ok, i am making this so that i can rant about useless stuff that pisses me off. i'll probably add to this just about everyday.

so today i was driving home from work, and i was stuck behind another suv. why are there so damn many of these things on the road. when one parks next to me at a parking lot, i have to have my wife step out of the car so i dont back out in front of someone.
that and why is there a need while driving an suv, that you have to be in the left lane, and travel parallel to the suv next to you, so no one can get around and pass??!! get the f*ck out of the way, speed nazi! maybe i have to be somewhere at a certain time, like getting to work before 9am. then they get pissed when you flash them, or they flash you and honk and shit when you cut them off. the left lane is for passing, not crusing with the car next to you at 5mph under! ive seen it happen on 4 lane highways! its like a rolling roadblock. ok, done for today.

why is it when you order a #3 at mcdonalds, they give you something that isnt what you ordered? a double bacon cheeseburger meal, large sized, is about as simple as you can get, but somewhere along the line, the order gets messed up! if anyone can explain this phenomenon to me...please do. 1 out of ten times i get my order the way i ordered it, and i dont make these stupid, long severely modified orders either.

im starting to think my ps2 controller port/s are broken. im trying to work on my time for this week ttws race and the controller randomly turns itself off. not good when the game doesnt auto pause and i find myself bee-lining off the course.

oh man, i was soooo pissed when i found out that my gt4 wheel broke. i still havent got a new one.http://www.skankyflat.net/forums/images/smilies/ns/31.gif http://www.skankyflat.net/forums/images/smilies/eek13.gif

This thread needs to be renamed, "You know what really Grinds my Gears? "


P.S.-- Obscure family guy reference

Seriously though the left lane drivers KILL me. It's something I never really experienced until I moved to NC. When I lived in Massachusetts, the left lane was for hauling ass only.

If you did happen upon a slow mover, a simple flash and they'd happily move aside. Well maybe not always happily. :roll:

why is it when you order a #3 at mcdonalds, they give you something that isnt what you ordered? if anyone can explain this phenomenon to me...please do.

It's caused by being overconditioned to scenarios they've seen countless times before. Over time they become so complacent that they simply stop paying attention and let their experience fill in the blanks. I know the phenomenon myself; here's what I routinely put up with at McDonald's myself:

Uncreated: "Yeah, I'd like a combo four with a root beer. No ice. That's to go."

McGeek: "Combo four? What drink would you like with that?"

Uncreated: "Root beer, no ice."

McGeek: "Is that for here or to go?"

Uncreated: "To go."

..and occasionally after the order has arrived:

Uncreated: "Where's my root beer?"

McGeek: "Sorry."

(after leaving the restaurant..)

Uncreated: "Fuckers. I told them, NO ICE."

Clearly they're operating on a mental pattern and at this point either can't or won't deviate from their established sequence of doing things. It isn't only fast food cashiers that do it either; anybody that does a job day in and day out begins to operate largely on assumptions, often erroneous ones, after they've been exposed to countless scenarios over a year or two. Police are notorious for that sort of thing as well. It's like "I've seen this before, so if I fill in a blank here or there, chances are I'll be right." Sadly that often isn't the case.

We're all guilty of it, some more than others. When we stereotype people, places or things, for example, it's those assumptions we are taking for fact. People build huge imaginary walls around themselves because they believe their experiences are infallible. Most people are on mental autopilot. Talking to people, anybody, at times feels like you're speaking to a brick wall because all they do is revert back to their experiences rather than pay attention to what they're being told at the moment. It's this same sort of mentality that drives people to feel they NEED to buy the hottest brand name on the market (among other things); they can't explain why they want the things they do -- they've been penetrated so deeply and subtly by popular culture that they end up consciously out of the loop; their subconscious urges start to control their decision-making process. All the mental garbage they've accumulated ends up completely alienating them from reality.

Uncreated

That's Quite Deep Uncreated, I think Their Young - Got Other things On their mind - Earning a Shite wage - and don't give a damn for the customer - or do they know you and just do it for fun ?

this is an old list of stuff i found. i still think its funny.

Only in America...
do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Only in America... do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Only in America... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

Only in America... do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

EVER WONDER... Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin ?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

i know the answer to some of these, i just copied the list to post up.

You know what really chaps my ass...!!!

When somebody puts red loctite on rearsets bolts, and then you have to borrow friends tools just to break them loose. And then you break the friends tool and still can't get the fucking rearsets off, because the guy that installed the rear sets in the frist place is a jack ass!!! And then the Snap On guy probabaly has the tool on backorder for six months straight, so you can't repair your friends tool even though you wan to...

Callaghan, your 5 allen wrench snapped like a twig. Sorry!!! :shifty:

you actually managed to break a Snap-On 5 allen socket? dude, im impressed.

you know what really grinds my gears?? when you let a friend borrow your tools...j/k

thats cool man, thats what lifetime warranty is for! there is a reason it was 22 bucks. im sure johnny has plenty of those. they are pretty common, so dont worry bout it.

bring in the bike sometime and wheel have to put the impact on it, maybe it just needs a little convincing...and red loctite??? why? i never understand that, like...

another thing that pisses me off, when you are working on a vehicle, and you need like two millimeters more clearance to save yourself an hour of work! why dont engineers think about this? and putting red loctite on screws?!?! its guaranteed to strip everytime.

Loctite on a stuff like brake discs is fair enough, but on rearsets? :eek:

you wouldnt believe the stuff ive seen loctite on. ive seen it on a 4x.8 mm countersunk screw. (yamaha ttr125 carb cable cover). we order new ones and drill the old ones out.

buy one, get 12 free...yeah right. that pisses me off to no end. at "guitar world" (not real name, but you could probably ifgure it out...) they have a "wonderful, 1 time a year sale". even though it happens every three months, with a different name. plus, you buy one set of guitar strings (the shittiest ones they can find) and sell you one pack for 22 dollars. then you send away for the other 12. but it takes like 6-8 weeks to get them, after they receive your certificate. well, these string last 2, maybe three weeks before they are really stretched...and they sound horrible too. all twangy like a telecaster with a fuzz box...nasty. so youre left with 3-5 weeks waiting for your strings to arrive in the mail just to have another 3 weeks of bad sound...go figure.

anyone else play any instruments?