I always attract the weirdo, who wants to have a conversation.Even as a kid on the bus home from school, they would always make a beeline for me.
So that was one I chose.
Ooooooooooooo, I just thought of another one related to shoes and stepping in stuff... wet gum on the sidewalk or pavement! So annoying to get wet gum stuck to the bottoms of nice shoes!
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people who leave the stickers on their shoes
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Kelda I'm going to slap you down again, friend. ;)
The sticker is under my foot on the liner or on the sole!!!! How can that possibly bother someone?!?!?! Is a pet peeve for people to leave the label on their underwear as well?!?
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It really, honestly does though - it drives me nuts!!
I don't see your underwear every step you take along the road though! (Or at least I hope I don't!)
I don't want to know how much you shoes were, where you bought them and how much you got off on the sale!!!
it's the commuting zombie stare at the pavement on way to work kinda thing...
Weirdo.
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I attract sleepers on public transport! ::) And even though I don't use public transport these day, I did once work in the city and traveled to and from my beach-side home via ferry each day. Most nights, going home on the ferry, I would get a head on my shoulder. Some were cute, but mostly they were not cute. :( And when I traveled by bus to my then job in the city, I would often get a standing passenger mistaking my boney shoulder for the edge of the seat, and they would rest their butt-cleavage on my shoulder >:( (our buses in Sydney admit standing passengers). Sometimes I didn't mind ;) but those occasions were rare. And then there are the newspaper readers who sit behind you on public transport and rest their paper on top of your head. Sheesh! It's no wonder I no longer travel by public transport. :-\
Oh yeah that is bad! Especially during the summer when it's all bubbly and gooey. You step on it and it creates a fine string and when you try to pick it off you have to contend with all those nasty little gum strings too. They get all over your hands, all over the paper you're using to clean it off, and even after you've managed to remove it, a sticky film remains on the bottom of your shoe and your shoe makes an annoying snapping sound as you walk across the floor. >:(
Rude drivers is another one. Here in the Midwest we are TERRIBLE drivers. But for the most part we are polite. Honking of car horns is considered extremely rude here. Car horns are only used for emergencies here. It's rare to hear a car horn in most parts of the Midwest, even in the downtown areas. Chicago and Detroit would be exceptions though. ;)
Hey Amanda, funny topic. I could add about a thousand other scenarios to your list.
DavidInIndy, I agree with part of what you said. Lived here in St. Louis most of my life, only been in two car accidents -- one from driving down a hill in ice very slowly, with the brakes on, but gently bumping into a parked car on the side of the road, and the second from a lady not paying attention who slammed into my '71 VW Bug's hood after running a red light. Some of us are terrible drivers, some of us not.
Sydneysiders are very impatient drivers and very heavy on the horn, especially in the part of Sydney where I live, which is near Sydney's Little Italy. An Italian friend literally drives with his hand permanently resting near the horn, just incase he needs to use it at a moment's notice, which he does, often and with enormous gusto! :o But I suspect this is perhaps a big city, Sydneycentric thing going on and not representative of Australians in general. For example, when I visit country villages up the coast, one seldom hears a car horn. :D
Perhaps there is a difference in driving skills between Missouri and Indiana. ;)
And I should have probably said MANY Midwesterners are terrible drivers. At least this is the case in my part of the Midwest. It's not that they are really bad drivers, but rather they fail to pay attention to what they are doing. They drive very fast, zip in and out of lanes suddenly, talk on their cell phones when they should be paying attention to the road, tailgate, cut across three lanes of traffic at the very last second in order to exit off the interstate, and a whole host of other things.
And hey, I'm a Midwesterner too, and I do some of those things sometimes as well! :laugh:
I also had the experience of living in South Florida for a couple of years. Jesus have mercy! Talk about aggresive driving! WHOOOO! >:(
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Rude and aggressive driving is the norm here in Boston. It's the slow drivers I can't stand; I always seem to be behind them. They inch along, and then invariably run a red light!
Cell phone use in public is a huge problem. Why do people shout into their phones? It ain't necessary. I try to duck into a corner and be discreet, rather than those who just walk along, blathering at the top of their lungs!
:laugh: This must be universal, Paul. Same thing happens, here in Sydney. They crawl along, hogging the road and then accelerate at great speed when the traffic lights turn amber, leaving you, furious and fuming, at the red light. :-\
:laugh: This must be universal, Paul. Same thing happens, here in Sydney. They crawl along, hogging the road and then accelerate at great speed when the traffic lights turn amber, leaving you, furious and fuming, at the red light. :-\
One time we were hauling five horses to a show in Athens....now we are talking a Ford F350, a five horse slant trailer with a dressing room, five horses (by themselves weighing almost three tons) barreling along at 60 MPH. You can't stop suddenly when you are hauling lifestock, they lose their footing and can seriously injure themselves...
and a woman in a little white subcompact pulled out in front of us.
You want scared? My husband laid on the horn and the brakes and finally took the truck and trailer over on the shoulder, because she wasnt' moving...how he managed to not flip it, I dont' know.
and she honked at us and flipped us the bird....
>:( >:( >:(
Beware the drongos!
dron·go2
–noun, plural -gos. Australian Slang. a stupid or slow-witted person; simpleton.
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[Origin: 1920–25; prob. to be identified with drongo1, as a name for the Australian bird Dicrurus bracteata; though often popularly alleged to have originated from the name of an unsuccessful racehorse of the 1920s]
One time we were hauling five horses to a show in Athens....now we are talking a Ford F350, a five horse slant trailer with a dressing room, five horses (by themselves weighing almost three tons) barreling along at 60 MPH. You can't stop suddenly when you are hauling lifestock, they lose their footing and can seriously injure themselves...
and a woman in a little white subcompact pulled out in front of us.
You want scared? My husband laid on the horn and the brakes and finally took the truck and trailer over on the shoulder, because she wasnt' moving...how he managed to not flip it, I dont' know.
and she honked at us and flipped us the bird....
>:( >:( >:(