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  • @Chipmunk415‌ agree with 3,4,5. Especially the last two. Turning off the ac completely and turning it back on I'm pretty sure is bad for it. And makes the bill higher then just letting it run at a warmer temp over night. Plus keeping the temp to cold can wreck havoc on the AC and the bill.
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  • @mrsmorales2b - law enforcement also.  Yelling "I didn't do it!" when I walk in wasn't funny the first time it happened.  Hitting on me because I'm the "hot lady cop" makes my eyes roll so hard you can hear it.

    But my #1?  Parents who tell their kids "look out, she's going to get you and take you away!"  Great.  Now I'm the boogey man and your kids are too scared to come to me when they need me.

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  • edited July 2014
    I LOVE this thread. Things that make me stabby
    -I agree. I hate baby daddy or baby mama. What ever happened to baby's or child's father or mother. 
    -The phrase, "my bad"- you cannot own an adjective. This makes me rage so hard.
    - Long fingernails on men. No.... just no.
    - People who vaguebook.  When they talk about some issue in their life and speak in code on facebook. If you don't want everyone to know your problems, keep them to yourself (or share it in a private message)... don't share them in code, as if people are too stupid to figure out who or what you are talking about.
    - The entitlement of kids, today, and the parents that can't seem to tell them "no."  You are not helping them.  Your job as parents is to help them become decent adults.  When a child does not understand they won't always get their way, you are crippling them for life.
    - When people wear black with navy
    - People not cleaning their microwaves.  THIS!  I find this so disgusting when I go to someone's house and I am a little late. "Oh, you can just heat up that dish in the microwave." You open the door and it looks like someone put 2 cats in there and an aerosol can, and cooked them on high.  I don't want to play, Name That Food Particle. Then I have to decide if I am too grossed out to eat, or if I am okay with eating the dish cold.
    - Friends that try to pimp you. Oh... hey I have this idea. Do you want to make some money?
    - Friends that want to sell you.  Hey, I just started as a photographer three days ago, can I shoot your wedding even though I have absolutely no experience. Can I get in the way of the photographer so you can waste the $3500 you spent on a professional, because I am in every shot.
  • @mrsmorales2b - law enforcement also.  Yelling "I didn't do it!" when I walk in wasn't funny the first time it happened.  Hitting on me because I'm the "hot lady cop" makes my eyes roll so hard you can hear it.

    But my #1?  Parents who tell their kids "look out, she's going to get you and take you away!"  Great.  Now I'm the boogey man and your kids are too scared to come to me when they need me.

    Some of the foster parents I worked with would threaten their foster kids with the cops if they didn't behave. One parent told the child (who was under 8) that she was going to call the police on him and he told her to go ahead they wouldn't do anything.  So she called the police and of course they came because they have to. They confirmed what the child told her. He was too young to be arrested and knocking a vacuum cleaner over isn't a crime anyhow. What she hadn't known was she wasn't the first foster parent to try to get him arrested so he already knew the law.  
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  • I hate when parents threaten a child with police action. All you are telling the kids is that you aren't able to control their behavior. I was way more afraid of my parents than the police. 
  • TwoDimes said:
    - Slow walkers. When I'm walking somewhere, I'm on a mission. Heaven help you if you get in front of me and move slowly. 

    - People who wear too much perfume. If I can smell you from 10 feet away, you're doing it wrong.

    - People who call repeatedly but don't leave voicemails. If you don't leave me a voicemail, then I assume it isn't important and don't call you back.

    - When I'm included on a group text and my phone buzzes a million times in 2 minutes from numbers I don't recognize and people I don't know.

    - The fact that people can see when you read a Facebook message. I don't always feel like responding right away (or have time to), but the person can see that you already read the message. Facebook is ratting me out!
    Yes. My friend just had a baby and sent a group text with a pic and info to at least 20 people. I was getting random messages from strange numbers all day. I replied with my congratulations in a personal message outside of the group...
  • After reading the boards here off and on today, here's my pet peeve: Brides who fail to know the difference between "altar" and "alter." Granted, both of them are about change.But honestly, at this stage of the game, to not know and USE the appropriate word? That is all. (Clearly my life is without much drama if this is all I can complain about.)
  • People that Floss their teeth right in front of you.. girl at works does it all the time and then runs it through her lips and eats what she has just dislodged from her teeth...GROSS RIGHT

  • After reading the boards here off and on today, here's my pet peeve: Brides who fail to know the difference between "altar" and "alter." Granted, both of them are about change.But honestly, at this stage of the game, to not know and USE the appropriate word? That is all. (Clearly my life is without much drama if this is all I can complain about.)
    Aisle and isle. 
  • People who ask for stuff/plan stuff last minute. I had my nephews bday party today and was just notified about it Thursday. thanks, I had to cancel previous plans to attend. Or the txt I got at 9 pm Thursday night from a friend who needed her dogs let out three times over the weekend bc she was going away. I know I offered to do it go she ever needed it but hey, I had nothing else to do this weekend.


