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Do you have a Pet Peeve (Part II)

Tidewater said:
This is my favorite Tex-Mex place and they make their own chips and salsa, and it is really good. Can't get that with their takeout.
Is it normal for a one and a half year old to screech like a pterodactyl? Sure. That does not mean it is polite to take the little pterodactyl to a restaurant so she can ruin everyone'e meal.
I wish people were more cognizant of those around them and realized that impolite behavior is annoying to those around them.
Politeness is a social lubricant. It helps society go.
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Love it! Well said, TW!

Not to belabor your point, but are you saying that restaurant does not offer their chips and salsa to go?

The place I get take out from here gives their chips and salsa with every order....and many times I but an extra large container of their salsa as a side order, because it's so good.
 
Smokers throwing their nasty cigarette butts wherever. Those things don’t rot. So you leave the nasty things for someone else to deal with.

Theres a traffic light at the end of an exit ramp not far from me. While waiting at the light, apparently people like to flick em out the window or empty their car ash trays. There’s a mound of nasty cigarette butts.
 
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Made a deposit at my Mom's bank today. Had to go inside because their drive through still isn't working after damage from the hurricanes in 2022. :rolleyes:

But my pet peeve is they only unlock one of the two entry doors. And there's no "Use other door" sign telling you which one to use.

I mean.......how hard would it be to make one? :unsure:

I told the teller they better get their drive through fixed because I think we're going to get another Covid pandemic....and then where will they be. The look on her face......priceless.....
 
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I fully understand finding a balance between sanity and monitoring the access people have to you wrt digital communication aka cell phones (specifically text messages in this case). However, digital communication has become a very common and accepted means of communication in our society in both the workforce and social arena. There are a lot of people who would rather communicate via text than a phone call.

Unfortunately, I decided to "rip someone a new butthole" yesterday about something I should have addressed a long time ago and I probably wouldn't have been as harsh. A friend of mine has a really bad habit of completely ignoring text and phone calls altogether or waiting so long to answer a text that the information in it has become irrelevant. Yet, anytime he needs something or is trying to get in touch with me or anyone, he expects prompt responses. Unfortunately, we are involved in some common circles that require informal "business" to be done which requires communication with him.

Last summer he put me in a bad spot due to not responding to something that I needed information from him. So I made my mind up that I was going to start giving him some of his own medicine. Apparently my ignoring one of his text put him in a bind and he didn't like it. So he sent me a very snarky and overly direct text letting me know the inconvenience I caused him. So, I decided to call him and sure enough, he was ticked off enough to answer the phone and there we went. I let him complain and "chastise" me for ignoring his text knowing I needed the information. Once he was done I lit him up like a Christmas tree and told him he had been doing that to me and others for years, but people have been mature enough not to do it to him. But I decided last summer (and cited when he did it to me and highly inconvenienced me) that I was done and I was going to start "doing unto him as he does unto me".

So I asked him "How do you like it when it's done to you? Because you have zero problem doing it to me and other people we know." Dude got real, real quiet because he knew he couldn't say anything. After all, he was fully aware he did this to people all the time. We just decided the best thing to do is to hang up and cool off.
 
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Bamabuzzard said:
I fully understand finding a balance between sanity and monitoring the access people have to you wrt digital communication aka cell phones (specifically text messages in this case). However, digital communication has become a very common and accepted means of communication in our society in both the workforce and social arena. There are a lot of people who would rather communicate via text than a phone call.

Unfortunately, I decided to "rip someone a new butthole" yesterday about something I should have addressed a long time ago and I probably wouldn't have been as harsh. A friend of mine has a really bad habit of completely ignoring text and phone calls altogether or waiting so long to answer a text that the information in it has become irrelevant. Yet, anytime he needs something or is trying to get in touch with me or anyone, he expects prompt responses. Unfortunately, we are involved in some common circles that require informal "business" to be done which requires communication with him. Last summer he put me in a bad spot due to not responding to something that I needed information from him. So I made my mind up that I was going to start giving him some of his own medicine. Apparently my ignoring one of his text put him in a bind and he didn't like it. So he sent me a very snarky and overly direct text letting me know the inconvenience I caused him. So, I decided to call him and sure enough, he was ticked off enough to answer the phone and there we went. I let him complain and "chastise" me for ignoring his text knowing I needed the information. Once he was done I lit him up like a Christmas tree and told him he had been doing that to me and others for years, but people have been mature enough not to do it to him. But I decided last summer (and cited when he did it to me and highly inconvenienced me) that I was done and I was going to start "doing unto him as he does unto me". So I asked him "How do you like it when it's done to you? Because you have zero problem doing it to me and other people we know." Dude got real, real quiet because he knew he couldn't say anything. After all, he was fully aware he did this to people all the time. We just decided the best thing to do is to hang up and cool off.
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Now the two of you can move forward and work well together. But if the both of you were female, well you know. ;)
 
Being told by the server that I made "an excellent choice" when I order food. Was there a bad choice on the menu? Do I get a gold star or something? All I know is I order what I want to eat, I don't care how it ranks on the menu.
 
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Most of what we’re talking about here involves selfish lack of respect and consideration for others.
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Which is exactly what I told my buddy when we decided to set aside the pleasantries. He started trying to make excuses but I just cut through the bullcrap and told him "No, you do it on purpose, I've watched you do it to others and it's nothing more than a lack of respect for other people and their time. It's not that complicated."
 
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Elefantman said:
Being told by the server that I made "an excellent choice" when I order food. Was there a bad choice on the menu? Do I get a gold star or something? All I know is I order what I want to eat, I don't care how it ranks on the menu.
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Point taken. Would get on my nerves too.

I'll only add that when I was in sales - we were taught that part of the selling "process" was to inform the customer....."You made a good choice!" etc etc to help reinforce a positive transaction.
 
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WELCOME TO MOE’S!!!

(or whatever establishment you happen to be entering)

if it’s genuine, Excellent!, if it’s a forced corporate “Welcome”, it’s hollow and is ignorable.
 
I used to work for a Chief that his thoughts in speech were always followed by 'UUH.' It didn't matter what subject, it was always followed by 'UUH'.
In a one hour meeting I counted 64 'UUGs'.
Terribly boring for all. Worse he thought he was a genius in Police Department management. I got a look at his diploma.
He was a grad. of Mississippi State. Not to cast shade on MSU, but
I doubt he took Speech.
He didn't represent MSU very well.
That man drove most of us to distraction.
 
The fact that very often when people use the phrase "...the fact that..." what they are referring to is not, in fact, any sort of actual established fact.
 
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I used to work for a Chief that his thoughts in speech were always followed by 'UUH.' It didn't matter what subject, it was always followed by 'UUH'.
In a one hour meeting I counted 64 'UUGs'.
Terribly boring for all. Worse he thought he was a genius in Police Department management. I got a look at his diploma.
He was a grad. of Mississippi State. Not to cast shade on MSU, but
I doubt he took Speech.
He didn't represent MSU very well.
That man drove most of us to distraction.
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I took speech in my freshman year of college and though I loathed it to death, it was one of the most beneficial classes that has benefitted me even today.
 
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The fact that very often when people use the phrase "...the fact that..." what they are referring to is not, in fact, any sort of actual established fact.
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Oh boy that one could be used on this site lately. People think their opinions are fact.
 
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