People plain and simple just do not care. They don't think about anybody but themselves. Oblivious to any issues they are causing. Heaven forbid you say anything to them. This world I swear...🤯

I have to say I am so sick and tired of people on their freaking phones as they are driving. Can't go one day without seeing multiple people driving with a phone in their face. All ages. All types of people. GET OFF YOUR PHONE!!!

 

I was at Home Depot this past Saturday, and a woman was on her phone while backing out of her parking space (and taking way too long to do so). I gestured at her a couple of times to put the damn phone down, but she was oblivious and in her own little world, didn't even see me.

 

This torques my shorts !! These guys that wear their pants half way down around their *** !! with their skivies exposed to the world !!
I don't want to see your drawers !! and how the hell do you walk around with out them falling all the way down !!
My jeans are usually lower than I want but I have a excuse, I'm fat with a case of Dunlop ( my belly dun lopped over my belt) which seems to force my britches lower than I prefer, however I at least attempt to keep them where they are supposed to be, around my waist !!
just another one of those things that TORQUES MY SHORTS !!

 

Funny how being "the prison dance partner" (family show) look is now a trend to these people. Walking that way? Imagine needing to run...

 

Well,
This is getting high on my list of things that torque my shorts !! places and events that don't accept cash !!!!!
My wife and I took the Grand children this weekend to Monster Jamb monster truck event , My grand son is all about monster trucks
he's only two 1/2 but loves them, almost all of his toys are monster tucks and he knows most their names Grave Digger , Zombie etc...
We get there and normal outdoor parking is $20.00 highway robbery !!! now here's the kicker we get up to the gate attendant and she says no cash accepted credit card or debit only (I'm a dinosaur and don't use credit cards ) lucky for us my wife had a debit card so that disaster was averted.
Now on to the event asked the Grandkids if they wanted a soft pretzel and a coke , again NO CASH ACCEPTED CREDIT CARD ONLY !! this torques my shorts !! come on it's cash !!! once my blood pressure leveled out we enjoyed the monster trucks and the smile on the grand kids faces were worth it in the end but damn man I understand the convenience but there are just some things I DON'T ACCEPT.

 

I will avoid politics by not naming a party, but it is the goal of totalitarians to have a cashless society so that your money can be turned off by the government when you are bad. Also, some people just want the convenience of no cash. There is no Federal law saying you must take cash, and there are only a few states and cities that have laws mandating it.

 

Sometime it just not to get robbed. A lot of cash is a great temptation. Even for employees. Having change for hundreds of people with large dollar bills can also be a problem. Or its the boogie man, coming to take your freedom

 

While there is a certain amount of logic to this, the environment doesn’t always support the logic.

For example: I get a soft drink every morning before work. As I was walking to the gate, the entire bottom of the styrofoam cup fell out, making a mess of my shoes and pants. I probably should have just turned around, got back in the car and go home. Just a omen for the rest of the day! Instead, I went into work, rinsed out my shoes and socks as best I could, rinsed out my pants legs and used compressed air to blow them dry (didn’t want to look like I pissed my pants!!). I had my work shoes to wear while my normal stuff dried.

I go to the cafeteria to get another drink. I find out they don’t accept cash. I seriously doubt the cafeteria in the middle of a huge factory needs to worry about robbery. I’m not debating a 1.00 drink.

On the flip side, there is a nice mom and pop style diner we like to go to on the weekends for breakfast. I go to pay the bill, the amount charged to my debit card is more than the amount on the ticket. Many places are starting to add the service charge to use a debit card to the customer.

It just really chaps my *** that society has forced this debit card way of life on is, and now are going to start charging us to use it. Just proves what I have been saying for years, no matter what convenience is developed, business will find a way to exploit it to their benefit.

 

i think this push to go plastic or on your phone is to get every penny of tax out of ya.the gov is after a way to tax every transaction be it a 10 cent trinket at a garage sale or a 500 dollar set of wheels at a swap meet.about 20 years ago we went to a swap meet in nebraska.when we paid for our spots the guy gave us a tax form to fill out and send in on all our sales.and i'll be damned we didn't sell one thing all day.form ended up in the trash go to throw it out and thats about the only that was in the trash can.

 

Many of the cafeterias at my company will staff during breaks and lunch, and leave self-buy, which is use credit, debit, or this express thing you can keep a balance on, just because you can't open the registers to make change. There are big signs to not leave cash. This specific situation is to make it work without a cashier.

I do agree the gov wants to tax every transaction. Private sales are not taxable; I know the government thinks they are, but I believe they are wrong and any law made is unconstitutional.

