What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[woolybug25]

You set your cruise at 13 over? That's pretty high. I set mine at 7 over. That way, I can relax and not worry about the PoPo. 13 will get you popped.

 

[ACamp1900]

You set your cruise at 13 over? That's pretty high. I set mine at 7 over. That way, I can relax and not worry about the PoPo. 13 will get you popped.

Not if he's white............... amirite?

 

[Irish Insanity]

Parents who shouldn't be.

Stopped by a gas station. While standing 10 people deep in line a Woman and her BF roll up. Park in front where there isn't an actual spot. Before the car comes to a stop the rear door pops open. The culprit, a less than 3 year old kid not in any sort of car seat. She luckily didn't fall with the door as it opened. Mom hopped out and snatched the kid up and brought her inside with her. Not a word to the kid of what just happened. Honestly I'm not even sure either parent noticed. Being a parent should require training/testing and a license.

 

[IrishLion]

You set your cruise at 13 over? That's pretty high. I set mine at 7 over. That way, I can relax and not worry about the PoPo. 13 will get you popped.

13 is usually enough time to flip it off and get back down to ~7 over without jamming the brakes if you spot the 5-0 on time. I have faith that the Police Man doesn't want to get me for ~7 over if he's sitting on a major highway, looking for the dangerous assholes.

I also only do it if I'm on a good, flat stretch of highway with great visibility down the road, which is basically the entire state of Alabama.

 

[woolybug25]

Not if he's white............... amirite?

That's racist. #lionlivesmatter #pawsupdontshoot

 

[wizards8507]

People who go to the gym simply to be seen and socialize. This tends to be women, fat women, who are more concerned about what leggings they are wearing and whether or not their shitty sketchers match. Take your fat cunt down to Starbucks and get that 600 calorie Tazo Green Tea Frappuccino, because we all know that is where you going after the gym anyways b/c you want a drink that matches your Lululemon top and you think you "deserve" it. Nobody is fooled. You don't really want to be at the gym. You just want to feel like you are actually doing something and you found a fellow fatty to commiserate with. Get the fuck out of my way and get yourself to Curves.

People who go to the gym and then pay for landscapers to come and do their yard work. Don't pay money to outsource productive manual labor and then pay more money so you can go to the gym and do unproductive manual labor.

What's Lululemon?

 

[woolybug25]

What's Lululemon?

Them super tight yoga pants your mamma is always sporting.

Super tight. Form fitting.

 

[calvegas04]

going less than 10mph over the limit is for the poor

 

[Monk]

going less than 10mph over the limit is for the poor

I go 9 mph over. I must be lower middle class.

 

[Irish#1]

I go 9 mph over. I must be lower middle class.

I'm a 7-8 mph kind of guy. I don't trust myself to see the law in time. Besides, those sneaky bastards have that radon gizmo and can clock you before you ever see them.

#cheetalivesmatter #pawsupdontshoot

 

[irishtrain]

SEC fans

 

[Monk]

I'm a 7-8 mph kind of guy. I don't trust myself to see the law in time. Besides, those sneaky bastards have that radon gizmo and can clock you before you ever see them.

#cheetalivesmatter #pawsupdontshoot

I agree, that's why I don't slow down. I drive right by and have never been pulled over on the highway. On arterial and collector roads I try to keep it around 7 MPH or so.

 

[woolybug25]

My grandfather drove 7 over his whole life. Didn't matter if it was a 25mph speed limit or a 70mpr speed limit. Always 7 over, set on cruise if possible. He passed away at the age of 84 and never once in his life received a traffic violation.

True story.

 

[Irish#1]

What grinds my gears?

We use industrial vending machines at our customer locations for dispensing tools, safety supplies and other products. Some are similar to vending machines that dispense candy and chips, some are more sophisticated. The machines run software that creates reports and initiates orders to replenish.

So yesterday, I get an email from one of our salesman screaming that we are losing an account if this keeps up and the customers management team finds out they haven't been getting their reports. He also copies several others including the owner. I do a little research and find out, the customer had just reported the problem that morning.

I reply back that I'll send someone out to the customers location and see what's going on. He then replies that going to the customers business isn't going to fix the problem and we just need to get this fixed. This customer has their network locked down, so we can access the unit remotely.

