Bank of America charged me $2 for a miscellaneous charge, in 1997. I called to ask what it was for because there was no reason. The lady on the phone said, well, I can't tell you because it is miscellaneous. I asked her to then please reverse it and she refused.
I pulled all three of my accounts from them and moved them to a credit union and ever since, full stop refuse to have a damn thing with that company.
I tried to set up internet in my new apartment, only to have Comcast/XFinity fail to show up during the agreed-upon time window on *three separate occasions*. And then they had the audacity to claim that they actually did show up and proceeded to charge me for setup and the first month of non-existent WiFi. I took time off work for this shit. I spent literally *hours* on the phone to try and resolve it (and I hate, *hate*, HATE talking on phones). I *yelled at people* (I don’t yell; confrontation makes me panicked and queasy).
So, once I managed to force the cancellation and refund, I refused to get WiFi. Comcast has a monopoly in my area, and I *will not* give them money. It has been years. I will go to libraries and coffee shops and use their Wi-Fi. I will use phone data. I will spend vast swathes of time entirely unplugged from the internet. But I will *not* give that hellspawn of a company a single penny.
EDIT: I find it both hilarious and kind of touching that everyone is giving me ideas on how to solve the problem. Thanks! If I ever get really fed up with my current situation I’ll definitely look into some of these.
We had a similar "they didn't actually set it up but did start charging for it". We disputed that they'd ever been out and refused to pay the bill. We never heard back about the bill, we suspect the tech had forged the completion of the work order. This was at&t, but probably just contractor malfeasance not corporate. We stopped bothering trying to get service.
Top comment is similar but with elevators. I'd say is even more important for the subway. A elevator can get held if someone is trying to get off, and worst case is losing a few minutes taking it back up/down or the stairs. Getting stuck on the subway or missing it will cost you a long ass time.
Back the fuck up at cash registers. You don't need to be spelunking in my ass before the cashier even hands me my receipt.
Afterwards, maybe we can talk about making something happen. But while at the register I want my personal space.
*Something* is going in the freezer. And there won't be air in the bag.
Edit: Oh wow. rip my mentions. And thank you for the gold (although really, a donation to a worthy charity would have been fine).
Edit2: Apparently it is main character bs to suggest donating to charity. So, scratch that. Just spend money on your reddit account and shower me with awards instead. /s
It is possible to look at something on a grocery store shelf without blocking the whole aisle. Looking at you, shoppers in a certain Aldi this afternoon …
i had a guy sit next to me in a room full of empty seats and blast tiktok or whatever while laughing. the socially anxious person i am didn’t move, but i was homicidal
I really love standing at the doorway when I’m about to exit an elevator - lots of people don’t look where they’re going and will run right into me. My hope is they pause next time before charging in.
This is a game I like to play as well. I'm pretty big, so most people that can't be bothered to pay attention bury their face right into my ample dude cleavage.
I like saying “OH! Excuse me” when the look surprised that I’m walking out first and not moving out of their way. They look so confused for some reason??
We were in a hospital elevator. Got to our floor, doors open, like 6 people try to file in while my husband and I are pushing our stroller trying to get off. Someone at the back of the group has some common sense and suggests that they should wait to get on until we can get off.
I was at a hotel a few weeks ago, going down to the lobby, trying to get off the elevator a 7 person family all shoved their way past me. I could barely get out at the end because they were in the way, and they were annoyed with ME.
The polite thing to do in that situation is to climb into the ceiling panels and exit through the elevator shaft...otherwise that poor family would have to wait one whole extra second for you to get off the elevator
I work security for a large condo resort. I will be the only person waiting for the elevator to come down, it opens and people will walk from the beach inside, completely ignore the fact that I’ve been waiting and fill it to max capacity.. sometimes this happens several times in a row.
I hill I will die on:
When a kid has a birthday, only HE gets to blow out the candles! It INFURIATES me to my very soul when I see other kids try to blow them out. The only thing worse is when adults LET THEM.
I saw a video years ago on here where a teenager was doing that to a little kid. The parents kept relighting the candles, but they wouldn’t do anything about the older child. It was so infuriating to watch. What a crappy thing to do to a child on his birthday.
Our older kid made that mistake once, for our younger kid’s birthday. We re-lit the candles and made the older kid sing again, by himself, so the younger kid could blow out the candles. Hasn’t been an issue since.
Or just as bad is when the birthday kid is opening their presents and someone says ‘okay now let little Jimmy open one.’
Little Jimmy needs to fuck off. He can open presents when it’s his birthday. I’ve had arguments with family members where I’ve said ‘no, it’s not your kid’s present, they need to piss off.’
I think mines kind of the same vein: when kids are playing some kind of organized group game together they will all follow the same set of rules. Nothing annoys me more than an official or person in charge letting some little cheater run roughshod over the other kids and replying "it's just a game".
Adding 's at the end of a word does not make it plural.