 

There have been studies that found that nearly 75% of employees steal cash from their employer. Employee theft can lead to up to 5% of yearly revenue being taken out of the register. This can put a large dent in the profits of a business and make it difficult to expand and increase sales.

This is especially true for a small business because they often have lower profit margins than larger corporations. A smaller amount of theft can make a bigger impact with a smaller company or store, so employees stealing from you can be a major issue.

https://carnation-inc.com/blogs/mone...m-the-register
YES, I looked it up on the web. Just had to know!

I was down in Las Vegas to get my daughter from the airport. I happen to pass the rear of a marijuana dispensary. They had five men in full armor and automatic weapons paroling the outside of the building. As its a cash only business by law.

Times change! As a kid in NYC, we slept with the doors unlocked! Keys in the car's ignition. Real old car had he ignition on the left side of the dash.

 

Mmph. People who carry no cash and then tie up a long checkout line trying to pay for a $1.79 drink with a card that's maxed out. If you don't have enough cash on you to pay for a 20 oz and a snack...

Went to the Dollar General Sat morning to get ice cream for our Memorial Day cookout. Got behind a cashless 20-something who was laying in his beer for a weekend on the nearby lake. He tried four different cards before he got one with enough open balance on it to pay for the four cases of beer. That, my friends, is plain effin' inconsiderate. Not to mention financially irresponsible.

I never thought I'd turn into a grumpy old man. My tolerance for idiots has gone negative, and dammit they're everywhere!🤯 and they're breeding and making more!🤯🤯

 

OMG !!!
Rocketraider nailed it !! there are no shortage of convenience store/ gas stations around me and that is where I buy my fuel. I am a dinosaur
I still pull up to the pump get out walk to the cashier pay for my fuel and then go pump it, I feel I need the exercise. This should be a 3 minute exercise but I cant tell you how many times it has turned into a 10 minute ordeal because the person in front of me is buying a Thirst Buster or a Red Bull or Monster and then slides his credit card through the machine only to hear the cashier say declined sir !! ok hold on let me try this one, declined sir all as I stand there just wanting to pay for my fuel !! aggravating all for a $3.00 sale.

 

It infuriates me when I stop at the convenience store for my morning drink, and I’m stuck waiting on the one designated kid (I assume the only one of age) buying cigarettes for the carload of high school kids of course, none of the kids smoke the same brand.

Lottery tickets is another major slowdown. Too many damn choices! You know it’s going to be a rotten day when the picky smoker decides to buy lottery tickets!!!

 

I've said for years that anywhere that sells lottery tickets should be required to have a designated line and cashier for them. Wednesdays were always the worst here because of the mega millions and Powerball. I would find myself stuck in a line of folks buying lotto at 5am when all I wanted was a Diet Dew and a Little Debbie cake for breakfast. And there was always one playing dollar scratchers and if he won 5 bucks he'd buy 5 more tickets and scratch them, holding up the line while hoping to hit it big. Insane.

At least some of the high volume lottery retailers have kiosks and vending machines now.

 

Dedicated line for lottery?! Ha! That’s a great idea that will never happen. Lord knows the checkout lanes are understaffed as is, no way will convenience stores pay additional manpower for extra clerks.

Big business learned long ago that consumers will tolerate lousy service if it saves a few pennies. Why provide lousy services when they will tolerate shitty service for less?

 

The virus has really cut down my incidental shopping. I go to the grocery store, the gas pump, the auto parts store, and the home improvement store, and that's it except for specialty trips to very small businesses. I tend to take a cooler with me for weekend trips with enough drinks to avoid going into a gas station for one for the drive back.

I always hated people paying by check and using grocery store stamps or 45 different coupons. Need to make it so you can use like 3 coupons per transaction. Some people have no problem wasting the time of others. Sometimes lines of people get belligerent, I once had to rebook a flight, and got threatened with violence for what the guy thought was cutting the line, and all I did was ask the agent, is this the line for this flight. I gave the guy the hairy eyeball and he thought better of picking a fight with someone half his years and twice his size.

 

Been using debit for 15 years. Great tool to budget. I hate carrying cash and plan when I need to. You know what torques my shorts. People who pay cash who I have to wait for to shuffle their goods, put change in the pocket and then walk away. Irony. There is always some flipside. I don't mind waiting in line but then again I work 2 blocks from home usually always into to work early and plan accordingly. Is it people wasting your time or poor planing.

 

I do make sure to never grocery shop on the weekend. Holy fields of soccer moms; so you're right on the planning.

