You know what really grinds my gears?

[deaduck]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

My drive to and from work i drive through a pretty wealthy neighborhood. I see this ALL the time. What confuses me is that there is a sidewalk right next to where they are riding.....hello?

Can't speak for everywhere but here in Hampton VA...you can get the ticket for riding your bike on the sidewalk INSTEAD of the road.

[deaduck]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

Actually if you are driving below the speed limit and thus causing traffic to backup behind your vehicle, you can be ticketed for interfering with the flow of traffic. I would also say if there are clear weather conditions and you don't feel safe driving the speed limit then perhaps you shouldn't be driving at all.

As stated before I've NEVER been ticketed for driving below the speed limit so I guess every cop I've ran into disagrees with you and your assumptions.

[matt8204]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

As stated before I've NEVER been ticketed for driving below the speed limit so I guess every cop I've ran into disagrees with you and your assumptions.

Yeah, you would have to be seriously impeding traffic to get a ticket for not going fast enough...maybe if you were doing 20 MPH on a highway, something extreme.

However, I do have to be fair. In New Jersey, there is a very specific "Keep Right, Except to Pass" law on the books that does get enforced on major highways.

[CMH]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

A few notes about the passing lane.

1. It is not a driving lane. The passing lane is only legally to be used to pass "slower" vehicles on the right. Once a car has passed, you are supposed to return to the right lane.

2. If you are driving at 60 mph in a 55 mph zone, on the left lane, and a car is moving in at 65 mph, by law you are supposed to move to the right. Yes, you may already be driving above the speed limit, but again, the left lane is the passing lane, so a faster moving car has the right of way to overtake the left lane.


So, it goes without saying that one of my pet peeves is people that have pet peeves and don't know that they are wrong.

It's also a pet peeve of mine to have some guy just pop in to a thread, state some facts and act like he knows it all. Hate those kind of people.

[BurghFan]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

A pet peeve of mine is when a general discussion thread is hijacked by a small group of people who keep going back and forth on a specific issue

[jeremym480]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

A pet peeve of mine is when a general discussion thread is hijacked by a small group of people who keep going back and forth on a specific issue

[NYJets]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

2. If you are driving at 60 mph in a 55 mph zone, on the left lane, and a car is moving in at 65 mph, by law you are supposed to move to the right. Yes, you may already be driving above the speed limit, but again, the left lane is the passing lane, so a faster moving car has the right of way to overtake the left lane.

Yup.
Can't stand those people who feel like once they reach a certain speed, they get to just stay in the left lane. If someone is going faster than you, move over. Not your job to police the road.

[Speedy]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

If you are driving at 60 mph in a 55 mph zone, on the left lane, and a car is moving in at 65 mph, by law you are supposed to move to the right.

Um...by law that driver would be getting a blue light.

[DaveDQ]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

One that bugs me is how someone can't name 5 guys on an NFL team roster but they start touting "their" team when they win a pre-season game.

[Blzer]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

There are people on here I'm sure who peeve me with this same issue (not me directly, but it is a pet peeve of mine)...

If somebody asks me if I've heard of, heard, or seen some band or movie, TV show, etc. and I haven't, why the hell do you go into this huge outrage like it's the end of the world? "OH MY GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?! ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING? GET OUT OF HERE, I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND ANYMORE!" Obviously they don't get that extreme, but what's the point of making it a big issue? So I haven't seen it. There was a time you hadn't seen it either, so just let it go. I can name thousands of things I've experienced that you haven't, and I'm not about to peeve you about it either.

[jeremym480]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

One that bugs me is how someone can't name 5 guys on an NFL team roster but they start touting "their" team when they win a pre-season game.

Oh how I despise those folks.

[Beantown]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

There are people on here I'm sure who peeve me with this same issue (not me directly, but it is a pet peeve of mine)...

If somebody asks me if I've heard of, heard, or seen some band or movie, TV show, etc. and I haven't, why the hell do you go into this huge outrage like it's the end of the world? "OH MY GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?! ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING? GET OUT OF HERE, I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND ANYMORE!" Obviously they don't get that extreme, but what's the point of making it a big issue? So I haven't seen it. There was a time you hadn't seen it either, so just let it go. I can name thousands of things I've experienced that you haven't, and I'm not about to peeve you about it either.

We did that all last year with one of my friends. He had never seen the movie Cool Runnings. We made sure he never forgot that.

[snepp]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

It's also a pet peeve of mine to have some guy just pop in to a thread, state some facts and act like he knows it all. Hate those kind of people.

But what if they do, in fact, know it all?

[Beantown]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

One that bugs me is how someone can't name 5 guys on an NFL team roster but they start touting "their" team when they win a pre-season game.

See, that lead to some awesome moments for me, though.

When I'd wear a Texas hat around campus, or to a party, and some tool would come up to me and start **** about it and would then ask me to name five players from the football team. I'd proceed to name the entire starting offensive line and he'd look at me like: "What?"

[Blzer]

Re: What is your biggest pet peeve?

We did that all last year with one of my friends. He had never seen the movie Cool Runnings. We made sure he never forgot that.

WHHHHAT?! HE HASN'T SEEN COOL RUNNINGS?! OMG HE IZ SOOO DUMB!!!1

Haha well I understand making something a running joke or whatever, that's fine. But there are plenty of people I know who I get into engaging conversations with when it comes to music or movies and then I always bring up a personal favorite of mine and ask them if they've seen it. If they say yes, I choose to continue with my point or discussion. If they say no, it's no big deal. I may recommend it to them, but there is absolutely no reason to get on them about not seeing something, especially if I probably only saw it for the first time in the last couple of years.