I've seen it in ads. I've seen it on signs. I've even seen it on a flyer someone wrote advertising their services as a writer.
People walk around like it's normal! Out in the street! Saying that they have 14 chicken's! Like monsters!
I will die on this hill over and over until my assembled corpses make it into a slightly bigger hill.
There is a sign on a fruit stand I drive past that says:
strawberries
blueberries
raspberry's
It breaks my brain trying to figure out the rationale every time. Like, you had it for the first two, don't change tactics now!
Yep, I was driving on a straight road. To my right was a guy exiting a parking lot. To my left, a woman had inexplicably stopped her car and "waved the guy through", so he exited the parking lot...directly into the path of my car and I T-boned him. He had completely focussed on the woman "waving him through" and in fact both the woman and the man claimed to the cops that I was in the wrong because she had stopped and waved him through. I told the cops "I was going straight, on a straight road". The right of way was clearly mine, but the two idiots kept insisting that somehow two people agreeing to let one of them be "waved through" somehow trumps all other traffic on the road.
Insurance kept hassling me, I told them what I put on the Police Report, they finally agreed the other driver was 100% responsible. They guy basically pulled into traffic without looking at incoming cars.
I know someone who was in a serious accident for exactly this reason -- she was in a double lane and, at a stop sign, the moron next to her waved the other car through and the even bigger moron in that car went and t-boned her. So it's definitely not zero.
Edit: small correction since I asked her about it: she wasn't stopped and didn't have a stop sign, but the waver was turning right and waved the go-er through *their* stop sign. Also she blames the waver more than the go-er, but the waver just drove away.
Yup, and same with pedestrians sometimes, both are slower than cars so waving them into dangerous situations is often not a good idea and can even make someone at fault for the accident.
Lmao this is me 100%. A couple weeks ago I pulled up a good 3 seconds after the other guy had come to a complete stop. He tried to wave me throw. I shook my head and waved him. He didn’t budge. So naturally I very visibly crossed my arms and looked to the side.
Took this fucker 30 seconds to finally go.. but I out-stubborned him and I’m very proud of that
I pulled my keys out of the ignition, jangled them, then dropped them into my lap while staring a waver dead in the eyes once. It was a residential intersection and no one else was around, so I was only inconveniencing myself, but I intended to make a point that day and I did, lol.
Man, my dad recently waved someone through a four way stop FROM THE PASSENGER SEAT. I had to pull over to tell him how absolutely dangerous that was. I was livid.
I broke my hand upvoting this. Living in the Midwest we have people who try to be nice and stop in the middle of a block on a 4 lane main road just to wave you into traffic…. Meanwhile the other 3 lanes couldn’t give a fuck less.
I broke off a relationship because she honestly thought the earth was only 2017 years old (It was of course back in 2017.), no matter how many articles I pulled forward and no matter how many facts I provided for her, she was in complete denial that the earth could be about 4.5 billion years old.
She wasn’t raised in a Christian household or any type of religious household really, nor did she ever say anything about herself being religious - I talked to her parents about it and they never understood why she thought the way she did.
I am still baffled over it and she thought I was being the pettiest man alive.
Crazy part is, no religions teaches that the earth is 2017 years old. That’s just dumb, how could we start counting on the first year. And I’m Christian
I've got one even more petty:
A lot of stores have two sizes of cart. Most cart corrals are wide enough to accommodate two lanes. If I see you put a big cart on the left when there's already a big cart on the right side, you're getting stabbed.
(former bagger/cart gatherer)
Our grocery store even has the sides labelled "large carts" and "small carts" and people STILL put them in the wrong side.
Also, the people that leave the cart in a parking spot maybe two spots away from an empty corral.
An apology should be used when you are genuinely sorry, not as absolution; it should also not be expected to be forgiven, either.
Edit: As a Canadian, I'll concede that I do use "sorry" several times a day in the most seemingly mundane of situations, but trust me; I am sorry I am in your way.
And people don't need you to apologize for your stance, only for your actions. I feel if more people understand this, they would be willing to apologize more and find a solution to whatever problem they were arguing about.
Also forcing people to say/accept apologies is pointless. Teaching kids that saying sorry makes everything alright is stupid. You have to actually atone for your actions
i work at a wedding and banquet company. we were having this wedding that was around 100-120 people and it was pretty crowded. This uncle, around 40-60 was sitting near the middle of the floor where all the servers walk through to buss tables. i was sweeping the floor when the man, locked eyes with me, grabbed his wine glass (full of white wine) and poured it all over the floor. i was shocked. he started laughing with his friends while motioning me to clean it up. i cleaned it up yes, but when he was getting appetizers, i stole all his cutlery for dinner.
i never gave it back.
There's a series of Dilbert strips where he's trying to join Mensa. In one of them, he rings a doorbell, a surprised guy in a robe opens, and asks:
"Dilbert, what are you doing here?"
"I'm here for the six o'clock meeting of Mensa geniuses."
