You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[lester1/2jr]

it's hard to believe how inconsiderate some poeple are.

my new thing is when they start playing basketball I start playing my guitar to drown in out.  Now all the moms want me

my plan backfired!

[macabre]

hi
thank you guys for your kind words. i know what you mean flick and i do try to shut them out.however, i have had many such occsions, one guy walked out in disgust because my son had the misfortune to have a siezure in a restaurant where this guy was eating. one woman who knew my son very well invited him to her sons birthday only to lock him up in a room because she said he scared the other kids, boy did she regret that. i could start an entire thread of the ignorance my son has endured but i shall not. this site is for movie lovers and i like it this way but once again thank-you
macabre

[Flick James]

You don't have to explain a thing to me, macabre. Like I said, you've probably developed the skill to tell if a person is just being an ignorant moron or if they're just dealing with a situation for the first time. I was horrified to think that I had done something that could be taken that way. Anyway, I didn't mean for the thread to go dark. It was meant in the spirit of catharsis. Carry on, everyone.

[claws]

People who have found God and feel the need to dump their religion on me without asking first.
The fact that I made a friendly reply to some guy's friendly comment on YouTube, and when I checked his page he had all these racist and 'White Power' vids as favorites.

[Leah]

the KKK, why can't everyone accept everyone else?

[zombie no.one]

it's hard to believe how inconsiderate some poeple are.

my new thing is when they start playing basketball I start playing my guitar to drown in out.  Now all the moms want me

my plan backfired!

[Silverlady]

Like so many of you mentioned,  rude or inconsiderate people are on the top my list too.  Don't ya just love it when you're walking into a store, supermarket or public building and the person entering ahead of you lets the door practically hit you in the face.


Unsupervised children. I just don't understand parents who don't seem to notice that their kids are running amok in restaurants, department stores, theme parks etc.

People who take up 2 parking spaces at the mall.

People who try to cut in line.

Telephone menus. Press 2, press 3, and so on and so on.

I just love venting!   

[Jack]

Telephone menus. Press 2, press 3, and so on and so on.

 

I absolutely detest those.  After pressing 10 different options you finally wind up on some menu with no option that applies to you and no place else to go. 

Also, tech support numbers (like Symantec / Norton anti-virus) that connect you to some guy in India who knows absolutely nothing about computers - literally one-tenth as much as the average person who's calling him up looking for help - but he's got an instruction manual he can flip through for an entire freakin' hour while you wait.  I mean, can you believe that crap? 

[Trevor]

Just count your blessings that your drunk, obnoxious neighbors don't poop in your yard.

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[Sleepyskull]

My sister. Actually, make that teenage girls in general. Better yet, make it teenagers in general.


Keep in mind that when it comes to people I try to judge on an individual basis and not judge people by group.  I also try not to hate people. However, most teenagers I know tick me off. People in general do that, but I personally know more annoying teenagers than annoying adults.

[Leah]

Microsoft- everything Microsoft to me is s**t!

[ulthar]

You know what really grinds my gears? People who treat the left lane of the freeway like it's the slow lane.

I'll start with the disclaimer that I get the rule "slower traffic keep right."  Like you, it burns me up also when folks are in the left lane and NOT passing anyone.

But....

A HUGE pet peeve of mine is folks in the left lane thinking that they have a specially granted license to exceed the speed limit and follow dangerously closely while I am legally passing a slower car.  I take GREAT pains to NOT bottleneck the left lane (by pacing the car I am passing).

I move into the left lane for one purpose...to pass a slower car.  If I am going the speed limit (and thus the car I am passing is going SLOWER than the speed limit), I am under no obligation to speed up to allow someone else to exceed the legal limit.  Nor do I particularly like the way speeders try to "intimidate" me by getting 4 inches off my bumper at 70+ miles per hour.

When I complete my pass, I will move out of the left lane.

I could continue on related topics, but let's just say "aggressive drivers" grind my gears.

We have a road here I drive several times per week that I average seeing or doing evasion action at least once per trip because of the aggressive driving.  It is REALLY bad...two lane country road, speed limit 55, with people running 70-ish and passing on hills and in curves, passing 10 cars at a time, cutting people off.  Sometimes I wonder if I've stumbled into the 2010 running of The Cannon Ball Run.

Aggressive Drives have to go....that's my rant.

[Mr. DS]

Political correctness.   It will be the death of all humor in our society one day, mark my words.  I'm tired of the world worrying who gets offended by what.  I'm half Polish, feel free to tell as many jokes as you want.  If we can't laugh at stereotypes in our culture then we're seriously screwed humor wise.  

Along these lines, I'm tired of the world always coming up with new things to call people that is supposedly "less offensive".  "Midgets" are now "little people".  "Fat" people are now "calorically challenged".   Either way, no matter what you call people its just a fancy way to say a person is "different".   If everyone is that concerned, why don't we just call everyone "human" because thats what we are.  

[lester1/2jr]

I could continue on related topics, but let's just say "aggressive drivers" grind my gears.

lol I'm the total opposite. I think people drive about 50% too slow

[Vik]

the KKK, why can't everyone accept everyone else?

They're a bunch of retarded rednecks, I don't think they exist anymore though ? (not sure)