People that annoy you...

wabower said:
I'm seriously considering a hidden air horn (or electric version with similar impact) for the texters, phone users and other air-heads. A major blast isn't necessary, but a light tap is fun to watch.
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I installed one of those air horns, complete with 12 V compresser, on my motorcycle in college. Selector switch so the horn button triggered either the beeper that came on the bike or the air horn. If I had labeled it, the label would have said, "Air Horn Arming Switch". Worked really well when you snuck up behind a VW and triggered it. :D:D
 
Ghery said:
I installed one of those air horns, complete with 12 V compresser, on my motorcycle in college. Selector switch so the horn button triggered either the beeper that came on the bike or the air horn. If I had labeled it, the label would have said, "Air Horn Arming Switch". Worked really well when you snuck up behind a VW and triggered it. :D:D
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I had a 5 note train horn powered by a SCUBA tank in my MG, I got so tired of people not seeing me and changing lanes into me. I'm pretty sure I made one dude crap himself from the look on his face and the fact that he immediately pulled over and got out of his truck.
 
DeeG said:
Me: "911, what is the address of your emergency?"

caller: "Well, its not an emergency, but..."

Me (on my last day of work): "If its not an emergency, why the f%$* are you calling 911?"


People who call to report that their unlocked vehicle was entered overnight, and their (pick one or more of the following) stereo...purse...wallet....GPS....laptop....gun they had under the seat, was stolen.

people who call 911 to report something and have no clue where they are.

Anyone who has been arrested in the past for theft, assault, burglary, possession of stolen property, fraud, forgery, reporting that they've been robbed, assaulted, burglarized or victimized in any other way.

Anyone who has a GPS and needs help because they followed the shortcut on the GPS and now they are lost, stuck in the snow, or both.
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Totally agree with all of these.
 
Dr. O said:
Ah yes, the drivers who do not know what the word 'merge' means.....
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I woudn't put all the blame on other drivers. For sure there are a lot of idiots out there who don't know how to merge properly - but there are also a whole lot of totally inadequate merging lanes. You know the type - they force the converging traffic together with no maneuvering room. I am of the opinion that, in urban areas, merging lanes should continue all the way to the next offramp. There are some places that have those (Like Phoenix) - and they are great.

Dave
 
Everskyward said:
I don't get housekeeping every day, maybe every third day. I just leave the "do not disturb sign" on the door. Of course there was one hotel, I think it was in Canada, which would slip a paper under the door saying you had to check in with the front desk every day "for your safety". I guess they didn't want dead bodies lying in the rooms for days.

And speaking of housekeeping, they frequently ignore the sign and knock and call out anyway. "HOUSEKEEPING!"
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I had a housekeeper last year who ignored my Do Not Disturb sign on the morning of checkout while I was at a conference. She turned the room over and threw away all my stuff (except my suitcase, which was in the car). I had to dig through the floor trash to retrieve my receipts, iPhone charger, etc and the manager on duty would give me nothing more than an insincere apology.

That was annoying.
 
Geico266 said:
I do it all the time. :lol:

Light is green and you can see the moron sitting ahead looking down at their phone. I love laying on the horn and watching them jump. :rofl:
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Yeah, but it's not always texting that is delaying you by 14.6 seconds.

I was teaching my daughter how to drive a stick. I was using the only manual transmission car I had at my disposal. Now, a Porsche is not really the best vehicle in which to teach someone how to drive a stick. She stalled it at a light and it took her a few seconds to realize the key was on the left rather than the right, and then get the car restarted. The guy in the pickup behind us was having a coronary over it, with long blasts on his horn. That flustered her a little and she stalled again. The buttwipe blasted around us and made the right turn with squealing tires, got a little oversteer he couldn't handle and ended up in the grassy median.
 
Ken Ibold said:
Yeah, but it's not always texting that is delaying you by 14.6 seconds.

I was teaching my daughter how to drive a stick. I was using the only manual transmission car I had at my disposal. Now, a Porsche is not really the best vehicle in which to teach someone how to drive a stick. She stalled it at a light and it took her a few seconds to realize the key was on the left rather than the right, and then get the car restarted. The guy in the pickup behind us was having a coronary over it, with long blasts on his horn. That flustered her a little and she stalled again. The buttwipe blasted around us and made the right turn with squealing tires, got a little oversteer he couldn't handle and ended up in the grassy median.
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It is nice to hear a happy ending occasionally.
 
