What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I've driven a manual so many years I don't even think about shifting.

 

[garry1p]

I saw on TV at least twice where car jacker's jacked a straight shift and didn't know how to drive it.
I think one of them was a Corvette.

 

[WinterDeere]

I keep my GPS turned off when I'm hunting. I work with that technology all week. Using it for recreation just turns my fun into work.

Agreed. I've always gravitated away from tech in my personal pursuits, probably in part because I work in technical profession all week:

1. My house was built in the early 1700's, and although we have indoor plumbing and a modern kitchen, it's kept relatively original.
2. I heat my home mostly with firewood. Satisfies the inner-caveman, and cheaper than a gym membership, until you figure in the costs of the orthopedist you may need later.
3. When getting back into boating after a many-years break, I chose to sail in a racing class that prohibits the use of GPS or communication devices on the race course.
4. My shop is filled with vintage woodworking machinery, and even those get favored less than hand-powered tools, when I can manage it.
5. I only ever bought manual transmission cars, until the point they became completely unavailable in each of the body types our life requires (e.g. sedan, wagon, suv, pickup).

Although if I'm being honest, most of this is done out of some stupid romantic idea that "life was simpler" in the old days, rather than "technology is work". I know life was almost certainly not simpler for our forefathers, our mind just tends to confuse time with age, there. Life was simpler because you were young, not because it was the past... ask your parents.

 

[Eagle1]

Agreed. I've always gravitated away from tech in my personal pursuits, probably in part because I work in technical profession all week:

1. My house was built in the early 1700's, and although we have indoor plumbing and a modern kitchen, it's kept relatively original.
2. I heat my home mostly with firewood. Satisfies the inner-caveman, and cheaper than a gym membership, until you figure in the costs of the orthopedist you may need later.
3. When getting back into boating after a many-years break, I chose to sail in a racing class that prohibits the use of GPS or communication devices on the race course.
4. My shop is filled with vintage woodworking machinery, and even those get favored less than hand-powered tools, when I can manage it.

Although if I'm being honest, most of this is done out of some stupid romantic idea that "life was simpler" in the old days, rather than "technology is work". I know life was almost certainly not simpler for our forefathers, our mind just tends to confuse time with age, there. Life was simpler because you were young, not because it was the past... ask your parents.

Some of us were born in the wrong century.....

 

[WinterDeere]

Some of us were born in the wrong century.....

Yep... until you remember novocain and air conditioning.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

What's that "air conditioning" you speak of?

Some sort of oil bath air cleaner?

 

[WinterDeere]

What's that "air conditioning" you speak of?

Some sort of oil bath air cleaner?

Try Philadelphia in July. I just dare you.

Our summer humidity here can be oppressive. It’s rare we see above 100F dry bulb, but our heat indexes accounting for humidity are eye-watering.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I went to Chicago for their big July 4th party & was staying with my girlfriends parents.. with NO A/C.!!!
That only lasted 1 night.. We got a hotel room for the remainder of the trip..

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Try Philadelphia in July. I just dare you.

Our summer humidity here can be oppressive. It’s rare we see above 100F dry bulb, but our heat indexes accounting for humidity are eye-watering.

Having been dumb enough to go to New Orleans in late July, I think I know what you're trying to say.

Had no A/C in the trailer, and the A/C in the tow vehicle crapped out in AZ on the way there. Drank gallons of water, yet never needed to undrink.

 

[Jstpssng]

Summer 2001 I was working in upstate NY, staying in a motel with no AC. After the first night I went out and bought a fan, and was sleeping with the door open because that was the only way to get the room cooled down. My dog was tied by a short lead to the bed frame and I counted on her to let me know if somebody came through the door...
After a football player died at practice from heat stroke I decided to go home for the weekend. My Toyota did have AC sort of... but didn't do much when it got over 80. I remember there was an air show as we drove through Vermont but it was too darned hot to stop.

I like my AC.