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Sloppy listing descriptions....

Dramatic, contemporary home on a dul-de-sac, 1 Bedroom & 1 full bathroom on 1st floor, Upgrades include extensive use of leaded glass, Window casings, Crown moldig, Porelain tile, etc, Plantation shutters w/ modesty panels, Built-in office in bonus room, Kitchen upgraded w pot drawers,
Listing Provided Courtesy of: Sarah Kim, Coldwell Banker Best Realty, DRE #01354971

Random capital Letters, speling erors, using "etc" (it's a million dollar listing, c'mon!)

Can't wait to see the dramatic dul-de-sac :)
 
ps9 said:
Sloppy listing descriptions....

Dramatic, contemporary home on a dul-de-sac, 1 Bedroom & 1 full bathroom on 1st floor, Upgrades include extensive use of leaded glass, Window casings, Crown moldig, Porelain tile, etc, Plantation shutters w/ modesty panels, Built-in office in bonus room, Kitchen upgraded w pot drawers,
Listing Provided Courtesy of: Sarah Kim, Coldwell Banker Best Realty, DRE #01354971

Random capital Letters, speling erors, using "etc" (it's a million dollar listing, c'mon!)

Can't wait to see the dramatic dul-de-sac :)
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Get used to it. The texters are growing up, and they will take over the world!
Pet peeve: If you don't want to spell something, at least abbreviate it so that everyone understands.
 
What is wrong with you young ones nowadays?    :P Once upon a time, in the ancient times, in my high school class, we used to have a class called TYPING.  We had to learn to type with non-electric (there wasn't anything electric) typewriters (boy, was that a noisy class) that had very hard to press, heavy keys and we even had to push this carriage thingy each time just to start the next line.  No, backspace key to easily correct your mistakes.  You had to move the roller around, use a whitener to white out the error, hope you moved it back to the correct place or you did more correcting (not to mention the teacher screaming at you for making the mistake in the first place).  It took me hours to type a report in college because of it.  Well, I paid my sister to type it for me most of the time after I got smarter.  :P  Man, I wish I had a word processor and laser printer then.  There were no such things as personal computers then.  I thought my class was modern since we were the first class in our high school to use an electronic calculator instead of slide rulers, if any of you know what that is.  :P

Cubic Zirconia said:
ps9 said:
Sloppy listing descriptions....

Dramatic, contemporary home on a dul-de-sac, 1 Bedroom & 1 full bathroom on 1st floor, Upgrades include extensive use of leaded glass, Window casings, Crown moldig, Porelain tile, etc, Plantation shutters w/ modesty panels, Built-in office in bonus room, Kitchen upgraded w pot drawers,
Listing Provided Courtesy of: Sarah Kim, Coldwell Banker Best Realty, DRE #01354971

Random capital Letters, speling erors, using "etc" (it's a million dollar listing, c'mon!)

Can't wait to see the dramatic dul-de-sac :)
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Get used to it. The texters are growing up, and they will take over the world!
Pet peeve: If you don't want to spell something, at least abbreviate it so that everyone understands.
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irvinehusky said:
What is wrong with you young ones nowadays?    :P Once upon a time, in the ancient times, in my high school class, we used to have a class called TYPING.  We had to learn to type with non-electric (there wasn't anything electric) typewriters (boy, was that a noisy class) that had very hard to press, heavy keys and we even had to push this carriage thingy each time just to start the next line.  No, backspace key to easily correct your mistakes.  You had to move the roller around, use a whitener to white out the error, hope you moved it back to the correct place or you did more correcting (not to mention the teacher screaming at you for making the mistake in the first place).  It took me hours to type a report in college because of it.  Well, I paid my sister to type it for me most of the time after I got smarter.  :P  Man, I wish I had a word processor and laser printer then.  There were no such things as personal computers then.  I thought my class was modern since we were the first class in our high school to use an electronic calculator instead of slide rulers, if any of you know what that is.  :P

Cubic Zirconia said:
ps9 said:
Sloppy listing descriptions....

Dramatic, contemporary home on a dul-de-sac, 1 Bedroom & 1 full bathroom on 1st floor, Upgrades include extensive use of leaded glass, Window casings, Crown moldig, Porelain tile, etc, Plantation shutters w/ modesty panels, Built-in office in bonus room, Kitchen upgraded w pot drawers,
Listing Provided Courtesy of: Sarah Kim, Coldwell Banker Best Realty, DRE #01354971

Random capital Letters, speling erors, using "etc" (it's a million dollar listing, c'mon!)

Can't wait to see the dramatic dul-de-sac :)
Click to expand...

