Mini Rants

Old Aug 1, 2006 | 03:55 PM
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Here's my mini rant for the day.

Here's what I come upon today:



sorry, it's taken with my phone thru my windshield so not sure if you can may it out . . .

here's a close up:


There's a motorcycle cop, hiding his bike on the SIDEWALK behind bushes. Now I got nothing against cops, and I got nothing against issuing traffic citations, heck, I see a million infractions every day, which is why behaviour such as this is totally not necessary. Having his bike on the sidewalk is dangerous. He can't see pedestrians coming from his left, and you just know as soon as he see's someone violate some traffic law he's gonna get a hard-on, get all excited, and dart out from his hiding spot. It's really not difficult to find people breaking traffic code any time any where . . . so what's this about? And the main thing for me is . . . isn't it his job to be driving around and not lurking so that he is able to come upon someone who might be in need? What if there's an accident, or God forbid a CRIME? He isn't fulfilling his public servant duties by hiding behind the bushes on the sidewalk.
Man . . . I can only hope he darts out of there, hops the curb and drops his bike right then and there. Now that would be funny.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by kobiashi
Here's my mini rant for the day.

Here's what I come upon today:



sorry, it's taken with my phone thru my windshield so not sure if you can may it out . . .

here's a close up:


There's a motorcycle cop, hiding his bike on the SIDEWALK behind bushes. Now I got nothing against cops, and I got nothing against issuing traffic citations, heck, I see a million infractions every day, which is why behaviour such as this is totally not necessary. Having his bike on the sidewalk is dangerous. He can't see pedestrians coming from his left, and you just know as soon as he see's someone violate some traffic law he's gonna get a hard-on, get all excited, and dart out from his hiding spot. It's really not difficult to find people breaking traffic code any time any where . . . so what's this about? And the main thing for me is . . . isn't it his job to be driving around and not lurking so that he is able to come upon someone who might be in need? What if there's an accident, or God forbid a CRIME? He isn't fulfilling his public servant duties by hiding behind the bushes on the sidewalk.
Man . . . I can only hope he darts out of there, hops the curb and drops his bike right then and there. Now that would be funny.
That is just wrong! I would hope his superior would see that and clip him, but hell, his superior probably taught it to him.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bluejay432000
That is just wrong! I would hope his superior would see that and clip him, but hell, his superior probably taught it to him.
LAPD to the rescue.

I'd email to his superior but you know in a city this size it he would never see it.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 04:54 PM
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Thanks to you bunch of goofs I've gotten exactly 10 minutes of studying in.

[dramatic lament]
Now however will I be able to define terms like ethics, diversity, outsourcing, and human resource management. Oh the humanity.

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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by kobiashi
Here's my mini rant for the day.

Here's what I come upon today:



sorry, it's taken with my phone thru my windshield so not sure if you can may it out . . .

here's a close up:


There's a motorcycle cop, hiding his bike on the SIDEWALK behind bushes. Now I got nothing against cops, and I got nothing against issuing traffic citations, heck, I see a million infractions every day, which is why behaviour such as this is totally not necessary. Having his bike on the sidewalk is dangerous. He can't see pedestrians coming from his left, and you just know as soon as he see's someone violate some traffic law he's gonna get a hard-on, get all excited, and dart out from his hiding spot. It's really not difficult to find people breaking traffic code any time any where . . . so what's this about? And the main thing for me is . . . isn't it his job to be driving around and not lurking so that he is able to come upon someone who might be in need? What if there's an accident, or God forbid a CRIME? He isn't fulfilling his public servant duties by hiding behind the bushes on the sidewalk.
Man . . . I can only hope he darts out of there, hops the curb and drops his bike right then and there. Now that would be funny.

Drops his bike and gets hit by a bus. Maybe have the bus driven by sandra bullock. That would learn him.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 05:50 PM
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Having a motorbike on the sidewalk, atleast in the state of Tennessee, is illegal. The only time the po-pos are allowed to break the law is in direct persuit of a lawbreaker (ie chasing down a speeder) or responding to an emergency, but I know you guys out in LA are used to the cops being worse than some actual criminals so all I can say is I'm sorry.

