Pet Peeves?
Oct 13th 2011, 6:12 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
On the motorway, pulling over to let someone on....instead of them either speeding up or slowing down so you can pull back in, drive exactly your speed so you can't....so you miss your exit.
Knobcheese...so that was a bit of a pain in the arse detour to get home as the next exit was closed for drainage work.
Knobcheese...so that was a bit of a pain in the arse detour to get home as the next exit was closed for drainage work.
Oct 13th 2011, 7:13 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
On the motorway, pulling over to let someone on....instead of them either speeding up or slowing down so you can pull back in, drive exactly your speed so you can't....so you miss your exit.
Knobcheese...so that was a bit of a pain in the arse detour to get home as the next exit was closed for drainage work.
Knobcheese...so that was a bit of a pain in the arse detour to get home as the next exit was closed for drainage work.
Oct 13th 2011, 8:32 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Pulled out politely and expected to overtake the car coming on as they picked up speed. Instead they gunned it and matched me, so I speeded up more to still pull in front, and he speeds up more, then I speed up more, and he speeds up more, etc, etc.
I (for once) decide this is getting juvenile, back off and reluctantly pull in behind.
Next corner... cop car
He gets pulled over immediately since we were probably going quite comfortably over the limit by then.
Gotta love karma
Last edited by hobbes79; Oct 13th 2011 at 8:37 pm.
Oct 13th 2011, 10:40 pm
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Oct 14th 2011, 12:54 am
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Oct 14th 2011, 1:41 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
That makes me so cross!!!!
Oct 16th 2011, 2:02 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Mean people.
Co-workers with attitude. (I shouldn't have to bake you cookies to get you to do your job - that's why you're being paid.) We had a doosy this week.
Hypocrites.
Incorrect words or expressions: i.e. "irregardless", "that jives".
Sheeple.
Those who think they know everything about everything.
Passive-aggressive types.
Bad driving, but even worse - road rage. I swear my husband is going to get us killed one of these days.
Co-workers with attitude. (I shouldn't have to bake you cookies to get you to do your job - that's why you're being paid.) We had a doosy this week.
Hypocrites.
Incorrect words or expressions: i.e. "irregardless", "that jives".
Sheeple.
Those who think they know everything about everything.
Passive-aggressive types.
Bad driving, but even worse - road rage. I swear my husband is going to get us killed one of these days.
Last edited by Kaffy Mintcake; Oct 16th 2011 at 2:24 am.
Oct 16th 2011, 12:47 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
People who never close the drawers after opening them, or close cupboard doors (namely my husband), what is up with that!!! He seems to think there's some drawer/cupboard closing fairy going around after him, shutting all the things he's opened arrggggg
Oct 16th 2011, 1:47 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
My two girls are the queens of not closing cupboard doors. Funny how they don't like their bedroom doors being left open.....
Oct 16th 2011, 4:17 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Oct 16th 2011, 10:20 pm
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Oct 16th 2011, 11:10 pm
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If I did that then the house would look like it had been burgled, with every drawer and cupboard open. He doesn't even notice I'm sure, I blame his mother...
Oct 17th 2011, 2:44 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Oct 17th 2011, 3:07 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Don't get me started about people leaving lights on, either.