What is your pet peeve of the day?

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gcgang said:
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2). When getting off the plane, the idiots who immediately get out of their seat and move as far forward as they can, usually no more than a couple rows. [/url]
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People do this because so many idiots get in the aisle and take their sweet time getting their luggage down and block everyone behind them who is already ready to go.
If you are on a plane in the aisle, look in front of you...any space between you and the person in front of you is YOU holding up every single person on the plane behind you. Often the entire front of the plane has exited while everyone on the plane waits for the idiot to very slowly take down his bag. Multiply this by multiple idiots and it doubles or triples deplaning time. If you have chcked bags you should be in no rush anyway. If you don't have to make a connection, let those who have to make connections get off more efficiently than you are doing it.
If you are not ready to move off the plane or to at least quickly get your bag down and move it, then don't get in the aisle. It is generally possible to get your bag down without getting in the aisle at all, or if not, it should be done swiftly, not in the snail like pace that holds up every single person on the plane unfortunate enough to be in any row behind YOU!
 
braumeister said:
Europe doesn't seem to have this problem. Strict enforcement and drivers who keep right. So people can be trained. In the US, probably not in my lifetime though.
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It is refreshing to drive in Germany, as the drivers are attentive and behave predictably. I wonder how much of this is cultural, how much is attributable to better training (nobody there views a driver's license as a right, getting one is an expensive undertaking) and how much is due to the selection factor: Maybe making it hard and expensive to get a license results in a different population of drivers.
 
urn2bfree said:
People do this because so many idiots get in the aisle and take their sweet time getting their luggage down and block everyone behind them who is already ready to go.
If you are on a plane in the aisle, look in front of you...any space between you and the person in front of you is YOU holding up every single person on the plane behind you. Often the entire front of the plane has exited while everyone on the plane waits for the idiot to very slowly take down his bag. Multiply this by multiple idiots and it doubles or triples deplaning time. If you have chcked bags you should be in no rush anyway. If you don't have to make a connection, let those who have to make connections get off more efficiently than you are doing it.
If you are not ready to move off the plane or to at least quickly get your bag down and move it, then don't get in the aisle. It is generally possible to get your bag down without getting in the aisle at all, or if not, it should be done swiftly, not in the snail like pace that holds up every single person on the plane unfortunate enough to be in any row behind YOU!
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So that means you are one of the idiots that have to try and get to the front of the plane before anybody else....


First, there are 6 people in an isle for every row... there is NO way you can get that much luggage down... if I am at the window I cannot even see my luggage... and it might not even be on the same row where I am sitting...



Nope, I am not an idiot to get out of my seat shimmy to the isle which is not easy anymore since they have the rows crushed together, get my wife's bag out, get my daughter's bag and then get my bag before I can get going...


This is a wait your turn moment and if you are in the back of the plane then just wait your turn!!!
 
Texas Proud said:
So that means you are one of the idiots that have to try and get to the front of the plane before anybody else....


First, there are 6 people in an isle for every row... there is NO way you can get that much luggage down... if I am at the window I cannot even see my luggage... and it might not even be on the same row where I am sitting...



Nope, I am not an idiot to get out of my seat shimmy to the isle which is not easy anymore since they have the rows crushed together, get my wife's bag out, get my daughter's bag and then get my bag before I can get going...


This is a wait your turn moment and if you are in the back of the plane then just wait your turn!!!
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Nice thing about retirement...never in a rush!
 
Something annoying I've noticed lately when watching golf on TV. They now play the 'going away to commercial' music when they put up a screen of the leaderboard. Sometimes they actually do cut to a commercial, but sometimes they go right back to coverage of the golf. So annoying. Why do I need to have soothing elevator music when I'm seeing the leaderboard? Maybe it's some sort of behavior modification to get me to be more attentive to commercials when they do come?
 
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Texas Proud said:
So that means you are one of the idiots that have to try and get to the front of the plane before anybody else....


First, there are 6 people in an isle for every row... there is NO way you can get that much luggage down... if I am at the window I cannot even see my luggage... and it might not even be on the same row where I am sitting...



Nope, I am not an idiot to get out of my seat shimmy to the isle which is not easy anymore since they have the rows crushed together, get my wife's bag out, get my daughter's bag and then get my bag before I can get going...


This is a wait your turn moment and if you are in the back of the plane then just wait your turn!!!
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^^^This!! I could agree more!

I almost always have an aisle seat. Upon landing I get up, and stand in the aisle. I get down my and DW's bag, and anyone else who asks. And then I wait until everyone ahead of me has had a chance to leave, including the other 5 in my aisle.

