It’s when the little light bulb thingies don’t work on FAOL…
Maybe that will “lighten” things up…[G]
How about the little Windows screens on your
pewter that pop up and accuse you of
performing an illegal/unauthorized action.
All you did was hit a silly computer key and
they have you looking over your shoulder
for the cyber police.G Warm regards, Jim
Jet skis and “boom boom” radios, the ones that rattle car windows from three blocks away!!!
People who complain about things not working on FAOL when they are working fine but they are not willing to accept that. Like, bulbs don’t work, all I get is last months main page, your chat room doesn’t work anymore, why is the BB broken, my password won’t work… fix it, why can’t I post pictures… you let others,
and last, when we do go off line, those very sincere and loving souls who send us an email letting us know. lol, but, in the end, we love ya all! 
Larry, it’s SOP here, when we place a call, to ask if the person has time right now, maybe 60 seconds or whatever we actually feel will be needed, or should we call back at another time? We don’t always remember to ask, but we do try.
Why, you might ask? Because we realize that when someone answers the phone, they are ‘giving’ us a piece of their time.
Actually JC that was not a complaint about FAOL…it was just identifying what I was talking about…but it is about how my g*! d computer handles them…and even worse mine’s in the hospital so I’m on my wife’s and it doesn’t even show them…guess she doesn’t have Java or whatever it takes.
Maybe that’s an even bigger pet peeve…why do we have to spend so much time dealing with keeping our puters running , safe , free of quirks ,etc…when we should be able to just use it…isn’t it just a tool…
Larry,
I can relate -I am also in Tech Support. I usually get “this will be an easy fix” - then they tell me they can’t log in.
I check and find a hard drive on the server went down, they have NO back ups, and NO IT staff to work on getting a server up and running!! Two weeks later the call might get closed.
Usually when they say they have a MAJOR PROBLEM is when I can sit back and relax. lol
Let No One Walk Alone
><))))‘>------<’((((><
Bill
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People who just HAVE to push you on a crowded 2 laner, in the left lane, when you’re 10 MPH over and trying to provide stopping distance between you and the next car…they rush up to the next car and ride their butts!
And idiots who cretae comp. viruses…
Jeremy.
I dont have one, just many.
People who have no sense of personal space.
The wife and I were camping last year while fishing the straight of Juan DeFuca for a week. 60 spots in the campgroud, and we were the only users. We come back after a day on the water to find a couple in the spot next to us! There were 58 other spots and the dude chose that one, and it was not even a nice spot. To make it even better, he came over to ask what kind of dogs we have. The only way the guy would even know we had dogs with us would have been to leashes we had left on the picnic table, not visible from his spot! I did tell him that our dogs were really loud, and would bark at anything that moves. Needless to say they barked at them all night long. The only thing louder was me telling them to be quite. 
Jeff
My pet peeve is anyone using the Starbucks they put in the corner 2 blocks from me. People, about 75% women, will gun their car to get into the parking lot or drive thru, narrowly avoiding accidents with cars, bikes, or anyone walking on the sidewalk. Upon exiting, they will look left–but not right–because left is the side of the ‘busy street’. Coming from the right, I’ve had to swerve or hit the breaks many times. For some reason, they don’t see me on a bike coming from the left or the right. Bikes do not register on their little brains when they carry coffee.
Biggest pet peeve are people talking on the cell phone, with coffee in their hand at the same time, coming from the drive thru or parking lot, and still thinking they can drive.
I still think you should pass an IQ test to get a driver’s license.
Having read all the previous posts, I’ve come to the conclusion that, while I do empathise with some of them, none would cause me to lose sleep. I guess I’m just that well adjusted
Actually my pet peeves are of a political nature and this is not the time or place.
Mark
PS: After reexamining my peeve list, I do have one. In heavy/ slow/stopped traffic, drivers blocking the intersection trying to “make the light”. This is especially problematic in heavy snow traffic conditions.
traffic seems to do it a few times … up here (like other areas) there’s winter and construction seasons … in construction you get this front end loader with backhoe doing 20mph in a 35 - best thing - he takes the center lane and crowds the other 2.
Then there’s the dolts who blast their vehicles through construction areas with workers standing on the road (or road side) …
Or the best - those that will tear off from one red light to get to the next interstection (with red light). I love this one - I usually end up smiling and give them a big cheerful ‘HI AGAIN’ wave (this really irks them after the 3rd light).
I will be irritated when the message says: Pressa dos por Englesia. (SP)
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging. Duke Snider
Pet Peeve - The cop sitting on the side of the road in our little village, waiting to ticket a local for going 30 in a 25 when there are fatal accidents at busy cross roads just a few miles out of town and they won’t ticket the huge trucks going 70 in a 55 !!
A couple in their 80’s lost their lives just a couple of weeks ago at one of those cross roads…they will not be the last.
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Larry, … LoL !!!
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People that use $ or ! or any other symbol to write cuss words when they post to bb to beat the filters. I wonder if they are to stupid to write or converse without using foul language.
Don’t see it happen here much but on other bbs I see it a lot.
I have another…very minor, but it indicates our declining grammatical skills & really bothers my “detail freak” side.
In a restaurant, being asked, “Would you like the au jus with that?”…au jus is NOT a noun!!..it means “with juice”!! I have actually seen, in print, as a menu item, “prime rib with au jus”. Leave the “with” at home folks, it’s redundant!
There is also a car dealer near here who has, for more than 30 years, had a sign up that reads, “Jack M*******, the old fashion dealer”. I swear that I am going in there some day to ask where the outdated clothes & accessories can be seen, or if his dealership is actually a bar that only sells ONE mixed drink? Do they not realize that a simple “ed” following “fashion” totally changes the meaning of the word?
Sorry for the rant, but I am a high school grad, & to observe poor grammar from anyone, much less some very well educated people is just a real pet peeve of mine. I understand the world will not end if this situation isn’t corrected, however, if a certain button labeled “nuke” is misinterpreted as a push button microwave, hmmm…
Mike
You can call me Mike & you can call me Mikey…Just remember that this site’s about sharing!
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As a editer I get lots of sentences that have a propisition on the end of. Buggs me as bad as pour speling do.
ELKHUNTER. Any business that carries an inventory must base its selling price on the replacement cost of that item.
If you based the selling price on the actual cost that company would have to dig in their pocket to buy back the inventory if a price increase occured.
I know gas stations raise and lower and raise and lower their price without ever buying inventory but they must base their selling price on what ever their supplier says the replacement cost will be from day to day.