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JazzGal said:
I'm 56. Old and cranky. And not sensitive to questions about my age.

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And you don't just split the bill evenly with your friends when it comes?

I mean, some people are funny about this. I get it. It just seems sort of petty.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
And you don't just split the bill evenly with your friends when it comes?

I mean, some people are funny about this. I get it. It just seems sort of petty.
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I'll split the bill when I go out with casual friends and acquaintances. With close friends, one of us usually covers the bill. There's typically a little argument about who's paying (everyone insists he or she should pay), but it hasn't been an issue worth mentioning.
 
I hate when I go to pass someone in my car and they speed up. I almost ****ing got hit because an idiot did this the other day.


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This happened to me yesterday. I was walking into the student commons at the college yesterday and I noticed these two people walking behind me a few feet away so instead of walking right in I slowed down. I opened the door and held it for them and both walked in. No acknowledgement, no "Thank you", no nothing. I hate that.


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White Chocolate said:
This happened to me yesterday. I was walking into the student commons at the college yesterday and I noticed these two people walking behind me a few feet away so instead of walking right in I slowed down. I opened the door and held it for them and both walked in. No acknowledgement, no "Thank you", no nothing. I hate that.


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That would infuriate me.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
And you don't just split the bill evenly with your friends when it comes?

I mean, some people are funny about this. I get it. It just seems sort of petty.
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We all had separate bills. We were just kicking money in for the coworker who is leaving. Yes, it is petty, but I was just surprised when I was told how much to kick in because her meal wasn't that expensive. I verbally expressed that surprise because I talk before thinking. Like I said, I'm weird about money.

Somewhere that coworker is probably posting a pet peeve about cheap coworkers.


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Cunning Linguist said:
And you don't just split the bill evenly with your friends when it comes?

I mean, some people are funny about this. I get it. It just seems sort of petty.
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Really? We usually either get separate checks or I take the entire thing.


Siro said:
I'll split the bill when I go out with casual friends and acquaintances. With close friends, one of us usually covers the bill. There's typically a little argument about who's paying (everyone insists he or she should pay), but it hasn't been an issue worth mentioning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aIfarMPmPQ
 
For real, splitting a non-split check is asking for trouble. Be a pro and ask for separate checks if you're in a big group and there isn't someone paying for it all. Or, be a pimp and pay for it all.
 
franklin said:
Really? We usually either get separate checks or I take the entire thing.




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I'd have won that video. In real life I have reversed out of a 4-way stop and gone a different way because someone wouldn't take their turn.
 
White Chocolate said:
I hate when I go to pass someone in my car and they speed up. I almost ****ing got hit because an idiot did this the other day.


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Siro said:
You'll pass me over my dead body, bruh!!
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Welcome to Utah. I have had people here speed up just to keep me from merging into traffic. Once it was a soccer mom in her mini-van. There were probably 3 car lenghths between us (she was behind me in the next lane over) when I turned on my signal (first Utah mistake, never signal), she then gunned it and literally cut me off as I was already partly in the next lane, then glared at me like I had just tried to eat one of her 17 children as she passed me, only to move over into the lane I was in so she could take the next exit...which she could have done directly after I changed lanes. Easily my worst pet peeve and easily what I have seen more in Utah than anywhere else I have ever driven, which includes nearly 40 of the lower 48 states and 4 other freaking countries.
 
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Another huge pet peeve of mine. In the event of a "tie" at a 4 way stop the person on the right goes first. If there are 3 then the person on the extreme right goes first. If you are across from each other both can go at the same time unless one is turning left in which case that person waits. I swear to all that is holy if people just 1) LEARNED the ****ing rules of the road and 2) FOLLOWED the ****ing rules of the road we would probably cut accidents by 2/3. This is why I much prefer Germany's driver requirements. Drivers must be 18 years old or older, and have paid for, on their own, a drivers education course which are pretty rigorous and provide proof of passing all the tests. I rare if ever saw this kind of **** in Germany. Of course they use a better traffic system too where stop signs are VERY rare, almost never see them at all, instead one road/street is designated the "main thoroughfare" and any cross or merging into it are secondary. Secondary streets must wait for traffic to open up on the main road. If there is no traffic they just drive right on through, like everything is a yield instead of needing thousands of stop signs people ignore or use improperly anyway. But as long as we have kids driving with no training (driver's ed here is horribly ineffective), we will always have this kind of ****. Ugh.
 
White Chocolate said:
This happened to me yesterday. I was walking into the student commons at the college yesterday and I noticed these two people walking behind me a few feet away so instead of walking right in I slowed down. I opened the door and held it for them and both walked in. No acknowledgement, no "Thank you", no nothing. I hate that.


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This is where I would trip one of them, or at least give them a flat tire.
 
kinda a pet peeve, but not really...

using kinda where it's not really appropriate

like, it's OK to say "I kinda want to go to California tomorrow"

but it seems wrong to say "What kinda dog is that?"

Agree?

I mean, in the first instance it's used to convey some degree of ambiguity or ambivalence. But that makes no sense in the second instance.

I saw it used this morning in a newspaper advertisement for a furniture store - - "We have just the kinda chairs you want." It just sounded awkward to me. It should say "kind of chairs..."
 
Another driving one. When someone starts to slow and puts on their blinker 10-20 whole feet before they turn. How the **** does that help?

It's 100 feet ****tards.
 
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