Leaving the grumpy thread for more serious issues, I thought some lighthearted pet peeve complaints would be fun. In line with my hero of pet peeve complaints, Andy Rooney.

"The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday." – Andy Rooney, from an essay on coffee cans, Oct. 23, 1988

So here are a couple of mine.

People who wave you on at an intersection. I KNOW the rules of the road. I KNOW when it is my turn to go. I do not need you telling me when I should go. If you would learn to follow the rules of the road and go when it's your turn, you won't need to sit at the intersection waving people on in fear of someone hitting you. As a reminder: the first person at the intersection goes first; if you arrive at the same time, the person on the right goes first, if you arrive at the same time across from each other and one of you is turning left into the other's path the one going straight goes first. It's not that difficult.

Annoying commercials. I HATE those stupid bears. Enough already! While I applaud our ability to talk about personal care, I really do not want to SEE someone shaving their pubic area, pulling out ear hair, etc. It's just not necessary to be that graphic - that's why we have words. Stupid testimonials. The before and after difference of whitening your teeth is NOT literally night and day. Literally night and day is, well, night and day.

Anyone else? Come on channel your inner Andy and let it out. (But please don't peeve about Andy.)

Your traffic complaint made me think of one. When the person behind me honks their horn the SECOND the light turns green. I'm aware the light turned. My car does not accelerate to 50km within 0.5 seconds.

Also made me think of Viagra commercials. I've discovered they're very excessive in California. They get annoying.

Pushy people in stores. I immensely dislike when I'm reaching for a product and someone literally shoves me aside to go for something beside it instead of waiting 2 seconds. I would never do that to someone. It's suddenly really common.

Good ones!! Yes, the viagra commercials are dumb - but notice there are no condom commercials.

Ha. One of the facebook reels folks that I see a lot is a male doctor, and he just did a hilarious bit about men's health, and I thought Finally, some equal time in the embarrassment area

Too many choices in the grocery store. Takes five minutes to find the one traditional flavor of crackers etc. Part of why I like Aldi- less choices, haha.

Thank god!

Pet peeve-You step in "it" and it's not your dog's mess. Turn on the light switch and the bulb blows. Tying your shoes and the laces snap. At the bank and you're out of deposit slips. I'm sure I can think of allot more.

Benefit of smart light bulbs - they don't blow because they don't use filments. They also last for years.

ToedToes: There will never, ever be a curmudgeon to replace Andy Rooney! Might as well close this thread right now, as you are all amateurs in comparison!

He was one of a kind. I miss him. We need to embrace his curmudgeonhood.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

People who don't use turn signals. They're one of the simplest functions in your car. Use it.

Back to the grocery store:
Crappy lighting. Even if I remember to bring my glasses. How am I supposed to read the teeny-weeny print on the labels in a coal tunnel?
Extra display cases in the aisles, and at the end of every frickin aisle. How am I supposed to maneuver that giant shopping cart cart* around all those obstacles, when all the other clumsy old people are trying to do the same?
*The giant shopping carts. There used to be some normal sized ones left, until three years ago. The expensive store still has old-people sized compacts. Why doesn't the reasonably priced one, where most of the old people shop, have them? We don't all shop for a family of seven, you know.

and the gigantic "kiddie" carts. Big enough for that family of 7. What really gets me angry is the checkout line at Walmart. It's holiday shopping time-we all know that. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are going to be the time the stores are the most crowded. So Walmart makes the experience even more stressful by having 3 cashiers AND a 15 item limit at the self checkout lines. Ridiculous! I never use the self checkout line. I prefer to have the "luxury" of having the cashier scan my stuff-afterall I have to bag it and thaty's enough work in it'self. So the cashier lines are extra long and people are getting angry and impatient. The moms with children are exhausted and the kids are getting antsy. But does Walmart open up more lines with cashiers? Nah.

That makes me think of self checkouts in general. I hate them. And I hate when stores force you to use them.

1. Hire people.
2. The things are touchy as all hell. "Rescan your item. Return the item to the bagging area. Rescan your item. Return the item to the bagging area. Rescan your item. ASSISTANCE REQUIRED." Then you wait for someone to show up, only to have the next item do the same thing.

Also. One way streets.
Because I just love traveling in a pattern of squares instead of turning a simple left 5 streets prior.

Xmas light strings- that were working when I unplugged and stored them, and now, don't work.

I gave up on them when I worked retail. It was easier to just buy new ones each year.

All my light strings are coiled up, wire tied and hanging on hangers in the spare closet. They all work. I'vehad the same strings of led clear bulbs on my porch for several years now. I never turn them off-the light they emit is the only light I get on the porch after dark. I have had those pesky strings that don't want to work after jsut being on. I trash them. I tried thinking of a way to reuse them in another fashion but I can't think of anything.

I keep some strings for years. Some of them, half the string goes out but the other half works, and they can be used as extensions. These, no lights work but it still carries current as an extension.
I have cut up strings and saved the green coated wire for garden use, but I already have enough of that. And that's not an easy job- the wires are twisted between each other.

the weather site I used is curmudgeonly today. It says.' Chance of snow showers turning to light rain 'as the day wears on'. WEARS ON? Depressing. Why not the usual 'changing to light rain later'

Ooh, a curmudgeonly complaint about a curmudgeonly forecast! Now that's channeling some inner Andy!