Annoyances

Preach on, Rahvin...Client: My PC froze.Me: Did you get an error message?Client: Yes.Me: What did it say?Client: I dunno...I didn't read it.Me: Can you read it to me now?Client: No, I turned it off.Me: I thought it was frozen.Client: Yeah, I had to unplug it to make it go off.Me: %#*&^@(!)That annoys me. And squirrels. Especially tulip-eating squirrels.Thor: I would "brown" onions at high temp in a high-temp tolerant oil like canola or corn. I would carmelize onions at low heat in butter or olive oil. Then I would pile them on top of a nice fillet of orange roughy, squeeze on some fresh lemon juice, add just a tad of crushed garlic and fresh ground pepper, and broil briefly.I hope that doesn't annoy you Oh yeah: and Windows. That bloated, crusted, redundant, shambling coral reef of code we call Windows...

Faith writes:

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Another pet peeve is the mispelling of "caramelized" by a few on this very thread

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LMAO! Right about caramelized, though...mea culpa.

Modulous writes:

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I'd respond with a post about my pet peeves, but it would take far far far too long. Just for fun though I'll do one, people that rearend somebody and refuse to accept that they were at fault no matter how patiently it is explained to them.

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Then you will love this one.Three years ago I was rearended at a stop light; my subcompact car was utterly destroyed, sandwiched between the rearender and a large truck. My knee was badly torn, and my neck herniated in two spots: waking up strapped to a board as it slides into an ambulance is a novel sensation.Last year, my knee was surgically repaired; in two weeks I go to surgery for a two-level C-spine fusion with hardware caging--I've worked furiously at physical therapy with medications and traction for the past three years to avoid it, but no go.Her defense? At 19, never seriously ill in her life, with no history of fainting, and on no medications: "I passed out just before I hit you." Ah, her insurer declared, the emergency doctrine--we won't even pay for your car.No apology, of course. Whenever our paths cross during legal proceedings, she delivers the same self-righteous glare. When my attorney first asked me what I wanted, I said, "I want her 19 year old neck."This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 08-08-2005 09:53 PM

Modulous:

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Gargh! I can't believe that shit was pulled on you, *shakes fists*

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The funny thing is that I thought my knee was only bruised; the neck injuries didn't exhibit clear symptoms for some weeks--it takes time for the corpus polposus (I think I got that right) to extrude from the intervertebral space far enough to impinge on the nerve roots and/or spinal cord.I've never been litigious, and if they had simply offered me a check for my car, I would have signed a release.We are due in court in November; we are confident the emergency doctrine defense will not be allowed. The young lady in question has been deposed by my attorney (who could perhaps falsify the notion that sharks cannot evolve into mammals, or vice versa), and she was caught out in multiple contradictions.No doubt I'll get a handsome settlement, my attorney will buy a new boat, and the young lady (who is still driving), will pay higher insurance premiums until she one day kills someone.Is this a great country or what?

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I just thought of another pet peeve. The tendency for younger people to insert the word "like" every couple of words during conversation.

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I go bananas over the word "actually"--as in the secrtary who takes a phone call and says, "Actually, he has left for the day."My first impression is that this means the speaker is lying, though I have also considered that it may mean the speaker is usually lying in that context, but in this instance is being truthful.In my office, everyone has become accustomed to my "Actual Horn." Everytime I hear the word, I do my best impersonation of an air horn. It has been quite effective.