Things that annoy me

[Jstpssng]

Yep.....it costs to dump in our rural area....something like $10 to $15 per load. Easier for the jerks to drive up one of the many logging roads. If I see them.....I will stop it but people tell me that's not a safe thing to do....oh well.....haven't been shot yet

I'm not sure if it's still going on; but during the last housing boom there was a lot of "midnight dumping" downstate of demoliton debris by the trailer dump load, coming up from out of state. Also hazardous waste and old engine engine oil by the tanker load... pull off onto a woods road in the middle of the night and open a valve.

 

[Tig]

What chaps me even more is the "new" neighbor that bought the existing wooded property across the road...cut down ALL THE TREES then put a half dozen outdoor floodlights onto the house and lined the driveway with another 6 lightposts and then leaves them all on all night long!
Lit up like a freaking airport

Yeah I don't get that. People who are afraid of the dark, move to the country. We went for a walk one evening in the adjacent village. It seemed like every second house had a sensor light that would trigger as you walked by on the street. And then there's the guy across the lake we call the zombie hunter. You would think it was Omega Man defending his bunker. Myself, I rarely carry a flashlight. You see more without it.

 

[EE_Bota]

I've done some residential wiring on new construction in Austria...

It is different... in that 220v is the normal voltage and 380v for things like electric continuous flow water heaters.

The 220v outlets are much safer than ours in that there is no way a person plugging into the outlet can have contact with either prong of the plug because the receptacle area is recessed.

Thanks, and the recessed outlet would have saved me from one of my worst shocks as a kid. Our refrigerator plug was hanging partially out, and I swiped across the prongs while I was grabbing the wall to get extra speed in a turn. :laughing:

 

[SPYDERLK]

People who are not annoyed when they should be. The "good enuf bar" drops lower and lower.
larry

 

[teejk]

People who are not annoyed when they should be. The "good enuf bar" drops lower and lower.
larry

It's a "choose your battles" thing. "Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff".

 

[KYErik]

Yep.....it costs to dump in our rural area....something like $10 to $15 per load. Easier for the jerks to drive up one of the many logging roads. If I see them.....I will stop it but people tell me that's not a safe thing to do....oh well.....haven't been shot yet.

Dumping trash gets my goat also. I live on top of a hill and a long dead end road runs off to one side of my rural property. I saw a pickup truck travel halfway down the road, stop, throw a DEAD ANIMAL into the ditch and then drive onward toward the dead end. Knowing that the truck would have to turn around at the dead end, I jumped in my car and stopped in the middle of the narrow road about where they had dumped the animal just as the truck was coming back by that spot. Once I saw that it was a 20ish suburban looking younger guy and his girlfriend/wife, I got out of my car and asked them what they were doing dumping dead animals and stinking up my neighborhood rather than their own road or just buying it themselves. The girlfriend apologized and the guy (dressed in partial camo) picks up the dead red fox (out of season) and throws it into the back of his truck. I suppose they thought it would just look like road kill....

 

[KenB2920]

- Boom-boom stereo's that I can hear 100's of feet away, making my windows shake.
- People throwing cigarette butt's out of their car, when the grass is tender dry next to the road/freeway

Wow, my two biggest annoyances.... The works is not your ashtray ... You don't want it in you car, but its ok in someone else's yard....

I don't want to hear your crap

 

[jerrybob]

Dumping trash gets my goat also. I live on top of a hill and a long dead end road runs off to one side of my rural property. I saw a pickup truck travel halfway down the road, stop, throw a DEAD ANIMAL into the ditch and then drive onward toward the dead end. Knowing that the truck would have to turn around at the dead end, I jumped in my car and stopped in the middle of the narrow road about where they had dumped the animal just as the truck was coming back by that spot. Once I saw that it was a 20ish suburban looking younger guy and his girlfriend/wife, I got out of my car and asked them what they were doing dumping dead animals and stinking up my neighborhood rather than their own road or just buying it themselves. The girlfriend apologized and the guy (dressed in partial camo) picks up the dead red fox (out of season) and throws it into the back of his truck. I suppose they thought it would just look like road kill....

Wow...good for you for getting in their face. Not only illegally dumping trash but the guys a poacher as well. Both activities annoy me. Poachers are thieves in my opinion......I wish more were caught and punished.

 

[Pilot]

Inconsiderate people bug me. Like when I am happily cruising down our country road doing the limit (OK, I confess, sometimes a little more) and someone on a side road, pulls up to the stop, reads War and Peace and just before I get to the intersection pulls out in front of me. And pokes along, accelerating like a Model T and decides that 45 in a 55 is just fine and there's nowhere to pass.

Another inconsiderate type: In a parking lot, some lard butt without a handicapped tag has to block a lane, holding up 5 other cars so they can wait for a person to search for keys, load groceries, then search for keys again, then get their kids belted in, then fire up and back out. The lard butt (LB), then takes the space. Said LB would be better off by finding any space available, regardless of how far it is from the door and get a little exercise. And everyone else would appreciate it if the LB would at least pull to one side of the lane so others could get by.

Litterers, smokers who toss their butts, etc. as other have said.

 

[murphy1244]

people who abuse their animals.