Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

[GanjaBabe]

I'm currently living at my boyfriend's house who happens to be sharing an apartment with his father for a couple of months. It seems like every day, his dad has a new thing to bitch about to us. I didn't put a new paper towel roll out, my boyfriends' boxers are on the floor, etc. The guy is completely anal. The thing that annoys me most is his expectation for our bed to be made. We are adults. We pay more than half the rent. If he doesn't want to see an unmade bed, he can leave our door closed. ughhhhh.

 

[RedLeader]

Okay, I need to be a grammar nazi again, just once, for old-time's sake...

When passion's lost and all the trust is gone,
Way too far, for way too long
Children crying, cast out and neglected,
Only in a world so cold, only in a world
This cold
Hold the hand of your best friend, look into their eyes
Then watch them drift away
Some might say, we've done the wrong things,
For way too long, for way too long

- Mudvayne, World So Cold.

WHY COULDN'T THEY HAVE JUST SAID "..of your best friends"????

 

[footscrazy]

^^ Isn't this ok? You've made me unsure, but if they are talking about one best friend, 'their eyes' means the eyes belonging to them, not necessarily that there's more than one...Maybe they didn't want to define a gender.

 

[footscrazy]

i agree with your top part there, i was a bartender for years, and they always insisted on upselling, but i never did it, when people go out for drinks, they already know what they want to drink, cuz everyone has "their drink" so im not gonna push stuff down their throats that i already know they dont want. its annoying, and all the corporate guys care about is money not really paying attention to what the customer wants-- i think if they want to upsell so bad, they should hand out free samples. and then let the customer decide.

Wow, I could never upsell at my bar, if anything we go too far to the other side and wont serve people if they're even suspected of being too drunk.

 

[footscrazy]

I really hate when guys hit on me while I'm pumping gas, especially ones who decide to go right across from me to pump gas. I can't leave beause I just paid for that gas and so I need to get it in my fucking car, but I also really don't want to get hit on by creepy ass fuckers, and on several occasions guys see to have taken me not leaving, even if I'm completely ignoring them, as a sign that they're getting somewhere...

for example, a story from this evening (excuse my badly written slang): while pumping gas wearing a sweater, jeans, and sandals, i was approached by a guy:

guy: sexy
guy: i said SEXY
guy: ignoring me huh?
guy: well you ain't walking away so obviously you like SUMTHUN
guy: you look sexy in them jeans
guy: you hear me?
guy: why you just standing there?
guy: you comitted?
me: yes, very comitted
guy: well you don't LOOK comitted
me: you can see my left ring finger from over there?
guy: i don't give about yo finger you don't look like a bitch with a boyfriend standing there in them jeans!

no motherfucker I'm a broke ass bitch who is too cheap not to get the last $.75 of gas I paid for....

Haha ok sorry for triple post - but this is frustrating! Some guy actually straight out asked me when I was out Friday night - 'can I pay you to have sex with me?'

 

[Fjones]

^^ Isn't this ok? You've made me unsure, but if they are talking about one best friend, 'their eyes' means the eyes belonging to them, not necessarily that there's more than one...Maybe they didn't want to define a gender.

No, this is not okay. "Their" and "them" are not words that can be used to refer to one person. It is never correct to say, "Someone left their book on the bus," unless the book belongs to multiple people.

If a bunch of people worked on a project, you could say, "John left their project on the bus." But if John left his own project on the bus, you cannot say "John left their project on the bus."

Sometimes people do this when the sex of the person is not known, but a better way is to just recast the sentence. "Someone left a book on the bus."

Or, "I hate it when PEOPLE leave their belongings lying around" (instead of "I hate it when someone leaves their belongings lying around).

 

[michael]

doing other people's dishes. i am at the point where i am going to throw all of my coffee mugs away.

 

[Dave]

Nutrisystem. How anyone could be so lazy and/or unwilling to learn the first thing about nutrition that they need to pay someone a premium to feed them tiny portions of heavily processed 'food', essentially starving themselves, to lose weight? How has this company survived long enough to be able to afford as many bloody commercials as they do? Are there really that many lazy, gullible people out there?

 

[randycaver]

Some people are, yes.

 

[n3ophy7e]

Nutrisystem. How anyone could be so lazy and/or unwilling to learn the first thing about nutrition that they need to pay someone a premium to feed them tiny portions of heavily processed 'food', essentially starving themselves, to lose weight? How has this company survived long enough to be able to afford as many bloody commercials as they do? Are there really that many lazy, gullible people out there?

I'm glad I haven't heard of this so-called "Nutrisystem", because I suspect it would infuriate me :D

 

[**hAyzzZZ**]

Customers who think they are above you.

Me: "hi, how you going?"

C: "..."

*I pack their items into a bag, in silence*

Me: " that's $10 thanks"

The customer then doesn't reply, yet strangely hears me tell them how much money to hand over.

Me: *hands customer their bags* ..."there's your change, have a nice day"

C: *Takes bags and walks away not even looking at me*

Honestly, I fucking hate these people. Clearly i am soooo beneath them, they cant even reply to say thank-you, when for all they know, i hate being on register when I do it, and unfortunately have to work in retail to support myself while I am studying.

