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Working on changing or adding to my antidepressant. The current one has been good for me for a half dozen years now, which is a long time for an AD, and so the effects are starting to wane. One thing you work through with this is the side effects, as they can be horrendous. One issue with the changes I am working on is it messes with my eye-sight as it causes different pressure inside the eye which can slightly change its shape, so today everything is ****ing blurry. I am told that after a few MONTHS it might pass, but in the meantime I am probably going to need new glasses. And with no job? They might have to wait. Ugh.
 
Gameface said:
Haha you're probably used to early morning trips during the week. Different crowd.
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Even middle of the day trips during the week is a different crowd. Saturday was a different version of the weekend warrior that has no real idea how to shop in a Home Depot.
 
bigb said:
Even middle of the day trips during the week is a different crowd. Saturday was a different version of the weekend warrior that has no real idea how to shop in a Home Depot.
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How many dogs were in there?
 
When someone has a pet word they use for everything because they don’t understand the meaning of the word.

Eg. complacent

I can’t even think of an example right now, all the examples I think of use it correctly, which is a secondary pet peeve now.
 
LogGrad98 said:
In California this is just how merging happens, but generally people just let you in. I think Californians realized we are all in this ****-show together so it helps no one to be ****** about it. Of course it isn't universal, you still run into douchebags on the road. But generally even though it is way more congested here, I think the average driver is less confrontational and aggressive than in Utah. Utah drivers seem to always be driving on the edge of road rage.
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I am probably the least road rage-able driver on the road. Impossible to piss me off when im driving. Tailgate me. I dont care. Cut me off. I dont care. Going slow in the fast lane? I will just put my blinker on and pass you on the right. No biggie. Road rage makes no sense to me.
 
fishonjazz said:
I am probably the least road rage-able driver on the road. Impossible to piss me off when im driving. Tailgate me. I dont care. Cut me off. I dont care. Going slow in the fast lane? I will just put my blinker on and pass you on the right. No biggie. Road rage makes no sense to me.
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I envy you. I've been making an effort to relax on the road. I told my wife it was my mid-year resolution (I made it in July). I do have to remind myself to calm the **** down, but that's what I'm doing. I've always been at least an assertive driver, but I realized that I'm just sitting there nitpicking everything everyone else is doing and looking for reasons to be irritated. I get nothing useful out of it, just higher blood pressure.

And while I'm a pretty disciplined and attentive driver I make mistakes, too. Mistakes that I get mad about when other people make them. That's not a personality trait that I want to have at all.
 
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I envy you. I've been making an effort to relax on the road. I told my wife it was my mid-year resolution (I made it in July). I do have to remind myself to calm the **** down, but that's what I'm doing. I've always been at least an assertive driver, but I realized that I'm just sitting there nitpicking everything everyone else is doing and looking for reasons to be irritated. I get nothing useful out of it, just higher blood pressure.

And while I'm a pretty disciplined and attentive driver I make mistakes, too. Mistakes that I get mad about when other people make them. That's not a personality trait that I want to have at all.
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My wife was pretty bad about road rage but she has calmed down a ton. She used to swear at everyone and call out any and every driving mistake she could find. Flip people off. Cut them off if they cut her off. Slow down a ton if they tailgate her.
Now she is at the point where she almost never is vocal about any of it and never flips people off. Doesn't get revenge by cutting off others and doesn't intentionally slow down when tailgated. Only thing she does now is look into the vehicles to see what the offender looks like. Thats about it. Im really proud of her. She also used to get mad at me for not getting mad lol. Doesn't do that anymore either.
 
fishonjazz said:
My wife was pretty bad about road rage but she has calmed down a ton. She used to swear at everyone and call out any and every driving mistake she could find. Flip people off. Cut them off if they cut her off. Slow down a ton if they tailgate her.
Now she is at the point where she almost never is vocal about any of it and never flips people off. Doesn't get revenge by cutting off others and doesn't intentionally slow down when tailgated. Only thing she does now is look into the vehicles to see what the offender looks like. Thats about it. Im really proud of her. She also used to get mad at me for not getting mad lol. Doesn't do that anymore either.
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I told my wife that I'm looking at the offending driver because I want a database of what an ******* looks like, lmao. Turns out there's not really a "look" that bad drivers have.
 