I'm guessing he thinks we have these mystical magical powers that allow us to resolve problems just by thinking of a fix? Also, don't start screaming in an email until we've failed to address and fix a problem in a timely manner. The real kicker here? The revenue from this customer is minimal and has been on a steady decline over the last three years. Maybe he should improve his sales skills?! lol

My rant is done.

 

[wizards8507]

My grandfather drove 7 over his whole life. Didn't matter if it was a 25mph speed limit or a 70mpr speed limit. Always 7 over, set on cruise if possible. He passed away at the age of 84 and never once in his life received a traffic violation.

True story.

He must have never driven through Ohio with out of state license plates. I have two speeding violations in my life and both times were in Ohio driving out to Notre Dame.

82 in a 70 in Indiana on a Sunday morning wearing Notre Dame gear: "Good morning officer. Heading to Mass at the Basilica." Leave with a warning.

77 in a 70 driving through Toledo: $200 ticket

 

[woolybug25]

He must have never driven through Ohio with out of state license plates. I have two speeding violations in my life and both times were in Ohio driving out to Notre Dame.

82 in a 70 in Indiana on a Sunday morning wearing Notre Dame gear: "Good morning officer. Heading to Mass at the Basilica." Leave with a warning.

77 in a 70 driving through Toledo: $200 ticket

Well, one of those is over 7 and the other... I'm guessing you were going faster and that's just what he gave you the ticket for?

 

[woolybug25]

What grinds my gears?

We use industrial vending machines at our customer locations for dispensing tools, safety supplies and other products. Some are similar to vending machines that dispense candy and chips, some are more sophisticated. The machines run software that creates reports and initiates orders to replenish.

So yesterday, I get an email from one of our salesman screaming that we are losing an account if this keeps up and the customers management team finds out they haven't been getting their reports. He also copies several others including the owner. I do a little research and find out, the customer had just reported the problem that morning.

I reply back that I'll send someone out to the customers location and see what's going on. He then replies that going to the customers business isn't going to fix the problem and we just need to get this fixed. This customer has their network locked down, so we can access the unit remotely.

I'm guessing he thinks we have these mystical magical powers that allow us to resolve problems just by thinking of a fix? Also, don't start screaming in an email until we've failed to address and fix a problem in a timely manner. The real kicker here? The revenue from this customer is minimal and has been on a steady decline over the last three years. Maybe he should improve his sales skills?! lol

My rant is done.

Fastenal? You can pm me if you want.

 

[wizards8507]

Well, one of those is over 7 and the other... I'm guessing you were going faster and that's just what he gave you the ticket for?

Nope. Ohio cops are dicks. My wife was taking her SCUBA certification test in Ohio (that's when we got the ticket) and she ended up chatting with an Indiana State Police officer who confirmed that Ohio traffic cops are notoriously awful to out of state drivers.

 

[Irish#1]

Fastenal? You can pm me if you want.

Fastenal is a competitor of ours, but we're more regional to the Midwest and Texas. Fastenal likes to drop the cheap "AeroVend" machines into customers accounts for free as an inducement to become their supplier. I hear their vending support is terrible after they get into an account. This particular machine is a ToolBoss unit. We have more Cribmaster machines installed than we do ToolBoss and SupplyPro. We actually got rid of the last AeroVend unit we had installed just a couple of weeks ago and are in the process of replacing Fastenal at a couple of locations in northern Indiana.

 

[ACamp1900]

BS nielsen ratings...

 

[dshans]

Speed traps.

When I was a kid the fam would drive fromFL to NY to see family. The interstate system was not yet completed.

One year my father left the US highway to get gas, somewhere in one of the Carolinas I think. The posted speed limit was dropped from 60 to 25 within a few hundred yards without warning, and physics be damned!

There were local patrol cars parked just beyond the 25 MPH Speed Limit sign with citation pads and pens at the ready. We were not allowed to continue our journey without a trip to the JP to pay the fine – cash only, of course.

The fun part was that he got clipped in the same little berg on our return.

 

[Irish#1]

Speed traps.

When I was a kid the fam would drive fromFL to NY to see family. The interstate system was not yet completed.

One year my father left the US highway to get gas, somewhere in one of the Carolinas I think. The posted speed limit was dropped from 60 to 25 within a few hundred yards without warning, and physics be damned!

