Peeves

[nookandcrannycar]

- Reading a comment (so far only on OTHER forums, IIRC) where the person has written that his/her curiosity has been peaked....the word is piqued. If someone is speaking quickly the sound is similar, but they are different words with different meanings.

- Hearing people say George Bush Jr. or George Bush Sr. . I don't have any fondness toward either one of them, but they aren't Senior and Junior as they don't have the same full name. The father could be correctly referred to a the elder George Bush or Bush 41, but not Senior. He is the only one with his name - George Herbert Walker Bush - he has two middle names. The first middle name -Herbert - is not part of his son's name. My father was a Junior, and he had the same given name his father did. IIRC, the distinction is also on my father's birth certificate. If I lived outside the Texaplex (Texas Urban Triangle - formed by the San Antonio, DFW, and Houston metro areas), I probably wouldn't hear this as often. They live here. Their libraries are here. The International Airport in Houston is named after the elder George Bush.

I know, picky first world issues.....but this is a 'Peeves' thread

[cali yaris]

Mercedes owners that don't use their turn signals. It happens so often that I suspect there is an explicit instruction regarding this behavior in the Owners Manual.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

Mercedes owners that don't use their turn signals. It happens so often that I suspect there is an explicit instruction regarding this behavior in the Owners Manual.

. More of the 'My time is too valuable to miss this exit, so I must do an insane cut over from the fast lane' people I've encountered on the freeways in California are Mercedes owners than not*.

* - or at least those are the instances that most stick in my mind .

[Golddeenoh]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

Mercedes owners that don't use their turn signals. It happens so often that I suspect there is an explicit instruction regarding this behavior in the Owners Manual.

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

. More of the 'My time is too valuable to miss this exit, so I must do an insane cut over from the fast lane' people I've encountered on the freeways in California are Mercedes owners than not*.

* - or at least those are the instances that most stick in my mind .

From what I have seen there appears to be a correlation between car initial price and the inability to drive with any regard to surroundings or simply driving correctly. Kind of an elitist mind set that makes it so that they think that because they paid more that they have right of way and have no need to signal or even look for other traffic. That is why I go out of my way to practice proper and simple good driving edicate. sure I speed from time to time, but do so only when safe and not at all in residential areas, school zones, or heavy traffic.

granted the number of people that can drive around here are hard to notice because of the abundance of inferior drivers. there is a double lane right turn from where and interstate become a city street and nearly every time i use the left of the two right turn lanes someone from the the right one goes around the corner and whips to left across my lane into the far left lane. I now avoid going that way simply because I don't feel like dealing with getting hit by some moron that will try and say that it wasn't their fault they changed lanes in a curve, with out signalling, with out looking, and with complete disregard for driving safety.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Golddeenoh

From what I have seen there appears to be a correlation between car initial price and the inability to drive with any regard to surroundings or simply driving correctly. Kind of an elitist mind set that makes it so that they think that because they paid more that they have right of way and have no need to signal or even look for other traffic. That is why I go out of my way to practice proper and simple good driving edicate. sure I speed from time to time, but do so only when safe and not at all in residential areas, school zones, or heavy traffic.

granted the number of people that can drive around here are hard to notice because of the abundance of inferior drivers. there is a double lane right turn from where and interstate become a city street and nearly every time i use the left of the two right turn lanes someone from the the right one goes around the corner and whips to left across my lane into the far left lane. I now avoid going that way simply because I don't feel like dealing with getting hit by some moron that will try and say that it wasn't their fault they changed lanes in a curve, with out signalling, with out looking, and with complete disregard for driving safety.

^^^^^ Here some full size pickup drivers have this same mentality (even if their truck is a rusted out POS) when they see a small car like a Yaris. They'll pull off from a side street right in front of you so that you have to slam on your brakes (and I'm going 3-4 MPH below the limit ).

[sqcomp]

That is what train horns on a yaris are good for. I speak from experience.

[Golddeenoh]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

That is what train horns on a yaris are good for. I speak from experience.

I use the Hella horns with gold connectors and soldered joints. work great, really funny when someone looks at then through the grill and I hit the horn.

[Exiwolfman]

Mobile phone screen savers ....i can never put one on with out something going wrong, dust air bubbles that will just not get out grrrr etc etc etc ....so i given up on them ...must be the OCD ..lamo

[Golddeenoh]

Originally Posted by Exiwolfman

Mobile phone screen savers ....i can never put one on with out something going wrong, dust air bubbles that will just not get out grrrr etc etc etc ....so i given up on them ...must be the OCD ..lamo

I make Best Buy do mine. way less stress.

[Exiwolfman]

Originally Posted by Golddeenoh

I make Best Buy do mine. way less stress.

hmmmm...ur on to something

[cali yaris]

^ Sprint store for me. Always free.