Your Pet Peeves

[ktulu]

When I was in high school, on the weekends I worked at a Del Taco. Those who live in Southern CA show know where this is. Seal Beach Blvd and Westminster. We had this SG who tried to drive his big RV thru the drive thru. The stupid moron got stuck and did damage to the drive thru. The police and corporate office had to come out to take reports of the damage. It took a tow truck roughly 4 hours to undo the mess. The drive thru roof was chipped away and the SG was fined with clean up and building damages. Our drive thru was closed for 1 month for repairs.

Was it as good as this one?

http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u90/ ... shroof.flv

[Zazu]

People who step on a crowded escalator, get to the top and stop dead in front of it looking around to see which way they should go. - That crowded escalator didn't stop being crowded the minute you stepped on!!

I tend to get off the escalator and just start pushing them. It's a matter of self-preservation and a service to those behind me, I figure.

People in crowded malls who walk at snail pace as if they are the only ones there.

I can forgive almost any speed if they do it single-file on the right side of the aisle so others have a chance to get around them. If not....

People who don't/can't controll their kids - A stern look and talking to for misbehaving has never killed anyone....

Not it hasn't, but you'e sure think so from the way such parents react when I give them such a look and talking-to!

The lady (about late 30's) who was carrying 2 bags on her arm both of their bottoms full of slush from the winter snow that stood over me in the subway bags pretty much on my lap swaying back and forth on my clean office clothes. She then decided she would read her nespaper at the same time. 1 inch away from my face!!

Here's how I dealt with her... as politely as I could I asked for her to move her bags and paper. She looked at me with a smug look and told me "hey your sitting!" (so does that give you the right to wipe your nasty bags on my clothes and put your paper so close to my face that a slight wobble from the train may leave me with a paper cut on my eyeball? - I was heated!!) So she gives me the smug look and places her paper EXACTLLY in the same spot!!! So I looked at her, reached up, tore the top half of the paper that was in my face, gently placed it on top of the half she was holding and pushed her bags away. The look of disbelief on her face was priceless!! I then said very calm tone... "now see... you still have your paper and I now have my personal space" *big smile*

Oh yeah, you're one of us, welcome! Ask somebody about me, coffee, and backpacks some day.

I have many more, but just a few examples!!!

Bring 'em on, Grl, bring 'em on!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Was it as good as this one?

http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u90/ ... shroof.flv

Hehehe...sucks to be him!

Hope he had insurance!

[Big Wallaby]

Hehehe...sucks to be him!

Hope he had insurance!

I have to wonder about that cover, because it came down awfully easily. I'm glad I never had the opportunity to drive under it.

[Cranbiz]

I got to wonder about that canopy too. One would think that the possibility of collision would have been engineered into the structure.

To me it looks like a combination of SD (stupid driver) and poor engineering brought down that roof.

[Big Wallaby]

Generally, one of the scariest vehicles on the road to me is any motor home or vehicle towing a fifth wheel or trailer. At least nine times out of ten, those drivers have no clue what they're doing and are an absolute danger to everyone around them. They don't know where they are on the road, they don't understand that their family SUV now weighs three times as much as it did before they hooked up, etc.

One time a few years ago, I was driving a scheduled bus trip and got stuck behind a car that was in the middle lane of the freeway, doing 20 under the speed limit, pulling a travel trailer without a sway bar. It was impossible to get around him because he was taking up all three lanes. Eventually, I called the Washington's Highway Patrol, and they pulled him over after he had slowed down the entire freeway for who-knows-how-long.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

OOO, I love this one. I have a great story from when my daughter was younger. She used to go grocery shopping with me and would ride on the end of the carriage like kids do. Well I hate people who stop in aisles and hold whole conversations. This is like a community center! I have a bad habit of just hitting them. Well my daughter, being a smart child, learned quickly to get off the carriage when she saw people blocking an aisle chatting.

So she goes shopping with my ex-wife and she gets off the carriage. Her mom gets upset and tells her to stay on the carriage. In her swwetest 8yo princess voice she askes her mom "But aren't you going to run those damn morons over". Her mom almost dies and I had some explaining to do.

But it was so worth it. My daughter is almost 22 now and still tells the story.
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Good one, AL! This reminds me of another good one. My cousin asked his young son if he wanted to go for a ride in the car with Daddy. YS asks, "Will there be assholes in front of us again?"

[Ms. Matterhorn]

Was it as good as this one?

http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u90/ ... shroof.flv

Awesome! What an idiot!

[hobie16]

I got to wonder about that canopy too. One would think that the possibility of collision would have been engineered into the structure.

To me it looks like a combination of SD (stupid driver) and poor engineering brought down that roof.

My guess would be the supporting structure was engineered to support a vertical load with some lateral resistance. From watching the video, there doesn't appear to be any triangulation support pieces where the poles meet the roof which indicates all lateral loads were to be done by the pole to roof beam interface.

Because of the angel of the camera it's not apparent what is supporting the structure behind the camera. My guess is it's attached to a building. If true, this would supply the lateral support for the structure. It all looks good on paper.

In this case, paper met real world. The height of the 5th wheel trailer plus it's mass and speed, met a structure whose lateral support was a good twenty to thirty feet away from the strike point. The result was a roof that folded faster than a bad hand in a celebrity poker game.

[Syndrome]

Good one, AL! This reminds me of another good one. My cousin asked his young son if he wanted to go for a ride in the car with Daddy. YS asks, "Will there be assholes in front of us again?"

LOL! That reminds me of a time at the barn where I board my old horse. He's over 30 years old and retired now, but when he was younger he lived with the barn owner's two horses, a high stung Saddlebred and a nasty, vicious, constantly hormonal mare. Since my horse was the mellowest, the barn owner's nephews and nieces usually rode him, and in return my husband borrowed their Saddlebred for trail rides.

One day the kids came over and their uncle said they could ride. The youngest niece piped up, "Can I ride the one Uncle Pete calls 'bitch' today?"