What Irked You Today?

[cobraman]

Something I think most of you can relate to.  Traffic !  I had to drive my wife to Sky Harbor Airport today. She is going to Chicago to visit with my daughter for 10 days. Her flight was to depart at 10 after 5 PM. Airport traffic was a nightmare ! Lots of cars, trucks, buses. That was bad enough but they can't drive ! Don't check if you want to change lanes, just close your eyes and go for it. Then exit on the the 10 west. Yikes ! Long drive home with more knucklehead drivers. Ahh, I fell better now, thanks.  It was just like being back in California going home on the 91.

[Renegade]

Even in my small town  I"ve noticed more and more unsafe drivers. 9 out of 10 times when you get beside them they are either texting or talking on their phone. If your call is that important then please pull over and use your cellphone to your hearts content.

[iamsuperdan]

People with a victim mindset. Every perceived sleight is a personal attack and the whole world is against them.

I have one of these on staff, and feel that their negative attitude outweighs their success at the role. 

Time for changes.

[Tom Geiger]

On 9/3/2018 at 10:39 PM, Toner283 said:

Yup. Two of the big no-no's on here. No politics, no religious posts. Just going to start a fight no matter how well intentioned the original post is. Nobody will be right and nobody will be wrong.

Agreed! I'm thankful for this!  Some of the guys we know in this hobby are friggin political loonies on Facebook.  I've lost a lot of respect for some folks. Little did we know politics would be the end of this hobby!

My peeve today?  It's gonna rain all weekend.  And predicted for next weekend too!  The last two pool weekends of the season!

 

[forthlin]

It's supposed to rain all weekend here also. That irks me for sure since I wanted to do some yard work. 

[High octane]

No rain here for awhile which is good as we've been getting a lot of rain lately.

[smhardesty]

Don't have the latest rainfall total, but we have received about 6" in the last day or so. I haven't been out in it, but online reports indicate there are LOTS of streets and roads that are impassable and pretty much every ditch and creek are way out of their banks. Good weekend to stay inside and watch football.

[cobraman]

I would love some rain !  3 inches of sunshine here today.

[slusher]

3 hours ago, cobraman said:

I would love some rain !  3 inches of sunshine here today.

Been really dry here lately but just getting cool enough to enjoy outside.

[smhardesty]

Just heard a summary of rainfall for the area surrounding me for this "event". Totals ranged from 4" to just over 10" with the bulk of all coming just today. One reporting station just a few miles east of me reported 7" today.

Nothing about the rain is that irritating. What is irritating is the number of complete idiots that somehow believe their cars or trucks are somehow impervious to rushing and roaring flood waters. Local emergency agencies, including law enforcement, have been tied up trying to rescue these idiots.

In small, rural towns like I live in, management has two choices. They can either direct all their on-duty resources to rescuing the idiots or call in off-duty personnel to cover that. Option 1 leaves no one to perform the usual daily tasks like patrolling neighborhoods to deter crime. If they choose option 2, the taxpayers are then burdened with the cost of rescuing the idiots. Either way, the average, competent taxpaying base is burdened because of a few dip sticks. 

It's very frustrating to me. I'm going to guess I was around 12 to 14 when I had a full and complete understanding of the dangers of driving into flash flood water crossing a road. How in the world did so many people totally miss that information? The idiots you see and hear about aren't necessarily 16-year-olds that just got their licenses. These people are usually young to middle-aged adults. 

Like I said, it's kind of frustrating to me.

Edited September 8, 2018 by smhardesty

[426 pack]

We have had almost 24 hours of rain and today was day1 of the mower races. there is no rain in the forecast tomorrow so hopefully I will get to race. 

[Mike999]

2 hours ago, smhardesty said:

What is irritating is the number of complete idiots that somehow believe their cars or trucks are somehow impervious to rushing and roaring flood waters.

Once I came across a website where California Park Rangers went to gripe.  It was hilarious.  They were always pulling SUV's out of dry washes, or pulling them out of suddenly non-dry, flooding washes in winter.  The rangers said people gave them the  same 2 excuses over and over:  (1) "My SUV is only 2-wheel drive?  I really thought it was 4-wheel drive." (2) "I don't understand. This SUV can go anywhere in the TV commercials!"

The rangers said they had a special radio code for those kind of calls:  "TNS"  Which is short for "Thwarting Natural Selection."

But the real topper was the woman who pulled up to the gate of Yosemite Natl. Park in California and asked to see Old Faithful and the other geysers.  The ranger politely explained that Yosemite didn't have any geysers.  The geysers were in Yellowstone Natl. Park, located mostly in Wyoming.  The woman argued with him and kept demanding to see the geysers.  She finally left.  When she got home, she wrote an angry letter to the ranger's boss, asking why he wouldn't let her see the geysers.

Edited September 9, 2018 by Mike999
goof2

[NYLIBUD]

Finding out that my FB stock dropped a lot.Hmmmmmm

[smhardesty]

3 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:

Finding out that my FB stock dropped a lot.Hmmmmmm

Nothing personal and sorry to see your losing value, but there are a whole lot of people in the world that just can't wait to see it crash. I have no Facebook account, have never had a Facebook account, and will never have a Facebook account. As a former computer tech and network administrator I can tell you countless horror stories where Facebook and other "social disease" sites have been involved. I'd bet that if you really knew what Facebook gleaned from your computer and/or smartphone, and then what they have done and are doing with that data, you'd probably be deleting your account immediately. "Social disease" websites are intrusive, invasive, and just downright destructive and dangerous.

OK. Enough of that ranting. Next on the soapbox, please.

