thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 11:54:44 GMT -5
I feel like there used to be a thread on here for miscellaneous griping but I don't see. Anyway, I'm starting one.
Voicemail...if you are still using it, socially or especially at work, I have one question: why not send me a carrier pigeon instead? Or rather a C.O.D. carrier pigeon that puts the honus of actually getting the message much more on me than the sender? Because that's what voicemail amounts to.
Seriously for the love of Pete please stop using voicemail. I do not want to stop what I am doing and check my messages any more than I need to go go check to see if the Pony Express dropped off a letter from my grand pappy back East. You know that I KNOW that you tried calling me. If you need to tell me something right away email or text me. If we're at work, email me or Message me. But do NOT make me pick up my phone and play the voicemail retrieval game because you couldn't type out 7 words. Furthermore, you have made it much harder for me to respond to your message than if I could just reply to your email or message. If I'm inclined to call you back I'm going to do that just because I saw I missed your call. You're not going to talk me into it by making me go pull your voicemail over a much easier to retrieve text.
And speaking of voicemail retrieval...I give my password to the voicemal gods even though I'm using MY phone....fine. But then I have to indicate that I actually want to hear my messages? We might have supposed that one right away because I pressed the "messages" but on my phone but OK....then I am told that I have X number of messages and then it has the balls to ask me if I want to LEAVE a message before I'm asked if I want to HEAR the messages that I started this whole charade for? Really? Awesome.
Please feel free to log any and all personal pet peeves you need to get off your chest....like for example jerks who are blocking traffic because they are making a left but refuse to get over enough so traffic can bypass them while they wait for the oncoming traffic to cease. They should be executed but I know we all agree on that.
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hoyainspirit
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Post by hoyainspirit on Apr 10, 2013 13:08:47 GMT -5
I feel like there used to be a thread on here for miscellaneous griping but I don't see. Anyway, I'm starting one. Voicemail...if you are still using it, socially or especially at work, I have one question: why not send me a carrier pigeon instead? Or rather a C.O.D. carrier pigeon that puts the honus of actually getting the message more on me than the sender? Because that's what voicemail amounts to. Seriously for the love of Pete please stop using voicemail. I do not want to stop what I am doing and check my messages any more than I need to go go check to see if the Pony Express dropped off a letter from my grand pappy back East. You know that I KNOW that you tried calling me. If you need to tell me something right away email or text me. If we're at work, email me or Message me. But do NOT make me pick up my phone and play the voicemail retrieval game because you couldn't type out 7 words. Furthermore, you have made it much harder for me to respond to your message than if I could just reply to your email or message. If I'm inclined to call you back I'm going to do that just because I saw I missed your call. You're not going to talk me into it by making me go pull your voicemail over a much easier to retrieve text. And speaking of voicemail retrieval...I give my password even though I'm using MY phone....fine. But then I have to tell you I want to hear my messages? We might have supposed that one right way but OK....then you tell me I have X messages and then ask me if I want to LEAVE a message before you ask me if I want to HEAR my messages? Really? Awesome. Please feel free to log any and all personal pet peeves you need to get off your chest....like for example jerks who are blocking traffic because they are making a left but refuse to get over enough so traffic can bypass them while they wait for the oncoming traffic to cease. They should be executed but I know we all agree on that. Wow. I could have written this! I get Editeded every time I see that little light blinking on my phone! TJI, with his incessant back to back to back posts, and the posting of garbage than no one has an interest in. Even with ignore, I get these large blocks of posts on a page with nothing in them. Unfortunately for me, it really detracts from my enjoyment of the board. One of the good things about the off season is that his posting rate has declined. My computer, after working perfectly for the two+ years I've owned it, suddenly will not go into sleep mode. I've tried all types of "solutions" I've found on tech boards, but nothing works. Why this bothers me so much, I have no idea. It's really not that big of a deal. But....
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Apr 10, 2013 13:30:27 GMT -5
I like it!
(Personally, I would've preferred the thread title be "Get Off Of My Lawn!" or "What Grinds My Gears!", but I can go with this).
Let's talk about Hoyatalk trolls for a minute....
Just kidding.
