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Cowslips Warren posted:I work for a delivery courier company. A lot of the times the sender puts on Signature Needed and we can't overrride that. What sucks is that our delivery window is pretty much 9am to 5pm, when most people are at work. Now, I work early morning, so sometimes lucky people see me pull in at 6 or 7am with their package, which surprises them, but I want the drat things out of my van as soon as possible. It's one of those things that annoys me about the parent company, not the delivery person. Where I live we have a locked slot mailbox for letters, and a larger box underneath that isn't locked - big enough to fit maybe an 8"x8" box in. That's where I'd wish they could leave it. I love it when they come at 6-7 in the morning - I'm up and getting ready by then, I can buzz them in and take it off their hands. I just wish there was something I could sign to completely release the company from any responsibility, because it would be much more convenient for me to take the tiny risk that someone will snatch my box and I just have to reorder it than take a day off of work.
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My mother has a weird loving hangup about Asians. I don't know what her problem is, nor do I give even a tenth of a poo poo. She takes an attitude about anything "Asian" that I'm interested in, be it food, language, or movies. Twice, apparently thinking she was being funny, she said, "your eyes are gonna turn slanted". I'm not a weeaboo. I'm learning Mandarin because languages have always interested me and it seems like fun so far. I enjoy learning to cook new cuisines too. I am just so sick of my mother's bizarrely specific racist bullshit.
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This makes me madder than a pet peeve, but whatever... This morning when I reached my car in my apartment parking lot, I saw that -- for the second time this month -- some rear end in a top hat had hit my car as it was parked there and scratched the paint, and they didn't leave a note. I don't even care if they leave their contact info, I just want someone to say, "Hey, I accidentally hit your car as I was pulling in. Sorry about that." The earlier scratch was acquired in the parking lot at work. The car parked to my left scratched the hell out of my car's left side as they pulled out, nearly all down the side of the car, so it's not like the driver didn't notice or anything.  And again, no note of apology. I almost cried when I saw that scratch -- this is the first car I've ever bought new, and I've been taking good care of it inside and out to keep it nice.Just remembered I saved a picture of the scratch on my work computer. (Notice, btw, that I'm parked far enough away from the left edge of my parking space that you can't see the line in the picture. My car was squarely in the center of the space. That rear end in a top hat had no excuse.)  Related to that, another issue: I took my car to the dealership to get an estimate for fixing the scratch. I was quoted $1600. Later that day, I stopped by my dad's house and he got out some wax and the paint sample I got when I bought the car, and within minutes the side of my car looked as good as new (except for some very mild ripples in the metal of the doors, which you wouldn't even notice if I didn't point them out). $1600, huh. Was it because the dealer always overestimates/overcharges, was it because I'm a woman, was it because they could tell I hadn't tried to fix it myself and thus must be a clueless moron, who knows? Would they have billed me at that price and been like, "Man, that was a tough job!  " or would they have been honest and charged me for a few minutes' labor, who knows?
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Jun 18, 2015 13:52
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Rabbit Hill posted:
For a new car, there's a good chance you had comprehensive insurance. They didn't think you would actually pay that much, but figured they could gouge the insurance company.
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Jun 18, 2015 14:39
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When my cellphone carrier lies about my service. If it shows I have 4 bars and LTE connection, why the gently caress is the internet not working?
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Jun 19, 2015 20:15
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Netflix has changed its layout again which I'm finding pretty nice actually. But they've gone and written some stupid twee little synopsis when you mouse-over a movie and they're so annoyingly cheery and cheesy it's literally making me angry.
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Jun 19, 2015 20:52
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A lot of the descriptions for Forensic Files episodes flat-out spoil who committed the crime. It's so annoying because when I'm taping them, I have to click on the description so I can figure out whether I've seen it before. I don't wanna know who did it before I've even started the episode, that's retarded.
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Jun 19, 2015 21:17
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Vitamins posted:Netflix has changed its layout again which I'm finding pretty nice actually. But they've gone and written some stupid twee little synopsis when you mouse-over a movie and they're so annoyingly cheery and cheesy it's literally making me angry. The synopsis is only twee and cheery if the movie is. I've never seen that for action movies or crime dramas, only garbage romcoms.
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Jun 19, 2015 21:41
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I get salty when someone says they can't do a thing for reason x, when its obvious that reason x is not even a good excuse. Just own up to not feeling like it and tell me, I won't mind.
