Short rants.

[Baroquen131]

Things I "hate":

Playing smart poker yet someone sucking out and beating your hand on the river.

Breaking a bone in your arm.

Typing with one hand because of breaking your arm.

The "No Child Left Behind Act".

Microsoft.

Drivers who you can tell are talking on their cell phones before you are close enough to see, because of their poor driving skills.

Most of the Channel 13 Newsteam. (And I'm sorry - it's not "news" to tell me what's coming up on 'Entertainment Tonight').

Cold rain. It's just cruel to be that close to snow and not be snow.

The repeated, yet erratic, unsolicited delivery of the Baltimore Examiner. One more thing to clean up every day.

That's enough for now. Very cathartic. Feel free to join in with your own short rantings & ravings.

[Danielos38]

The "No Child Left Behind Act".



I agree with you whole-heartedly there. There is nothing worse than standardized tests.

[TUKid04]

Baroquen,

Are we long-lost twin brothers? :D I agree with all of your "rants" and can definitely picture some of them right now!

[AgentOrange]

How about this phrase:

The "insert name"'s of the world....

Example:

The Kobe Bryant's, Dwanye Wade's of the world...

[crstrobel]

I have one

The Chest/Back/Butt bump. Basically any celebration that involves two players jumping into the air and bumping each other

Will it ever go away? Football, Basketball, it even found its way into my church softball league:confused: It is tired, memo to all athletes: Please Stop!!!:002_smad:

[twoBshorty]

Oh, boy. Here goes:

-When you go to the fridge and there's 1/4" of juice left in the bottom of the container. Or one scoop of sour cream. Or half a bagel's worth of cream cheese.

-People who cut in line.

-People who drift over in their lane, don't use/don't turn off their blinkers, don't know what "yield" means, ride in the breakdown lane to jump around slow traffic, drive slow on merge ramps, or drive while on their cell phones.

-Being thought of as pond scum because I don't like classic rock. I see nothing inspiring about Neil Young, Pearl Jam, or any of those groups. So sue me.

-Guys who curse hardcore and talk about smut in front of girls. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But it really bothers me.

-People who light up and then blow smoke in my face.

-Anal-retentive grading of chemistry problem sets and biology lab reports, especially when they're graded by TA's. You guys were in my boat 2 years ago. Show a little mercy.

-People who don't clean up after themselves, especially re: dishes and toilets.

-Weather below 25 degrees.

[crstrobel]

Oh, boy. Here goes:

-When you go to the fridge and there's 1/4" of juice left in the bottom of the container. Or one scoop of sour cream. Or half a bagel's worth of cream cheese.

-People who cut in line.

-People who drift over in their lane, don't use/don't turn off their blinkers, don't know what "yield" means, ride in the breakdown lane to jump around slow traffic, drive slow on merge ramps, or drive while on their cell phones.

-Being thought of as pond scum because I don't like classic rock. I see nothing inspiring about Neil Young, Pearl Jam, or any of those groups. So sue me.

-Guys who curse hardcore and talk about smut in front of girls. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But it really bothers me.

-People who light up and then blow smoke in my face.

-Anal-retentive grading of chemistry problem sets and biology lab reports, especially when they're graded by TA's. You guys were in my boat 2 years ago. Show a little mercy.

-People who don't clean up after themselves, especially re: dishes and toilets.

-Weather below 25 degrees.

You consider Pearl Jam classic rock? Now I feel old!:)

[glenn__davis]

-Guys who curse hardcore and talk about smut in front of girls. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But it really bothers me.



Bothers me too. Even more so in front of kids, though.

And baroquen, I don't mind getting sucked out on the river occasionally. I hate it when people think they played good poker but really just had a lucky night.

Also hate the popular message board phrase, "'Nuff said."

[JourneyFan]

- People who proceed to walk right into the elevator as the doors open, acting as if no one needs to exit the elevator first.
- Political correctness (we've really taken it to absurd levels)
- People that stop at the top of an on-ramp and try to merge, despite the fact they have a decent sized merge lane.
- Spelling shortcuts -- i.e. "ur", "r", "u", "b4", etc...
- The MTV generation
- People at work who hold a conversation right in the entrance of a room, making it difficult for other people to gain access to said room.
- The "its" "it's" and "lose" "loose" confusions.
- The pond scum who dislikes classic rock.
- Guys who talk in the men's room. I'm there to do one thing, okay?

[rolliefingers]

-People who drift over in their lane...On I-95 this morning, I saw an 18-wheeler almost merge right on top of a sedan! Luckily, the sedan lady saw it in time and merged over, but I wanted to punch that guy in the face - he literally could have killed someone!


-Weather below 25 degrees.You did choose to go to school in Minnesota, right? ;)

[rolliefingers]

You consider Pearl Jam classic rock? Now I feel old!:)Well, you know it will be soon enough. Like how they don't play anything from the '60s on Classic Rock stations anymore. It's like they can only play stuff from one two-decade span.:rolleyes:

[rolliefingers]

People who proceed to walk right into the elevator as the doors open, acting as if no one needs to exit the elevator first.In a similar vein, people who do that on the Metro.

[Pushmonkey]

On I-95 this morning, I saw an 18-wheeler almost merge right on top of a sedan! Luckily, the sedan lady saw it in time and merged over, but I wanted to punch that guy in the face - he literally could have killed someone!

You did choose to go to school in Minnesota, right? ;)

Actually happened to me on 95 but there was a truck next to me... i spun out trying to get out of the way and hit the guardrail turned 180 degrees, have no clue how i did not go under the 18 wheeler or hiting the truck next to me.

[Tank]

-When you go to the fridge and there's 1/4" of juice left in the bottom of the container. Or one scoop of sour cream. Or half a bagel's worth of cream cheese.

-People who cut in line.

-People who drift over in their lane, don't use/don't turn off their blinkers, don't know what "yield" means, ride in the breakdown lane to jump around slow traffic, drive slow on merge ramps, or drive while on their cell phones.

-Guys who curse hardcore and talk about smut in front of girls. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But it really bothers me.

-People who light up and then blow smoke in my face.

-People who don't clean up after themselves, especially re: dishes and toilets.

I agree with these. Good list.

[ScottieBaseball]

Things I "hate":

Playing smart poker yet someone sucking out and beating your hand on the river.

Nothing brings out the worst in me more than that except for the guy that calls the blinds with his 7-2 off suit to my J-Q Suited, calls the bets, calls the raises, gets a J-Q-2 on the flop, 7 on the turn, and 2 on the river and acts like it was all skill. "I just knew I had it the whole time!" Grrrrrr!!!



Breaking a bone in your arm.

Typing with one hand because of breaking your arm.

Can't relate, bro.


The "No Child Left Behind Act"..

Thank God my wife and I have the means (BARELY) to put my son through private school. The NCLBA was one of my biggest gripes with his old school.


Microsoft.

Drivers who you can tell are talking on their cell phones before you are close enough to see, because of their poor driving skills.

Most of the Channel 13 Newsteam. (And I'm sorry - it's not "news" to tell me what's coming up on 'Entertainment Tonight').

Cold rain. It's just cruel to be that close to snow and not be snow.

The repeated, yet erratic, unsolicited delivery of the Baltimore Examiner. One more thing to clean up every day.

That's enough for now. Very cathartic. Feel free to join in with your own short rantings & ravings.

Couldn't agree with you more. Great post!

[square634]

From a high school student's perspective, the No Child Left Behind Act is infuriating because it often stops our teachers from teaching legitimate curricula or engaging activities. Instead, we learn about inane things we usually already know because the principal browbeats the teachers until they teach specifically to these tests. Luckily, once you get out of the lower-level (freshman) classes, this type of thing stops.

Overall, I actually really like our public school (Centennial High School in Howard County) and think there are a lot of smart kids and awesome teachers. I even know some kids who went to private school for a while and then went to Centennial who say our school compares favorably. The standardized tests do really get annoying though.

I'm not going to start getting political, but the No Child Left Behind Act is ridiculous (perhaps not in principle, but its actual practice).

[twoBshorty]

Bump for people who walk REALLY SLOWLY and somehow manage to position themselves exactly in the middle of the sidewalk/hallway/what-have-you so nobody can get around them. It's like they have centering radar or something. It's okay to walk slow. Heck, I'm a fairly slow walker. But don't walk so nobody can get around you! It's like people who drive slow in the passing lane, but worse, because then you can often get around on the right (which is thankfully legal in Maryland). I don't want to stiff-arm anybody into a wall, but MOVE!

This also goes for people who ride in the middle of escalators or stand still in the center of those moving walkways in airports, strewing luggage everywhere so nobody can get by. I HAVE TO GET TO MY %#*(%ING GATE!

And speaking of luggage, people who think it's okay to bring a purse, a backpack, a rollerboard suitcase, a musical instrument, a laptop bag, and their special little orthopedic pillow on the plane with them. No, it is not okay. That is why there is a cargo hold and LIMITED space in the overhead bin!

[rolliefingers]

Bump for people who walk REALLY SLOWLY and somehow manage to position themselves exactly in the middle of the sidewalk/hallway/what-have-you so nobody can get around them. It's like they have centering radar or something. It's okay to walk slow. Heck, I'm a fairly slow walker. But don't walk so nobody can get around you! It's like people who drive slow in the passing lane, but worse, because then you can often get around on the right (which is thankfully legal in Maryland). I don't want to stiff-arm anybody into a wall, but MOVE!

This also goes for people who ride in the middle of escalators or stand still in the center of those moving walkways in airports, strewing luggage everywhere so nobody can get by. I HAVE TO GET TO MY %#*(%ING GATE!

And speaking of luggage, people who think it's okay to bring a purse, a backpack, a rollerboard suitcase, a musical instrument, a laptop bag, and their special little orthopedic pillow on the plane with them. No, it is not okay. That is why there is a cargo hold and LIMITED space in the overhead bin!Suggested profession for you: Police Officer.

Possible PT job/second career: Dictator of small island nation.

[glenn__davis]

Having to sit through the last minute of a basketball before they'll start showing the one I want to watch on TV. The "rant" effect of this is directly related to amount of time-outs called and fouls committed.

[Bmo24Ph]

Dealing with kids in school all day who think we're getting 10+ inches of snow and won't be back for the rest of the week.

[scOtt]

I don't know if this is "mini"... Everytime the O's seem to make a little progress, a pitcher goes down for the year two days before pitchers and catchers report! Or a pitcher gets a DUI. Or dies in ST. Or a trade is for a guy who is already injured. I'm just damn tired of being snakebit! :mad:

[Spoonless]

...like this.

I hate it. I want to know what the thread is about before I open it. Your ellipsises do not make me happy. I'm sure I've done it before, but I really hate "What has to happen..." and "What about..." and "What do we need to do..." threads. I know you can just roll the mouse over the thread title and you can read the beginning of the first post, but it still gets under my skin.

[Moose Milligan]

When the hell did cashiers not swipe credit cards?

I was at the store today and I'm STILL in the habit of handing them the card to swipe it.

She looked at me like I was trying to hand her a cold turd.

What exactly is a cashiers job these days? With the advent of those self checkout lines, who needs them?

[Mad Mark]

Having an MRI done on February 19th, calling your Orthopaedist for a follow-up visit, and being told that his next available appointment is March 23rd!
Just going to have to rehab the thing myself, and not worry about it until the shoulder either stops hurting, or blows up! :mad:

[Jules]

Having an MRI done on February 19th, calling your Orthopaedist for a follow-up visit, and being told that his next available appointment is March 23rd!
Just going to have to rehab the thing myself, and not worry about it until the shoulder either stops hurting, or blows up! :mad:


The problem with getting appointments with Orthopedic Doctors is they are having 1 week followups, 2 week, 1 month, etc from all of their surgeries. I have my 1 year ACL appt in 2 weeks and booked in 6 months ago but did not get my first requested time. This was in September booking a March appt and he had alot on the books already. But he is a heck of a Dr. and just operated on my co-worker's shoulder.

Your saving grace is physical therapy and strengthing all of the other muscles. Good Luck.

BTW I just sent you a PM

[glenn__davis]

Swearing in the commercials of G-rated/family oriented shows.

[TGO]

When the hell did cashiers not swipe credit cards?

I was at the store today and I'm STILL in the habit of handing them the card to swipe it.

She looked at me like I was trying to hand her a cold turd.

What exactly is a cashiers job these days? With the advent of those self checkout lines, who needs them?

It's confusing to me because some places have self-swipe machines but they only want you to use them for debit cards. I almost always use a credit card, and I usually hand it to the cashier if it's a place I haven't been to before. You're right, though, sometimes they give me a weird look if I'm supposed to swipe it myself.

[The Wedge]

I know what you mean, and quite frankly, it scares the living bejeesus out of me.

This culture is moving towards complete slothism at an exponential rate. It's really quite alarming. We're creating all kinds of automation technology, yet we're populating the world more day after day. These work counter intuitively, at least in any sort of remotely capitalistic society.

