Daily Tick Me Off

[Lil Foot]

Please define slow. It one is doing the speed limit in the left lane, that is not how I define slow. I define slow as doing under the posted speed limit. If driving the speed limit, then they have as much right to be in the left lane as one who speeds, maybe more right because they are following the law.

Arizona has posted speed limits.
Arizona also has a "prima facie" (on the face of it, or as conditions permit) speed limits.
Probably 95+ percent of all drivers exceed the posted speed limit all the time on freeways.
If 95 percent of drivers are going 75mph, and one driver is in the left lane going 60 or 65mph, he is not the safe driver, he is the hazard.
Just as when 95 percent of drivers are going 55mph and one driver is driving 75mph, the 75mph guy is the hazard.
Go with traffic flow, or move over and don't impede it.

 

[armylifer]

Arizona has posted speed limits.
Arizona also has a "prima facie" (on the face of it, or as conditions permit) speed limits.
Probably 95+ percent of all drivers exceed the posted speed limit all the time on freeways.
If 95 percent of drivers are going 75mph, and one driver is in the left lane going 60 or 65mph, he is not the safe driver, he is the hazard.
Just as when 95 percent of drivers are going 55mph and one driver is driving 75mph, the 75mph guy is the hazard.
Go with traffic flow, or move over and don't impede it.

I agree with you but in my backward state the law says that everyone speeding is wrong and they will not stop the one going slower unless he is impeding 5 or more vehicles. My state is truly messed up. No one in authority has any common sense. In this state, if they do a traffic survey and find that 95% of drivers are exceeding the speed limit, they will lower the limit and try to rationalize that people will go slower if they lower the limit.

 

[RCW]

Peeling shrimp ticks me off......

Love shrimp, and should feel fortunate that we can buy it.

Flashbacks to my Restaurant days.......cooks on previous shifts would "short" their successors when they were too darned lazy to keep the prep up.....

I would often have to dedicate valuable Prep Cook time, or my own to peel upteen pounds of shrimp because someone else was too lazy to...

 

[Hugo Habicht]

This was in the bottom of the box, upside down…..

That said, I was VERY happy with the BAK Flip MX4.

I would recommend them and this cover (so far -just put it on).

I found and printed instructions from another source, but for $1,200 PRINT THEM OUT and put them in a F’in Box!!!!!

That ticks me off…..

Remember how much I like Technology?!?!

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Did you read it?
"We're excited to play a part in your life's adventures"

 

[RCW]

Did you read it?
"We're excited to play a part in your life's adventures"

I was in no mood for adventures or jocularity.

 

[NCL4701]

Wife wanted some new trees and a couple new bushes in the field in front of our house where 8 to 16 white tail deer graze every morning and evening. Everything we bought was “deer will not eat”. Deer ate everything. They’re worse than goats. They eat everything. They’re standing in a couple acres of fresh new grass eating a Japanese Magnolia.

We eat deer and they’re kind of pretty, so I guess we can’t complain but so much. Most of our decorating is concrete and steel these days. Maybe we needed a reminder why that is.

No offense to anyone intended. Often when I complain about our deer and groundhogs eating everything they can get in their mouths or bite chunks off of well meaning folks respond with “plant _____, deer don’t like the taste/smell.”

But…

Wife likes making stuff out of Perlers. They’re little plastic beads you arrange into patterns and then heat with an iron to plastic weld them together. Two days ago, she made a Perler butterfly, attached it to a small stake, and put it in our front yard 6” from the front wall of our house in a pot that has plastic flowers in it (because the deer and groundhogs eat the real stuff). Something tried to eat it. Don’t have a picture of anything eating it, but the only thing in the cameras on the front of the house overnight was a groundhog.
THIS is why we can’t have nice things.

If you’ve found something deer and groundhogs don’t eat, congratulations. Ours will walk through fields of tender fresh grass to eat PLASTIC. I sometimes think we should have the creek and pond tested for heavy metals to see if that might explain the apparent cognitive deficits of our wildlife. I’m just thankful we have a brick house. They’d probably eat the house if the siding was wood or vinyl.

 

[NCL4701]

That has happened to me in several places; talk about being cheap... But no paper menu = no business from me!

Ordering from a kiosk at McD is another one... Several times a year I pass through Miami, arriving around 10 PM, flying out the at 6 AM the next day. There's a small McD (hate it, but at that time of the day it's the only option around there, and I just want something quick before going to bed for a few hours' kip) just across the street from my usual hotel. You have to order from one of two kiosks, one of which seems to always be broken. The touch screens are often barely responsive, requiring multiple -and quite forceful...- taps, and the system allows you to order and pay for items they are sold out of...

Understand timing grossly limits options and McDonald’s is one of the few 24 hour option in some places, so no criticism. If you semi-routinely patronize them (even a couple times a year), download their app and order from your phone before you go to the restaurant. No messing with a cantankerous, community kiosk. App will give you a ETA on the order and tell you when the order is ready so you don’t have to wait. You don’t have to say more than a couple words to anyone. Just show up with your phone and pick up your order.