What's That Chip on Your Shoulder?

@luvche21
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/raisins-ruin-everything

@luvche21 Raisins ruin cinnamon buns. Strangely though, cinnamon enhances raisins quite a bit.

/giphy enhanced raisins

@chacham there’s a time and place for them, but not in a cinnamon roll!

@narfcake
Uh oh

Uh, just dont look, ok?

@narfcake many of the people here in washington state should have this glued to their dashboard:

@carl669 lol

I actually have no problem with people driving in the passing lane (here in NYC, traffic volume is such that most passing lanes only exist as such from ~10PM to ~5AM).

What I find annoying is people who fail to observe the “slower traffic keep right” rule and thus do significantly more to increase the odds of an accident than people who speed.

Personally, I feel that failing to put on a turn signal at least 100 feet before an intersection (except in cases where it might cause confusion), especially a left turn signal, should be heavily enforced with fines in the $500-$5000 range (escalating based upon multiple offenses). And turning on your left signal AFTER the light changes should be a capital offense.

@baqui63 yeah. there should be an extra box with “are you in a traffic jam?”. the problem in this state is that some people will get into the left lane even when there is no car ahead of them for a mile. i’ve seen people merge onto the highway and then immediately move over 2 lanes into the far left lane for absolutely no reason. i hate those people.

@baqui63 No longer true for overnight hours. Now its filled with Uber drivers across all lanes doing 48 MPH blocking the roadway. It infuriates me that I have to weave thru traffic at 3 AM to do the average travel speed for 9:30 PM.

@Raider Uber drivers?

^^^ a bit hyperbolic, but that’s my chip.

@JerseyFrank
Uh, something bothering you? Huh.

(If you are somewhere along/near Bost-Wash, i understand.)

@JerseyFrank I’ll share my chocolate with you.

@Ignorant Not just SmartPost. ANYTHING involving the USPS can be annoying…

The Post Office for my job (11367) marks all SmartPost and SurePost items as delivered when they first arrive at that Post Office, even though it is always at least one day and sometimes as many as five days before the package is actually delivered. I’ve learned to ignore delivery reports for such items, but the people working in our mailroom end up having to explain this several times a week and are very annoyed by it.

@Ignorant Yeah, they got my last few catshirtswoot from Texas to SoCal 2 days ahead of schedule. What’s up with that?!?

@narfcake how dare they.

@lenea9011 Please don’t let that change you… we need more people like you in this world, and less people like those trying to manipulate.

@luvche21 Awe, thank you! I am also stubborn and determined to continue to be who i am. As i am also the type of person to just write you off and not be around you if you act that way It makes it pretty easy to continue to be who I am.

@lenea9011 Good!

@Dizavid we will put the pitchforks away

@2many2no

@2many2no Absolutely. When the boss comes in and asks us why things are taking so long, or when they want to know what we need to be more efficient, the answer is usually ‘the tools we have don’t work well’ and ‘tools that work’, respectively.

Unfortunately that seems to be a nearly impossible problem to correct in the current environment.

@simssj I hate that as well. But, I really hate when I’m in a regular old line with my somewhat-full cart, and the “X items or fewer” lane is empty, so the checker will call me over. As soon as I move, because I was told to, people with just a couple of items show up behind me, and now I look like the jerk.

I guess we’re doing peeves as well as chips. How about when they open up a new line, but don’t make any effort to take the person who was next in the old line. Or when a new checker doesn’t turn on their light. Or both.

@pitamuffin Last time this happened to me, they changed their mind after I was out of the line I was in. The cashier shrugged at me. I walked out.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@chacham Ok, i’m going to revise that to: Liberals who tell everyone else what to do and do so condescendingly.

With the terribly polarization in politics today, i often get frustrated by Democrats and the leaders they so blindly follow.

@chacham “the leaders they so blindly follow” - that’s not condescending?

@lisaviolet If i expressed that outside of a forum thread geared toward expressing frustrations, yeah, it would be.

@chacham I am so not the political guy, but always blaming one side is just unfair. Both sides have their issues.

@conandlibrarian Whose blaming? I just responded to what annoys me in a thread about annoyances. I “sprayed my poison” as the post starting the thread asked for,

@chacham I get what you were doing. I am just responding to what you said. I guess the chip on my shoulder is that I am easily offended and get annoyed by it.

