What is your pet peeve of the day? -- 2021

[ls99]

The cynical peeve part of me figures they don't mind if it is high: good chance to get you on the returning-patient mill and recommend drugs that get them a kickback.

Maybe too cynical.

My doctor is actually pretty good about this. He doesn't talk or ask questions, so don't talk and stay calm. But I did talk the minute before. Oh well. Meanwhile, for giving blood, they talk, jam the thermometer under my tongue and cause all kinds of possibilities for anxiety.

In spite during a once or twice a year doc visit, nurse hurrying with BP check, mine is usually 128/70. No meds. The question is: How much lower it would be if the 5 min sit etc rule would be followed.
At home when I check at times it is around 125/70. Though the home device is not "calibrated", unlike the doc office's supposedly is.
Funny thing is, I have never seen a calibration sticker on doc office's BP cuff. Or on the nurse's ear In my years in electronics, instruments needed to be calibrated annually and had prominent calibration sticker with date and initals of calibrating tech.

 

[Time2]

Frank's pet peeve is that the phone never rings at a convenient time. Or so he just said.

There is the guy that doesn't answer the phone because he got it for his convenience not other people's.

 

[Time2]

the guy from the Retired Association of Police Officers,

I once ask the question, How much of my donation will the Association get?
The answer he gave was 5%.

 

[Time2]

That's what I was thinking! I checked my phone just now, and during this past week I only received 2 calls that weren't from Frank. Both were from Cricket, one telling me they were about to take my monthly $30 payment from checking, and the other telling me they had done so. Frank gets a lot of spam phone calls though, usually while he's in the shower.

My wife that I call the facilitator, get more calls per day than I get in three months, and it it wasn't for my kids that would probably be 10 or 12 months. Her contacts list is 100+ long, mine might have 10.

 

[tulak]

I agree with you, however, why do the nurses never follow protocol when taking blood pressure? One must be sitting, with both feet touching the floor, without talking, for 5 minutes, before a reading should be taken. I know they're trying to keep things moving, but the reason why I'm in the office to begin with is because my BP is a little higher than normal.

I’m beginning to think it’s by design. They want to spot check your BP to see if it’s high and if it is, then they have you measure at home for three weeks using the right protocol. At least that’s what happened to me.

 

[Koolau]

Med errors are rampant. I would rather repeat my info to reduce the chance of them making a mistake.

Sounds good, but the biggest source of error is (wait for it) ME! When I check my MyChart a couple of times/year, I grab all my meds and review it carefully. I also go through my stack of after-visit-summaries too. So I insure that all data is correct on MyChart.

When I'm sitting in a doc's office, and they ask me what meds I'm taking (or what procedures I've had) my 75 year old brain predisposes me to mistakes. I thought that was what computerization of records was all about - to make the process more accurate and also easy to review. Depending on ME is not the most accurate way to obtain such info. Of course, YMMV.

 

[GalaxyBoy]

I agree with you, however, why do the nurses never follow protocol when taking blood pressure? One must be sitting, with both feet touching the floor, without talking, for 5 minutes, before a reading should be taken. I know they're trying to keep things moving, but the reason why I'm in the office to begin with is because my BP is a little higher than normal.

+1 on this. The nurse will hustle me into the exam room, have me perch on the side of the exam table, and take my BP. I will ask the Doc to re-take it with me sitting in a chair with back supported and feet on the floor and it's always lower.

 

[Koolau]

+1 on this. The nurse will hustle me into the exam room, have me perch on the side of the exam table, and take my BP. I will ask the Doc to re-take it with me sitting in a chair with back supported and feet on the floor and it's always lower.

True, and after the nurse is finished, I wait for the doc to come in. And wait. And wait. I never understand why the medical profession has become like the military. Hurry up and wait.

 

[sleddy]

Members of this forum who refuse to read the moderators' warnings about imminent thread closure if the members continue down their trite political or controversial topic pontificating.

We've had a bunch of thread closures lately, which is a bummer, but I also support it because some of the topic drift has become ridiculous.

I am new here and noticed the thread closure. I wonder why the political discussion are not allowed. It seems like a sort of runaway truck ramp where people can go to pound sound and others can ignore if they wish. Where is the harm? I ignore most threads on here. Why is political unique?

 

[sleddy]

My current peeve is these threads that are headed without context. 'Should I...' 'Is it the end of the world if...' 'The food that will kill you if you even think about eating it is...'

 

[JoeWras]

I am new here and noticed the thread closure. I wonder why the political discussion are not allowed. It seems like a sort of runaway truck ramp where people can go to pound sound and others can ignore if they wish. Where is the harm? I ignore most threads on here. Why is political unique?

We should probably limit this discussion, but since you are new here, the answer is simple: it is forum rules gained over experience from the moderators and owners. This is not a 1st amendment forum, it has an owner and they make the rules.

