NOTHING CHAPS ME MORE THAN..........

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26Ford

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Fill in the blank. I might seem a little bitter right now, but nothing chaps me more than...........I'll go first and you folks can play along too. Some times you just need to vent.

You can make a few hundred different threads about buying and selling and the horror stories that go with such events. My problem is the flagrant misuse of this term, " Asking $XXX FIRM ". ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!. How on GODS green earth can you " ASK " a certain price and it be " FIRM ". Someone please explain before I swallow some lead. Make that a double bartender. 26Ford.
 
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Um, ford, not sure i understand. If i want to sell a car for $5.00 and i won't take $4.95, that's pretty firm...So don't flipping call me if $4.95 is all you have. If fact, it chaps me if you do..
 
I see your a Navy man too, I'm praying for all involved directly and indirectly, 26Ford
 
wuluf said:
Um, ford, not sure i understand. If i want to sell a car for $5.00 and i won't take $4.95, that's pretty firm...So don't flipping call me if $4.95 is all you have. If fact, it chaps me if you do..
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Sir, please read the post again, if your "firm" your firm, I wont call and offer you less. If your "asking" your are legally and ethically open to offer less or even pay more than the asking price. Your missing the point- it CAN NOT be both, only one or the other.
 
I have posted prices and gotten slammed with lowballs, but declining them has usually gotten me some fair offers. I guess "firm" is a relative term for me.
 
You lost me somewhere I think that maybe you live somewhere away from the Midwest because using both terms in a sale ad makes complete sense to me. I'm just a dumb Ole hillbilly so what do I know. And yes chaps really chap me also. Got a brand new pair that I could never make myself wear no matter how cold it gets. My wife bought them at the Grand Nationals in Chillicothe I think they look silly.
 
Just my two cents

Howdy,
I often sell things for a firm price.
If I post a firm price you are just wasting your time and mine to offer me anything less.
I don't see anything wrong with advertising an item for the amount it takes to buy it from me.
I don't see how that can be confusing?
What chaps me? Green vegetables.
Thanks
Mike
 
For Sale, used Widget. $5.00 firm. Really very easy.:D

How much are you asking for that widget? $5.00

How much will let it go for?

What really Chaps me today is people are pigs, slobs whatever. Why can't the at least pick up trash, newspapers, empty water bottles in their own damn yard/driveway??? They walk right over it:mad:
 
Rule3 said:
For Sale, used Widget. $5.00 firm. Really very easy.:D

How much are you asking for that widget? $5.00

How much will let it go for?

What really Chaps me today is people are pigs, slobs whatever. Why can't the at least pick up trash, newspapers, empty water bottles in their own damn yard/driveway??? They walk right over it:mad:
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I have no problem with someone asking, firmly, for their price. It just seems polite. The opposite is what chaps me, when I go to a gun show and see a table full of guns with NO prices listed. Are their prices so high that they're ashamed to list them? That usually seems to be the case when I bother to ask. It's extremely rare to find out that the price is low or even fair – it's usually ridiculously high.

Off the subject of guns and onto slob behavior, what chaps me is smokers who seem to think that the world is their ashtray and throw their butts on the ground. Would they do the same with a candy wrapper, or a used Kleenex? Probably not but they think nothing of flicking away a butt.

Worse are drivers who do this and flip a lighted butt out their car window. I can understand not wanting the filthy, stinking thing in their car, but then why did they light it in the first place? And even more infuriating are the drivers who do this in the summertime, when it hasn't rained for months and the grass is tinder dry and grassfires are a huge danger. These are criminally careless slobs who should be charged with arson. :mad:

Yeah, I can see some vitriol coming out in this thread…. :rolleyes:
 
What really chaps me are people who claim to be friends to your face; then stab you in the back with **** posts all over places like Facebook and Twitter!

As for guns, if it's a "firm" price and I want it; I pay it. If it's negotiable, I try to negotiate.
 
...people walking their dogs past my house, letting them poop in my yard, and not picking it up for whatever reason.

What makes me more mad is when there dogs are little so they think their mini-poop isn't still dog poop. It's like they think that if it is just so small that it automatically qualifies as acceptable fertilizer for my lawn.

And what's worse than that, my neighbors darn cats that run wild in the neighborhood crapping in my garden and kids sandbox. Why do some people with pets think that it is acceptable for me to have to deal with their poop???
 
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What really chaps me is....

People who drive 10 MPH under the speed limit, but speed up to five over when they enter an area where passing is allowed.

People who have a handicapped placard and park in a handicapped space then almost sprint into Walmart... you know the placard belongs to someone else and they are just abusing the privilege.

