Talking to machines when I need a real person. Or being told that the wait time is 1 hour 20 minutes.
This Really Annoys Me Pet Peeve Thread
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BeerChef17
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Thanks. I have it bookmarked. BTW I was on hold with my health insurance company when I posted and the 1 hour 20 wait time was just to scare me away. I was on hold for about 4 minutes.
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BrotherBock
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People that treat hallways like roads and refuse to walk on anything but the right side. It's not a road and it doesn't matter. They can step just as easily out of my way as I can theirs.
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TheCADJockey
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Our elementary school "trained" us to walk specifically on the right hand side. I always kind of thought it was weird. Now I can't go to shopping malls because of it. People walking both directions, or just shuffling around aimlessly like a zombie, makes me way too frustrated to be in public.
BrotherBock
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Too much prescribed order for me.
Anarchy.
That reminds me of one...
Slow walkers. Grr.
I mean, sure. If you're 90 years old, you can go slow.
If you're my age, and in reasonably healthy condition, pick up the gawddurn pace!
Dirt_McGirt
"We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps."
The only place it REALLY bothers me is when using escalators on any sort of metro rail system. I lived in DC for years and commuted via metro, and the ettiquette was that if you want to stand on the escalator, you do so on the right side so that people with some place to be can walk past you. Dealing with people on the weekend or holidays, or in other cities who have never heard of this courtesy is maddening.
I don't care what side of the aisles you walk on, as long as you don't park your shopping cart in the middle of it in the supermarket.
slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
Total opposite here - walk in a semblance of order, that way people aren't crashing into each other. You don't know how many times I have stopped when I see someone coming right at me and just let them walk into me. I look at them like "I dare you to say anything." Look where you are going, don't walk into people, and the easiest way to do that is to follow the "rule of the road" & walk on your right.
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I'm wondering if you are saying this in general or directing it at me. Look at post number 403...
Well, they mention a use of an acronym annoys them. It's use was prevalent way before they became members.
That's my only point to push back on the annoyance. Like it really matters.....The people still using it probably have been members longer.
Yes, I mentioned their post count and membership time but only in reference to old HBT vernacular usage.
What assumptions did you assume I made?
I never made any assumptions, other than the unmentionable acronym. That you actually assumed to be what they stated was annoying.
Seriously, I don't care about either things. (post count or membership duration) They don't mean squat in my opinion. New people can teach new ways of doing things. A new perspective is good.
That's fun, isn't it?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you've got a stature similar to mine. 6'0", 300 lbs, and a 54" chest. Your "average" size guy walks into me, it damn near knocks them on their ass, and doesn't knock me back a step.
slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
No, I'm not that big. I just know how to both brace myself (because I know what's coming, they don't) and to also deflect them off of me.
I did stop one lady from walking right into me by stomping my foot on the sidewalk to get her attention. She looked at me like I was Satan incarnate - but she saw me & didn't crash into me.
I did stop one lady from walking right into me by stomping my foot on the sidewalk to get her attention. She looked at me like I was Satan incarnate - but she saw me & didn't crash into me.
Dirt_McGirt
"We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps."
Same. 6'1", 250. A few years a go I went back to grad school in my early 30s and was baffled by the number of 130lb kids who would walk in groups 4.or 5 abreast and just walk straight into me, bouncing off like raquetballs.
Dirt_McGirt
"We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps."
Same. 6'1", 250. A few years a go I went back to grad school in my early 30s and was baffled by the number of 130lb kids on campus who would walk in groups 4.or 5 abreast, not paying attention, and just walk straight into me, bouncing off like raquetballs.
Stillraining
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I'm wondering if you are saying this in general or directing it at me. Look at post number 403...
Well, they mention a use of an acronym annoys them. It's use was prevalent way before they became members.
That's my only point to push back on the annoyance. Like it really matters.....The people still using it probably have been members longer.
Yes, I mentioned their post count and membership time but only in reference to old HBT vernacular usage.
What assumptions did you assume I made?
I never made any assumptions, other than the unmentionable acronym. That you actually assumed to be what they stated was annoying.