[twoBshorty]

Really? Swiping your own credit card gets on your nerves? I only mind it when the directions on how exactly to swipe it are unclear. Those little pictures really don't help.

I'm sure I'm going to have a whole new list of short rants tomorrow, as my day involves air travel. And my ride isn't taking me until 1:45 for a 3:25 flight. Call me paranoid, but getting there 25 minutes (45 minute ride to the airport assuming no traffic) before boarding when I have to check a huge suitcase seems like cutting it a little close. Maybe I will learn what do to if I miss my flight, a valuable life lesson. I'm assuming you just go to the check-in counter at the gate and ask for help, right? There are 2 flights to National after mine, and one of them seems to be half-empty, but still, I don't want the stress.

[The Wedge]

It's not so much the swiping our own cards thats annoying, it's the reactions of the cashiers when force of habit kicks in and we're handing the card over for swiping.

[Baroquen131]

I'm sure I'm going to have a whole new list of short rants tomorrow...

And you are a master at ranting. :p

Surpisingly, as annoying and busy as life is at the moment, I don't have anything to vent about. I'm sure that will change soon enough.

[blueberryale77]

Things I want to rant about but don't have time because I have too much homework...

Excel
AutoCAD
Sketchup
ArcView GIS
Powerpoint
MS Word
Excel
SPSS
InDesign
PhotoShop
Excel (my very least favorite of all software in the world)
and any other computer applications I will have to use in the future...

Oh, and a special shoutout to Windows Vista, which doesn't work with several of these programs but its extremely difficult to buy a computer without it!

[rolliefingers]

Excel (my very least favorite of all software in the world)This program should be bound, gagged, tortured and killed, as recompense for the torture it's put the human race through.

[Baroquen131]

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I just use this old one, as this rant should be short. (And it might be "just me").

Why on earth does the Orioles TV crew bump up their crowd mikes so much? I can barely hear the announcers! It sounds like there's a jumbo jet running in the background at RFK when we know there's only about two dozen people to begin with. When you can hear the heckler more clearly than Buck or Thorne, that's a problem. I couldn't even tell Miggy was talking during the start of his "interview".

AND - it's not MASN (overall) because the Nats channel was much more tolerable.

AARRGGHH! :mad:

[ixcuincle]

several things pissing me off today :

1) MASN - Dish...angry that I live in the Orioles region yet can't pick up Orioles games
2) damn roommates putting up TV so loud...this really really pisses me off and actually brought tension to a boil today as me and my roommate were actually face to face arguing about the TV being so loud. It is a conflict I have had with almost every one of my college roommates , for some reason they feel the need to be rude and blast their crap loudly. I can't wait to graduate college and be rid of the annoying pest known as a roommate once and for all.

[BaltBird 24]

I rant Freddie Bynum.

[twoBshorty]

Lost mail. I got a notice that I had a package today, so I went to the campus post office to pick it up. I signed for it, the girl went to get it, and. . .no package. 5 minutes of searching ensued. No package. I'd already gotten something else overnighted so we figured it was a duplicate notification and I left. Checked Amazon. . .no, it was delivered at 10:32 AM! The (#&*$# post office lost my package! It's there somewhere, or they wouldn't have been able to write the tracking code in the signature log, but WHERE IS IT? There are $80 worth of DVDs in there, and if they don't find it, they better give me money, because Amazon sure won't. I'm so mad!

Update: Package located! I sent a complaint to the head of the post office and he called me personally about 15 minutes ago to let me know they'd found my package and I could come get it. So I have my DVDs now. Yay!

[ScottieBaseball]

Things I want to rant about but don't have time because I have too much homework...

Excel
AutoCAD
Sketchup
ArcView GIS
Powerpoint
MS Word
Excel
SPSS
InDesign
PhotoShop
Excel (my very least favorite of all software in the world)
and any other computer applications I will have to use in the future...

Oh, and a special shoutout to Windows Vista, which doesn't work with several of these programs but its extremely difficult to buy a computer without it!

Hey, AutoCAD beats the daylights out of Aperture. Trust me.

[MTOsFan]

This program should be bound, gagged, tortured and killed, as recompense for the torture it's put the human race through.

I honestly don't get this. I've used Excel extensively as well as just about every other spreadsheet software available in the last 15 years. They all have idiosyncracies (sp??) that limit their function. Excel is by far IMO the best of what's available. Granted I might use Excel in a different context than most. The biggest limitation I see in excel is the 65K record limit. Besides that it's a pretty solid program.

[twoBshorty]

This from a TLC reality show I just watched. . .

If you own a 37-acre "agritainment" farm and set up a 10-foot catapult with a 2000-pound counterweight so the visitors to your pumpkin patch can launch their pumpkins 300 yards into a field, this is extremely cool, but it might be less than smart to have your 9-year-old son operate the machine. In fact, it might be a bad enough idea that you will be forced to stop filming while you accompany your child to the hospital so a neurosurgeon can remove pieces of his skull from his brain when the catapult malfunctions and he is too young to recognize it or know how to get out of the way in time before it cracks his head open. When your son miraculously gets out of the hospital 2 days later with no lasting damage, the best thing to do is not to go fix the catapult so you can use it again. Burning it might be a better option, along with the enormous backhoe that you let your 15-year-old dwarf son, who is about 3 feet tall, use to move a two-story playhouse by himself. Men. :rolleyes:

(Note: I am only teasing about this because the little boy came out absolutely fine. Don't worry.)

I don't understand my parents' philosophy, either. My 17-year-old brother is not allowed to operate our self-propelled lawn mower on hills, and I'm not allowed to touch it at all. We are also not allowed to climb a ladder one story to the garage roof. Yet my brother is allowed to fly to China unsupervised with his girlfriend and I was allowed to drive at night on the Beltway in the snow during rush hour exactly 4 hours after getting my license. Go figure.

[JamesI]

-Anal-retentive grading of chemistry problem sets and biology lab reports, especially when they're graded by TA's. You guys were in my boat 2 years ago. Show a little mercy.

As a former Physics TA, most of the time the anal-retentive grading was required. We were handed a solution and given very exact directions as to how we could give points to the students. So, there was little we were allowed to do to show mercy.

[blueberryale77]

As a former Physics TA, most of the time the anal-retentive grading was required. We were handed a solution and given very exact directions as to how we could give points to the students. So, there was little we were allowed to do to show mercy.

I wish I had been a TA at your school. I once had to fight for my right to give lower than a B to a graduate student on a midterm essay that my mom, who teaches freshman composition at another school, said would have failed in her class. It wasn't an English class, but this paper was ridiculous. Apparently there are "unwritten rules" in some graduate programs.:rolleyes:

[square634]

As a former Physics TA, most of the time the anal-retentive grading was required. We were handed a solution and given very exact directions as to how we could give points to the students. So, there was little we were allowed to do to show mercy.

My older brother is a TA for an AI class at MIT. I think he has more leeway than the specific criteria that you described for physics, but it is MIT so it is going to be hard. I'm not sure how merciful he is as compared to other TAs, but he doesn't give out a lot of A's.

[twoBshorty]

Bio labs were graded by a TA last term, and I kept getting middle B's on them no matter what I did. It's like he changed the point values of various minutiae so I would always wind up with an 87. I didn't say anything until the last day, when we got our final labs back and I realized he'd taken off 2 points for failing to write the species name in the graph caption. For 3 graphs. That's 6 points off on a 100-point assignment, or over half a letter grade, for failing to write the Latin name for "garden tomato" in the caption. I HATE double jeopardy grading. If I make the same mistake over and over, don't keep taking off points until suddenly I have a wildly disproportionate amount of points missing for something completely stupid. Like taking off a point on a two-point problem because I mislabelled units. Are the units really worth 50% of the problem? Because next time I'm just going to write "micromoles per litre," and you'd better give me a point!

Anyway, on the last day, I decided, "What the hell, the course is over anyway" and took my lab up the chain of command directly to the professor and complained. He agreed that the grading was "excessive" and gave me my 6 points back. I pulled an A- in the class. Who knows what it might have been if I'd complained earlier? I know other students were having similar problems, and I feel bad that I didn't speak up and maybe gotten him to lighten up a little, because it obviously wasn't how the professor intended the labs to be graded.

[JamesI]

Bio labs were graded by a TA last term, and I kept getting middle B's on them no matter what I did. It's like he changed the point values of various minutiae so I would always wind up with an 87. I didn't say anything until the last day, when we got our final labs back and I realized he'd taken off 2 points for failing to write the species name in the graph caption. For 3 graphs. That's 6 points off on a 100-point assignment, or over half a letter grade, for failing to write the Latin name for "garden tomato" in the caption. I HATE double jeopardy grading. If I make the same mistake over and over, don't keep taking off points until suddenly I have a wildly disproportionate amount of points missing for something completely stupid. Like taking off a point on a two-point problem because I mislabelled units. Are the units really worth 50% of the problem? Because next time I'm just going to write "micromoles per litre," and you'd better give me a point!

Anyway, on the last day, I decided, "What the hell, the course is over anyway" and took my lab up the chain of command directly to the professor and complained. He agreed that the grading was "excessive" and gave me my 6 points back. I pulled an A- in the class. Who knows what it might have been if I'd complained earlier? I know other students were having similar problems, and I feel bad that I didn't speak up and maybe gotten him to lighten up a little, because it obviously wasn't how the professor intended the labs to be graded.

We were required on many problems to deduct 1/2 a point (often on 1 point problems) every time units were left off. I had students fail my class because of that, but I was not allowed to do anything about it. Sadly, for me it was how the professor intended labs to be graded. In fact, he kept them all at the end of the year to make sure we were grading them the right way.

[JamesI]

My older brother is a TA for an AI class at MIT. I think he has more leeway than the specific criteria that you described for physics, but it is MIT so it is going to be hard. I'm not sure how merciful he is as compared to other TAs, but he doesn't give out a lot of A's.

It may have to do with the number of students in his class. TAs in the non-calculus physics were allowed to have some leeway, they had around 30 students. Calculus physics had about 500, so any leeway given to one would have to be given to all.

[EddieO's21]

:D this is way tooo weird...my brother and I (this is no lie) are making an "I hate" book..we've been working on it for a couple of months. We have 577 things so far and a lot of it is the type of stuff you've mentioned. It's supposed to be funny...but in some ways it will make people go, wait, man i didn't know people hate when i do that

[twoBshorty]

OK, does it bother anyone else when people load the toilet paper onto the roll so the loose end is facing the wall? This just drives me crazy for some reason, because you ALWAYS have to spin it to find the loose end.

[Spoonless]

If you're going to start a thread and post the day's lineups, could you take the extra 2 minutes to format it so it's actually readable? :mad:

[Baroquen131]

If you're going to start a thread and post a link to an article, could you take the extra 2 minutes to actually mention what the article is about? :mad:

Fixed that to describe my thoughts at the moment... noticed this several times lately... give a main idea, or an opinion or something. No big deal though... it's hot outside and it's making me a little cranky today. :002_sbiggrin:

[Pushmonkey]

If you're going to start a thread and post the day's lineups, could you take the extra 2 minutes to format it so it's actually readable? :mad:

I'll try somethign different tonight if i start the thread.

[ixcuincle]

Curses on ESPN Radio "Triple X" radio 730 in DC , can't even receive this obscure station at night because its signal is so weak. At night time , it's like there is no ESPN radio affiliate in Washington DC , because none of their advertised radio stations (94.3 / 92.7 / 730 AM "all over DC") work at all once the sun goes down (and even in the mornings when I drive around I can barely pick up 94.3 FM!).

What angers me even more is that they won't even stream what I want to hear (the NBA eastern conf finals) online on their website. Listen , I understand lawyers don't want that content streamed on the internet , but don't they understand I can't listen on my radio either and I live in DC? And finally , Triple X is the new home of VT football , George Mason basketball , the MLB on ESPN , the NBA on ESPN , the BCS on ESPN , and so on. I wish ESPN was still on 980 , at least you could pick up that signal for miles and miles away from DC.

[Mu'ayyidSaafir]

I hate when you're out to dinner with a big group of people, eating at a long table, and someone from the group wants to stand at the head of the table and take a picture with everybody leaning in. When has that shot ever resulted in a good picture? Come on!

[Pedro Cerrano]

People on 695 that drive 55 in the left lane. Gahhhh!

[Malike]

People who leave small children or animals in cars, while they go about their shopping.

Women who are driving and putting makeup on at the same time. I really $*(%&&$& hate that.

[Spoonless]

People who leave small children or animals in cars, while they go about their shopping.

Women who are driving and putting makeup on at the same time. I really $*(%&&$& hate that.

Guys reading the paper while driving. Or even better, multi-tasking: paper, coffee, donut while driving.

I once saw a woman painting her toenails while driving. She had her left foot up next to the steering wheel.

People text messaging while driving. People text messaging on a phone with a qwerty-keyboard while driving.

People busy checking themselves out in their various mirrors at red lights, and missing when it turns green.

People who think that beeping their horn in traffic is actually going to fix things.

