Pet peeve

[ChickaD]

A pet peeve of mine is friends who send piles of forwards (the sugary ones intended to be guilt-producing...I'm impervious

) instead of a real email message. Can we say, time-wasting?

 

[speckledhen]

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Yep, I can't stand those, either. I finally told a friend that I dont read those. The worst are the ones that are basically chain letters-pass this to 5 people in the next 5 minutes and your luck will change. You know the type.

 

[Chicken Boo]

Ice Cream Trucks - When I was in Miami, the ice cream trucks blared "Pop Goes the Weasel", "Happy Birthday" and several other children's songs over and over again and they would stay in the neighborhood for over an hour at a time. I really just wanted to blow the d**n speakers off of the truck. I grew up with bells that, as a kid, I could hear in plenty of time to plead the necessary quarter out of my mom.

Grocery Carts - I have walked up to people and commented on how amazed I am at how lazy they are. My DH hates it when they make it to the cart corral but do not bother to push the carts together to make room for the next guy.

My Biggest Pet Peeve - people who throw cigarette butts on the ground. The butts are not biodegradable. They are full of toxins. They can start fires. They are not pretty. They are gross and disgusting. You can tell how long a stop light is by the number of cigarette butts in the gutter as long as you take into consideration the last time it rained. The number one clean up item on beaches and in rivers is cigarette butts because people do not take responsibility for their trash. When I was a little kid (under 6) I would pick them up off of the ground and put them in my mouth because I wanted to be like mom and dad.

AAAAHHHH! Venting! I feel so much better. Thank you for the opportunity.

 

[ChickaD]

Yep, thanks, Speckledhen! Thought I'd better add that I do like the people (most of the time!), just not the sappy forwards...how about the ones that help you gauge your popularity by the number of return forwards you get........like perpetuating insanity. Oops, I might be over-ranting...am I?

Now someone needs to rant about people who over-rant!

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Yep, I can't stand those, either. I finally told a friend that I dont read those. The worst are the ones that are basically chain letters-pass this to 5 people in the next 5 minutes and your luck will change. You know the type.

Or the ones with political screeds that are the polar opposite of my own morals, ethics, and beliefs, and even offend my personal faith. For some reason, the ones from my right-wing friends tend to be especially screechy, and often racist. And they KNOW me!

I have never responded to any of those "send this to 5 people, and back to the person who sent it to you" emails, even when they say something about expecting to "get it back," but I still receive them. Why would you do that? Why would you want 5 of the same email AGAIN? I don't get it.

 

[SpottedCrow]

OMG!!!
Funny story regarding signs...

Ernie went to the hospital for pretesting...I had to drop Mike off at Summer School, so I came after that. I went to the front desk. They sent me to where he should've been. I asked at the desk there and they said that they sent him to Xray. So off I went...He's not there, never been there etc. After I had waited for like 20 minutes that's what they told me...I said, "Thanks, but your sign's misspelled...they looked at it and then said "What's wrong" and I told them...It was a simple mistake too...sheesh.
I'm ALWAYS correcting the spelling on the news...drives me nuts...I could do the little captions at the bottoms of the screen and spell it ALL correctly.

I delete those emails right off. I don't need that stuff.

As for the Handicapped things: I sent away for one for Ernie because he had his hip done...It took the MA RMV 5 WEEKS to send it to us...When he first came home he sure could've used it THEN...not as much now when he's doing better.

 

[BearSwampChick]

You guys would like this blog: http://apostrophecatastrophes.blogspot.com/

 

[ChickaD]

Oh, speaking of typo's, when we first moved to Vermont, our state income tax form at that time made a reference to the "Statue of Limitations"!

We dried our teary eyes from laughing and have spent the last 20 years vigilantly looking for that statue!

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Oh, man--when I was in college, there was a local furor over the state's "homosexual statute," renamed at the time as the "sodomy statute" in an attempt to appear not to be targeting gays (yes, it's illegal to be gay in Arkansas, though I've never understood how exactly that's enforced). Well, you guessed it--the thing was misspelled originally, so that it read, "sodomy statue." The University newspaper ran a hilarious April 1st story about the fictional unveiling of the state's Official Sodomy Statue, with a doctored photo of a draped, but very obvious as to subject matter, statue.

 

[BearSwampChick]