What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[IrishLion]

I got cut in line at the shittiest, trash hole stores today multiple times. I make sure I turn to my wife and say aloud, "guess it wasn't our turn"

I was at Barnes and Noble with my wife and our baby the other day. We were casually walking up to the check-out line to wait on a register. There is a clear spot for us behind the only other person waiting for a register. Just as we are stepping up behind that person in a leisurely and polite fashion, this uber-important looking dude with a blutooth headset in one ear and a single earbud headphone in the other comes from out of nowhere, jogs the last five steps from my peripheral vision, and cuts off my wife and our stroller to step in front of us at the very last second.

I kept the glare on the back of his head, and he made one glance back at some point and immediately looked to the floor in shame.

Something so small and stupid, and I felt like I earned the right to drive the guy's head through the glass door.

Local news stations that start with "Breaking News" when it's really not breaking news. The title "Breaking News" should be reserved for things like 9/11, killing Bin Laden, etc.

"Breaking News" is no longer a real thing. The AP Twitter feed starts every.single.tweet with "Breaking News." And it's rarely actually breaking news. It's usually like, "BREAKING: Man tries to ride dolphin; impaled on coral reef because he deserved it."

That's not breaking news. That's just an interesting story.

Breaking news would be "BREAKING: Dolphins learn to talk, declare intention to rule the world"

 

[Irish#1]

More like you're too small so you can't clear your jeans so you have to unbutton so as not to piss on yourself.

I see you've been talking to my wife again.

 

[Irish#1]

We've been working on this big B2B web project for a year and a half. During this time, I keep telling management this will change our culture and how we do things internally. On several occasions I hold meetings with them and provide them with a list of things their department will have to prepare for and deal with. They all listen. I send out several emails with updates and remind them of their list of action items. Well the day of reckoning arrives. We're forwarding new customer requests to the CSR Manager, who happens to be a 66 year old lady who doesn't like change. She goes to the VP she reports to, asking him what is going on and tells him they can't be making changes to the way they work. He calls me and asks what's going on.


BTW...........This CSR Manager has this bad habit of saying, "Oh, I'm all for change, but we can't change this."

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Okay what the hell is with the guys who go to the men's room to take a leak and they make an entire production about it? They unbuckle their belt, unbutton their pants, unzip their fly, and hang themselves over the waistband of their underwear. Meanwhile, the end of their belt is flapping in the breeze and rubbing all over the urinal and the wall thing. Um... what the hell? That's what flies (flys?) are for.

The only scenario where I can see this being an issue is a college house party with one toilet for about 150 people haha

 

[Irish Insanity]

Okay what the hell is with the guys who go to the men's room to take a leak and they make an entire production about it? They unbuckle their belt, unbutton their pants, unzip their fly, and hang themselves over the waistband of their underwear. Meanwhile, the end of their belt is flapping in the breeze and rubbing all over the urinal and the wall thing. Um... what the hell? That's what flies (flys?) are for.

I do the bolded. However, my belt will never flap in the breeze or touch the urinal. That's disgusting.

 

[Fbolt]

him

 

[woolybug25]

I do the bolded. However, my belt will never flap in the breeze or touch the urinal. That's disgusting.

Didn't you admit to leaving your grocery cart out in the parking lot too?

God damn heathen...

 

[Irish Insanity]

Didn't you admit to leaving your grocery cart out in the parking lot too?

God damn heathen...

That I do not do. It goes in the cart corral. Even with the -10 wind chill the last few mornings. There's no excuse for laziness.

 

[NDBoiler]

While I get this and I generally agree, I have to admit I don't always put mine away.

Explanation: I almost always put the cart away unless it is summer here, and, I have my kids and my wife is not there and I have a full cart of groceries and a cart return is far away (30+ feet).

For wooly

Sorry pkt

 

[Fbolt]

 

[zelezo vlk]

I don't know what you're getting at.

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[Fbolt]

she grinds my gears.

 

[NDdomer2]

she grinds my gears.

Are you Roger Stone?

 

[Fbolt]

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[GATTACA!]

When people don't move after their order is taken. They just stand there and shuffle shit around in their purse and are completely oblivious to the people around them. If your order has been taken GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!

 

[military_irish]

People that drive in the "this lane ends" lane until the last minute and then gets mad when no one wants to let them over.

 

[IrishLion]

People that drive in the "this lane ends" lane until the last minute and then gets mad when no one wants to let them over.

I agree with you, considering the expected road etiquette that we have in the United State. Nobody likes that guy that gets to pass all of the traffic and people that have already gotten over to wait their turn.

However, I will say that we, as a country, need to start thinking about that whole zipper-merge thing that other countries have mastered, where everyone can maintain full speed and all understand that they must alternate at the choke point.

It would save hours of traffic headaches wherever a lane is closed.