[JohnD]

Women. 'Nuff said.

[66-70-83-??]

I hate when you're out to dinner with a big group of people, eating at a long table, and someone from the group wants to stand at the head of the table and take a picture with everybody leaning in. When has that shot ever resulted in a good picture? Come on!

........figure out to the penny what each of the 16 people owes to the tab,
rather than just splitting it evenly (with tip).....

So what if Mary's entree was $11.95 and yours was $9.95 or that Fred had 2 $4 drinks and Joe only had 1. :rolleyes:

[glenn__davis]

........figure out to the penny what each of the 16 people owes to the tab,
rather than just splitting it evenly (with tip).....

So what if Mary's entree was $11.95 and yours was $9.95 or that Fred had 2 $4 drinks and Joe only had 1. :rolleyes:

No, sorry man. If I'm at Applebee's and I get an $8 burger and my wife gets $5 soup, I shouldn't have to pay for my friends' and his wife's $15 steaks.

[Spoonless]

No, sorry man. If I'm at Applebee's and I get an $8 burger and my wife gets $5 soup, I shouldn't have to pay for my friends' and his wife's $15 steaks.

I agree here. Of course, I always keep track of what I'm spending as I'm ordering, so I don't have to look at teh bill to figure it out.

[square634]

........figure out to the penny what each of the 16 people owes to the tab,
rather than just splitting it evenly (with tip).....

So what if Mary's entree was $11.95 and yours was $9.95 or that Fred had 2 $4 drinks and Joe only had 1.

Well, I agree with you FWIW. Except in extreme cases, I think it's a bit cheap to calculate the exact number to make sure you aren't gipped.

[bgfield]

I do it. I don't make a whole lot of money so I'm not about to pay for someone elses meal. Conversely, I don't expect anyone to pay for my meal if I get something more expensive.

[DurbBird]

Dash it, it's Belgian waffle, not "Belgium" waffle. You don't say "Italy food," "France fries," or "Japan car." And my dog, Ike, is a Belgian sheepdog (http://www.dogfacts.org/belgian-shepherd-dog-pictures.htm), not a "Belgium" sheepdog.

Thank you. I'm feeling much better now.

[dedwretched]

when people clear their throats
how derek jeter (and tino martinez) put their hand up, requesting time
panhandlers/street kids who beg for money
most of the stores at the mall
how some PC users think PC's are better than macs
german cars

[The Wedge]

how some PC users think PC's are better than macs


By the same token, how some Mac users won't shut up about how better Macs are. A phenomenon so prevalent and pretentious that they even made a slew of commercials about it.

[blueberryale77]

No, sorry man. If I'm at Applebee's and I get an $8 burger and my wife gets $5 soup, I shouldn't have to pay for my friends' and his wife's $15 steaks.

Exactly. If it's close, you don't grumble over a couple dollars, but there are some people out there who always order expensive things and expect others to pick up the tab for it. For example, one of my professors, who happens to be a filthy rich urban designer/land developer with a multi-million dollar house, took a group of grad students on an overnight field trip. He led them all to a very expensive restaurant even though several of them protested that it was beyond their budget. The students who were against it ended up going in and ordering a salad or a soup and drinking water because they couldn't afford anything else. The professor proceeded to order an expensive meal plus an appetizer and about 6 mixed drinks (he's a bit of a drinker) and then declare that they were going to split the bill evenly. They rebelled somewhat, but each of them still ended up paying much more than their share... and much more than they could reasonably afford on a starving grad student's part-time salary.

SOrry, that was a long rant.:002_stongue:

[blueberryale77]

PS- I got on this thread because I hate when my cat knocks over glasses of water on my furniture. She does it all the time, on purpose, because she would rather steal my water than drink what's in her bowl... and I even give her Brita water because the tap water in New Jersey really does taste like garbage.

[Witchy Chick]

Exactly. If it's close, you don't grumble over a couple dollars, but there are some people out there who always order expensive things and expect others to pick up the tab for it. For example, one of my professors, who happens to be a filthy rich urban designer/land developer with a multi-million dollar house, took a group of grad students on an overnight field trip. He led them all to a very expensive restaurant even though several of them protested that it was beyond their budget. The students who were against it ended up going in and ordering a salad or a soup and drinking water because they couldn't afford anything else. The professor proceeded to order an expensive meal plus an appetizer and about 6 mixed drinks (he's a bit of a drinker) and then declare that they were going to split the bill evenly. They rebelled somewhat, but each of them still ended up paying much more than their share... and much more than they could reasonably afford on a starving grad student's part-time salary.

SOrry, that was a long rant.:002_stongue:

That reminds me of the episode of Friends where they all went out to dinner for someone's b-day (Ross' ?). The employed and fairly well-off Chandler, Ross, and Monica ordered expensive meals while the unemployed (Joey) and barely employed (Rachel and Phoebe) ordered salads and water. Joey, Rachel, and Pheebs threw a collective fit when the other three wanted to split the bill equally.

I love that show. :D


Witchy

[Witchy Chick]

baroquen's rant: Jim Hunter and Rick Dempsey calling the game tonight. Where is Gary Thorne and Cakes?

Witchy's rant: fiancé's who are unwilling to make their own Short Rants posts. :p


Witchy

[The Wedge]

I like how you actually got the accent on the e. Nerd.

Also, soon he'll be getting you to fight his battles for him. Book it...it's science.

[bgfield]

Beer vendors at the ballgame. Or any vendor for that matter, but the beer vendors are always the loudest. I'm sitting there, maybe enjoying a conversation or just enjoying the game or whatnot, and someone walks by me shouting "Beerman miller LITE!"

I know they need to advertise and all but it doesn't stop it from being annoying, especially since I don't drink beer.

[Baroquen131]

Four of 'em...

1) Ants. Stay outside where you belong.

2) The fact that I don't enjoy the NBA as much as I used to. (The NBA Finals marathon on ESPN Classic is more entertaining than games these days.)

3) Nerds with Star Wars handles making fun of nerds with handles inspired by the Harry Potter books. What's next? Going to throw your pocket protectors at each other? :002_stongue:

4) Oh... and yeah, the Orioles in general. So bad.....

[EddieO's21]

short rant...clowns

enough said...wait no, it's not

they freak me out. how can one enjoy such a disgusting looking freak of nature. havent you seen IT?????

[Witchy Chick]

short rant...clowns

enough said...wait no, it's not

they freak me out. how can one enjoy such a disgusting looking freak of nature. havent you seen IT?????

Yup. But, reading the book was even worse. My imagined Pennywise was much more scary than the movie Pennywise. So much so, that I flipped out on a regular basis when I had to go down the basement steps at my parents'. :eek:


Witchy

[Hank Scorpio]

Oh, boy. Here goes:

-When you go to the fridge and there's 1/4" of juice left in the bottom of the container. Or one scoop of sour cream. Or half a bagel's worth of cream cheese.

-People who cut in line.

-People who drift over in their lane, don't use/don't turn off their blinkers, don't know what "yield" means, ride in the breakdown lane to jump around slow traffic, drive slow on merge ramps, or drive while on their cell phones.

-Being thought of as pond scum because I don't like classic rock. I see nothing inspiring about Neil Young, Pearl Jam, or any of those groups. So sue me.

-Guys who curse hardcore and talk about smut in front of girls. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But it really bothers me.

-People who light up and then blow smoke in my face.

-Anal-retentive grading of chemistry problem sets and biology lab reports, especially when they're graded by TA's. You guys were in my boat 2 years ago. Show a little mercy.

-People who don't clean up after themselves, especially re: dishes and toilets.

-Weather below 25 degrees.

I just threw up in my mouth b/c someone referred to Pearl Jam as "classic rock."

I hate getting old.

[Witchy Chick]

I didn't get around to posting this one this morning, but:

People who are unable to adequately merge from Route 100 onto southbound 95 during morning rush hour. :mad:


Witchy

[TGO]

I didn't get around to posting this one this morning, but:

People who are unable to adequately merge from Route 100 onto southbound 95 during morning rush hour. :mad:


Witchy

In general people who merge or change lanes without stepping on the gas. :mad:

[blueberryale77]

Tiny little trophy wives who drive giant SUVs in which they can't reach the pedals or see out the windshield and park them in two or more parking spaces

[glenn__davis]

Tiny little trophy wives who drive giant SUVs in which they can't reach the pedals or see out the windshield and park them in two or more parking spaces

Anyone who takes up more than 1 parking space irritates me to no end. If you're that worried about your car getting dinged, just park farther away.

On a different not, if I hear the phrase "Oh, snap" one more time, I'm going to oh-snap someone's head off.

[blueberryale77]

Anyone who takes up more than 1 parking space irritates me to no end. If you're that worried about your car getting dinged, just park farther away.

On a different not, if I hear the phrase "Oh, snap" one more time, I'm going to oh-snap someone's head off.

Me too. This past year I had to share an office with a girl who said that all the time and constantly used "yer mom" as a retort to everything. I ended up quitting my student job a month before school ended in part because I couldn't stand being in the office anymore.

[blueberryale77]

Oh, and I also hate that whenever the Mets play at a different time than the O's, they suck.

[Pushmonkey]

Gwen Stefanie--eat something, and also I wish she would realize she is not a little Japaneses girl its just creepy.

[bgfield]

The "BREAKING NEWS" headlines on MSN.com. Maybe it's just me but when I see the words "BREAKING NEWS" capitalized on a red background I expect some seriously important news forthcoming. That's NEVER the case with MSN. A week or so ago some politician was on trial for something, and we get "BREAKING NEWS: Senator soandso pleads not guilty to charges" is that really that big a deal? :rolleyes:

[twoBshorty]

This might be a tad heavy for this thread, but. . .

When someone betrays your trust so badly that you feel as if you're going to puke.

My brother's 7th grade English teacher was just arrested for the second time in two months on charges of sexual abuse of a minor. I don't know what middle school danielos38 and bryanman8 went to, but you guys probably know who I'm talking about. This guy was my brother's favorite teacher, and was very good friends with my best friend's father, so I knew him pretty well, too. He seemed like a great guy. Really knew how to engage kids, interesting class, etc.

Well, I guess he had a lot of practice "engaging kids," because he apparently also likes to fiddle around with little boys off school property. When I heard about the first arrest, I was in shock and hoping it was being sensationalized. Then someone else came forward and made the same accusation a few days ago. Now I'm waiting for the line to form at the left.

This really hurt my brother deeply. It was pretty much the only class he liked the entire way through middle school, and he was talking about maybe being an English major because of this guy. He's not talking about that any more. I was away when the story first broke, but apparently it just popped up on the news while he and my mom were eating dinner and they couldn't do anything but stare at each other in speechless horror for 5 minutes. I don't know how my parents broached the "is there anything you need to tell us in light of this" question, but I'm sure it was asked. It was the first thing that jumped into my mind and the thought made me absolutely ill.

I can't believe someone I liked, someone everybody liked and trusted, was really like this underneath. How can you trust anyone? Do you have to believe that every friendly person is a pedophile? God help us all.

[blueberryale77]

Does anyone in this country go through the public school system without knowing at least one teacher who gets arrested for this? I'm sure some percentage of them are bogus charges, but a lot have to be actually doing it to. What gives? My high school had two teachers who got arrested after I graduated, one who molested boys and one for the girls.

[Leitch]

if I hear the phrase "Oh, snap" one more time, I'm going to oh-snap someone's head off.

Oh, .......

never mind

[Leitch]

Oh Oh I Got One

People Who Merge Onto 895 By Coming To A Complete Stop When Absolutely Unnecessary And Thus Making It Hard For Us Non-completely Wussified Drivers Who Like To Merge Into Traffic At Speeds Above Zero

[blueberryale77]

WORK

/characters

[Pedro Cerrano]

This might be a tad heavy for this thread, but. . .

When someone betrays your trust so badly that you feel as if you're going to puke.

My brother's 7th grade English teacher was just arrested for the second time in two months on charges of sexual abuse of a minor. I don't know what middle school danielos38 and bryanman8 went to, but you guys probably know who I'm talking about. This guy was my brother's favorite teacher, and was very good friends with my best friend's father, so I knew him pretty well, too. He seemed like a great guy. Really knew how to engage kids, interesting class, etc.

Well, I guess he had a lot of practice "engaging kids," because he apparently also likes to fiddle around with little boys off school property. When I heard about the first arrest, I was in shock and hoping it was being sensationalized. Then someone else came forward and made the same accusation a few days ago. Now I'm waiting for the line to form at the left.

This really hurt my brother deeply. It was pretty much the only class he liked the entire way through middle school, and he was talking about maybe being an English major because of this guy. He's not talking about that any more. I was away when the story first broke, but apparently it just popped up on the news while he and my mom were eating dinner and they couldn't do anything but stare at each other in speechless horror for 5 minutes. I don't know how my parents broached the "is there anything you need to tell us in light of this" question, but I'm sure it was asked. It was the first thing that jumped into my mind and the thought made me absolutely ill.