@conandlibrarian
/image easily offended

@chacham Whoa! That is so apropos. I had no idea that would come up, but, it’s too good to remove.

@chacham Time for me to step away from this thread. All I said was look at both sides before you blame just one. There is no need for you to tell me how to control my emotions, mine are in check.

@conandlibrarian Sorry, that had nothing to do with you. I liked your reply, and feeling a little silly, thought i would /image the term.

I love what came up, which is apropos to the thread, but not to your thoughtful reply. So, i added a second reply mentioning why i didn’t remove the image.

I feel sorry that i sent the wrong message.

@pitamuffin Shoprite in NJ? I caught a woman in her early to mid-20s opening bags of cherries recently too, picking the best ones and putting them into a plastic bag. I looked at her for a minute and finally said out loud: “You’re not supposed to be doing that.” She didn’t have anything to say to me.

I’m going to be shot one day for opening my mouth.

@pitamuffin Ew. That’s really gross.

@looseneck Nope, Chicago suburbs. I guess jerks are everywhere.

@looseneck you could change your username to loosecannon Meh.be?

nice job telling the lady she’s an idiot :0:

@Yoda_Daenerys Good idea! The older I get, the less filter I have. I kinda like it
/giphy brain filter

@looseneck ditto

@pitamuffin. I do that… with eggs.

@pitamuffin oh no! If it’s anywhere that falls in the 708 area I’m not all that surprised.

@MzSooze You know it! Looks like we might be neighbors.

@pitamuffin Awesome! That we might be neighbors, not that people swap fruits pre-purchase.

@Raider So, maybe it’s you?

@compunaut No doubt that it is, my oldest friend has described me as someone with extreme likes and dislikes and the rest doesnt matter. Tho generally I do not dwell or let it effect me long term, just usually a comment like “can you believe that person is doing that!” and move on after.

@Yoda_Daenerys Sorry!

(At least I don’t write a check!)

@Yoda_Daenerys when I was a cashier we were rated on our scanning rate. As long as we hit the total button it stopped counting. So whenever we had someone that was really slow to put their stuff on the belt, we’d keep hitting the total after the item so it stopped counting while waiting for the next item to roll down the belt.

I actually loved when certain families would come into my line with three overloaded shopping carts. It was a nice break from having to chit chat with every old lady as I waited for her money.

My peeves about being a cashier:
Women that would hand me soaking wet bills out of their bra. It’s hot in Florida. I don’t want sweat on my money.

People that would wait until you ring up all their shit and then hand you thirty+ coupons. You bet I looked at every single one to make sure they actually bought that item. I’ve heard the technology is more advanced now and automatically rejects coupons if you didn’t buy the item on it. Must be nice, haha

@Yoda_Daenerys My husband is obsessive about putting the items in the cart “just so”. I’ll put something in and it’s like when I open the dishwasher and don’t like the way he’s put something in. He starts rearranging the cart. So, when we get to the checkout counter, the cashier doesn’t have to turn the item over looking for the barcode to scan. It’s right where it needs to be.

And when he screws up and an item has to be moved, he’s all apologetic to the cashier…

@lisaviolet well, it’s nice that someone cares. As a former cashier, tell him the best thing to do is to keep the cold things together, cans, etc. I could of cared less about which way something was sitting on the belt because it’s not hard to grab an item to get it to scan. It’s better for the bagger to keep it organized. You can tell him not too worry so much.

@RiotDemon Yeah, he does keep the cold stuff together. Our Costco just uses boxes (or nothing) unless you’ve brought your own bags. Since they don’t have recycling set up for plastic bags, they can’t use them.

@lisaviolet i already like him, unless you advise otherwise

@mikibell That happened in our family when I was growing up, and one of the parental units forced the sibling who caused the freezer mishap to carry all of the spoiled items to the nearest dumpster (a couple minute’s walk at best).

@dashcloud that’s my style of parenting!

@Yoda_Daenerys How can you have a style of parenting without something to parent?

@dashcloud the contraction that’s expands to “that was”

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@Barney I’d be willing to bet there’s still plenty of fat to trim but doing so would cause pain to the connected instead of to the citizens. A school here facing cuts will immediately slash sports, music, after school activities (appropriate over cutting core education functions), but just can’t see how they could cut out layers of bureaucracy, middle management, overpaid supervisors, etc first. Pretty much any .gov organization facing cuts will do the same: Make that trim very public and make it hurt the taxpayers/parents first and hard to preserve their perks.

