Don't be that guy. Pet peeves.

[ChinaBuck]

The exception to precision shopping is Cabelas. 

Exception noted and agree. Allowances can be made for Home Depot as well.

Yes, now that is guy shopping in both places for sure. In a regular shopping mall, if I'm not in and out in 90 minutes, there was something wrong with my plan. But at Home Depot or Lowes, I could spend 90 minutes just looking at one aisle. "Oh look, there's a new take on a lighting switch. Hmmm, l should compare that to the other 37 lighting switches here."

[ChinaBuck]

I mentioned a while back that one day on my lunch break I was sitting in a restaurant and this older woman decides to have a phone conversation on her speaker phone.  I could NOT believe it.  I never thought I would see it topped until...  until the day I was in the drive thru line at MacDonalds a couple weeks ago.  Lady in front of me.  Windows down.  Phone conversation on speaker phone WHILE AT THE MIC to place her order!  I was waiting for the dueling broads between the speaker phone and the menu speaker, but the woman driving actually did finally turn down the speaker phone when she started to place her order.  I gotta say, I was sort of hoping she would have let the speaker phone go on.  I wanted to hear the cluster #### of confusion by the girl taking the order.  THAT close to a classic moment.  Dayum!  

That crap drives me freaking crazy. It's rampant in China, where you have a LOT more people per square meter than in the US. I've been in the subway and have been surrounded by 6 or 7 people in the subway car, and all of them have their phones on speaker and are yelling on their phones. It's a cacophony of sound here constantly, it's as though actually having silence must be considered to be evil or something. The noise never ever ends............

[dkeener67]

There are  a lot of them out there. I had a guy sit next to me at a bar while I was eating and he started spitting chew into a cup. Disgusting to do in public anyway but right next to people eating? This wasn't a dive but the bar at a nice restaurant. 
In a class at ASU I heard snapping sounds behind me and a guy had out a big pair of clippers and was clipping his toenails. The things were flying all over the room. Oblivious to about 30 faces turned in disgust towards him. 
There are a lot of incredibly gross people out there.

The VP of our company took his shoe and sock off during a meeting to inspect his ingrown toenail. I ***** you not, his foot was on the conference table in front of a group of 7 or 8 people. I've also had the unpleasantry of watching him shove a pen cap in his ear trying to dig out whatever was in there. This is an educated man with a masters degree.

The Head of my residency program would do something like this when he sat in on a lecture and got bored. He would take off a shoe and sock, tear off a too long toenail, and pick his teeth with it. This was a 55 year old MD. And his farts were legendary. Anytime , anyplace

[Beastdog]

A big pet peeve of mine is people backing into parking spots. Why the hell do people do this? It takes WAY more effort to back into a spot than to back out of it. And it slows down other cars and is just inconsiderate. Today, I saw this young punk take three attempts to back into a spot off the street (not parallel park, but a spot perpendicular to the road). Meanwhile around 6 cars were brought to a halt waiting for this half wit to finish the task. This is a dick move done by arrogant pricks (other than those of you on the board reading this who I like).

I'll bet ANYTHING pitchblack backs into parking spots. He's just that kind of dude.

I back in because I can see easier backing into a spot and I can backing out of a spot.

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It's all about you, isn't it dave?

Anyway, on the good side this appears to be something you and 3rdgensooner have in common, so let's celebrate this!

[Blinky]

Pulling in forwards is just dumb and lazy.

Everytime I do it, some gigantic truck will park on either side of me by the time I get back to my car, and then I can't see squat backing out.

[ScarletHayes]

Pulling in forwards is just dumb and lazy.

Everytime I do it, some gigantic truck will park on either side of me by the time I get back to my car, and then I can't see squat backing out.

Bingo.  Where I work the parking lot is Thunderdome.  Some of these vehicles parked next to me are so damn big I gotta be practically halfway out of the spot before I can even see.  With the cars zipping around  the way they do it's a minor miracle you don't get clipped.  

