Friday Boredom - Your Pet Peeves

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We just killed off our old lawn in the backyard which was Bermuda grass. We reseeded with a Fescue blend. I had no idea these Fescue varieties were going to vary so much all in one bag. Some are very small and grow slowly. Others are thick like plant stalks and grow so quickly they are easily 20x taller than the other grass at the end of a week or two. These long patches are very noticeable. What's weird is... it's mowed and I SWEAR to God 6 hours later, it's already taller than the rest of the grass! It is exactly like Mr. SoCal's face as shown here. It's shaved and BAM - the 5 o'clock shadow is back!

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irvinehomeowner said:
So I guess she skipped all of us, just so she could get her caffeine fix and probably couldn't get cutsies at Starbucks since her dad wasn't there. My evil twin felt like grabbing that Frap out of her hand and throwing it in the trash. Mabye karma sat her next to a wide stinky person for the duration of her flight.
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I think she sat next to me, she nearly spilled the frap cuz she txtn and had to be told by the FA to stow the phone.

So I slipped an SBD, sniffed loudly and gave her the stink eye when everybody looked our way.
 
Pushy pest control salesmen walking around the neighborhood... same line over and over again..

"I was in your neighborhood treating your neighbors house" (So why are you talking to me?)
"Since I'm already here, I'll give you a discount" (Screw my neighbor then?)
"You want to stop the ants before they go inside" (Ehhh.. the ants were here first, my house was built on top of their house..)
"I see ants crawling around outside" (Yea.. and I see trees, plants, bees, spiders..and OMG is that GRASS?)
"First treatment is on the house, quarterly payments start after 3 months..1 year contract? (Fuck you)

 
Went to pick up my boy's birthday cake. I'm throwing him a very special "double digits" birthday party this weekend. I go pick up the cake. The Mexican guy (no offense, Qwerty) wrote on it in really sloppy writing --let's say my son's name is 'Scooter' --

Happy birthday
10th Scooter

I looked at "Scooter". I'm like, "Hey, 10th Scooter. Will you and the other 9 Scooters come look at this?" He took a look and just shook his head back and forth "no".

This is the SAME place I ordered from last year and they screwed that up, too. I ordered a big cake, I think it was half a sheet. I go get it and it's a tiny little cake.

Walked out empty-handed, took all 10 boys with me.
 
SoCal said:
Went to pick up my boy's birthday cake. I'm throwing him a very special "double digits" birthday party this weekend. I go pick up the cake. The Mexican guy (no offense, Qwerty) wrote on it in really sloppy writing --let's say my son's name is 'Scooter' --

Happy birthday
10th Scooter
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hey you want pretty writing in fluent english you better take your business to the white bakery but be prepared to pay three times the price!  :D
 
qwerty said:
SoCal said:
Went to pick up my boy's birthday cake. I'm throwing him a very special "double digits" birthday party this weekend. I go pick up the cake. The Mexican guy (no offense, Qwerty) wrote on it in really sloppy writing --let's say my son's name is 'Scooter' --

Happy birthday
10th Scooter
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hey you want pretty writing in fluent english you better take your business to the white bakery but be prepared to pay three times the price!  :D
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"Ain't nobody got time for that."

I got in touch with my white trash roots. Hi-ho-hi-ho. Off to Walmart I go. Found somebody who speaks 'trailer park' like me. Got me a cake. A nicer one, too... same price as the last place.
 
No Quarter said:
People who use equipment at gyms as resting spots. Either use it or let someone more motivated, show you how it's done!
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I'm sorry but "I've fallen and I can't get up!!"  :'(
 
Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!

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And yes, that's Nev from Catfish.
 
SoCal said:
No Quarter said:
People who use equipment at gyms as resting spots. Either use it or let someone more motivated, show you how it's done!
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I'm sorry but "I've fallen and I can't get up!!"  :'(
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People that bathe in perfume or cologne before going to the gym or getting on a plane.
 
I'm still gagging looking at Nev's picture. I can't get the heaves out. Imagine what his back must look like.

