Day 46 Pet Peeves

[tripperfunster]

Okay, not racism or really hurty things that horrible people do, but what are some teeth grinding things that you have to deal with on a daily basis?

Here's some of mine, categorized for your convenience.

Work
I own a pet store that buys new and used items. Often times people will bring in say, a ten gallon fish tank set up, with the lids and filters etc and I have to look through everything (and plug in the plug-inny things to make sure they work,) before I can decide what I can pay for the items. Now, this is not rocket science. I've owned a pet store for 15 years, I have a few more years experience at other stores, and an assload of my OWN experience too. Time after time after fucking time, when I'm going through these EXTREMELY MUNDANE AND TOTALLY BEGINNER HOBBYIST type things, the person selling the stuff feels the need to man-splain them to me. "That's the filter! It hangs on the back!" That's a siphon, you use it to drain the tank." and on and on. OMG!!!!!! This would seriously be like taking your car to the mechanic and saying "That's the steering wheel. You use it to steer the car. Those are the tires, the car ROLLS AROUND ON THEM."

There are certainly things I don't know, but chances are I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR SHITTY TEN GALLON STARTER KIT ITEMS. (can you tell that this happened to me AGAIN today???)

Home
Toilet paper. For reals. Am I the only human in this entire house who is capable of putting a roll of toilet paper ON THE ROLLER THINGIE? I think I am.

Out in public
Spitting. Gross. Unless a spider just flew into your mouth, you have no reason to spit in public. Ever.

fic
Kittens. I don't know why, but I've read enough bad "Harry and Draco get a kitten together" type fics (insert whichever characters here, but generally not kitten owning type people) that I just FLY BY that fic without ever clicking ever. I'm sure there are some GREAT 'kitten' fics out there, but I will just have to take your word for it.

Tell me what picks YOUR ass.

Comments

[oliversnape.livejournal.com]

As a cyclist, I can assure you that I don't want to share the road either. I don't own a car, so I ride everywhere, and I would LOVE for the city to understand that there are too many damn cars already, and if they made separate and safe bike paths, more of us would ride. There is not sufficient space on most roads for both to drive/ride side by side, and most of my fellow cyclists are assholes. Rest assured, there are some of us who hate the road rule ignoring, go through a red light cause I'm small and quick, take up the whole lane because I should have right of way morons.

Sorry to comment rant at you. Hah. I just understand the hatred for sharing roads, but it's illegal for me to ride on the sidewalk (for good reason) and I hate that there are so many bicyclists who act like entitled twats on the road.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I hate driving near cyclists too. I haven't found many to be rude, or bad riders, but I'm still terrified of killing one of them. I don't like motorcyclists either, for the same reason. They're small and quick and easy to miss on a shoulder-check.

[nix-this.livejournal.com]

I never did understand the not being allowed to bike on sidewalks thing, I mean in a collision between bike vs pedestrian or bike vs car, I think option a seems safest? Idk.

I just can't predict what they're going to do and I'm terrified one is going to swerve out in front of me, or get clipped by my mirror because they're dodging a pothole that I can't even see.

There are some rude ones too, and they irritate me too, but mostly I just can't relax if I've got a cyclist in my lane, and it's worse when there's too much traffic for me to switch over.

[oliversnape.livejournal.com]

They're both dangerous, I think. In this city, the side walks are generally not wide and if you have someone cycling down them, and then all of a sudden a shop door opens...BAM. If you're in a car, you have a slightly better chance of seeing the biker. Not much, but a bit better. But in a store? Nope.

Plus, if some twat was weaving down the sidewalk and ran into my Nan or small cousins on his bike, I'd be hard tempted not to beat him with a bike pump. Pedestrians wander. Everyone knows this, because it's irritating as hell. :P It also makes them very unpredictable on a small side walk.

That being said, I would MUCH prefer a street with bike lanes. Just having the space there tends to relax other drivers, because they don't need to edge into other lanes to not hit me. I actually take a longer route to work, so I can hit these streets. And they'd be great, if the city kept up with the f*cking maintenance and covered all the potholes.

Long story short. Thank you for being concerned about people like me. :) And I'm sorry for the dicks on two wheels (especially those who weave in between lanes when they come up to a red light). Maybe someday we'll get those lanes and won't need to be in traffic against big hulking cars.