therpowen
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posted on February 14, 2001 08:58:51 AM new
I'll second that last one, wisegirl, and extend it to add anyone who forces me to be rude to them by their persistence.
Also people who call during what they know are your normal sleeping hours and the first question out of their mouth is "Did I wake you?"
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kiki2
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posted on February 14, 2001 09:17:21 AM new
>>>I'm going to take the torch from Meya here, and say this. I hate it when you work with people (or know people) who feel that they are more Christian that everyone else. AND, they are the self-appointed messengers of God who were sent here to tell everyone what to think, and say, and feel, and do<<<<
Not to totally change the subject here but I just found out yesterday that a Presbyterian church I once did a brief stint of volunteer work at forced their minister to leave after finding out his son was gay. Never mind he was a wonderful minister and a sweet man who always had the church's best interest at heart. He had a gay son and darn it, that meant he HAD to leave. What hypocrites!!
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sgtmike
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posted on February 14, 2001 09:23:46 AM new
Price label glued over ingredient or content list and titles.
Multi-language owner's manual and assembly instructions.
Junk mail.
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therpowen
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posted on February 14, 2001 09:30:39 AM new
Oh yes - anything that you buy that doesn't perform the advertised function properly - including but not limited to, pens that skip, razors that won't cut hair, stamps that won't stick, lightbulbs that blow the first time you turn them on, analgesics that don't stop pain, etc.
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femme
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posted on February 14, 2001 09:33:36 AM new
Speed bumps.
We have several grocery stores that have these, located a few feet before the crosswalk and stop sign.
You know, I have yet to mow down a shopper pushing a cart full of groceries at the stores that don't have speed bumps. 
(Hoping I didn't irritate sgtmike by using "you know" at the beginning of my sentence.  )
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sgtmike
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posted on February 14, 2001 09:53:50 AM new
femme:
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kraftdinner
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:06:54 AM new
Here's some stuff that really bugs me:
-people that work at stores, but never know where anything is, and don't take the time to find out for you.
-telemarketers....here's a tip.....I ALWAYS ask them to send me background information about their company first, then I'll make a decision....I never hear back from them of course!
-my husband's idea of trying to eat healthier is having a salad with his lasagna and garlic bread w/cheese.
-people who call me & don't say much...I always say "so, what's up?', meaning - 'why did you call?"....and they don't catch on.
-people that hunt animals for "fun".
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hopefulli
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:08:45 AM new
In store parking lots...I can't stand when I am waiting for someone to cross and they walk diagonally, taking twice as much time to clear (and in the meantime, someone else starts to cross, or someone takes the space I had my eyes on). Also, when people just step out without looking.
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chepistar
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:17:09 AM new
people who call during what they know are your normal sleeping hours and the first question out of their mouth is "Did I wake you?"
My response "I had to get up to answer the phone, anyway"
chepistar  here, there, and everywhere
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roxw
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:30:59 AM new
...drivers who wait for the car that is 3 blocks away before pulling out onto the highway....drivers who pull out in front of me when I'm going 65 mph on a highway and they decide to go 30 mph....drivers who assume you know which way they are turning therefore don't feel the need to use a blinker....loud music in cars with the bass turned up so high that the ground shakes when they go by.... neighbors who think that since they don't have a job, no one else does either so they can party all night in the summer with their music turned up SO LOUD that we all can "enjoy" it....and the same neighbors who let their animals run loose on garbage day so that they can tear open my garbage bags and scatter everything... Okay, can you all tell I hate to drive and I hate most of my neighbors????????? I need to go take a chill pill now....
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codasaurus
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:32:33 AM new
People who are so easily bugged. They see only the inconvenience that another's action has caused them and haven't the patience to think if there might be some reasonable explanation for the action.
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roxw
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:34:34 AM new
I IRRATATE CODASAURUS!!!!!
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RainyBear
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posted on February 14, 2001 10:37:12 AM new
But codasaurus, it really is all about us. Other people don't matter.
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deby0
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posted on February 14, 2001 01:13:10 PM new
People that stare and point fingers at other people...my daughter dresses in black alot, has several piercings, a few tattoos and stands out in a crowd. I get really really really pissed when people stare, point fingers and even allow there children to do it too....and then they have the nerve to ask my daughter if she is a satan worshiper. Well, my daughter will pull out her little bible and say "I have the same God you do and he knows me real well. I see him at least once a week in church.
And one more things that gets to me is a cashier that will not tell you the total of your sale. She will just point to the total on the cash register. I want to point to my purse and then wait to see if she will tell me what the total is....LOL
I have more things that piss me off but will just go back to reading and laughing...thanks Deby
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maddienicks
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posted on February 14, 2001 01:45:36 PM new
Been gone for days, lost in a PMS haze of being annoyed by people, and come back to find this thread. YAY!!!!
First off, I work for a take and bake pizza place (you take it home and bake it yourself). Each pizza is made to order. Don't these people have PHONES??? Come in on a busy night (when there are seven other people in there who didn't bother to call in their order either) and order five pizzas, then complain that it's gonna be twenty minutes or so before we can get them done. Do they think Samantha from Bewitched is back there, wiggling her nose and creating the pies?
People who walk into any service establishment at two minutes til closing and plan on hanging out for an hour or so.
Men who wear socks with sandals.
Computer phone calls. Phone rings, you answer, and a computer says "please hold for the next available representative". No company identification or anything. They must be kidding, right? Does anyone actually DO that?
Most of my stupid driver issues have been covered here already....Grocery stores, too. (We live in Blue Haired Lady country up here, and it isn't pretty.)
I'm loving the super-glue on the toilet seat idea here. That was my happy for the day! LOL!
