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

[Badger]

I met a woman a few years ago who was legally blind and over the years had a few service dogs. Since the life span of a dog is limited to 10-15 years and heartbreaking when they died she eventually opted to have a different service animal and chose a miniature pony. They have a life span of 25-35 years. I sat next to her and her service pony at a luncheon for the visually impaired. They pony was very well behaved.
Since it is a service animal I wonder if the grocery store could deny them access. I'm pretty sure the pony wouldn't fit in the cart seat.

Cheers!

 

[MarieIG]

I met a woman a few years ago who was legally blind and over the years had a few service dogs. Since the life span of a dog is limited to 10-15 years and heartbreaking when they died she eventually opted to have a different service animal and chose a miniature pony. They have a life span of 25-35 years. I sat next to her and her service pony at a luncheon for the visually impaired. They pony was very well behaved.
Since it is a service animal I wonder if the grocery store could deny them access. I'm pretty sure the pony wouldn't fit in the cart seat.

Cheers!

That is fascinating. I have never heard of a miniature pony as a service animal in lieu of a service dog. (My laptop is not working and I can't do a cut and paste.) I found a blurb as to which animals are covered under Title II and III of the ADA under ADA.gov and it referred to "dogs" and another blurb (without citing their authority so I don't really know it's veracity or applicability) - as to entities making "reasonable modifications in policies" to allow individuals with disabilities to use miniature horses if they have been trained.

 

[braumeister]

That is fascinating. I have never heard of a miniature pony as a service animal in lieu of a service dog.

So many choices ...

 

[MarieIG]

So many choices ...

I love it!


I did hear of "an emotional support dog" - not a service dog - who was brought to a deposition and bit one of the attorneys. Luckily it was a very small dog and not much damage was done. (There was oral argument as to whether the plaintiff could bring Fido to the continuation of the deposition.)

 

[pacergal]

So this thread has turned into a literal pet peeve thread?

My pet peeve today is yard maintenance folks. Our neighbors on both sides have one. They blow the leave off their yards and they end up in ours
Why don't people rake and pick up leaves anymore?

 

[Koolau]

this bothers me far more than the dog. The person who ignores the store's rule. Often not just a purse dog but bigger.

But as to the "ick" factor of them in a cart? Eh...more germs from the 2 year old that was in it before that probably.

That's true and according to our old Vet, the 2 year old is far more likely to "give" you something than a dog. BUT, I'm just not a fan of animals in places with food. Just my "thing" I guess so YMMV.

 

[FLSUnFIRE]

Just linked my Vanguard to my Fidelity HSA to process direct deposit of my contribution. Fidelity treats the deposit and withdrawal as a contribution and distribution so I'll have to reduce my contribution by $1 and report a $1 distribution on my taxes. Trivial amount but technically wrong and slightly annoying.


On the surprised side, since opening my HSA (my only Fidelity account), they have never solicited me to move more assets to them.... almost feel like they are neglecting me. (not really, I hate solicitations)

 

[folivier]

Speaking of dogs. My son has a Golden Retriever, great, goofy, lovable dog. But when we're eating he'll come and put his snout on my leg. By the end of the meal my pants are soaking wet from his drool.
Gotta love Louie!

 

[John Galt III]

Call center reps with thick foreign accents. If I ask them to repeat what they said, they act offended, and often get a nasty tone (not all, but some). They should not have been hired in the first place, and they have the nerve to get mad at me for asking them to repeat something. Wow.

 

[aja8888]

Bitchy people in the line to check out at Costco.

This morning, with 4,000 other folks in Costco, I was standing in the very long self check out line and the guy in front of me backed up to let someone pass through in front of him. So he backs into me (my cart) and really just brushes my cart. Then he puts on this act of "I'm in pain, look what you did to me!", and makes a scene. Go figure....like it was my fault he backed into me without looking behind himself?

 

[freedomatlast]

Just shake your head and laugh at them. Then they can feel free to go away and try to annoy someone else. Their stupidity is always someone else's fault.

 

[FindingForward]

Call center reps with thick foreign accents. If I ask them to repeat what they said, they act offended, and often get a nasty tone (not all, but some). They should not have been hired in the first place, and they have the nerve to get mad at me for asking them to repeat something. Wow.

In my area, there are so many foreign doctors practicing and while I don't doubt their skill and knowledge, they talk quickly, with heavy accents - and my hearing isn't as great as it used to be. It can be tough to understand and absorb all the medical info they're conveying, especially as many talk quickly and always seem in a rush to get to the next patient.

I don't mean to sound xenophobic, but it's getting to the point where I specifically look for US bachelor degrees and US medical training before choosing a new practitioner, just to make sure their English will be understandable.

 

[FindingForward]

My peeve for the day - more and more restaurants no longer include ANY pricing info in their website menus. It's so frustrating. I'm not cheap, but I don't want to be surprised by an overpriced place either.

