People who allow their children to scream and fuss in libraries. And librarians who are forced to allow them to get away with it.
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People who allow their children to scream and fuss in libraries. And librarians who are forced to allow them to get away with it.
People who encourage me to go into debt to support their cause, by pressuring me to agree pay out a certain amount every month.
I am angry at the fellow the other day who, at 4pm in the afternoon, ran his car off the road into a tree.
He had some minor abrasions and bruises.
His 5 year old child was in the back seat, in a booster seat, facing forward, and suffered some painful broken bones and internal injuries. Ever hear a kid screaming in pain as you fasten them to the backboard for helicopter airlift? It's not pretty.
The family dog was dead from the impact, having no seat belt.
I got to cut them all out of the car.
He had *no scent of alcohol* on his breath and body. None. We had a paramedic, a doctor, an EMT, and several firefighters who detected no scent at all, and we were looking for it. He did have impaired mentation, which we thought was perhaps from the trauma. We airlifted him too, because of the possibility of spinal/head injuries. At the hospital, his blood alcohol level was > .25...
And get this - we can't get him on drunk driving, because the blood draw was done in the ER, and not by a law enforcement team, and the hospital is in another county, in another jurisdiction, it would be nearly impossible to convict him. So he's driving around here, today, again....
Luckily(?), child protective services is a bit less fussy about process, and the kid is now elsewhere for a bit.
Of course, the kid is all swaddled up in splints and casts at present. And the nice dog is still dead.
I really really hate drunk drivers.
Well, I was going to complain about my dogs keeping me up all night barking at skunks, but geez...
Driving drunk with a 5 year old? Hope his license is taken away forever.
I spent 4 hours last night in the dark dealing with another drunk-driver vs. tree. This time blocking the main road down to the main resort on the island.
Today's pet peeve though is the angry tourists last night who were upset with me that:
- The road was blocked
- I couldn't tell them how long it was going to be blocked, it was a crime scene and we were still dealing with injured people and finding ejected people
- There was no other road to take
- Really, I wasn't going to let them "just sneak by", the road around the next corner was strewn with car bits, tree bits, people bits, and emergency response folks working.
I returned the favor by noting the plates of the particularly drunken angry tourists, and calling over to the Sheriff on the radio, I think he did quite a bit of business back up at the top of the hill....
I'm now thinking we just need to ban cars here during the summer season.
Drunk drivers are not just a peeve of mine, I really despise them. Last year I had a client who was actually doing some great work and I offered to stay later and let him return after lunch. He did, smelling of beer. When I mentioned it to him, he told me that he likes a few beers with his lunch. When I said that driving with a couple of beers in you might not be such a great idea, he said he was fine.
We got back into working on his resume and it came out that he was job hunting because he had another drunk driving ticket and lost his CDL license and his regular driver's license. When I expressed dismay that not only had he driven at least three times that day, but that one of them was under the influence, he told me that he had to get around somehow.
I am not the morality cops, but my work does have some mandatory reporting aspects. His behavior did not fall within that criteria, but I ended our session, told him not to drive and that we would provide a phone so that he could contact someone, and I then made a report to the department head. Still pisses me off that he was so cavalier about the whole thing and that so many other drunk drivers feel the same.
My peeve today is temperatures flirting with the hundreds, high humidity and it is preventing me from getting some strenuous stuff done. I am a slacker, so it is irritating that I cannot do this after having convinced myself that it needs to be done.
Salespeople
ok I know they are just doing their job, but......
We met my son's solar car team at one of their stops during the mock race they are running this weekend. It was so cool to see it in action after hearing about it for so long. I really really wanted to follow the caravan up the Lake Michigan coast to their stopping point for the night. It would have been a pretty drive in areas. We could have seen how the whole process works. But my DH said he didn't know where they were going or the route they were taking so we came home instead. grr If it was something he wanted to do he would have figured it out.
Today's peeve - the arsonist infesting our island. He burned down the home of a friend of mine a few weeks ago. This week, he set fire to a lovely historic building that was a restaurant and artists' cooperative. The damage puts 8-9 employees out of work, and wipes out 20-25 local artists, including one painter who had a great gallery there with *years* of output.