Kris
[email protected]
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sgtmike
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posted on February 14, 2001 02:33:00 PM new
People who assist perpetuating rudeness and stupidity, by providing excuses for the rude and stupid.
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mauimoods
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posted on February 14, 2001 02:37:22 PM new
Just got back from the store. Heres another one:
Clerk yaks with customer and cant work register while at the same time yakking. I stand there, listening about who has arthritis, who has rhuematism, who kicked from heart attack, who had a baby. And stand. And stand. Shift feet. Finally have enough and do my thang (b%itch loudly).
Tenants who park in someone elses spot and when I confront them, they say "Im only here for a minute". Tough. Tell it to the tow truck driver.
Tenants who wont walk 4 feet to the TWO trash cans I have placed in the laundry room and toss lint on the floor.
Im getting grumpy just thinking about it.
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sgtmike
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posted on February 14, 2001 02:47:01 PM new
Stores that (try) to check my purchase before I am allowed to exit the store (after) I have paid for the item(s).
[ edited by sgtmike on Feb 14, 2001 02:48 PM ]
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mauimoods
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posted on February 14, 2001 02:50:09 PM new
Going along with the store theme:
Employees that follow you around, hovering. Watching. Not assisting...WATCHING. One store locally was known for that. It went out of business. (that deserves a )
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mauimoods
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posted on February 14, 2001 02:54:37 PM new
Back to the tenant theme:
Kids who DONT LIVE here riding their big wheels and skateboards all over MY brick pathways; running into MY sprinkler heads (Im the one that has to go replace them); mowing down MY flowers I planted to enchance the grounds, to name a few. Adding to the irate parents that TRY to come down on me for telling their kids to TAKE A FRIGGIN HIKE and they go whining to Mommy that the "mean lady told them to GET OFF THE GROUNDS". Humph.
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njrazd
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posted on February 14, 2001 04:46:09 PM new
Maui...check with your local Public Works department. There are all kinds of new things to help keep the skateboarders from grinding on curbs and damaging property. They can give you some good advice. (Signs don't work when the parents are as rebellious as the kids!)
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Muriel
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posted on February 14, 2001 04:54:01 PM new
Trying to post a reply and getting that blasted "Internet Connection" error message
Also, people who come to work sick and infect everyone else. STAY HOME!! Geez.
[ edited by Muriel on Feb 14, 2001 04:55 PM ]
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mauimoods
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posted on February 14, 2001 05:16:16 PM new
njrazd, thanks. I know. But I like my own methods. Its called Poison Ivy growing on walls, thorny bushes lining pathways, steel posts buried next to sprinkler heads and best of all, a witch walking the grounds that doesnt mind taking on obnoxious parents who say "go play" and dont care the kid comes a block away to MY property to do said playing
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RainyBear
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posted on February 14, 2001 05:26:55 PM new
Animated and/or flashing ad banners.
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Bigapple
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posted on February 14, 2001 06:52:43 PM new
As an ex-Field Service Engineer who averaged 1,000 miles a week I still get quite critical of others driving habits, just ask my wife! Too numerous for one message, so if you have some time to kill here's a site that says it all,
http://members.aol.com/doggiesnot/
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bootsnana
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posted on February 14, 2001 07:08:32 PM new
People who are late. Not the ones who are occassionally or sometimes late; I mean the ones who are ALWAYS late, even when THEY set the arrival time. It's like they need to make a grand entrance to show that they are so special and doing everyone a big favor for even showing up at all. Where do they get off thinking their time is more valuable than mine?
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wisegirl
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posted on February 15, 2001 06:38:35 AM new
Mauimoods:
A fellow landlord! I knew there was something about you that I liked! (The trash can in my laundry room is next to the dryer, a mere six inches away, and still they miss it. I get most of my exercise by leaning over and picking up lint and fabric softener sheets.)
I'm a small-scale landlord - I own a 1901 Victorian house with four apartments in it. I live in one and rent the others. (My sister and her friends call me "Mrs. Madrigal." We have a common outdoor trash can area, and just recently I had to talk with a tenant who was putting her trash bags untied into the outdoor trash cans. Not only that, but she was putting them in upside down, so when the trash men collected them, her trash fell out all over the bottom of the cans, onto the street and in the adjacent driveway. Since the trash men won't pick up that stuff, I had to. When I talked with my tenant about this, she denied having done it - even though I had witnessed it (landlords must have eyes in the backs of their heads at all times).
She's a law student, of course.
I've also had the problem you've had with children - the children of a former tenant's boyfriend ran right through all my flower beds, snapping off hostas and flowers and branches. (She finally married the boyfriend, broke her lease and moved out, and I was so glad that I didn't even take her to court since the flower bed problem was the most minor one I had with her.)
I have other tales to tell about tenants but won't tell them here since they're not really pertinent to the thread. Should we start a new pro-landlord thread?!?
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bunnicula
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posted on February 15, 2001 10:06:04 AM new
People who talk in movie theatres or during plays.
The constant presence of cell phones, and their users who always raise their voices when using them so you can't escape their conversations. And those who don't turn the #@!%$! things off when going to the movies...
People who pick their noses. As a children's librarian I have observed that it is on the rise--with nary a word from the parents. This is not something I want to see...
People who pass gas in my vicinity. This is another thing children aren't being taught about...go off by yourself--don't stand right next to someone & share this "treat" with them.
The use of "I was all" "I go" and "I went" in place of "I said."
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codasaurus
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posted on February 15, 2001 12:11:19 PM new
Hello Roxw,
You might do something to irritate me but you will never irratate me. Heheh
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SilkMoth
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posted on February 15, 2001 01:38:02 PM new
bunnicula, don't forget "I'm like," as in:
"Tanesha was tellin' me about Bobby and her, and I'm like, No waaaaay!"
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not SilkMoth anywhere but here
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