Wow, +1 to all of these.

This is crazy. You drew yellow stripes on the road, so I'm going to assume it's divided. The same thing happens at a road by my house, but it's because the road is so damn narrow it's hard to turn in from either direction when there is a car waiting to exit that street. If the road is divided, I don't know why anyone would ever do what you describe.


For me, from yesterday:

Using defence when referring to defense attorneys. That Howard Beale thread that got Henry-fied is rife with it. I know it's a color/colour thing, but I don't care.

People who don't understand the difference between "things that piss you off" and "thing's that shouldn't piss you off, but do."

there are no actual yellow lines on side street. that was for clarity.

there is a time and a place where letting someone out is appropriate and that isn't one of those times. imo.

It's not very safe to pull out in front of car just because they are indicating that they are going to turn. They might not know that their indicator is on.

YES. These people need to die in so many fires. I'd like to add this addendum to my post #423. Had I remembered this, I would have added it in that post. What's worse is they clog the road for people behind them, who now either have to slow down or go around them because they are ****ing being "nice". God dammit I'm so tilted right now.

If this happens to me anytime soon I may literally give them the finger and then PM you the trip report.

Applies esp. to old people.

Oh are you one of those people who sit at the stop sign until the car turns even though their blinker is on and they are clearly decelerating?

If so, please turn in your license because you don't belong out on the road.

combined with obvious slowing down would indicate they are aware

That is the part that kills me so much. They are so pleased with themselves for being 'helpful', yet every single other car around them at the time is inconvenienced and has to work to get everything back to functioning order.

And they are just ****ing completely oblivious to that fact and it makes me want to maim them.

When people say "just wow". If it were truly just wow, you would have said nothing except "wow".

i always thout 'just wow' was short for, there is only one word in existence to describe how im feeling and that is wow. so 'just wow' seems ok

Safety first. Slow and steady wins the race. But driving is never a race. That kind of thinking is how accidents happens.

People who deviate from the standard rules of the road are how accidents happen

Kids these days don't listen anymore. When you order food somewhere you are always bombarded with questions about information you've already given.

Today I went to this place to get a burger made. Conversation went exactly like this:

"I'd like a pepperjack cheeseburger combo."
"[presses a bunch of buttons] Do you want the bacon cheeseburger?"
"No, just the cheeseburger combo."
"OK, do you want American, Swiss, cheddar or pepperjack."
"Pepperjack."
"OK, do you want just the burger or a combo?"
"I want the pepperjack cheeseburger combo."
"OK."

This is just so ****ing standard anymore. Kids used to listen but now they don't. This shouldn't bother me too much because #whitepeopleproblems but it drives me nuts. My wife said I don't know how to order and give them "way too much information". She said I'm supposed to say "I want a burger." Then let them ask me the 11 questions necessary to figure out what kind of cheese I want and whether or not I want fries and a drink with it.

More like dumb fast food restaurant worker's are dumb. Pretty sure that's always been the case.


People who put question marks at the end of statements piss me off and it definitely shouldn't. Statements like "I thought we already did that?". Drives me ****ing crazy.

this is definitely wrong

dogs under 20 pounds. bunch of pussies.

This is just part of the up-sell system. They are basically instructed to up-sell as much as possible which leads to a learned rhythm of up-sell questions which screws up people that know what they want and can say it in concise statements.

Example:

"I want a chicken chicken sandwich"
"do you want that in a combo?"

"I want a #5"
"regular or large" (They don't even mention medium is the price on the menu).

Wasn't fast food. It was Murphy's Deli which is a walk-in, sit down deli. I expected a 97 IQ instead of the 92ish you'd find at McDonald's.

Good call on the not-actually-questions statements. You see it all the time, even on this site, whose (who's?) posters have an average IQ of 167.

I think so, too, but history shows her orders go more smoothly and are more often correct when we get home than mine. I try to make it "easy" on them by giving a concise order in as few words as possible and apparently they can't handle being told what cheese you want before they enter "burger". It's to the point where sometimes I tell her what I want and have her say the order.

This reminds me of how tilting it is to go to a drive-through and hear this: "Welcome to ______, would you like to try one of our new ______, or a ________ today?"

I don't even answer them anymore and just wait for them to STFU then say "Let me get a number 5 with Coke Zero please."

My dad is officially the worst drive-through orderer of all-time though. It was a 100% guarantee that he'd get pissed off by the end of the order.

that is the easiest way to express a questioning tone though. with a period it sounds more sarcastic and rude. obviously it's not grammatically correct but this is the internet so it's fine iyam.

If they were talented and intuitive they'd be working somewhere better. Servers at a proper restaurant make twice as much money, clerks in retail do half as much work, and stockers (eg: grocery store) deal with half as much crap.

You're scraping the bottom of the barrel and expecting to find something good.

People that say "bottle of the barrel".

I do expect wayyy too much intelligence out of the average person I encounter. That's probably my fault. But really, how do you place your order when you want:

- Cheeseburger (of the 4 options, the "pepperjack" one)
- With fries and a drink

Like, how do you order that without it either going wrong or having to answer questions like "what kind of cheese do you want?" "Do you want a bacon cheeseburger?" and "do you want fries and soda with that?"

Like how can I correct this issue? Other than learning how to cook and never ordering food anymore.

LOL, awesome... I was thirsty but waiting on something. Usually I'm thinking about bottoms too much and then when I need them...



Your wife is right. Keep your expectations reasonable.