One time a local Walmart had set up the electromics dept. in a bottle neck entrance/exit format. It was near the holidays and I was caught in the bottle neck. There were people just standing in the middle talking to each other and blocking the entrance. This is definetly a pet peeve of mine. I got so frustrated and yelled out: "Lets all atand around like a bunch of cows!" (They started to move.)
So what's your pet peeve?
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Posts: 233 | Location: Las Cruces, NM | Registered: March 05, 2006
An expensive cigar with a poor burn, bad draw, or a wrapper that cracks and splits. When I buy an expensive cigar and store it properly I expect it to be a great smoke not a waste of time.
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Originally posted by Raven35031: An expensive cigar with a poor burn, bad draw, or a wrapper that cracks and splits. When I buy an expensive cigar and sore it properly I expect it to be a great smoke not a waste of time.
I could not agree with you more!
Last night, I took two of the same brand of cigar (both stored correctly in humidor; and both came in the same box) ... one was GREAT and the other had such a difficult draw & lousy taste so I threw it out. One was enough for last night anyway...but I hate the waste of money.
Posts: 1789 | Location: San Francisco, CA, USA | Registered: August 20, 2003
Another pet peeve is people who talk on cell phones while they drive. Specifically, I'm talking about those people who can't seem to do both at the same time.
Posts: 1789 | Location: San Francisco, CA, USA | Registered: August 20, 2003
SUV drivers who haven't yet figured out that four wheel drive won't help you stop on ice, so they tailgate me the whole way home (and look surprised and angry when they slide into a ditch -- I bet they blame the car).
Drivers who would rather nudge into a one carlength space in front of me in order to exit the highway, instead of just pulling in behind me where there are no cars for a half mile.
People with fast cars who drive slow -- what a waste! (Except in snow and ice; see pet peeve #1 above.)
People with junk cars and/or monster trucks who drive 100mph.
Warts, cold sores and and all STD including those that last forever, those that kill you and those that are just an inconvenience unless you pass it along to the SO.
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Posts: 7773 | Location: Cigar land | Registered: March 10, 2003
1. People who wait in line while the cashier rings up all 100 of thier items, hears the total THEN starts to root around in thier purse for a check book. 90% of the check could be filled out by now! 2. People who "camp out" in the fast lane and go slow. 3. Ex Wives
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1. People who don't use turn signals when turning a corner.
2. People who drive SUVs but when driving over a speed bump or pothole, they drive their SUV like it's a lowrider...2 inches off the ground and very sllloowww
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Posts: 87 | Location: Orange County, CA | Registered: April 22, 2006
People who drive with their blinkers on. Fat women in spandex and/or thongs Guys in the gym who haven't worked out in 100 years telling those of us who are there daily how and what we should do. Men who leave the bathroom without washing their hands.
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Posts: 594 | Location: Lincoln Park, MI | Registered: March 21, 2004
My biggest pet peeve, and I think a lot of you share this one, is jackasses who stay in the fast lane when they arent even going the speed limit or with the speed of traffic, even when you do the courtesy light flash instead of laying on the horn.
I have to commute an hour to and from work evryday and I can't stand this. Especially because here in the lovely State of Connecticut its illegal to pass on the right (which I hate to do, even when I have no choice).
I've driven extensively on the German Autobahn and really appreciate their philosophy of "drive right" or staying to the right unless passing and even then giving way to faster traffic. And thats at speed in excess of 120 MPH ( I averaged 130 in the no limit areas). What a joy!
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Posts: 147 | Location: Niantic, CT, USA | Registered: January 14, 2004
Originally posted by Bones: The 55mph speed limt, which is making a comeback with the help of all this whining, about the cost of gas/oil.
If you bitch some politcian will hear you, and God help the rest of us...
JOIN THE NATIONAL MOTORISTS ASSOCIATION (www.motorists.org). I did, it's cheap, and it's our only voice in the legislature. Think the anti-smoking nazis are fun? Wait until the whole country is filled with traffic cameras, in-car breathylizers, GPA tracking devices that monitor your comings and goings (already being tested in Oregon) and other fun stuff.
Which brings me to my biggest pet peeve of all...BEING TREATED LIKE A FIVE YEAR OLD BY MY ELECTED OFFICIALS.
The anit-smoking nazis who are out to save all of us from our own vices, the people who always complain about smoking when they come into my pub and the people who turn their noses up at me as I'm going for a walk outside with a cigar.
Second pet peeve
Young kids who apply for a job and then demand to have every weekend off in the summer because "it's summer and I deserve a break". What the hell does that mean?
"If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it."
Here in Dutchess County, they play ads almost literally telling smokers that they're killing their kids by smoking at home.
As far as I can tell, their statistics about "umpteen-thousand children" per year with 2nd-hand smoke related distorders are pulled out of their collective a$$es.
As for smoking bans... Do they think I go to a bar for my flippin' health? No, I go there to put alcohol in my system and puff on a nice stogie. (Or, at least, I used to...) The two or three bars which used to see me as a regular haven't seen me in years because of the flippin' smoking ban.
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Posts: 301 | Location: Dutchess County, New York | Registered: August 27, 2002
