Pet peeves and general nsanity

[Lady Nicolette]

I work in a grocery store, so I get all of the grocery ones!

Three pet peeves:

1.  And this one is about pets.  Why get a dog and leave it outside (even worse, outside and tied up)?
2.  Voice mail.  If I wanted to know any of the usual stuff, I wouldn't need to call in the first place.  Pleeze don't waste my time by offering me choices I'm not calling for ad nauseum!
3.  People who are talking on their cell phones or texting while driving.  Hang up and drive, public roadways are not your living room.

[KeeperoftheBar]

I have narrowed down my pet peeves to 2 major ones.

1)  The left lane on the freeway is for passing.  MOVE OVER.  It is not for going fast, up to but not over, the speed limit.  I worked with a woman who would drive 55 mph in the left lane (the olden days when that was the limit) and could not understand why everyone passing her on the right would flip her off.

2) Children who are brats but their parents don't realize or accept it.  Discipline you child and stop making excuses for them.  The world will thank you.

[RenStarr]

Driving pet peeves.  That could be another whole thread.  Several have been thrown out there already that I agree with, but I'll add another one:

Getting backed up and "waiting in line" to be able to make a left hand turn.  Why do some folks feel as if they shouldn't have to wait thier turn in line?  They run all the way to the intersection in the immedate right lane (and not I'm talking about the occasional person that just missed the line in the left turn land, I'm talking about the person who made a choice to NOT get in line), stop, put on a turn signal, and just expect for someone to just let......them.......in.  I waited my turn in line, they can do the same thing.  And if you don't let them in, they give you a nasty look and in some cases flip ya off.  Not to mention the folks that get backed up behind them that often times end up missing the green light because of this bone head.
People do the same on the excess roads when there's an entrance ramp to get on a highway.  Once again, they don't want to wait thier turn ("in line") so they run right up to the entrance and usually just push thier way in.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


It's nice having a place to rant some.      

[BubbleWright]

This comes under general insanity... Westboro Baptist Church, famous for picketing soldiers' funerals, has a new target. They are picketing Comic-Con. They feel comic reading nerds are worshiping comic book characters and need to be SAVED! It is not a stretch of the imagination that they could next target RenFaires. In fact, there is a Westboro-like church that protests at the Pennsylvania Faerie Festival every year. Back in 2007 I wrote in my blog on RenSpace:

The only damper on the day was the group of 'anti-faerie' protestors and their haranguing everyone who passed by. Basically they were telling all who entered the festival that they would be condemned to HELL for rejecting GOD'S WORD. Most people ignored them but they were able to provoke a number of people. Since they started from the De Fide postition that they were absolutely right, no dialog could be had. And if those they provoked responded rudely, they fell back to the position that 'THEY were being persecuted for their beliefs'. Anyone who disagreed with them was labeled Satan's spawn, a lesbian or a homo. I brought my bubble machine over to the pathway into the Festival and made bubbles for the protestors (who were on the other side of the property fence next to the road). The leader of the group tried to provoke me by making snide remarks about me to his cohorts. I smiled and made bubbles. He then directed his invective directly to me. I smiled and made bubbles. The whole time people were entering and leaving the Festival, many stopping to enjoy the bubbles. Finally the leader moved down the fence line about 20 feet.

Only in America is such hatred tolerated under freedom of religion and 1st Admendment rights. They would do well to be very careful not to come after those who attend Renaissance Faires... we have lots of sharp, pointy things at our side.

Story Link >>>> http://www.asylum.com/2010/07/16/westboro-baptist-church-picket-comic-con/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl7|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asylum.com%2F2010%2F07%2F16%2Fwestboro-baptist-church-picket-comic-con%2F

[Lady Neysa]

Normally I park at the far end of the lot at my Post Office. One day an ignoramus parked at the front door horizontally across one space with the front and back of his car poking onto the adjacent spaces. As I pulled up, another driver was coming from the opposite direction. Our eyes met, we pointed to the car, nodded our heads and we squeezed in front and back of the dummy's car.  Ten minutes later when we left the Post Office he was waiting in his car and glared at us indignantly. Perhaps we shouldn't have busted out laughing but every once in a while you win one for the gipper.