DavidWhite said:
People who don't go into the shoulder when they are making a right turn. Granny HAS to slow everyone on the road down to 15mph because she doesn't understand the concept.
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Uh, yeah. That's not what shoulders are for. Maybe that'll work on an rural 2-lane highway, but no way in hell I'm hitting the shoulder anywhere else.
 
Ken Ibold said:
Uh, yeah. That's not what shoulders are for. Maybe that'll work on an rural 2-lane highway, but no way in hell I'm hitting the shoulder anywhere else.
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I think he means the paved shoulder, not off the road. In California, it's a requirement to pull to the right as far as practical on a right hand turn, meaning in to a paved shoulder or bike lane if present.
 
Sac Arrow said:
I think he means the paved shoulder, not off the road. In California, it's a requirement to pull to the right as far as practical on a right hand turn, meaning in to a paved shoulder or bike lane if present.
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Yeah I mean paved shoulder. I don't expect anyone to get in the dirt.
 
DavidWhite said:
Yeah I mean paved shoulder. I don't expect anyone to get in the dirt.
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Still, if it's painted to be a travel lane or turn lane, I'll use it. If it's not, I won't.

Of course, no way I'll ever be mistaken as an old grandma when I'm driving.
 
Ghery said:
I installed one of those air horns, complete with 12 V compresser, on my motorcycle in college. Selector switch so the horn button triggered either the beeper that came on the bike or the air horn. If I had labeled it, the label would have said, "Air Horn Arming Switch". Worked really well when you snuck up behind a VW and triggered it. :D:D
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I had a similar setup on my last car - except that mine was connected so that the regular horn button operated both. A brief tap produced the usual "toot" to get someone's attention, while a longer press gave both normal and air horns. Quite effective.

Dave
 
People who send me emails with 45MB worth of attachments of cute pictures of their kids and then get upset because I had to delete them unopened.

Yes, you CAN resize them to little jpegs, you dont have to send me the raw uncompressed 10megapixel output of your camera.
 
I'm in public warehousing/ fulfillment center business. We get customers who store their products in our warehouses and we do all their shipping, unloading containers, pretty much everything and anything for them...We go above and beyond for every customer for every project, I get some rare customers that literally do not want to pay for any of the service fees, "come on it only takes a few minutes" I have to pay for this and for that? They actually think our time, is worth nothing, our workers, arent paid, we don't pay for the warehouse or the electric or the equipment. Meanwhile these are the smallest customers who don't do much fulfillment with us, and barely even worth having at the warehouse. Your try to be nice and after a while the comments build up and you want to tell them to take their product and shove it, or go unload containers at your house.
 
People who complain about insomnia.

I just want to hand them a box of square drive screws, and tell 'em to go spend 9 hours driving them through concrete board into 3/4" plywood, in preparation for laying ceramic tile. They will sleep like a baby, guaranteed.

Every insomniac should buy an old motel and remodel it, three rooms at a time. lol
 
marcoseddi said:
Meanwhile these are the smallest customers who don't do much fulfillment with us, and barely even worth having at the warehouse. Your try to be nice and after a while the comments build up and you want to tell them to take their product and shove it, or go unload containers at your house.
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10% of the customers create 90% of the headache. If those 10% are not in the 'create 90% of the business' category, it is time to send them somewhere else.
 
weilke said:
10% of the customers create 90% of the headache. If those 10% are not in the 'create 90% of the business' category, it is time to send them somewhere else.
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Very true.

You can kill yourself trying to satisfy those 10%. Sometimes it's better to send them down the road. In my business, we have a saying that sums this up nicely: "Some people NEED to stay at Holiday Inn Express...".

:D
 
weilke said:
People who send me emails with 45MB worth of attachments of cute pictures of their kids and then get upset because I had to delete them unopened.