So now, I have to constantly search at Uber Eats and other online delivery places to find menus with prices if I want to check out a new restaurant. but I never know if those are the "in-restaurant" prices or delivery prices.

 

[jollystomper]

This morning, with 4,000 other folks in Costco, I was standing in the very long self check out line and the guy in front of me backed up to let someone pass through in front of him. So he backs into me (my cart) and really just brushes my cart. Then he puts on this act of "I'm in pain, look what you did to me!", and makes a scene. Go figure....like it was my fault he backed into me without looking behind himself?

My Costco fun this morning :

I was pulling into the parking lot at 9:55. The officially open at 10. But.. I forgot their "we might choose to open early if there are a lot of people here" policy. The parking lot was probably 90% full already.

I just wanted to purchase a Costco gift card. I was sent, by friendly and trying-to-be-helpful employees to:
- The card kiosk in the "middle" of the store ("though they might have moved it, but I don't know where"). But... no kiosk to be found.
- The membership service desk. A little bit of a line. But fortunately I overhead the person at the head of the line ask for gift cards "oh, you need to go to merchandise pickup". Hearing that, I - along with 1 other person who also heard what was said, left that line and headed to the merchandise pickup area.
- The registers. No one is at merchandise pickup. We ask a passing employee. "Oh, any of the registers sell them." "Thanks... but none us are buying anything else. And look at those lines." Oh - okay, I radio for someone to come help you."

An employee comes over, with someone needing merchandise. However, after she gets the merchandise, she sees the three of us waiting to buy gift cards. "Oh, I don't know how to do that". Fortunately, a few seconds later, another employee comes by, and shows her how. Okay, 1 customer down, 2 to go.

However... she forgets the sequence of steps, and I was not paying attention. Time for another short wait for an employee to go thru the steps ago. 2 customers down, 1 to go.

My turn, and she gets the steps out of sequence. Fortunately i observed the second time. "I think you have to do foo then fee, not fee then foo". It works. Success! She profusely thanks me for my patience. No worries, I told her, I know there's a lot of stress right now, I am retired and patient, and I got some steps in. I made her laugh, which was nice.

Then out to the parking lot. It is worse. Based on the songs played during my exit journey, it took about 27 minutes to get out of the parking lot. You had people waiting for spots to free up, people trying to exit spots but had to back into the exit line, people trying to merge from the parking lanes into the exit line, 2 exit lines merging about 100 feet from the exit... but in all that time, I did not hear one car horn honk. People were properly alternate merging, when a car had to back out space was made in the exit line to allow them, etc.

So, not a peeve, more an interesting adventure .

 

[W2R]

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So, not a peeve, more an interesting adventure .

You are very patient! I would have been pretty grumpy by that time.

So, today I did ALL of my Christmas shopping, which consists of one gift card to my DD and DSIL. Nobody else to shop for, since Frank and I do not exchange presents and most of our families are dead or don't exchange presents any more, either.

But anyway, for me, it was a little easier than for you; I had Amazon e-mail an Amazon gift card to them. But that cost me a few hundred dollars (ouch!), so it was still hard for a tightwad like me. (ow! ow! ow! ow! ow!)

But now I'm DONE, done, done with my Christmas shopping.

Just to keep this on topic, I guess my pet peeve is that we have an entire season supposedly celebrating the Son of God, but more realistically celebrating spending and hyper-consumerism. Where's the season celebrating frugality and thrifty living? Huh? Blank looks? That's right, doesn't even exist.

 

[aja8888]

My Costco fun this morning :

I was pulling into the parking lot at 9:55. The officially open at 10. But.. I forgot their "we might choose to open early if there are a lot of people here" policy. The parking lot was probably 90% full already.

I just wanted to purchase a Costco gift card. I was sent, by friendly and trying-to-be-helpful employees to:
- The card kiosk in the "middle" of the store ("though they might have moved it, but I don't know where"). But... no kiosk to be found.
- The membership service desk. A little bit of a line. But fortunately I overhead the person at the head of the line ask for gift cards "oh, you need to go to merchandise pickup". Hearing that, I - along with 1 other person who also heard what was said, left that line and headed to the merchandise pickup area.
- The registers. No one is at merchandise pickup. We ask a passing employee. "Oh, any of the registers sell them." "Thanks... but none us are buying anything else. And look at those lines." Oh - okay, I radio for someone to come help you."

An employee comes over, with someone needing merchandise. However, after she gets the merchandise, she sees the three of us waiting to buy gift cards. "Oh, I don't know how to do that". Fortunately, a few seconds later, another employee comes by, and shows her how. Okay, 1 customer down, 2 to go.

However... she forgets the sequence of steps, and I was not paying attention. Time for another short wait for an employee to go thru the steps ago. 2 customers down, 1 to go.