Brilliant! 

Oh, and I remember reading about and seeing pictures somewhere about the faerie festival protests. Sigh...

Ok, I have just been reminded of another pet peeve..People who are very physically able, who park in the handicapped parking spaces!!! If you do not have the special plates, or the hanging permit...DON"T Park There!!! Walk your lazy arses the length of the 3 extra spaces to get to the door...there are people who are not physically able to walk the distance who can't park now because of rude ignorance!!

This one makes my blood boil!  My brother is physically handicapped and I can't tell you how many times we've been unable to use the handicapped parking because of this.  I also question when I see a car WITH a handicapped tag or permit, yet someone pops out of the vehicle and jogs to the door.  I know that some people have handicaps that may not be obvious, but if you are able to walk, let alone jog to the door, save that space for someone who really needs it. I suspect that people borrow handicapped vehicles and take advantage of the tag.  I don't know if this is true or a myth, but I've heard that in some states it's easy to get a handicap permit. Just whine to your doctor about any little ailment and ask them to write a letter for the MVA, and there you go...  I hope it's not true, it shouldn't be that easy to get a permit. 

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Pet peeves are negative, and though I have several - especially driving ones - I have used this for many years, and it diffuses my anger in a situation, if not others.

I made a fairy wand.  Like Glinda's in the Wizard of Oz.  A dowel, with a big star on top, that I spray painted gold.  I wrapped curly ribbon around the top (the kind you use a pair of scissors to scrape against and make it curly, like for gift wrapping), about 2 ft long down each side.  Several strands, so I have a whole bunch of colors and curls.

Then, when in a stop-and-go situation, when some idiot starts pumping his/her horn, when there's clearly no place to go or anything anyone can do, I lower my window, put my wand out there high enough above Chiquita (my VW bug) and start waving it around.  It has never failed to make the people around me burst out laughing.  They probably think I'm nuts, but it makes a bad situation tolerable.  And it makes me laugh and feel better.

Make lemonade. 

[Lady Nicolette]

What a great idea, Renee! 

[LadyFae]

Renee, you crack me up something FIERCE!!!!!  =D

[auntiegiggles]

I am soooo going to try that!  ROFL!   

[Merlin the Elder]

Renee, you sound like someone I have to meet. That's too funny!

[DonaCatalina]

Renee, that was too good.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

OK, so let's start the "Be Happy, Wave your Magic Wand" club, so that way we don't have to dwell on negativism.

Requirements for Membership:  Make someone smile, even if it's as silly as waving a magic wand around

Dues:  Every day, practice one random act of kindness, or something to make someone else smile

Membership is open to:  Everyone.  This club is all inclusive, wants more and more members

Ultimate Goal:  No need for threads here - or elsewhere - about pet peeves.  Because everyone will be smiling!

I'll start.  With my usual                

[Merlin the Elder]

You go, girl! ...and I will, too. If the club were all girls, it might be called Tinker's Belles, but since some of us more manly-types want to be involved, I suppose we should call it something else... I'm not into pink tights, and you'd need eye-bleach if you saw me wearing some. (did I make anyone smile?)  It takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown.

[KeeperoftheBar]

  It takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown.

And it takes even less to smack them upside the head.
(Sorry, bad day)

[Kiss-me-Kate]

I work in customer service at my company.  I mainly work with our outside sales reps, and store buyers/managers.  I have been doing my job for 13 years. 

My pet peeve is this:
Just because I answer the phone, does not mean I am stupid.     

Don't spell "street" or other simple words for me.  I can spell.  I can even spell and pronounce Schenectady.
I know to dial a "1" before calling long distance.

I had an a$$hat call in, and spell everything in his address-in a s-l-o-w condescending tone.  When we got to his city, which was Dallas or something easy/common enough, I told him, "Thank you sir, I can spell."   I hope the jerk felt about this big * * after I said that. 

Renee- you truly are going to start a movement!
I am going to start driving around with a magic wand.  I already have one at work, and home, so why shouldn't I have one drive around with me in "Betsy."   

Heck, maybe we'll get some converts for Faire while we are at.