What's annoying you today?

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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5276 Post by chaos » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:38 pm

Poor gas station etiquette (aka assholes at the gas station).

I pulled into a small, very busy gas station with two aisles and four pumps (2 pumps in each aisle). One aisle is occupied with two cars, so I pull into the next aisle which is closest to the front door of the store/station. This aisle closest to the door has room for two lanes - one for a car pumping gas, and the other for a car to drive around the lot. The pump in front of me is unoccupied since it has a yellow bag over it stating OUT OF SERVICE. Keep in mind, three or four car lengths directly in front of this pump are parking spaces.

So I pump/pay for my gas at the functioning unit, and get back in my car to leave. As I am doing so, a guy pulls up next to me, then ahead of me, and then appears to back into the area of the non-functioning pump. He ends up backing in halfway, parks, and gets out of his car to go into the store. As I start to pull around his car to leave, a woman zips in and parks NEXT to the car in front me, blocking the lane. She gets out of her car and goes into the store. A second later a guy drives into the station and pulls his truck up behind the woman's car. I expected the guy to honk his horn and/or yell since the lane is blocked, but no. He gets out of his car and goes into the store. WTF. I managed to back out. People can be suck jerks.

Although everything happened fast, the only reason I didn't say something to ANY of these people is because I couldn't tell if they were also crazy on top of being jerks. (There has been a lot of crazy out there lately. :scared: :lol: )

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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5277 Post by SR » Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:01 pm

Lost my best friend. Met in '82 and bonded over a Pinto station wagon; he could drive in our sophomore year. We were soul mates and a bit of folie a deux. I was a huge fan of a particular Froosh solo and he called me from Texas backstage as Froosh commenced on it...he said hello and put the phone up; I enjoyed. I miss him

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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5278 Post by nausearockpig » Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:06 pm

SR wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:01 pm
Lost my best friend. Met in '82 and bonded over a Pinto station wagon; he could drive in our sophomore year. We were soul mates and a bit of folie a deux. I was a huge fan of a particular Froosh solo and he called me from Texas backstage as Froosh commenced on it...he said hello and put the phone up; I enjoyed. I miss him
So sorry for your loss mate.

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#5279 Post by SR » Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:27 pm

nausearockpig wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:06 pm
SR wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:01 pm
Lost my best friend. Met in '82 and bonded over a Pinto station wagon; he could drive in our sophomore year. We were soul mates and a bit of folie a deux. I was a huge fan of a particular Froosh solo and he called me from Texas backstage as Froosh commenced on it...he said hello and put the phone up; I enjoyed. I miss him
So sorry for your loss mate.
thank you...still eat from the chopsticks :tiphat:

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#5280 Post by kv » Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:18 pm

A toast to your pal :cheers:

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#5281 Post by SR » Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:14 am

kv wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:18 pm
A toast to your pal :cheers:
thx. Not surprised you get it

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#5282 Post by Artemis » Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:58 am

Sorry to hear about your friend,SR.

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#5283 Post by Larry B. » Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:59 am

Big hug for you, SR.

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#5284 Post by Mescal » Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:56 pm

SR wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:01 pm
Lost my best friend. Met in '82 and bonded over a Pinto station wagon; he could drive in our sophomore year. We were soul mates and a bit of folie a deux. I was a huge fan of a particular Froosh solo and he called me from Texas backstage as Froosh commenced on it...he said hello and put the phone up; I enjoyed. I miss him
Terrible to hear man!

So sorry :grouphug:

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#5285 Post by clickie » Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:06 am

SR wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:01 pm
Lost my best friend. Met in '82 and bonded over a Pinto station wagon; he could drive in our sophomore year. We were soul mates and a bit of folie a deux. I was a huge fan of a particular Froosh solo and he called me from Texas backstage as Froosh commenced on it...he said hello and put the phone up; I enjoyed. I miss him
kind of funny you guys formed a friendship over a Pinto

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#5286 Post by SR » Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:03 pm

Yeah, well I was 15 and he was 16 (Driving age in Cali), so that Pinto was a big deal...and were mobile.

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#5287 Post by clickie » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:11 pm

Yeah they were condsidered good reasonably priced cars at the time and then they became labeled unsafe

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#5288 Post by clickie » Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:10 pm

This is about Tiger. Who drives 84 in a 45 mph zone? They say there wasn't any preferential treatment but they didn't even give him a ticket.

