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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Sept 25, 2005 6:45:06 GMT -6
WOW! Thanks ladies.....definately helpful. ;D
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Post by Phalon on Sept 28, 2005 4:44:18 GMT -6
Well, there ya go, Scrappy. No need to fret so much; Gigs and Halona to the rescue to ease your trebled mind. C-minor problems can be solved fairly easily with a little help. Alto....I hope you've the cleft notes.
Sorry. The Muse Ick just hit me.
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Post by Lesa on Sept 29, 2005 0:50:58 GMT -6
Halona, I didn't realize you had experience playing guitar. Scrappy, I'm glad I could find a good visual to go with her explanation. Phalon, leave it to you to come up with a dozen puns in four short sentences.
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Post by rsine69 on Sept 29, 2005 5:08:13 GMT -6
Just having to wake up and face the day every day is enough of a pet peeve for me
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Post by Xenamoured on Sept 29, 2005 13:44:05 GMT -6
" Just having to wake up and face the day every day is enough of a pet peeve for me" ;D I hear ya' brother....some days it's all I can do to drag my sorry carcass out of bed at 5:00 am....
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Sept 30, 2005 9:35:12 GMT -6
But guys....think of the alternative. lol
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Post by Lesa on Sept 30, 2005 16:48:37 GMT -6
You mean dragging our carcasses out of a cardboard box? As much as I hate getting out of bed, that would be even worse. Here's one for you. Yesterday in my checkout line, a young boy asked his dad if he would like him to put their little red shopping basket away, to which the father replied, "No, that's ok. She can get it." I quickly responded, "No, that's ok. If he wants to, he can put it away. " I said it to praise the boy for his thoughtfulness and encourage more of the same in the future, and it peeved me that his father would discourage that thoughtfulness. I wonder, when they're at home and the boy offers to put his dirty dishes in the sink, does he say, "No, that's ok. Mommy will get it," or does he reserve that for the robots who work in stores and restaurants?
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Post by AresGirl on Sept 30, 2005 18:59:43 GMT -6
i love it when people interrupt you when you're helping another customer... it's like, that person doesn't matter and you *must* help them despite the fact you're otherwise engaged. (NOTE: Sarcasm.)
Jenn
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Post by Lesa on Sept 30, 2005 20:49:37 GMT -6
I hate that too, especially when I have a line of people at the express lane and I'm trying to get them all out of there as quickly as possible. After all, it's called the express lane for a reason. I especially hate when they do this and the customer service counter has no customers or a fellow employee, who they could also ask, is stocking a shelf nearby. And when they do interrupt, they take forever to ask whatever it is they're asking, holding up the line that much more. I don't mind it so much when everyone is busy and I'm at one of the big lanes, because I can just send my bagger to show them where something is, or if my bagger is also a cashier, I am more than happy to let them take over while I show them. But don't hold up the only express lane when there are other people they can ask. Something that might be more along the lines of what you're talking about... The way our customer service desk is set up leaves a lot to be desired. On the side is the film dropoff, as well as Western Union forms, and that is where people are supposed to go to drop off their film and fill out their WU forms. Both cash registers, on the other hand, are at the front of the customer service counter, but all too often, people come to the side of the counter when they want money for their bottle return slips or to rent a Rug Doctor, and they don't come around to the front when they're finished filling out their Western Union form, etc. BTW, if they are paying by credit or debit card, they have to come around to the front to run their card. Well... they only schedule one person to work customer service at a time, and the 2nd cash register usually doesn't get used unless it gets really busy up there and a manager has to come and help. So anyway, a lot of times I'll have three or four people waiting in line at customer service (at the front, at the cash register, where they are supposed to be), and people will still come to the side as though I'm going to wait on them before the people who are patiently waiting in line. At other times, I might have no customers and I'll be busy doing something at the back counter like adding up bottle slips or answering the phone on the back wall, then I'll turn around and see one person at the cash register and one person at the side of the counter. So one day I was adding bottle slips, then turned around to find the latter. I asked who was there first, and the lady at the side said that she was. So I walk over there and see that she needs to wire some money (which could take two minutes, or 10 if there are problems), and the person who correctly went to the cash register had a couple of bottle slips to cash in (which takes about 10 seconds). After realizing this, I asked the lady if I could help the person at the cash register first since it would be very quick, and she was adamant that she be waited on first, so I turn to the other person and apologize, then proceed to wait on the selfish person. Of course, the "code city" that she had put on her Western Union form wasn't coming up in the computer and it took a while to figure out what she was supposed to put on the form. Meanwhile, people started lining up and I had to call a manager to wait on everyone else. Now I don't usually ask who was there first. I just go to whoever is at the cash register and tell the person at the side that I can help them "over here" and motion to the front of the desk.