For those us around long enough, we've seen it when it happens and it sucks the air out of the room, causes a lot of hurt feelings, and generally tends to run in a loop. It becomes a low quality discussion. Read the footer, Social Knowledge has pride in quality forums, and this is one way it happens.

Respect the forum rules, they are good.

 

[euro]

My current peeve is these threads that are headed without context. 'Should I...' 'Is it the end of the world if...' 'The food that will kill you if you even think about eating it is...'

Clickbait......it's permeated EVERYTHING

 

[Walt34]

I am new here and noticed the thread closure. I wonder why the political discussion are not allowed.

It is covered here under the History of ER.org. Scroll down to "The Soapbox Experiment".

 

[Koolau]

Clickbait......it's permeated EVERYTHING

Yeah, I avoid it like the plague (or Covid.) The promised pay off is never worth the effort and ads and its often not there at all. No longer a pet peeve because I don't participate. YMMV

 

[easysurfer]

Folks letting others hanging without an answer.

Example: I'm presently made "Make Offer" item on ebay. I made an offer early in the morning but haven't heard anything back. So, instead of any bargaining, I'm left hanging without an answer nor can I really make any offers or bid on other similar things in case the seller accepts my offer.

 

[aaronc879]

Folks letting others hanging without an answer.

Example: I'm presently made "Make Offer" item on ebay. I made an offer early in the morning but haven't heard anything back. So, instead of any bargaining, I'm left hanging without an answer nor can I really make any offers or bid on other similar things in case the seller accepts my offer.

Maybe the person is at work and hasn't seen your offer yet. There are a lot of people around where I live that work 12 hour shifts.

 

[easysurfer]

Maybe the person is at work and hasn't seen your offer yet. There are a lot of people around where I live that work 12 hour shifts.

That's possible. Seller has until next morning to respond or let lapse. I should have a better feel before I go to bed.

On the otherhand, if the seller isn't one to respond or want to bargain a bit, then why list as a make offer in the first place?

 

[pb4uski]

Not a pet peeve but a funny moment. This morning I received a call from my home area code so I answered it.

A man with a foreign accent introduced himself and said that he was from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. I'm immediately thinking scam and that I'm going to have some fun with this guy and I involuntary laugh.

He hung up on me and totally spoiled all my fun.

 

[easysurfer]

Maybe the person is at work and hasn't seen your offer yet. There are a lot of people around where I live that work 12 hour shifts.

The seller finally got back to me with a counter offer about 2 hrs before my offer expired. After heavy negotiations (I'm being sarcastic), I took the counter offer.

All in all, the haggling saved me $1.50 off the original asking price .

 

[ls99]

People who use acronyms and or multi letter stuff without defining it.

 

[Gumby]

I know. It's like TEOTWAWKI when that happens.

 

[jazz4cash]

Service Fee on No Cash Ticket Purchase

I went to the local high school basketball tournament semi finals yesterday. The details for the tournament were sketchy but $10 admission for 4 games (boys and girls semi-finals) is a bargain. It did not state and I forgot their policy of NO CASH ACCEPTED until I arrived at the venue. OK, no big deal....you scan a QR code with your phone and make the purchase using the payment method embedded in your smartphone wallet.....or enter your card details manually if you are prefer. My gripe is a $1 "service fee". I was only buying 1 ticket so I don't even know if the fee is per ticket or per transaction. If they charged $11/ticket with no service fee it would've been NO Big Deal. I actually thought it was illegal to not accept US currency. I sure don't blame them for wanting to not accept cash. I use it as little as possible. They texted a bar code to my phone pretty quickly. I joked with the ticket taker about how to attend with no smartphone....you have to log in via computer and print the bar code out. I seem to recall they had laptops available for this purpose last year but I don't think they had them this time. The games were great.

 

[Koolau]

I know. It's like TEOTWAWKI when that happens.

That one looms large in REM's legend.

When I used to travel for Megacorp, I always signed my letters to DW: TSTSTSA. I didn't put it on the back of the envelope as that is too "teenagerish." YMMV

Returning you now...

 

[statsman]

Yahoo's "Don't recommend channel" feature. No matter how many times I click on this option, those channels I select that option for will continue to pop up later on the main page. There are enough channels I let go through that they don't need to keep pushing the channels I don't want to see. And yes, I have a Yahoo account that I am logged into.

 

[aaronc879]

I very much dislike when people use other peoples driveways to turn around in. Am I the only one that thinks it's inconsiderate to go onto other peoples property? It is even worse when it is winter and there is snow in the driveway. If someone drives on the driveway before it gets cleared then their tires pack down the snow and it is 10X harder to clear that part of the driveway. For those like me that have chronic pain issues it is a big deal. Just stay off other peoples property please. I don't think that is too much to ask.