"Uh, that's 6PM, not AM."
Dilbert walks off and thinks: "Bad start."
Is your friend religious? I know this is a thing in Catholicism, maybe other denominations as well. There are days when you're not allowed to eat "meat" but fish is okay.
I can't stand every movie/game title or band/artist name being acronymized these days. What the hell is TLAT? SWTROS? When you say BTS are you talking about the musical group or behind the scenes of something? Its like learning a new language.
So, I got used to seeing “ACAB” everywhere for a while, and I learned to automatically translate it in my head (as one does). Then, I started seeing “AFAB” and “AMAB” too. I was VERY confused at first, and now my brain sometimes decides to combine the meanings at random. Assigned Cop at Birth, Assigned Male at Ba***rd, you get the idea.
NOT A POLITICAL COMMENT, just talking about acronyms and initialisms.
It happens. Also, when my photographer friends make “BTS posts”, for a split second I think “not one of these people are Korean” until I reset and remember “Behind The Scenes”.
My brain is not firing on all cylinders, friend
A friend sent me a letter once (yes i am old) and it was signed off with a 12 letter string acronym...... and she wouldn't tell me what it meant! To this day i have no idea what she signed off with.
I was trying to exit a cruise ship the other day. I had a woman actually push me out of the way. What she wanted right then was more important than basic respect.
An equally annoying one for me is when instead of saying “a part of” they say “apart of” which isn’t even grammatically correct, it would be “apart from” which is basically the opposite of “a part of.”
So many people, movies and TV shows misuse the phrase “divide and conquer”.
It doesn’t mean “to split up and attack on multiple fronts”, which is a horrible idea for military strategy on the grand scale of armies.
It means to divide your enemy, and conquer them one by one.
Never really given this one much thought. I'm feeling stupid for being guilty of this because your explanation makes obvious, perfect sense.
I think it's people trying to use a military concept out of context and it's just taken on a new meaning for civilian culture.
Absolutely! *Not* using it is a hill for some people. Stranger, I've encountered texts that use (or do not use) it rather inconsistently in the same document.
My brother! I told my kids they can be gay or straight, conservative or liberal, religious or atheist, I'll still love them. But if they don't use the Oxford comma, they are dead to me.
Rudolph is not a core member of Santa's reindeer team. The song specifically says "then ONE foggy Christmas Eve... Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh TONIGHT."
why would Santa risk being noticed with a red light of a nose if he didn't need to? Rudolph is like the brights on your car, you only need them when you need to.
Also, if you really really think about that story it's not a good one. Rudolph is made fun of for his red nose, probably his whole life. But then when it becomes convenient for them all of a sudden his red nose is fantastic! So, that thing that sets you apart is bad unless it benefits me, then it's fine.
YES ! 100% yes. I was in a mall once with my kids, then like 2 and 4, and one had anounced she had to go potty. So, off we went. Well, there was a line 5 deep for the ladies, and no line for the mens, BUT I knew that these were as you described, basically like a home bathroom without a shower. So I (f) took my two daughters into that bathroom and they DIDN'T have to pee on the floor. Win all around right ? Well, the looks I got, and one lady even said "Umm, we were here first ?" To which I looked her dead in the eyes and asked, "Why, no one was in this one ?" and left.
When people hold the door for you while you’re far away but they’re looking at you and waiting so you have to do a stupid run and smile and thank them.
When you empty the ice cube tray, you fill it up again. Its common sense. Don't put it on the counter, don't put it back empty in the freezer.
Sorry wife, but it drives me bonkers
My mom was in the wrong when she said my prom date shouldn't wear black and red together because those colors tend to look whorish.
Edit: for those of you trying to picture it. the dress was black lace, and pretty short. My date wore bright red lipstick and pumps.
Sidewalk and hallway traffic should move like road traffic. Stick to the side of the sidewalk or hallway based on the direction you are going. I will not move out of my way for you if you are walking on the wrong side.
Cars have brakes not breaks I fucking hate how every ad I see (mainly on Facebook I should add) can’t fucking spell properly. Cars use brakes to stop you take a break at work they are not the same fucking thing.
Rinse your dishes!
Few things more aggravating than tomato sauce or mashed potatoes glued to a bowl because no one wanted to load the dishwasher or do the dishes in a timely manner.
If you’re the type of person that leaves huge messes when you eat out and don’t even attempt to at least tidy it for the person that has to collect it because “It’S tHeIr JoB!1¡” you have the most unfounded sense of entitlement of anyone around you. That doesn’t absolve you from being a rude, filthy human being and not being considerate of others.
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Use the left lane for passing and then get back into the doggone right lane. Grew up in Germany where that's enforced on the Autobahn. American left lane hogs drive me nuts, especially when they go five miles under the speed limit. What's the friggin' point?
I work in food.
One thing that pisses me off is when customers see my outstretched hand, and they'll lay their money on the counter. So, when I go to give them their change, and their hand is out and open, I'll purposefully lay all the money and their receipt on the counter instead of in their hand.
