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So..What's your beef ?
Posted by scottmillerd • 8/13/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
An opportunity to rattle off the things that piss you off....sometimes it helps.
- People that almost miss their turn while driving..so they pull infront of you to make the last minute turn.. SOMETIMES YOU JUST MISS YOUR TURN PEOPLE..make a u-turn or something and try again..instead of CUTTING PEOPLE OFF like you own the road.
ahh much better.
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People on the highway who pretend not to notice that a lane is closing and cut to the front of the line ahead of dozens of other cars. What sign? What line?
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EXACTLY....i have had that happen to me many times.
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Have you ever been to Malta?
LOL - Driving here would send a man ballistic!-
Have not been there...I had to google it to even know where that is.
Malta is a small and densely populated island nation comprising an archipelago of seven islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
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People who stop in the middle of the sidewalk when walking like there is no one behind them and those who stand in doorways.
AND (I'm an urban dweller) People who blow f*&king whistles inside a subway car!! -
People talking loudly on a cell phone when they're sitting next to me on the bus. "What are you doing? . . . Not much. I'm on the bus . . ."
It can get worse though. On the bus I've heard way too many intimate details of people's lives, because they choose to share them at full volume over a cell phone.-
I have very mixed feelings about this--can someone explain to me why it seems to be considered ruder (more rude?) to talk on a cell phone in public than to talk to the person sitting next to you at the same volume? Is it somehow better for the other passengers if they're able to overhear the WHOLE conversation instead of just one side? -
I think it has something to do with the unnatural phenomenon of hearing only one side of the conversation. But it's also related to how many people use a different voice when they're on the phone, a louder voice.
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Oh yeah, I love the sidewalk stoppers.
Which brings me to my fave peeve ... TOURISTS. God, how I loathe tourists. -
All good points and complaints...thanks for participating.
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haha yeh i read your posting about that and your "pick apart" of it.
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Thanks!
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People wearing a bluetooth headset walking around the supermarket -- yakking loudly to an unseen audience while hefting the cantaloupes (or whatever). It's almost eerie.-
I once thought someone was talking to me..but they we're on their headset.
"so how are you today?"....(i look around and see noone else) so i say "oh i am fine how are you" (person looks at me weird and turns away). -
Yes. Are they really talking to someone? Or is it a cover for a conversation they are having with a different version of themself?
Besides being strange, it can be downright rude. How about those who act like it's an inconvenience to have to complete their purchase when they are in the middle of a call, never mind the people behind them. -
@scottmillerd:
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They we're talking to someone i guess...after they looked at me like i was from outer space i moved to another line.
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People who redeem their scratch off lottery tickets in bulk in the morning when I'm trying to get gas and I'm late for work. -
Peopel who walk in large groups and take up the entire sidewalk so you can't get past them.
All those cell-phone complaints - hate them. I seldom use my cellphone. thank goodness those Nextel stupid things aren't as en vogue anymore. Worse than hearing one loud side of a conversation is hearing both. -
What my beef is my ex wife being a wallowing crybaby over losing the divorce case and shes going to spend the rest of her life cooking up malicious character assassination plots against me.-
Every year ..on the day the Divorce was final.
Anonymously send her a box of tissues. -
Oh boy can I relate..and that is all I'll say about the subject, except good luck, after many years I'm still dealing with it. Just to clarify, I'm not the whiner.
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Old people shopping in the supermarket, grrrr.-
yeh reading every label and comparing prices on each.. JUST PUT IT IN YOUR CART AND MOVE ON!
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Well, there's nothing that you can do about that. But I do sometimes wonder why so many choose the busiest time of the day to go shopping --- or ride public transportation during rush hour. Maybe it's for all the action.
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Yes, I think it is for the crowds. When most of those you know well and with whom you share memories (time before TV, the Depression) are gone, getting out and about among others can help you to feel alive.
I think we forget that we, too, will be old someday. Our fingers will be arthritic and our eyesight will be poor. Paying for groceries will take a little (or a lot) longer then than it does now, just because the body isn't keeping up with the mind.
We tend to discard our elderly and regard them as a burden instead of the amazing wealth of knowledge that they are. I can't imagine how awful it will be to be scorned by younger, more physically able folks someday. I do hope our society learns to appreciate senior citizens before I become one. -
Amen.
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I feel guilty now about classing all old people as bad shoppers, i will just say grrrr to the select few that aisle hog
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Yeah, watch what you say about us old people, Claire. I know where your blogs lives! :-b
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Ramming into aisle hogs with your shopping cart sometimes helps get the point across.
and maybe a Grrrr also. -
does that mean you are old
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Yeah, I'm old -- roaring into senior-citizenhood here.
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In Germany I experienced some elderly shoppers who had the annoying habit of ramming their shopping carts into me while waiting in line at the cash register. Or maybe ramming is too strong a word, but I've had more than a few shopping carts pressed into my shins, and the shoppers driving the things won't back off. Just lovely. So watch out. Some of them might be going after you young people.
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The shins are bad enough, but what I really hate is when someone hits you from behind with a shopping cart and it gets you in the back of the heel -- just above the top of your shoe. OUCH!
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"elderly" ..how PC of you.
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shopping cart to the heel...ouch that hurts to even think about.
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Bobbie, I think your version is more accurate. The image recalled some pain I recognized.
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@scottmillerd: I don't know about PC, but I do think that many people get tougher as they grow older. My grandmother, when she was still alive and in her upper eighties and lower nineties, used to tell me, "Growing old ain't for sissies."
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People who use doorways as toilets! Yuck (You can tell I live in a busy city)
Imagine if you lived in the country and someone walked up to your house and relieved himself on your doorstep, unacceptable. So why do people think its OK to do that in the city?-
I got one - I'm not in the country, in Manhattan, and our mailperson used to releive himself in the plants in our foyer type thing (I don't know what to call it, we're none doorman apt. building).
He's not our postman anymore, but it took a few months of him peeing in our potted plants before we got a female.
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At the moment, I have
no 'beefs' to report.
All is well.
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How refreshing. Good on ya, Jaya!
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I would like to add to our list of driving complaints, people who turn their turn signal on (if at all) AS they're turning-- no warning, just, "Oopsie, turning now." And the light goes on.
This helps the driver behind gauge... not at all.
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People that bug me are those people that try to act really smart while they don't know anything at all about the subject. Prime Example: George Bush talking about being president...heh.
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Mobile phones plugged in ears I cannot tell who is talking to themselves or talking to someone else hard to tell insane people from sane ones although personally walking around with a phone in your ear is insane to me -
What's your beef? Where's the beef? . . . How do non-native speakers deal with this strange language?
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There are too many on my list, but I'll just name a few. Sorry if I offend anyone... Bad drivers who have no clue they are bad drivers and bicyclists on a busy road. -
The thing that drives me mad is when you decide to make a sandwich and someone has used the butter for toast and it is filled with little brown bits! -
Drives me buggy when the toilet paper roll dispenses the TP from the bottom instead of coming over the top. If I'm in somebody else's house I'll often switch the rolls.-
I do that! I thought it was just me.
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No beef. I don't ingest meat!!
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how about a Veggie Burger then?
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Then I will certainly have no beef with you!!
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This has turned into quite a list of valid "beefs".
Thanks to everyone for being part of the discussion.
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