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Daily Life Pet Peeves
Kelda:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on September 05, 2008, 07:00:49 pm ---Weirdo.
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People who leave STICKERS ON THEIR SHOES! >:( are the real wierdos!!!!
;D
Kerry:
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. :-\
Kelda:
--- Quote from: Kerry on September 06, 2008, 09:48:14 am ---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. :-\
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Yes thats like the public transport I use too!
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: DavidInIndy on September 04, 2008, 03:14:37 pm ---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. >:(
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Yeah, I would have put on the polling list, "any misuse or improper disposal of gum". Like sticking it on the wall (???) or worst of all, putting it on their plate or tray before they eat. YUCKO!!!!!!!
Mandy21:
--- Quote from: DavidInIndy on September 04, 2008, 02:50:30 pm ---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. ;)
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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. The part I agree with you on is the honking thing. That really made me laugh. I never really thought much about when I was taught how to drive, etc., growing up here. Every person who'd ever been my passenger never said a word or made a comment about the way I drove. But then my fiance from Belfast came over to visit many times when we were together, and whenever we'd get stuck behind someone who wasn't moving past a green light within a second or two, he'd reach over from the passenger side and toot my horn, and every single time, without exception, my jaw would drop to the ground and my eyes would bug out at him, and I would try to blink the mortification out of my eyes before I looked in front to see the expression on the face of the person he just honked at. More often than not, during that blink, I pictured an incredibly angry motorist coming towards us with a gun in hand. He just didn't understand how we don't do that here. As a goof, when I went to visit him in Belfast, I would often lean over when he was driving, and honk his horn for no reason at all. People in front of us would always carry along quickly, not quite knowing what they had done wrong to justify a toot of the horn, but acquiescing, none the less. It was too funny.
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