Pet Peeves

[lorin]

Probably started about the time they began attaching pillowtops to the mattresses. It wouldn't work to flip one of those...

but I don't use pillow tops anymore. too soft. So I went to order a firm regular mattress. NO NONE NADA that are flippable. The only flippable I could find is if you bought a mattress directly from Carnival Cruise Lines. A queen is 1800.00!

[aliantha]

$1800 for just the mattress? That's crazy.

I bought a firm mattress with a pillowtop from IKEA in May. Have since decided that I should've sprung for the boxspring instead of the slatted foundation I bought because it was $70 cheaper. Finally dug out the receipt this morning; I have until Friday to return the slatted foundation and get the boxspring. And today it's raining.... I may just pay the delivery fee, rather than trying to fight my way down I-95 during rush hour some night this week. Sigh.

[lorin]

I had to order yet another mattress for my new adventures in sciatica. BUT I did find a flippable extra firm. Special ordered it from Sealy. $900 but worth every penny.

So I have a new pet peeve. I want a tooth brush. Not a rotary hand model, not one shaped like a wave, not one with rubber massage spikes, not one with an ergonomic super handle, not one with super rubber grips, not one in florescent pink, not one made by Disney or Shrek, not one that lights up when you brush, not one that changes color when its old, not one that wakes you up in the middle of the night when you forget to brush. I just want a tooth brush.

[aliantha]

I know exactly what you mean. I got a free toothbrush from the dentist with bristles so long, and with so many extra rubber bristly things on the side, that I gagged on it.

Oral B still makes a relatively basic toothbrush, altho the bristles at the tip are elongated and the middle ones do change color after a few months. When I find 'em, I buy three or four.

[balon!]

I had to order yet another mattress for my new adventures in sciatica. BUT I did find a flippable extra firm. Special ordered it from Sealy. $900 but worth every penny.

So I have a new pet peeve. I want a tooth brush. Not a rotary hand model, not one shaped like a wave, not one with rubber massage spikes, not one with an ergonomic super handle, not one with super rubber grips, not one in florescent pink, not one made by Disney or Shrek, not one that lights up when you brush, not one that changes color when its old, not one that wakes you up in the middle of the night when you forget to brush. I just want a tooth brush.

hospital supplies. they're puuuurfect.

[MsMary]

Here's a pet peeve: Annoying voicemail greetings!

[sgt.null]

stupid telemarketers that find ways to get around the no call list.

[Ananda]

Kids who ride their stupid skateboard by dropping yp and down constantly so that it clatters loudly every 20 seconds for hours.

[lorin]

Why is it ok to talk with your mouth full? Every cooking show host does it now. When you go out with friends food spews out of their mouths while they are talking. I just want to scream

SWALLOW, DAMN IT!

What could possibly be so interesting that you can't swallow first?

[MsMary]

I couldn't agree more.

[lurch]

okay okay okay...howabout..talking with your mouth full while on the telephone while you are driving..?? oooww they are the worst!

[lorin]

okay okay okay...howabout..talking with your mouth full while on the telephone while you are driving..?? oooww they are the worst!

at least the food hits the wind shield instead of in your eye........or....mouth

I just got back from a cruise. They eat FAST, don't swallow, you don't understand what they're saying and worst of all they are still swallowing while they are getting back on the buffet line. Blech....................

[Fist and Faith]

My two stepsons lived with my wife for several years after she and her ex broke up. He tried getting out of child support a couple times, being from the school of thought that my wife was stealing his money.

A couple years ago, he tried to get them to move in with him. This despite the fact that he had never allowed them to spend the night at his home in the six years I'd known them. But they were in their late teens, no longer needing as much eyes-on care, so it was his way out of child support. He told my wife, "I can't wait until you have to pay me child support!" He fueled the typical friction between them and me. As well as the non-typical, because both are autistic spectrum, and one is also diagnosed with psychosis (bad anxiety and paranoia). One of the boys went. The more disabled one stayed.