And before any of you come for me and say *"BuT wE'rE iN a PaNdEmIc!i!i"*, this has been happening since before covid and will continue after covid. But for the love of all that is good and holy, IF YOU SEE ME WITH MY HAND OUT, JUST HAND ME THE MONEY.
ETA: I don't mean those with disabilities, those who have an issue with being touched, and the super elderly. I mean the ones who throw the money on the counter and then expect me to sort through everything and then *hand them their stuff once I'm done*.
Bank of America charged me $2 for a miscellaneous charge, in 1997. I called to ask what it was for because there was no reason. The lady on the phone said, well, I can't tell you because it is miscellaneous. I asked her to then please reverse it and she refused. I pulled all three of my accounts from them and moved them to a credit union and ever since, full stop refuse to have a damn thing with that company.
I tried to set up internet in my new apartment, only to have Comcast/XFinity fail to show up during the agreed-upon time window on *three separate occasions*. And then they had the audacity to claim that they actually did show up and proceeded to charge me for setup and the first month of non-existent WiFi. I took time off work for this shit. I spent literally *hours* on the phone to try and resolve it (and I hate, *hate*, HATE talking on phones). I *yelled at people* (I don’t yell; confrontation makes me panicked and queasy). So, once I managed to force the cancellation and refund, I refused to get WiFi. Comcast has a monopoly in my area, and I *will not* give them money. It has been years. I will go to libraries and coffee shops and use their Wi-Fi. I will use phone data. I will spend vast swathes of time entirely unplugged from the internet. But I will *not* give that hellspawn of a company a single penny. EDIT: I find it both hilarious and kind of touching that everyone is giving me ideas on how to solve the problem. Thanks! If I ever get really fed up with my current situation I’ll definitely look into some of these.
We had a similar "they didn't actually set it up but did start charging for it". We disputed that they'd ever been out and refused to pay the bill. We never heard back about the bill, we suspect the tech had forged the completion of the work order. This was at&t, but probably just contractor malfeasance not corporate. We stopped bothering trying to get service.
> This was AT&T Yup, that tracks. They suck.
Not petty at all Fuck them
Chase bank once sent me a check for $.02 for extra interest they charged me on a car loan I had paid off 5 years prior.
Bank of America is the devil. Like, I don’t believe in the devil, but BOFA is definitely the devil.
Bank of Fucking America?
That you need to let people off the fucking subway before you get on. My guy, you will get on - let me off first!
And elevators.
Top comment is similar but with elevators. I'd say is even more important for the subway. A elevator can get held if someone is trying to get off, and worst case is losing a few minutes taking it back up/down or the stairs. Getting stuck on the subway or missing it will cost you a long ass time.
Back the fuck up at cash registers. You don't need to be spelunking in my ass before the cashier even hands me my receipt. Afterwards, maybe we can talk about making something happen. But while at the register I want my personal space.
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‘i’ll have to make a choice’ sounds so ominous and threatening, i love it
*Something* is going in the freezer. And there won't be air in the bag. Edit: Oh wow. rip my mentions. And thank you for the gold (although really, a donation to a worthy charity would have been fine). Edit2: Apparently it is main character bs to suggest donating to charity. So, scratch that. Just spend money on your reddit account and shower me with awards instead. /s
My husband doesn’t. Drives me nuts. Surely they’re breaking some sort of law.
John, meet Louise. Louise, John.
This has a strangers on the train vibe and I'm all for it
Maybe she LIKES freezer burn. Ever think of that? Your wife is a monster, sir.
It is possible to look at something on a grocery store shelf without blocking the whole aisle. Looking at you, shoppers in a certain Aldi this afternoon …
Scrolling through TikTok/Reels/whatever with your volume up in public or semi-public places (transit, waiting room, restaurant).
i had a guy sit next to me in a room full of empty seats and blast tiktok or whatever while laughing. the socially anxious person i am didn’t move, but i was homicidal
My father does this but with YouTube shorts
It’s common courtesy to wait for someone to come off the elevator before entering.
I really love standing at the doorway when I’m about to exit an elevator - lots of people don’t look where they’re going and will run right into me. My hope is they pause next time before charging in.
This is a game I like to play as well. I'm pretty big, so most people that can't be bothered to pay attention bury their face right into my ample dude cleavage.
Then give them a patient smile like they are a five year old
Lean in real close and whisper "we're friends now."
I like saying “OH! Excuse me” when the look surprised that I’m walking out first and not moving out of their way. They look so confused for some reason??
They’re the main character and you’re a npc
Even worse with escalators. Those people that reach the end of their ride and just stand there.
Do people actually not do that?
Not just in elevators. I once missed my train stop because a huge group of elderly women just got in without letting me get out first.
