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I have another one:

--People being difficult/snarky on what is supposed to be a fun thread. LOL

Anyway......CHS, I thought I was pretty clear that the two little dogs were attacking our dogs. That doesn't sound like they were well-trained. And the other dog goes into my daughter's yard, poops in it, and then goes up to the fence so that her dogs start barking. That dog does not sound well-trained, either.

I was responding to your OP, bro. Not your post about your negatives. In fact, it was more of a response to PDX if anything. Don't worry, I know how annoying little aggressive dogs can be. Especially in the suburbs. That's why I clarified that he was a working dog, sheep dog, border collie to be exact.

"I'm not racist, but.." *says something extremely racist*

I'm a hyper punctual person. I can't stand being late to places. It makes me anxious. My friends all know if I say I'll be there at 5:30am for a fishing trip or skiing or whatnot you better expect to hear my car in the driveway by 5:25.
That said my biggest pet peeve...
Routine tardiness. People that can never be on time for anything. People that you have to tell to be someplace a half hour before you actually mean in order to get them to show up on time.
Me...Plans on leaving for a fishing trip at 5am... "Hey (friend's name here) be at my place at 4:30 sharp!" ...Yet you still just hopes he shows up by 5:15...and didn't forget his waders.
Why should we as adults have to play games like that?

Co workers that are consistently late yet use the excuse "I had to wait for the bus." If you're 10 minutes late everyday maybe you need to catch an earlier bus! Or "I had to get my kids off to school." Why is it you weren't late on Tuesday then? Did your kid not have school?
Hey! Get your ass to work on time! I'm exhausted. I've put in my hours and want to go home, and can't leave till you get there.

In general, unreliable people. If you give your word, stand by it. I'm willing to understand that crap comes up and people have to bail occasionally, but consistent issues of unreliability makes me pull back from social relationships faster than anything.

Yep, our two are great with commands too. A lot of it depends on what the dog was initially bred to do. If a mix then what breed will focus their traits. Retrievers were bred to retrieve...they tend to stay closer. Collies were bred to herd and have to constantly work. Terriers were bred as ratting dogs and need to be nippy and aggressive. Hounds bred to sniff and hunt rabbit, fox etc. Their nose is impossible to turn off thus, they are stubborn.

Our two setters were bred to run to the brush, "set/point" so the hunter can get ready and then flush the birds out for capture/kill. Even though I don't hunt...that several hundred years of selective breeding is still very ingrained. Thus, why we run them.

PDX we'll have to meet up at the 1000 acre dog park on the Sandy delta sometime. I take Samson there a few times a summer. Early, before the crowds.

Man this is the greatest post I idea ever and I cant stop reading, man there are some REALLY funny dawgs here ....hilarious just hilarious thanks VERS

The few I can think of off the top of my head:

-- People who have "meetings" in the middle of the aisle-way, and then look annoyed when you have to walk through the middle of their meeting.

-- Managers who get the objective of a meeting done in 10 minutes, but stretch the rest of the meeting out a full 60 minutes because they have that much time blocked out in the calendar.

-- People that don't know standard men's room bathroom etiquette.

-- When people barge into your cubicle and nearly sit in your lap because they approached you so fast.

-- Hypocrits

I hate when cashiers ask me if I want my penny back.

"Yeah, you can keep the penny. I wanted to pay more for this."

Your post made me spit my coffe ,you ARE a funny guy ...PEACE Swish

I'm similar to you w/the tardiness thing. I typically arrive 10 minutes early when I'm going to someone's house of meeting people somewhere. I despise being late and you never know w/traffic. I'll just wait outside because I don't want to be rude and bust in early.

My son is like me in that regard. My wife and daughter are polar opposites and always late. Very late. It's embarrassing and annoying. It got to the point where my wife and I would drive separately because I couldn't stand how late she would make us.

When I was teaching, we would have to be at school by 7:20. I would arrive between 6:30 and 6:40 to get some work done and get settled in before the madness began. We always would have teachers scurrying in after 7:20. Harried looking, fumbling for keys, kids in the hallway or waiting in another teacher's room What a poor example and image for the kids.

Then, those same teachers would be late for our Team Planning sessions. We were forced to meet twice a week during our planning time, and of course, 1 or 2 teachers would be 10 min. late for almost every single meeting. Very rude and annoying. I would be looking at the clock thinking about how much time I was wasting.

Shoot..........this wasn't even humorous. I guess it really did bother me. LOL

I'm the opposite with the "tardy" thing. I can't stand when people are notoriously EARLY. If I'm having a birthday party at 5:00, I don't need you there at 4:30 standing in my way!

When people show up 15-20 minutes early for a job interview with me, they WAIT lol.

