You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[ghouck]

My mother was licensed to carry, and had a nice S&W .357 she kept with her at all times

My mother's gun is bigger than your mother's gun. 

Actually, my mom has never even fired a gun, I'm just feeling argumentative.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

My mother was licensed to carry, and had a nice S&W .357 she kept with her at all times

My mother's gun is bigger than your mother's gun. 

Actually, my mom has never even fired a gun, I'm just feeling argumentative.

No prob, buddy.  I knew ya' were joking. 

Just letting you know that I grew up with law enforcement in our house, and much of the types of people you work with (and described) remind me of some of the folks my mom talked about.  She also wound up really liking her job too, as she learned how to deal with a multitude of personality types.  She said it was a very rewarding job all things considered.

[diamondwaspvenom]

I am sick and tired of seeing kids in commercials. I know that children have acted in them before, but these days it's been really getting out of hand. It f**king irritates me to no end. It's even more aggravating that corporations think that just by putting some brat(s) in a commercial, their sales will improve. These kids aren't "cute" or "adorable", they're annoying as all hell.  

 

[claws]

This grinds my gears because I'm a winter person: It's basically still "winter" here but the sun came out a bit yesterday and people were standing in line to buy ice cream. Early Ice cream parlor crowds annoy me. Our parlor has outside seating and people sit there with sunglasses, grinning, and eating ice cream even though the weather is chilly.
Summer can't come soon enough for you grinning sunglasses fools eh?

[Sleepyskull]

This grinds my gears because I'm a winter person: It's basically still "winter" here but the sun came out a bit yesterday and people were standing in line to buy ice cream. Early Ice cream parlor crowds annoy me. Our parlor has outside seating and people sit there with sunglasses, grinning, and eating ice cream even though the weather is chilly.
Summer can't come soon enough for you grinning sunglasses fools eh?

Well, to be fair, I love ice cream year round. I might not eat it in the snow, but I enjoy it indoors.

[claws]

It irks me because its a sign of winter being almost over. I don't wanna see grinning happy people enjoying ice cream outdoors just because the sun came out for 30 minutes.
I'm still wearing my knitted wool hat and scarf with pride! (until mid April at least) 

[Mr. DS]

This grinds my gears because I'm a winter person: It's basically still "winter" here but the sun came out a bit yesterday and people were standing in line to buy ice cream. Early Ice cream parlor crowds annoy me. Our parlor has outside seating and people sit there with sunglasses, grinning, and eating ice cream even though the weather is chilly.
Summer can't come soon enough for you grinning sunglasses fools eh?

  There is an ice cream stand in town people actually take the friggin day off from work to visit on opening day.  I mean really, how long does it take to purchase an ice cream and eat it?  Oh, this is on April 1 which is usually chilly as hell.  I guess people chomp at the bit to get summer going and are in complete denial that weather is chillier than the ice cream.

[AndyC]

Winter people can be just as bad. The first time there's an inch of snow on the ground, I usually see somebody trying to drive a snowmobile on it.

Actually, it's people on jet skis I get annoyed with, although they won't be around here for a few months. Noisy, overpriced toys. I can appreciate motorcycles, ATVs and snowmobiles, because people do use them for transportation. Even if it's purely recreational, snowmobilers get out on a trail and actually go somewhere. The jet ski owner just putts around in circles near the beach, showing off and making a bunch of racket in one spot, scaring the fish, endangering swimmers, getting in the way of boats and generally looking like a douche. The noisiest motorcycle on the road will drive by and be gone. Snowmobiles go by here all the time, but they come and go quickly, because the riders have a lot of ground they want to cover. On the other hand, the jet ski rider just goes round and round, and back and forth until he feels like stopping.

[Mr. DS]

^ I live on a tourist island which people flock to for vacation.  I'm cool with that and understand people are going to come to enjoy the beach. However several of these people are mega douchebags.  As stated above in Andy's post, they putt around on jet skis being A-holes.  Then when it comes to people swimming, don't even get me started.  