@duodec Read this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-loses-patience-governor-sam-brownback-tax-cuts/
This is even before the last two months’ 75 million deficit. There are no more places to to cut back. Kansas is so screwed. But why should I talk with you? You seem to already have all of the answers without having any of the facts.

@Barney Fair enough; I didn’t know where you were and was overlaying what happens here; it is unfair to impute the perfidy of illinois pols and ‘public servants’ whose relevant actions I do have experience with onto other states.

@Barney I really hope that something happens to help Kansas. I lived there for many years, it saddened me when I heard this.

@duodec Illinois is so upside down, we need a miracle! I am in constant communication with my daughter’s teachers, a lot have quit our district this month. I fear for her education and that of every other child in the state.

@MzSooze This is what the people of Kansas voted for and this is what they got. Fortunately, elections are coming up again and maybe there will be changes. I’m not holding my breath.

@Barney I am curious how it is affecting the college towns. We lived in Manhattan, dad was stationed at Fort Riley. I’ve wanted to go back and visit for quite some time. My old school has been remodeled and a lot of my teachers are still there. Also, Tallgrass Brewing! Will travel for beer. It is quite possible that I will be there either this or next weekend. We shall see, my car decided to die while being driven today and I’ll have to fix that first.

@MzSooze Visiting Kansas in the summer when temps are near or above 100 degrees? Maybe your car did you a favor.

All of the state colleges are hurting. Raising tuition won’t even begin to cover the deficits and that trickles down and affects the towns they are in.

Rock Chalk, Jayhawk. Go KU!

We moved to Kansas two years ago from the Northeast. Locals seem to have been taking it in stride, but we were really upset by the precarious state of basic services and the governor’s steadfast refusal to address the legislation that caused and continues to drive the deficit. (Brownback’s experiment might be one of the most striking demonstrations of of classical “trickle-down” theory, but hardly necessary).

My girlfriend is a resident at the K-State vet school, though the only direct effect it’s had on us was a week where state paychecks were almost suspended. We had to vote on whether local school districts could use more emergency property taxes (even though the state is required to pay for basic costs and switching to property taxes means only wealthy districts will have functioning schools).

A silver lining is that the dire situation is visible enough across the board that Brownback’s former support base is disappearing, and four previous Kansas governors are now campaigning against him in a bipartisan coalition: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article85822717.html
Hopefully this slow-motion collapse can be reversed.

@MzSnooze - as a fellow mehtizen in town, give me a holler if you want to drop by LABCo or Kite’s or something!

@trisk For sure! Kites is just a couple minutes from my old house! That would be awesome.

@Thumperchick ugh the worst!

@Ignorant they’re like mall cops. Always on a power trip and never around when you need them.

@Thumperchick Meh has a really good volmod. You should stick around and meet her.

@Thumperchick @Barney Do Meh volmods get a badge and a Segway?

@Thumperchick They were probably hall monitors in school.

@mollama When my sister asked my Mom about that years ago she was told it was because of the purse that she should always have with her when out and about; I guess thats the pockets her clothes were missing. And the purse could have pockets…

@mollama when buying women’s shorts or pants, I always make sure to check that all the pockets are functional. It’s very annoying to have fake pockets. Why even put them in? Couldn’t spare the two cents of pocket lining material?

It’s rare that I come across any that don’t have pockets now. Maybe the times are finally catching up?

@duodec ugh. Fuck purses. I hate those damn things.

@RiotDemon

@RiotDemon I quit carrying a purse back in the late 80s when we got annual passes for Disneyland. Getting in and out of rides was a pain in the ass when having to deal with a bag and why have one if it’s put in a locker all day?

If it didn’t fit in the little camera bag or a pocket, I didn’t need it.

And I realized I didn’t need one. Lip balm, keys, cell, little wallet all have a pocket to themselves. And I’m good to go.

@sanspoint grr, this happened to me a few weeks ago when I was taking my dog for a long walk. I was in the crosswalk, a lady was pulling up to turn, saw me, and instead of just turning and getting out of my fucking way, she stops, right in the crosswalk! So now I have to walk around her stupid car. I would of rather just slowed down, but kept walking in a straight line.

I hate walking to the park because I have to cross the street twice each way, and people are always stupid.