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We were in a hospital elevator. Got to our floor, doors open, like 6 people try to file in while my husband and I are pushing our stroller trying to get off. Someone at the back of the group has some common sense and suggests that they should wait to get on until we can get off.
I was at a hotel a few weeks ago, going down to the lobby, trying to get off the elevator a 7 person family all shoved their way past me. I could barely get out at the end because they were in the way, and they were annoyed with ME.
Those jerks will do it to an obviously full elevator of people trying to get off. Where they fuck do they think they will fit in a full elevator?
The polite thing to do in that situation is to climb into the ceiling panels and exit through the elevator shaft...otherwise that poor family would have to wait one whole extra second for you to get off the elevator
Hit all the buttons to punish them.
This...especially if they have kids because hell hath no fury like a 4 year-old who didn't get to push the button.
I work security for a large condo resort. I will be the only person waiting for the elevator to come down, it opens and people will walk from the beach inside, completely ignore the fact that I’ve been waiting and fill it to max capacity.. sometimes this happens several times in a row.
I hill I will die on: When a kid has a birthday, only HE gets to blow out the candles! It INFURIATES me to my very soul when I see other kids try to blow them out. The only thing worse is when adults LET THEM.
I saw a video years ago on here where a teenager was doing that to a little kid. The parents kept relighting the candles, but they wouldn’t do anything about the older child. It was so infuriating to watch. What a crappy thing to do to a child on his birthday.
Our older kid made that mistake once, for our younger kid’s birthday. We re-lit the candles and made the older kid sing again, by himself, so the younger kid could blow out the candles. Hasn’t been an issue since.
Or just as bad is when the birthday kid is opening their presents and someone says ‘okay now let little Jimmy open one.’ Little Jimmy needs to fuck off. He can open presents when it’s his birthday. I’ve had arguments with family members where I’ve said ‘no, it’s not your kid’s present, they need to piss off.’
I think mines kind of the same vein: when kids are playing some kind of organized group game together they will all follow the same set of rules. Nothing annoys me more than an official or person in charge letting some little cheater run roughshod over the other kids and replying "it's just a game".
Danny needs to fucking replenish the fridge downstairs. You take a soda pop, YOU REPLENISH.
If there's one thing I taught you, it's to REPLENISH!
Danny doesn’t replenish?!
I have JUST watched this video lol hilarious!
When I have time approved off from work and something goes wrong, no it is not my responsibility to log back on and take care of it.
This hill is not petty, hold your ground sir or ma’am.
This isn’t petty. This is a boundary every employee should set
Adding 's at the end of a word does not make it plural. I've seen it in ads. I've seen it on signs. I've even seen it on a flyer someone wrote advertising their services as a writer. People walk around like it's normal! Out in the street! Saying that they have 14 chicken's! Like monsters! I will die on this hill over and over until my assembled corpses make it into a slightly bigger hill.
There is a sign on a fruit stand I drive past that says: strawberries blueberries raspberry's It breaks my brain trying to figure out the rationale every time. Like, you had it for the first two, don't change tactics now!
It means the strawberries and blueberries belong to the raspberry. *Raspberry's strawberries and blueberries*
that at least would be cute but instead it is just wrong wrong *wrong*
Peach' es. Saw it the other day. fuming still
I once saw a place called Dereks Tattoo's. Yes, they had two chances and got both wrong. No I did not get a tattoo there.
Dereks tattoo is what? What doesn't Derek want us to know about his clones and their shared tattoo?
>monsters Monster's*
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Piqued my interest. It’s not “peaked”
Also, queue means line, cue is a signal/trigger to begin (so you join a *queue* at the checkout counter, while X event will *cue* Y response).
Too many people just split the difference and go with "que."
Que?
Big groups who won't make way on the sidewalk. If you wont move I will walk right into you.
I do this in NYC: stop walking and look down as if you dropped something. They are forced to walk around you.
when someone says "also as well"
I would also die on that hill as well
I would also die on that hill as well too
The meteorological phenomenon is "lightning", NOT "lightening"
Like "defiantly" for "definitely", a problem autocorrect is actually exacerbating
This is one I always call my friends out for or will at least respond sarcastically as if they meant to use defiantly
Don’t wave me through the 4 way stop to “be nice”, just take your goddamn turn.
Be predictable, not polite.
I say this all of the time! And people really need to learn how to manage 4 way stops and round abouts correctly
Roundabouts! Fuck me with a splintery wooden spoon, I hate other people. Just read the fucking signs folks, pretty please?
Yep, I was driving on a straight road. To my right was a guy exiting a parking lot. To my left, a woman had inexplicably stopped her car and "waved the guy through", so he exited the parking lot...directly into the path of my car and I T-boned him. He had completely focussed on the woman "waving him through" and in fact both the woman and the man claimed to the cops that I was in the wrong because she had stopped and waved him through. I told the cops "I was going straight, on a straight road". The right of way was clearly mine, but the two idiots kept insisting that somehow two people agreeing to let one of them be "waved through" somehow trumps all other traffic on the road.
