~*~Grievances~*~

[RobTheDrummer]

You know what I don't like...at the end of a show, you just wanna thank and meet people. Well I don't like the annoying drunk person that insists on talking to you about a half inch from your face and you back away, but don't want to be rude about it. Know what I'm talking about? I love fans and stuff, please talk to me from at least a foot away...I can hear ya! lol

[Mistress_DB]

Michael J. Cox

That's it I'm tellin! LOL! How ya doin ya little weenie? hehehe

The list of things that don't piss me off is prob shorter.

Ppl who slam on their breaks to turn at the last possible split second. Turn signals! Use em!

Egotistical Rockers. Save the attitude for some dumb groupie who might actually buy it.

Ppl who have to yak on their cell phones will driving. I'd like to take that phone and jam it in their exhaust.

Drunk guys at clubs who are old enough to be my dad. Do I have a sign over my head that says come annoy me? Piss off and let me alone.

Liars! This one really gets my goat. Esp if I know I'm being lied to. Don't insult my intelligence. I may be blonde but I sure ain't stupid.

[ZappasXWife]

Driving: I hate when you approach a stop sign facing another car. You have your turn signal on, other car doesn't because he is going straight. He has right-of-way, you don't. But (s)he won't go, waves you on. OK, this is one of those things that irritates me and I don't know why (like papercuts). You probably are thinking 'whats wrong with being nice?' Well, I think that you can be a polite driver (like letting cars in, etc...), but you should still follow the rules or accidents will happen. Just go already, you're wasting time waving everyone through and its rude to the people waiting behind you Miss polite driver. Plus I always have a sneaking suspicion that these 'polite' drivers don't know the rules which is just scary. And I can't see you waving me on when its dark out idiot
Another peeve: down to one lane on the State College bypass for months and I saw no work going on whatsoever at any time of the day. What was that about? When 2 lanes were opened back up, nothing loooked different.

[Jim Price]

Here is the link to the videos (there's six of them) of the guys dressed as cell phones I mentioned earlier:

http://www.phonebashing.com/

Enjoy!

[ERiC_AiXeLsyD]

Here is the link to the videos (there's six of them) of the guys dressed as cell phones I mentioned earlier:

http://www.phonebashing.com/

Enjoy!

Your'e awesome. It's on for 5:30 when everyone else is outta the office.

[Ron]

I get peeved by the right of way giver-uppers too, ZW.

A few weeks ago, an old lady came to a complete stop in front of me in the middle of Science Park Road in order to "wave" someone out of a side street. The person coming out of the side street was turning left, and the oncoming traffic wasn't clear. They pulled part way out, had to wait for the oncoming traffic to clear, but one of the oncoming cars was turning left into the same side street. This created a huge cluster.
The bad part was that this all happened at the bottom of a blind hill (the one just past Raytheon where Nixon Road intersects). While waiting for the cluster to clear, I heard tires squealing and looked in my rear view to see a black Pontiac sliding sideways toward the car behind me. Luckily no accident, but a perfect example of driver stupidity almost causing a multiple car wreck. Arrrgh.

I also think that a lot of those drivers give up their right of way and wave you on because they have no clue about who really has the right of way.

[Ron]

Sorry for the double post, but I just gained a new gripe: The huge amount of blank space around a list in BBCode!

Jimi, I know what you mean. Since the board has to interpret the line breaks in messages, the best (and only) cure is to not put the list tags on their own line. If you put the list tags on their own line, the interpreter adds extra html break tags around the list, adding the extra blank space.
It's all part of converting the plain text from the edit box into html.

[Quail Whale]

you know what bugs me? skinny girls who complain about how fat they are, when they are anorexic. They want you to say "oh my god you are so not fat..." I have a friend that does this, and now I say "well, it's winter, and people do tend to put on a feew extra pounds. That shuts her up, because she knows she's not fat.

[Staceman]

Yeah, the cell phone abusers really annoy me as well.

A cell phone abuser paid for my van about a year ago. He was on his cell phone, backing out of a parking space at the Weis Market in Bedford. I was almost past him when he slammed into me, hitting the area right around and mostly behind the back tire. Got back exactly what I paid for the van, and even got to keep it.

A somewhat funny, yet sad part of the story- It was blatantly apparant that it was the other guy's fault, he even admitted it at first. Then while waiting for a cop to arrive, one of the elderly cart-gatherers that works at Weis came out and told the other guy that it was my fault. (Probably because I have long hair, you know us hippies are all bad guys) I found this out when the cop finally arrived, when the elderly guy started telling me how it was my fault, since the guy was already pulling out when I came around. (Yeah right, that's why he hit the *rear* part of my van) At the same time, the other guy was telling the cop "hey, this guy seen it happen, listen to what he has to say!" in an attempt to get things in his favor. The cop totally ignored the alternate story, thankfully.

