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 Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 01:57 AM
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Originally posted by Jeffster
People that are standing so close to you at a checkout line up you start to get a clenched fist and an urge to let loose. Back off!!
I respond to that by deliberately leaving a larger-than-normal gap in front. Drives the person behind you nuts. I mean, it's not as though pushing your shopping cart into the back of my legs is going to make the cashier move faster.
OK, mine:
Cell phone providers and the numerous ways they try to hoodwink their customers.
At airports, people who don't stand back and out of the way when you are trying to awkwardly haul a 70 lb suitcase off a moving baggage carousel.
People who keep walking, unperterbed, down the street after you have taken a spectacular fall off a bicycle, without so much as an "Are you okay?"
Weed wackers, leaf blowers, power washers, and other noisy power gardening equipment. Usually one person in the neighborhood has just finished theirs, and then someone else will start up, and so it goes, all day long, without so much as 10 minutes of peace. I say we should just agree on a time and get it all over with at once, so that we can at least have SOME quiet time.
People who leave their engines idling for half an hour in the middle of the night while they say goodnight to their friends. Especially annoying next to shaky wooden apartment blocks. Then they toot their horns as they drive away.
People at the front of the line in Starbucks who dither about what they want and ask about the flavour subtleties of each and every type of coffee bean (as though they are selecting a fine wine), and then try to teach their toddlers how to pay, when all you want is a regular coffee and you have the exact change in hand.
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 chocolate lovin, Bailey's slurpin, cold feet hatin', veggie eatin', true Cancerian water lovin', CT smilin', boulder dodgin', nosummitosis survivor
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 11:09 AM
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Dru what have you begun?!
Oh I have so very many; Lots of which have already been covered. (Mental note: Watch my spelling and grammar)
One that hasn't is the " Hi Q. How are you?" and they keep walking. If you don't want to know, don't ask.
Or the people that I work with every day, but don't know very well, asking me every day how I am. I don't want to explain all my different moods (of which there are many!!) each day so always say "alright". (I never ask " And how are you" unless I have time to sit and chat and really find out.)
Oh yeah....Leaf Blowers!! (thanks WS) There really is no need. A broom and a rake work just fine. No pollution of the noise or air kind.
Cigarette butts. (just to reiterate)
Inconsiderate drivers....all the usual varied peeves here.
Lack of bike lanes, lack of bike racks, lack of bike rooms. (Went to Greek days and there were no bike racks set up at the entrances when many had ridden there. Duh.)
People that get annoyed at me riding on the sidewalk when I am more careful and considerate than most who are on their feet. I'm usually only there for a block or 2.
Drivers that get annoyed with me being on the street. Uh, this is my lane pal. (I had a guy honking at me in rush hour when I was in the bike lane!!)
George Bush (1 and 2) and friends.
Greed
(those last 2 kind of go together I guess)
At work: (restaurant)
Uh, I'm not finished. (Then why is your knife and fork placed in the "I'm finished" position??!!)
"Is this bill in American or Candian dollars?" (ummm....American!)
"I'll have number 1" (?!?!?!!?!) You mean the salmon?
"I'll have number 38" (That would be the price sir)
"Do you have anything else for dessert?" (after reading the menu) Of course, what would you like us to whip up for you??
"I'll have the split roasted chicken". The spit roasted chicken maybe. (hee hee, the chef doesn't spit on it does he?)
"Two for dinner,no we don't have a reservation, and we'd like a window table please" (What a coincidence, so does everyone else that just walked in!! How does back here in the dry-store sound?)
That's it for now!! I'm sure I can come up with more!
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culmination point, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 11:24 AM
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Wow some pretty uptight people here. Pretty much all small stuff...i wouldn't sweat, except for leaving animals and children in hot vehicles - these are Shitheads of a High Order  oh and what Rented Mule said...those pricks, oh and a personal fav - unsolicited information on the trail "it gets really steep at the top" and "I hope you know you're only half way" - where's the little personal stun gun when you need it! WHO ASKED YOU!!! Oh i'm getting started now... demanding panhandling bums who think you owe them - stun gun em! Cops that beat and steal and lie and cheat when their job is to uphold the law and bosses who will have you know how hard it was for them starting off and how much its costing them now so you can hopefully feel sorry for them and work even harder and delay asking for that long overdue raise - freakin tight asses. Schizoid bosses that play games with employees daily "oh were doing fine" one day "were in the negatives" teh next. Politicians that fur-line their pockets and one more...people who say "I give it a hundred and ten percent" yeah right you do
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
6773 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 11:42 AM
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Fleece thong wearin, Buntzen Lurkin, mystic poet mountain man and international spokesman of the friends of the white squirrel society
Port Moody, B.C.