    The sound of nail clippers, people who can't use proper English and people who post a million pics of their kids on FB. Although sadly I am probably guilty of doing this with my dogs.


    People (my friends) who have kids and can't understand why I treat my dogs like children. Or the phrase "it's just a dog." No it's not just a dog, I love my dogs.

    People who dump their dogs at shelters when they have kids bc "they don't have time" and "the dog deserves better." You knew you wanted kids so maybe you should have thought about how much work a dog and a kid would be at once. And ya dumping your pet at a busy, noisy strange place with no one he knows is really A great solution.
  • CMGragainCMGragain member
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    edited July 2014
    Good story about threatening son with police -  my weird family.

    It was homecoming week.  Son was 16.  They had decided to do "gender bender day" in celebration of the week.  Son (who was 6'3") dressed in one of his sister's dresses, complete with stuffed bra and some extra-big high heels.  When he came home from school, he dropped his bookbag in the hall.  Dad tripped over it when he came home an hour later.
    Dad was furious, and yelled, demanding the son pick up the bookbag and take it to his room.  Son choose that time to challenge his father's authority.  For the first, and only time, they got physical!  I was paralyzed with horror, watching the two of them rolling around in the family room.  (Dad was winning.)  I yelled for them to stop, but they ignored me.  (Son is still wearing the dress.)
    Daughter runs in and picks up the phone.  "If you two don't stop right now, I'm calling the police!  Then you can explain yourselves to them!"
    Both guys froze, realizing the picture they presented and imagining the questions.  "So your son is wearing a dress?  That isn't a problem for you?  Well, then, what IS the problem?"  Fight ended.  They never mentioned it again.  I should have had a camera!
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    People who whistle and aren't in tune. 

    People who post the most ridiculous mundane stuff on FB, sorry I don't need to see a picture of every damn meal you eat....

    Co-workers who talk to themselves about everything they do throughout the day and you sit in cubefarm hell

    Drivers who try to merge at the last minute... did you not see the signs way back.  Also the same for drivers who try to take an exit at the last minute.

    Drivers who use a turn lane as a passing lane!
  • #1 Pet Peeve: Road Cyclists.
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  • beethery said:
    #1 Pet Peeve: Road Cyclists.
    They annoy the hell out of me, but around here we also get a ton of runners who use the road. THERE IS A SIDEWALK 3 FEET TO YOUR LEFT. USE IT.
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  • Inkdancer said:
    They annoy the hell out of me, but around here we also get a ton of runners who use the road. THERE IS A SIDEWALK 3 FEET TO YOUR LEFT. USE IT.
    There aren't really any sidewalks out where I live, or on most of the roads I have to take to get into civilization. On most of them there is maybe a 8" wide shoulder after the white line, if there even is a white line. Most of these roads are VERY windy and have tons of blind hills/curves. Most of them are 45MPH+ speed limits too. But you better fucking believe these dickheads are out in the road on their bikes and spandex in the middle of the lane.

    I want to know why the fuck they pick these high speed roads for their tour de boonies rides on the weekends. The shit is DANGEROUS TO THEM AND VEHICLE DRIVERS. There are TONS, TONS of trails for mountain biking, I really think they ought to divert to that for their own fucking safety.
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  • Okay, this makes me crazy. I love Chiavari chairs, and 999 out of 1000 people are pronouncing it wrong. Rental companies, internet sources, everyone.

    It's kee-ah-vahree. Like a key that unlocks your door. It's Italian.  The chairs were originally designed and manufactured in the town of Chiavari, which is indeed pronounced Kee-ah-vahri. 
    You don't drink chee-anti wine. Chianti. Kee-ahntee. You don't sit in a chee-ahvari chair to drink it.

    There are a hundred internet sources telling you it's the ch sound. They are all wrong. One rental woman told me it was pronounced with a soft ch, like Maurice Chevalier's name, because it's French. Wrong wrong wrong wrong. The French pronunciation for an Italian design and city? 
    No. 
    Go to Chiavari, and ask them. Hard c. Chiavari. Chianti. 

    If followed by an I or E, the Italian C is softened. Ciao. (Same for G.)

    When it's followed by an H, like Chianti, the H is acting like a divider, a buttress, to keep the I or E from softening the C. Italian ch is a K. The opposite of English rules for ch. 

    Kee-ah-vahri= Chiavari. 

    (I feel better now.)
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