Pet Peeves Please
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I’d say two of my biggest pet peeves are, people wanting others to work for free and people that are always offended.
I’ve been in the automotive field for just all of my adult life. People want you to do all sorts of stuff for free and most of it is completely ridiculous. This is how we feed our families, if we spent hours doing stuff for free the more challenging that becomes.
Then there is the offended thing. If it doesn’t prevent you from living your life, why does it matter? I’ve literally never been offended by anything in my entire life because no one has ever said or worn t-shirt or seen a label that has prevented me for doing a gosh darn thing. You want to wear a Mizzou, go ahead. Poor choice of team but I can still go get a Big Mac. Put a political sticker of an idiot on your car, doesn’t prevent me from driving to work.
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@kjayhawks Good stuff. That’s a great attitude.
As far as people wanting you to do free automotive repair…maybe they just aren’t thinking? Would they expect doctor friends to keep them healthy for no charge? By and large, we don’t have a barter system anymore. Missouri is the exception - you can still exchange moonshine for a foot rub (or you fill in something else).
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Can I add to my own list?
I don’t listen to the radio much anymore, but when I do and they cut the last few seconds off of a song…
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Uploading a resumé and then having to enter it all manually when you click next
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People is my #1 pet peeve.
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@nuleafjhawk lol I read that as not happy with the coffee maker dripping. The carafe’s all drip depending on how you handle them.
Another pet peeve - the smell of cold coffee, and coffee breath. Stuff stinks (I’m not much of a coffee drinker). Fresh brewing coffee smells great though.
@kjayhawks People ask me for free services all the time, some reciprocate. My neighbors asked me for advice for years, in turn lately I’ve been asking her for advice when needed. - I’m a crop consultant and he farms, his wife is a doctor. Others give back in different ways - continued business is one. Keep the wife happy and the husband has a much harder time finding fault in my work. lol. But mostly I agree with you that people don’t think about the fact that is how we earn our living.
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No doubt about that. I used to be in politics full time and never charged people when they asked what I thought about an issue or candidate or whatever. Much more to life that trying to scrape up every penny you can from the sidewalk. Gotta look up and see the world too.
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@dylans asking for advice or something of that nature I’m down with. Just asking someone use thousands of dollars worth of tools to do manual labor for free is the issue I have. Which happens literally daily in the automotive world.
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@kjayhawks Dont fall into the same trap as your mooching customers of undervaluing the others service. That advice took 100s of thousands of dollars of education and 10s of thousands of hours of putting it into practice to come to by.
I have a friend who’s cousins expect him to provide them with a half of beef every year because he has the family farm. Farmers are expected to let people pick all the produce they want for free (some want it delivered!).
My uncle had a construction business, no one wants to pay for what’s even on the estimate let alone any issues you run into.
It’s crazy. Some people only use half their brain at best it seems. Back to my only real pet peeve - stupid people.
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Everyone who’s not as smart as I am is my pet peeve. Kind of arrogant some of you might say? I was educated at the University of Kansas, of course I’m smarter than almost anyone, except all of you of course.
Those people who get to the fourway stop first. Watch you stop and then wave you to go first. Dude, I’m not offended if you take your rightful turn at the four way stop, but now you’re pissing me off because I don’t know if you’re going to go and hit me and then say I didn’t wait for you.
Reviewing what time on the game clock it should be near the end when the human clock operator shuts it off as soon as he sees the referees hand go up. Good grief stop wasting our time.
Duke is my pet peeve.
Stub hub ‘convenience’ fees that are more for higher priced tickets, when it literally costs them not any more to process that ticket. They’re getting 50 bucks from me tomorrow for the two 50 dollar tickets I purchased, and I’m pissed for the seller too because they’re not all of that 50 bucks per ticket back from stubhub.
“overexaggeration”.
“your so dumb”
“are great team”
“he must of”
I procrastinate.
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@dylans oh man you’re so right on the beef deal. We didn’t mind selling it more or less at cost to close family and friends because we all help each other out over the years and that’s the way it’s done way out in the boonies. But other than that get in line at the butcher mofos
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@wissox The driver of a car who waves you through an intersection when there is another car with the right of way who will hit you as you go…
In SC, by the way, a 4 way stop is not a traffic control system. It is the best intelligence test our state has.
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Lol this thread is gold, I’m not over-exaggerating. The hyphen in that word was apple’s addition, they’re complicit .
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Ads for adult shit during sporting events (they can have fighting events, spare us the rest).
Drugs that are named idiotic things like Skyrizi and the barrage of unfunny, uninteresting, horribly jingled ads we get for them.
I started watching Jeopardy with Alex channel with the kids and I was amazed at the quality of ads: they were catchy, they were funny, and they were diverse.
AI in general is my biggest pet peeve. I want humans, in all their imperfect glory. i want a healthy dose of face-to-faces packed into a typical day. As much as I can, I want to be a charming, attentive conversationalist and feel you reciprocate. I want to see reflections of myself in people I dont know. I want to let them know that they are not alone.
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@approxinfinity said in Pet Peeves Please:
I want to let them know that they are not alone.
That’s funny, since my wife says the world is safer because I am unique…
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My number one pet peeve :
Being ranked #2 in the country and getting the living ship stomped out of us by a flippin nothing team.
