Friends and family: Although I do not have children, as some of you do, I am a grown ass adult and would appreciate a reasonable heads up regarding plans to get together. Because I also have things to do.

biscuitdough wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:39 pm

jason from volo wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:17 amKyle = shy. Quiet. Though mood and behavior can shift depending on context.

Kyle is the wall-punching angry asshole kid. He drinks Monster energy drinks.

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Dear new renters next door, please stop putting piles of cardboard boxes filled with shit in front of our back gate instead of dumping them into the garbage cans and breaking your boxes down and putting them into the recycle bins. I'm really tired of not being able to get out of our gate. I'm also really fucking tired of having to breaking your shit down for you so the garbage and recycling trucks will take all of that shit away. This is all ESPECIALLY true when we are getting rain every fucking day. While I'm at it, please be sure to turn off your wake up alarm in the morning before you leave for the day because it's been going off every 5 mins for hours. Several days in a row.

ErikG wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:59 pm Friends and family: Although I do not have children, as some of you do, I am a grown ass adult and would appreciate a reasonable heads up regarding plans to get together. Because I also have things to do.

This, but also "YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND, YOU DON'T HAVE KIDS"

If you don't know how to drive down a two lane street in the city without driving down the middle of the street, get the fuck outta my city you Schaumburg shits. Oh, you can't fit your car just in one lane because it's too wide? See point one, go to Oak Fucks or Fartchester or wherever and fucking stay there.

Dear Portland Motorists: Can we please end the practice of making courtesy a competition sport here? I know, it's nice to be nice and all, but there are very well defined rules of the road that benefit us all and keeps traffic moving efficiently. Sitting at a protected left arrow until it turns red because you're worried someone might be in the crosswalk out of the right-of-way just slows down what is already becoming a very congested place. Along with that: expressway curves are meant to be taken at highway speed - no need to slow down at the I-5/I-84 merge, Terwilliger curves, etc, etc... Also, yes we have hills here. Please learn how to manage energy without slamming on the brakes constantly. Downshifting, reducing gas approaching a crest and downshifting going into a curve and applying gas in the curve all work wonders. Thank you, -Gegin

F'kin COURIERS!

I admit to getting a little oh say old-school GERMAN when I'm searching for parking in, say, HYDE PARK, CHICAGO, and someone failz to do zees zing pvoperly. [Disapproving glare.]

You pull *right up* to the "no parking from this point on" sign so that other cars can fit behind you or you GET ZE STEEL OV MY FIZT.

This one fucking White Hummer 3 always parks a foot from the curb and *also* takes up two spots. I'm going to keel haul this person if I ever see them.

I resist an urge to make "you took up two spots please don't do this again" printout to carry with me to place under windshield wipers.

I resist this urge to CORRECT the incorrect. But I sure do think about it a lot. And then I think about how much I need to let it go. And then my eyes narrow at the next car taking up two spaces, and I grumble under my breath.

People who refer to railroad tracks as "the train."

bumble wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:48 pm I admit to getting a little oh say old-school GERMAN when I'm searching for parking in, say, HYDE PARK, CHICAGO, and someone failz to do zees zing pvoperly. [Disapproving glare.]

You pull *right up* to the "no parking from this point on" sign so that other cars can fit behind you or you GET ZE STEEL OV MY FIZT.

This one fucking White Hummer 3 always parks a foot from the curb and *also* takes up two spots. I'm going to keel haul this person if I ever see them.

I resist an urge to make "you took up two spots please don't do this again" printout to carry with me to place under windshield wipers.

I resist this urge to CORRECT the incorrect. But I sure do think about it a lot. And then I think about how much I need to let it go. And then my eyes narrow at the next car taking up two spaces, and I grumble under my breath.

Dunno how bad it is over there, but in the UK we seem to have a mandatory system of making the parking spots really narrow, so you can only exit the car by gymnastic squeezing through the door so as not to damage the one in the next spot. I deliberately park in obnoxious spaces in supermarkets (not to annoy other drivers, but in places you aren't supposed to park) so when the staff say something I can say "when you start making spaces big enough, I'll start using them". Unfortunately the staff just want to finish their shift and go home so don't say anything.
Most of the time I just find an end spot, so I can park over the line to avoid the clown next to me damaging my vehicle with their door. You usually have to walk further, but it's a small price to pay to avoid getting damaged.
The most annoying part is these car parks are never full, so they could space them out more.