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"Excuse me, you work for Pepsi right?"
*wearing a Pepsi shirt, Pepsi hat, and am actively stocking Pepsi products*
"Yes ma'am"
"Oh good, can you tell me why I can't find any Diet A&W Root Beer?"
"Well, we don't make that, but it's right there"
*points slightly to the right of where she was just looking*

Brats throwing tantrums in the candy/toy aisles at Kroger...

Clem, my friend........let me just say that I kinda made this thread as a satirical comeback on all the dumb ass political threads. I intended it for it to be humorous more than anything and for us to laugh our asses off at certain things that happen in our lives. However, I will admit that many of --if not all--of the things I listed, actually did annoy me. LOL

Bro, you have some I agree with and some I question, but this:



LMAO...........how many times does this happen? I know I have had to park in hospital parking garages way too often recently, and these dumb azzes stop and leave me w/my ass sticking out in traffic while they contemplate the sign that says "Keep Moving." LOL

Went through McD's this morning, ordered the #2 (sausage egg mcmuffin) w/OJ instead of coffee with a honey mustard. Girl says $5.38 please pull around. Takes my debit card, swipes it, hands me my receipt.
Bill was for $6.48. I tell the girl at the second window, this isn't my order, so she goes about trying to get it corrected. I knock on the window, she comes back and I tell her I ain't got time for this so just throw an apple pie in the bag and we'll call it even!

I worked at a Mom&Pop fast food burger joint.
The most popular local joint in town. Outsold McDonalds on the daily/regular. (Google: 'Kewpee Hotels'/Lima, OH)

Hand-written tickets on a swiveling order carousel.
Two lunch lines running full-capacity for 3 hours each mid-day.

Maybe two missed-filled orders per WEEK.

No computers.


Just sayin'....

I agree.

Yo these fast food workers want 15 am hour but can't even put cheese on a burger correctly.

NW Ohio dawgs...

How about those Michigan drivers, especially those in trucks, on 75 or the turnpike? I go at least five miles over the speed limit, but those drivers routinely tore up the freeway like a bat out of hell. Has this changed?!

Teachers who want the suburbs, and would never "teach those hoodlums from the hood. Rocket, why did you choose to student teach there?!"

People who ask "Alaska?! Isn't it cold there?!"

I think we rely on technology a bit much these days. Somehow or other we need to get the next generation to be more 'in the real world' and use their heads rather than their phones.

My math teacher told us a story way back in '85 about one of his students that could do her math problems very quickly.

Goes out into the real world and starts using a calculator, her math processing slows down. She calls the teacher, who tells her to stop using the calculator.

Processing skills go back up.

I actually used to sub from a painting contractor that had a masters in education that went back into painting because he didn't get the position he wanted in the school district he wanted.

I've lived in the MI/Toledo area for two years now.

No one here knows how to drive.

I remember UT, along with the collective city of Toledo, going on a severe snow emergency with 5 inches of snow...

I was in 4th or 5th grade for the blizzard of '77. We had to walk to school in snow up to our knees that year, then they shortened the days from 9-3 to 10-2, then they just had the teacher give us a bunch of work and said come back when it melts.

Here in central ohio, these days if a snowflake makes it to the ground, the superintendent will start a stop watch and if it survives past a few seconds school is cancelled.

And everyone forgets how to drive in the snow.

The thing that amazed me the most when I moved here..

I lived in Akron, and Norwalk (By Sandusky) and when one light goes "Green, Yellow, Red" there's a pause, where both directions are Red, and then it's Green the other way.

Toledo doesn't have that.

Once this one is Red, bam, the other ones Green..

SO WHY AM IM STILL SITTING HERE AT A GREEN LIGHT WAITING FOR YOU TO GO?

DO YOU NEED AN INVITATION?

sigh.

They're waiting for the right shade of green?

I think I sit at green lights more than I do red ones.

Not even joking.

I struggle with a strong dislike of stupid people in general. I'm not talking about somebody that is mentally handicapped, or slow with a low IQ. I'm talking about average people that are stupid and don't know they are stupid.

Almost everybody on here is somewhat intelligent and even if we disagree on some things, we can converse politely about other things. Most of the posters here read, take in information from various forms of media and form their own ideas from that experience.