I, like Vers, arrive early but will wait outside.

Another thing that annoys me. People that can never remember stuff. What do I mean? I tell my buddy, my best friend of 27 years, "hey let's go skiing tomorrow morning." He replies, "see you at 5". Now me being me, I go get my gear out. Gloves, check. Goggles, check. Poles, check....down the line. All set up and ready to go sitting by the door, waiting for the dawn. Meanwhile, me knowing my buddy, I tell him, " hey dumbass, go get your crap out and put it by the door." Inevitably he doesn't do it that evening. I arrive the next morning at 4:55am and he's tearing his house apart because he can't find his gloves.
... I lose my mind.

I'm a huge, 'put it by the door' guy. I'm constantly telling that same friend "dude put it by the door". Years of this. Only very recently has he started implementing it. He'll even text me when he does it, "hey buddy, I put it by the door". It makes me proud.

I'm not perfect....I know this about myself. That's why I try to implement fail safes in my life. I use sticky notes a lot, I set reminders on my phone for all appointments (setting the first reminder for the day before the appointment), I put my keys on things I don't want to leave behind at buddies houses or whatnot so I can't leave without them.
Know thy self. Create tools to rewire or at least mitigate the problems you could potentially create for yourself.

I have always agreed with, and tried my best to live by, the axiom that says: If you aren't 10 minutes early, you're late.

I once sat in the front leaning rest position for 10 minutes because everyone in my platoon wasn't 10 minutes early.

Which was 10 minutes earlier than we actually had to be ready.

I have a lady client who has a very good sense of humor and I once told her she looked very nice today.. and her response was, "Guess I better go see what I looked like yesterday and try not to do that again."

Awesome!!!

Hey............you guys wanna try and come up w/other phrases that don't mean what they sound like? We've had several like: "To keep a long story short," "To be honest..." "I'm not racist, but..."

Hmmmm....

--"That's an interesting idea"... Translation: It's a dumb idea and I have already dismissed it.

--"With all due respect"....Translation: You are a freaking idiot.

--"In all fairness".....Translation: I completely disagree w/your take and I am going to tell you how it really is. [btw...that one is used on here a lot...LOL]

--"I must say"..........Translation: A negative bomb is going to be launched from the speaker's mouth.

I can come up w/a ton more, but to be honest, and in all fairness, I must say that I want to hear your interesting ideas.

I hate when people subtweet me

I'm annoyed by all the time I lose to teaching to standardized tests.

Might want to switch the by and to, bro.

Just got back from the movies. (Power Rangers is pretty good) and have a few updates to my list.

People that walk in during the previews, I get it, the popcorn line was long. But guess what, I've been here for twenty minutes and am super into this Despicable Me 3 trailer. So SHUT UP...

The fact that the rows aren't spaced out enough to fit someone sitting down with enough round to walk by without feeling like you're ganna fall into the people in front of them.

The fact that previous statement is general knowledge, and yet people still don't even try to move their feet out of my way. I have to pee. I will apologize for stepping on your foot. But I'm not actually sorry.

And finally.

The guy in the very last seat of the row, that has his feet propped on the seat in front of him, that sees me coming, and has the balls to say "can you get by?"

Uh no. Put your _______ feet down dude. This ain't your house...

Bonus:

The lady that thought it was "so weird" that people (in their 30s-40s) were super into Power Rangers.

Go away lady.

LOL.............I love sarcasm.

Alright..........since y'all aren't helping. I am going to add a couple of more:

--"I'll just be a minute.".........Translation: We are already ten minutes late and we haven't left the house and have a 30 minute drive and that minute will actually be another 8-10 minutes.

--"Do you want help with that?".....Translation: The [censored] is heavy and I don't want to help you, but I'll give you a chance to say, "No, I got it."

--"I have a headache." Yeah, we all know.....Translation: You ain't getting any tonight.

I think I do most of the things, people on here have listed that they hate.

One thing I hate is reading through a thread in DT, thinking it's the first time, and come across a post I made, days ago, that when I read it, it sounds crazy!
(When I posted it, was just my mind expressing).

Sure, I go through the express line, if I figure I only have half a cart, maybe 25-30 items, but, they're small items, these days it's hard to find a "non" express lane, and I was the last person in line when I got into the line anyways.
Besides, I check out quickly, compared to the average.

The other day I had a business meeting with an insurance investigator at the Average Joe's at Kenny and Henderson in Columbus. If I could remember the bartenders name, I'd call her out. I ordered a tall ice tea.. unsweetened. She came back, told me 2.39 and I gave her 3.00. She never brought back the change.. I would have normally tipped it to her plus more in all liklihood.. instead she decides she will steal it from me.

i think the thing that annoys me most is when I'm stockings shelves.

