Tiny Moments of Stupidity and Woe

Originally Posted by brknredcrayon

i concur sprout. driving into/out of boston in the morning or afternoon sucks balls. also, what roads are you taking ?

Are you kidding? Boston is just one, giant, vehicular nuisance - no matter the time of day, no matter the area of Boston. Even Cambridge can get on my nerves. Don't even get me going about the concrete clusterfucks all around Boston... at the Zakim Bridge, down by the eastern point of the Pike near Chinatown...UGH

Beats Western Massachusetts, though. It's like a whole different country out here. Being raised in the 'burbs of Boston, I've got Aggressive Driving in my blood. It really doesn't translate out here well at all.

The majority of my irksome pet peeves or irritants revolve around driving. I love to drive late at night, when the road is mine and I don't have to worry about people nearly side-swiping me because they didn't look in their mirror to see if anyone was in the left lane. I also sympathize with Sprout's "60 MPH in Left Lane But Adamantly Refuses to Move" thing.

Without going into a diatribe about driving, I'll do some other irksome occurances:

- Ordering a coffee which is standard - and having some non-English speaking person screw it up.
- Old people counting literally PENNIES in line.
- People who waste my fucking time in line at a convenience store buying, scratching and re-buying scratch tickets. (Seriously. They stand there, scratch and win, and KEEP BUYING MORE for MINUTES ON END.) I WOULD LIKE TO PAY FOR MY WATER, PLEASE.
- In the same vein, people who are too impatient to wait their turn in line at the convenience store, and cut you off to throw a $20 down and announce "Twenty on Three!" FUCK you, asshole. I had to wait - so will you.
- Teenage kids invading a place you're having a quick bite to eat, and literally taking the establishment over on a Saturday night.
- Mis-pronunciations of simple words like "ask," "espresso," "milk," and "idea."
- Complete ignorance about how the world works. ie: What do you MEAN you don't take personal checks? WHY NOT? Let's fight for 30 minutes in line about it!
- PEOPLE AT CVS WHO STAND AND LOOK AT THEIR RECEIPT AND COUPONS FOR MORE THAN 3 MINUTES. Seriously. This one guy had to have EVERYTHING EXPLAINED TO HIM, and the employees had to open another register due to him.

Most of these things make my skin crawl. If it wasn't illegal, I would seriously take a sledge hammer to all these peoples' heads. I can't IMAGINE how much worse it can get.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Devoxycontin

Been stuck in traffic for like 30 minutes because people had to stare at a stalled car, no joke.

O man, tell me about it.

We were on a road trip this past summer and we were stuck in traffic for six bloody hours because there was a major wreck on the other side of the highway and people just stopped and stared.

Six hours. Worst traffic jam ever.

Although, I have to admit. I slow down and look too, but I keep up with traffic at the same time. Since we're going slow.

Sometimes, out here, people cause traffic jams from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING though. One assholes in the left lane really loves tapping his brakes. SERIOUSLY fucks with traffic flow.

There's nowhere I can't reach.