The worst is cigarette butts. First off, smoking is idiotic.. second... how in the hell do these people think in their brain "Yea, I think it's okay to throw this toxic thing that was just on fire out of my window onto the ground."
Friday OT #2 - The Unforgivable Curses
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I've also noticed a "I wasn't ready for that question, let me give myself some time to come up with some good ********."
I hate "over explainers". Especially in the workplace, there are people that insist on turning a 2 minute conversation into a 20 minute one. It's usually coupled with a complete inability to understand the non-verbal cues of me being over a conversation.
I'm all for chit-chat and being social but certain people I need to block out a half-hour any time they step foot in my office.
I'm all for chit-chat and being social but certain people I need to block out a half-hour any time they step foot in my office.
It's not a pet peeve of mine but I cold rattle off approximately 30 people right now who I grew up around that use 'so....' on the regular when there's a drop in the convo.
Have you seen the instagram account Cart Narcs? It simultaneously amuses me and makes me ragey.
It took me a while into the cell phone era to see that peeps gesturing wildly and talking loud to no one there were bluetoothed to a phone and not just crazy street schizophrenics. Was hardiest to tell the difference in downtown St. Paul.
I will use it in one instance...
And that is the one instance. Almost 100% of the time, I'm using it to inwardly call someone a dumbass.
A writing-related pet peeve that (hopefully) has short shelf life, but bugs me: The trend of the phrase “will look like” … such as “Nobody is certain what the NFL season will look like” … “School officials discussed what next semester will look like” What happened to grown-up phrases like “how the season will unfold” or “might proceed” or “holds in store”? What the hell is happening?!
Right turn on red. When I am poised to make a right turn on red but my view to the left to see if it's clear is completely blocked by a truck, SUV or pickup in the adjacent lane and the guy behind me starts honking his horn and guestering at me. Sorry dude can't see to the left. No, really you fuckhead, I CANNOT SEE TO THE LEFT! Would happen all of the time two blocks from my house on my old morning commute with some guy honking for me to turn blindly in the highway traffic buzzing by at 60 mph.
Does she sigh like Dr. Pedati? Like she's explaining everything to a toddler for the nth time? If not, don't sweat it.
Yes, very true and I do love it when that happens. Unfortunately, the majority of the ones that bug me are not that. Between the election coverage and a few podcasts I've listened to recently, the interviewee says it before they answer every question. It's like they stupidly said it for the first question and are now afraid that if they don't say it after every question, that the interviewer will somehow think the most recent question wasn't a good one.
I've actually gotten pretty bad with people, at least in a social situation with the "At the end of the day." As soon as someone says, "At the end of the day." before they can say anything else, I just say, "Yeah, at the end of the day, it's just the end of the day." I get some odd looks, but at least it makes me feel better. My wife gets really pissed at me for it though.
We were in an airport a year or so ago and I heard some guy say "Go Hawks!"to some other guy. I said to DH: We have to hear that even out here?? mountain time zone) and he looked and said, "His jacket has Seattle Seahawks on it." Was relieved to say the least.
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Related to this. When you are going to turn right and the guy going straight and not going anywhere until the light turns green pulls way out past the stop line/crosswalk so you can't see without getting out in the lane of cross traffic. Think about others just once. I am always conscious of this as I drive an SUV that can be hard to see over.
And I think you are a bit conservative on the traffic speed on that stretch of road.
Related to this. When you are going to turn right and the guy going straight and not going anywhere until the light turns green pulls way out past the stop line/crosswalk so you can't see without getting out in the lane of cross traffic. Think about others just once. I am always conscious of this as I drive an SUV that can be hard to see over.
And I think you are a bit conservative on the traffic speed on that stretch of road.
I hear you about the dudes pulling way forward and over the crosswalk. At my intersection it is hard even if there is no car to the left since there is a retaining wall partially blocking the view. Throw in winter snow piles and your view left is pretty restricted. No matter though, Honk! Honk! Honk!
At least he was wearing an effective mask!
I thought about doing it through a mask but even without one it's hard to blow them out so a mask could take forever. Plus the fact of having to get so close to candles with a mask on could lead to having my mask catch fire.