Stupid people don't do anything to educate themselves. They let all sorts of craziness roll off their tongues and if you are stuck in the vicinity or (even worse) the person they are talking too, you have to try and be polite to them and listen. I want to scream at them and tell them they are idiots...

I used to do a lot of in home sales with my business. Thousands of appointments with families over the years. So many that people became like numbers to me. I would never let their personal issues, objections or personalities get in the way of me closing the deal. Almost everyone liked me even though my entire personality was more or less a mask. I would pet their dogs, treat their kids like they were my own, and relate to the adults by mirroring who they were in many instances. It was pure manipulation, but it was a necessary evil to be the best at what I did.

My sales numbers were always tops and I made good money doing it, but I hated it. I hated the manipulating, but mostly I hated how stupid people were. Some people are so caught up in themselves that the world just happens to them without them noticing. Others want every shiny thing they see. Some will go along to get along right through the contract signing.

I've seen everything from Pastors to Drug Dealers try to scam the system to get what I was selling by lying on credit applications. I've seen people who were behind on their mortgages apply for signature loans to buy something else they couldn't afford.

Not everyone bought from me, but my closing percentage was always between 30% and 40% of my sits, often higher. If there was a deal to be had i usually found a way to make it happen. I can honestly say that at least half of my sales were to stupid people.

Years later, and 13 years removed from that life, I find I have almost no tolerance for stupid people and they are everywhere. This really is something I hate though because it's like my own personal demon. I don't want to dislike anybody. Most stupid people don't have a clue the are stupid, they just are and it's not always their fault. But I just can't help disliking them.

I do.
I've been here for 20+ years.
YOU'RE the rookie.

Keep your head on a swivel, son... Michiganders drive around here regularly.

It was the Blizzard of '78.
I was 21 years old.

I was a 1st-year rookie at the SOHIO Lima Refinery.
The Co. sent 4-wheel-drive Jeeps/SUV's to bring us off-duty workers in, as the blizz settled in. Once there, YOU COULD NOT LEAVE.

Rows of Army cots in the Rec center gym. On-call, 24/7. Triple overtime for ALL workers who were on campus for the emergency. Paid out from the moment we arrived, until the 'House Horn' (siren) signalled the end of the the emergency- 72 hours later.

____________

I know it was 1978, because that was the week when my boss told me:
"Clem- we got 2 burned-out FAA lights on the top of the coke drum superstructure. We need you and Runser to replace them. Sorry son- but it has to be done."

* "FAA Lights:" those flashing 'airplane lights' you see atop tall structures. (You take them for granted, but someone has to replace them, yo-)

I'd replaced 'FAA lights' before, but this was something else. A 20-minute summertime job took over 2 hours that day. The [crappiest] part of the gig: crawling up that ladder to replace bulbs that no local pilot would see... because the blizzard had grounded all air travel.

You were off by one year with your numbers... but I don't doubt the hardships you encountered. That was one awful winter.

People who make mountains out of mole hills, and people who have no patients

I am learning to hate eyedrops.

My eye that had the hole in the macula, then developed a cataract. That was expected. However, now my eyes is all miserable again, and is going to need laser surgery to correct a problem with the sac the lens fits into.

One more surgery and I may just tell them to take the darn thing out. I am tired of doing eyedrops 5 times/day. It will probably be more often than that after the surgery.

Hopefully the surgery will knock out the eye migraines I have been having lately. (and I don't 100% that they are migraines, but it feels like someone has been spinning one of those wire brushes on a drill into my eye. Ugh.

Hopefully they'll fix this at my next appointment. The doctor said that the laser thing he is going to do is about a 30 second thing .... so I hope so.

1. People driving 5 mph below the speed limit in the left lane. c'mon people either go or get out of the way.

2. Folks asking stupid questions at a mandatory staff meeting. Just let the meeting get over so we can all leave.

3. And the worst of all, people who blow their nose in a restaurant while I'm eating, cause nothing is more appetizing than watching you shoot snot out of your head while I'm trying to eat. I just wish that when you are done you would come over and show me the napkin with the snot in it so that I can get some closure.

Or you could just go to the restroom and do it.

In Columbus, if you do the speed limit in the left lane people are mad at you! If you aren't at least 5-10 miles an hour over, you're getting passed up with dirty looks to go along with it.