I can't believe someone I liked, someone everybody liked and trusted, was really like this underneath. How can you trust anyone? Do you have to believe that every friendly person is a pedophile? God help us all.

Never, EVER judge a book by its cover. So many people are probably the greatest people on first or second or fifteenth impression but are pretty terrible overall (or, I should say, have their faults -- some worse than others).

I visited Attica Correctional Facility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Correctional_Facility) while at Buffalo Law for a Prisoner Law course I took. We had an informal Q&A with some of the prisoners beforehand and one of the people was the unassuming guy in his late-20s who seemed nice enough. Wanna know what he did? Highlight to read:

While suffering through heroin withdrawal, he stabbed both of his parents to death and then burned the house down to try to get away with it.

Obviously this guy was in a big-time prison so he must have done something wrong but still, it's really hard sometimes to accept that certain people are capable of doing certain things.

[Spoonless]

Going bald at 22. 'Nuff said.

[glenn__davis]

My brother's 7th grade English teacher was just arrested for the second time in two months on charges of sexual abuse of a minor. I don't know what middle school danielos38 and bryanman8 went to, but you guys probably know who I'm talking about. This guy was my brother's favorite teacher, and was very good friends with my best friend's father, so I knew him pretty well, too. He seemed like a great guy. Really knew how to engage kids, interesting class, etc.

Well, I guess he had a lot of practice "engaging kids," because he apparently also likes to fiddle around with little boys off school property. When I heard about the first arrest, I was in shock and hoping it was being sensationalized. Then someone else came forward and made the same accusation a few days ago. Now I'm waiting for the line to form at the left.



While that sounds terrible, I would also encourage you to hold off before making any definite judgments. I have a few friends that are teachers, and my wife is one as well, and I've heard some awful stories about false accusations that have gotten teachers suspended or even fired for really no reason. At my wife's old school, 13 teachers are on adminsitrative leave for allegedly hitting students. A student doesn't like a teacher, he says that teacher hit him, and the teacher is immediately suspended. It's ridiculous.

I'm not saying that's necessarily the case here, I'm just saying that in these situations, the authorities usually seem to act first and ask questions later.

[Pushmonkey]

drivers on 68/70/95 today:mad:

I drove 450 miles for my job today all for a matter of an hours work mind you..yes that is your MD tax dollars at work ladies and genital men, but for those brain dead zombies out there let me break it down real sllllloooowwwww...


THE GAS PETAL IS ON THE RIGHT YOU ....BEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP

Oh and if and accident happened 2 hrs ago you don't need to stop and look across to the other side of the divided highway to try to see what happened. Also the easy pass lane FYI you don't have to stop in it for the reader to say thank you. Also, in order to merge it might be helpful to actually have the car in drive and the right foot on the right petal.

Also if you are on an interstate one can light the foot on the gas to slow down...you don't need to tap your break..thus causing said 100 drivers behind you to hit their breaks thus causing me to stop a mile behind your dumb butt...

[ixcuincle]

I notice a lot of conversation about traffic so I might as well weigh in. On the rare times that I do drive on the interstate I drive 65 or 70 mph. I hear horror stories of the man coming after you if you dare to drive 15 mph over the speed limit and I am very paranoid so I don't ever ever speed on Interstates. I assume the other drivers disapprove of this , since the ones behind me seem to cross to the other lane , pass by , and get in my lane.

Ever since my car accident I have been extremely paranoid when driving...I can't have another accident happen again , one is enough.

And to rant on something legitimate how do the O's lose 3 straight to the Nats? We better win the rest of the games to make up for all the games we fell behind by. Damn O's...

[twoBshorty]

While that sounds terrible, I would also encourage you to hold off before making any definite judgments. I have a few friends that are teachers, and my wife is one as well, and I've heard some awful stories about false accusations that have gotten teachers suspended or even fired for really no reason. At my wife's old school, 13 teachers are on adminsitrative leave for allegedly hitting students. A student doesn't like a teacher, he says that teacher hit him, and the teacher is immediately suspended. It's ridiculous.

I'm not saying that's necessarily the case here, I'm just saying that in these situations, the authorities usually seem to act first and ask questions later.

On a search of his house, they also found pictures of kids, porn, inappropriate videos, handcuffs, chloroform, and toy guns.

I was still holding out hope that it was an overreaction or a misunderstanding until the second guy (now 24) came forward.

There was an article in the Washington Post a little while ago saying the D.A. had been getting threatening letters related to this guy that said stuff about Al Qaeda and MS-13 coming to get him if the teacher wasn't let go. They don't think he had anything to do with it, some crazy unrelated weirdo, but now the Secret Service is involved and the whole thing is just very, very, very weird.

I know it's bad to rush to judgment, but I don't know what else we're supposed to believe. More and more stuff just keeps coming out.

[blueberryale77]

How about a short non-rant? I love walking to work. Well, ok, sometimes it's a little tiny bit annoying when it's pouring down rain or something, but I get a little extra exercise, run into lots of people I know on the street, and my CO2 footprint at the moment might actually be lower than Jay Gibbons' batting average! It amuses me how people seem to hate traffic more than anything in the world and yet they continue to subject themselves to it by choice. Sure our urban form makes it fairly difficult to avoid it altogether, but I'm working on that. In the meantime, those of you who get frustrated by driving, please at least consider walking, biking or giving transit a try for some of your trips. It's good for the soul as well as the environment. If it's impossible to get anywhere without a car from where you currently live and driving annoys you, take that into consideration next time you move.

(steps down from soapbox)

[Bosibus]

Speaking of cars:

People who leave their blinker on and they don't know it.

[Pushmonkey]

How about a short non-rant? I love walking to work. Well, ok, sometimes it's a little tiny bit annoying when it's pouring down rain or something, but I get a little extra exercise, run into lots of people I know on the street, and my CO2 footprint at the moment might actually be lower than Jay Gibbons' batting average! It amuses me how people seem to hate traffic more than anything in the world and yet they continue to subject themselves to it by choice. Sure our urban form makes it fairly difficult to avoid it altogether, but I'm working on that. In the meantime, those of you who get frustrated by driving, please at least consider walking, biking or giving transit a try for some of your trips. It's good for the soul as well as the environment. If it's impossible to get anywhere without a car from where you currently live and driving annoys you, take that into consideration next time you move.

(steps down from soapbox)


I walk to work. today just had to travel for work.

[blueberryale77]

I walk to work. today just had to travel for work.

Ah, cool. I wasn't trying to pick on anyone specific, just make a general point. I also have to use my car for work at times so I definitely know how much that stinks.

[PaulFolk]

yes that is your MD tax dollars at work ladies and genital men, but for those brain dead zombies out there let me break it down real sllllloooowwwww...
:eek: :eek: :p

[Pushmonkey]

:eek: :eek: :p

ops. Its been a long day.

[Pushmonkey]

Ah, cool. I wasn't trying to pick on anyone specific, just make a general point. I also have to use my car for work at times so I definitely know how much that stinks.

It's ok I did not take it in that manner.

[bgfield]

People who don't cruise out into the intersection when turning left and the light's green. It's not illegal and it keeps traffic moving faster. Do it!

[twoBshorty]

My 17-year-old brother passed his driver's test today.

Y'all are going to have a LOT more traffic rants until he goes to college in August. :D

I'm only half-kidding, BTW. I have no idea how he passed. He can't drive. He pumps the accelerator constantly and is always shaking the wheel and NEVER pays attention to what's going on around him. Riding with him requires Valium and Dramamine.

[cindyluvsbrady]

My 17-year-old brother passed his driver's test today.

Y'all are going to have a LOT more traffic rants until he goes to college in August. :D

I'm only half-kidding, BTW. I have no idea how he passed. He can't drive. He pumps the accelerator constantly and is always shaking the wheel and NEVER pays attention to what's going on around him. Riding with him requires Valium and Dramamine.

Im thankful your brother does not drive in Bel Air!:D

[Greg Pappas]

This program should be bound, gagged, tortured and killed, as recompense for the torture it's put the human race through.

That's funny, as Excel is my absolute favorite program, with Word next in line. I use them almost exclusively. :D

Of course I am no expert at all functions within these programs, but I've been using them since roughly they first came out. Practice makes you still imperfect. LOL

[Greg Pappas]

Im thankful your brother does not drive in Bel Air!:D

Hi Cindy. I am in Abingdon, just a few minutes from you. So, I guess I'm saying "Howdy Neighbor." Or something to that effect. :)

[Greg Pappas]

*People who are too stubborn (me) or too lazy (me) to look up the difference between the words 'affect' and 'effect'. I can't stand myself. :D

*Spilling hot coffee on yourself and sueing the place you bought it for its being 'too hot'.

*Spam. - Unless it's a Monty Python reference.

*Verizon DSL claiming to be just as fast as cable. There needs to be a group that monitors these commercials, so that at the end of a commercial they can hit a button and claim "Shenanigans!!". At which point we'd all get are brooms and storm the culprit's corporate office. :D

[Greg Pappas]

Gwen Stefanie--eat something, and also I wish she would realize she is not a little Japaneses girl its just creepy.

That's hilarious, I literally LOL. :D

[cindyluvsbrady]

Hi Cindy. I am in Abingdon, just a few minutes from you. So, I guess I'm saying "Howdy Neighbor." Or something to that effect. :)
Hi!:)
Where in Abingdon do you live? I used to live in Laurel Valley.I now live near the new middle/high school.If they ever get it done!!!!:eek:

[twoBshorty]

Im thankful your brother does not drive in Bel Air!:D

I feel quite confident in saying my brother could not find his way to Bel Air. He probably doesn't even know there is such a place. I don't even know if he can get to the grocery store and back, and that's exactly two miles from our house.

Combine a very bad sense of direction with complete obliviousness to his surroundings and I'm expecting to get a call on my cell phone any day now asking for directions back from his girlfriend's house.

[Baroquen131]

*Spam. - Unless it's a Monty Python reference.


Bloody vikings....

[ixcuincle]

My 17-year-old brother passed his driver's test today.

Y'all are going to have a LOT more traffic rants until he goes to college in August. :D

I'm only half-kidding, BTW. I have no idea how he passed. He can't drive. He pumps the accelerator constantly and is always shaking the wheel and NEVER pays attention to what's going on around him. Riding with him requires Valium and Dramamine.

Heck , I can't parallel park either yet MD gave me a license. However , I do have a sensational sense of direction. I don't get lost ;)

[bgfield]

Heck , I can't parallel park either yet MD gave me a license. However , I do have a sensational sense of direction. I don't get lost ;)

Parallel parking should not be on the drivers exam. I could do it when my drivers ed instructor was in the car, and I was BARELY able to do it on the test (it took me three minutes or so to get close enough to the curb). That was 7ish years ago and I haven't parallel parked since. I tried to do it once at a wedding, I remember, and couldn't help but be 18 inches or so from the curb. After that I gave up and drove around back of the building and parked much farther away just to avoid parallel parking.

[The Wedge]

Are you kidding me? The MD test is enough of a joke. Not to mention that simply because you don't do it all that much, that doesn't mean it's useless. Try parking anywhere around the city without having to parallel park once in a while.

[bgfield]

Are you kidding me? The MD test is enough of a joke. Not to mention that simply because you don't do it all that much, that doesn't mean it's useless. Try parking anywhere around the city without having to parallel park once in a while.

Well that's the benefit of not living IN the city for me. The parallel parking part of the test alone nearly made me fail since I took so long. The times I do end up going into Washington or Baltimore, I always manage to park without having to parallel park, so it's never been an issue for me that I can't.

[The Wedge]

Well, it's the MD driving test, not whatever city/county/whatnot you live in. Not to mention when I parallel park, it's in Towson.

I parallel park maybe twice a year, absolute max, and it's definitely a skill everyone should have.

Kinda like bunting in the ML's. Everyone SHOULD know how, though it's painfully obvious that only a select few do.

[twoBshorty]

My mom taught me how to parallel park in the overflow lot behind the Gaithersburg DMV 30 minutes before the test. On the actual test, I got within 4 inches of the curb on the first try.

I haven't parallel-parked again and I have never actually parked between cars, just cones and poles. Living in the suburbs and avoiding the confusion that is driving in DC like the plague, I haven't needed it yet. Metro is much, much easier.

If I had a big gap and no pressure, I could probably do it, but I'd be plenty nervous. I was driving in Lexington, MA a few years ago and saw some middle-aged dude trying to parallel park in a really tiny spot. I could tell from 300 feet away that there wasn't enough room, yet this guy kept trying to fit. Sure enough, he accidently rams the Subaru parked behind him and speeds off. Idiot.

Edit: If I'd been closer, I would have gotten his license number, but I couldn't see, and we drove past the Subaru and there wasn't any damage, so no harm, no foul, I guess.

[The Wedge]

It's not that hard, you simply have to play it careful and know how big your vehicle is.

[Pedro Cerrano]

It's not that hard, you simply have to play it careful and know how big your vehicle is.

Or get one of those new cars that has an auto-park feature on it. How sweet are those things? We're gonna be flying in the air like the Jetsons before we know it people.

