I really hate it when....
Hey all
Kinda non-poker stuff in here, more a ranting area, hence the "Off Topic Lounge", but I REALLY hate it when
A: People are unwilling to wait about 3 seconds when driving, and will endanger others because of it
E.G. at an intersection, someone's turning left, they pull out and wait for oncoming traffic to pass, but the dude behind him swerves around him to go straight through.. SOOOO wrong.
B: People leave grocery carts in the parking spaces and don't return them... how freaking lazy can you be?
Anyways... rant away, I'm mildly curious to see what drives my fellow addicts batty.
Mark
Kinda non-poker stuff in here, more a ranting area, hence the "Off Topic Lounge", but I REALLY hate it when
A: People are unwilling to wait about 3 seconds when driving, and will endanger others because of it
E.G. at an intersection, someone's turning left, they pull out and wait for oncoming traffic to pass, but the dude behind him swerves around him to go straight through.. SOOOO wrong.
B: People leave grocery carts in the parking spaces and don't return them... how freaking lazy can you be?
Anyways... rant away, I'm mildly curious to see what drives my fellow addicts batty.
Mark
Comments
guys that post crap on a poker board...
Mark
POW......ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate it when people use the merge lane to pass traffic.
lol!
Driving is worse everyday, everything about driving sets me off nowadays.....mostly I hate people that will cruise in the left lane to get past just one more, nope one more...maybe one more....yup just one more car before cutting over two lanes onto the exit ramp.....also places like Homer Watson and the 401 near conestoga College, every single person in that right lane that ends at the lights just before the East bound on ramp knows the lane ends yet the stay right until they end up cutting someone off forcing everyone to stop and 3 cars that would have made the light miss it. I'm glad I live in a country where fire arms are hard to get or I would be in jail.
What else sets me off....this hip hop crap where someone takes a 2 second beat and repeats it over and over and over and over until you have an 12 minute song with 3 words you can understand 15 you can't and only 5 different words all together?
Thanks for starting this post..feels good to rant!
I hate when a bluff gets called by someone who doesnt even knwo they are calling a bluff!!!
I dont like people who are too confrontational. I'm a pretty easy going guy and i'm finding myself more and more passive when it comes to trivial things in life.
I'm not attacking you guys who have posted about bad drivers ticking you off, but lets take a second and analize this.
Dude A can't wait the two seconds it takes to make his move in traffic. it holds you up and makes you mad that his ignorance and impatience is costing you time. doesnt that mean YOU cant wait that two seconds? Let him risk HIS vehicle and HIS life making a dumb move, all it costs you is two seconds right?
anyway, you get the picture. unless he is risking YOUR well-being, is it really hurting you to wait?
i love ranting,
johnny
Opposing traffic at red stoplight...
Opposing car turning left. Â You are going straight...
Light turns green...
Opposing car beleives since he is first in line and too important to wait for you and the 1-5 cars behind you to pass before he completes his left hand turn (which as last check is the rule o' the road), turns left, thereby slowing down your line of cars to allow this ass to go ahead.
Opposing car driver then gets PO'd at you when you see what he is trying to do, hit the gas and T-bone his SUV - (oh sorry just my mind getting revenge)
It happens at the corner of Blair Road and fountain street, which is on my way home everyday. Â Let's see if I can paint the picture well for those that don't know the area...
Imagie a capital letter V (<-- hey! Â There's one!), but there's a line going across the top of it, kinda looking like a down arrow. Â Fountain street is that top line, and Blair road is the two arches of the V. Â Ideally, people travelling towards Fountain street are meant to stay in the left side if they're going straight or left, and those turning right go right. Â
All of these roads are "2 way" roads, meaning people travel in both directions of Fountain street (which becomes Homer watson), and the "right turn lane" of Blair road is also meant for those turning left from Fountain onto Blair. Â The left turn / straight lane on Blair is two way so that people turning right off of Fountain can do so as well.
I have a huge problem when someone is turning left onto Blair from fountain, and someone will drive out onto the shoulder of the road so as to not wait for about 15 seconds - it's even worse when they do this, and then TURN LEFT ONTO BLAIR at the "left turn" lane. Â GRRR.... Â it's dangerous because you don't see the guy whipping around the dude turning right, and if the coast is clear on the left and you start going? Â WHAMMO!
Then I'M the one with a smashd up car / body!
Mark
That is soooo awesome... I was about to post about the traffic when i was out at Brock, but then thought "Nah, nobody'll know what I'm talking about if I mention the corner of Burleigh Hill and Townline....
Mark
Sorry have to disagree with you there. The bottleneck is the light not the bridge. If people lined up in one line from Doon Valley Drive onwards the backup would be far worse. Staying to the right means 3 MORE cars make it through the light. They are modifying the intersection so that less cars have to go through that light and widening the bridge so that more cars can make it through in one cycle.
My wife tried to pull that crap on me when we were first married. I told her fine, I would put the seat back down for her, as long as she would put it back up for me. But noooo, that was too hard for her so that ended that discussion. I win.
People reminding me my wife STILL needs a new dryer
A player NOT in the hand is coaching another who still is in the hand...this includes any mention of current pot odds...JUST SHUT THE F**K UP IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE F*****G HAND!!