 

I was waiting for someone else to say it. I use my credit card for almost everything, and the complaining about having to wait for someone to use coupons, write out a check, fumble with different credit cards... are you kidding me? That fumbling with cards probably takes just as much time as you take to pay with cash, get change, and put the change back in your wallet. If waiting in line for someone to pay, that was there ahead of you, really gets your knickers in a twist, then I suggest you find some way to destress or find an anger management class. Good grief.

Also, Coppercutlass, I suggest you use a credit card instead of a debit card. Debit cards are direct access to YOUR money, and if you happen to encounter fraud via a skimmer or someone stealing your account info, then YOUR money is gone. It will be much more inconvenient to work with the bank to recover your funds than it would be to use a credit card, which is THEIR money. Any time I hear of someone using a debit card for their transactions, I give this same advice. Plus, you may find a credit card that gives you cash back for your purchases. I even route all of my utilities thru my cc to take advantage of the cash back.

 

I use cash 99 percent of the time. I think it is absolutely ridiculous to refuse cash. Big brother forcing you to bend.


I know it has been said on this thread already more than a couple times. Why oh why is it so difficult to understand why you should use a turn signal?? What is the mentality? Someone please explain to me. How freaking lazy do you have to be to not signal a lane change or a turn? I love the idiots that refuse to use a turn signal to change lanes. Get all worked up because people don't let you in. Maybe if you actually used your signal people wouldn't have to try to read your mind. Ya think?

Happy Friday people.

 

Meh, the people in line that write a check are 100x worse.
It is one thing if they filled out the check other than the dollar amount. but no. they have to write everything after they are rung up.
The next ones are the bozo's that are in line 3rd or 4th in line, and once at counter can't decide what lotto ticket to buy.
This is always people my age or older, so it isn't the younger generations. Heck, they not even know what a personal check is.
I use plastic for almost everything. A few reasons for this.
Cash makes you a target, 1 for theives, 2) from the beggers/fake homeless, etc
Also my bank offers cash back of 2% on most things, and 5% on food,fuel and a few other things. I pay in full the c/c weekly. So they never make a dime of interest. but pay me to use the card. Cash is NOT always king.

 

Turn signals. Do they even install them on new cars?
Seems they don't going by drivers of newer vehicles. And frankly to be fair. today's cars do everything else for them, from turning on the headlights, to warning you of a car in the land beside you, or the car in front of you , you are to close too. Why would they think to signal?
So cops don't signal. at all, most don't when in a turning only lane.
I signal all the time, but I have noticed in the last decade that, when you do, the car beside you makes sure to close up the gap and not let you into the lane you signaled you plan on getting into.
I think the advent of all the automatic everything in vehicles have cause much of this.
auto on lights, auto on high beams, blah blah blah.
I think all this crap needs to be scrapped. maybe if the car wasn't doing most of the driving they not be able to play on the phone, or talk on it.

 

Lately it has been the stoners, that drive 20mph under the speed limit. and a double yellow line so you can't pass their fishbowled crossover, that is crawling along at 20mph in a 45 zone.
I so want to use the Chrome horns

 

It absolutely infuriates me when after standing in line for 15 minutes, people franticly scramble to decide what to order, or how to pay for their purchase.

My kids learned very quickly at a young age to decide what they wanted long before getting to the checkout. If they couldn’t be bothered to decide before, I’ll order for them, and I make sure it’s not what they want.

One time we went out to eat my oldest stepdaughter (probably age 5 at the time) couldn’t spare a few seconds of precious Game Boy time to decide what she wanted to drink. The waitress asked her, I asked her, she was oblivious to all of it. When I told the waitress she will have a glass of water, suddenly she rejoined reality. She whined that she didn’t want water, I informed her the time had come and gone for her wants to be considered.

Call me a hard ***, mean, whatever, but I refuse to accept the responsibility of raising the next generation of inconsiderate people.

 

Heartless comes to mind. (Just kidding.) If more people followed your example, people would show more respect for others regardless of their age, color or political inclination, the world would be a much better place. Kudos Matt.

 

It was bad enough when people were actually standing in line forever and hadn't figured out what they wanted to order when they got to the counter.

Now with the plague add in drive-thru only joints. Sit in line 15 minutes in the car and then still don't have any idea what they want. Hint- MickeyD sells burgers, Chick-Fil-A sells chicken, Long John Silver sells fish.

I'll be happy when this drive-thru obsession is over. With things opening back up, the above-mentioned three show no intentions of re-opening inside dining here. Their profits are up, I guess because they're not maintaining dining rooms or restrooms.

If they'd reopen inside walk-in to-go ordering, I would do that. I won't sit in a line of cars wrapped twice around the building just to get their food. CFA has made noise about going drive-thru only. If they do I have eaten my last CFA chicken sammitch.

