The Daily Peeve / Rant

[Seven]

I hate when people write "Viola" instead of "Voila".
The word for a surprise is "Voila", because "Voi la"= "Look at this!".
A viola is a musical instrument.

[herbgeek]

I hate when people write "Viola" instead of "Voila".

I hate it even more when I see people write wa la! (and I've seen this repeatedly)

[CathyA]

I hate when I'm finally getting out, even though it's -4 and I never know when my 14 year old car's failing transmission is going to finally die, and I don't know anyone in our little town to ask for a ride home if it did die, and I need a new car.............and then, on my way to town, my car begins roaring soooo loud I can hardly stand it. It won't go past 2nd gear, so I'm thinking it's the transmission, so I turn around and make it several miles home (out in the boonies), and when I get home, I see that my one back tires has exploded. Time to take the car to the hospice I guess......and be stuck at home for awhile. I hate when that happens.

[JaneV2.0]

I hate when I'm finally getting out, even though it's -4 and I never know when my 14 year old car's failing transmission is going to finally die, and I don't know anyone in our little town to ask for a ride home if it did die, and I need a new car.............and then, on my way to town, my car begins roaring soooo loud I can hardly stand it. It won't go past 2nd gear, so I'm thinking it's the transmission, so I turn around and make it several miles home (out in the boonies), and when I get home, I see that my one back tires has exploded. Time to take the car to the hospice I guess......and be stuck at home for awhile. I hate when that happens.

But on the upside, you got home safely...And you get a new car! (I feel your pain; I drove an unpredictable disaster of a car for years.)

[JaneV2.0]

When shopping on the internet, I want to know what shipping/handling charges will be fairly quickly. But way too many sites make you take the time to fill in a long form with your name/address/phone/email before they will let you know how much they will charge to get your purchase to you. I just hate that! So they make me waste valuable time filling in fast jibberish to find out what I want to know... And, yes, sometimes S/H is too expensive to place the order. I guess they think if I've gone that far, I'll click 'buy' anyway. Not so. If I have a choice, I will not buy from someone who makes me jump through those hoops. But sometimes it's necessary. Grr rrr rr

Yes. And it would be helpful if they listed PayPal (or not) right up front. I'm not entering my personal information and CC# if I can help it.

[ctg492]

Cold weather with no snow. What good is cold without snow. See I still am having a hard time with TN.

[kib]

The general blahs. I spent the last eight weeks sick on and off, and desperately wishing for time without a parade of other people in it. Well now I'm fine and it's here and whoopdie doodle, I am completely uninspired to do a single thing.

[mtnlaurel]

Cold weather with no snow. What good is cold without snow. See I still am having a hard time with TN.

35 degrees and rainy... it just seeps into your bones cold

[rodeosweetheart]

Cathy, I am sorry that happened to your car! My husband's truck broke down on the 19th of December and we just got it back--first place said they didn't find anything wrong with it after keeping it for 2 weeks--and it literally had to be towed there.

It's so awful to wait and wait to go out here, until it's finally driveable, not snowing, not 4 below, and then have the car break down. We got out yesterday for first time in about a week and were out 2 hours when heavy snow started up again, so driving home quite the adventure.

I would love a snowless winter, or a horsedrawn winter. Either of those sounds great right now.

[Packy]

Okay--here it is; I been saving this one for awhile, but here goes. I've been stopping to observe--yes stare--at "people" doing this very annoying thing. I say "people" instead of "old woman", for basically the same reason that The Media frequently does not include the race of crime suspects if they are non-caucasian. The Media doesn't want to be accused of being "racist" and I am trying to avoid being "sexist" or "misogynist". Calling a critic one of those "-ist" terms is a favorite attack strategy of formerly-oppressed minorities. Where was I? Anyway, back to the Peeve: What happens is this typical "person", (and I've watched this play out dozens of times) will be in a grocery mart, and take a thinly wrapped perishable item or even something fragile, like noodles or tortilla chips, pick it up and fondle it and squeeze it and turn it over and over and roll it in their hands. They really like rattling that cellophane, I think. And here is the scientific finding as a result of my research: The longer they handle it and roll it around, the less likely they are to buy it! See? For clarification, if they pick it up and fondle it and rattle the sack so it gets my attention, there is but a 1 in 10 chance it will go in their cart. If they continue to rattle the wrapper and squeeze it and molest it, while mindlessly staring into space for another 30 seconds, there is a Zero (.000000)percent chance they will buy it. They will put it back on the shelf, smelling of that flowery perfume they dump on their body, to compensate for being a faded flower, themselves. See? Hope that helps you some. Thankk ZMNee. Next time: Same people, who take carts down narrow isles and block them while they molest bagged items, even though there is only one item and their purse in the cart. Later.