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#5289 Post by kv » Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:44 pm

Who drives that? Just about half the people going that way everyday...it's down the hill from Palos Verdes...people are always flying down it way too fast...years ago when I worked at a auto dealership I'd have to explain to PV people why they wore their brakes out every six months from racing down the hill and slamming on their brakes

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#5290 Post by clickie » Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:14 pm

All you guys drive that poorly? Got it. I don't care if you can name the roads and were a grease monkey doing brake jobs he's lucky no one else was injured.

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#5291 Post by creep » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:02 am

if you watched the interview he did a couple days before you could tell he was on something. who knows if that played in to it. i wouldn't doubt it. everyone remembers when the police had to wake him up behind the wheel.


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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5292 Post by kv » Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:22 pm

clickie wrote:
Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:14 pm
All you guys drive that poorly? Got it. I don't care if you can name the roads and were a grease monkey doing brake jobs he's lucky no one else was injured.
You asked who would drive fast there..I told you..sorry you don't like the answer :eyes:

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#5293 Post by clickie » Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:41 pm

Driving fast is doing 10 over. Going 85 in a 45 is reckless.

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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5294 Post by kv » Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:41 am

Yes and on that road it is common as hell...that's all I'm saying..

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#5295 Post by clickie » Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:20 am

I hear ya. I've never driven that stretch of road but I have drove through mountains and you can build up speed fast going downhill.

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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5296 Post by Matz » Wed May 19, 2021 4:41 am

I just watched a youtube video where some guy ranks Pantera's albums, in the video he mentions how they 'borrowed' a bit from a band called Exhorder. So I checked them out. 'Borrowed'?! Ripped off is a bit more accurate, Pantera is still the greatest metal band ever in my mind, but man, 'perhaps' they should have thanked these guys once or twice in interviews (and perhaps they did, I just haven't seen it). Pantera took their style and wrote much better songs, that's why they're the famous ones, I'm a bit shocked right now


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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5297 Post by mockbee » Fri Jun 11, 2021 4:08 pm

You know you're not getting enough sleep when you start washing your cheese..... :no:

:lolol:

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Re: What's annoying you today?

#5298 Post by Pandemonium » Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:32 pm

Some might remember last July I got slammed in my car totaling it from some speeding idiot who tried to go around me in front of Fingerprints Record store in Long Beach. So since then, my insurance company has been trying to settle with his insurance (he's been ruled like 80% responsible) and he went and got himself some ambulance chaser attorney and is suing me directly. Basically, my insurance covers me up up to $100k and provides a lawyer and this guy is apparently only asking for about $9k so in the scheme of things, it's really no big deal aside from the inconvenience of probably appearing in court in a couple years in LA when the stupid thing finally goes to trial. It just pisses me off that the guy caused the fucking accident, totaled my car along with 3 other cars, wasn't hurt and is looking for a few grand for "pain and suffering."

Here's another fun incident.... Monday, these guys were cruising through the neighborhood with bags of sod in their truck looking to re-seed lawns. I don't know what my wife was thinking, but she said sure, do a 10 foot square of our front lawn (which is in bad shape) to see how well their "technique" works. She more or less tells me these guys are out front as I'm working in the garage as she leaves to do some shopping. I come out front and these guys are digging up and spreading sod over the entire lawn and the dude tells me in broken english it's going to cost $3,900 (nothing in writing, btw). Hilarity ensues as I tell them to stop immediately while frantically calling my wife asking WTF is going on. Meanwhile, these guys basically say they aren't leaving until I pay them (in cash, no less). My neighbor sees me going off and calls the cops who eventually get these bozos to leave. I gave them $200.

In other fun news, my Labrador Kahlua is going to need hip replacement surgery and she's barely only 4 years old. So I'm taking her to water/treadmill therapy 3 days a week to get her stronger for the surgery. Good thing we have pet insurance.

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#5299 Post by Artemis » Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:34 pm

I seem to be a one woman posting machine here. Answering my own posts...ffs. :lol:

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#5300 Post by Juana » Wed Jul 07, 2021 8:40 pm

So one year ago today this little guy died in my arms:

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=60EAA52F

That same night I found out my biological mother passed away (I only spent the first up to 13 years old with her when I decided to go live with family) we had a checkered relationship, but I was sad.

Makes me realize this drug cocktail I'm on to stop the seizures from ever happening again is no big deal and I'm mad at myself either way those are my annoyances well that and my tenants are late on their rent so I told them just keep the place clean, power wash the drive ways, trim the trees and do the yard themselves and we're square and they got mad no good deed. Sorry if I'm rambling. Gabapentin, carbamazepine, lamictal and 100mg of tramadol has me a bit loopy.

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