Seriously, I don't care about either things. (post count or membership duration) They don't mean squat in my opinion. New people can teach new ways of doing things. A new perspective is good.
Total backpedal but we except your apologies..
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Total backpedal but we except your apologies..
Ok. Good...never though ill of your peeve. Had to give you the first jab.
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
People who don't know the difference between "except" and "accept". [emoji57]
Stillraining
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I "accept" your pet peeve with all humbleness and with a lowered countenance admitting my own ignorance on such matters..Except in the rare event you may be my 5th grade English teacher Mrs Johnson. Then it becomes a battle cry "Down with you" as being my number one peeve which are known far and wide as the Spelling Police of the internet. At which juncture becomes totally unacceptable.. Except unless I made a mistake somewhere in there someplace.
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
SupervisingChildren
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Having a leak in your co2 setup. I lost a full 5# tank to a 3 gallon keg at room temp. And naturally, the co2 tank in my kegerator is about to kick as well (not due to a leak). At least I have a full 3rd tank to swap with the one in the kegerator.
charliethebum
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People who use the word "literally" wrong
When I'm at a bar with my woman, go to get a beer and come back to find some drunk jerk refusing to leave her personal space. Normally, they get two warnings that I am going to take them down to the floor by the throat before I actually do take them down to the floor by the throat.
******** in bars, in general. I was in a large nightclub, alone, just going up to the bar to get a beer and some ******* decides to block my way and tell me that I can't pass - trying to impress his buddies or something. He got zero warning before I took him by the throat and swept his legs out from behind him with my left foot - happened in a millisecond and all his buddies were trying to pull me off him while I had him on the floor by his throat.
Women in bars who ask me to buy them drinks. Hello, if I want to buy you a drink, I will ask you.
Pointy haired bosses. The kind who look like they should be bitchslapped just for waking up and dressing that way.
Upper middle class people. The kind who buy fish knives and BMWs to try to impress others.
People who started grilling yesterday, bought a big green egg, and all of the sudden they are "pit masters" with their flimsy-ass tongs. In general, people who refer to themselves or anyone else as a "pit master". I've grilled over 5000 - that's right - over five thousand times in my life and I am not a pit master nor do I need a freaking thermopen to tell me when my meat is done.
People who come to my house and tell me how to behave or criticise something. I was having an extended family party for my oldest teen last summer and one of her grandfathers (the parents of my wife's ex) told me that "we already shook hands". I replied that "this is my freaking yard and we will shake hands again, if I want to". And then, we did.
People who go to a smokery and eat ribs with a knife and fork. Pick them up with your damned hands and eat them.
OK, probably need to stop for a while now
******** in bars, in general. I was in a large nightclub, alone, just going up to the bar to get a beer and some ******* decides to block my way and tell me that I can't pass - trying to impress his buddies or something. He got zero warning before I took him by the throat and swept his legs out from behind him with my left foot - happened in a millisecond and all his buddies were trying to pull me off him while I had him on the floor by his throat.
Women in bars who ask me to buy them drinks. Hello, if I want to buy you a drink, I will ask you.
Pointy haired bosses. The kind who look like they should be bitchslapped just for waking up and dressing that way.
Upper middle class people. The kind who buy fish knives and BMWs to try to impress others.
People who started grilling yesterday, bought a big green egg, and all of the sudden they are "pit masters" with their flimsy-ass tongs. In general, people who refer to themselves or anyone else as a "pit master". I've grilled over 5000 - that's right - over five thousand times in my life and I am not a pit master nor do I need a freaking thermopen to tell me when my meat is done.
People who come to my house and tell me how to behave or criticise something. I was having an extended family party for my oldest teen last summer and one of her grandfathers (the parents of my wife's ex) told me that "we already shook hands". I replied that "this is my freaking yard and we will shake hands again, if I want to". And then, we did.
People who go to a smokery and eat ribs with a knife and fork. Pick them up with your damned hands and eat them.
OK, probably need to stop for a while now
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
People who have literal lists of problems with people.
Stay home. Don't invite people to your home. Seriously. You're the problem.
Stay home. Don't invite people to your home. Seriously. You're the problem.
People who use the word "literally"
slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
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