Sorry about that. Nothing personal

I don't know why y'all hatin on larger black ladies. Let me tell you, larger black women in their 40's and older have a little white guy fetish. I get hit on all... the... time. lol

True story, myself and couple other officers were on foot patrol in one of the not so nice neighborhoods. Middle of then night and we came up on a few ladies chillin on the porch drinkin and having a good time. We chatted for a few then started to leave. Well, that's when Big Momma came down, beer in hand, looks me up and down and says "Aw, I'm gonna take you inside, make you put the hand cuffs on me, and you won't be able to call enough backup to help you with the things I'm going to do to you!"

Normally you see the cop chasing someone... not typically the other way around LOL

I'm glad I have a place like Dawgtalkers to vent this. It's good for my head.

My apartment building has ~ 100+ apartment units. The complex ~ 1,000 units in 5 sprawling buildings. It used to be “The Luxury Apartments” for young professionals in the 70s, 80s, & 90s.

Well designed and constructed. Laundry, mail and trash chutes inside the building. Great sound-proofing between units. No bugs, Every unit has an outside deck.

But the complex has become a bit of a dinosaur. There’s a lot of newer complexes right here in Rocky Hill.

In an effort to rent-out unoccupied units, the property management started leasing to Section 8 people (poor people, people receiving housing assistance - like me, but I’m very different, I’m a rare non-white-trash caucasian)

That means that the place is now becoming a dump. Daily, there’s trash left anywhere these pigs feel like dropping it.

Fast food bags and wrappers, coffee cups, newspapers, fried chicken bones right at the entrance to the building, in the elevator, on the trash room floor a foot from the chute.

Sure, there’s on-site custodians, but they’re already very busy sweeping and mopping floors, dusting, vacuuming and cleaning the normal dirt from ~ a couple hundred people.

I’m sure this sudden excess trash everywhere is coming from maybe 6 new renters. The complex is still mostly young asian Indian families with small children. They’re most certainly not throwing trash everywhere. But they are grumbling about it and don’t like it and word is getting around their community about the trashing’ of Century Hills.

It's the start of the "urbanizing" of Rocky Hill.

I got more.....LOL

Dogs:

We are dog lovers. We have two large dogs. My daughter has 3 dogs, including 3 Great Danes, and my son has an Irish Wolfhound. We all have fenced yards and keep our dogs on a leash when they are not in the back yards.

You may ask where is the negative part? Let me tell ya':

--We walk our dogs daily. These two little ankle biters down the street are not fenced or leashed. They come tearing down the sidewalk and are nipping at the heels of our dogs. We have to restrain our dogs from these frequent attacks. Annoying.

--People who walk their dogs and don't clean up the "presents" that their dogs leave in our yard.

--A lady on my daughter's street walks her dog w/out a leash. She said the local government gave her permission to walk her dog w/an "invisible leash," whatever the hell that is? The dog is named "Wanderer." No kidding. It goes in everyone's yard and does it's business. It also goes up to the fence in my daughters back yard and my daughters dogs start barking, so she has to bring her dogs inside because she doesn't want to disturb the neighbors. Lady, put your damn dog on a leash.

Hmmmmmm.......maybe it's not the dogs that annoy me, but the people who own them???????

Big Momma's House

I am a habitual trip planner, so I get it if people freak out. You spend so much time effort in planning to make sure you get your money's worth just for it too .

I actually create itineraries for all my vacations just to make sure we are on schedule and not missing anything good. When me and my wife started dating, she thought I was crazy she would just wing all her vacations, and then after one trip with me, she was amazed how much stuff we packed into one trip.

I lift big weights, I need 3-5 minutes rest in between my sets, so if I am on Facebook at the squat rack for few minutes in between sets, that's why lol

I am doing power 5x5s and squats take me 30 minutes. (I go to a powerlifting gym so we have more than enough racks for everyone)

When people say they didn’t see me.. I am 6’3 300+ I stick out everywhere I go, you saw me.

White people who strike a conversation with me and always talk about the “blackest” thing they know to relate to me, (pot, snoop dog, the wire, empire ). I have much more to offer then talking about snoop.

People who say “retarded” or make jokes about special needs people, I usually want to punch them in the face.