People who take pictures of me and post them on the website "People of Walmart"... I mean, who really cares if I dress in camo pants, flannel shirt and a do-rag...
 
sideways said:
You lost me somewhere I think that maybe you live somewhere away from the Midwest because using both terms in a sale ad makes complete sense to me. I'm just a dumb Ole hillbilly so what do I know. And yes chaps really chap me also. Got a brand new pair that I could never make myself wear no matter how cold it gets. My wife bought them at the Grand Nationals in Chillicothe I think they look silly.
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you DO know you are supposed to wear at least something underneath those chaps right?! :eek:
 
"Worse are drivers who flip a lighted butt out their car window. And even more infuriating are the drivers who do this in the summertime, when it hasn't rained for months and the grass is tinder dry and grassfires are a huge danger. These are criminally careless slobs who should be charged with arson."

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Amen, TOM K, Amen.

These people should have to turn in 20 butts before they can buy 20 more.
 
Lots of things chap me.

Poor grammar--namely apostrophe abuse/misuse and not using the correct form of a word such as "your" and "you're" and "there," "they're," or "their", or knowing if you are using a plural or possessive. So many intelligent people make themselves look less so by not taking the care to such detail.

That's a minor peeve.

The real one...I had "work" tonight. For the most part, I "work" during religious services. Today was one such day.

My husband was at home, off work today. I got a message at 7:30, about when I'd be leaving, that we are out of cat food and "What's for dinner?" The church is about an hour from the house.

REALLY? Two and a half grown people in this house and you will wait TWO HOURS for me to come feed you (drive time home, store time, cook time) because you are "too tired" to even look to see what's here? THAT'S what chaps me! There are very few instances a year that I do not make a good meal for them regardless of how long or busy MY day was. Many times even when I am not here, I leave something good in the crock pot or on oven timer for them. They whine about why they can't have fast food, which is pretty much forbidden around here but allowable when I am gone and didn't leave something for them, or something like that. A night like tonight would have been a good fast food candidate for them...but they were too lazy. And, there were good leftovers last night but the dishwashers didn't do their jobs and it was left out. NO REASON for me to have to get them food. Lazy, spoiled, inconsiderate behavior is what chaps me, and this is the biggest example there is.

I should have fed my cats the meatloaf and made the Mr. eat Iams.
 
Tom K said:
I have no problem with someone asking, firmly, for their price. It just seems polite. The opposite is what chaps me, when I go to a gun show and see a table full of guns with NO prices listed. Are their prices so high that they're ashamed to list them? That usually seems to be the case when I bother to ask. It's extremely rare to find out that the price is low or even fair – it's usually ridiculously high.

Off the subject of guns and onto slob behavior, what chaps me is smokers who seem to think that the world is their ashtray and throw their butts on the ground. Would they do the same with a candy wrapper, or a used Kleenex? Probably not but they think nothing of flicking away a butt.

Worse are drivers who do this and flip a lighted butt out their car window. I can understand not wanting the filthy, stinking thing in their car, but then why did they light it in the first place? And even more infuriating are the drivers who do this in the summertime, when it hasn't rained for months and the grass is tinder dry and grassfires are a huge danger. These are criminally careless slobs who should be charged with arson. :mad:

Yeah, I can see some vitriol coming out in this thread…. :rolleyes:
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Me too....
 
What really chaps me off is...........never mind, probably better not to go there.
 
What chaps me is anyone who thinks they work harder, had a tougher life, have worse luck, or any other excuse to act sub-human. Bob Marley said it best, "Everyman thinks his burden is the heaviest." Bet you never thought you'd see Marley quoted on a gun site. He carried.
 
The biggest thing that gets me is tailgaters.

If they want to risk their lives getting to wherever they are going faster than the speed limit allows so be it. Don't risk mine, or my family's, life / lives in the process.

The only thing worse than a tailgater, is a tailgater talking on the phone or texting......
 
writerinmo said:
What really chaps me is....

People who drive 10 MPH under the speed limit, but speed up to five over when they enter an area where passing is allowed.

People who have a handicapped placard and park in a handicapped space then almost sprint into Walmart... you know the placard belongs to someone else and they are just abusing the privilege.

People who take pictures of me and post them on the website "People of Walmart"... I mean, who really cares if I dress in camo pants, flannel shirt and a do-rag...
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I saw you go by the other day. I was hanging out in the plant section in my Ghillie suit.
 
For some reason one of my biggest chaps is those who don't drive with their lights on in inclement weather. It's state law here. Those people are very hard to see in dim light when raining or snowing. Then there are those who just turn on the parking lights, like pulling or turning the light switch one more click would cause them to pull a muscle or something.
 
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