Canada
5900 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 12:38 PM
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SEE that's why I go hiking... to get away from this stuff
Maybe I'll go carve a tree to relax.
No I don't know where this is it was sent to me by the "Hag in the sky" - Kim the traffic gal on Jack FM.
(now you know why I don't get traffic tickets " I have a spotter working for me in the morning")
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"No Trail is Long with Good Company"
Russ S.
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 12:49 PM
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pet peeves...
Guys that talk tough, but can't or won't back it up when they have to. I'm the piece of shit with the blue Explorer and that was my dawg. What yo gonna do bout that Doris?
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Originally posted by Aqua Terra
To the piece of shit person that locked their large dog in the blue Explorer at the Superstore in Langley around 2-3 pm today,with the windows down one inch.I investigated,and several other people made effort to reach the owner.Luckily I am more calm and mature now,than I was some time ago,or else I woulda done stuff to you that is beyond cruel..hope you read this cause I got lotsa info on you..
DONT DO IT AGAIN
Others that think leaving kids and pets just for several minutes on a hot day,while doing some errands are wrong.Wake up you foolish selfcentered idiots.
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
6773 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 1:45 PM
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| Meet me at the Dell (Oasis) parking lot in Whalley at 3 pm today. |
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 1:46 PM
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
376 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 2:04 PM
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Edited by - cjb on 07/01/2005 6:07 PM |
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Fleece thong wearin, Buntzen Lurkin, mystic poet mountain man and international spokesman of the friends of the white squirrel society
Port Moody, B.C.
Canada
5900 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 2:22 PM
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A.T. ; remember the last time you did this  It took the rest of us hours to clean up the mess. If you have his plate number that is all we need.
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Richmond, BC
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 2:51 PM
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Man, am I the only person here who doesnt get pissy and stressed out by the little things? LOL
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Originally posted by Spirit
Aren't hikers supposed to be all calm and relaxed from the whole nature thing? LOL!
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Originally posted by The Hiker
SEE that's why I go hiking... to get away from this stuff
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Edited by - Spirit on 07/01/2005 2:52 PM |
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 4:18 PM
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Sorry I missed you, but my wife said I had to clean my room and cut the grass.
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Originally posted by Aqua Terra
Meet me at the Dell (Oasis) parking lot in Whalley at 3 pm today.
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Mysterious, pop can stove stashin', gps totin', overnighter virgin, wannabe tentmaker and foul weather wuss who rides a thumper to the trailhead with wonderdog Max to hike the Chilliwack Valley
Chwk
Canada
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 4:29 PM
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Sorry I missed you, but my wife said I had to clean my room and cut the grass.
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Pop can stove-making hiker wannabe that drives a THUMPER to trailheads!
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
6773 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 5:24 PM
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Went to meet the Dog torturer at the Oasis Hotel..
Not there...
Did I mention,I hate it,when people are not punctual
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 5:50 PM
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Well its a lot easier for you to get there, since that's where you live. I'd have to drive 45 minutes
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Originally posted by Aqua Terra
Went to meet the Dog torturer at the Oasis Hotel..
Not there...
Did I mention,I hate it,when people are not punctual
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
6773 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 5:58 PM
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| Surrey is a general term for me,and a large town.It took me 42 min to get there.. |
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culmination point, B.C.
Canada
737 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 6:00 PM
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yipes! dats a BIG knife AT  |
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Hope, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 7:11 PM
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These mistakes in writing bother me:
1. 'alot' should be 'a lot.' (notice the space between the two words!)
2. 'your' when it should be 'you're,' as in 'you are.' "Your funny," is WRONG, but "You're funny," is right. (this happens alot on Club Tread!)
3. the term 'irregardless.' Your just plain ignorant if you use this word.
4. the term 'anyways.' Irregardless of how you feel, you should never use the term 'anyways.'
Stop, Flynn! It's your first day of holidays! Save the spelling and grammar lessons for September!
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Surrey, BC
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 7:36 PM
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To add to mine, I would like to add people that drive around in lowered cars when the music is so loud OUTSIDE the car, it drowns your music with your windows closed.
Oh, and one more thing: LOUD people in movie theatres, talking, or cell phones ringing. Or idiots just looking to embarass or attract attention to themselves. GRR!!!!!
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5465 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2005 : 8:24 PM
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Originally posted by Peter Flynn
4. the term 'anyways.' Irregardless of how you feel, you should never use the term 'anyways.'
I used to use it a lot, until someone said to me flat out, "The word 'anyways' has GOT to be eliminated from your vocabulary." I was a little taken aback, but I figure this person did me a favour. |
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Pet Peeves ;)
