Pet Peeves?
Jun 1st 2015, 9:08 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
When you pick your car up from the garage and they've buggered about with the radio settings... leaving it on a country station. 
Jun 2nd 2015, 6:24 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
1) Picking up the car and finding they turned the headlights away from 'auto' ... due to the fact that now, car interiors have lighted dash instruments all the time, you don't notice that the headlights aren't on.
2) Staying at a hotel and finding that the previous occupant, or someone else, has set the alarm clock to 5am or something hideous ...
Jun 2nd 2015, 1:58 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Reminds me of two peeves ...
1) Picking up the car and finding they turned the headlights away from 'auto' ... due to the fact that now, car interiors have lighted dash instruments all the time, you don't notice that the headlights aren't on.
2) Staying at a hotel and finding that the previous occupant, or someone else, has set the alarm clock to 5am or something hideous ...
1) Picking up the car and finding they turned the headlights away from 'auto' ... due to the fact that now, car interiors have lighted dash instruments all the time, you don't notice that the headlights aren't on.
2) Staying at a hotel and finding that the previous occupant, or someone else, has set the alarm clock to 5am or something hideous ...
I might actually do the second one next time I'm on holiday
Jun 2nd 2015, 2:01 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
We were in a hotel last year and the friggin coffee machine started doing its stuff at about 3 in the morning... my jetlagged sleep befuddled brain identified it as an asthmatic tiger......so I let the wife deal with it...
Jun 2nd 2015, 2:02 pm
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Jun 2nd 2015, 6:15 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Use of the term 'flavorful'.
Jun 2nd 2015, 6:25 pm
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Jun 2nd 2015, 11:58 pm
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Jun 3rd 2015, 2:38 am
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Jun 3rd 2015, 6:09 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
You can't use your room phone though, they know exactly which room is calling and will just apply it to you.
Jun 3rd 2015, 8:11 pm
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Jun 4th 2015, 12:05 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
When you're driving along a two lane road that merges into one lane, nothing but open space behind you... but the dipstick next to you whose lane is running out absolutely insists on squeezing into the non-space between you and the vehicle in front.
Jun 4th 2015, 2:31 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
That way they "win" I suppose. Sort of like the person who races you towards the next red light. Take your time and you can go through when it turns green and they get stuck behind.
Jun 4th 2015, 3:51 am
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