[The Wedge]

That's REAL?!

I thought that was a commercial gimmick joke.

[DuffMan]

I really hate it when I can't find the droids that I'm looking for!!

[ixcuincle]

I have no idea how to parallel park at all , it's been over 4 years since the exam. The thing was , the whole DMV thing was difficult from the start. The first time I went to try to get a permit I didn't even get past the eye test for some reason. After I came back , I failed the computer test to get the permit , and had to try the 2nd time , which I barely passed (as I recall if you get more than 3 or 4 wrong you fail?). A few months later I tried to get my license and failed basically because of that damn Parallel park. Somehow I managed to pass the exam the 2nd time despite not parking correctly. I have not had to parallel park since.

In the event that I would have to , I would likely go Seinfeld and turn into the spot instead of backing up. There was once an episode where they debated an entire day on whether you should drive into the spot , or back into the spot. One of the best episodes ever , didn't they all miss a fight on TV because they were arguing the semantics of parking?


George: Alright, now you're gonna see some parallel parking. (spitting into
his hands and rubbing them together) How I wish you could make a living
parallel parking. (turning around in his seat) It's all geometry, knowing all
the angles, when to make that first turn and then when to swing it back in,
that's the key.

[Witchy Chick]

I used to be a whiz at parallel parking. At one point, we had six drivers and seven cars in the household. We had to parallel park on our street. I'm still fairly decent at it.


Witchy

[Mackus]

I can't believe some of you guys never parallel park. I do it every day living in the city. I can pretty much get my car into any size spot, only need about 6 inches on each side.

Only is tricky when I have to do it on a one-way stret where I'm parking on my left. I'm not much for ambidextria when it comes to parallel parking.

[ledzepp8]

I didn't have to learn how to parallel park to get my license. So I used to never want to do it and would freak out about it. Now it's pretty easy, although I try not to do it on a busy street.

[rolliefingers]

I can't believe some of you guys never parallel park. I do it every day living in the city. I can pretty much get my car into any size spot, only need about 6 inches on each side.

Only is tricky when I have to do it on a one-way stret where I'm parking on my left. I'm not much for ambidextria when it comes to parallel parking.

*grumble*

Damn suburbanites.;)

[Greg Pappas]

* Going to a new major movie premeire, waiting in a theatre-formed line thats 150 people deep or more for a long time waiting for the show and just as the line begins to move, people who were never in line just merge into line ahead of you as if they were v.i.p.'s. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! Line jumping is so discourteous.

* Food shopping at a grocery store (Giant) with a fairly full store of customers... along comes a "person" with a cell phone up to his ear talking quite loudly to a friend or whomever and while standing besides a mother and her 4 year old girl he uses language that would be par for the course at a strip joint. No respect, that is at least the tenth time I've been witness to this ridiculous public display.

* Driving for the first time along a lengthy one lane road that is winding to a degree, up and down hills, like a bad roller coaster... 7 children in my SUV, returning from a movie that I've taken them all to see, doing the speed limit (35) ... all the while an idiot is riding my bumper like his appendix is bursting. I tap my brake repeatedly to 'advise' the other driver to back off, I would do this anyway, but I have 7 kids with me. This fool just didn't care and stayed close enough to my vehicle to read the VIN # on the 'front!' of my car. As he eventually passes me he gives me the finger. :rolleyes:

People need to learn to treat others far better, for society continues to spiral down a discourteous, rude, me-first drain. Rant over... I feel better. LOL

[blueberryale77]

*grumble*

Damn suburbanites.;)

Planning geek rant alert:

Minimum off-street parking requirements!

[bgfield]

I love this thread.

More rants: West coast games. Is it too much to ask that games on the West Coast that involve Eastern teams be held at say, 6pm Pacific Time? I can't imagine it's so bad when they're over here; the game just starts while they're at work. Big deal! But waiting until 10pm to watch a game and 1am to see the end of it is a pain in the ass for us on the east coast.

Also,

When approaching an intersection that's a 4-way stop, and there's someone already at the intersection, stopped, crossing the road perpindicular to the one you're on, and they wait until you come to a complete stop before going through. I know it's just a couple of seconds of my time they're wasting and it really doesn't matter, but it's still a pain in the ass.

And on the subject of four way stop signs,

Say there are three cars stopped at an intersection. Two cars driving on Smith Street, in opposite directions, and me on Dave Drive. Both of the other cars do not have their blinkers on and intend to go straight through the intersection. Car to my right goes, while the car on my left waits for the other car to get out of the intersection before it, too, goes. You can BOTH go at the same time, sparing me having to sit there waiting for you both to go through one at a time! Arghhh!!



Yeah, I think it's safe to assume that I have a slight case of road rage.

[blueberryale77]

Bgfield, somewhere inside your car there is a public transit rider just screaming to get out! ;) Now on the subject of these late West Coast games, they've been very convenient for me this week because I've been working until almost 10:00 the past two nights! (Therein lies my rant.)

[square634]

When approaching an intersection that's a 4-way stop, and there's someone already at the intersection, stopped, crossing the road perpindicular to the one you're on, and they wait until you come to a complete stop before going through. I know it's just a couple of seconds of my time they're wasting and it really doesn't matter, but it's still a pain in the ass.

And on the subject of four way stop signs,

Say there are three cars stopped at an intersection. Two cars driving on Smith Street, in opposite directions, and me on Dave Drive. Both of the other cars do not have their blinkers on and intend to go straight through the intersection. Car to my right goes, while the car on my left waits for the other car to get out of the intersection before it, too, goes. You can BOTH go at the same time, sparing me having to sit there waiting for you both to go through one at a time! Arghhh!!

Sorry can't agree with you on this one. Although you may be smart enough to stop at the stop sign, some people feel they are so important or are just so oblivious that they run through the stop sign. Also, many people turn without their blinkers on, so if you were to assume that they were going straight, you would crash.

[bgfield]

Oh believe me if I rode the metro or the bus I'd find something to ***** about, more than likely someone who can't figure out how the metro ticket goes in the machine or stands right by the door when there are plenty of places to stand/sit, or guys who don't give up their seat for the elderly/pregnant.

I guess I'm just an angry person in general ;)

[bgfield]

Sorry can't agree with you on this one. Although you may be smart enough to stop at the stop sign, some people feel they are so important or are just so oblivious that they run through the stop sign. Also, many people turn without their blinkers on, so if you were to assume that they were going straight, you would crash.

I can understand if I'm approaching a stop sign when going really fast if the person wants to make sure that I'm actually going to stop, but a lot of times I'll just be coasting up slowly, obviously I'm going to stop.

I guess my view, if I'm the other driver, I'm just gonna go and if I get hit it's their fault so who cares, right? :D

[Witchy Chick]

MASN commercials: Especially ones that tout the throwing-out-baserunners prowess of a guy who is currently on the DL!!! "Better think twice, baserunners!!!" Gah. :mad:


Witchy

[Moose Milligan]

MASN commercials: Especially ones that tout the throwing-out-baserunners prowess of a guy who is currently on the DL!!! "Better think twice, baserunners!!!" Gah. :mad:


Witchy

I hate em too.

I hate the "See you at the Yard" commercial with the canned rock music in the background.

It's got that stupid guy with the wig on and the bird beak bopping his head to the music strumming a bat like it's a guitar.

If I ever came across that guy at OPACY I swear on all thats holy I'd kick him in the nuts. I don't care what the consequences are, it'd totally be worth it.

[TGO]

Oh believe me if I rode the metro or the bus I'd find something to ***** about, more than likely someone who can't figure out how the metro ticket goes in the machine or stands right by the door when there are plenty of places to stand/sit, or guys who don't give up their seat for the elderly/pregnant.

I guess I'm just an angry person in general ;)

Man, if I posted my rants about riding the subway every morning it would not be in the "short rants" thread, I can tell you that! Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade my subway ride for a car ride ever, but it seems like every day I run into the most thoughtless and disrespectful degenerates the world has to offer.

[rolliefingers]

Man, if I posted my rants about riding the subway every morning it would not be in the "short rants" thread, I can tell you that! Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade my subway ride for a car ride ever, but it seems like every day I run into the most thoughtless and disrespectful degenerates the world has to offer.

Just curious: From where to where is your daily subway ride?

[TGO]

Just curious: From where to where is your daily subway ride?

110 to 59 on the 1 line. Not a bad ride at all, maybe 15-20 minutes on a normal morning, but it's usually packed. Especially after 8. If I get to the 110 station after 8 I know to prepare for a fight. ;)

[Lt Melmo]

I had surgery on my nose yesterday. Waking up every single half-hour because I have to sleep upright gets my goat. And my painkillers are downstairs, where my dad's sleeping. Sigh.

[rolliefingers]

I had surgery on my nose yesterday. Waking up every single half-hour because I have to sleep upright gets my goat. And my painkillers are downstairs, where my dad's sleeping. Sigh.

Wha huh? What happened? Please tell me you didn't get a nose job.

[Lt Melmo]

Wha huh? What happened? Please tell me you didn't get a nose job.
Ha, no, but it would've been nice to size down my big Jew nose. I had a severely bad deviated septum that made it so I couldn't breathe through my left nostril.

It's not that bad(if you have painkillers... and you're not trying to sleep), but there's a whole lot of blood.

[ScottieBaseball]

Derek friggin' Jeter. Okay? :mad:

[blueberryale77]

Derek friggin' Jeter. Okay? :mad:

Talk about a pre-emptive strike! You won't need to be ranting about him after he goes 0-for-12 with 3 errors in the upcoming series with the O's! ;)

[Cokeman]

Derek friggin' Jeter. Okay? :mad:

Rick friggin' Sutcliffe. Okay? ;)

Seriously, can Sutcliffe even complete a sentence these days withouth including Jeter or the Yankees in it?

I'm almost to the point where I would rather listen to Tim McCarver instead of Sutcliffe...and I have stated many times that I hate McCarver with a passion.

[TGO]

Mosquito. In my room. Normally they're easy to catch but this one took three days to find and kill. She was stealth.

[cindyluvsbrady]

I had surgery on my nose yesterday. Waking up every single half-hour because I have to sleep upright gets my goat. And my painkillers are downstairs, where my dad's sleeping. Sigh.

My husband had this surgery:eek: He was such a nice paitent.:rolleyes:

[theonestevewh]

Mosquito. In my room. Normally they're easy to catch but this one took three days to find and kill. She was stealth.

It was a Ninja Mosquito, you're lucky to be alive.

[bgfield]

Somehow I broke my glasses today, so I'm sitting here now wearing the only replacements I have - prescription sunglasses. :mad:

[ScottieBaseball]

Rick friggin' Sutcliffe. Okay? ;)

Seriously, can Sutcliffe even complete a sentence these days withouth including Jeter or the Yankees in it?

I'm almost to the point where I would rather listen to Tim McCarver instead of Sutcliffe...and I have stated many times that I hate McCarver with a passion.

Holy cow...is Sutcliffe that bad? I can't imagine how bad the neck of McCarver's boothmate must feel after a game full of double-takes with some of the obvious observations made by McCarver in a tone that makes you believe he just said something profound. "You know, if the Mets continue to hit the ball better than the Reds, they'll score more runs. Score more runs and they'll win the game. It's that simple."

Is he really as good as Fox can do sometimes?

[TGO]

Holy cow...is Sutcliffe that bad? I can't imagine how bad the neck of McCarver's boothmate must feel after a game full of double-takes with some of the obvious observations made by McCarver in a tone that makes you believe he just said something profound. "You know, if the Mets continue to hit the ball better than the Reds, they'll score more runs. Score more runs and they'll win the game. It's that simple."

Is he really as good as Fox can do sometimes?

I wonder this all the time about announcers. There are probably a hundred broadcasters out there who have a steady job announcing for a MLB team, many of whom could step into a Fox national broadcast and do a fine job. Then there are hundreds more who are doing minor leagues, college, other sports entirely, whatever else. The pool of people who could announce baseball games has to be in the thousands. And the best Fox can do is Joe Buck and Tim McCarver? :rolleyes:

Announcers are kind of like major league managers. The terrible ones often get rehired over and over again just because they have experience.

[The Wedge]

Buck's okay when he doesn't start waxing hyperbolic or showing faux outrage. But he needs a better color guy than McCarver.

[glenn__davis]

I hate when I open a file, print said file, and close said file, and Microsoft Office asks me if I want to save my changes, when I didn't make any.

[ScottieBaseball]

I hate when I open a file, print said file, and close said file, and Microsoft Office asks me if I want to save my changes, when I didn't make any.

I hate when I use a previous form as a template, make changes, and accidentally click "Save" rather than "Save As", thereby overwriting the previous document. There should be an "unsave" command.

[Jules]

I hate it when all of the old guys at work fight change
"Because that is how we have always done it!"

I hate it when all of the young guys complain about all of the old guys behind their backs because they resist technology and prefer the "old way".

I am stuck in the middle of being a "techie" but also been around long enough to know all of the old ways.