And while we were fighting that fire, the arsonist set fire to a historic carriage house/barn down the road, right in the middle of a bunch of occupied vacation cottages, perhaps hoping we would be too busy to deal with that. Luckily, logistics is one of our strong points, and while we were fighting Large Fire #1, we split off a force to fight Fire #2.
I have been having some fun on the late-night fire overwatch in the area, lurking in the woods with my camo and my night vision and my coon hound and my radio. I fear if some of the locals catch the fellow first, they'll re-enact The Wicker Man with him at this point. Me, I'm sort of hoping my hound trees him.
Whoa. Hope you catch him.
Dang, Bae, hope you catch the arsonist.
Yikes, Bae!
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Originally Posted by redfox
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Dark now. Time to go hunting....
bae, are you the police force for your island, too? Just curious.
The Fire Marshal is a law enforcement officer, part of the Washington State Patrol, and works closely with Fire & Rescue. These are crime scenes, under his jurisdiction until he releases them, and he retains us to help with the investigation and secure the sites. (Which is handy, as he pays $25/hour, whereas if the fire watch is for "normal" reasons all we get is coffee and cookies :-) )Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveinMN
We generally have only two sheriff's deputies on-duty, and 70 fire/rescue folks available at the drop of a hat.
Sorry to hear about the arsonist - that's more than a peeve! I hope there's some insurance to cover the losses?
Thank you Bae for all you do. I grew up in a small town with a volunteer fire/rescue dept. When the fire alarm sounded, I think they made it to the station in less than 2 minutes. I believe the calls rang on their phones too which was a special ring tone. When I moved to the city I was shocked that people actually got paid full time to be a fireman. I see why that is necessary in large cities but I was pretty naïve back then.
IDK if this is really a daily peeve or a rant. In April a friend (S) of ours died from lung cancer. She was 51 and had been married to R for almost 10 years. He took care of her to the end and she died at home. She had a FB page and I happened to find it and he is now posting that he is dating. Posted that he had 2 dates with one woman and her name is x. S had 2 boys and one is married. His wife posted on FB that R should get his own FB page. He claims to be ignorant to knowing how to do that. I find this so tacky and almost unbelievable. I thought he would have more sense than this.
That is super yucky, Simpler at Fifty!!! I hope he figures it out, how unbelievable!!
Peeve of today = fibs. We had a cancellation to our free event, which wouldn't have bothered me at all seeing as we had a bunch of no shows (for free events I actually prefer no shows rather than last-minute cancellations because they are essentially the same thing and then I don't have to read a bunch of e-mails about it), but the woman said she was having child care issues. But she has nooooooo idea that I am FB friends with her FiL and that I know that she took her kids to the zoo with Grandma and Grandpa. Just say you're cancelling. No reason needed, and certainly not a lie. Ok, I'm done, and it was a beautiful day so I hope she had fun. :)
@fidgiegirl kids are 'used' as an excuse a lot. I sat across from a girl at work and several times I heard her tell her husband on the phone 'I will just tell them Meghan is sick and I have to leave, what are they going to ask me to prove it?' Lies are the worst. Saw this on Pinterest recently. "The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth".
My DH has no sense of portion control. I had 2 1/2 - 3 lbs. of gr. beef. I was planning on making 2 meals out of it. Chili tonight & something else later in the week. But while I was out grocery shopping he decided to help me out and used ALL of the gr. beef in the chili!!! Grocery money is tight this pay period so I am really bummed about this. If he had decided to grill burgers he would have used all of it. There are only 3 of us here! He would have made those burgers so big I can't hardly take a bite out of it. He just doesn't get it! Now I have to refigure the menu plan. And I really hate menu planning.
But on the bright side I don't have to cook dinner LOL
I hear you, Azure - my DH is the same way. Luckily? it's extremely rare that he gets the urge to cook. You could always add more beans to the chili, or set some of it aside to use over potatoes or something later in the week.
