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Stupid Pet Peeves

I hate it when I'm at the hardware store, and ask for directions to a part I need and the employees all like "well if we had it, it'd be right here" and points to where I have been looking for fifteen minutes. Why do they think I ask them in the first place? So they can tell me everything I already know? If they don't know anymore about than the customer, why does the damn store even have employees?
 
Gameface said:
"Force" their way in front of you? There should always be a gap between you and the car in front of you, also known as proper following distance. That gap should always be available for someone who wants to change lanes. If I spot someone on the freeway playing king of the lane I make it a point to squeeze into that gap, even if they try to close it off. Never been denied once.

I'm am a dick.
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Exactly. Beer is exhibiting the standard Utah driver attitude of "you can have the piece of road in front of me when you pry it from my cold dead fingers". And to be honest I haven't seen this attitude in any other place. In Utah is the only place I have seen people literally floor it and jump forward 2 car lengths just to make sure I didn't merge into traffic in front of THEM, then glare at me like I just tried to eat their children. How dare me try to get in front of anyone, as if I am worthy to be in FRONT. Gawd I must be such an ******* to try to merge in front of anyone. Love them Utah drivers.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Exactly. Beer is exhibiting the standard Utah driver attitude of "you can have the piece of road in front of me when you pry it from my cold dead fingers". And to be honest I haven't seen this attitude in any other place. In Utah is the only place I have seen people literally floor it and jump forward 2 car lengths just to make sure I didn't merge into traffic in front of THEM, then glare at me like I just tried to eat their children. How dare me try to get in front of anyone, as if I am worthy to be in FRONT. Gawd I must be such an ******* to try to merge in front of anyone. Love them Utah drivers.
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It's because far too many lousy Utah drivers love to get in front of you and then slow down. That causes drivers to be lousy about not letting people merge over.
 
b_line said:
I hate it when I'm at the hardware store, and ask for directions to a part I need and the employees all like "well if we had it, it'd be right here" and points to where I have been looking for fifteen minutes. Why do they think I ask them in the first place? So they can tell me everything I already know? If they don't know anymore about than the customer, why does the damn store even have employees?
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I just hate how when you know exactly what you need and where to find it you get 20 workers asking if they can help with anything. But when you actually do have a question about something, all store employees are nowhere to be found.
 
Gameface said:
"Force" their way in front of you? There should always be a gap between you and the car in front of you, also known as proper following distance. That gap should always be available for someone who wants to change lanes. If I spot someone on the freeway playing king of the lane I make it a point to squeeze into that gap, even if they try to close it off. Never been denied once.

I'm am a dick.
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Theres a gap, but generally traffic isn't great on my commute so I'm not going that fast. Therefore the gap isnt big enough for a car to slide right in with ease. So they'll put their blinker on and immediately start over almost pushing me out of the lane or causing me to slam on my brakes so they can get in. They see me, they just want in right that second. And that would be fine if they were close to their exit and HAD to get over right then. But when they do that and then drive for 10 more miles they can eat my butt.
 
The cleaners who pack way too many toilet seat covers into the holder so every one you pull out breaks apart. They wouldn't have to replace them so often if I didn't have to take sixteen out before I found a full one or two.

Same goes with fast food napkin dispensers. Don't overfill.
 
franklin said:
The cleaners who pack way too many toilet seat covers into the holder so every one you pull out breaks apart. They wouldn't have to replace them so often if I didn't have to take sixteen out before I found a full one or two.

Same goes with fast food napkin dispensers. Don't overfill.
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Just do the porta-potti way. Slab a ton of TP on the seat to sit on.
 
Our just sit on the seat. The door handle I'd probably more infected than the seat.
 
Some pet peeves related to several of these topics:

The sickeningly sweetly floral scented cleaning solution often used in airport and fast food restaurant restrooms.
Cleaning solution should smell like pine, lemon or Murphy Oil soap.

The grocery store I frequent most often is always completely rearranging its merchandise. It seems stuff get switched around every week. So I need bread and go to the aisle that had bread last week, only now it's all paper towels. An employee told me it's done intentionally to keep you in the store longer on the theory that you'll buy more as you wander the aisles
 
Beer said:
Theres a gap, but generally traffic isn't great on my commute so I'm not going that fast. Therefore the gap isnt big enough for a car to slide right in with ease. So they'll put their blinker on and immediately start over almost pushing me out of the lane or causing me to slam on my brakes so they can get in. They see me, they just want in right that second. And that would be fine if they were close to their exit and HAD to get over right then. But when they do that and then drive for 10 more miles they can eat my butt.
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In most sane parts of the country (and world) when someone next to you turns on their blinker and starts to move over, you actually slow up just a little and let them move over. Then later someone else does the same for you. It is amazing how easy, less stress, and smoother flowing traffic can be when people act like people and not like assholes.




Note: Obviously traffic sucks all over the place, but it definitely amps up the road rage quotient when everyone is going at it like it's their piece of the road or someone is going to die.
 
It just occurred to me that this thread really reads like a huge list of 1st world problems.
 
LogGrad98 said:
It just occurred to me that this thread really reads like a huge list of 1st world problems.
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Bro, finding parts at home depot is sooooo a third world problem. I mean, I go into home depot and have to pass through like 25 migrant workers first...
 
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