For all of the old guys- technology is your friend and there are better ways of doing things.

For all of the young guys- Grow up, stop complaining and dont be afraid to speak your mind and make a difference!

A wise man once told me to show up every day and make a difference.

I also hate long rants in the short rants thread, oh wait...

[ixcuincle]

One of my favorite broadcasters was ex-Ravens radio play-by-play man Scott Garceau. Garceau was one of the first football broadcasters I grew up listening to , the other being Frank Herzog. When WBAL took over Ravens Radio last year and replaced "Scott and Tom" with company man Gerry Sandusky , I was absolutely livid. I don't have the same passion about the Ravens anymore now that Garceau and Matte no longer do radio...bring them back :(

[Hank Scorpio]

Self imposed neurosis.

I am my own worst enemy.

[bgfield]

National's Classics. They've been around for two and a half seasons now and nothing exciting or exceptional has happened to them. Sure they've had some come from behind/walk off wins, but it's pretty pathetic when they're playing a game noted only for its Ryan Zimmerman walkoff home run next to Cal's 2131 game or Eddie hitting #500 or one of the O's WS games.

[blueberryale77]

Co-workers who get cold and turn up the thermostat so that everyone in the office has to bake with them

[bgfield]

Someone in my neighborhood constantly gets visits from someone who is too lazy to get out of their car. So they honk the horn whenever they're outside. And everytime they honk, it's the "shave and a haircut, two bits" honk.

I wonder if the driver of that car realizes how idiotic this sounds, every damn day (sometimes twice!)

[twoBshorty]

OK, honestly, how hard is it to make lemonade from concentrate? You put the concentrate in the pitcher, add water, and stir. How much water, you might ask? Enough so that it tastes good. This is very hard to screw up, since you can, you know, TASTE it while you're making it to see if it's good. You do not need to fill an entire gallon pitcher with water for one little can of concentrate. This means that your "lemonade" tastes like water, only it's slightly bitter.

This is like the worst lemonade ever, and it's the third time in a row that my mom has made it that it has sucked. It's like ruining cereal. How on earth do you even manage it? I refuse to believe that she likes it like this. If so, she could just drink straight out of the tap and save the can of concentrate for those of us who like actual LEMONADE.

[JourneyFan]

I hate how the price of milk seems to go up every time I buy the damn stuff. It's ridicurous.

[ScottieBaseball]

Self imposed neurosis.

I am my own worst enemy.

Niravam, brother. You and you really can be friends. ;)

[cindyluvsbrady]

Co-workers who get cold and turn up the thermostat so that everyone in the office has to bake with them

LOL:D
Id be passed out!:(

[Leitch]

It's like ruining cereal. How on earth do you even manage it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mqe4rMKjGA

[Spoonless]

OK, honestly, how hard is it to make lemonade from concentrate? You put the concentrate in the pitcher, add water, and stir. How much water, you might ask? Enough so that it tastes good. This is very hard to screw up, since you can, you know, TASTE it while you're making it to see if it's good. You do not need to fill an entire gallon pitcher with water for one little can of concentrate. This means that your "lemonade" tastes like water, only it's slightly bitter.

This is like the worst lemonade ever, and it's the third time in a row that my mom has made it that it has sucked. It's like ruining cereal. How on earth do you even manage it? I refuse to believe that she likes it like this. If so, she could just drink straight out of the tap and save the can of concentrate for those of us who like actual LEMONADE.

I wish my mom made me lemonade. :mad:

[MPK76]

I can't stand it when coworkers decide to clip their fingernails in the office. I have to hear that damn clipping sound every 3 or so weeks from the guy that sits diagonal from me in our office. I have asked nicely, and not so nicely, to do that kind of stuff at home. He still won't listen to me. It drives me crazy!! :mad:

[blueberryale77]

I can't stand when people break into my office, or for that matter the office above mine, so that all of a sudden the building security guard feels the need to come harass us every two hours about whether we're keeping our doors locked.

I also can't stand how freaking expensive apartments are in every place remotely near No Funswick that doesn't suck and the fact that on top of the obscene prices of apartments in NYC, Hoboken, etc. it's almost impossible to find one without a broker fee.

Above all, I just can't stand New Jersey anymore. Somebody find me a job in Baltimore, please!!! :002_ssad:

[JourneyFan]

If you don't want to remove the piece of gum from your mouth while talking to me, push it to the side with your tongue; I don't want to hear you trying to chew and talk at the same time.

[drarray]

I can't stand when you get PM'd about your profile and what someone doesn't like about it. And, then get told about how hard their current situation is and about how you are a jerk. Cherry on top is that you have NEVER talked to this person.

[Lt Melmo]

I can't stand when you get PM'd about your profile and what someone doesn't like about it. And, then get told about how hard their current situation is and about how you are a jerk. Cherry on top is that you have NEVER talked to this person.
Grrr! I will not rest until you take any mention of Eddie Murray out of your profile!

[drarray]

Grrr! I will not rest until you take any mention of Eddie Murray out of your profile!


Tough! He is my favorite all-time O. I like him better than Cal!

And, it's my profile. :p :D :002_sbiggrin: :002_ssmile:

[twoBshorty]

I can't stand when you get PM'd about your profile and what someone doesn't like about it. And, then get told about how hard their current situation is and about how you are a jerk. Cherry on top is that you have NEVER talked to this person.

Who would waste the time and energy needed to either get offended about that or PM you about it? Wow. Some people, I swear. . .

As for me, I'm tired of hearing lead stories about President Bush's polyps. I do not care, and I do not wish to see a camera in someone's rectum while I'm attempting to eat dinner. Thank you, ABC News, for your attention.

[drarray]

Who would waste the time and energy needed to either get offended about that or PM you about it? Wow. Some people, I swear. . .

As for me, I'm tired of hearing lead stories about President Bush's polyps. I do not care, and I do not wish to see a camera in someone's rectum while I'm attempting to eat dinner. Thank you, ABC News, for your attention.

I laid into them, probably way too hard and said a couple of things that I shouldn't have. But they should have keep these thoughts to themselves, period!

[Mu'ayyidSaafir]

Why do people pronounce bruschetta broo-SHET-ta? It's broo-SKET-ta. If I walked into a Mexican restaurant and asked for a tortilla, rhymes with Godzilla, everyone would think I was a huge ignoramus. But go to any Italian joint in the country and even the waiters are butchering a word that should be perfectly easy to pronounce.

[The Wedge]

It's not just us, it's most English speaking countries. Just one of those things, apparenately.

[Tony-OH]

I laid into them, probably way too hard and said a couple of things that I shouldn't have. But they should have keep these thoughts to themselves, period!

Trust me, if the allegations against you are true, you are going to wish you never made that PM. You better get your Sun board credentials started...

[Pedro Cerrano]

Trust me, if the allegations against you are true, you are going to wish you never made that PM. You better get your Sun board credentials started...

Ohhhh, not fair! You can't publish a post like that without a lil' hint as to what was said!

Curiosity killed the cat I suppose.

[TGO]

I won't ask about the PMs because it's none of my business but what is/was in drarray's profile that made someone upset?

BTW, more and more people seem to be sending nasty PMs. Or at least more are getting in trouble for it. Why do people keep sending stuff like that? Lighten up, folks.

[Hank Scorpio]

You know what p's me off? My inability to get over crappy situations.

[HoodGuy007]

You know what p's me off? My inability to get over crappy situations.
I am pissed off by the same thing that you are pissed about, I think. Well, that, and that Sony, two freakin' days after they release a new TV which I sold six of, has decided to recall the TV. Way to make me look like a genius.

[Tony-OH]

I won't ask about the PMs because it's none of my business but what is/was in drarray's profile that made someone upset?

BTW, more and more people seem to be sending nasty PMs. Or at least more are getting in trouble for it. Why do people keep sending stuff like that? Lighten up, folks.

People don't apparently read rule number 8.

8. Any abuses of the private messaging system will result in removal of the offending user and possible ban.

I'm not going to get into what he said but let's just say it certainly broke board policies and offended just about every mod. We actually discussed the situation as a team and all came to the same conclusion. The poster did not belong in our community anymore.

[Pedro Cerrano]

People don't apparently read rule number 8.

8. Any abuses of the private messaging system will result in removal of the offending user and possible ban.

I'm not going to get into what he said but let's just say it certainly broke board policies and offended just about every mod. We actually discussed the situation as a team and all came to the same conclusion. The poster did not belong in our community anymore.

Well I certainly respect your guys' opinion/decision.

You guys usually give those of us that have been around a while a second change when we slip up so if what he did resulted in a complete ban it must have been pretty terrible.

[ScottieBaseball]

Well I certainly respect your guys' opinion/decision.

You guys usually give those of us that have been around a while a second change when we slip up so if what he did resulted in a complete ban it must have been pretty terrible.

It was pretty terrible.

[The Wedge]

It was pretty terrible.

Stop! You're like a dealer, giving us just a tantalizing taste! :D

[HoodGuy007]

Speaking of being a dealer just giving us a taste... HBO seriously needs to make Medellin. The trailer for a fake movie on a fake show is off the hook.

[blueberryale77]

New Jersey's affordable housing bureaucracy
The fact that I'm working as a planner in New Jersey and thus have to deal with said bureaucracy
Apartment hunting in greater NY
The collective horribleness of lunch options near my office

[blueberryale77]

I think I rant way too much, but since this thread is here for curmudgeons like me here are a few more from this morning...


People who beep their horns the very second a traffic light turns green even when it's obvious that the person in front of them is waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street

People who bring a gaggle of children into Dunkin Donuts at 8:45 in the morning when the line of business people who are almost late to work is already out the door and proceed to let said children run wild, bump into people, knock over displays and scream repeatedly at eardrum piercing volumes. Specifically I mean the two ladies in Highland Park, NJ who were apparently walking all the 8 year olds in the neighborhood to tennis camp this morning and had 5 toddlers with them for good measure. Yeah, you guys! :002_stongue:

Filling out time sheets so my employer can bill our clients 4.5 times what I actually get paid for my time

[TGO]

Your (not you're) point is moot (not mute). You're (not your) welcome!

Also:

Intents and purposes, not intensive purposes.

Just as soon, not just assume.

[The Wedge]

Your (not you're) point is moot (not mute). You're (not your) welcome!

Also:

Intents and purposes, not intensive purposes.

Just as soon, not just assume.

And on that note, since it's been cropping up a lot lately:

Should've. Could've. Would've. Contractions for should have, could have, would have. Not should of, could of, would of. No of. No soup for you.

[Lefty0315]

And on that note, since it's been cropping up a lot lately:

Should've. Could've. Would've. Contractions for should have, could have, would have. Not should of, could of, would of. No of. No soup for you.

I could not care less. If you could care less then you do care:confused:

[blueberryale77]

Office gossip... whispered just too loudly for the person across the hall to ignore but just too quietly for them to understand who you're talking about... that goes on for 3 or 4 hours a day on a regular basis.

[square634]

Mandatory online alcoholedu course for UPenn that I am "listening" to right now. This is a complete waste of my time, and I've answered all of their stupid questions correctly without listening to it. It's still really annoying background noise, though.

Uh oh, it just said that sports fans as a group drink more heavily than everyone else. Too bad I've never drunk alcohol...

[Moose Milligan]

Hooooollllyyyyyy crap.

People riding side by side on two lane highways!! HELLOO, MCFLY!??!?!??! THE LEFT LANE IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING FASTER!!! Do you NOT realize that you're riding next to the person in the right lane? Do you NOT realize that you're holding up the people that like to ride in the left lane because THEY WANT TO GO FASTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.

This happened to me this weekend. What'd I do? I straddled the lane divider behind the two nimrods until one of them finally got the hint. And no, it wasn't the moron in the left lane :rolleyes:

I'm seriously considering investing in one of these: http://www.leftlanedrivers.org/Images/BannerTemp.jpg

[JourneyFan]

If I provide you with an address, try using one of the fifteen billion available websites that specialize in providing directions instead of asking me for them.

[JourneyFan]

Your (not you're) point is moot (not mute). You're (not your) welcome!

Also:

Intents and purposes, not intensive purposes.

Just as soon, not just assume.


And on that note, since it's been cropping up a lot lately:

Should've. Could've. Would've. Contractions for should have, could have, would have. Not should of, could of, would of. No of. No soup for you.

It's freakin' ridiculous how many people make elementary level mistakes like these. What's more, there are people twice my age (28) that make them. Education is very underrated...

[TGO]

Your (not you're) point is moot (not mute). You're (not your) welcome!

Also:

Intents and purposes, not intensive purposes.

Just as soon, not just assume.

Here's one that drives me nuts, and it's a little obscure I know, but "begging the question" DOES NOT MEAN "raising the question." Seriously, you can look it up.

[ScottieBaseball]

It's Dave TREMBLEY. TREMBLEY!!! Not "TROMBLEY"!!! It's even spelled on the back of his frickin' jersey!!! TREMBLEY!!!