 

[Bubbles]

People that drive in the "this lane ends" lane until the last minute and then gets mad when no one wants to let them over.

My friend.....you have it easy. Around here.....like CLOCKWORK, there are a-holes who do that, then violently cut over at the last minute and look at you like you pissed in their cheerios....or even better.....when no one lets them in....they just keep on driving up the shoulder/breakdown lane as long as they like. The entitlement/smug self-importance of some people boggles the mind.

 

[zelezo vlk]

People that drive in the "this lane ends" lane until the last minute and then gets mad when no one wants to let them over.

This happens to me pretty frequently as I take 183 all the time. Turning onto the frontage road, I have a full permanent lane, but the people taking a U-turn have a merge lane. It must be 3 times a week where somebody tries to floor it and pass me well after passing the "Lane Ends Merge Now" sign and if it weren't for me making sure that they don't, those dummies would merge directly into my car. The thing is that they all have much nicer cars than me, and it'd clearly be their fault. Makes no dang sense. Yup

 

[woolybug25]

People that speed up when you're trying to merge.

 

[ACamp1900]

There are two sides to that coin too... when you are in that lane that is ending and you have plenty of time and put the blinker on, try to show respect and situational awareness... and everyone refuses to let you in....

 

[zelezo vlk]

There are two sides to that coin too... when you are in that lane that is ending and you have plenty of time and put the blinker on, try to show respect and situational awareness... and everyone refuses to let you in....

You bet your behind that I try to let people in, because I know I've been in that situation. My complaint is only about the people who make the dangerous decision to try to speed up and pass me though the lane is already narrowing, because they'd rather not slow down.

 

[greyhammer90]

There are two sides to that coin too... when you are in that lane that is ending and you have plenty of time and put the blinker on, try to show respect and situational awareness... and everyone refuses to let you in....

Yeah, the best move for traffic flow is not for everyone to immediately get into the left lane as soon as the first sign saying "right lane ending 1 mile". You go down and do the "zipper pattern." But tons of people view that as "cutting". There's definitely jerks on both sides of that equation.

 

[Bubbles]

There are two sides to that coin too... when you are in that lane that is ending and you have plenty of time and put the blinker on, try to show respect and situational awareness... and everyone refuses to let you in....

Very true. I always let people in who put their blinkers on and genuinely try to merge before the last second, and in general they let me in under the same conditions....but then you have the people that put their blinker on and still speed towards the end of the lane with no real effort to merge until the last second.

I find it helpful to just pick a spot between two cars, match their pace until they let you in. General rule: If you speed up to get ahead and cut in at the last second, you're the dick. If you pick a spot, match speed and they refuse to let you in before the last second, they're the dick.

The benefit to matching speed is that you are also preventing other mergers from speeding ahead like dicks, unless they pass you on the shoulder....then they become a new class: Mega-gaping dickhole.

 

[tadman95]

Trucks that cut into the passing lane doing 65 to pass a truck doing 64 on an up hill grade, on an Interstate with a 70 MPH limit. By the top of the hill everyone is doing 55

Happens everyday.

 

[irishtrain]

A soft football team. Its ok now in these times to not be great given the culture of college life, student athlete, and the 40 year plan-all wonderful necessary things. But to have a soft football team that other schools message is to just stay the course, keep pushing, they are a finesse team etc is just not acceptable. I don't care if these guys go 4/8 again but at least do it like you only have 4 years left to play football and match the enthusiasm of your opponents. Right now that part of Notre Dame football sucks.

 

[NorthDakota]

People who drive the speed limit in the passing lane on interstate.

 

[ulukinatme]

Trucks that cut into the passing lane doing 65 to pass a truck doing 64 on an up hill grade, on an Interstate with a 70 MPH limit. By the top of the hill everyone is doing 55

Happens everyday.

"Breaker 1-9, breaker 1-9, this is rubber ducky in a Buster Brown. Ya'll see that slew of jet pilots coming up the left lane? Come back."

"Rubber ducky, this is golden goose, riding in a convoy behind ya of portable parking lots. We see 'em. Over."

"Golden Goose, put the hammer down and get alongside me. The lead jet pilot goes by the handle tadman, let's ruin his day."

"Wanna pickup a pavement princess after this?"

"10-4, good neighbor."

 

[military_irish]

People that leave their shopping carts in parking spaces. Literally how hard is it to walk the cart to the cart return spot?

 

[NorthDakota]

"Breaker 1-9, breaker 1-9, this is rubber ducky in a Buster Brown. Ya'll see that slew of jet pilots coming up the left lane? Come back."

"Rubber ducky, this is golden goose, riding in a convoy behind ya of portable parking lots. We see 'em. Over."

"Golden Goose, put the hammer down and get alongside me. The lead jet pilot goes by the handle tadman, let's ruin his day."

"Wanna pickup a pavement princess after this?"

"10-4, good neighbor."

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