I am getting annoyed that a potential employer is taking forever to respond to my interview. First the contact said he would call me 2 weeks ago. He did, to say there was going to be a delay and that a decision would be made after the 25th. So because they are usually very prompt, and in fact the delay was largely caused by his personal vacation, I expected a phone call Thursday or Friday. No calls. He did say that I would be contacted with the final decision either way. So... wait, wait, wait.
On cooking/meal/portion peeves:
I like to cook complex meals now-and-then. Part of the challenge is getting everything ready at the same time. Often, the dishes are meant to be consumed immediately, and not sit around waiting. I plate in the kitchen, and whisk things out to the table.
And invariably, my DW will spring up from the table, rush into the kitchen, and put the remaining sauces in sauce containers, and the remaining portions into serving dishes, and bring those out to the table. Protesting "you all go ahead, this will just take me a moment..."
Meanwhile, the lovingly-prepared dishes...sit....on the table, and nobody wants to be rude enough to listen to her and dig in like starving wolves.
Plus, the portions I served were the "reasonable" quantity, and the sauces applied in the proper amounts for the dishes.
AAAAAARGHHHHHHH.
There's always time to get up *later* and do all that nonsense.
DOUBLE-AAAAARGHHHH.
I figure after 30+ years, this behaviour isn't going to change though. I've changed my procedures this year to simply not produce any extra portions. Mooo-hwa-ha-ha.
bae, that is a most excellent way to deal with the situation!!
LOL Bae! If I want to have any extra portions I have to remove them to the fridge as soon as possible or there won't be any
Dear Mr. Guy-on-the-Exercise-Bike-Next-to-Mine,
Just in case no one ever taught you this in life: When someone is reading a book, and responds to your attempts at conversation with a brief polite nod before returning to her book, that generally means "I don't want to talk about your opinions about Detroit, Anthony Weiner, Hillary Clinton, President Obama, the worthlessness of Congress, or anything else. I just want to read this book I brought." That's what it means. No need to continue to try to make your opinions on the sorry state of the world known to me on a peaceful Sunday morning at the rec center -- though I know you love the sound of your own voice. On the upside, I did pedal faster in an effort to lose the guy, and probably burned more calories than I normally would have.
Extroverts think reading a book is just something you do to pass the time until they come along to chat.
Fast-talking sales people.
Several years ago, I put a new floor into the kitchen -- actually, the floor store did, with their person doing the installation. Well, for the past few years, the floor has been rippling up from one end (it's pretty much a T-shaped floor). The floor itself is not even halfway through its warranty, so I called up the company that I bought it from. In the space of 20 minutes, the guy from the floor store claimed the problem was due to:
- it not being glued down (the floor was designed to be installed "floating", so that shouldn't be it);
- the "crazy weather we've had lately" (the floor has been doing this for at least three years);
- being held down (the vinyl is under a transition strip to the carpet in the next room);
- not being held down -- the baseboard molding there was missing (we removed it from half the kitchen several months ago as part of repainting and have been indecisive on whether to replace the original '70s dark wood with the cherry finish of the refaced cabinets).
He didn't get around to blaming sunspots or Republicans. I get that he doesn't want to do a warranty repair. I understand that the manufacturer of that floor has taken a powder and left the country after merging with another flooring giant, so he has no recourse in replacing the floor ('course, it also means I don't have the warranty I paid for). But the dissembling is just ... well, I sure don't want to have to deal with this guy again for a floor.
To his credit, he did show me how I can fix the problem myself, without his company's $250 repair visit and without replacing the floor. I'm going for it, as soon as I clear another few projects off my to-do list. DW and I have been talking about replacing the floor, and that still may be an esthetic decision. But what it would cost us to do that could be spent in so many better places, IMHO. So I'm lobbying for fixing this floor and moving on with life.
People who are working out so hard(running or biking) they can not smile,nod or muster up a small wave.
adding this was not in reference to puglogic's post >8)
Trying to get in a bunch of laps walking on an inside track with ear buds and music on and having three people interrupt to talk about nothing in particular. I can talk when I am not trying to get a cardio workout. What exactly do they think I am doing, taking a country stroll?