[NYLIBUD]

Oh trust me,I don't like FB either,and I'm hardly ever on it,if ever.But I still want to make money from my stock.

[peteski]

I just posted this in the National Mutt Day thread, but then I thought that it as ideal for this thread!

Not to sound grumpy or anything, but there seems to be a National Day just about for anything.  I would have imagined that we have already ran out of the days of the year for yet another National Day.  This is getting silly.  Not that there is anything wrong with mutts (or any other things celebrated on all those National Days), but do we really have to celebrate all those things?! Bah-humbug! 

Edited September 10, 2018 by peteski

[HomerS]

On 9/9/2018 at 7:48 PM, peteski said:

I just posted this in the National Mutt Day thread, but then I thought that it as ideal for this thread!

Not to sound grumpy or anything, but there seems to be a National Day just about for anything.  I would have imagined that we have already ran out of the days of the year for yet another National Day.  This is getting silly.  Not that there is anything wrong with mutts (or any other things celebrated on all those National Days), but do we really have to celebrate all those things?! Bah-humbug! 

A department in our office had a gender reveal party for a lady who was having her second child.  A young man in my department is originally from Ghana and looked at me, shaking his head, 'you Americans celebrate the stupidest of s***'.  Yeah I gotta go with him on that one!

[espo]

On ‎9‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 11:09 PM, HomerS said:

A department in our office had a gender reveal party for a lady who was having her second child.  A young man in my department is originally from Ghana and looked at me, shaking his head, 'you Americans celebrate the stupidest of s***'.  Yeah I gotta go with him on that one!

You know what, he's right. 

[smhardesty]

There are a whole bunch of things we, as a society, do that people from different lands find extremely strange. The funniest I remember was while I was still in the Army. I was a shift leader for the 1st Cav computer center and we had a problem that required bringing in some programmers to fix. One of the guys on my shift was originally from Pakistan. He was a very soft spoken and mild mannered fellow. During the evening, one of the programmers, a Staff Sargeant, pulled an OD green hanky out of his pocket, blew his nose quite loudly and fiercely, then stuck the hanky back in his pocket.

The Pakastani looked at me, then the SSgt. then me again. He then looked at me while pointing at the pocket of the SSgt. He just could NOT form enough words to get a sentence out. It suddenly hit me what had him all dumbfounded so I asked what the problem was. He simply asked, "You KEEP that in your pockets in the United States?"

It took 15 minutes for us all to regain enough composure to carry on. He WAS right. I'm not sure when, but I quit carrying a hanky not too long after that.

Edited September 16, 2018 by smhardesty

[High octane]

1 hour ago, smhardesty said:

There are a whole bunch of things we, as a society, do that people from different lands find extremely strange. The funniest I remember was while I was still in the Army. I was a shift leader for the 1st Cav computer center and we had a problem that required bringing in some programmers to fix. One of the guys on my shift was originally from Pakistan. He was a very soft spoken and mild mannered fellow. During the evening, one of the programmers, a Staff Sargeant, pulled an OD green hanky out of his pocket, blew his nose quite loudly and fiercely, then stuck the hanky back in his pocket.

The Pakastani looked at me, then the SSgt. then me again. He then looked at me while pointing at the pocket of the SSgt. He just could NOT form enough words to get a sentence out. It suddenly hit me what had him all dumbfounded so I asked what the problem was. He simply asked, "You KEEP that in your pockets in the United States?"

It took 15 minutes for us all to regain enough composure to carry on. He WAS right. I'm not sure when, but I quit carrying a hanky not too long after that.

So now you blow your nose in your sleeve or what?

[smhardesty]

Depends on where I am and what I'm doing. Both vehicles have a box of Kleenex. The wife always has Kleenex in her purse, and if I've been having allergy or cold symptoms I'll carry a pocket pack of Kleenex. On the other hand, if I'm out in the yard or somewhere else in the great outdoors, a finger on the side of the nose and a good huff and blow solves the problem.

[espo]

Aha, what we used to call the "Farmer Blow", finger upside the nose. I agree that it can seem like something we take for granted as normal may seem very unusual to others. I have problems with allergies and I use a handkerchief often. My wife is a Kleenex person, and the inside of her car is covered in a fine coating of white Kleenex dust. I wonder what your friend from Pakistan went home and told of his experience.  

[smhardesty]

1 hour ago, espo said:

 I wonder what your friend from Pakistan went home and told of his experience.  

Not sure, but as totally befuddled as he was I can only imagine it was quite the tale. The look on his face really was priceless. Without a lot of detail, some societies view that discharge the same as other bodily discharges. For someone like him to see a fellow "save" his waste and place it in his pocket would be a total shock.

Now I'm ticked at myself because I just can not remember the Pakistani's name. He was on my shift for a couple of years. I can see him in my mind plain as day, but can't recall his name. Gosh, it's only been 40 or 45 years. You'd think I could remember that. LOL!

[HomerS]

2 hours ago, espo said:

Aha, what we used to call the "Farmer Blow", finger upside the nose. I agree that it can seem like something we take for granted as normal may seem very unusual to others. I have problems with allergies and I use a handkerchief often. My wife is a Kleenex person, and the inside of her car is covered in a fine coating of white Kleenex dust. I wonder what your friend from Pakistan went home and told of his experience.  

1997 World Series....I think it was a Cleveland Indians relief pitchers was coming into the game.  They zoom in on the guy as the flash his regular season stats down the right column.  Suddenly he puts a finger to side of the nose to close off a nostril and proceeds with said ''farmer blow".  That close and bright lights of the stadium light, you could see a rainbow!

[89AKurt]

How many times has this happened to you?