Pet Peeve
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Local boat ramp on a Sunday morning.
My wife was driving up the road, and the sheet of snow flew off the roof of a Minvan coming the other direction. The foot of snow and ice on their roof blew off, and almost came through our windshield. Fortunately, she had time to hit the brakes, so it " only" broke our grill and headlight housing, and "only" cost $900 to fix.
THAT'S why it matters to some of us.
You’re probably right. I, too, hate my grammar to be corrected on the internet!
smoothshooter
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What burns my buns is people who get upset over minor stuff. Will it matter in a year? No problem
Stress and anger will kill YOU, not the person that caused you to give YOURSELF stress and anger. It does nothing what so ever to them
If you let other people stress and anger you, your giving them some control over you. Have the self empowerment to let it go and ignore it
Take a breath, think about sitting along the river watching the water flow by and every once in the while hope they drown
Stress and anger will kill YOU, not the person that caused you to give YOURSELF stress and anger. It does nothing what so ever to them
If you let other people stress and anger you, your giving them some control over you. Have the self empowerment to let it go and ignore it
Take a breath, think about sitting along the river watching the water flow by and every once in the while hope they drown
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smoothshooter
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My peeves are screaming kids in public places and people who let their dogs bark incessantly.
Also, people who chew their food with their mouths open.
What are the upsides of any of those behaviors?
Also, people who chew their food with their mouths open.
What are the upsides of any of those behaviors?
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smoothshooter
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We all make mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, but I think when communicating in public one should make the effort to do it correctly.
Especially with spelling.
I am somewhat of a spelling Nazi, and have seen posts here and elsewhere where the spelling was so atrocious that it was difficult or impossible to determine what the OP was trying to say.
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carpriver
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I don't like people that rub me the wrong way also, But find it difficult to find people to rub me the right way.
mike from st pete
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People who have loud conversations on a cell phone in a foreign language.
Makes it impossible for me to tell what EXACTLY is going on. It is rude too
Makes it impossible for me to tell what EXACTLY is going on. It is rude too
I cant stand it when my wife scolds me for watching videos while I drive up north. Nothing passes the time on a boring drive like old school Star Trek on Netflix
Duly notted.
There was a time my wife and family drove to see my parents for Christmas. We got six inches of snow the night before we headed out. I cleared the windows before leaving but left the hood, roof and trunk snow covered. By the time I got out of the neighborhood, the hood was clear. When I got to the state route, another driver started tailgating me. I started speeding up but he stayed right on my butt. Then the snow from my roof lifted and fell in his hood and windshield. It looked like a mattress had fallen on his car. I understand it is a pet peeve for some of you but I couldn't stop laughing.
Jim1392
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I'm assuming you're joking because I had some clown do exactly that and a sheet of ice and snow came off of the top of his car and took my windshield out. I had to go to the eye doctor to take glass out of my eye's. I could hardly see between the glass and the windshield and was lucky enough that I was in the right lane so I got over to the shoulder without causing an accident. You'd be amazed what ice can do to a windshield at 65 miles per hour on a highway.
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Jim1392
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He was wrong for tailgating but you were more wrong for not cleaning the car off. It's dangerous and if it happened to you like it did to me you wouldn't find it funny. I find it hard to believe you find it funny that someone could have been injured or that you could have caused an accident.
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There is a big difference from a bunch of powdered snow and snow that is frozen and icy. Fresh powdered snow is NOT going to take anyone's window out. I keep a stiff shop broom outside the door. I use it to sweep the porch and shove the snow off my car. If ice has formed on the roof of my car it won't come off with out a hammer and chisel until the car is way warmed up and if it is 20 or 30 below it will never come off. What about the huge lumps of ice that form behind car and truck wheels and then come off and create serious rod hazards. If you got you window busted, You were to close. If he was in the other lane why did it come across the lanes at windshield height. Take a really strong side wind. Gravity don't work that way. With the new mileage restrictions there are semis parked along the road all the time here in the winter. I hardly expect them to get up on top their icy slippery trailers and shovel them off before they take off again. I have a responsibility to watch out and stay back from something I can see is loaded with snow. But, like I said big difference between snow and ice. Ice can form as you go down the road anyway. In the Bering sea going 6 knots huge chunks would form all over our boat even above zero and that was salt water, but then the wind mightt have been blowing 80 or so. A 1" line could become 8" in diameter with ice in just hours.
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