People who don't think anyone exists on earth. They were the ones standing in front of me as I was trying to take pictures. Not just a quick stand-up-shoot-sit-down, but milling about, oblivious to the fact that they're not made out of glass. Probably the same people who can't be arsed to get their car quite straight in their parking space, making it difficult for someone to park next to them and get out of their own car. Grrr....
Drivers who swerve into the lane to their Right, before making a Left turn!
I almost got hit by 2 of these today! They were actually significantly into my lane.
I don't know where or how this moronic practice started, but it is reaching epidemic proportions here.
I want them to STOP now!
people who make blanket statements that may or may not have something to do with you.
Someone was walking by my house as I was riding my bike out of the garage on the way to the library. The dog, on a long retractable leash, lunged barking at me and scared the jeepers out of me. I was shaken and the owner said "I guess you are not a dog person." Duh, of course I am not an attacking dog person. I like dogs. I don't like them chasing me or barking at me when I am riding my bike, which I do over 1,000 miles a year. Amazing how many people can't control their dogs and say "he won't hurt you" or act like you are overreacting. Ask any group of bike riders if they have been chased or bitten and chances are you'll get a lot of yeas.
from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreation...revention.html
- About 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year.
- Almost one in five of those who are bitten :a total of 885,000: require medical attention for dog bite-related injuries.
- In 2006, more than 31,000 people underwent reconstructive surgery as a result of being bitten by dogs.
No it is not me that is a crazy hysterical person, it is you who have not properly trained or leashed your dog.
Thinking that putting my bank account info so that it automatically updates on my new computer by using Quicken 2013 would make my life simpler...NOT! (So far, anyway...). Manually entering and tracking spending the way I always did seems WAY easier.
My insurance company not bothering for a week to respond to 3 different inquiries from my bank for some information they needed to process some paperwork for me. When I personally contacted my insurer their excuse was, "well, we needed to hear from you directly that it was okay to give them that information."
Oh, well in that case, let me introduce you to something we here living in 2013 call the telephone!!
A woman brought a very aggressive dog to the dog park today. It was snarling and snapping at the other dogs. DH and some of the other dog owners had to step in and pull the aggressive dog off the other dogs. We ended up leaving as it just wasn't safe for our little guy to stay. The owner of the aggressive dog sat there oblivious, not keeping her dog in check, not apologizing, nothing. She did say the dog had been inside that day. I don't think otherwise well behaved dogs get aggressive like that from being inside for a single day. This dog just wasn't well socialized. We watch our dog really close and if he gets too wound up or plays too rough with smaller dogs he gets a time out or we take him for a walk to calm down.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere
Ninety-nine percent of the owners at the park are friendly, the dogs are well behaved and the dogs all have a blast running around playing with each other. I just wonder what goes on in the minds of dog owners who think it is okay for their dogs to attack other dogs or people, and how to do they and the dogs get to be like that.
I'm annoyed at myself for my spending the past few days. :doh:
I think if I take a deep breath, step back, and relax, I can make tomorrow and the rest of this month ok. Actually, no need to wait until tomorrow. Starting now. :)
So annoyed at the rising costs of utilities here. $45/month for water, $75 a month for garbage/sewer, and $241 a month for heating and cooling. We aren't wasteful people at all. We have no other options for these services, and the utility companies know it. The average family in our area earns $30,000 a year. This is just ridiculous.
My peeve today is this: in articles I read about lifestyle costs, everything is expressed in monthly costs. I can't relate to that. I ALWAYS have to do the math to convert that figure to an annualized cost. Waaaaaaaaaanh, I am such a whiner.
But it annoys me. Why do I think annually and apparently everyone else thinks monthly?
Today I am scoping out health insurance costs on the exchanges. $146 is the number that drove me here to report my peeve. $146. I guess that is monthly. They didn't even qualify it assuming that everyone thinks in "monthly" terms. I am looking for the annual figure of health insurance costs.