What ended up happening?
Insurance kept hassling me, I told them what I put on the Police Report, they finally agreed the other driver was 100% responsible. They guy basically pulled into traffic without looking at incoming cars.
I’ve heard that in some states the person waving someone into an accident can be held partially responsible.
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I know someone who was in a serious accident for exactly this reason -- she was in a double lane and, at a stop sign, the moron next to her waved the other car through and the even bigger moron in that car went and t-boned her. So it's definitely not zero. Edit: small correction since I asked her about it: she wasn't stopped and didn't have a stop sign, but the waver was turning right and waved the go-er through *their* stop sign. Also she blames the waver more than the go-er, but the waver just drove away.
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Yup, and same with pedestrians sometimes, both are slower than cars so waving them into dangerous situations is often not a good idea and can even make someone at fault for the accident.
Lmao this is me 100%. A couple weeks ago I pulled up a good 3 seconds after the other guy had come to a complete stop. He tried to wave me throw. I shook my head and waved him. He didn’t budge. So naturally I very visibly crossed my arms and looked to the side. Took this fucker 30 seconds to finally go.. but I out-stubborned him and I’m very proud of that
I pulled my keys out of the ignition, jangled them, then dropped them into my lap while staring a waver dead in the eyes once. It was a residential intersection and no one else was around, so I was only inconveniencing myself, but I intended to make a point that day and I did, lol.
Man, my dad recently waved someone through a four way stop FROM THE PASSENGER SEAT. I had to pull over to tell him how absolutely dangerous that was. I was livid.
I broke my hand upvoting this. Living in the Midwest we have people who try to be nice and stop in the middle of a block on a 4 lane main road just to wave you into traffic…. Meanwhile the other 3 lanes couldn’t give a fuck less.
I broke off a relationship because she honestly thought the earth was only 2017 years old (It was of course back in 2017.), no matter how many articles I pulled forward and no matter how many facts I provided for her, she was in complete denial that the earth could be about 4.5 billion years old. She wasn’t raised in a Christian household or any type of religious household really, nor did she ever say anything about herself being religious - I talked to her parents about it and they never understood why she thought the way she did. I am still baffled over it and she thought I was being the pettiest man alive.
Crazy part is, no religions teaches that the earth is 2017 years old. That’s just dumb, how could we start counting on the first year. And I’m Christian
If the earth was flat why don’t they have penthouses on the borders
Because it would be too heavy and tip the world over. Duh
This is 1st rate science.
Don't forget that other planets are spheres, just earth is flat
When you're inside it's the floor, when you are outside it's the ground.
In my house growing up it was lava.
I had a cat that refused to walk on the floor. Jumped from furniture to furniture, and wouldn't go anywhere she couldn't jump up onto something.
Put your goddamn shopping cart/trolley in the corral
I've got one even more petty: A lot of stores have two sizes of cart. Most cart corrals are wide enough to accommodate two lanes. If I see you put a big cart on the left when there's already a big cart on the right side, you're getting stabbed. (former bagger/cart gatherer)
Our grocery store even has the sides labelled "large carts" and "small carts" and people STILL put them in the wrong side. Also, the people that leave the cart in a parking spot maybe two spots away from an empty corral.
Then/than. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE
If moths like to hang around lights so much, why don't they just COME OUT DURING THE DAY???
Because, the night time is the right time.
Birds
Skill issue
An apology should be used when you are genuinely sorry, not as absolution; it should also not be expected to be forgiven, either. Edit: As a Canadian, I'll concede that I do use "sorry" several times a day in the most seemingly mundane of situations, but trust me; I am sorry I am in your way.
And people don't need you to apologize for your stance, only for your actions. I feel if more people understand this, they would be willing to apologize more and find a solution to whatever problem they were arguing about.
Also forcing people to say/accept apologies is pointless. Teaching kids that saying sorry makes everything alright is stupid. You have to actually atone for your actions
Don't reach over and honk the horn while I am driving.
Who the fuck does this?!?
Cologne (and perfume) should be discovered, not announced. Stop weaponising that shit by bathing in it.
Also, please bathe. Fragrances don’t cover that shit up; it just adds to the general funk.
i work at a wedding and banquet company. we were having this wedding that was around 100-120 people and it was pretty crowded. This uncle, around 40-60 was sitting near the middle of the floor where all the servers walk through to buss tables. i was sweeping the floor when the man, locked eyes with me, grabbed his wine glass (full of white wine) and poured it all over the floor. i was shocked. he started laughing with his friends while motioning me to clean it up. i cleaned it up yes, but when he was getting appetizers, i stole all his cutlery for dinner. i never gave it back.
Hope you also told the bartender to shut his table off, obviously he's too drunk if he's spilling drinks willy nilly like that.
I’m sorry that happened to you. The rest of the family should have ripped him a new one.
"6 a.m. in the morning." No. Just no.