Ignorant people of all races, ages, and religions

Bad kids, and parents who don’t discipline their children. Spank that baby and put that child in timeout, don’t let that kid run you.

People who have kids and can’t afford them. I can go on multiple vacationsa year because we planned our children and stopped after having 2 kids, don't be mad at me.

People who talk crazy and say they can’t help themselves, that’s a lie I bet you are not cursing in church or talking crazy to your grandmother.

Grammar Nazis.. Who cares? Do you get a cookie every time you correct someone when they type “there” instead of “they’re”? (I wrote “then” on purpose )

So you've met my wife?

And it's funny because even grandma, who has the patience of a saint, has said the same thing.. my wife will ask a question or ask for advice and the second you start talking, you can tell she is in a different zone just thinking about what she's going to say next.

Literally, we have had conversations before where she makes a comment about something.. when I can squeeze a word in I will comment about something TOTALLY DIFFERENT, and then she just picks up right where she left off..

It goes something like this:

Wife: Did you see what your daughter wore to school today? I told her that those leggings were too small and the top didn't match. She looked like she didn't brush her hair or anything and.. .
Me: (butting in) I had green pizza for lunch with a side of toadstools.
Wife: But her hair looked horrible and she's into this make-up thing now and we have to tone that down, I don't want her looking like a tramp.. wait, what did you say?

I like having a plan but I've been on trips before that were so regimented, so planned, that you felt like you couldn't even relax....

Another thing that bugs me is people who preface things with "I'll be honest with you... " Ok great, what were you being before?

And people who have to one-up your story. If you averaged 12 ppg in high school, they averaged 14... and 8 rebounds.... If you went to Jamaica, they went to Bora Bora.... If you have two black friends, they have three... bugs the crap out of me.

We have two setters that we walk off leash. However, not in our neighborhood. They are bird dogs so they run and would be in peoples lawns and there are cars to worry about. We will walk on leash in our neighborhood in the evening. But...rain,snow or dark early mornings we get up and walk them off leash in the forest so they can run. On the weekends, no matter the weather we go into the gorge and hike a few miles so they can do what they were bred to do....run and flush birds.

I am a firm believer dogs are more aggressive, protective and territorial when on a leash. But, we also have dogs that need to run so...we do what we have to do to let them run while also being considerate of our neighbors.

Great thread lol!

DUMB WEBSITES DESIGNED BY SQUIRRELS: Verizon business - you must log in once a month or you lose your password. You try password because you don't know when you logged in last / password doesn't work / asks for verification with secret question / still won't let you log in / eventually allows you to change password / won't accept password because it is "similar" to previous password. Every step of the way - dumb questions that make you afraid to click... "are you sure you want to create this account?" Then, once on the site, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get where you need to go, even though you know this has to be the biggest reason anyone would even log in. Fourteen sub-menus and three angry loops later - I can finally view and change my plan.

REMOTES: My first VCR remote actually plugged in to the unit, I think maybe we should go back to that paradigm... then I remember the remote for my Pioneer stereo system (circa 1986) would work from anywhere... different rooms, pointed at the ceiling, even in a drunken stupor. NOW, I can't get any of them to work without approaching the unit and asking for permission.

SNOWFLAKES: People that whine about everything in their lives without ever lifting a finger to change anything.

SPEED-UP/SLOW-DOWN DRIVERS: Ride your a$$, pass you, slow down, rinse, repeat... for miles... all the while I'm on cruise control.

I could go on all day lol.

j/c

Driving on a st rt and having someone pass you doing 80 just to have to put on the brakes and turn right up the road. Now who has to slam and jam them gears? Or trying to pass a slow moving car just so that they speed up and you go back to where you where, just so they slow down again.

My roommate has a dog who has been leashless for his entire life. He's a working dog and listens to commands very well. During the summers I'll run a 5k right through downtown Columbus. That dog is great on the runs. Stays right with me, doesn't bark at people, barely makes eye contact. Honestly, the biggest distraction on these runs is people stopping me to talk about the dog and to pet it. I honestly don't even want to use leashes anymore because of that dog. Very well behaved after many years of drilling the rules into his head.

LOL.......I've always thought the same thing. A similar one is "To be perfectly honest...."