When ya back in all ya gotta do is pull up a couple inches and you can see everything when you go to leave.  Again though, I won't do it with multiple cars behind me.  I'm not going to hold people up, especially at work.  Most of 'em are probably cutting it close on being on time as it is.

[dunefan]

There are  a lot of them out there. I had a guy sit next to me at a bar while I was eating and he started spitting chew into a cup. Disgusting to do in public anyway but right next to people eating? This wasn't a dive but the bar at a nice restaurant. 
In a class at ASU I heard snapping sounds behind me and a guy had out a big pair of clippers and was clipping his toenails. The things were flying all over the room. Oblivious to about 30 faces turned in disgust towards him. 
There are a lot of incredibly gross people out there.

The VP of our company took his shoe and sock off during a meeting to inspect his ingrown toenail. I ***** you not, his foot was on the conference table in front of a group of 7 or 8 people. I've also had the unpleasantry of watching him shove a pen cap in his ear trying to dig out whatever was in there. This is an educated man with a masters degree.

The Head of my residency program would do something like this when he sat in on a lecture and got bored. He would take off a shoe and sock, tear off a too long toenail, and pick his teeth with it. This was a 55 year old MD. And his farts were legendary. Anytime , anyplace

Is any of this serious?  If it is, you guys had some serious fun in your past.  These are the kind of stories that can and are passed down through the family for generations.

[Bucktastic1]

I am currently sitting in OHare waiting to connect to San Fran...interesting people watching 👀 🤔

[3rdgensooner]

The exception to precision shopping is Cabelas. 

Exception noted and agree. Allowances can be made for Home Depot as well.

Yes, now that is guy shopping in both places for sure. In a regular shopping mall, if I'm not in and out in 90 minutes, there was something wrong with my plan. But at Home Depot or Lowes, I could spend 90 minutes just looking at one aisle. "Oh look, there's a new take on a lighting switch. Hmmm, l should compare that to the other 37 lighting switches here."

90 minutes in a mall? You're doing it wrong. I'd be diving head first off the food court after 30 minutes.
Home Depot? I want that and that and that and that and that and that. Do I know what most of the things do or know how to work them? Nope. But I'll do what I always do. Buy it. Work with it happily until something is irretrievably broken and then call someone who knows what they're doing to fix it.

[TakeThePoints]

I mentioned a while back that one day on my lunch break I was sitting in a restaurant and this older woman decides to have a phone conversation on her speaker phone.  I could NOT believe it.  I never thought I would see it topped until...  until the day I was in the drive thru line at MacDonalds a couple weeks ago.  Lady in front of me.  Windows down.  Phone conversation on speaker phone WHILE AT THE MIC to place her order!  I was waiting for the dueling broads between the speaker phone and the menu speaker, but the woman driving actually did finally turn down the speaker phone when she started to place her order.  I gotta say, I was sort of hoping she would have let the speaker phone go on.  I wanted to hear the cluster #### of confusion by the girl taking the order.  THAT close to a classic moment.  Dayum!  

That crap drives me freaking crazy. It's rampant in China, where you have a LOT more people per square meter than in the US. I've been in the subway and have been surrounded by 6 or 7 people in the subway car, and all of them have their phones on speaker and are yelling on their phones. It's a cacophony of sound here constantly, it's as though actually having silence must be considered to be evil or something. The noise never ever ends............

If it weren't for all those free anal swabs, would you move from China?

[davebucknut]

A big pet peeve of mine is people backing into parking spots. Why the hell do people do this? It takes WAY more effort to back into a spot than to back out of it. And it slows down other cars and is just inconsiderate. Today, I saw this young punk take three attempts to back into a spot off the street (not parallel park, but a spot perpendicular to the road). Meanwhile around 6 cars were brought to a halt waiting for this half wit to finish the task. This is a dick move done by arrogant pricks (other than those of you on the board reading this who I like).

I'll bet ANYTHING pitchblack backs into parking spots. He's just that kind of dude.

