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Things that frustrate us all

Being unable to communicate what seems like a simple idea in one's head. Lately I've been having more and more trouble effectively communicating, and it's starting to irk me. The words seem okay in my head, but when I go to type them out, they become a confusing gibberish in-between. This was never a problem before, but it is now.

I have a very difficult time finding words that I want to use. I have a pretty large vocabulary, and I understand the meanings of a lot of words, but when it comes to actually using them myself, my brain has a hard time coming up with them on its own.

It's the same reason I suck at trivia. I have a lot of knowledge in my head, but if you ask me a trivia question, I will NOT be able to come up with the answer, even if the answer is somewhere in my head. But then when you tell me the answer, I automatically go, "I knew that!"

It's annoying.
 
CBS making you pay to watch their shows now. I was watching all Trek series for free on their site. :(
That sucks :(. It came in handy when I missed NCIS and Under the Dome. I'll go and double check on their regular site.

Just checked... damn it. I hope enough people don't watch.
 
Last weeks 'Madam Secretary' played so I guess live/current are still free?
It's a week free, going from what I've read on the site. So right now we can watch for free. Then... nope. Checked via Hulu to see if I can catch up on NCIS, can't watch it straight from there... they just redirect to CBS.com. :scream: :brickwall:
 
Yeah it upsets me when they do this. ABC did the whole you need a provider to watch online and I missed out on a few ABCFamily shows. Ugh. If I had the money it wouldn't be a problem but I don't have any at the moment. I don't have a TV so my laptop is my only way to watch.
 
Yeah it upsets me when they do this. ABC did the whole you need a provider to watch online and I missed out on a few ABCFamily shows. Ugh. If I had the money it would be a problem but I don't have any at the moment. I don't have a TV so my laptop is my only way to watch.
Yea they want more and more money. Disney does it too... being an ABC subsidiary is like being the Dark Lord or something :rolleyes:. Luckily they've FINALLY started posting some of their shows in regular On Demand. But it'll take a long time to catch up, since they've only posted parts of S1.

Not happy when they start to do that kind of bull... already pay more than enough for UVerse.
 
What you are looking at below is the major entrance to a local Wal-Mart:

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As I am the car in front of me are heading west and getting into the turning lane, this fucking idiot pulls in right where I put the arrow, in that direction. There's not ONE. SINGLE. REASON. to do that. There are multiple turn off areas for the other side of the street, a traffic light mere car lengths to the right with a relatively quite side street that leads into that other plaza. Yet this Albert Fucking Einstein pulls right there, where every three to five seconds another car comes in to turn into the parking lot for Wal-Mart.

Now cars are backing up behind us and the dumbass won't get the fuck out of the way. At one point they beep their horn and motion like it's okay to go and the vehicle in front of me treads slowly. Thank goodness that car did it slowly, 'cause if it had gone father, the the vehicle it couldn't see being blocked by the dumbass, would have t-boned it.




And that was one of TWO things for today.

So I stop at a doughnut place and ahead of me is this elderly lady who smells Godawful from cigarettes and is driving (she could barely walk, let alone brake in timely manners).

She asks for a specific doughnut, even though it's clearly not there and the cashier politely tells her they are out and what they do have that's as close to what she had wanted. Very polite, no ambiguous delivery. So Satan's grandmother walks up to the window and points at what the cashier had already told her about and said, "What about these? Or are you out of those, too?" in a pissy sarcastic way (it's less than an hour before closing, what did she expect?).

She takes forever to make her decision, while the cashier has a note pad and pend, writing things down as Satan's grandmother decides. Finally, after almost two minutes and two simple orders, she angrily chews out the cashier mere secodns after completing her order, "Are you going to go get all that or just stand there and wait?"

Again, the cashier politely apologizes saying she was taking the lady's order down. It's a slide window, if she leaves it, she can't hear costumers and isn't particularly psychic.

So, Satan's grandmother lets out, "You know what, never mind!" and gets into her Farmer's Market Costumer Killer and leaves.


We both agreed: what a bitch.
 
I forgot to mention she parked in front of the building in the lot so cars can't use the parking spaces out front 'cause they can't back up. Even though there were plenty of empty spaces and a drive-through.
 
Even though I can't drive anymore, I'm still handicapped, so I'm always paying attention to who's using handicapped parking spaces. I once watched an employee of a fly by night driving school up the street park one of their company cars in the handicapped slot of a parking lot that serves 4 other businesses, and I gave her shit for it. Her excuse was she was only going into the office for "a minute".
 
Melakon, that's one of my pet peeves. I've seen the owner of a pharmacy / medical equipment supplier park in one of the few handicapped spots in their big lot. His car doesn't have handicapped tags, and, from what his (embarrassed) staff said when I complained, he isn't disabled. You'd think that he, of all people, would be aware of how many of his customers have mobility issues and need those close-up parking spots!
 
When I still had a car, I either had the little sign to hang on the mirror, or handicapped license plates. It was always irritating having to park away from the reserved spots, then walk half the length of the parking lot or more because there was always at least one car in there with no identifying signs. Now I'm walking everywhere since I haven't had a vehicle in nearly 20 years, and I'm not in my 40s anymore. At least I feel like i'm getting more exercise now, but I don't have the endurance to walk far. I might be out for 2 hours on my feet the whole time now, and it wipes me out for a day and a half before I feel like going outside again.
 
Okay, I just had to bring this thread up to tell you what I saw today.

So, I'm watching this young guy, probably 17 to 25, and his grandmother(?) driving an electric cart, cause a clusterfuck mini accident with three other shopping carts 'cause they cant' be bothered to pay attention. So I went around all them and when I get to the isle I was heading to, I have to wait for people to pass by and sure enough, there comes the two, once again holding me up. Now, that wasn't the frustrating thing.

As they are coming the guy says to her, "Why am I pushing this thing is you're just tossing everything in the basket?" (refering to the large basket on the front of the cart. She tells him she didn't ask him to get the cart. So, what do you suppose he did?

A: Continue pushing the cart up front.

B: Leave it somewhere out of the way.

C: Just fucking push it anywhere and pretend the world revolves around himself.

If you chose C, you chose wisely. He makes some comment about why he even bothered, and just pushed it ahead of him and walked off. I shit you not. Here's a diagram to illistrate where he left it:

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He just shoved it ahead, it rolved up and bounced off the display and blocked about half the main isle. I was pushing my cart in an already crowded store so I couldn't drag it along with me.

What a lazy asshole. He even looked lazy.
 
The people in the theater that talked through most of the second half, saying, "Wow, this is SOOO much better than last year's panto. Isn't this better? I think it's better."

If you like it so much, how about SHUTTING THE HELL UP AND WATCHING IT? Seriously, bitches; your children behaved better than you did.

And, no, it was NOT better than last year's panto. That one was WAY better.
 
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