It's called being polite, and taking your turn.
 
I am so glad that I don't have to travel any more! All of this discord about how fast one does or does not exit the airplane, is totally irrelevant to my peaceful, serene, placid retired life. :D

Each to his own! But while all you "travel lovers" grouse at one another about who is being unspeakably rude to who, personally I just adore not having to travel, ever again and not even having to be part of the conversation. I completely remember what exiting a plane can be like, and do not miss it one little bit. While you are elbowing one another and jockeying for position in a crowded airplane where you are crammed in like sardines and can hardly breathe, I am happily enjoying more enjoyable, pleasant, and constructive activities right here at home. Not only that, I don't have to pay the exorbitant costs for international travel so that adds to my fun money.

:dance: :clap:
 
JoeWras said:
UK. Left lane. Hmmm. Is there a joke here?

My pet peeve, good jokes that get lost!
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+1

Another thing, not really a pet peeve but annoying, like most peeves. I'm in Vegas, check into room, safe is locked. Call front desk - "we will send someone up there. We don't know how long, probably 45 minutes to 3 hours. They will call you and you have to be in the room." I say ok, do you have my cell? They say, no, you have to wait in the room. Huh? I didn't lock the safe, I don't have anything in it, I'm not going to sit in my room for who knows how long waiting for your call. Just call my cell, I'll come up from the casino in 3 minutes. "No, you must be in the room when they call." I left. Told pit boss in the Blackjack area. He supposedly called someone, and was caring enough to later follow up when he saw me. Eventually got fixed, by then the TV had stopped working, so the maintenance guy fixed both.

But people are so friendly in Vegas. The pit boss and dealers call me Mr. G. I was sitting at the bar later, this good looking girl smiles and strikes up a conversation with me. She asks my name, I tell her, for short they just call me Mr. G. She says her name is Valerie Devine, but for short everyone who knows her calls her VD. What a friendly place, but hazardous.
 
W2R said:
I am so glad that I don't have to travel any more!
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One more trip (to DD's wedding), then I'm going to ask to be put on the do-not-fly list.
 
Websites that have a link- that take you to a page that just has another link that once you click that link finally take you to the article or whatever you were wanting to see in the first place.
What in the heck is that about? Why is there that middle man page?
 
TromboneAl said:
One more trip (to DD's wedding), then I'm going to ask to be put on the do-not-fly list.
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W2R said:
:LOL: Good luck with that! :2funny:

My DD married in 2009 and that was the last time I flew.
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T Al, if they refuse your request I think there are certain acts that you can do that they'll put you on it anyway. :D
 
People trying to redefine words to mean something contradictory to their actual meaning.

Most recently, people working full-time or part time jobs (even multiple jobs) and calling themselves "retired". Sorry, you get up, go to work, do what you're told to do, and get a paycheck in return. That's not being retired.
 
exnavynuke said:
People trying to redefine words to mean something contradictory to their actual meaning.

Most recently, people working full-time or part time jobs (even multiple jobs) and calling themselves "retired". Sorry, you get up, go to work, do what you're told to do, and get a paycheck in return. That's not being retired.
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Yea, and don't forget those sneaky "retired" landlords. :LOL:
 
I am starting to get po'd at the move to LCD touch panels in cars. Not the GPS units but the ones that are taking over all functions. I had a new Honda Civic rental and the thing was so unintuitive and unresponsive. You talk about distracted driving. I understand that these things are saving car manufactures big bucks by not having all of the buttons and what not but like so many other things I don't think that many of these systems are ready for prime time. I also suspect that these things are going to fail much more frequently than a mechanical switch. Probably right after the warranty is expired.
 
6miths said:
I am starting to get po'd at the move to LCD touch panels in cars. Not the GPS units but the ones that are taking over all functions ... You talk about distracted driving.
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Definitely. You can operate physical controls without taking your eyes off the road. Not so with touch screens, plus they take more brain resources.
 
Music behind speech during YouTube videos. It makes it harder to understand.

Also, clever little animated logos at the start of YouTube videos and movies. Sometimes a DVD has a long intro in the menu screen, plus there are 3-4 animated logos for the different companies that contributed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSbmSOyyE1o
 
TromboneAl said:
Definitely. You can operate physical controls without taking your eyes off the road. Not so with touch screens, plus they take more brain resources.
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That is why DW likes her Mazda CX-5. The screen is almost at eye level, and she can select the functions while not taking her eyes off the road.
 
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