There were local patrol cars parked just beyond the 25 MPH Speed Limit sign with citation pads and pens at the ready. We were not allowed to continue our journey without a trip to the JP to pay the fine – cash only, of course.

The fun part was that he got clipped in the same little berg on our return.

Similar story. Shortly after getting married, my wife and I were coming back from a trip to FL. Don't remember the town, but a local sheriff stopped me for speeding. Don't remember the particulars except that he said he could accept the fine on the spot. I didn't say anything, but I knew where that money was really going. We were young and broke with just enough gas money to get back home. I told him the situation, so he writes me the ticket and let's us go on our merry way. Obviously I never paid the ticket. Can't do that today since the states share these records.

 

[Monk]

Similar story. Shortly after getting married, my wife and I were coming back from a trip to FL. Don't remember the town, but a local sheriff stopped me for speeding. Don't remember the particulars except that he said he could accept the fine on the spot. I didn't say anything, but I knew where that money was really going. We were young and broke with just enough gas money to get back home. I told him the situation, so he writes me the ticket and let's us go on our merry way. Obviously I never paid the ticket. Can't do that today since the states share these records.

 

[IrishLion]

My dad got pulled over one time in one of the Virginias, doing about 20 over. Drives like an animal.

Anywho, the cop told him he'd cut him a break on the ticket and write it for 10 over, but my dad would have to come back to Virginia on a business day to pay the ticket in person. Looking back on it, the cop was probably being a sarcastic d!ckhead by "cutting him a break," only to order my dad back to the state on a separate day after a roadtrip, but I didn't catch it at the time.

I can't remember if the cop said it was a state thing or something specific to the city limits the highway went through at that point, but my dad told him to write the ticket for the full 20+ if he could mail his check to them.

Eventually, the cop relented with a "They'll yell at me for this, but you can go ahead and mail it in I guess" and still cut him the ticket for 10+.

 

[Irish#1]

Gem Shopping Network calls 2-3 times a week. I let it go to voice mail. The message says if I no longer want to receive these calls, to call back and they will remove my number. I call back and the message says their mailbox is full. After about a month of this, I finally got through, but had to leave a message to remove my number. Problem solved? Of course not. After leaving a couple more messages over the next couple of weeks with no results, I've had enough.

I leave a message questioning the IQ of everyone working at the GSN and how removing a phone number from their auto-dialer must be akin to rocket science for them. I also tell them not to clear any space on the mantel for a Nobel, because it's not happening.

Haven't had a call for a month.

 

[ACamp1900]

Gem Shopping Network calls 2-3 times a week. I let it go to voice mail. The message says if I no longer want to receive these calls, to call back and they will remove my number. I call back and the message says their mailbox is full. After about a month of this, I finally got through, but had to leave a message to remove my number. Problem solved? Of course not. After leaving a couple more messages over the next couple of weeks with no results, I've had enough.

I leave a message questioning the IQ of everyone working at the GSN and how removing a phone number from their auto-dialer must be akin to rocket science for them. I also tell them not to clear any space on the mantel for a Nobel, because it's not happening.

Haven't had a call for a month.

This pisses me off... for years, we'd get calls daily for people we've never heard of... and the exact same garbage... "If you want the calls to stop..." except the steps they detailed never worked... a handful of times I'd get a rep on the phone, bitch them out and we'd get the, "Ok you are off our call list sir, thanks." Until the very next day when the phone rang again... we had to adjust our land line and put in to only allow calls from select numbers.

 

[zelezo vlk]

People who steal credit card info.

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[Irish#1]

People who steal credit card info.

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For a while, there was something on the news almost daily where skimmers were found in gas pumps logging credit card data. Haven't heard of one in about two months so maybe the stations got a handle on things.

 

[wizards8507]

People who call it a "shoot-out" in soccer. You sound like an ignoramus. Anyone who knows anything calls it PKs.

 

[NDohio]

Idiot drivers.

When there is a long line of traffic in the left lane, and everyone is going well over the speed limit, do not try and pass on the right and then squeeze your POS pick-up into that long line of speeding traffic. We all want to go faster you moron!!!

EDIT: I was simply trying to get to a computer so I could see the soccer shoot out...