The child support he was paying obviously went down. There still was some, because he made twice what my wife made.

Then, in August 2013, the ex was arrested for domestic violence. His gf got a restraining order, so he had to leave the house they bought together. We found out some days after the incident when, after being vague on the phone when my wife and I called to talk to my stepson, the gf finally told us what was going on. My wife called the police to ask if they could help her find her son. The ex called from his cell phone a day or two later. They were living in the middle of nowhere. My stepson wasn't going to be able to go to highschool his senior year, which began in a couple weeks, because his father wasn't going to be able to drive him all that way, and he wasn't doing anything about enrolling him wherever they were. So we told him that, if he had their son move back in with us so he could get his diploma (we are out of the district he had been going to, but close enough to drive him back and forth every day), he would not have to pay any child support at all. He agreed, saying "That sounded like a good deal!" Ya think? Agreeing to let your son graduate highschool in exchange for no longer being responsible for your children in any way. Good deal, indeed! (Ya know, if you're the type of person who views things in that kind of twisted way.)

Four or five months later, he resolved his domestic violence situation, and moved back into the house. (No idea if the gf is still there.) And the son moved back in with him. Surprising that he wanted the kid back, but a good surprise. He's as far from a desirable role model as you could pick, but the boy wants to be with his father. We didn't bother doing anything about the child support. One son was with each parent. The one with us will be 21 in September (we're working hard on placements for him, whether a group home or something more complex that we have brewing in Buffalo), and the other turned 19 a couple days ago. There didn't really seem any need to bother with one each, and he was actually being a father to at least one of them. (The one with us hates his father, to the point of asking to be checked into a psychiatric hospital a few years ago because he wanted to kill his father, but knew that was not a good thing.)

And now, a few months after that son moved back in with him, the ex filed to get child support from my wife. For a 19yo who is about to graduate highschool. Who is able to graduate highschool because we took on the full day-to-day and financial burden of both sons so that he could graduate.

So my pet peeve is my wife's ex.

[aliantha]

Completely understandable, Fisty. Ugh. The good news is that the jerk would have to be extremely lucky to get it at this point. Although I suppose he could try to get back child support.

[MsMary]

I was thinking of this thread the other day cause I had a pet peeve I wanted to post. But now I can't remember what it was.

[lorin]

I was thinking of this thread the other day cause I had a pet peeve I wanted to post. But now I can't remember what it was.

My pet peeve s always thinking of something important and then forgetting it at the crucial moment.

[peter]

People who come into the shop and say "Can I get ....." instead of "Can I have...." I always want to say "By all means. F*** off to Sainsbury's and get it." Of course I don't though - Hell, I'm a professional aren't I? [Oh, and another one is when I ask if they would like a bag and they say "No - you're all right" I feel like screaming "Yes I know I'm all right, I asked if you wanted a f****** bag, not for an assesment of my state of mind!" {I am all right aren't I? }]

[MsMary]

I was thinking of this thread the other day cause I had a pet peeve I wanted to post. But now I can't remember what it was.

My pet peeve s always thinking of something important and then forgetting it at the crucial moment.

Heh. Good point.

[aliantha]

People who come into the shop and say "Can I get ....." instead of "Can I have...." I always want to say "By all means. F*** off to Sainsbury's and get it." Of course I don't though - Hell, I'm a professional aren't I? [Oh, and another one is when I ask if they would like a bag and they say "No - you're all right" I feel like screaming "Yes I know I'm all right, I asked if you wanted a f****** bag, not for an assesment of my state of mind!" {I am all right aren't I? }]

I'm sorry, but I've got nuthin' for a people who say "cheers" when they mean "thanks".

[michaelm]

People who load a dishwasher from the front so that as it gets loaded you have to lean over more and more dirty stuff to get to the back. I would have thought that loading from the back forward would be common sense...