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off-topic You know what really grinds my gears?!?

That's me, right now.
 
Went to sleep at 6:20AM, after a nice 19 hr work session, and back up at 9:30AM to the squeel of airbrake in a panic that I forgot to put the trash out ...
 
When, in fact, I put the fucking trash out myself at 1AM to avoid the very scenario that played out regardless ...
 
grantmichaels said:
That's me, right now.
 
Went to sleep at 6:20AM, after a nice 19 hr work session, and back up at 9:30AM to the squeel of airbrake in a panic that I forgot to put the trash out ...
 
When, in fact, I put the f**king trash out myself at 1AM to avoid the very scenario that played out regardless ...
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I clicked "like" on this one not because I like you had to live the scenario you planned to avoid, but because there's no "I feel ya brother" button to click.
Hmmm not so much of a gear grinder, but there it is :rolleyes:
 
Haha sounds familiar.. If you scare awake in the morning, the mind refuses to it's damn Job. In highschool I used to work for a supermarket (bakery, meat) so I always woke up early.. When my supervisor suddenly passed away I was put in charge of ordering, basic planning and crap like that. Because I was so good at it? Nah.. because I did it before (literally.. I only did it in a handful of occassions/emergencies).

So I ended up starting at 5 AM, baking bread etc (only had 2 adult co workers of which one was on paternity leave.. the others were a bunch of 16yo).. Than go to school.. Get back to work, eat at 7 pm, do the restocking/ordering.. study and go to bed around Midnight.. every day, than working on saturday... So I was working 6 days a week (supermarkets were closed on Sunday back then)..


So Sunday morning.. oh my f.. Forgot my alarm!! So I grab my stuff and run out the Door.. Boahh just managed to get there in time; 5 AM sharp.

Usually the butcher unlocked the door. . But he was not in yet.. so I wait 10min and then call him.. Where the fuck are you? I never heard someone that pissed off before.. I shit you not; IT'S SUNDAY MORNING 5 AM FFS! !!

Woops.. Sorry dude...


So I go home and go back to sleep. Next dag I start my Weekly cycle again.. work, school, work, study, sleep..

So Guess what happened next Sunday? Yep.. I find myself in front of a supermarket at 5 AM.. No butcher. And not until I got the idea to call him again, I realised it was Sunday.

Am I retarded? Probably.. But my espresso maker sure provides some good medicine.
 
You know what really grinds my gears?

Remakes - reboots - whatever you want to call them. Do we really need to see the same origin story spider man every time they get a new guy to play spider man? Can't they just assume that 99.997% of the world knows that he was bitten by a radioactive spider?

The reboots aren't as bad as the remakes - robocop was a classic...it was more of a political satire than an action movie , but then they made a remake & destroyed it.

That really grinds my gears.
 
People who blame everything on someone else, grind my gears. The type that feel that everything they do wrong is because of someone else, or what someone else has done. In their eyes it is never "their" fault.

As soon as they are told of their wrong doing, if one of the first three words out of their mouth is someone else's name, I loose all respect for them.

Some people need to learn to cop it on the chin, and stop blaming everyone else.


SR.
 
If I didn't know better, SR, I'd swear you meant that for a (former) member ;)
 
Can relate to THAT!
 
Scoville DeVille said:
Spend an hour plowing my driveway, then the county plow comes by and gives me a 2 foot high packed berm at the end of it.
 
:GGRRRR:
 
 
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Snap,I forgot all about that crap. Up-State NY was terrible. I cant tell you how many times ve felt that pain. Dont miss it one bit.
 
They once had A brilliant idea at the base.. They used a Büffel ("Buffalo" - a Bergepanzer/recovery vehicle based on the Leopard 2 MBT..) to plow snow.

Though that thing has a bulldozer like shovel instead of an angled one.. So they ended up creating a huge solid block of ice which lasted about 1 week until the Engineers realised salt didn't help and came in and put some det cord in it (more than sufficient to break it up).

Had to use a detour every morning that week, but as it was on a Main route it congested the whole infrastructure.
 