There's a series of Dilbert strips where he's trying to join Mensa. In one of them, he rings a doorbell, a surprised guy in a robe opens, and asks: "Dilbert, what are you doing here?" "I'm here for the six o'clock meeting of Mensa geniuses." "Uh, that's 6PM, not AM." Dilbert walks off and thinks: "Bad start."
A real Mensa genius would use the 24 clock.
I agree. 6 a.m. in the morning is too early.
Or 15.00 pm.
How did you manage to make it worse
Wait till you hear 1500 pm in the afternoon.
Fish is meat. I had one friend who would not let it go and argued that it was not and it was ‘just fish’ so much that it became a running joke.
meat without feet
So snakes are like fish, meat without feet?
My husband thinks eggs are meat. He argues about the eggs and fish thing every lent. We aren't even catholic.
The food pyramid I grew up with (70s) had eggs in the dairy triangle. Took me a long time to get over that.
>The food pyramid I grew up with (70s) had eggs in the dairy triangle. They go there for me because I like cheddar cheese on mine. >\_o
Eggs being meat is an argument that makes more sense than fish *not* being meat for sure.
Yeah but what about fish eggs? Boom! Bet you didn't think about that one!
Yeah, if chicken eggs are meat, then fish eggs are too. But fish is not. Glad we figured that out, what next?
"we aren't even Catholic" omg
Is your friend religious? I know this is a thing in Catholicism, maybe other denominations as well. There are days when you're not allowed to eat "meat" but fish is okay.
fake pockets only function is to frustrate people. why would you put fake pockets WHEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY HAVE REAL POCKETS AND STILL LOOK THE SAME????
It’s “I couldn’t care less” “I could care less” doesn’t even make sense.
"I could care less. I care very little, but it could be less." That's gotta be Mitch Hedburg, maybe I'm channeling him.
David Mitchell has a bit that sounds like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Throwing your cigarette butts is littering.
Their - possession There - position They're - person(s) doing something
I can't stand every movie/game title or band/artist name being acronymized these days. What the hell is TLAT? SWTROS? When you say BTS are you talking about the musical group or behind the scenes of something? Its like learning a new language.
So, I got used to seeing “ACAB” everywhere for a while, and I learned to automatically translate it in my head (as one does). Then, I started seeing “AFAB” and “AMAB” too. I was VERY confused at first, and now my brain sometimes decides to combine the meanings at random. Assigned Cop at Birth, Assigned Male at Ba***rd, you get the idea. NOT A POLITICAL COMMENT, just talking about acronyms and initialisms.
Assigned Cop At Birth
It happens. Also, when my photographer friends make “BTS posts”, for a split second I think “not one of these people are Korean” until I reset and remember “Behind The Scenes”. My brain is not firing on all cylinders, friend
IKR !
You saw the opportunity and you took it. I respect that.
A friend sent me a letter once (yes i am old) and it was signed off with a 12 letter string acronym...... and she wouldn't tell me what it meant! To this day i have no idea what she signed off with.
To add to this: unnecessary texting acronyms when typing out every other word in full (in longer paragraphs)
U are so incredibly right about this
You “lose” a bet. You don’t “loose” a bet
I was trying to exit a cruise ship the other day. I had a woman actually push me out of the way. What she wanted right then was more important than basic respect.
I don't care how you pronounce them, but it's written "could/would/should/might HAVE", not "could of".
An equally annoying one for me is when instead of saying “a part of” they say “apart of” which isn’t even grammatically correct, it would be “apart from” which is basically the opposite of “a part of.”
So many people, movies and TV shows misuse the phrase “divide and conquer”. It doesn’t mean “to split up and attack on multiple fronts”, which is a horrible idea for military strategy on the grand scale of armies. It means to divide your enemy, and conquer them one by one.
Never really given this one much thought. I'm feeling stupid for being guilty of this because your explanation makes obvious, perfect sense. I think it's people trying to use a military concept out of context and it's just taken on a new meaning for civilian culture.
You're not helping me by trying to hold up one lane of traffic on a 4 lane street. Just go.
The Oxford comma. Edit: first gold. Thanks, stranger.
THERE IS NOTHING PETTY ABOUT THE OXFORD COMMA
So I had to google what an Oxford comma is. Now I’m more concerned. Do people not use this? I thought it was common
Absolutely! *Not* using it is a hill for some people. Stranger, I've encountered texts that use (or do not use) it rather inconsistently in the same document.
With all due respect, I must disagree with you. That is no mere hill; you stand upon a mountain of mountains!
Dude over here popping in with the correct use of a semicolon. Could you not? I may get aroused.
I love the semicolon; it's the best of all punctuation marks!
My brother! I told my kids they can be gay or straight, conservative or liberal, religious or atheist, I'll still love them. But if they don't use the Oxford comma, they are dead to me.
This is *exactly* what I was going to say. The Oxford comma saves lives.
Don't talk with your mouth full of food. Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to see partially chewed food in your mouth.