You could shave him and knit a Nev blanket with it. *Shiver*

Kinda reminds me of Mr. SoCal's arm hair. It's thick and black like he's wearing sleeves. Sometimes when I'm bored in church, I lick my thumb & finger and twist up all his arm hair into spikes all the way from the tops of his fingers to his upper arm. Then when he has to shake people's hands, he reaches out, finally looks down, sees it, and freaks out trying to wipe them away. Ahh. It never gets old.
 
irvinehomeowner said:
nosuchreality said:
People that bathe in perfume or cologne before going to the gym or getting on a plane.
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If I had to choose between perfume/cologne or someone's BO on a long flight... I think I would choose the former.
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That's exactly what I was going to say.

There is a guy at church who I refuse to sit next to anymore. He doesn't wear antiperspirant. He's an overweight 50-something man. Worst B.O. ever. Ok to make matters worse, he keeps his arms raised, of course, and sways his body back & forth to PTL during worship. So he's basically airing out his stinky armpits for a good 30 minutes. Then you have to smell him for another 90 minutes after that when he puts his arms down. The first time this happened, my eyes were watering and the back of my throat was burning. I thought i was going to die. But worse - I thought other people might think it was me. His stink was like getting into the fibers of my clothes and "infecting" me. I am a person that likes to smell MmmMmmGood so this really irritates me exceptionally bad. I forced Mr. SoCal to switch seats with me. We were all tripping on each other so I could get a whiff of clean air.

 
...Oh and then one time we both caught a "smell" of something familiar and looked at each other. But we didn't see Mr. Stinky. Finally, we spotted him a row up and many seats down. No kidding, you could smell him before you could see him.  :( We moved back a row and over more. Don't these people know they need help? I don't get it.
 
Pet peeve:

The bowler who takes the game too seriously. Rude jerks who don't know the word "please".

Just got back from my boy's party. I got verbally attacked by an angry bowler 2 lanes down from our group. He got all up in my face because I "broke his concentration!!!". I stepped onto the platform at the same time as him in an adjacent lane. I'll take his word for it since I didn't notice. He was yelling at me like a parent yells at a kid, totally seeing red. Except it was kind of funny because he was more than a head shorter than me. An angry little man, he was. Anywho, I was completely unaware that it violates bowling etiquette to "approach" your lane at the same time as the person next to you or even 2 lanes down. And I wasn't even bowling. I was facing away from him, taking a photo of the kid who as bowling 2 lanes away from him. Then he reported me to the manager!! The manager explained why he was upset but said he's always giving them trouble. He tries to pretend he's like a professional bowler. He's just a league bowler who wasn't even playing a league game at the time. He makes them spit-shine little spots on his lane all the time and other little details. The manager told him we are not league bowlers, we are just there for a kid's party.

Before we even started bowling, I acknowledged him and asked if the empty lane between us was going to be in use by him. He said no - go ahead. I said okay because I just didn't want to get in anyone's way. So much for trying to be considerate of him. Some people don't appreciate it. He thinks he owns the place. Next thing I know he's yelling at me a second time, "You can't step onto the platform until you ask me first! And if you're going to take a picture you have to let me know first." So I said, "Ok, you wanted me to tell you if I'm going to take pictures. So, I'm telling you I am taking pictures. Lots of pictures." He got SOOO angry. I thought he was going to hit me!

If I was him, I would have seen the lane set up for a kid's party, rolled my eyes and been like, "Oh, GREAT." Then ask to be moved to a different lane where I could "concentrate". WTH is wrong with people.
 
When it was my turn to bowl next to him before he moved locations, I got a strike.  :) Concentration problems? What concentration problems?

If you can not bowl without any distractions... then you are not a good bowler!
 
Major pet peeve:

People who RSVP yes to a party then blow you off with no word from them.

This is especially bad when it's a kid's party and the mom just blows you off 'cause it seems like a good sweat pants day. That happened to us twice today. So rude. I already paid for their kid.
 
People who don't know how to use the credit card/debit machine at checkout.

I especially see this at the grocery store or at Costco.

The one that gets me is when they don't remember their PIN... I assume they chose one that is easy to remember and they use it periodically... bah. Then they rotate through their cards hoping the PIN they remember matches the next card they slide through.
 
irvinehomeowner said:
People who don't know how to use the credit card/debit machine at checkout.

I especially see this at the grocery store or at Costco.

The one that gets me is when they don't remember their PIN... I assume they chose one that is easy to remember and they use it periodically... bah. Then they rotate through their cards hoping the PIN they remember matches the next card they slide through.
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I'm a cynic, they remember their PIN just fine, the cards are being declined.
 
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