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@nuleafjhawk said in Pet Peeves Please:
My number one pet peeve :
Being ranked #2 in the country and getting the living ship stomped out of us by a flippin nothing team.
lmao well were making them look like something today- --that’s something to be really proud of
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You were wrong!
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@Crimsonorblue22 who?
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Glass half full - this team keeps me humble.
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@nuleafjhawk I was at the Mizzou game when we were down 19. Also the WV comeback game when people were leaving. Gotta have faith! Most of the time. 🫶
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I’ll add to this after my trip to Walmart after our game. People lazily going in the exit and stopping the door traffic by not walking an extra 4 feet. Add in people not returning carts. If it’s a blizzard I get it but it was 50 and sunny in central Kansas today.
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There is an intersection near my house where the right turn lane has its own lane on the subsequent major street. However, Target is across said major street. So instead of continuing to roll down dedicated lane and merging, people come to a dead stop waiting to cross 4 lanes of traffic to get to Target. Clueless and inconsiderate. If they wanted that, they could have just gone straight. I honk and wave vigorously every time.
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Tired of a lot of things today.
Remote work during the holidays where you just crank far past burnout with no contextual clues that tis the season, and no spirit of comradre save that you are all grinding yourselves down in your isolated domiciles.
Neighbors that incessantly blow leaves because they have nothing better to do with their time.
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@approxinfinity lol!
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@approxinfinity The leaf blowing thing tells me you must not live in Kansas. Or at least my part of Kansas. Flippin 40+ mph winds are the only leaf blowers here today.
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Someone who tells a grieving mother their child is in a better place. Gee thanks. Someone who tells a groom “keep her barefoot and pregnant.” I wish you would have told me sooner so I could’ve put that in the wedding vows. The governor of Arkansas. OMFG. People who list a pet peeve and include a snappy comeback.
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@Zabudda If you’re the grieving mother, my heart goes out to you. It’s so hard to speak to someone under those circumstances. You want to express love and concern, but probably nothing you say is going to help.
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@Zabudda I hate the “everything happens for a reason” logic as well.
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That’s true.
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Parents that tell you they can’t leave their house for more than a day trip because of their “ailing” cat, who has been “ailing” for over 2 years.
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People not wearing masks in crowded spaces despite flu and covid going crazy while I have a chemo patient and an immunocompromised 2 week old in my house. Guess we will just stay in the house for the next 6 months. Oh wait, there’s that work thing…
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@benshawks08 I’m not normally a big stickler on the mask thing. Wear em. Don’t wear em. I don’t care. But for the circumstances you’re describing - wear em.
Having said that, there have been several people at my workplace who have had covid and don’t wear the masks for the required 5 days when they come back to work.
I’d like to punch them, but I don’t want to get close enough to do it.
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@nuleafjhawk im really petty lucky because most folks I’m around, if i ask them to put on a mask they will. And obviously we are always wearing ours. But like if you are traveling through an airport or walking into buccees on a road trip, why not put one on to protect yourself, the people around you, and the loved ones you are about to see? Merry Christmas, as your gift I give you an illness that might impact you for the rest of your life. Hope you don’t have to work until mid January.
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Another peeve:
Ordering Christmas presents on 12/11 and being told they would deliver on 12/13, only to find out they’re going to be here on 12/27. Merry Christmas Amazon
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Glasses breaking right before traveling. I usually wear contacts but prefer glasses on planes because of the dry air. So this will be fun
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@nuleafjhawk I suppose it was mine!
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@FarmerJayhawk tape them!
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@FarmerJayhawk I know a good eye Dr in lawrence
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@nuleafjhawk said in Pet Peeves Please:
Another peeve:
Ordering Christmas presents on 12/11 and being told they would deliver on 12/13, only to find out they’re going to be here on 12/27. Merry Christmas Amazon
I had a Christmas present my wife ordered in October (of 2019!!!) show up a couple weeks ago.
I’m shocked it arrived in time for Christmas! Only 4 years late. 🥱
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@dylans thats insane. Do you still want it?
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@approxinfinity Yeah, it was a seat cover for my ‘65 Ford F250 in the original green fabric and style looks great, but took a bit longer than advertised.
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On broken glasses: Points for hitting another of my pet peeves: We have vision insurance but it does not cover Lenscrafters, and there isn’t a full service one anywhere near us anyway. I used to be able to replace my glasses (bifocals) in 90 mins when we were in the DC area. Now, 1-2 weeks and not as good.
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@Crimsonorblue22 ha! Super glue also works well (as long as you don’t need to bend anything)
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@mayjay I’ve had good luck with Zenni. $50 for a couple pairs and decent quality
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@FarmerJayhawk I’m sorry about that, but at least you still have your contacts if you need them…
Hope you have a great trip and holidays!
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@dylans that’s the craziest “late” story I’ve ever heard.
Prior to this, it was my dad. He received a birthday card from a granddaughter exactly one year late.
Yay Post Office.
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@nuleafjhawk A little bit like Marty McFly getting mail from the past!
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@nuleafjhawk thanks! Likewise!
Looking like a white Christmas in the Black Hills so that’ll be fun
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My wife ordered me a KU collage type deal in October one year and never showed. We canceled it and got our money but it showed up in July two years later lol
