To celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, I'm posting my list of peeves.
Maybe I can resolve to be a little less curmudgeonly? Oh, wait, resolutions are a part of the Gregorian New Year. Never mind.
Oh. Language warning. ;-)
Yeah. I actually picked a red car as a landmark one day when I was travelling down Como Lake Ave. The car was (obviously) headed in the same direction.
I travelled at a constant 50 km/h. The red car easily was going at around 65 km/h between intersections. When I reached my turnoff for the side street I live on, I saw the car about a half-block ahead, stopped at the red light. Mathematically speaking: the guy was travelling 15 km/h faster than me, which is 30% faster. Como Lake Avenue is, according to my map, about 4.5 kilometres long. On a street with no traffic lights and no stops, this guy would have been about 1.35 kilometres ahead of me after it took me the time to traverse the distance. Instead, he was about 200 metres ahead of me. Something to think about. | |
jtgibson peeved:
When you are at a grocery and produce store like Safeway, Fred Meyer, orwhatever have you, when you take a product off of the shelf, you replace it back upon the shelf, correct? I'm quite sure you do (and this is perfectly serious, not sarcastic). No, they don't... Which isn't so bad when the product in question is some canned veggies, or a box of cereal. However, when the product is say, raw chicken, and they decide halfway across the store that they don't want it after all, so they just toss it on the shelf next to (or behind!) the boxes of cereal, thats bad. One putz decided to dump a pack of raw chicken in the one inch gap between the back of a display and the front of an aisle. We had to dismantle the display to remove it, once we figured out where the smell was coming from. These are generally the same morons who will bitch about how high prices are. | |
Agree with most of what you said there.
I did find this bit quite funny though; "Being an asshole about it and leaning on your horn for eight seconds will tempt me to throw my car into reverse and take out your radiator. road rage Just chill. Seriously." Those paragraphs were right next too each other too. Laugh Out Loud! edit: Happy Chinese new year to you too! | |
Yeah, well, assholiness begets assholiness. ;-)
For clarification, I don't get pissed off on the road. I shake my head derisively from time to time as someone does something that puts themselves, myself, or some other's self at risk, but that's about it. This is what the wonders of a list of peeves are for. | |
Ugh. Speed limit, not minimum. Why do people assume that the accepted speed range is from 50km/h to 60+km/h? Also, why do people feel the need to go more than 50km/h? You're going to wind up at a red light anyway, and I'll be right behind you.
Sure, you may get to your friend's house two minutes earlier than you would've had you followed the speed limit, but you'll be awful late when you're dead. As will I, when you crash into me while I'm following the speed limit, you dumb bastard.