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Post by rsine69 on Oct 2, 2005 2:34:55 GMT -6
Another work related pet peeve. Some disgusting &$%#@* who uses the toilet in the men's room and never flushes. So here I am going to use the restroom during break and what do I find? A big old floater.
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Post by Lesa on Oct 2, 2005 5:27:26 GMT -6
Ewww! One of the toilets in our women's employee restroom doesn't flush on the first try, so we have to flush again halfway through the first flush to make everything go down. I've been lucky not to find any floating logs in there, but I have often found it full of toilet paper.
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Post by rsine69 on Oct 2, 2005 6:50:35 GMT -6
Don't you just LOVE were this thread is going?
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Post by rsine69 on Oct 2, 2005 6:55:40 GMT -6
You know what a toilet would say if it could talk?? Step up to the bowl partner and make it a double. ;D OK I'll stop now.
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Post by Lesa on Oct 3, 2005 17:59:22 GMT -6
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Post by rsine69 on Oct 4, 2005 4:15:28 GMT -6
Another pet peeve is when I don't know how to spell a word so I try to look it up but I can't find it because I don't know how to spell it.
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Post by Joxcenia on Oct 4, 2005 16:28:38 GMT -6
Or it is spelled way differently than the way it sounds like it should be spelled.
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Post by Lesa on Oct 5, 2005 2:07:35 GMT -6
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Post by rsine69 on Oct 5, 2005 4:38:22 GMT -6
I tried typing in a misspelled word but instead of saying "Did you mean" I got a bunch of website links using that misspelled word.
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Post by rsine69 on Oct 6, 2005 4:30:51 GMT -6
Here are some more pet peeves of mine.
(1) Those emergency broadcast tests they do that never fails to interupt a program I'm heavily into. You know..." This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test. In the event of an actual emergency blah blah blah." Yet in the event of an ACTUAL emergency more than likely their too busy with their thumb up their @$$es. Were were they when we were attacked on 9/11??
(2) Hollywood trying to do these remakes of classic movies. There's a reason why these movies are called "classic". Because they're CLASSIC!!! And virtually everytime they try to redo and reinvent a classic they fail miserably.
The time machine Planet of the apes Bewitched Stepford wives War of the worlds
And that was just a few that bombed. Now they're remaking The Poseidon Adventure with Kurt Russell this time. Can't Hollywood come up with anything new and unique anymore?
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Post by Lesa on Oct 6, 2005 18:37:36 GMT -6
Sure, it'll show links if a website has the same misspelling of the word. Are you sure it didn't also say "Did you mean" at the top? Re: (1) - I hate those! If it's not bad enough that they do it during a good show, they do it right at the exact moment that something major is about to happen on the show so everyone misses it. I don't know if they cut in immediately when we were attacked on 9/11, but I did see the live coverage starting with the first building on fire, and watched the 2nd impact during the live broadcast. While they were speculating before the 2nd impact that it might have been an accident, I was saying that no one could be bad enough to accidentally fly into the building and it had to be on purpose. If I could deduce this, then our government's best and brightest should have figured this out as well and acted on it much more quickly. But anyway... Re: (2) - I don't mind it so much, but I haven't seen any of the remakes that you've listed. The same thing happens with music. It's hard to come up with anything new and unique, because just about everything has already been done; so they pick a classic and try to modernize it or simply give it their own flavor. Many times it bombs, but other times it attracts people who haven't seen/heard the original, as well as people who are fans of the classic as well as the people remaking it, who are curious to see how the remake will turn out. Even when something isn't a remake, the creators will be accused of ripping something off because it's so hard to come up with something unique anymore, so the 'new' movie, show, or song is bound to remind them of something that has already been done.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 8, 2006 23:56:56 GMT -6
Dug this up, ready to write a post about people's behavior in out-of-doors places; like in an airplane where all manners fly out the window. But it started sounding more like a rant than a peeve - those mild irritants that drive you crazy.
Sand is a mild irritant: Living near the beach, it drives me crazy; it gets in all those nooks and crannies, cracks and crevices and is hard to get out....
...of my house. Sometimes, it seems I sweep enough sand out of the corners of the rooms to have my own personal beach. How's it all make its way inside. I'm sure the dust bunnies drag it in, and are having beach blanket parties when I'm not looking.
