Do you have a Pet Peeve (Part II)

[BamaMoon]

I'll have to add a new annoying thing I've started noticing that I think is mainly a trait of the millennials:

A few times recently, I've pulled into a gas station and parked behind someone who is pumping gas, but they have gotten back into their car.

First, there is a warning about doing this on most pumps because you can unknowingly cause a spark with static electricity when you get back into a parked car and then come back to touch the pump.

But the thing I've noticed recently is that people will sit in their car looking down at a phone after the pump has stopped. Sat behind a girl a couple of days who did this and she sat there for at least a couple of minutes even though I'm parked right behind her with my engine running and I'm wasting my fuel for her to look at her phone!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

OK, I'll bite at one thing that women do that men don't (and I'm mainly thinking about my wife, who is not on this board ):

When I get into a car, I have it started, in gear and moving within 10 seconds or less.

It takes her at least a minute to even start the car, much less have it moving!

oh my God yes. I went hiking with a coworker one time and the next week she was complaining how I just left before her. She was taking forever to just leave. Somehow I was the jerk for not waiting until she left. I then tell this same story to another female who then again tells me I should have waited. How long was I supposed to wait?

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Right on cue, here's a picture I took a few days ago in the neighborhood Publix parking lot. An obliviot jerk intentionally taking up 4 spots with just enough ambiguity to play a game of logical Twister and try to say the driver didn't realize. Garbage (I'd use another word, but I'd have to suspend myself).



There aren't many Tesla Cybertrucks in Tuscaloosa, and I think I know who owns this one -- yes, I have a different picture with the tag, but I'm not posting that online.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Right on cue, here's a picture I took a few days ago in the neighborhood Publix parking lot. An obliviot jerk intentionally taking up 4 spots with just enough ambiguity to play a game of logical Twister and try to say the driver didn't realize. Garbage (I'd use another word, but I'd have to suspend myself).

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There aren't many Tesla Cybertrucks in Tuscaloosa, and I think I know who owns this one -- yes, I have a different picture with the tag, but I'm not posting that online.

Everything horrible that could happen to a car should happen to that guy.

 

[Elefantman]

Right on cue, here's a picture I took a few days ago in the neighborhood Publix parking lot. An obliviot jerk intentionally taking up 4 spots with just enough ambiguity to play a game of logical Twister and try to say the driver didn't realize. Garbage (I'd use another word, but I'd have to suspend myself).

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There aren't many Tesla Cybertrucks in Tuscaloosa, and I think I know who owns this one -- yes, I have a different picture with the tag, but I'm not posting that online.

I would put a note on his truck saying " Normally I would leave a nasty note about how you parked. But seeing that you bought this ridiculous thing, the complex logic behind parking space lines is way above your pitiful IQ. Have a nice day."

 

[Elefantman]

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I hate self checkout. Why should I do their job and not get paid?? At my local Walmart in middle of nowhere R Can Saw, you have no choice. Often, I thought of writing them a letter explaining that I charge $300/hour for my checkout service. Seeing how I spent 6 minutes checking out, you owe me $30.

 

[bama579]

Is it a Pet Peeve? I hate it, whatever it is or is not:

Nitwits driving at dusk, night, or rain (Rain, not sprinkle) with no lights. Saturday in a downpour, a frog-strangler, I met 6 vehicles on a three-mile road from I-459 to home (Bham). Almost not possible to see 'em.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

But the thing I've noticed recently is that people will sit in their car looking down at a phone after the pump has stopped. Sat behind a girl a couple of days who did this and she sat there for at least a couple of minutes even though I'm parked right behind her with my engine running and I'm wasting my fuel for her to look at her phone!

Along these same lines. I cannot stand people who pull up to a pump, spend the time to pump their gas, then go into the store for another ten minutes to "shop" for snacks. I'm starting to see signs at gas pumps that read "Pull out of pumping area when finished pumping."

 

[Bodhisattva]

Along these same lines. I cannot stand people who pull up to a pump, spend the time to pump their gas, then go into the store for another ten minutes to "shop" for snacks. I'm starting to see signs at gas pumps that read "Pull out of pumping area when finished pumping."

Had a similar situation just the other day ... with more satisfying results.

Stopped at a corner gas station in St. Augustine on my way home. The streets are narrow and there's construction in the area, so there's not much room to maneuver. I'm at the second pump in the row. As I start to pump my gas, the people in the car ahead of me - who were there before me - just then get out of their car. All four doors are left open, and they walk into the convenient store, which has a pizzeria attached to it. Yep, they didn't need to get gas; they just parked at the pump. Because of course they did. When I was finished pumping my gas, I was starting to seethe. I couldn't go around due to other cars at the pumps in the adjacent row. I couldn't back up because other cars were coming off the street were stacking up to get gas. It was becoming quite the knot.

I let the guy behind me (waiting his turn to get gas) know that the first car in the row is the problem child. I walked up to the offending car and noticed (because the doors were open) the key was still in the ignition. I looked toward the entrance of the store, and the car's owners still were nowhere to be found. I closed the doors, got into the car, and pulled it around the side of the small building where there were several vacant parking spot. Why these people didn't utilize the parking spaces remains a mystery that only dumb, selfish people can understand. I locked the car doors and tossed the keys underneath the car. As I was getting into my car, I gave the guy behind me a wave and said that everything is better now. I told him about the locked doors and the keys under the car, so he could relay that to the jerks should they ever come out of the store. The guy behind me was laughing his arse off. I then got into my car and left. I wonder how everything turned out for the selfish morons?