11.25.23
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Peeve Me!

  1. Bad Drivers. Most are too ding dang stoopid to know how bad they are. Turn signals well before brakes people! You cannot be oblivious to your surroundings when driving, gee, I’m sure glad you had your alone time with that cigarette you just threw out the window, think you can pay enough attention to getting your slow ass out of the way now? That stop sign is there for a reason, don’t make me have to take evasive action to keep from T-boning you! If you can’t do the posted speed limit, it might be time to just get a horse and buggy and one of those reflective triangles to hang off your backside! Use the shoulder when making a right turn, do not come nearly to a complete stop to make your turn from the highway! Blind hills, blind curves, try to understand them, and be on your damn side of the road! Stop putting those extra heavy duty, twice as bright as the sun, replacement bulbs in you vehicle! Blinding everyone on the highway so you can “see better” makes you a royal jackass! Gad, people are so annoying.
  2. Annoying people. See # 1, and to some extent #3.
  3. Low talkers. I love my wife, but she’s a low talker. She will start off a sentence loud enough I can hear her, but as the sentence winds down, so does her voice. Whaaat? Or, I’ll be in the kitchen which is right next to the utility room/furnace, with the water running in the sink, and the furnace is running, and the washer is in spin cycle, and she wonders why I can’t hear her from the next room. Arrrggghh! She thinks I’m half deaf, I think she’s a low talker. 😉

13 thoughts on “Peeve Me!”

  1. I know your complaints are real, but … they’re funnn-ny! 😄😅😂

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  2. Exactly THIS is happening daily in Central Texas, shell. It is so freakin’ annoying it gets my blood-pressure BOILING instantaneously, if not in 1-2 seconds. 😉

    Bwaaaaa!!!! “Low Talker.” 😄

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  3. My wife has this habit of starting to say something to me and then turning away and starting to do something like start up a blender while still talking, and then claims my hearing is going bad when I have to ask her to repeat what she just said after she turns the thing off. Sigh…

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  4. Speaking of bad drivers… One thing that scares the hell out of me is that a lot of drivers here think they’re entitled to swerve into the other lane directly into oncoming traffic to get around a slow moving vehicle or even a bicycle. I see almost a dozen head on collisions a month from idiots doing that.

    When I was a service technician my territory covered the entire eastern half of the state of Wisconsin, plus parts of the UP so I was on the road a lot. I did about 60,000 miles a year. I saw drivers that would make your hair curl. I saw one woman changing her clothes, while she was driving. I’ve seen people reading newspapers while driving. I saw one guy with his kid on his lap while he was driving with the kid, who couldn’t have been more than 4, steering the car. I saw a couple of good ole boys going down the road about 70 with someone riding on the hood of the car with a beer in his hand. Makes life interesting.

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    • Disrespecting bicycles ticks me off. Bicycles have just as much right to the road as you do in your vehicle. And swerving into oncoming traffic to get around a bicycle is insane. It’s also way more dangerous for the bicycle rider who has no steel cage and airbags to protect them. Much of that also applies to motorcycles.

      I sold off my Sportster years ago due to idiot tailgaiters. When the thought occurred to me, while riding, with an idiot on my back fender, that maybe I should start carrying a gun so I can turn around and put a few holes in their radiators, I realized I was done.

      Thanks idiots!

      Having grown up in a big truck, and been all over this country several times, and living here in the south, where good ole boy terrible drivers teach their children to drive badly, and all those kids have to do is, pass the written test on their 5th try, and do a ’round the block driving test at the DMV. I can’t say I’ve seen it all, but I’ve sure seen a LOT of it.

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  5. I, too, have issues with bad drivers. Worse if the bad driver is a slow driver

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  6. Hi. I love this post. On driving, down here it is season. Where people who live in sparsely populated areas with little traffic get on our busy South West Florida roads. Their response is to drive slower. By slower, I mean 35 mph regardless of speed limits. 50 max on the interstate highways. One nice long section of road between stores here is 60 mph, and every day now you have two people driving almost side by side going 40 or at most 42 mph. And no one in front of them. That is the other thing, I don’t mind they want to drive slow, but please pull over in to the right lane, the slower lane. Don’t hang in the lane that might go faster because in 10 to 15 miles you might make a left-hand turn.

    As to being able to hear your spouse. For nearly a year, my spouse would claim that I did not say something, or I said something different from what I knew I said. When I claimed they simply couldn’t hear me unless I talked very loud, they claimed I shouted too much. So I started activating my phone recorder when I would go to say something. After a few times of having it shown that what they thought I said, was not what I said at all, the spouse now admits they are getting hard of hearing. Hated to do it, but it stopped a lot of arguments.

    Grand post Shell digger, I enjoyed it. Hugs. Scottie

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    • Left lane campers, somehow I left out left lane campers, and I really, really, hate those guys. They have no idea how a 4 lane highway is suppposed to work, that is slower traffic to the right, faster traffic to the left, and they bullheadedly, and wrongly, decide they are going fast enough, and the hell with how it’s supposed to work. These people should sought out and fined heavily. Man I really despise left lane campers.

      I know I have some hearing loss. Diving is hard on your ears, playing loud music is as well, I’ve done a lot of both. My ears ring all the time, but I can still hear fairly well unless there is a lot of background noise. When I’m innundated with noise I’m sure not going to hear my low talker wife in the next room.

      All I ask is please consider the circumstances before you trail off to a mumble, ok? 😉

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      • Hi Shelldigger. I hate when people are talking to me and walk away into another room? Why, if you wanted to say something to me do you walk down the hall, or into a different room? When I was a young man in the US Army in Germany, I got schooled on that by German families that invited me into their homes. When I would raise my voice to speak to someone in a different room, only people from your country do that they would tell me, if you want to talk to someone in a different room, you don’t shout, you get up and go to where they are.

        I am now 60 and have remembered that all my life. When Ron does it I am reminded of those days and families who invited a young brash US Army boy into their homes, fed me, taught me, and helped me become a better version of Scottie. Hugs. Scottie

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