Every time I've seen the guy around since then, he's talking on a cell phone, even while walking through a store. Even sadder, this very irresponsible guy is a teacher at Bedford High School.

[RAM Z]

I don't post anything really cause I like to read what evryone else has to say but......... I freak'n hate all these jokers with 4 inch exhaust tips on their little rice burners !!! I mean come on do you relly think it sounds cool to be cruise'n around in 2nd gear untill your car is ready to puke it's pistons out and then let off the gas just to hear that annoying sound ? Damn you Vin Deisel and the fast and furious!!!! What about that peckerwood that pumps five bucks of gas and then goes into the store let'n his or her car sit at the pump then orders a whole bunch of food while the whole time you sit there pissed cause you know damn well if you try to move to the next pump someone always beats you to it or they come out just after you move as if they are watching you form inside the store!!! Jeez that gets me fired up !! I can not stand that guy that spits all over ya when he's talk'n cause he's only 3 inches away from your face and that same dude almost always has that annoying white shit in the corners of his mouth from an all day whiskey binge and chain smoking ! Did you ever notice that the same guy thinks he's God's gift to women and always scares off all the ladies ? I also hate when you pack the house at a show and you know the establishment is make'n a killing and they can't even give you and you bandmates free drinks!! Is it too much to ask or what ? For God's sakes what's the big deal about 15 bucks of beer or maybe a band discount after all aren't the bands sort of selling the booze during a show ? Just like the country band the Warren Bros. say "We don't sell alot of records but , we sure sell alot of beer !!!! " man I truly hate having to use a quote from a country song but , it's the truth !!! Marijuana laws suck !!! People who think they are not that drunk to be drive'n after you witnessed them do about a hundred jello shooters !!!! Last but not least, that chick who seems to think that 20 coats of lipstick isn't enough so she puts 10 more coats on while drive'n and talk'n on the stinking cell phone !!! Are you really that vain?? ..........Whew I feel better now!!

[esa]

I hate the pedestrians who cross streets. Don't get me wrong, sometimes there is no cross walk and one side of the road is bustling while the other side is dead...so you do have to make it half way across the road to wait till you can get a break in the 2nd part of the lane.....but the people who run accross and jutt there heads out and are halfway into the lane so that you are forced to stop and let them cross lest you run them over and the jag-off behind you almost rear ends you because they are riding your ass through town because apparently 5 miles over the speed limit is not fast for them and their four wheel drive cars. ::snarl:: I hate that. Tail gaters. You're not a hemeroid, get off my ass.

I hate smart ass cops too.

And I hate that businesses that are necessities can't ever stay open later than 6 o'clock. Example, I need to get my liscense renewed. I can't do it durring the week due to work. Saturday is it. And they were closed saturday! No warning! No nothing! So I'm screwed for a few days more now. Ain't life grand?

[ZappasXWife]

Esa said

And I hate that businesses that are necessities can't ever stay open later than 6 o'clock. Example, I need to get my liscense renewed. I can't do it durring the week due to work. Saturday is it. And they were closed saturday! No warning! No nothing! So I'm screwed for a few days more now. Ain't life grand?

I have posted before that this bugs the hell out of me. Especially working in State College, don't get home until 6, all banks closed.
Speaking of SC, how would you like to have your occupational tax increased from $10.00 to $53.00? Mine is...the rich liberals in this bubble of a town (sorry to offend any native SC people but many there are not liberal like they claim to be, many are the most conservative judgemental "democrats" , and I use that term loosely, I have ever known. At least Altoids know they live in conservative hell) feel that they need more money from those who work here from out-of-town. You know, the rich communities like Bellfonte, Tyrone, and Altoona.

[Danette]

Speaking of SC, how would you like to have your occupational tax increased from $10.00 to $53.00? Mine is...the rich liberals in this bubble of a town (sorry to offend any native SC people but many there are not liberal like they claim to be, many are the most conservative judgemental "democrats" , and I use that term loosely, I have ever known. At least Altoids know they live in conservative hell) feel that they need more money from those who work here from out-of-town. You know, the rich communities like Bellfonte, Tyrone, and Altoona.