Yes, you CAN resize them to little jpegs, you dont have to send me the raw uncompressed 10megapixel output of your camera.
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Similarly, people who send a chain e-mail w/a 10MB video attached to it instead of simply providing a link to the same video on YouTube. Almost everything is on YouTube these days people...get a clue.
 
Jay Honeck said:
People who complain about insomnia.

I just want to hand them a box of square drive screws, and tell 'em to go spend 9 hours driving them through concrete board into 3/4" plywood, in preparation for laying ceramic tile. They will sleep like a baby, guaranteed.

Every insomniac should buy an old motel and remodel it, three rooms at a time. lol
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People who complain about stuff they bought and have to now maintain. ;) ;) ;)
 
FlySince9 said:
HILLARY CLINTON!!!
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Agreed...

These last few years she has turned into a real backstabbing, pretentious,fatheaded, inept politician who has been a few rounds with someone who has hit her repeatedly with an ugly stick.:yes::eek::hairraise:
 
I'm sure that one of my retirement jobs will be inventing and perfecting a device that resembles a cardboard box that will securely attach to any car trunk. The box will have the top flaps reinforced so they can slap wildly in the slip-steam making it appear that it's going to fly off any moment. The box will be labled 2" roofing tacks , 1" steel ball bearings, or Live SKUNK!

I'm sure y'all can't guess which people annoy me the most. :no:
 
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Geico266 said:
I do it all the time. :lol:

Light is green and you can see the moron sitting ahead looking down at their phone. I love laying on the horn and watching them jump. :rofl:
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I don't know about your town, but in Houston the guy who goes immediately when the light turns green is a good candidate for a t-bone accident.
 
Wouldn't it be 'People who annoy you....' ?
 
Forum posters that use abreviations for everything.
This is not the military, spell it out.
Not everyone knows what a RAT is.
 
I've found that selective pricing and unavailability "well, sorry but I'm booked through January and then be in the desert until March" works well insofar as thinning the herd down to the ones I want to serve. There's no reason to put yourself through that heartburn.


marcoseddi said:
I'm in public warehousing/ fulfillment center business. We get customers who store their products in our warehouses and we do all their shipping, unloading containers, pretty much everything and anything for them...We go above and beyond for every customer for every project, I get some rare customers that literally do not want to pay for any of the service fees, "come on it only takes a few minutes" I have to pay for this and for that? They actually think our time, is worth nothing, our workers, arent paid, we don't pay for the warehouse or the electric or the equipment. Meanwhile these are the smallest customers who don't do much fulfillment with us, and barely even worth having at the warehouse. Your try to be nice and after a while the comments build up and you want to tell them to take their product and shove it, or go unload containers at your house.
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People who buy a new vent fan to replace an old broken one, take the motor / blower out of the box, install it and clean up the old motor / blower, put it back in the new housing, seal up the box, then return it to the store for me to buy. And install. And have to troubleshoot. And deal with returning a used fan that I paid $140 for...
 
Parent (98% of the time on state benefits) who brings their (happy, smiling, playful) kid to the emergency department in the middle of the night for fever of 15 minutes' duration. "Well, what have you given for it?" "Oh, nothing. We just rushed right here."

Patient who comes to the emergency department in the middle of the night (or anytime, really) with some chronic problem ongoing for six years, for which they've seen every sub-specialist within two states, and thinks we're going to "fix" them.
 
When I was driving a tractor trailer....
People who would sit on my left with the nose of their car right next to the
last axle on the trailer....effectively blocking my escape route if something
were to happen suddenly ahead of me.
I figured out that they couldn't drive on their own. They were using my
trailer for "guidance" out of the corner of their eye.
Sooo.....I would start this slow weave, left to right, right to left, staying
within my lane. Sure enough, the car would begin to weave along with me.
This would only last about 30 seconds or so until they started to get dizzy,
then they'd come blasting by, blowing the horn and throwing me the finger!
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
BrianR said:
Parent (98% of the time on state benefits) who brings their (happy, smiling, playful) kid to the emergency department in the middle of the night for fever of 15 minutes' duration. "Well, what have you given for it?" "Oh, nothing. We just rushed right here."
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Those are the people who pay your salary :) (well, they dont, the s-chip program does).
 
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