I'm sure I can come up with some over the next day or two. I'm a pretty angry person.
For now, I would just like a taser for the people who hit the elevator button after its already lit. However, as I am fairly certain Jerry Seinfeld (or another comedian of his era) already covered this in detail, I'll defer to their commentary on this annoying habit.
Oh, wait. I have one....
People who back into parking spaces.
This practice is supposedly done for safety. I say: Bulls---! I have backed out of every single parking space I have ever been in since I learned how to drive (unless the car facing me has already left and I can pull forward), and have never once hit another car, pedestrian, animal or other obstacle.
If you have two eyes, functional mirrors and the very basest level of situational awareness, there is literally zero safety hazard in backing out of a space. Backing in so that you can pull forward out is just plain laziness.
But here is the real problem: it invariably takes the person backing in, 4 to 5 times the amount of time to perform this maneuver than simply pulling forward into a space and backing out later.
It is also invariably performed -- and I use that term loosely -- in crowded parking lots with many cars and heavy traffic (if the lot is empty, or only sparsely filled, there is no reason to do it).
So, what is the end result? Everyone else trying to park has to sit there and wait while Mr./Ms. Magoo executes his or her 25-point turn in order to back the car into a spot without hitting anything. [EDIT: oh and by the way, this is often unsuccessful as I have seen many, many drivers hit a parked vehicle while backing in.]
Why is it more difficult to back in than to back out? I really have no idea, but it definitely is. Probably because you have to look behind you for accuracy on your turn when backing in. And no, the new rear view cameras in many cars to not seem to help an iota for the majority of drivers. Whereas backing out, you only have to look behind you to make sure nothing is in your way; when executing the turn, you are primarily looking forward, like Denise Richards was when backing the Rodger Young out of space dock. See? If they don't have to back in Corvette-class transport ships into their parking spaces, then you shouldn't have to do it with your G.D. sedan!!
Of course, I make an exception for service trucks, or other vehicles of that nature, which often have to back in to a location for functional reasons.
But for your average Prius or Lexus SUV driver (the two worst offenders on any road surface, in my experience), this is a combination of laziness, incompetence and a thorough and utter lack of consideration for other drivers.
There.
Now, let us move on to the drivers who do not signal they are making a left-hand turn until they are stopped at the intersection. Yes, you. Ohhhh, my friends, there is a special circle of Hell reserved for you.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 13:35:10 GMT -5
How about drivers who realize they need to go around a guy making a left....pull out in the right/shoulder to pass them, see that there is PLENTY of room to do so and no small children or hobbled sight-seeing dogs in their path...and then still proceed to pass the left-turning car at about 3 MPH? Look, you've already decided to be a hero...can you do it at a decent pace so we can all get on with our lives? You are passing a guy with plenty of room, not storming Omaha beach. Sac up.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 13:37:22 GMT -5
As for elevators....if you throw your arms/body into my elevator doors as they are clearly closing so you can get on, lets be clear about what just happened. We were all there before you and just as much eager to get to our floor as you are only we did NOT miss this elevator- YOU DID. So now you want us to wait and start the whole door-closing cycle all over again because you didn't want to wait another 30 seconds but are forcing us all to do just that.
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TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Apr 10, 2013 13:39:23 GMT -5
The weather here in Minnesota.
Look. I know I lied to my wife about the weather here ("three months per season!" "Winter isn't that bad", etc, etc) but COME ON.
There was only one day in March when the temperature hit 50 degrees. ONE $^%&*#@*&@#*&%$^# DAY. Really appreciate the coldest March since 1965. Just fantastic.
Also, my desk chair suddenly won't lean back anymore. I don't want to sit up straight.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 13:39:40 GMT -5
In honor of Adam Carolla picking up on an old office pet peeve of mine in a recent podcast....if you are ordering 15 pizzas for the office....do NOT order 7 o 8 of them especially for the the 2 office vegetarians and then the other half with meat. Have you noticed that 100 times out of 100 the meat pizzas get annihilated instantly and there is always a cold broccoli and peppers pie left 4 hours later? Cheese pizza IS vegetarian pizza by the way. No more vegetarian parity at the pizza ordering booth in the office.
