Pet peeves that should be pet peeves

[SKR]

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These door to door salesmen are getting out of hand. We get quite a few where I live but we've had 2 different solar panel companies come this week at like 7pm who have obviously had some sort of "no is not a no" training because they won't shut the fuck up. The second guy I just had to straight up cut off and say we weren't interested like I said the first time and slam the door.

I assume they want to install solar panels on your roof. I recommend insisting that you don't have a roof.

[ercchry]

My sign is much less polite:



Yet the guy who sells meat out of a van still knocked… I asked him what makes him so special and he said something about being local? wtf?

Still get a lot of Telus types “oh I’m not actually selling anything” yes you fucking are.

Most of the time I just point at it and slam the door… like what else did you expect when you saw a sign like that?

[Tik-Tok]

Sometimes I just open my main door and let the 100 lbs dog do the talking through the glass storm door.

[ThePenIsMightier]

I guess we can all keep pretending we haven't figured out that >90% of these dudes will blow you if you give them a tiny bit of drugs...
LoL!

[schurchill39]

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I assume they want to install solar panels on your roof. I recommend insisting that you don't have a roof.

Ohhhh thats a way better approach than my wife's "sorry we just rent and have no say over everything" approach. Another favorite one of her's is "sorry there aren't any adults here, I can't help you" despite being mid 30s.

[vengie]

My favorite one is not answering the door at all.

[Swank]

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My favorite one is not answering the door at all.

If everyone had that mentality those jobs wouldn't exist, oh darn...

[vengie]

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If everyone had that mentality those jobs wouldn't exist, oh darn...

"There's a sucker born every minute" - P.T Barnum

[SKR]

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Another favorite one of her's is "sorry there aren't any adults here, I can't help you" despite being mid 30s.

I like this a lot.

At a previous job I was temporarily in charge of shipping and receiving, but I didn't have my forklift training so I wasn't allowed to run it. Whenever a truck came in I had to tell them to wait so I could go get a grown up who could run the forklift. That grown up was the 18 year old shop laborer. I was 40. Of course I could run it, and eventually they made me, but my feeling was this was their rule and I was just following it.

[haggis88]

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Ohhhh thats a way better approach than my wife's "sorry we just rent and have no say over everything" approach. Another favorite one of her's is "sorry there aren't any adults here, I can't help you" despite being mid 30s.

I tell them I'm a squatter

The look of deflation on their faces is priceless

[SKR]

This kind of no-bait clickbait.



The bland headline makes you think there's some surprise to the story, like a famous owner or a body in the trunk. There isn't. A tow truck driver was sent to tow a car, and he did tow it. The end.

[Tik-Tok]

An honest boring headline is a personal joy, not a peeve.

[SKR]

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An honest boring headline is a personal joy, not a peeve.

My point is that news should be news. There should be something to differentiate this from every other time a tow truck is dispatched. I had a truck towed this summer. The experience didn't warrant an article on autoevolution. I don't think the Al Gore rhythms should be pushing this shit onto us in the first place, but if they are it should at least be somewhat interesting to someone.

[Disoblige]

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My point is that news should be news. There should be something to differentiate this from every other time a tow truck is dispatched. I had a truck towed this summer. The experience didn't warrant an article on autoevolution. I don't think the Al Gore rhythms should be pushing this shit onto us in the first place, but if they are it should at least be somewhat interesting to someone.

[ExtraSlow]

When the headline asks a question that the subhead answers. Ffs.

[jwslam]

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When the headline asks a question that the subhead answers. Ffs.

As if they are going to enforce that it goes under your feet...
I've never seen any enforcement to stop any one person from putting all their 3+ pieces into overhead

[XylathaneGTR]

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As if they are going to enforce that it goes under your feet...
I've never seen any enforcement to stop any one person from putting all their 3+ pieces into overhead

I experienced this once on a super-crowded toronto flight (pre-covid era); They threw an "under the seat" tag on the handle of my duffle bag as I was going through the gate, and were checking the overhead bins for those tags. A few bags which had those tags were pulled out from the overhead, and people had to sheepishly come collect them and place them under the seat. So yeah. Now that there's cost associated with it, i'd expect enforcement to happen a bit more frequently. (On WestJet, the "no carry-on" people are designated Zone 9, so the absolute last to board so there's usually no bin space anyway, lol).

[killramos]

I lol’d the first time I heard of zone 9

Never be poor

[03ozwhip]

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I lol’d the first time I heard of zone 9

Never be poor

That's me, I'm in zone 9.

[littledan]

whats super fuckin annoying is that if I have a backpack and no roller bag, I somehow am not allowed to place it in the overhead so that everyone can cram their oversized roller bags in to the overhead despite the fact that I only brought 1 item and they brought 2 or 3. Fuck that. I'm putting my backpack up and nothing under the seat in front of me.