Gameface said:
I told my wife that I'm looking at the offending driver because I want a database of what an ******* looks like, lmao. Turns out there's not really a "look" that bad drivers have.
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Agreed. My wife believes that the biggest offenders drive a subaru
 
Gameface said:
I told my wife that I'm looking at the offending driver because I want a database of what an ******* looks like, lmao. Turns out there's not really a "look" that bad drivers have.
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fishonjazz said:
Agreed. My wife believes that the biggest offenders drive a subaru
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Down here it is BMW or Lexus. Seriously I cannot tell you how many times I have been in a conversation with friends about douchebag drivers here in SoCal and I say "let me guess, BMW driver" and the answer is almost always yes. That or Lexus. The ones I run into the most in Utah, and really anywhere, are huge jacked up trucks. For some reason that kind of vehicle turns on the douche in so many people. I don't think I have ever seen a jacked up truck with its turn signal on. I am pretty sure when they do the jacking up part they just remove the turn signal stalk to begin with. Like a rite of passage for the 'Murrican Douchebag.
 
fishonjazz said:
I am probably the least road rage-able driver on the road. Impossible to piss me off when im driving. Tailgate me. I dont care. Cut me off. I dont care. Going slow in the fast lane? I will just put my blinker on and pass you on the right. No biggie. Road rage makes no sense to me.
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I don't get it either. Maybe if I was a perfect driver, but I have accidentally cut people off, I tailgate sometimes, etc. I feel I have no business getting angry about things that I have also done on occasion.

Rage reactions are not worth putting people in danger. The vast majority of people just want to get through their day and not purposely piss others off.
 
I have calmed down as a driver as well. A little. Now I just call them a ****ing ******* and get on with my life. Until some ****ing assholes makes me lock up the brakes and still end up 1/2” from their bumper. That happened today while I was already frustrated from **** going wrong. I had the very distinct thought of saying “**** it, let go of the brake and end up with my front tires in their back seat”. But I was alone and they had a passenger, so they outnumbered me, witness wise. My next purchase is going to be a dash cam. Recommendations?
 
I hate being an adult and having household responsibilities. I’m currently without a dishwasher. Mine broke and I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it. Replaced two parts already. I have some sort of animal burrowing in my front yard. Not a mouse or a vole,, but something bigger. The kind that leaves a pile of dirt outside the entrance. Just got done replacing my water heater. I’m so close to clearing the family out, grabbing the irreplaceable valuables, and having an “accidental” gas leak.
 
bigb said:
I have calmed down as a driver as well. A little. Now I just call them a ****ing ******* and get on with my life. Until some ****ing assholes makes me lock up the brakes and still end up 1/2” from their bumper. That happened today while I was already frustrated from **** going wrong. I had the very distinct thought of saying “**** it, let go of the brake and end up with my front tires in their back seat”. But I was alone and they had a passenger, so they outnumbered me, witness wise. My next purchase is going to be a dash cam. Recommendations?
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Any more they are basically all the same. 80% of them regardless of brand name are made by the same like 2 companies. I think one is mine is a vantrue. The first one I had was really high end, but it ended up with no better images than any of the other ones.
 
bigb said:
I hate being an adult and having household responsibilities. I’m currently without a dishwasher. Mine broke and I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it. Replaced two parts already. I have some sort of animal burrowing in my front yard. Not a mouse or a vole,, but something bigger. The kind that leaves a pile of dirt outside the entrance. Just got done replacing my water heater. I’m so close to clearing the family out, grabbing the irreplaceable valuables, and having an “accidental” gas leak.
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You likely have a regular old gopher. Not so common in Utah, but incredibly common here. Once pulled 4 of them out of my back yard within a single week with traps. They are an unholy terror to get rid of because they just move next door when conditions aren't good in my yard, like if I'm actively going after them, then they just move right back in when things seem to have calmed down. My cat has been decent at removing them, but we still have mounds all over the damn place. Hate those little ****ers.
 
bigb said:
I hate being an adult and having household responsibilities. I’m currently without a dishwasher. Mine broke and I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it. Replaced two parts already. I have some sort of animal burrowing in my front yard. Not a mouse or a vole,, but something bigger. The kind that leaves a pile of dirt outside the entrance. Just got done replacing my water heater. I’m so close to clearing the family out, grabbing the irreplaceable valuables, and having an “accidental” gas leak.
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I hear you 100%
 
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