A senseless rant,....

Merrida · 27-Oct-07, 05:57 PM

What happens to everyone's driving skills when it rains? It's like when it rains out, everyone forgets how to drive, forgets that the roads are more slick, forget how old their tires may be or how much less tread they may have, and they revert to the days of being 16 but without any memory of driver's ed.....

This morning on my way to work, four accidents alone. Two involving big trucks slamming hard enough into cars to push the trunks into the back seats, and the other two were three-car accidents,....there were enough cops, ambulances, and firetrucks out,...

....which then brings the rubber neckers out from the woodwork to hinder not only the traffic pattern, but interfering with the people trying to deal with the accidents.

I hate driving to work on rainy days because I feel so alone, surrounded by dolts with amnesia.

Same with the snow.

Living in New England, we should be used to this by now, but what gives?

.............(sigh)

Rant abated momentarily due to the need to purge.

27-Oct-07, 07:58 PM

I was going to start a similar thread except title it pet peaves - things that just get me pissed off. So I'll use your thread to post mine.

Every now and then I go into a "dropping mode", like, for example, dropping my car keys, or fumbling something. While you'll have to take my word for it, I'm actually pretty coordinated so when these episodes happen, it just drives me crazy. It agitates me big time and I start talking to myself, calling myself a dumb @$$ and other cruel word combos. Today I was in the gym and a person I was talking to told me (before I told him that was me too) that he has similar response behavior.

Usually pet peeves involve issues I have with other peoples' behavior but this one is mine and it drives me friggin crazy!

Done with rant.

Oh, yes Merrida, I agree with you about yours.

ajarvis · 27-Oct-07, 08:29 PM

totally agree with both. When I was in college I'd have to drive through toronto - not a fun drive at most times since you go through two sides of rush hour - but anyways when it rained it took almost 4 hrs guaranteed!

I go through phases where I drop things, but usually it comes along with walking into things - like doorframes, coffee tables. Bad depth perception. Makes me think I shouldn't be driving lol

**.V.** · 27-Oct-07, 08:41 PM

I have nothing to rant about today. I feel so left out.

Merrida · 27-Oct-07, 09:01 PM

It's funny because I was actually going to title this thread "Pet peeves," -- since I do have more than one. But this was so fresh on my mind, having just gone through it, and I figured not many people would reply....

While pet peeves and senseless rants sound tedious and not something we'd like in our lives, there is some type of cathartic sensation to know you're not alone in what bugs you!

I also go through that dropping thing! It's often my car keys,....either dropping them or fumbling with whatever keys are on my chain trying to find the right one for whatever I'm doing. What's irritating is when it's the simple things. I wouldn't mind it so much (I think) if it were some big honking mistake that everyone else would also do...but it's the little inconsequential things that "shouldn't" be happening that bug me.

V, you're fortunate you don't have anything to rant about! You lucky man.

27-Oct-07, 11:37 PM

OK here are some more, ones I wouldn't have picked up on in my younger years:

"Yeah" versus "yes" - I don't like to hear "yeah". I don't think there is such a word. I remember when my son was a teenager and he would say "yeah". I would respond in a loud voice "YEAH, what do you mean YEAH! Do you mean yes?". I did it enough that he began saying yes, not wanting to hear my predictable response when he said yeah.

"No problem" versus "thank you" - I believe both utterances mean the same thing but there is something about thank you that is classic - it never goes out of style. No problem almost sounds like it should be a question. I'm glad I don't own a fast food franchise where the "no problem" utterance is quite common as I would be chewing some butt out really quick each time I heard that belched out.

There are more, but these are the ones that come to mind right now. Thank you!

Merrida · 28-Oct-07, 12:50 AM

An addendum to that last one:

Thanks vs. Thank You. Different comparisons but similar......"thanks" sounds lazy and like you didn't mean it, and are saying it sort of out of habit, like a "whatever." Where-as taking the time to actually say the full "thank you" sounds not only more professional (if that's the setting), but even in a closer setting it sounds more genuine, more sincere, and like you put some thought into what you're thanking the other person for!

Our words have shortened through the ages,.....as if that wasn't enough, a pet peeve is typing out short cuts....

U vs. you: Is typing 2 more letters going to strain your fingers?
2 vs. too: Ditto to above
Y vs. why: Yuh-huh, same thing.
tho vs. though: Sloppy or lazy?
your vs. you're: Just use them properly
their vs. there: Same thing,....
to vs. too: Learn which one goes where, -you cannot interchange them.

I know texters are going to comment it's quicker, especially on a Blackberry or whatever, but in many cases it's just pure laziness or a wish to look cool. It's right up there with substituting 3's for e's and other "L33t" speak or whatever.

I'm not sure if my Catholic upbringing that burned these things into my brain, or if I just like seeing signs of intelligent life (one of which is the ability to spell,...and I know, we must forgive fast typers who don't take the time to recheck their work, or edit it once it's posted,......)

Like I said, not sure why I find it irksome,.....I just do. I know,....picky, picky Merrida....

Yeah!

28-Oct-07, 10:48 AM

This is a spouse-rant but the behavior is not limited to spouses.

It really bugs me when my wife doesn't put the cap back on a felt-tip pen, or when she doesn't close the kitchen cabinet drawers after opening them, or when she constantly can't find her purse or car keys because she never puts them in an easy-to-remember regular place . . .

or when she leaves her purse at the restaurant like she did last night and all the ensuing "call the credit card company to cancel the credit card" activity that it generates on an early-Sunday morning.

Anyone seen my slippers . . . I can't find them!

Merrida · 28-Oct-07, 11:05 AM

Toothpaste tubes squeezed in the middle....caps left off.

28-Oct-07, 11:06 AM

Forgot that one from my previous post.

**Jaster** · 28-Oct-07, 11:09 AM

I hate when the (fire) call is on the 12 floor!
It's never on the first floor on my shift!!!
LOL

**Jaster** · 28-Oct-07, 11:10 AM

Oh and I hate it when guys wear a hat inside when not in uniform!!
I'm just old fashon that way!!!

Merrida · 28-Oct-07, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jaster

I hate when the (fire) call is on the 12 floor!
It's never on the first floor on my shift!!!
LOL

Okay, so that puts my toothpaste tube rant in a whole different light!

I'd rather fight stuck toothpaste than a fire on ANY floor!

How much does your gear weigh, btw?

Merrida · 28-Oct-07, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jaster

Oh and I hate it when guys wear a hat inside when not in uniform!!
I'm just old fashon that way!!!

I relate to that, but that's just the ole military harkening me back,....

**Jaster** · 28-Oct-07, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merrida

Okay, so that puts my toothpaste tube rant in a whole different light!

I'd rather fight stuck toothpaste than a fire on ANY floor!

How much does your gear weigh, btw?

about 40lbs then add the 25 lbs to 50 lbs of tools.

So far most of them are unattened cooking.
I love the 0300Hrs call where some drunk guy or girl comes home and tries to cook eggs but passes out!!! Tha's always a fun time for all!