I back in because I can see easier backing into a spot and I can backing out of a spot.

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It's all about you, isn't it dave?

Anyway, on the good side this appears to be something you and 3rdgensooner have in common, so let's celebrate this!

I'm also a good driver so I can get in and out quickly.

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[dkeener67]

There are  a lot of them out there. I had a guy sit next to me at a bar while I was eating and he started spitting chew into a cup. Disgusting to do in public anyway but right next to people eating? This wasn't a dive but the bar at a nice restaurant. 
In a class at ASU I heard snapping sounds behind me and a guy had out a big pair of clippers and was clipping his toenails. The things were flying all over the room. Oblivious to about 30 faces turned in disgust towards him. 
There are a lot of incredibly gross people out there.

The VP of our company took his shoe and sock off during a meeting to inspect his ingrown toenail. I ***** you not, his foot was on the conference table in front of a group of 7 or 8 people. I've also had the unpleasantry of watching him shove a pen cap in his ear trying to dig out whatever was in there. This is an educated man with a masters degree.

The Head of my residency program would do something like this when he sat in on a lecture and got bored. He would take off a shoe and sock, tear off a too long toenail, and pick his teeth with it. This was a 55 year old MD. And his farts were legendary. Anytime , anyplace

Is any of this serious?  If it is, you guys had some serious fun in your past.  These are the kind of stories that can and are passed down through the family for generations.

This is absolutely true. He was the Department Chairman when I was a resident at IU medical center in Indy.

[ChinaBuck]

I mentioned a while back that one day on my lunch break I was sitting in a restaurant and this older woman decides to have a phone conversation on her speaker phone.  I could NOT believe it.  I never thought I would see it topped until...  until the day I was in the drive thru line at MacDonalds a couple weeks ago.  Lady in front of me.  Windows down.  Phone conversation on speaker phone WHILE AT THE MIC to place her order!  I was waiting for the dueling broads between the speaker phone and the menu speaker, but the woman driving actually did finally turn down the speaker phone when she started to place her order.  I gotta say, I was sort of hoping she would have let the speaker phone go on.  I wanted to hear the cluster #### of confusion by the girl taking the order.  THAT close to a classic moment.  Dayum!  

That crap drives me freaking crazy. It's rampant in China, where you have a LOT more people per square meter than in the US. I've been in the subway and have been surrounded by 6 or 7 people in the subway car, and all of them have their phones on speaker and are yelling on their phones. It's a cacophony of sound here constantly, it's as though actually having silence must be considered to be evil or something. The noise never ever ends............

If it weren't for all those free anal swabs, would you move from China?

It's just part of the allure of China. You know what they say, "You'll come for the history and the food, but you'll stay for the free anal swabs..."

[ScarletHayes]

SIAP, but one of my classic traffic pet peeves took place today.  Ok, state trooper has someone pulled over and...   and everyone is braking.  People, he's not going to leave the guy he just pulled over to nail you for doing 75 in a 70!  Use your friggin head!!!!!!!!!  He's occupied.  Maintain your freaking speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Now if you're driving down the road doing 100, with a turret mounted on the back of your truck, and you're taking pot shots at fellow drivers?  Ok...   then he'll probably leave the guy on the side of the road and come for you, but otherwise?   Quit braking and MOVE!!!!!!!

[stxbuck]

SIAP, but one of my classic traffic pet peeves took place today.  Ok, state trooper has someone pulled over and...   and everyone is braking.  People, he's not going to leave the guy he just pulled over to nail you for doing 75 in a 70!  Use your friggin head!!!!!!!!!  He's occupied.  Maintain your freaking speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Now if you're driving down the road doing 100, with a turret mounted on the back of your truck, and you're taking pot shots at fellow drivers?  Ok...   then he'll probably leave the guy on the side of the road and come for you, but otherwise?   Quit braking and MOVE!!!!!!!

My buddy and I always said pulling someone else over was our favorite place to see the cops.