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Stupid Pet Peeves

Hobos who insist on showing me their physical problem(most recently some kind vein problem on his upper thigh) in an effort to get some spare change out of me.

People who take the shopping carts home, usually several blocks, and just leave them for other people to call the store to have them to come get them off their property.

People who shoot off the same 2 fireworks 8000 times in a row. Also the same people who fire off fireworks until 2am.
 
My FIL is getting up there in age and needs help with the general upkeep of his house. Problem is, he's always been a tinkerer so no matter how good something is, it can be made better. He'll go putter around Lowes and see a sale on something and decides he needs to replace his. I've been over to his house on numerous occasions to replace or "repair" items that are perfectly fine. Everything from replacing faucets to running new copper water lines for his ice dispenser to digging up a patch of lawn that just isn't as green as the rest of the lawn and reseeding. He hovers over me like a son of a bitch.

To his credit, It's not because he thinks he needs to supervise what I'm doing but rather he feels guilty that he has to ask someone else to do it for him and just wants to be involved. My issue is that this man is more than a little intimidating, even after being his SIL for a quarter a century now. This is the guy that while in Korea ran back onto the battle field to save fallen soldiers and in the process got shot to hell himself but went back again. And then rather than have someone need to risk their life to save him, crawled to the damn aid station with his guts hanging out.

In any case, I'm a sweater as it is but when he hovers, damn, I look like I just got sprayed down by a hose. It doesn't help that he keeps the house at 85 degrees at all times. I finally just started bringing a change of clothing and a bandana whenever I go to his house regardless of why we are there. We can be eating Sunday dinner and he'll bust out with, "Hey, while you're here, I just bought a new widget. Can you help me install it?" I learned long ago I'm going to want a clean, dry shirt by the time I'm done.
 
Chad Feldheimer said:
Hobos who insist on showing me their physical problem(most recently some kind vein problem on his upper thigh) in an effort to get some spare change out of me.

People who take the shopping carts home, usually several blocks, and just leave them for other people to call the store to have them to come get them off their property.

People who shoot off the same 2 fireworks 8000 times in a row. Also the same people who fire off fireworks until 2am.
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Usually middle school kids with bottle rockets.
 
Chad Feldheimer said:
You live in my neighborhood huh?

Do you have the people who are firing off the same fireworks they fire off at the shows? You know the huge ones that scare the living **** out of you because they are so loud?
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No, just mostly really annoying bottle rockets.
 
Chad Feldheimer said:
You live in my neighborhood huh?

Do you have the people who are firing off the same fireworks they fire off at the shows? You know the huge ones that scare the living **** out of you because they are so loud?
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Those are the middle aged men trying to relive their childhood but having enough money to drive to Evanston and spend $150 on one firework that is better than anything they have in N. Korea.

I spent the 4th with a guy which every time his neighbor would shoot something off he'd have to one-up it and then proclaim, "Beat that bitch!"
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Put a percentage on it. How many people usually follow you guys around and just stand there? I know my mom did growing up. Plumbers, electricians, roofers, whatever. If you were at my house, she was watching you like a hawk. Although, the majority of the trade guys look like they just leaped out of the back of a prison van and showed up at your doorstep so I can't blame the followers.
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The percentage of people who hover are far fewer than those that don't. But the hoverers make up for it. If I need to go out to my truck to get something, I shouldn't have to step around you to do it. When I have people over to work on my house (the few times I have to), I let them do their thing while coming in every ten minutes or so just to make sure they are actually working and not going through my cabinets or something like that. If I have questions about what's going on, why it happened, or what is being done to fix it, I ask.
I don't look like I just escaped from the prison or anything. Not to be stereotypical, but no tats, clean cut hair, minimal facial hair (not that there's anything wrong any of that). Most of the time, you can see the angel smile from the garments outlined under my shirt.
 
PKM said:
Not in that profession, but I would think a bigger deal would be parents that don't keep their kids away.
"what are you doing?"
"what's that tool used for?"
"can I help?"
"what's your name .. My name is .."
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This actually doesn't bother me as much. Probably because I have 4 small kids and am used to it. Besides, kids get bored quickly and find something better to do.
 
Gameface said:
I had to get my AC repaired a few years ago. The guy was in my back yard working and the neighbors deck looked right down on him. I thought it was just their annoying dog barking at him but when I looked I saw somewhat to my horror that the neighbors 3yo son was standing next to the dog and both of them, the kid and the dog, were starring straight at the repair guy and barking. Not for a few seconds, several minutes. Eventually they got worn out and retreated trough the dog door, both of them.
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Several years ago we were doing some repair work for someone who had a little yapper dog. That dog followed us around the house yapping and biting at our ankles all day. I love dogs and all, but I literally was on the verge of kicking the dog through the roof. Please, for the love of all that is Holy, lock up your yapping biting dog if you have workers coming over.
 
jazz_fanatic said:
People who don't know the correct usage of "their", "there", "they're", "you're", and "your".
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People who bring babies to movies, people who let their little kids run around the store and destroy things, people who get on their phone in the front rows and movie theaters with the brightness turned all the way up (I always throw popcorn at the douches), the jackasses at the theaters that try and be funny and say **** out loud before or during the movie to be funny (I ****ing hate those guys), people who kick the back of my seat during a movie, people who talk in a movie, people that laugh incredibly hard at things that are not remotely funny at movies, people that come late to movies and make me get up so they can get to their seats, movie food prices, people who eat during movies and make the loudest damn noises putting their fingers in the plastic candy bags. I don't know why I go to the movies any more. Just a bunch of inconsiderate, loud and obnoxious people.
 
^^ I was in a movie theater with Paul Millsap and his brothers once. I can't remember who it was exactly, but one of them kept checking their phone constantly. Too bad you weren't there to throw popcorn at the Millsaps. :o
 
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