 

My greatest annoyance (aside from some already mentioned) occurs both ways. (1) The person in-line heading to the check-out hanging on their phone. They arrive at the check-out, still engaged in a phone conversation (with many people behind them, of course) & state to the cashier "...one moment, please..." (while they finish their phone conversation); and, (2) The check-out cashier engaged in a phone conversation when a customer approaches the check-out and does not stop talking on their phone to assist the customer. Unbelievable.

 

I thought it would be a good time to dig this thread up again.

Something that gets on my lawn these days are the commercials on TV. I am not sure how many of you live in a state that has legalized sports gambling. It is unbelievable how many gambling ads are on TV here. One after another. So sick of it.

Then there are the ads for stanky women parts. And ads for a bent *****. ???!!! What happened to this world? Barbara Eden couldn't show her belly button. Now we have all this?

 

The commercial that burns me are the sonabello ones that come on right when I sit down for supper...YUCK!

 

Yeah, ridiculous what's advertised on tube now. Boils down to someone thinks they can make money off an individual's perceived body shortcomings, that they didn't know they had until some advertiser told them they did.

Besides, I've known plenty of women who would wet their britches at the sight of a bent peepee.

Right now what's spinning me up is the FOURTH weekend winter storm of the year coming. And we've had only FIVE weekends this year!

Granted, doesn't take much winter at all to make me happy, and these have all been 1-4" range, but I've had my assful of snow and ice for the year, thank you. There's still snow laying around here from the Jan 2 storm.

Y'all who are looking at feet of snow out of this coming storm have my sympathy. I wouldn't live anywhere gets snow like that.

 

It's crazy how dry Denver has been. We didn't really have our first snow until Jan first. We got a couple quick storms this week. Four inches and maybe two. It will be in the fifties this weekend.

 

My eldest son's idealist mentality torques my shorts!

He lives out in St.Louis and is working on his PhD. I'll give him this, he works hard at 2 jobs to pay for this himself. But his idealist mentality drives his Mom and me crazy. He's so far left, he's almost right. He purposefully lives in a run down area to show that he's "one of the people" even though he can afford to live in a better place. In the past year, he's been mugged twice walking home from work and never filed a police report. He says that the police wont do anything for regular people, so why bother. When I explained to him that a report wont get his money and phone back, but will at least show crime patterns for the police to adjust their patrolling, he just says that he doesn't need the police hassling him.

This is a kid raised in rural and suburban Maryland saying this. ARG!

 

The online casino ads here in MI are out of control, and have been since 6 months PRIOR to the legalization. They all wanted us to know their sites before everything came online, and it's relentless. Over-the-air channels, streaming channels... AHHHHHHH!!!

The non-network OTA channels are inundated with the "CHECK YOUR ZIPCODE!!" ads for Social Security. I hate JJ Walker and Joe Namath now (they are the two paid spokespeople).

 

"Mahn-nee!" 😄

I didn't like Jimmie Walker before he started the SS ads, and it was well known John Amos and Esther Rolle thought his shuck and jive detracted from Good Times. But it brought in the ratings so they had to bite their lip and go on as professionally as they could.

Chip, DK what to say about your kid. There are a lot of people in this world who harbor way too much guilt over things they or their families had nothing to do with. At least he's paying for his own advanced degree. Lot of 'em think they're owed that on someone else's dime. As long as he understands his choices may cost him in ways he may not have anticipated.

 

It won't get any better after legalization. In the DC area, every other ad on the radio and TV is for sports betting, and it's all the same shtick "Bet $1 on either team to win and get $150 guaranteed".

What crap.

 

Amen. It was legalized here in Colorado. Ad after ad after ad. Radio as well as TV. All these ex athletes getting paid now. Get 150 in betting money. You don't get the cash. You get gambling credits not cash. The pot industry blew up out here a few years ago. Has made millions of dollars. Once gambling became legal it put that down as far as money produced. Like it isn't even close. I love how at the end of each commercial they say gambling problem? Call blah blah blah. Yeah because they care.

 

Your vehicle warranty is about to expire, press one to be connected to a representative...
This is (insert asinine company name) you can get a free cardiac evaluation...is this the person to whom I'm speaking?
Hello, do you have diabetes...press one to speak with a representative...
Your student loan is being issued to a collection agency, press one to be connected...

 

Thankfully I get zero sales calls. Of course I will not answer Any phone number that I don't know. Once you answer once it's on.

 

Oh, it was legalized Dec 2019. I try not to react to the commercials anymore, but there was a several month stretch where I'd audibly grumble.