Pet Peeves
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When someone gets in the right hand lane and wants to go straight (when there ia another lane) and you want to turn right. You have to sit and wait for the light rather than utilizing the "Right Turn on Red" opportunity to save gas, get there faster and prevent traffic backups. These people are morons!
Another pet peeve is when people use the word "at" at the end of a sentence. "Where is it at?" makes you sound like an uneducated hillbilly. The kind of person that national TV always seems to find to depict what all Iowans look and sound like. Come on people..."where is it?" is enough.
Another pet peeve is when people use the word "at" at the end of a sentence. "Where is it at?" makes you sound like an uneducated hillbilly. The kind of person that national TV always seems to find to depict what all Iowans look and sound like. Come on people..."where is it?" is enough.
All those 20 or 30 somethings weaving in and out of traffic while texting and cell phoning. Now there are some dudes needing remedial driving training.
Hey, that's my hometown! It truly is smells and not seasons, but there are at least 6+.
How about the old couple that rolls into the parking lot 20min before kick. Everyone has their tailgates set up and enjoying the party, but this grumpy couple wants to park right next to your tailgate when there are 5 empty spaces 50 feet away in the same lot. I love the "I paid my $50 bucks for this permit and I'll park where I want". Good thing my parents raised me to respect my elders.
The guy that reads the news on WHO radio and pronounces the word "program" as "progrum". It drives me crazy every time he does it. Does he go down to Western Union to send a telegrum?
All this talk about traffic... I hate it when people sit at a light with their right hand turn signal on, and WAIT for the light to turn green before they go! And then they take up both lanes and play Pac-man with the "broken white lines" in the road, and can't decide what lane they want!
I hated when Drake was good in basketball for that 1 year, and during that year everybody just happened to be Drake basketball fans. I know people wanted to support their local team, but it seemed liked people that normally didnt were bragging how good there team was that year. Now you hardly see any Drake basketball fans. The same thing happened with UNI this year. I hate FAIR WEATHER FANS!!!
"Unseasonable" and "Untracked". Like fingernails on a blackboard. Both pieces of gibberish are mis-used frequently by professional communicators.
Weather is either seasonal or unseasonal - never unseasonable. And players or teams who struggle and then get it going are getting ON TRACK not getting untracked. (Which makes me wonder what Keith Jackson was drinking in the booth).
When people misspell my name, especially if they are responding to, or referencing me, in an email. Trust me...it's not that tough of a name either (about 3 variations is all).
Is it really that hard to look at the signature??
Is it really that hard to look at the signature??
I can't stand it when people are listening to music on an I-pod using earbuds and you can faintly hear what they are listening to because they have it turned all the way up, and those awful earbuds keep no noise in.
In no particular order:
There are many more I'm sure I'm forgetting. This list will have to do for today because I'm at work. And it sucks.
- Hawk fans.
- Teachers (like my mother-in-law) who make $60K, work nine months a year and claim they are "massively underpaid".
- Unions. Good performers don't excel, poor performers don't get fired. Single-handedly responsible for the downfall of American industry and the education system. They are socialist organizations that fly the American flag and it's all a sham.
- Liberals. Most of them can't tell you why they're liberals. They vote for whoever is "cool" or whoever their union tells them to vote for. Actually, that sounds like Hawk fans, teachers, union members AND liberals.
- People who sit in the left turn lane without pulling into the intersection and go through an entire cycle of the light without turning. You CAN pull ahead and complete your turn on red after oncoming traffic has stopped, you know.
- Politicians. They will say WHATEVER gets them elected and do NONE of it. Remember how huge an issue energy policy was in the last election? Not a WORD about it since.
- Basketball coaches. They are slimy used car salesman with nice suits. Not The Mayor, of course.
- People who think they could get up off their couch, pick up a whistle and instantly do a better job than highly-trained sports officials. But when offered the opportunity, they never do.
- Packaging. Why is it I have to risk injury to open a package nowadays? I should not have to have a special tool in my toolbox for opening DVDs.
- Work. It sucks.
There are many more I'm sure I'm forgetting. This list will have to do for today because I'm at work. And it sucks.
People who dont take care of their lawn. This means mowing, god for bid killing some fricken dandelions etc.
People who move into a new house with sod and new trees and cant for the life of them figure out why everything died even though they never watered anything.
People who have a garage but DONT EVER PARK IN IT.
People who dont yeild to pedestrians/joggers/bikers.
People who park boats/campers/trailers in their driveways or on the streets when the covenants say you cant. If you have enough $$$ to own toys then you have enough to rent some storage.
Walmart- enough said
Jordan Creek on a Friday/Saturday night if your over 16 everyone there looks at you funny.
People who move into a new house with sod and new trees and cant for the life of them figure out why everything died even though they never watered anything.
People who have a garage but DONT EVER PARK IN IT.
People who dont yeild to pedestrians/joggers/bikers.
People who park boats/campers/trailers in their driveways or on the streets when the covenants say you cant. If you have enough $$$ to own toys then you have enough to rent some storage.
Walmart- enough said
Jordan Creek on a Friday/Saturday night if your over 16 everyone there looks at you funny.
I hate when people say warsh instead of wash, squarsh instead of squash, etc. People who are waiting in line at the drive up or counter and then when it is their time to order they have no clue what to order. People who are looking at the house for sale down the street, see me outside in my yard (which has an awesome Iowa State flag on the flagpole) and yell "take it down". The same people driving away that have Hawk stickers all over their car. One uppers. Most Hawk fans.
I like to purposely use the word "ain't" because it drives my wife AND mo-in-law crazy. I tell them that because it has a definition and can be spelled, it is indeed a word.
