What Annoyed You Today? (2 Viewers)

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GD airbrushes...................
trying to do lettering on fabric with ink and for the life of me cannot get it to work for me...
pissing me off.
 
That terrible SPROING sound of my front spring breaking just before it ripped the sidewall out of my front, driver's side tire.
On the other hand I had just pulled away from the curb. I am thankful that it didn't give out while I was travelling at speed on the freeway.
 
What annoyed me today was seeing a shopping trolley let loose in a Morrisons carpark,
walking down into the carpark I sees a car pull away which revealed a trolley all by its
lonesome, yes the idle gits had left it in an empty car space, being a bit windy it started
to move and pick up speed, it hurtled by two people who could have easily grabbed it but
instead laughed at the trolley and that it was going to crash into a parked car, within seconds
I made a dash to grab the trolley and to stop it from crashing into the car, I grabbed it and saved
it from hitting the car, I said to the couple why didn't you attempt to grab it, she said nothing nor did his missus.

I walked off like I'd saved a major disaster but then turned around to see my missus cursing
and telling the couple off!! What I didn't hear was the both of them was bitching about me and
calling me all names under the sun, not loud enough for me to hear but my missus was at the
side off them, oh they didn't get away with it let me tell you, missus is Irish so you know what
the Irish are like, they take not sh*t and take no prisoners
 

Never go to Walmart here in the US then. People are so lazy there, the parking lot is filled with shopping carts. Sometime just a feet from the corral.
 
DerAdlerIstGelandet said:
Never go to Walmart here in the US then. People are so lazy there, the parking lot is filled with shopping carts. Sometime just a feet from the corral.
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Pretty much every parking lot is like that here in southern California( Orange County area). I always park in one of the farthest spots to avoid all the carts scattered randomly about. Didn't used to be that way 20 years ago. Not sure what changed exactly but it sure is different here.
 
It's a basic lack of discipline, overshadowed by total ****ing arrogance.
Earlier today, I saw two late teenage (maybe 20 yrs old) girls just throw food wrappers and plastic coffee cups on the ground, just two feet away from a waste bin.
A good kick up the Rs for the majority of the World's population (or at least those under 40) might help, but then again, kick a dinosaur in the Rs, and it'll grunt a week later !!
Waste of ****ing rations, some people.
 
Ya, I think when I retire I'm gonna head for a small town. Maybe Bishop. People seem to actually care about there surroundings and each other more in smaller towns. At least that is my impression. There's something about large cities that seems to coursen people these days.
 
If you're thinking of Bishop Ca, The summers are rather warm and the winters are cold. If I were in a position to leave for a small town, it might be Enterprise Kansas. Only around 800 there. The drawback being that the Summers are humid, there are tornadoes, and the Winters will freeze your googlies off. That's where my father was from.
 
rochie said:
being accused of taking my foot off the gas now i have handed in my notice (only did it on Monday) !
pissed me off so much that i might actually start doing just that
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Bastards...and as you head out the door, give 'em an earful, too...

I grew up in Orange County (1962 - 1990) and can say for sure that shopping carts have been a plague of parking lots as far back as I can recall.
Especially when the Santa Ana winds come up and start blowing the free-range carts around.

Small towns suck.
Everyone has to know what's going on with everyone.
"So Dave, I noticed you bought a new BBQ the other day, are you going to fix your fence before you start having friends over? Oh, and did you hear what happened to Jim the other day...blah...blah blah...blah blah blah..."
 
True, shopping carts have been a plague on parking lots here forever to a degree but nothing like they are these days. Sometimes I'll go by a dozen or more empty spots before I find one I can actually park in because they have 1 or 2 or 3 carts left in them. Often when there is one of those cart corals just a few feet away.
Never saw that 20 years ago, just a few carts scattered randomly about back then.
And the deterioration of the cart ethos is a microcosm of the deterioration of things in general here. Thrash in the streets,graffiti, crime, police helicopters flying overhead at night for hours keeping you up, and just general rudeness. Yes all these things existed here 10 or even 20 years ago but nowhere near the extent that they do now.
As far as everyone knowing your buisness in smaller towns. Yes that would be a down side but seems like a small concession in comparison. Also, for me its not that big of a deal. I know some people cant stand it though.
I just know when I go on vacation to places like Lone Pine or Bishop people seem alot friendlier and I don't see trash in the streets or even a single shopping cart left in the parking lot at the target( yes they actually have a Target now in Bishop).
Seems like a better deal on balance. Add to that the scenery and fishing and to me sounds pretty good. Ya there are alot of places back east that look pretty good to me but I need to be close to my family. Especially the grandkids. Some live the Orange/San Bernardino county area and some western Arizona so Bishop is still only 3 1/2 to 5 hours away. Don't want to get to much further than that.
A far as the weather in the eastern Sierra, I'm quite familiar with it. Spent alot of vacations there as it is probably my favorite place. It's almost ideal to me. The summers are hot but verry low humidity( one of the lowest on earth i read) . My wife an I were there last summer, I glanced at the thermometer in the car and was surprised it was over 100 as it didn't feel uncomfortable at all, just warm.
The winters are cold but nothing like most places. Usually just enough for a few inches of snow here and there. Kinda nice actually. No months below zero and 6 foot snow banks. Nothing like that.
No place is perfect of course and everyone has there preferences. What is heaven to one person might be unbearable to another but to me, on balance, the Bishop/Lone Pine area seem about as good as it gets.
 

This was at two in the morning a few weeks ago. I absolutely loath this...

 

Not here in 3rd World Louisiana down on the Bayou. Trash everywhere...

People just don't care.
 
michael rauls said:
Wow! That's really incredible. I guess Orange County Ca is going to have to relinquish the" people just don't care" crown to Louisiana
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It's really bad here. People just throw trash out their car windows, on the ground, yards are just filled with cluttered junk, and people are proud of this down here. I don't get it...

There is an old run down shanty shack on my way to the airport I work at. The yard is just filled with rusted refrigerators, bathtubs, bags of trash, and junk. Of course he has a confederate flag flying with the words "The South Shall Rise Again" printed on it.

The funny part though is that he has a posting up warning trespassers will be shot (he spray painted it on the side of a single fence that runs the length of his property). Why would anyone want to step on his property. Who knows what they will catch.

Don't take me wrong. There are some great people down here. Probably the vast majority are. Very friendly, and not trash, but some are just over the top.

The longer I live here though, the more I realize I am not from the South. I think I just have a different standard of living.
 
The shopping centers and Walmart employ people to round up the carts and bring them back into the store. Where were the employees? If one complains to someone in the store, they say "Do you want to put them out of work?" Clearly they can't do much else or they would be working at Burger King.
 

No, they put cart corral points throughout the parking lot for customers to leave their carts in. They employ employees to go out to the corral points and retrieve the shopping carts.

It was never intended for employees to walk around rounding up carts left all over the parking lot by lazy and ignorant people.
 
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