You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[ulthar]

 But no; I was the nasty person, in the wrong for speaking to them.  They never came back.   And all those mysterious problems with the horses disappeared!

So what really grinds my gears after all this was over is that I still feel badly for having spoiled their nice little outings for them!!   

I can relate to your frustration.

I have come to realize that in every social situation, I am the bad guy.

I'm actually kind of sick of it, so it is beyond grinding my gears.

People these days have a very warped sense of social acceptance, I think.

[Leah]

Tresspassers.  I can't stand people who think a sign that says, "Keep Out" applies to everyone but them. 

ahem.



....I'm guilty of that....

Yeah, stay away from my house...I'm tired of you peeping in on me.

but didn't Sleepyskull did that once, about your love of Justin  Bieber?

Got prove:

That made me happy

Oh, please...  We all know, you sobbed for hours under a blanket, clutching your life-size Bieber doll.

Darksider: "It's not real... It's not real... get a hold of yourself DS..."  He looks at the doll's eyes. He feels longing in his soul, a pain which is only kept in check by petting a Bieber wig strategically placed on a mannequin head...  The bawling resumes with new passion.     Darksider (singing): "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen..."  His voice breaks as streams of anguish flow down his miserably contorted face...

your response:

You need to stop looking through my windows

[ghouck]

Is it me or does hollywood just not understand explosives these days? I see explosions on tv and in movies and they obviously don't know WTF they're doing. They use a 4lb chunk of c-4 and it makes an explosion that in reality would take less than a half a pound, and it's this ugly, dirty, lazy, fiery explosion. In real life, high explosives are much more powerful than depicted in movies, and explode with tremendous velocity (around 28,000 ft/second), and do so with little wasted energy.

[JaseSF]

Those ads for jeans diapers are seriously ridiculous. Why should any toddler care about whether their diapers look like jeans or not??!! Ludicrous!

[ghouck]

Those ads for jeans diapers are seriously ridiculous. Why should any toddler care about whether their diapers look like jeans or not??!! Ludicrous!

Why wait until your kid is potty-trained to teach them to be superficial?

[Newt]

Those ads for jeans diapers are seriously ridiculous. Why should any toddler care about whether their diapers look like jeans or not??!! Ludicrous!

If my jeans looked like that, I'd go cry in the corner! 

[Flick James]

Those ads for jeans diapers are seriously ridiculous. Why should any toddler care about whether their diapers look like jeans or not??!! Ludicrous!

If my jeans looked like that, I'd go cry in the corner! 

I saw that commercial last night. It's not the kid who cares, they couldn't care less. It's the parent. Anyway, stuff like that just adds more comedy to life for me.

[Mr. DS]

People who let their vehicles roll at stop signs/lights until they're inches from the front of my car.

[AndyC]

People who nose their car out in front of mine, then wave a "thank you" when I stop, as if I was letting them go. I'm just trying to avoid a collision because some idiot pulled out into my path. Somehow, these people think that if they kind of inch their way out into your path, it's not the same as just pulling out in front of you. At the very least, don't insult me by pretending to be thankful I did something you gave me no choice about doing.

[ulthar]

How about people that wave you to 'go ahead' when they CLEARLY have the Right of Way and SHOULD take it for the flow and safety of EVERYONE on the road?  That drives me up the wall.

Technically, they don't have the legal authority to transfer their Right of Way to another driver, and if a wreck occurs, it would be their fault.  At least that's what I was in "cop school."

It's happened more than a few times here lately that someone, while blocking the flow of traffic waiting to turn, does NOT turn because they are too busy waving another driver out at the road they are turning into...when there is NOTHING stopping them from completing their turn.

It just does not make sense to me...JUST GO.  I don't NEED you to do me that favor and you are angering EVERYONE behind you and putting a burden on me to (technically) commit a traffic violation.

On another note, ya'll notice how much of the ground gears are about driving?  What does that say about us, as a people?  That we spend far too much time in automobiles and far too much energy worrying?

Or, is it simply just that it is an EXTREMELY dangerous activity and a lot of us are SICK of the stupid stuff people do that make it even more dangerous, unnecessarily?

[Olivia Bauer]

I hate when I'm in a parking lot and some a***ole drives past me at 60 mph, nearly hitting me. How impatient are you when you need to drive that fast in a parking lot?! I could've gotten hit!

[venomx]

Try living in Jersey, that happens to me everytime I get out my car.

[Flick James]

How about people that wave you to 'go ahead' when they CLEARLY have the Right of Way and SHOULD take it for the flow and safety of EVERYONE on the road?  That drives me up the wall.

Technically, they don't have the legal authority to transfer their Right of Way to another driver, and if a wreck occurs, it would be their fault.  At least that's what I was in "cop school."

It's happened more than a few times here lately that someone, while blocking the flow of traffic waiting to turn, does NOT turn because they are too busy waving another driver out at the road they are turning into...when there is NOTHING stopping them from completing their turn.

It just does not make sense to me...JUST GO.  I don't NEED you to do me that favor and you are angering EVERYONE behind you and putting a burden on me to (technically) commit a traffic violation.

On another note, ya'll notice how much of the ground gears are about driving?  What does that say about us, as a people?  That we spend far too much time in automobiles and far too much energy worrying?

Or, is it simply just that it is an EXTREMELY dangerous activity and a lot of us are SICK of the stupid stuff people do that make it even more dangerous, unnecessarily?

Good post, ulthar, especially the first part about people giving up the right of way. That drives me nuts. Just the other day I was standing by to turn left on a green light, just waiting for opposing traffic to go by so I could turn. I'm the only one waiting to turn, nobody behind me. The forward-moving traffic on the opposing side goes by, but there's this group of about 4 cars turning right on the other side. In that situation, the right-turners on the opposing side have the right of way, but this jackass at the front of the pack was waving for me to go. I'm thinking "hey, you've got three cars behind you, you've go the right of way, and you're trying to give me the right of way?" Stupid. He was so insistant that I went ahead and took it, while the light went to yellow and red and therefore cut the other cars behind his idiot off from their opportunity to get going.

And also, ulthar, I'll have to give you a little light-hearted crap. You talked about how much energy is wasted griping about driving at the end of a post griping about driving.

[Mr. DS]

Ulthar you did bring up good points and personally I've always tried to figure out what is so damn irritating about driving.  I mean when I turned 16 and got behind the wheel I was more than excited to do so.  I didn't care how far I had to drive to get somewhere I just loved it.  Two years later, I joined the group of miserable commuters. 

For me I think it boils down to being around people. That and I'm massively impatient.  I'm that guy that will try to teach someone something and if they don't get it the first time I'm apt to snatch the job out of their hands to do it myself.  I'm not perfect but I know a good percent of society has problems with menial tasks.  And to me driving (unless you're in dangerous conditions which usually in my area thats less that 10% of the time) is a menial task. 

[ulthar]

And also, ulthar, I'll have to give you a little light-hearted crap. You talked about how much energy is wasted griping about driving at the end of a post griping about driving.

You think that was an ACCIDENT?   

(I can claim anything after the fact, right?)