My Rant: Standing at the checkout and one of your items does not have a price or readable barcode so the chick at the register asks you how much it said it was. You answer, and she ends to calling in a stock boy to go back and look at the actual price. If you not going to believe my answer then don't ****ing ask me, don't waste anymore of my time and cut straight to the stock boy. This seems to happen to me a lot at Sam's Wholesale Club.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by MPSchenck
My Rant: Standing at the checkout and one of your items does not have a price or readable barcode so the chick at the register asks you how much it said it was. You answer, and she ends to calling in a stock boy to go back and look at the actual price. If you not going to believe my answer then don't ****ing ask me, don't waste anymore of my time and cut straight to the stock boy. This seems to happen to me a lot at Sam's Wholesale Club.

Oh yeah, I really hate that one... agree completely.

"Billy, come check and see if this is the right price, pretty sure this guy is lying to me"
 
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Old Aug 2, 2006 | 12:06 AM
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Driving in the curb lane with no one behind you ,and at the up coming intersection, there is a car. As you approach he starts to creep his front end out past the stop line..... Stupid FLUCKS... I swear I will ram the next one that does that stupid stunt. impatient fools.
 
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Old Aug 2, 2006 | 12:46 AM
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The grocery store bar .... standing in line, waiting to put my items out for the clerk, people are ahead of me, I wait for a big gap, put out my items and the person in front of me away's reach's out for that black bar to protect his/her food from mine..
 
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Old Aug 2, 2006 | 03:03 AM
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Similar to Silver's but. . .approaching an intersection where someone is stopped. They sit there as if unsure what to do and then decide to pull out when you're almost on top of them!! Grrr. . .
 
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Old Aug 3, 2006 | 02:58 AM
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Ah talking about traffic... I hate people who while waiting for straight line traffic to pass so they can turn pull out into the intersection and then when the light changes to red want to back-up. They should know I'm not going to back-up to let them in.
 
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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 10:16 AM
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Ok so I planned a trip to the ocean with the family a few months back. I have since signed up for a Summer class to knock out one more requirement.

Well I planned on just taking an absence on that day, no big deal. The teacher last night announces the mid-term will be on Tuesday night. I leave Monday for the ocean, returning Thursday.

I now get to drive back mid-day Tuesday, take a 30 minute test and then drive back 3 hours to the ocean.

Man I'm ticked.
 
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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 10:34 AM
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Ok so I planned a trip to the ocean with the family a few months back. I have since signed up for a Summer class to knock out one more requirement.

Well I planned on just taking an absence on that day, no big deal. The teacher last night announces the mid-term will be on Tuesday night. I leave Monday for the ocean, returning Thursday.

I now get to drive back mid-day Tuesday, take a 30 minute test and then drive back 3 hours to the ocean.

Man I'm ticked.
Why are you ticked? Nobody's fault but your own.
 
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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 10:37 AM
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I have a Mini Rant.....or question actually.

What's with these tards that like to ride in your blind spot? I see people doing this all the time.

I'll be cruising along doing about 70ish, and these idiots will come hauling azz from behind. I'll change lanes to give them their space by moving into the right hand lane, and they will slow down in my blind spot and ride there?

WTF?


Anyone know why these idiots do this?

I drive a semi and really get tired of this. What really ticks me, is when someone just has to pass me, so that they aren't riding behind a big truck (I understand this and don't like riding behind them either.) and then drives slower than I was originally driving before they passed me. They then speed up when you try to get around them and slow back down when you give up.

I've got a million bits of stupid driver stuff that I have to ignore from day to day to avoid an aneurysm.
 
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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by UrbanCowboy
Why are you ticked? Nobody's fault but your own.
Well while that is true I can still be mad about it.

This a ranting thead and I'm ranting. It isn't the teacher's fault. Its just bad luck but I can still be mad about it.

You inconsiderate, uncaring, couch sleeping, dolt.

If I had feelings they would be hurt.
 
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