Pet Peeves - Page 3

Ian J · #21 11-28-2004, 03:20 AM

I hate it when people don't answer their cell phones. Not someone who does it every once in awhile. I'm talking about friends who pick up their cell phone once every 10 times you call them. What's the point of owning one?

PoBoy321 · #22 11-28-2004, 04:05 AM

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.

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Well that's not true. Drunk girls are completely powerless to their bitchy friends. Believe me. I'm dating one of the bitchy friends. We were out a while ago with some of her friends and this one girlfriend of hers got trashed and was all over some guy. My girlfriend starts going into the whole "we need to get you home" thing and I was like "hey, let her have her fun. She's a slut anyway, you know she'd do it if she were sober." So I get a death glare, no pussy for like a week, and some poor bastard got cockblocked.

brassnuts · #23 11-28-2004, 04:46 AM

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I hate it when people don't answer their cell phones. Not someone who does it every once in awhile. I'm talking about friends who pick up their cell phone once every 10 times you call them. What's the point of owning one?

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Maybe they just screen their calls.

PoBoy321 · #24 11-28-2004, 04:51 AM

This is kind of a corollary of the sidewalk thing, but it's worse when it happens on stairs. I mean, if it happens on a sidewalk, you can step into the street or something, but when you're walking up a flight of stairs, and there's a big group coming down, where are you gonna go? And if they start bumping into you, you've gotta grab the handrail to make sure you don't lose your balance and tumble down a flight of stairs. I mean, why can't stairs be just like driving? Stay to the right, that way no one bothers anyone else.

Oh, also on escalators. When you're going up an escalator and there are people in front of you, and you want to walk up rather than just stand there and let it carry you up, but you can't because they're standing there. They should stay to one side so that people can walk by. I know that this is kind of an unwritten rule on the DC metro (where the escalators are literally HUNDREDS of feet long), but it should apply everywhere.

Ianco15 · #25 11-28-2004, 05:07 AM

I hate it people dont give a courtesy wave when I'm driving and go out of my way to do something for them. For example if I let them into traffic or something and they dont even acknowledge the favor I have done for them. I didnt have to let them in, and when I do I expect a courtesy wave. The same goes for people who dont thank you when you do other simple favors for them (like holding open the door).

Ianco15 · #26 11-28-2004, 05:25 AM

Another thing that pissed me off that I just remembered... I was taking a flight on Southwest which is open seating and I got an isle seat which I really happy about. A few minutes later this middle aged lady got on the plane asked me if I could move into the middle seat so she could have the isle seat. I gave her the seat, which I now regret. What a bitch to ask me to give up my seat! Why should she get it? Damn, I just pissed myself off thinking about that. Basically, I really hate it when people ask you to do something for them but you really cant say no, because if you do you come off looking like an ass. I couldnt say no to the lady and come off looking like a total jerk.

Cornbread Maxwell · #27 11-28-2004, 05:45 AM

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Another thing that pissed me off that I just remembered... I was taking a flight on Southwest which is open seating and I got an isle seat which I really happy about. A few minutes later this middle aged lady got on the plane asked me if I could move into the middle seat so she could have the isle seat. I gave her the seat, which I now regret. What a bitch to ask me to give up my seat! Why should she get it? Damn, I just pissed myself off thinking about that. Basically, I really hate it when people ask you to do something for them but you really cant say no, because if you do you come off looking like an ass. I couldnt say no to the lady and come off looking like a total jerk.

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Funny how poker theories apply so well to life. This and the sidewalk/escalator examples are basically like position raises in poker from a loose-agressive player (the person who won't move out of the way on the sidewalk or unexpectedly asks for your aisle seat on an airplane), and you are stuck defending your vunerable blind.

More often than not a real life 're-raise' is called for in this situation, thereby giving yourself a prime opportunity to retain your aisle seat or position on the sidewalk, but in practice most people fold and give up their seat as to avoid confrontations (basically looking like a jerk, as you put it).

If you were to 're-raise', and either 1) not move out of the way on the sidewalk or 2) refuse to give up your aisle seat, more often than not you and the customs that pertain to society will profit from the situation.

Anyone else think this way? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

youtalkfunny · #28 11-28-2004, 06:14 AM

Well, since you asked:

--People who bump into someone they know on a busy sidewalk, or in a busy hallway, and they stop walking to chat, and they stay RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING! No matter how much they get knocked around, they won't consider moving out of everyone's way to have their conversation.

--People who stand in doorways. You see this one a lot in the poker room, or at restaurants, or any other place where you might have to wait for a seat. They can stand anywhere in the building, but they pick a spot in the doorway. And when you say to them, "Excuse me, I'd like to get by," they step out of your way...THEN RESUME THEIR SPOT IN THE FREAKING DOORWAY!

--There are people who don't listen to what you're saying, they just wait for you to finish talking so that they can begin speaking. I don't mind that. I do have a problem, though, with those who don't try to HIDE the fact that they're not listening. They sigh, roll their eyes, check their watch, and my favorite, when you're voice sounds like it's coming to the end of a sentence, THEY DRAW A DEEP BREATH AND HOLD IT, until it's their turn to speak, so that they don't miss the oppurtunity. Because it would be unbearable to them to have to sit through one more sentence of SOMEONE ELSE talking to them.

--When the dealer asks a player to move over to help square up the table, and the guy moves a half-inch--usually he just shifts in his chair, and the chair doesn't move at all--then he gives the dealer that look that says, "What? I moved! Why are you looking at me?"

--The guy in the poker room who thinks that the tv closest to him is HIS tv, and should be set to a channel of his choosing. Go ahead and try to change it, and watch this guy. He'll jump up and scream as if you had just burst into his living room and commandeered HIS tv.

(This one's not just a poker thing. When I was booking sports in Vegas, I had a guy in a Red Wings jersey tell me that EVERYONE in the sportsbook wanted the sound on the Red Wings game. "NO ONE is watching that basketball game!", he insisted. "That basketball game" was Game One of the NBA Finals.)

--When the guy at the drive-thru gives me my change, he lays the bills flat on the palm of my hand, then he drops the coins onto the bill. I've got to make a quick snatch before the coins slide off onto the ground. Why can't he put the COINS in the palm of my hand? Then, as my hand closes, I can grab the bills with my fingers. I can't be the first person in the world to have thought of this.

gamblore99 · #29 11-28-2004, 06:36 AM

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Another thing that pissed me off that I just remembered... I was taking a flight on Southwest which is open seating and I got an isle seat which I really happy about. A few minutes later this middle aged lady got on the plane asked me if I could move into the middle seat so she could have the isle seat. I gave her the seat, which I now regret. What a bitch to ask me to give up my seat! Why should she get it? Damn, I just pissed myself off thinking about that. Basically, I really hate it when people ask you to do something for them but you really cant say no, because if you do you come off looking like an ass. I couldnt say no to the lady and come off looking like a total jerk.

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in a study by miligram and sabini students asked strangers for there seat on the subway, and 56% gave there seat up, without any justification. seems kinda similar

gamblore99 · #30 11-28-2004, 06:44 AM

1) irrational people. sometimes when you and people you know have a problem, and you try to discuss and find a solution, some common ground, but they just restate there point no matter what. they dont even try to refute you, or work together, they just repeat there arguement exactly the same.

2) cats. they suck

3)girls who lead you on without any intention of following through. seriously, this should be illegal. Like flirting is ok, but it gets to a point where its very obvious, and if the girl doesn't want any of it, she should give some indication instead of putting her arm around him and laugh at his jokes. [censored]!