My turn, and she gets the steps out of sequence. Fortunately i observed the second time. "I think you have to do foo then fee, not fee then foo". It works. Success! She profusely thanks me for my patience. No worries, I told her, I know there's a lot of stress right now, I am retired and patient, and I got some steps in. I made her laugh, which was nice.

Then out to the parking lot. It is worse. Based on the songs played during my exit journey, it took about 27 minutes to get out of the parking lot. You had people waiting for spots to free up, people trying to exit spots but had to back into the exit line, people trying to merge from the parking lanes into the exit line, 2 exit lines merging about 100 feet from the exit... but in all that time, I did not hear one car horn honk. People were properly alternate merging, when a car had to back out space was made in the exit line to allow them, etc.

So, not a peeve, more an interesting adventure .

LOL! I don't feel alone now!

But, at my Costco, the secret for some of us is.....

Park far away from the action (near the gas station) and make sure you can easily get in the delivery lane going behind the store which leads to an exit that takes you to an industrial road and a traffic light. Go through the light, turn left and hit the freeway.

(that's the way delivery trucks enter and not be seen!)

 

[MichaelB]

My peeve for the day - more and more restaurants no longer include ANY pricing info in their website menus. It's so frustrating. I'm not cheap, but I don't want to be surprised by an overpriced place either.

So now, I have to constantly search at Uber Eats and other online delivery places to find menus with prices if I want to check out a new restaurant. but I never know if those are the "in-restaurant" prices or delivery prices.

What I’ve noticed with restaurant web sites isn’t so much the absence of prices, it’s outdated prices on the online menu and higher prices on the menu in the restaurant.

I’m also seeing on many restaurants websites, when clicking on the menu link, going directly into the online ordering system. I like to browse the menu and the online ordering tool doesn’t allow that. More often than not its structured differently and just to look it over requires lots of clicks, which I find distracting.

 

[folivier]

Pictures taken with phones that show someone holding a huge fish, etc. Cell phone cameras induce a lot of distortion to pictures. But worse is the people who don't realize this and think that fish is HUGE. Tip: look at the hands, if they're as big as someone's head then it's not as big as it looks.

 

[Chuckanut]

My pet peeve is the giving of gift cards.

Thieves have found a way to drain cards of their value very quickly. I had a gift card for $50 from the local Kroger affiliate. A few weeks after getting it I uncovered the secret code number for the first time and went to the store to buy food items. When I got to the register the $50 on the card had turned into $3 and change. How? No idea. I was out most of the money. The store would do nothing for me.

I currently have a Best Buy gift card for $10. Do you know how much useful stuff you can get at BB for $10? Not much. It’s literally not worth the drive to go there.

Gift cards are the gift that might not do much giving.

 

[4legsgood]

Pictures taken with phones that show someone holding a huge fish, etc. Cell phone cameras induce a lot of distortion to pictures. But worse is the people who don't realize this and think that fish is HUGE. Tip: look at the hands, if they're as big as someone's head then it's not as big as it looks.

Wait, isn't this a funny joke even before cell phone cameras, holding the fish with arms out toward the camera made it look bigger. A play on the olden days, when someone asks how big was the fish, and the fisherman starts with hands pretty close together and then spread them wider and grin wider.

 

[Chuckanut]

Wait, isn't this a funny joke even before cell phone cameras, holding the fish with arms out toward the camera made it look bigger. A play on the olden days, when someone asks how big was the fish, and the fisherman starts with hands pretty close together and then spread them wider and grin wider.

It also makes a lot of people look like Jimmy Durante (aka: The Great Shnozzola) in their selfies.

 

[jazz4cash]

Closed my NASA FCU account today. I had setup a transfer of IRA share savings to Fidelity because I only had $50 balance and I am consolidating accounts. . I see an unidentified IRA credit for $15 at Fido. I go to the NASA branch today and confirm. They charged $35 to close the IRA account! I could’ve left $1 in there and $5 in my regular account and saved $29

Andrews FCU is up next and I know from experience they charge $20 to xfer to Fidelity. .

 

[Texas Proud]

Closed my NASA FCU account today. I had setup a transfer of IRA share savings to Fidelity because I only had $50 balance and I am consolidating accounts. . I see an unidentified IRA credit for $15 at Fido. I go to the NASA branch today and confirm. They charged $35 to close the IRA account! I could’ve left $1 in there and $5 in my regular account and saved $29

Andrews FCU is up next and I know from experience they charge $20 to xfer to Fidelity. .

Now that is just robbery.

 

[folivier]

When someone says "briefly" then proceeds to take a LONG time to explain something that's not interesting enough for all that time. Someone please make them sit down!

 

[CardsFan]

When someone says "briefly" then proceeds to take a LONG time to explain something that's not interesting enough for all that time. Someone please make them sit down!

Yeah, when someone says "to make a long story short" I cringe and think, "What the h3ll is the LONG version"