Get used to it. The texters are growing up, and they will take over the world!
Pet peeve: If you don't want to spell something, at least abbreviate it so that everyone understands.
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You forgot to add, we didn't have wiki for research :)
But bright side: we got to hang out with friends to do 'research'!

Pet peeve: Google.
I have gotten so bad, if kid has a play date with someone, I check how much they paid for their house, how their neighborhood is doing, snoop through LinkedIn to see what the parents do, and of course, peek through cover and profile photos on Facebook if we are not connected. When I actually meet them, surprise-suprise, I struggle to make small talk because I actually know that most the things they are telling me are all lies :P Argh! I need my pre-internet innocence back so that I can actually be in awe of someone's real personality.
 
Not to mention Youtube.  Oh, how much easier it would have been if I could have watched all those Youtube video back then.  And, yes, Google too.

My kids are so lazy that they don't ever use the paper dictionary.  I love just highlighting the words I don't know the meaning of (there's a ton of them) and just clicking on DEFINE.  But it makes you lazy.  But then again, school wasn't anywhere as intense as it is here, especially in places like Irvine.

Yes, I know what you mean.  I mostly work out of home so I hate asking my headquarters or especially customers to ship something to me.  Once I asked a customer to ship something to me and she later said "that's a nice house you live in".  I didn't even tell her it was my home office.  Nosy people.  :(  Now I just go pick it up.  But talking about nosy, when Zillow first came out, I had so much fun checking out how much all the neighbors paid for their houses and how much they were worth now. I felt so guilty then like I would have if those xray vision glasses ads in old comic books worked as advertised.  :P  Nosy tools for nosy people indeed.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://tomheroes.com/images/COMICAD%2520xray%2520glasses.JPG&imgrefurl=http://tomheroes.com/Comic%2520Ads/classic%2520ads/x-ray_glasses.htm&h=397&w=522&sz=59&tbnid=xvvHXWcDitHtdM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=118&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dxray%2Bvision%2Bglasses%2Bad%2Bon%2Bcomic%2Bbooks%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=xray+vision+glasses+ad+on+comic+books&usg=__4Tkimiv2XcWHuDS-FLpVUQveqxs=&docid=fsAqYRBjKd9sHM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XOCGUcLGEaTVigK5tYDgCw&ved=0CEAQ9QEwAg
 
Gotta love technology.  Previously public but semi-private data due to obtaining it be tedious is now just a lazy click away.  Not even a click, just a point your phone at it.
 
Pet Peeve: People who post mundane things and TMI on Facebook, especially when they do it 101 times per day. What they ate for lunch (if it's nothing special). A fight with their BFF. Their stomach bug & diarrhea.

Facebook. It's an attention seeker's paradise.
 
SoCal said:
Pet Peeve: People who post mundane things and TMI on Facebook, especially when they do it 101 times per day. What they ate for lunch (if it's nothing special). A fight with their BFF. Their stomach bug & diarrhea.

Facebook. It's an attention seeker's paradise.
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Can I add you on Facebook?  :P
 
Pet peeve:

Not to sound conceited, but Mexican men LOVE to stare at me at stop lights. Today, a younger guy was staring at me, and he was in a most ostentatious car. It was an old 80's Cadillac with huge truck tires on it with chrome rims. As he did a little head nod to me and trying to look cool in his car, with his arm resting on the steering wheel, I made sure he could clearly hear me & read my lips when I said, "You are a huge jerk" as I drove away.

The same thing happens to my friend. Her dad tells us: "You've got to stop wearing that taco scented cologne."
 
on the weekends i can be seen cruising the district and marketplace with the bass bumping in one of these

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this baby is like spanish fly for the ladies.
 
:( It seems like everywhere I move, I get stuck with a neighbor with a barking dog. The last house we bought, lived with it for 5 years. Now here we go again.

I don't know what to do about this current situation. Unfortunately, the neighbor lady is the nicest person so I'd feel bad calling Animal Control or whatever. It just seems kind of dumb that somebody would have to say, "Uh, is your dog okay? 'Cause it's barking like 20 hours a day."  ::) Shouldn't she know this already??? I don't understand. I'm sure if I can hear it, she can hear it. So, WTH.

Sometimes I go outside and yell, "Be quiet, Mr. Biscuit! SHHH!" He's quiet for a minute. Then more barking. I also feel dumb yelling, "Shut up, Mr. Biscuit!" That's his name. He starts around 6 a.m., wakes us up every morning even with the windows closed. My dh says we just have to wait for the dog to die.  ::)
 
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