And don't chew with your mouth open. I had a co-worker I could hear three cubes over, years ago, and I wanted to stab him with his fork. 😅
Rudolph is not a core member of Santa's reindeer team. The song specifically says "then ONE foggy Christmas Eve... Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh TONIGHT." why would Santa risk being noticed with a red light of a nose if he didn't need to? Rudolph is like the brights on your car, you only need them when you need to.
Also, if you really really think about that story it's not a good one. Rudolph is made fun of for his red nose, probably his whole life. But then when it becomes convenient for them all of a sudden his red nose is fantastic! So, that thing that sets you apart is bad unless it benefits me, then it's fine.
Stop being a people pleaser. It’s not good for your mental health. Edit: It’s ok to say no and have boundaries
A bathroom that has a locking door, a single toilet and a single sink inside it is unisex
YES ! 100% yes. I was in a mall once with my kids, then like 2 and 4, and one had anounced she had to go potty. So, off we went. Well, there was a line 5 deep for the ladies, and no line for the mens, BUT I knew that these were as you described, basically like a home bathroom without a shower. So I (f) took my two daughters into that bathroom and they DIDN'T have to pee on the floor. Win all around right ? Well, the looks I got, and one lady even said "Umm, we were here first ?" To which I looked her dead in the eyes and asked, "Why, no one was in this one ?" and left.
When people hold the door for you while you’re far away but they’re looking at you and waiting so you have to do a stupid run and smile and thank them.
In the business of dangling someone with a rope around their neck until they die, it's "hanged," not "hung."
Although a man can be hung.
Just not me ☹️
In a plural possessive word, the apostrophe goes after the letter s! My two kids have a swingset. It is my kids’ swingset.
WHY CAN'T I PLACE A BAG IN THE BAGGING AREA
Do not ask questions you know the answer to. "Are you crying?" no sharon I am just sweating through my eyes, that's why I look so upset.
I've just been cutting onions I'm making a lasagna... For one
When you empty the ice cube tray, you fill it up again. Its common sense. Don't put it on the counter, don't put it back empty in the freezer. Sorry wife, but it drives me bonkers
My mom was in the wrong when she said my prom date shouldn't wear black and red together because those colors tend to look whorish. Edit: for those of you trying to picture it. the dress was black lace, and pretty short. My date wore bright red lipstick and pumps.
Checkers boards are whorish?
King me daddy
Yes
If today is Monday, then the upcoming Saturday is considered “this Saturday” not “next Saturday”. “Next” would be two Saturdays from now. Fight me.
My wife will say next Saturday on Friday and mean tomorrow. I am always asking for clarification.
Shepherds Pie is made from lamb mince not beef. If you're using beef it's a cottage pie.
Now this is the petty I was looking for. Bravo.
Sidewalk and hallway traffic should move like road traffic. Stick to the side of the sidewalk or hallway based on the direction you are going. I will not move out of my way for you if you are walking on the wrong side.
It is a PIN, not a PIN number. PIN stands for personal identification number. Just like it is an ATM, not an ATM machine.
You mean I shouldn't use my PIN number at the ATM machine at UMB Bank?
If you open the microwave before it's done clear the timer so the next person doesn't have to try figure out why it's not starting.
Cars have brakes not breaks I fucking hate how every ad I see (mainly on Facebook I should add) can’t fucking spell properly. Cars use brakes to stop you take a break at work they are not the same fucking thing.
Rinse your dishes! Few things more aggravating than tomato sauce or mashed potatoes glued to a bowl because no one wanted to load the dishwasher or do the dishes in a timely manner.
If you’re the type of person that leaves huge messes when you eat out and don’t even attempt to at least tidy it for the person that has to collect it because “It’S tHeIr JoB!1¡” you have the most unfounded sense of entitlement of anyone around you. That doesn’t absolve you from being a rude, filthy human being and not being considerate of others. Edit: fixed typo
Your lack of understanding of basic science is perfectly acceptable, but it doesn’t excuse your wilful ignorance when someone explains it.
Use the left lane for passing and then get back into the doggone right lane. Grew up in Germany where that's enforced on the Autobahn. American left lane hogs drive me nuts, especially when they go five miles under the speed limit. What's the friggin' point?
I work in food. One thing that pisses me off is when customers see my outstretched hand, and they'll lay their money on the counter. So, when I go to give them their change, and their hand is out and open, I'll purposefully lay all the money and their receipt on the counter instead of in their hand. And before any of you come for me and say *"BuT wE'rE iN a PaNdEmIc!i!i"*, this has been happening since before covid and will continue after covid. But for the love of all that is good and holy, IF YOU SEE ME WITH MY HAND OUT, JUST HAND ME THE MONEY. ETA: I don't mean those with disabilities, those who have an issue with being touched, and the super elderly. I mean the ones who throw the money on the counter and then expect me to sort through everything and then *hand them their stuff once I'm done*.