What's new
By:

Stupid Pet Peeves

When I'm working in someone's house and the home owners are in the other room "whispering" about not knowing how they're going to afford the work I'm doing.
Don't get me wrong, I understand home repairs suck and no one really wants to worry about them, but I'm not the one who called me and okay'd the work to be done. Maybe you shouldn't eat out every meal, which is what the evidence all over the counters leaves me to believe you're doing.
 
bigb said:
When I'm working in someone's house and the home owners are in the other room "whispering" about not knowing how they're going to afford the work I'm doing.
Don't get me wrong, I understand home repairs suck and no one really wants to worry about them, but I'm not the one who called me and okay'd the work to be done. Maybe you shouldn't eat out every meal, which is what the evidence all over the counters leaves me to believe you're doing.
Click to expand...

Maybe they intend to let you hear without thinking they are trying to make you hear?
 
Histrionics.

2 people in a group equal to or more than 3 people start to make out with obvious show-off. Oh congratulations! You guys are the first two people ever to do that in the entire history in the entire universal existence!
 
Bunch of people in a mall who does exactly nothing all day long and just f. around with their loud annoying voices and they do it for so long consistently that you cannot predict what they do for a living.
 
bigb said:
I have no doubt that was their intention. There were tons of other places they could have gone to have their conversation.
Click to expand...

You should pick up the fake phone call and ask the fake caller how could you tell the extra costs to them when you have already set the price that that would be unethical, low.
 
bigb said:
When I'm working in someone's house and the home owners are in the other room "whispering" about not knowing how they're going to afford the work I'm doing.
Don't get me wrong, I understand home repairs suck and no one really wants to worry about them, but I'm not the one who called me and okay'd the work to be done. Maybe you shouldn't eat out every meal, which is what the evidence all over the counters leaves me to believe you're doing.
Click to expand...


LOL!!! Having spent 31 years renovating, remodeling and repairing a big old Victorian built in 1891 - to the point now of having to redo stuff that was done 30 years ago, I have dealt with many contractors and tradespeople over the year. One of my personal favorite pet peeves when getting estimates for work is the attitude of the current bidder on the work that had been done before. I love the guys who go through the house with their noses turned up asking "so who did this work for you?" - - the ones who just LOVE to point out every little thing that was done "wrong" in their opinion by the last guy who did the job. Especially those who say "this should never have passed code" not realizing that maybe building codes have changed a bit in 30 or 40 years when the work was last done!


Funny too, because 30 years ago, the tradespeople seemed like such wise older men, now it seems they're all youngsters! Wonder what happened there?

:wink:
 
moevillini said:
LOL!!! Having spent 31 years renovating, remodeling and repairing a big old Victorian built in 1891 - to the point now of having to redo stuff that was done 30 years ago, I have dealt with many contractors and tradespeople over the year. One of my personal favorite pet peeves when getting estimates for work is the attitude of the current bidder on the work that had been done before. I love the guys who go through the house with their noses turned up asking "so who did this work for you?" - - the ones who just LOVE to point out every little thing that was done "wrong" in their opinion by the last guy who did the job. Especially those who say "this should never have passed code" not realizing that maybe building codes have changed a bit in 30 or 40 years when the work was last done!


Funny too, because 30 years ago, the tradespeople seemed like such wise older men, now it seems they're all youngsters! Wonder what happened there?

:wink:
Click to expand...

I try to bite my tongue about things like that. It's in poor taste.
The guys doing the jobs thirty years ago all retired. Now it's their kids/grandkids doing it. Plus, I hate to tell you this Moe, but you're the wiser older one now.
 
The white trash speech pattern of my wife's family drives me crazy. A few examples:

- The phrase "I/we seen".
- The phrase "I/we done".
- The use of "down" to indicate any direction of travel from Salt Lake City-- i.e., down to Logan, down to Idaho, down to the Ireland, down to the North Pole, down to outer space, etc.
- Rather than "what if", "ones if". For example: "Ones if we watch the Jazz game instead of this CSI: Miami rerun?" I can't even justify in my head how or why that got started.
- The arbitrary replacement of the mid-word letter "t" with a vague guttaral sound, as in: "We're driving down to Layh-uhn".

The ironic twist is that these aren't uneducated knuckledraggers. Her dad is an engineer for a medical manufacturer, her mother is a marketing/sales manager, my wife has a Masters in Nursing... and I'm just a condescending know-it-all carrying around a fixation on poor grammar in my head.

So that's my pet peeve.

That, and open-mouth chewing. Gross.
 
olden_undercover said:
The white trash speech pattern of my wife's family drives me crazy. A few examples:

- The phrase "I/we seen".
- The phrase "I/we done".
- The use of "down" to indicate any direction of travel from Salt Lake City-- i.e., down to Logan, down to Idaho, down to the Ireland, down to the North Pole, down to outer space, etc.
- Rather than "what if", "ones if". For example: "Ones if we watch the Jazz game instead of this CSI: Miami rerun?" I can't even justify in my head how or why that got started.
- The arbitrary replacement of the mid-word letter "t" with a vague guttaral sound, as in: "We're driving down to Layh-uhn".

The ironic twist is that these aren't uneducated knuckledraggers. Her dad is an engineer for a medical manufacturer, her mother is a marketing/sales manager, my wife has a Masters in Nursing... and I'm just a condescending know-it-all carrying around a fixation on poor grammar in my head.

So that's my pet peeve.

That, and open-mouth chewing. Gross.
Click to expand...

LOL

Pet Peeve: Poster with the best username on the whole damn website only has 22 posts.
 
kiri.de.carlos said:
Ya I am. Most of my family lives in Raymond. My aunt lived in Edmonton for a long time so we went there a lot.

Sent from the JazzFanz app
Click to expand...

Do you remember the last time we saw each other? It was the Jazzfanz Nite Out? I don't remember if you made it back with us to the bar hotel though...Catzies was blasted at that point. Anyway, hope all is well and that your kid(s) are doing well too.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top