Having a professional dealer call time on me after only 20seconds in a huge live tournament...I didn't think dealers were permitted to call time, are they??? If not...JUST SHUT THE F**K UP!!
Drivers who think that the rules of the road are meant for all the other drivers, and not them. For Christ's Sake, USE YOUR DAMN SIGNALS WHEN YOU INTEND TO TURN OR CHANGE LANES!!
Have to echo the toilet seat one here too. If you have to go THAT badly that you can't take a split second to ensure the seat is already in position, then you shouldn't have had that last beer, should you?? And the excuse that you MIGHT fall in does NOT fly...no toilet bowl in the world has been made to allow THAT to happen!!
I was at the checkline Sobeys awhile ago, and this lady in front of me leaves her grocery cart RIGHT IN THE CHECKOUT LANE!!!! As if!!!! Naturally, being me, I call to her loudly, "Excuse me Ma'am, I'm pretty sure this isn't were you found this!!!" The couple behind me and the teenage cashier both let out a laugh, and the lady sheepishly returned the cart to the rack. Score one for Johnnie. Yes, it was mean, but she'll never do that again.
I also hate when people complain that they don't get 7-8 for 2 whole tournaments!!
Johnnie
Oooo.. I've got some:
When driving along, at a reasonable speed of course, on the 401 you come across this situation:.... Truck in right lane. Car in middle lane is "trying" to pass truck. Car in left lane (which last I checked is supposed to be the FAST lane).... is trying to pass middle car... Then the right lane ends up being empty, with the left full of impatient drivers trying to get on their way...
Another: People seem to forget the definition of MERGE and leaving it until the last minute... or dont signal their lane changes.... What ever happened to common courtesy ???
More?: Peole who are indicating they wish to make a right hand turn and wait for a green light, although traffic has been clear for ages...
But then again, maybe I am just a little impatient. (likely)
Oh, and last: when you ask for a regular coffee and they give you a double double... yuck
Mary
The local grocery store at the mall does not permit you to take your carts your car to unload (have those damn cement pillars right at the door). Most other stores allow you take it to your car, and also provide a cart depot for you to return it too, but NOT this particular store.
WELL WHY THE HELL NOT?? Am I going to steal your precious cart? Unlikely. And MOST people are respectful enough to take their empty cart to the depot and get their quarter back (and why the HELL am I renting the cart anyway?? )
What they DO offer is a small drive lane 'unloading zone' that you can pull up to and unload your groceries right there. Fair enough, I can live with that.
What I CANNOT STAND is when people think they can park in this unloading zone, run in to do their groceries, and think they are allowed to do so. IT'S FOR UNLOADING GROCERIES YOU IDIOT!!! Not for your parking convenience! Park in the rest of the damn lot like everyone else!!!
Okay, I'm done with this thread now. I'm only making myself more and more upset.
I hate that, I don't let no one in.
Gotten my share of rude gestures for that....
Atleast I found a new way home during the construction.
Hobbes
I lose my mind when I am doing something on my front line or driveway and people driving by looking at me to see what I am doing. I don't know why, but it drives me nuts and usually I yell, "don't look at me" or "fuck off" or give the finger or something...
Not much else drives me that nuts...but when be nosily stare I go beserk.
"Score one for Johnnie. Yes, it was mean, but she'll never do that again."
HILARIOUS!! i laughed out loud johnnie!
Johnny
well said.....and it really makes sense! I'll have to try and keep this in mind next time I get cutoff by some jacked up Honda Civic.
I totally agree Moose, if we all lined up not using the right lane it would be a huge back log and a mess...I understand what you're saying here...and really the root of the problem is the design and it's nice to see they're working on fixing it. I don't think I explained myself properly tho...what I was really getting at is that people need to understand when to merge left and use the zipper idea...I'll merge to the left with ample time to make the light and rather then the guy behind me moving left after the card behind me moves up, he'll hammer the gas shooting to make the light, followed by a BMW, a souped up Civic, and a mini-van and then I'll miss the light because they all tried to 'squeeze' in.....can't we all learn the zipper?
When I was helping my wife learn to drive I had her spend hours on taking my zipper up and down...you know, just to 'grasp' the concept!
stp
#2. when my food touches (like separate things, for instance my salad touching my meat or something)
#3. when people take or borrow things without asking... as i am an easy going guy i will let you use something just for god sakes ask... there was a subletter in my house last term and he thought when i bought groceries they were his to, no asking, just taking.
#4. when people leave floaties in the toilet
i'll leave it there for now...
Isn't saying 'who are THEY to judge', uhh, judging them?
i think everyone is conspiring against me and leaving their floaties... you just have to flush twice, COME ON PEOPLE!!!
it seriously offends me, it is just an offensive word in general... i don't know why more people don't have a problem with it
as for that, well atleast my imperfections aren't on my face
Yes we are but I wasn't thinking of you when I stated the above. So I hope you didn't take offense....
stp
Patience may be a virtue, but I'm still trying to learn some.
-Retard (and any incarnations of that)
- Fag / Gay / Queer / Homo
And also some of the new phrases that were no big deal when I was younger, but are now the "worst thing you can call someone"
- Goof
- Bird
- Diddler
Ugh