

Customers that question my knowledge of my job. I'm always being asked "Are you sure?" If you don't trust me with the parcel then take it somewhere else. I'm the one behind the counter. Let me do my job.