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Stupid Pet Peeves

I've had to avoid at least 10 parking lot accidents in the last week. I'm almost scared to enter one. 2 were at my children's elementary school, which royally pisses me off as it could have killed a short child. I had to honk at both of these dumb ******* who were backing up into me while I was backing into a parking stall. I drive a Dodge Ram. How do you not see a big *** truck right behind you while you are backing out? Pure stupidity.

Then this morning, I had to swerve from some dumb *** who blew through a blind sidewalk (there were hedges on both sides of the approach) and into my turning lane. WTF *******, you would have killed any pedestrian walking past there. The jackass flipped me off too after I swerved back into the straight lane to avoid killing his dumb ***.

While I'm at it, if I'm backing out of a parking stall before you are pulling forward out of your gas stall I have the right of way not you you stupid ****er. I'm fed up enough at this point that I want to buy an old hooptie Blazer and let these dicks hit me.
 
Gameface said:
When you order something on amazon and you get an email, or multiple emails, from the vendor asking you to submit a positive review. That's an instant 1-star reduction.

Related: A product that meets expectations should get 3 stars. Not every ****ing thing that isn't trash deserves 5 stars. 5 stars means that you're expectations were blown out of the water and that the price/value ratio was amazing. Very few things should get 5 stars.

Yet, I gave an item a 3 star review and then got an unsolicited email from the company offering me a partial refund because I wasn't satisfied. I told them I was plenty satisfied, that they could shove their partial refund up their *** and that a 3 star review was exactly what their product deserved.
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I got some hiking boots this week from Amazon. They might be the best purchase I ever made. I'm gonna 5 star the **** out of em.
 
Gameface said:
This one is on behalf of my wife.

She is a retail supervisor and often in charge for closing (verifying all the tills, setting the alarm, locking up). So I'm sure many of you have been in a store when they make an announcement along the lines of "We'll be closing in 10 minutes. Please bring you items to the registers so we can check you out." Many times there will be a customer that comes in the store about 10-15min before closing time and starts in on some serious shopping. The announcements go out, customer is not phased. Associates are sent to "customer service" the person, which means to say they ask if there is anything they are looking for, is there any way I can help, if you're not sure about you items it's okay, you have 30 days to return anything. Customer is not phased. It is now 10 minutes after closing time and customer is still shopping.

Let's keep in mind, many people who work retail are high school kids. There are laws that limit the amount of hours they can work and that they are required to have x amounts of breaks for x amount of hours worked. Also, when closing everyone is supposed to leave the store together, for safety reasons and for store security.

15min after closing time customer is bewildered because she wants to try some stuff on and the dressing rooms are closed. Asks to be allowed to go into the dressing rooms and try stuff on.

20min after closing time customer is close to the registers but not checking out yet. Customer is looking through their items and sorting out what they might really want to buy and what they don't want to buy. Of course, when the store closes all go-backs have already gone back. So now this customer is generating new go-backs.

30 min after store closing time customer has figured out what they are actually going to buy and they go to the register. Customer has three types of payments and ends up after three different payment types to be about $40 short. Customer has to cancel a few items. Customer finally leaves and they are finally allowed to close the registers and put those extra go-backs back.

45min after closing time the store actually closes. The store paid about 8 people for an extra 30min that night so that a customer could buy about $250 worth of stuff. Store policy is to keep the registers open as long as customers are in the store and to not kick people out. I have no idea how far it would have to go before they would just have to tell the person to leave, but it hasn't ever happened and 30+min is not the longest time customers have remained in the store past closing time. These jackasses seem completely oblivious, but I suspect it's some passive aggressive power trip for them.

Anyway, when the store closes bring your crap to the front, pay for it and GTFO!
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This reminds me of another one of my pet peeves.
Shopping
 
Radio commercials that play twice in a row, back to back and word for word the same You think I somehow didn't hear it the first time?
 
People who stand too close when they are talking to you. Look buddy, I don't want to feel the air from your mouth on my face when we talk.
 
French people. In particular, how they don't ever sit at the tables in the breakroom but stand around in front of the water fountain, microwaves, sink, paper towel dispenser, seemingly oblivious to the fact that other people want to have access to those things.
 
Gameface said:
French people. In particular, how they don't ever sit at the tables in the breakroom but stand around in front of the water fountain, microwaves, sink, paper towel dispenser, seemingly oblivious to the fact that other people want to have access to those things.
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Been hanging out with Rudy? He knows how to box out so you will never gain access to that water, microwave, sink, etc.
 
colton said:
People who stand too close when they are talking to you. Look buddy, I don't want to feel the air from your mouth on my face when we talk.
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You have to treat it like rebounding and swing your elbows a bit. Don't go all Malone on them though because that could land you in jail. Just brush them off the plate, so to speak.
 
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