Boz- I know you from this board just well enough to know that you would love Carolla's podcast. The guy is the Babe Ruth of complaining. He is sort of my hero and I only started listening to it a few months ago.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Apr 10, 2013 14:10:02 GMT -5
If you have ever driven a pickup truck or large SUV, it is sometimes beneficial to back into a parking space in order to avoid having to make a five-point turn to back out of the space because some idiot in a Honda Civic in the space behind you has left seven feet open at the front of the parking space. (You can start turning earlier when you pull out forward because the front wheelbase is closer to the front of the truck than the rear wheelbase is to the rear of the truck bed.)
I do agree that anyone who cannot back into a space or parallel park on the first attempt should get a rope.
Just wait until DC gets reverse angle street parking and you have to deal with morons who don't signal until they are already past the space, forcing the line of 10 cars behind them to slam on the brakes and possibly back up so that the moron can back in.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Apr 10, 2013 14:16:52 GMT -5
If you have ever driven a pickup truck or large SUV, it is sometimes beneficial to back into a parking space in order to avoid having to make a five-point turn to back out of the space because some idiot in a Honda Civic in the space behind you has left seven feet open at the front of the parking space. (You can start turning earlier when you pull out forward because the front wheelbase is closer to the front of the truck than the rear wheelbase is to the rear of the truck bed.) I do agree that anyone who cannot back into a space or parallel park on the first attempt should get a rope. Just wait until DC gets reverse angle street parking. Hey, if you're good at something and you can pull it off, knock yourself out. But I'd say that applies to about 2% of the drivers out there, particularly in the DMV. If you make others wait because you can't get it right, then you shouldn't be doing it. PS - I like how in the first demonstration of how "easy" reverse angle parking is, the vehicle shown completely F's it up (around the 30-second mark).
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Post by flyoverhoya on Apr 10, 2013 14:44:55 GMT -5
School cancelations due to snow and ice during the second week of April.
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TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Apr 10, 2013 14:51:39 GMT -5
State regulators that don't know what the word the equitable means.
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Post by HometownHoya on Apr 10, 2013 15:03:10 GMT -5
Drivers that sit in the left lane of freeways. If you're going the speed of the lane to your right, get in it. I could go on but it would put me in a rage.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 15:10:25 GMT -5
State regulators that don't know what the word the equitable means. No politics here please.
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Post by derhoya on Apr 10, 2013 15:16:18 GMT -5
Stupid people who stop mid stride during the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler just in time for me to plow into them. It's not my fault that you're then immediately introduced to pavement; you're just an idiot.
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Post by Boz on Apr 10, 2013 15:22:22 GMT -5
Drivers that sit in the left lane of freeways. If you're going the speed of the lane to your right, get in it. I could go on but it would put me in a rage. Definitely a good one. It is called the passing lane for a reason. If you're not passing, get out of it. (exception for left exits, of course). Also, people who run 10 miles without something chasing them. ;D
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 15:31:01 GMT -5
People who recognize the legitimacy of "No Red on Right" signs. Those signs are an abuse of state power and they are also personally calling you a moron. Don't be a sheep.
Also people who don't pay any attention to how close they are parking in a lot to the car to their right effectively blocking you from accessing the driver's side. Those people always get a broken windshield wiper if their passenger door is less than 10 inches away from my driver's door.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 15:38:15 GMT -5
Restaurants with the word "grill" in them.
I can grill. If I'm paying you to serve dinner hopefully you can actually cook. If you have a Caesar Salad on the menu with the option to add chicken...I'm out the door before I die of culinary boredom.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 10, 2013 15:41:08 GMT -5
Chinese restaurants that all of the sudden offer sushi. Not so fast.
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Post by SoCalHoya on Apr 10, 2013 16:01:29 GMT -5
Restaurants with the word "grill" in them. I can grill. If I'm paying you to serve dinner hopefully you can actually cook. If you have a Caesar Salad on the menu with the option to add chicken...I'm out the door before I die of culinary boredom. Worse, when they add an "e" at the end and call it "[...] Grille."
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SoCalHoya
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Post by SoCalHoya on Apr 10, 2013 16:07:58 GMT -5
"There are only 2 things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch!"
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