One day I'm going to end up telling someone to go fuck themselves and jump off the nearest bridge. This isn't one customer, this is A GOOD 80% of assholes that come through the store. What the fuck is up people's fat asses? Seriously? Is it that fucking hard to reply to someone that is polite to you doing their job? If i was a rude cow i could understand, but I am polite and have a cheerful disposition whilst i am at work, and I smile at customers. Fucking cock suckers, all of them.

Fucking gets on my nerves. I can't wait to resign in July and get the fuck away from the shithole piece of scumville shit of a suburb I have to work in.

 

[harley89]

Wow, I could never upsell at my bar, if anything we go too far to the other side and wont serve people if they're even suspected of being too drunk.

This pisses me off, i dunno who people think they are when they tell people they have had enough.

 

[footscrazy]

^^ Well it's illegal to serve drunk patrons, that's why. And most of the time it's pretty damn obvious too.

 

[michael]

This pisses me off, i dunno who people think they are when they tell people they have had enough.

they are in those strange group of people who don't want to get fined or sued because someone else is drunk.

weird, huh?

 

[Fjones]

AAAAARGH!!!!!!!

I just moved and I am trying to change my address. But I cannot seem to remember my login name or password for many of my accounts. Then, I could not answer my own security questions properly, most likely because I used clever answers to fool a potential imposter. Now I have to waste time on the phone with tech support.

 

[SECONAL]

Here's a few of my "Pet Peeves"-

1) I absolutely hate it when people don't flush after using the toilet. Nothing makes me sicker than walking into a bathroom stall and having to see someone's turd in the bowl! I mean, c'mon....how hard is it to push down the handle and flush?....nobody wants to see that shit!*pukes*

2) Accidentally locking myself out. Forgetting keys in the house or car and being "locked-out".

3) When my computer crashes while doing something important.

 

[Khadijah]

When you take a shit yea flush. but hey if its yellow let it mellow lol. until it starts to stink i dont flush or nobody in my family does. It jus aint necessary. u might feel offended if u came to my house lol. Only diff is public bathrooms. then i flush always. The thing is not that i am considerate of others but more like, i am usually shooting up in public bathrooms, so i got to flush to make it look normal lol.

 

[Fjones]

I just got back from the supermarket. I am overwhelmed by the quantity of pet peeves I encountered there.

It is a busy supermarket that seems to be selling thousands of dollars of groceries every ten minutes. Yet they have THREE registers open? And when the lines get 4 deep with full carts, they wait 5 minutes before finally opening a new one. Of course, instead of taking the next person in line, they usually just say, "This register is open" and some jerk in the back of the line jumps in.

The self checkouts are no help because the scanners are unreliable and the system constantly screws up and says, "Please place the item back in the cart and try again," or worse, "Help is on the way, please wait," for no reason at all.

Then the damn thing has to talk, and you cannot move the next item until it finishes.

"Please move your ... Jonah GOLD apple... to the bagging area. SAVINGS! 19 cents!" etc.

Anyhow, so I am in the checkout line and I have grabbed a box of Protein bars. They are a dollar each. I have no idea how many I grabbed but they fit neatly in the box. She sys, "15?" And I, seeing that the box says, "15 bars," say, "Yes, it seems so."


so she scans the box UPS and for some reason it comes out as 17.99, so I object. She then says, "I'll have to scan them one by one."

I said, "There is no button to hit quantity @ 15 and scan one?" She says, "no." Scanning them takes forever because the UPC is on a crinkled up part of the label, so after 6 she gets exasperated and presses ...... TA-DA! 11 @ 1.00 each! Exactly what she said she couldn't do just a minute or two ago.

But wait, that is 17 bars. I am confused. SO we count, and it is 17. The box says 15 but it holds 17. And why does the box say it holds 15 bars but scan as 17.99 if they are a dollar each?

Of course, it is rarely worth it to ever complain when you get overcharged at the store, because they have to call a manager over, get a key, do some stupid crap, and sometimes you still have to go see the manager. It makes it not worth your while.

When I got home, I discovered that in fact I did have 18 bars. If I had just shut up in the first place I would have paid exactly $1 per bar as I was supposed to.

Then they have a guy standing AT the door just inside the store, saying to EVERY customer as he walks in, "Would you like to donate a dollar to cancer research?" Holy fucking shit! Yes, of course I want to donate a fucking dollar to cancer research, who the hell would say no to that? Yet that is EXACTLY what the supermarket employee is forcing most people to do, because most people aren't going to. Not because they don't care, but because they are trying to get their food and probably prefer to donate to charities in other ways than being pressured by an employee when they walk into the supermarket.

 

[harley89]

they are in those strange group of people who don't want to get fined or sued because someone else is drunk.

weird, huh?

yes

 

[harley89]

^^ Well it's illegal to serve drunk patrons, that's why. And most of the time it's pretty damn obvious too.

Surely someone who has had 3 or 4 pints, is technically drunk. So how do you get around that one?