There is a beach in town that is a great fishing spot when the conditions are right.  It is a big beach and one side is strictly swimming (it is marked), the other side is for people fishing.  So many of these f*ckin' a-holes (sorry, no other way to describe them) from the swimming side come over to the fishing side to swim.  One time I casted out my line and this guy waded out into the water two friggin' feet away from me!. I mean hello, the swimming side is 20 feet away, keep your dumb @ss out of my fishing spot.  Oh and by the way, I have quite a large hook on my line so don't b!tch when I snag your @ss.  These people honestly make me want to put on a huge bell sinker and cast out at their head.

I won't even go into the amount of people that let their dogs jump into the water right next to me when I'm fishing.  

[ulthar]

 it's people on jet skis

"River Lice."

Too many people have no idea how truly, mindbogglingly annoying, and even dangerous, these people can be. I've seen cases where the use of deadly force would have been justified, and that's not hyperbole.

Part of the problem here with jet skiers is that an awful lot of them are 'kids.'  They just don't have good judgment and they either don't know the rules/laws or simply ignore them.  As bad as young drivers are on the road, they are at least that bad on the water.

But alas, it's not just the kids.  

I was once at a boat ramp and saw a truck pull up towing a jet ski on a trailer.  Two teen (or 'tween') girls were on the jet ski ... while it was being towed on the road.  The truck pulled around, backed down the ramp, the jet ski started, floated off the trailer and sputtered away.  The truck pulled out and left.

Now, let's think about this.  This means the jet ski was not even secured to the trailer.  Two girls, 12-14 or so, were riding on it, and some older male (father, brother, uncle, friend, who knows) drove them on a public road TO the ramp, backed them into the water, then just left.

Their behavior on the water was no better....

I know they are 'fun,' and to a rare few, they DO serve a purpose of transportation on the water.  But it would not bother me, and I think it would be no great loss if they just outlawed the dang things.  Just about every year, they tighten up the laws (no one under a certain age can operate, not after dark, safety class required, etc, etc), so why not just get rid of them?

Living on the water and spending a lot of time on boats and at boat ramps, I could go on and on and on about jet skis in particular and 'rude' on unsafe boating in general.  Again, it boggles the mind.

[Mr. DS]

I was once at a boat ramp and saw a truck pull up towing a jet ski on a trailer.  Two teen (or 'tween') girls were on the jet ski ... while it was being towed on the road.  The truck pulled around, backed down the ramp, the jet ski started, floated off the trailer and sputtered away.  The truck pulled out and left.

Sounds like a Darwin Award in the making if you ask me.

[Olivia Bauer]

I hate those guys on Youtube that do stupid "Jackass" type stunts. The kind of idiot you see on "Tosh.0". I always hope they get REALLY hurt.

[Flick James]

I hate those guys on Youtube that do stupid "Jackass" type stunts. The kind of idiot you see on "Tosh.0". I always hope they get REALLY hurt.

I've never liked Jackass. However, I do enjoy Tosh.0, but that's more because I find Daniel Tosh funny.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I hate those guys on Youtube that do stupid "Jackass" type stunts. The kind of idiot you see on "Tosh.0". I always hope they get REALLY hurt.

One of the stunts I'd seen on Youtube was absolutely wrong.  These three kids played a trick on a friend of theirs when they played Russian Roulette with a toy pistol that had a blood-filled squib in the barrel.  When the "victim" kid pulled the trigger, fake blood went everywhere and the one kid started screaming, thinking his friend was dead.

First off, guns are not toys!  Second, how many kids are going to get the same idea, with a real weapon, not knowing the difference?  They could have played a better joke, if they had to play one at all.

[indianasmith]

All those idiots who drive around with the bass cranked all the way up on their stereos, then blare rap at full volume!  My daughter suffers from chronic migraines, so I get to see her wince and clap her hands over her ears at least once every time we go to town because of these inconsiderate morons . . .  I have not the least bit of sympathy that many of them will be mostly deaf by their 40's.  They did it to themselves and they deserve it!