[TGO]

It's Dave TREMBLEY. TREMBLEY!!! Not "TROMBLEY"!!! It's even spelled on the back of his frickin' jersey!!! TREMBLEY!!!

Tremblay?

(letters)

[twoBshorty]

Hooooollllyyyyyy crap.

People riding side by side on two lane highways!! HELLOO, MCFLY!??!?!??! THE LEFT LANE IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING FASTER!!! Do you NOT realize that you're riding next to the person in the right lane? Do you NOT realize that you're holding up the people that like to ride in the left lane because THEY WANT TO GO FASTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.

This happened to me this weekend. What'd I do? I straddled the lane divider behind the two nimrods until one of them finally got the hint. And no, it wasn't the moron in the left lane :rolleyes:

I'm seriously considering investing in one of these: http://www.leftlanedrivers.org/Images/BannerTemp.jpg

Oh my God. I was about to have a meltdown this weekend for this exact reason. We drove out to Iowa and back (note: do not do this), and the number of people who don't know how the right and left lane work is unbelievable. Many of them were okay. They would cruise along in the left lane, and when they'd see me closing behind them, they'd quickly move over so I didn't even have to slow down. That's fine. But then there were the people (like my mom, when she was driving) who'd pull out into the left lane to get around a slow driver in the right lane, then for some reason slow down themselves so they were riding even with the other guy. There is no problem with driving slow in the right lane. If you want to go 60 in a 65, stay in the right lane and I'll just pass you, whatever. But when you get out into that left lane, you'd better put your foot on it! The absolute worst is when one truck wants to pass another truck. GRRRRRRRR.

The rule of the left lane is, if you are not going above the speed limit, you shouldn't be in it. What's that, you say? Everyone should be going the speed limit? Shut up, learn how roads actually work in the real world instead of your happy fantasy land, and stop slowing the rest of us down because you're all morally indignant about people who speed.

[ScottieBaseball]

Rassafrassin' inconsiderate dolt who walked away from the copy machine rather than fish out the paper jam like no one is going to know who did it, meanwhile it was you're freaking credit card statement... :mad:

[TGO]

Rassafrassin' inconsiderate dolt who walked away from the copy machine rather than fish out the paper jam like no one is going to know who did it, meanwhile it was you're freaking credit card statement... :mad:

Ugh, people who do that should be forced to make everyone's copies for a day.

[blueberryale77]

Rassafrassin' inconsiderate dolt who walked away from the copy machine rather than fish out the paper jam like no one is going to know who did it, meanwhile it was you're freaking credit card statement... :mad:

Was there anything embarassing on Mr. Rassafrassin's credit card statement?

[blueberryale77]

It's Dave TREMBLEY. TREMBLEY!!! Not "TROMBLEY"!!! It's even spelled on the back of his frickin' jersey!!! TREMBLEY!!!

J.J. Putz and Chien-Ming Wang, among others, would like to know if it's ok for them to post on the Orioles Hangout even though they're enemies. :D

[RShack]

People riding side by side on two lane highways!! HELLOO, MCFLY!??!?!??! THE LEFT LANE IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING FASTER!!! Do you NOT realize that you're riding next to the person in the right lane? Do you NOT realize that you're holding up the people that like to ride in the left lane because THEY WANT TO GO FASTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.
In Germany, Belgium, and France, you get tickets for being in the fast lane on uncongested highways unless you are actively passing someone. (Maybe other places too, I don't know.)

In Germany, if somebody runs into the back of you, it's their fault, just like here... unless somebody runs into the back of you while you're in the fast lane on an autobahn, in which case it's your fault for being in the way. That's a law I like.

[ScottieBaseball]

Was there anything embarassing on Mr. Rassafrassin's credit card statement?

It was "Miss Rassafrassin", by the way, and I didn't look at her statement beyond the name. I did, however, hand-deliver it to her office with a polite, "If you ever need a hand with the copiers, give me a yell. I'm right around the corner and I'm more than happy to help, mmmkay?"

[ixcuincle]

Good for Barry breaking the home run record and all , but I can't sleep mainly because it's 88 degrees in here and the AC is broke , plus I'm excited about a historical event taking place , even though it was by a cheater. I won't get much sleep tonight...and later today I just hope I can get lease negotiations for my new place completed so I don't end up living in a car today :(

[TGO]

In Germany, Belgium, and France, you get tickets for being in the fast lane on uncongested highways unless you are actively passing someone. (Maybe other places too, I don't know.)

In Germany, if somebody runs into the back of you, it's their fault, just like here... unless somebody runs into the back of you while you're in the fast lane on an autobahn, in which case it's your fault for being in the way. That's a law I like.

Personally I think all roads should be two lanes. I used to drive up the NJ Turnpike a lot, and the two lane portion of the road, while long and boring, is sort of fun in a way to drive. Most (and I emphasize MOST) people seem to get that it's only two lanes and they should only use the left lane to pass. They tend to move right if someone comes up behind them. However, when the road goes to three lanes, all hell breaks loose. And god help you when it goes to six or eight or however many lanes and the road splits into two.

[Hank Scorpio]

My tragic inability to unplug my head from my arse.

[blueberryale77]

humidity!!!

[rolliefingers]

Personally I think all roads should be two lanes. I used to drive up the NJ Turnpike a lot, and the two lane portion of the road, while long and boring, is sort of fun in a way to drive. Most (and I emphasize MOST) people seem to get that it's only two lanes and they should only use the left lane to pass. They tend to move right if someone comes up behind them. However, when the road goes to three lanes, all hell breaks loose. And god help you when it goes to six or eight or however many lanes and the road splits into two.

Provides a natural check against sprawl, too.

BTW, not that I've been there recently, but can we all agree that the "Mixing Bowl" freeway that goes past the Pentagon is the worst-designed freeway stretch in the history of mankind?

[Cokeman]

In Germany, Belgium, and France, you get tickets for being in the fast lane on uncongested highways unless you are actively passing someone. (Maybe other places too, I don't know.)

In Germany, if somebody runs into the back of you, it's their fault, just like here... unless somebody runs into the back of you while you're in the fast lane on an autobahn, in which case it's your fault for being in the way. That's a law I like.

A few years ago, I was driving on a really deserted highway...and it was night and raining heavily. The left lane had less standing water on it, so I drove there. I saw this car coming up behind me...pretty far back, but gaining on me. As he got closer, he started flashing his high beams for me to get out of his way. Well, being stubborn, I thought, its only me and you on this highway buddy...you can get over to pass me just as easily as I can get over to let you pass. Well, he persisted in staying behind me and flipping his high beams...until I finally flipped him the "bird"...he must have seen it because he darted out around me and darted just as quickly in front of me, cutting me off enough that I had to slam on my brakes to avoid getting run off the road. He then drove slowly for a while in front of me, then sped off, disappearing into the night. It happened to be a SC State Trooper.

Yeah, I probably should have moved over...but what right did he have to apparently try to run me off the road? Maybe he was on a call and had to get somewhere in a hurry? Well, then why stay behind me for so long, playing games?

I apologize for this realtively long post in the short rants thread.

[twoBshorty]

A few years ago, I was driving on a really deserted highway...and it was night and raining heavily. The left lane had less standing water on it, so I drove there. I saw this car coming up behind me...pretty far back, but gaining on me. As he got closer, he started flashing his high beams for me to get out of his way. Well, being stubborn, I thought, its only me and you on this highway buddy...you can get over to pass me just as easily as I can get over to let you pass. Well, he persisted in staying behind me and flipping his high beams...until I finally flipped him the "bird"...he must have seen it because he darted out around me and darted just as quickly in front of me, cutting me off enough that I had to slam on my brakes to avoid getting run off the road. He then drove slowly for a while in front of me, then sped off, disappearing into the night. It happened to be a SC State Trooper.

Yeah, I probably should have moved over...but what right did he have to apparently try to run me off the road? Maybe he was on a call and had to get somewhere in a hurry? Well, then why stay behind me for so long, playing games?

I apologize for this realtively long post in the short rants thread.

This is one of those things that always gets me confused because I'm never sure what the state laws are. I know it's legal to pass on the right in Maryland, but is it legal in every state? I'm never sure, when I'm stuck behind a slow driver in the left lane in a different state, if passing them is going to get me in trouble. I know some states have a lot of restrictions on when you're allowed to.

Maryland also lets you turn left on red if it's onto a one-way street, but DC doesn't, and I never do it if I'm not in Maryland because I'm not sure what the law is and people tend to honk at you.

Oh, and it's HOT today! AAAGGGHHHH!

[rolliefingers]

I know it's legal to pass on the right in Maryland...

You sure about that? I once got a ticket for unwittingly doing that to a cop in an unmarked car.

[The Wedge]

One of my supervisors just made an arbitrary decision that will only make ME look like a jerk. I've been piping radio broadcasts of games in to our stadium concourse for three years, and we're changing stations this year. It's going from FM to AM and I don't have an AM antenna, so I was just gonna pull a feed directly off their mixing board, no big deal, a pretty quick and easy thing to do. I mention it in passing and he's like "why are you doing that? The concourse is for PA only. Don't do that." When I start to protest that I've BEEN doing that and it's expected and appreciated he gives them the "if they have a problem with it come to me" stuff. Right. Like that'll fly. I've been doing it for 3 years and now he's telling me, on completely arbitary terms, to refuse service. GRRR.

[twoBshorty]

You sure about that? I once got a ticket for unwittingly doing that to a cop in an unmarked car.

Where were you? Now that I think about it, it might be legal only on multi-lane highways.

[JourneyFan]

MASN blows. Carry on...

[RShack]

Yeah, I probably should have moved over...
No. You definitely should have moved over. There is no "probably" about it.



but what right did he have to apparently try to run me off the road?
None.

No offense intended, but this sounds like a case of your failure to behave properly getting him riled, at which point he failed to behave properly. Every adult should do better than that, especially a cop.

The best rule of the road is quite simple: never do anything that requires somebody else to do something because of you.

'Sounds like both you and the cop failed this test.

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[blueberryale77]

No. You definitely should have moved over. There is no "probably" about it.


None.

No offense intended, but this sounds like a case of your failure to behave properly getting him riled, at which point he failed to behave properly. Every adult should do better than that, especially a cop.

The best rule of the road is quite simple: never do anything that requires somebody else to do something because of you.

'Sounds like both you and the cop failed this test.

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Not necessarily. It depends on how terrible the weather was. In some cases, it's not really safe to switch lanes depending on how slippery the road surface is and how good your tires/car are. My beat up old Saturn and I lived in Vermont for a year. There were definitely blizzards that winter where I'd be driving on I-89 and the left lane was passable for all cars because it had more traffic but the right lane wasn't safe unless you had four wheel drive. Of course, the people in Subarus (almost all Vermonters drive Subarus) would speed up behind you in the left lane, zip around you on the right and then dart back into the left lane in front of you. I tried to get out of one person's way and my wheels skidded and it scared me to death. (If you go off a highway in Vermont chances are you fall off a mountain.) After that point I knew the only way I was getting home in one piece was to stay in the left lane. I can see how a really, really terrible rain storm (such as the one New Jersey and New York had this morning) could create a somewhat similar situation.

[blueberryale77]

Getting swept really bites. :002_scry:

[twoBshorty]

I think I've developed some kind of intolerance to onions. I don't really like them, and I don't eat them much, so maybe that's why I never put this together before, but it's the only thing that fits. I've always had a problem with those honey mustard & onion pretzels. If I eat more than 2 or 3 of the lightly seasoned ones, I get hit with overwhelming nausea about an hour later, and if I eat the heavily seasoned ones, I start throwing up. I loved those things, so it took about four nights of puking before I finally stopped eating them.

Then last week I had a quarter pounder at McDonalds that had a lot more onions than I was used to. I picked some of them off and ate the others. An hour later, nausea and a headache. It also had mustard on it, so at first I thought it was the mustard/onion combo that did it, but then I remembered that I'd had another hamburger the day before with mustard but no onions and had felt perfectly fine afterwards.

Last night, it was Baja Fresh salsa. There were like 5 onion pieces in it, no mustard anywhere in sight, and I went to bed 3 hours earlier than normal because I got so nauseous that I was afraid to move. There was also a headache and cramping this time. I feel okay now (after a few trips to the bathroom), and this could all be coincidence, but onions are involved every single time. I can't believe it took me this long to put it together.

Screw you, onions!

[blueberryale77]

I think I've developed some kind of intolerance to onions. I don't really like them, and I don't eat them much, so maybe that's why I never put this together before, but it's the only thing that fits. I've always had a problem with those honey mustard & onion pretzels. If I eat more than 2 or 3 of the lightly seasoned ones, I get hit with overwhelming nausea about an hour later, and if I eat the heavily seasoned ones, I start throwing up. I loved those things, so it took about four nights of puking before I finally stopped eating them.