I use to gripe because I when I would get nailed with that twice for working in Altoona and St College. $53 would seriously suck! We get to pay for the privlegde of working on top of giving roughly an entires days wages for taxes...hmm? I would make myself feel better (in my mind at least) by splitting the tax share of my wages into what I did on Monday morning and Friday afternoons - normally my two least productive times! lol

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad I don't work in SC anymore now that they are doing that!
Heart goes out to ya chickie and everyone else who works in SC

[DMFJ03]

I hate it when you buy a collector's edition of something, and they put the price tag sticker on the box / cd / dvd instead of on the plastic wrapping that it's wrapped in. Then, when you try to peal it off...you either have a big sticky smudge or pieces of the sticker still stuck to the box.

Grrr.

[Quail Whale]

you know what bugs me???? people over the age of 25 w/ HICKIES on their necks!!!!!!!! i saw this guy at Giant Eagle the other day...must've been at least 30, wearing a bandana on his head, biker coat & a big hickie....like some badge of honor cuz he got laid!!! criminy, at least when i was of hickey age, i had the decency & self repsect to give & recieve them in places not visible to the general public. And typically, those sporting the suckerbites are not people you want to think about doing deeds that result in hickeys (*quail whale gags up a worm*)

[esa]

::averts eyes to feet:: or there are those sick fk's out there that love hickeys so much that they give themselves some too....

[DMFJ03]

One more thing - when I am looking and free 10 second porn clips on the internet and I click the one I want to watch and it comes up with something totally different!

Gah, that drives me up the wall!

Hey now, don't look at me like that - I was the only one brave enough to say it!

[songsmith]

Got a new peeve, happened this weekend:
Light crowd, but one couple really dug us... they danced, and made many requests, which we honored if we knew the song. Many requests. Then, at the end of the night, it's the old," One More!" thing. It was a long night, not much energy because of the light crowd, and I hit a deer with my wife's car, so I was really bummed to have to disappoint her with that little revelation when I got home. We played yet one more, and began to tear down, when... "One More!" Yeah, that couple again. I was polite (at first) in explaining that we were finished, but the guy insisted. I spoke to him as a musician, since he claimed he was once in a band that opened for the Hurricanes, once. Didn't get it. I asked what he did for a living: lathe operator. "How would you like it if your boss came to you at 5pm, telling you to put another piece of steel on the lathe, but you don't get paid?" "Oh, it's like that." "Yeah."
Don't get me wrong, I've played clubs for nearly 21 years, and I know that some dues are never fully paid, but if you want music on demand, feed the phucking jukebox. Fifty cents a song, and they sound exactly the same everytime. If you, as a supposed musician, want your music live and rockin', expect a human being, such as myself, to be human. I had to limp a wrecked car down the mountain in the snow, and the same deer herd that caused the damage in the first place, and tell my wife I busted up her first new car ever, $3000 or so in damage. I'm in kind of a bad mood, buddy. I played practically a whole show for you and your girlfriend personally, and you need more? Sorry, man, the well's dry.
On the positive side, club management and staff were really cool, and I'd play there again, so long as that doggone Cucuplex wasn't crowd-hogging at the place down the road! ----->JMS

[Mackovyak]

-How about when someone asks you a question and then before you even get the first answer completely out of your mouth they're asking you a new one. AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

-How about this too.....I make a few calls from my cell phone, from 2 blocks away from my house on New Years. Two of them I get charged a roaming fee. Now I have the national plan??? So I call Customer Service. She tells me that when Sprint networks are full it automatically bounces to someone elses network to place my call, then I'm in roaming???? How is it my fault that they have insufficient networks for the number of subscribers and I have to pay for it? Especially when I'm in my home calling area? WTF? It's only $3.00 but it p*sses me off.

[DMFJ03]

MTV MTV MTV MTV!!!

Gah!!! I don't know if anyone mentioned this or not, but if they did...I am going to beat this dead horse some more!!

[Prrthd81702]

I abso-freakin-lutely hate when you feel the urge to urinate at a bar, and just as you're releasing the muscles, somd drunk, 50-60 year old dude comes in, goes to the urinal DIRECTLY next to you, and wants to have a conversation while touching your shoulder. Sorry, man I'm just not interested in holding my piece while you touch me with your old, cruddy hands. How nasty is that? Then, as you're washing your hands, he just leaves, touching the doorknob on the way out, making the act of washing irrelevant. However, this only happens in the enviro-friendly bars that don't have paper towels, just hand dryers. Then, in an effort to avoid defecation and urination contamination, you reach for the toilet paper, only to realize that someone touched it after touching their a$$, and now you're really screwed!

Signed,
Mr. Obsessive-Compulsive