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Post by Siren on Jul 11, 2006 17:21:56 GMT -6
Cell phones are one of my biggest irritants. It annoys me when people talk too loudly on them in public, leave them turned on to ring during concerts, movies, etc, interrupt an in-person conversation to take a non-emergency call, and most of all, talk on them when they should be paying attention to the other thing they're doing at that moment, like driving or making a purchase.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 22, 2006 23:25:57 GMT -6
Cell phones. Pfft. I don't like them either, Siren, when used at inappropriate times.
Sometimes I think conveniences make us all the ruder than we were without them. Then again - I leave my answering machine on when I'm home. My friends though, they've come to love My Answering Machine guy; his mechanical yet somewhat sexy voice has come to be an expected greeting. His name is "Clark", so I'm told, and at least one person sounds quite disappointed when I actually pick up the phone. LMAO.
Another pet peeve caught up with me today: ever get a sudden and unbearable itch on the bottom of your foot? The kind of itch that no amount of wiggling and contorting your foot in your shoe will cure?
I was roller-skiing this evening, and was struck by such an itch. It was driving me nuts; so insane that I felt I could not bear it until I made it to the next bench a little less than a mile away. Not able to stand it any longer, I sat in the middle of the trail, released the ski, whipped off the boot, peeled off the sock, and feverishly scratched away. A biker passed and asked if I was all right. I wonder if it was because I was sitting in gravel with one bare foot, or because of the look of pure satisfaction on my face. Damn, it felt good.
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Post by Siren on Jul 26, 2006 18:49:21 GMT -6
Phalon said, "And since we are talking clothing...a big pet peeve of mine is that I find it hard a lot of times to find age appropriate clothing in my size. And no....age appropriate does not mean little old lady clothing, but a style that says "I am comfortable being 40 and do not wish to look like I'm trying to pretend I'm 20."
Gams, my oldest sis has the opposite problem: finding clothes for her 11-year-old that aren't too old (too provocative) for her - too tight, too short, too revealing. And it annoys me every time I see a young girl with a message of some kind written across the seat of her pants. What are designers thinking??
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Post by Desire on Jul 26, 2006 22:52:24 GMT -6
Heh i'm young and that annoys me. Garrrr.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 26, 2006 23:10:22 GMT -6
"I am comfortable being 40 and do not wish to look like I'm trying to pretend I'm 20."
And what the hell was I thinking when I wrote this?!!! BOLL. Damn, I wish I had my twenty year old butt back.
I have the same problem as your sister, Siren - LX is the same age. School clothes shopping soon, and I'm already cringing.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 10, 2006 22:37:13 GMT -6
Ever drive alongside a vehicle that is making some obnoxious noise that can be heard by every living being withing a 10 mile radius, yet the driver sits inside, singing along with the music, seemingly oblivious to the assault on the ears they are causing, (both the vehicle and their singing)? Don't ya just hate that.
I am that driver. (I can't hear it, I can't hear it, I can't hear it.)
Argh. A squealer of a brake, and my mechanic is on vacation for the next two weeks.
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Post by Siren on Aug 11, 2006 22:29:13 GMT -6
My auto-related pet peeve goes back to my biggest pet peeve these days, cell phones. Drives me crazy when folks drive crazy because they're concentrating on their cell phones. You can usually pick them out right away, because they're driving slowly enough to be a hazard to others in traffic. And they're oblivious to the cars behind them. I saw a woman once who was holding her phone to her ear with one hand, and gesturing with the other, steering, I assume, with her knees.
Gams, going from the description above, I think I passed you in traffic the other day. That was you? I had no idea you were a young black man.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 13, 2006 6:39:36 GMT -6
Just one of my many disguises, Siren....young, black men, little old blue-haired ladies barely able to see over the steering wheel, off-road race car drivers....I've got a closet full.
I have not yet perfected, though, "the mild-mannered, approaching middle-age, "easy-listening" music coming through the quietly playing car stereo, obeying the speed-limit, mini-van driving Mom, who does not curse other drivers around her" look yet.
But then again - I'm not working on it either.
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Post by marjancin on Aug 22, 2006 12:21:49 GMT -6
I hate it when you get a phone call that turns out to be a wrong number and the caller gets PO'ed at YOU, as if it's YOUR fault that they dialed a wrong number.
Or when you get a sales call and they get ticked off when you say, "Sorry, I'm not interested" One time several years back, when I told them that I wasn't interested, they said, "Well then why did you even bother answering the phone?" Uh, what's that supposed to mean?
Fortunately, I'm now on the "Do not call" list, so I don't have to worry about that anymore.
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