• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Pet peeves - we all have them

Share this page

When someone calls my car "cute" I use the line I heard on Top Gear:
"if my TR6 used the bathroom, it would leave the seat up" :excitement:
 
From daughter - People who say "No Problem" when you thank them.
Cashing out of a store and the register tape runs out and the clerk can't thread the new roll through.
"Store manager to register Three" Oh, oh.
You eat $27 worth of food and hand the waiter a $50 bill and he asks you if you want change.
And from me - Men who take a huge dump, etc. and leave it for the next guy to flush down. Disgusting.
Preboarding an airplane.
 
At work, men who don't fully shake things off before stepping away from the urinal, with the result being you have to stand on a yucky wet floor to use the urinal.
 
Lol. Barefoot?
 
Hahaha. I did. Amongst several comments in other people's posts. :devilgrin:
 
Kenny hijacked my post about being gone for awhile, so if you want to know where he has been (the middle of nowhere) search there.
 
That's one of em. Sorry for the hijack Walter. :eek:
I actually intended for my "What's For Dinner?" post to be my reintroduction... as that was my regular weekly post here.
 
Great post. After reading it and I did, I've come to the conclusion that it's the "all about me" attitude that is the catalyst for this bad behavior.
 
The term "baby carrots". As far as I know carrots don't have babies. Of course when I close the fridge, I have no idea what goes on inside.
 
Ok mine?
call it what is.
cars that have idiot light on the dash and it's called GEN
AND IT DOESNT HAVE ONE !
 
People who carry unsecured or inadequately secured loads in the back of a truck or on a trailer or on top of a vehicle.

I have had numerous close calls over the years where I've had to react quickly to avoid disaster! For example once, while driving my Vett through Memphis on way home from Huntsville, a ladder came off the top of a van and I had to swing hard left to keep from having it come through my windshield. It was a reflex action and I was lucky there was no one to my left at that instant.

Another more recent incident occurred on I-40 near my house. One morning, on my way to work, a very large piece of plywood came off a trailer in front of me and came flying towards my car! Again, reflexes kicked in to avoided being hit. Luckily I am in the habit of not tailgating or I'd never have avoided it.

A good friend and a guy I used to work with lost his wife to a similar incident. Andy's wife was north-bound on I-25 between Colorado Springs and Denver when something came out of a truck in front of her. She reflexively jerked the wheel to avoid being hit. Unfortunately, her SUV rolled and she was killed. The thing that came off the truck was a large piece of styrofoam that would have done nothing had it hit her SUV.

Moral of the story: If you are hauling anything - SECURE YOUR LOAD!
 
People who say "these ones" and "those ones". Like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Also people who say "warsh" instead of "wash".
 
Darwin said:
Also people who say "warsh" instead of "wash".
Click to expand...

Guilty. But in my defense, I grew up in West-by-God-Virginia and heard "warsh cloth and "warsh-ington DC" and "Crick" instead of Creek all my young life. It's a regional thing (thang)
 
Back
Top