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JuanHubero said:
Do you want to know what grinds my gears?  My wife not replacing the TP after using all but the last 4 squares on the roll.  This is the third time in two weeks that she has done this now.  I'm beginning to think that she is doing it on purpose.
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Dude, you always have to have the spare roll in reach!
Scoville DeVille said:
Spend an hour plowing my driveway, then the county plow comes by and gives me a 2 foot high packed berm at the end of it.
 
:GGRRRR:
 
 
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We have some township dude in a pickup that just loves to do that.  Onliest problem is, his lazy ass only makes one pass around our place and plows me shut about eight feet from the driveway.  That means I have to shovel eight feet of snow OFF THE STREET to get out!
 
Ya know what really grinds my gears? 
 
When you order chicken wings and the plate gets there and it's 1/2 wings and 1/2 legs. Legs aren't wings assholes! 
 
When I order a 9 pc chicken wings, it best goddamn well be 9 wings!  If I wanted chicken legs, I woulda ordered goddamn chicken legs!!! 
 
Really, really grinds my gears. 
 
Another thing that grinds my gears - parking lot etiquette - or lack thereof more specifically.  Today I was backing out of my parking space in my work truck & some asshole was in such a hurry that despite my being 3/4 out of my space and making a BEEP BEEP BEEP noise (my truck, not me), he had to gun it and go around me, narrowly missing my truck and barely missing the car on the other side who was waiting for my space while almost hitting a family of 4 that was walking by. Had he been patient enough to wait oh, say, 8 f**king seconds, he could have avoided all of the stress involved in almost causing 3 accidents in a span of 18 feet.  Man that grinds my gears! 
 
Then there's the assholes that are special - they don't need to use the parking spaces, because parking is apparently really hard, and once again, they're that f**king special that they can just roll up in front of the store in the RED zone, and throw on their emergency lights. Because parking spaces are for chumps, right? I tried to give one such person the benefit of the doubt a little while ago at same store - they were blocking one of the 2 lanes people had to drive in and creating a total clusterf**k, and I thought, "well maybe grandma is shopping and they're picking them up..." - no, some saggy pants asshole came cruising out of the store with their smokes in one hand and a 5th of booze in the other. They were just way too special to park in a space like the rest of us.  Really grinds my gears! 
 
And then on the way home, I'm getting off the freeway and despite having her own lane some idiot had to STOP at the end of the offramp and wait for traffic - for no apparent reason, because again, she had her own lane - the off-ramp becomes the right lane, so she not only had right of way, she had her own f**king lane.  GAH!  The car behind me had to lock up the brakes and since I can't see behind me all I could hear was "Screeeeeeeeeechhhhh!!!!" and cross my fingers that the next sound I heard wasn't "*BANG!*" - fortunately it wasn't but when I checked my side-view they appeared to be about 3" from my bumper - and the car behind them did the same - because no one expects you to be sitting there at a complete stop with no light and your own f**king lane"!!!! 
 
That all really grinds my gears. 
 
They were just way too special to park in a space like the rest of us.  Really grinds my gears! 
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Haha, last year I witnessed the same thing. It's paid parking so a douche guy pulls in on the handicap spot, alarm lights on and walks in the store.

The best part was that the town towing vehicle was watching the exact same scene.. They quickly pull up and the two guys get out and start getting the car ready to tow.. So the guy rushes outside with a pack of smokes in his hand and starts arguing with towguy 1, whilst towguy 2 goes through with his routine. It ended up with the car not being towed, but he did get the ticket (no need for a police officer here, we have a park service for that).

That didn't grind my gears.. But it did put a smile on my face.
 
Lucky Dog Hot Sauce said:
And then on the way home, I'm getting off the freeway and despite having her own lane some idiot had to STOP at the end of the offramp and wait for traffic - for no apparent reason, because again, she had her own lane - the off-ramp becomes the right lane, so she not only had right of way, she had her own f**king lane.
 
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This one grinds my gears to no end. Same exact situation in 3 different intersections in my town. So what does county council do in response to idiot drivers? They do away with the merge lane altogether so everybody has to stop and wait for traffic. Now instead of having free flowing lanes, we have 3 extra clusterf*#ks when driving through town.
My gears have no more teeth from this one :mouthonfire:
 
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