Then last week I had a quarter pounder at McDonalds that had a lot more onions than I was used to. I picked some of them off and ate the others. An hour later, nausea and a headache. It also had mustard on it, so at first I thought it was the mustard/onion combo that did it, but then I remembered that I'd had another hamburger the day before with mustard but no onions and had felt perfectly fine afterwards.

Last night, it was Baja Fresh salsa. There were like 5 onion pieces in it, no mustard anywhere in sight, and I went to bed 3 hours earlier than normal because I got so nauseous that I was afraid to move. There was also a headache and cramping this time. I feel okay now (after a few trips to the bathroom), and this could all be coincidence, but onions are involved every single time. I can't believe it took me this long to put it together.

Screw you, onions!

Well at least you were in good company last night. According to the Fox broadcasters a certain short 2B was pretty sick last night as well... and he kind of looks like he's not feeling entirely wonderful today either. :(

On the onions, I have a somewhat similar problem with large quantities of garlic. No nausea, but definitely cramping and that "other" problem. :eek: The worst part of it is, for some reason a lot of people are really passionate about garlic and think you're being insensitive to their culture or something if you won't eat it. I don't know if people are like that if you don't eat onions. For some reason I think garlic just inspires more passion and forces people with allergies to explain 'look, it gives me the [runs], ok?! Now leave me the [heck] alone already!'

[bgfield]

Maryland also lets you turn left on red if it's onto a one-way street, but DC doesn't, and I never do it if I'm not in Maryland because I'm not sure what the law is and people tend to honk at you.

I didn't know that was legal - not that it's stopped me anyway :D

On the left lane issue, I used to deliver flowers around Gaithersburg and was taking 370 to get onto 270 to get somewhere. If you're not familiar with 370, in the direction I was going, the exit for 270 is in the left lane. Well, some jerk in a rice-rocket was behind me and was apparently upset that I wasn't going fast enough in the left lane (it was also a wet day and I was in a van that was probably older than I was at the time so didn't want to go all that fast). He honked and flashed his lights at me, until he gave up and went around me, observing my middle finger raised firmly in his direction as he did so.

Moral of the story: If you're going to get pissed off because someone in the left lane is going slow, you better damn well know whether or not there is an exit coming up in the left lane ahead.

[twoBshorty]

I didn't know that was legal - not that it's stopped me anyway :D

On the left lane issue, I used to deliver flowers around Gaithersburg and was taking 370 to get onto 270 to get somewhere. If you're not familiar with 370, in the direction I was going, the exit for 270 is in the left lane. Well, some jerk in a rice-rocket was behind me and was apparently upset that I wasn't going fast enough in the left lane (it was also a wet day and I was in a van that was probably older than I was at the time so didn't want to go all that fast). He honked and flashed his lights at me, until he gave up and went around me, observing my middle finger raised firmly in his direction as he did so.

Moral of the story: If you're going to get pissed off because someone in the left lane is going slow, you better damn well know whether or not there is an exit coming up in the left lane ahead.

Did you see the Post this morning? Not really a driving issue, but they had a term for people who stand on the left side of Metro escalators that I'd never heard before: escalumps.

This is one of the greatest neologisms of all time. I love it. Escalump.

According to this article, it has apparently never occurred to tourists that you stand on the right and walk on the left. Huh? I thought this was common knowledge. Have these people never left East Boonieville?

[Moose Milligan]

In Germany, Belgium, and France, you get tickets for being in the fast lane on uncongested highways unless you are actively passing someone. (Maybe other places too, I don't know.)



Well when I'm cruising along in the left lane I like to think that I'm passing everyone...IN THE SLOW RIGHT LANE!!!

Gosh, its happening all the time now and it's driving me insane.

[HoodGuy007]

I hate days where you get home from work and you feel ike yelling, but you won't because you are going to see your lovely girlfriend. Oh, wait... what girlfriend????? :(

[ScottieBaseball]

Not really a rant, but...Dice-K, Beckett, and Schilling. Pshhh! :D 2 out of 3 ain't bad!!! :D

[Pedro Cerrano]

Not really a rant, but...Dice-K, Beckett, and Schilling. Pshhh! :D 2 out of 3 ain't bad!!! :D

Yea, and we prolly would have won all three if it wasn't for that jerk Miguel Tejada....oh wait....

[ScottieBaseball]

Yea, and we prolly would have won all three if it was for that jerk Miguel Tejada....oh wait....

I had trouble hanging a pre-hung interior door this weekend and I'm pretty sure Miguel Tejada had EVERYTHING to do with it.

[Dr. FLK]

I had trouble hanging a pre-hung interior door this weekend and I'm pretty sure Miguel Tejada had EVERYTHING to do with it.

You shoulda had Luis Hernandez help. That guy can do it all.

[Spoonless]

You shoulda had Luis Hernandez help. That guy can do it all.

Well, except drive nails. He hits for very low power.

[glenn__davis]

How can Sheila Dixon possibly run an ad criticizing her opponent's lack of results while part of the city council? Wasn't she not only part of the same council, but also it's president????

[blueberryale77]

Who the heck injures his foot sliding into third base and then re-injures it trying to keep a can of "soda" (or was it :eek: beer?) from exploding on the ground?

Our best freakin' player, that's who!

J/K I still <3 him! :002_sdrool:

But he'd really better not end up having a broken bone in his foot or anything. Watching the O's would be really unbearable without him!

[bgfield]

Who the heck injures his foot sliding into third base and then re-injures it trying to keep a can of "soda" (or was it :eek: beer?) from exploding on the ground?

Our best freakin' player, that's who!

J/K I still <3 him! :002_sdrool:

But he'd really better not end up having a broken bone in his foot or anything. Watching the O's would be really unbearable without him!
I once smashed a toenail off by dropping a large jar of peanutbutter on it. I had socks on only and couldn't understand why it hurt so bad, so I took the sock off to see the blood gushing out.

Who knew peanutbutter could be so dangerous?

[ScottieBaseball]

I once smashed a toenail off by dropping a large jar of peanutbutter on it. I had socks on only and couldn't understand why it hurt so bad, so I took the sock off to see the blood gushing out.

Who knew peanutbutter could be so dangerous?

I smashed half of a toenail off once fouling a ball off my front foot. The worst thing was that the umpire called it a fair ball and me out when the pitcher picked it up surprised and tossed to first. I explained that I fouled it off my foot, he said no, the base ump said no, and they STILL said no when the pitcher and manager from the other team said I did! To make my point, I plopped down at home plate, yanked off my cleat, my sock, and showed him my bloodied half-nail-less toe. He STILL said I was out!

Umps makin me mad!!! :mad:

[bgfield]

I smashed half of a toenail off once fouling a ball off my front foot. The worst thing was that the umpire called it a fair ball and me out when the pitcher picked it up surprised and tossed to first. I explained that I fouled it off my foot, he said no, the base ump said no, and they STILL said no when the pitcher and manager from the other team said I did! To make my point, I plopped down at home plate, yanked off my cleat, my sock, and showed him my bloodied half-nail-less toe. He STILL said I was out!
Then you know my pain. Smashing off toenails can be extremely (and surprisingly!) painful.


Umps makin me mad!!! :mad:
Haaahaha this line is never going to get old!

[ScottieBaseball]

Then you know my pain. Smashing off toenails can be extremely (and surprisingly!) painful.


Haaahaha this line is never going to get old!

Yes! Oh. My. God! I couldn't believe the umpire that day like I was bleeding from the foot profusely and keeping it quiet until I could use it to my advantage.

And, no, the "X makin me mad!" line will never die.

[Pedro Cerrano]

I fouled a ball off my foot too and it was in play. While running to first base the throw from the catcher hit me square in the back.

Oh well, I ended up on second base. :-)

[Lefty0315]

Yes! Oh. My. God! I couldn't believe the umpire that day like I was bleeding from the foot profusely and keeping it quiet until I could use it to my advantage.

And, no, the "X makin me mad!" line will never die.


I think we need to rename the "Rants" section "Makin me mad".

[ixcuincle]

2 words :

Dumb Orioles

Ever since Trembley was extended for next season they still haven't won a game , and I'm having flashbacks of the infamous , repeated bullpen blowups against teams the Orioles really should have beaten (didn't the Washington Nationals sweep the Birds at Camden?) I see no signs at all that indicate more 9-game losing streaks and poor play will disappear next season...

[Icterus galbula]

I think we need to rename the "Rants" section "Makin me mad".

Seconded! I was going to post this same thought in the vending machine thread, but decided to check out the short rants one first.

[elextrano8]

The kid with his hands under his chin at the ends of the terrible "feel-good" Orioles commercials on MASN. I despise that child with every fiber of my being, and I couldn't tell you why.

Also, why the ef do they advertise for watching O's games WHILE YOU'RE WATCHING THE GAME. Shouldn't they be advertising during non-game programing? Or, here's a wild, crazy idea: how about advertising on other channels and trying to attract new viewers?

[Jenner8675309]

But they don't have to buy advertising on their own network ;)

[Spoonless]

I think we need to rename the "Rants" section "Makin me mad".

At the very least, it should now be standard to title ever post: "[blank] makin me mad"

[MCL1021]

Girls that play games and are just fake

People that have to grunt and make noises at the gym when they lift weights. Shut up and just do your workout, I don't need to hear you.

I'll think of more later.

[Moose Milligan]

Ohhhhhhhh holy hell, can I take a minute to rant about how much I hate the day after Labor Day? Please? Pretty please?

Because that's the day that school busses get back on the road and just become one more obstacle on the road.

I hate schoolbusses, I hate getting caught behind them. It never fails, I'll be headed out somewhere or headed home and I'll get an extra 5-15 mins tacked onto my trip cause I get caught behind one or two of these damn things. Everything will be fine up until them.

And I'm sorry if this offends you but if you're a parent and you're having to help your little darlings off the bus HURRY UP!!! Stop acting like your precious little kids have all day to get off the bus BECAUSE THEY DON'T!!

And school bus drivers! If you realize there's a LONG LINE OF CARS BEHIND YOU it wouldn't hurt to wave them around after you've made your stop. That way we can get on with our lives while you continue to help clog the roads every day between 2-5 pm.

[blueberryale77]

Ohhhhhhhh holy hell, can I take a minute to rant about how much I hate the day after Labor Day? Please? Pretty please?

Because that's the day that school busses get back on the road and just become one more obstacle on the road.

I hate schoolbusses, I hate getting caught behind them. It never fails, I'll be headed out somewhere or headed home and I'll get an extra 5-15 mins tacked onto my trip cause I get caught behind one or two of these damn things. Everything will be fine up until them.

And I'm sorry if this offends you but if you're a parent and you're having to help your little darlings off the bus HURRY UP!!! Stop acting like your precious little kids have all day to get off the bus BECAUSE THEY DON'T!!

And school bus drivers! If you realize there's a LONG LINE OF CARS BEHIND YOU it wouldn't hurt to wave them around after you've made your stop. That way we can get on with our lives while you continue to help clog the roads every day between 2-5 pm.

Well, you know... if real estate agents didn't sell people houses out in the sprawly suburbs where kids can't walk to school like most kids do in almost every other country in the world, we wouldn't have a school bus problem. ;)

[bgfield]

Ohhhhhhhh holy hell, can I take a minute to rant about how much I hate the day after Labor Day? Please? Pretty please?

Because that's the day that school busses get back on the road and just become one more obstacle on the road.

I hate schoolbusses, I hate getting caught behind them. It never fails, I'll be headed out somewhere or headed home and I'll get an extra 5-15 mins tacked onto my trip cause I get caught behind one or two of these damn things. Everything will be fine up until them.

And I'm sorry if this offends you but if you're a parent and you're having to help your little darlings off the bus HURRY UP!!! Stop acting like your precious little kids have all day to get off the bus BECAUSE THEY DON'T!!

And school bus drivers! If you realize there's a LONG LINE OF CARS BEHIND YOU it wouldn't hurt to wave them around after you've made your stop. That way we can get on with our lives while you continue to help clog the roads every day between 2-5 pm.
As far as I'm concerned they don't even need those stop signs. If they're old enough to ride the school bus on their own they're old enough to look both ways before they cross the street. If they get hit because they weren't looking, I call it Darwinism!

I once got stuck behind a school bus who had to stop and let a kid in a wheel chair off in one of those elevator things. As if that weren't bad enough, the driver actually stopped to chat with the kid's brother or something who was standing in the front yard. It always amazes me how inconsiderate people are.

[Moose Milligan]

Well, you know... if real estate agents didn't sell people houses out in the sprawly suburbs where kids can't walk to school like most kids do in almost every other country in the world, we wouldn't have a school bus problem. ;)

Lol, leave your griping about sprawl out of this. Real estate agents have nothing to do with that. :p

[blueberryale77]

Lol, leave your griping about sprawl out of this. Real estate agents have nothing to do with that. :p

I know. I'm not normally in favor of shooting the middle man... unless that middle man had the nerve to call Brian Roberts ugly. :p

[Moose Milligan]

I know. I'm not normally in favor of shooting the middle man... unless that middle man had the nerve to call Brian Roberts ugly. :p

You asked us to bash. :p