I can literally tell if I'm in someone's way. It's super obvious. But I still ask, "Do you need me to move? (My huge, and heavy, pallet of soda)"

"Oh no, I'm just looking.."

..wut.

No one window shops the fricken pop aisle. You came here to get something. You trying to not inconvenience me is a bigger inconvenience.

It's either that, or say I'm stocking Pepsi 2 Liters. And someone wants one (or like 8 apparently)

They will legitimately ask me if they should just take it from my cart/pallet.
I will say yes.
They will pause.
"Oh I'll just grab it from here" (aka the shelf)

And now I have to replace the one you just took. When you could of just taken it from here...

LIKE YOU ALREADY ASKED TO.

sigh.

People who fret too much about being on time.
There's two things I'll force myself to be on time for.
Work! and uhh, when I think of the 2nd one, whatever that is.

I check out the prices in the pop aisle. There's no way I'm paying $2+ for a lousy 2 liter bottle of Pepsi. (No offense)

I would take the pop from the pallets, because I would assume that it's fresher. However, I have had a rep ask me not to take from the pallet before. I* assume that they want to move the old out and keep the newer.

Funny to read your post, because when I find myself in a grocery store, window shopping anything, (motor oil for example) .. That's me time, that's the one time I can take a deep breath and be alone with my thoughts, without all the demands of my attention from the outside world around me.
And sometimes it takes 3-4 minutes to find your particular brand of, peanut butter for example.
(It's the little things like the correct brand of peanut butter that keeps the world sane and makes life bearable.)

j/c:

Is it okay if we keep the mood light? You know......complain, but do so w/a smile on your face because you just know others have experienced the same stuff.

I hate when leaving a gathering, in an automobile, leaving in a root system of small capalary parking aisles that merge into the main exiting lot exit.

And Then! People who decide to let everybody in front of them, into the aisle from the right and the left, without ANY regard for the people who are one car BEHIND them.

The rule is simple, (might not be legal) but, if you come to the part, where (other) is trying to pull into your main lane, and you are in the mane lane,..
1. You shouldn't have to yield unless they were already waiting when you arrived.
2. if it's a constant line from all directions, let every other one in, 50%
Because often times if you let one out(or in), another 1,2, or 3, (others) will force their way, making the main road wait!!!!

And I ALSO hate overly letters , who let everybody in, If I'm the one being let in.
Because you have to be fair to the people who are behind (YOU) as much as the ones who are ahead of you on your left and right, in this barely moving line!
Common Sense. (But I understand, many think, my way of thinking, is, rude, inconsiderate, or crazy.)

"What we have here is failure to communicate"

I hear ya. I consider me to be one of the stupid people. wouldn't want to be smart, by those definitions.

Really struggle with the demands the outside world feels it's allowed to impose on someone.

And one of the hardest groups of people for me to understand are sales people. (I've noticed over the years)

Life is too short to live by this worlds' standards. But we can have a Lot of Love for people we don't Like.

People who wear another university's apparel than the college they currently attend. The amount of kids wearing Bucketes and Wolverines gear at UT made me sad. Even the local newspaper covered the other college sports more than the Rockets.

I used to wear my UM hat with my Akron hoodie around campus.

I was in my mid to late 20s though. So i had been a UM fan for like 10 years already.

Also Akron suuuucks. (Except in soccer, pretty good there)

Since many of these have a distinct "wife" connotation.. I will add a couple..

--"Is that what you're wearing?"..... Translation: You look stupid and I won't be seen in public with you dressed like that.

--"No offense, but...." ..... Translation: I'm about to rip apart something you did and make you feel like a total idiot.

--"In my opinion,...." .... Translation: Pay attention, I'm about to give you YOUR opinion.

Nice.

I hate it when someone asks you a question, you give them YOUR answer, and then they proceed to GIVE you your answer.

Like I didn't know when you asked me that you already had an answer prepared...

Hardships? I got two weeks off from school and it was one awesome time to go sledding!

Hardship points go to you on this one. I'm a painter and I'm on ladders all the time and I wouldn't want to make that climb on a sunny day let alone in weather like that.

Is that the time you got a bonus for making the climb and all you were thinking about was that bumpazz stereo you were gonna get?

I see where you're coming from but here's my take.
I grew up in NW Ohio as a Buckeye fan. I then went to art school in Columbus. The Columbus College of Art and Design. Living in Columbus my Buckeye fan-ship grew. I then transferred to save money and be close to home, my pseudo hometown, and attended BGSU. BG fielded some good teams back in the early 90's under Coach Blackney...but I was still a Buckeye fan come Saturday.