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Jun 19, 2015 23:27
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I had to take my boss in to the shop today so he could pick up a van. I took a longer way than the straight highway, because the exit we needed would have been a full loving four lanes over, where another highway merged. My boss bitched that we took the long way, that the highway would have been faster, and when I told him how bad the merge was, and this is in a part I drive every day, and he never does, he insisted taking the main highway would have been faster. Admit when you're wrong. Or at the very least thank me for helping you, don't bitch when I don't do it your way when it's out of MY way to do at all.
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Jun 19, 2015 23:43
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Sometimes when I'm watching the news or a talk show the guest is cooking something. The host of the show without fail will wear an apron even though they contribute nothing to the cooking. Same when a scientist is doing some experiment and the host wears a labcoat. I'd like them to interview more porn stars and strippers to see if the interviewer will slip into a g-string and pasties. Our just spontaneously put on a condom for safety
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Jun 20, 2015 18:46
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Live recordings of songs that include a full minute of the audience cheering and clapping before and after the song. This bothers me the most when a song like that comes on when I'm listening to Pandora since I don't want to waste a skip on it but I also don't want to sit and listen to a room full of idiots cheering and clapping when I want to listen to music.
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Jun 20, 2015 21:10
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People who change lanes without using a signal into a turn only lane and then put the signal on right before they turn. Thanks for that. Where else were you going to go rear end in a top hat?
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Jun 21, 2015 03:27
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Bippie Mishap posted:People who change lanes without using a signal into a turn only lane and then put the signal on right before they turn. Thanks for that. Where else were you going to go rear end in a top hat? Also people on busy roads who slow down to crawl when they come up to an intersecting street trying to find a specific place. Most phones nowadays actually have a GPS in them, just use that. Another thing: drivers who come to a complete stop before making a turn
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Jun 21, 2015 03:42
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:Live recordings of songs that include a full minute of the audience cheering and clapping before and after the song. This bothers me the most when a song like that comes on when I'm listening to Pandora since I don't want to waste a skip on it but I also don't want to sit and listen to a room full of idiots cheering and clapping when I want to listen to music. Or ones where there's like five minutes of the band talking to the crowd. I'm sure it was super cool if you were there, but it's just pissing me off.
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Jun 21, 2015 03:58
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Sociopastry posted:Or ones where there's like five minutes of the band talking to the crowd. I'm sure it was super cool if you were there, but it's just pissing me off. This too. There's one song that pops up in my Pandora feed that has both the crowd cheering AND the band talking to the crowd for a full minute and a half at the end. The actual music is pretty good so I don't really want to thumbs-down it but I might have to.
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Jun 21, 2015 04:28
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On a related note, when the only available version of a song is a live version. Bonus points if the singer introduces the song in a language you don't speak because the recording is from a concert in their home country, so even if the entire album is in English all the banter between songs is in Polish or something.
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Jun 21, 2015 04:51
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I have my Facebook set to automatically share all my public posts on Twitter, and it really annoys me when I just post a link to something and the text from that link shows up on Twitter as though I'd written it myself. I posted this link on Facebook with no comment or explanation http://i.imgur.com/nDH6dri.gifv and on Twitter it came out as  I just didn't say that, those are not my words.  Aquatic Giraffe posted:Live recordings of songs that include a full minute of the audience cheering and clapping before and after the song. This bothers me the most when a song like that comes on when I'm listening to Pandora since I don't want to waste a skip on it but I also don't want to sit and listen to a room full of idiots cheering and clapping when I want to listen to music.
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Jun 21, 2015 08:36
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Tiggum posted:I haven't used Pandora, is there some limit on how many songs you can skip in a given time? If so, why? Pandora's website posted:Free Pandora accounts permit 6 skips per hour per station, for up to 24 total skips per day across all stations. The daily skip limit helps us prevent having to pay royalties on songs that are not being heard. Can someone help make sense of that second sentence? I'm reading it as "We paid the goddamn royalties so you're gonna listen to the goddamn song!" Is that accurate? So when you're out of skips and a song comes on that you hate, do you just take the headphones out and let it play through and hope the next song isn't terrible?
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Jun 21, 2015 13:39
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When people pop into a thread just to white knight a piece of media. It's just plain aggravating to me.
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Jun 21, 2015 13:55
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The paid version has unlimited skips but it still yells at you if you skip too much. My internet connection is a little shaky on some parts of my commute so it ends up skipping songs on its own and then if I want to skip a song it won't let me. You can thumbs up or thumbs down songs as they come on, and if you thumbs down a song it'll skip it (if you have remaining skips) and never play it again on your station and if you thumbs up it it'll play it more often and also add similar songs to your station. If you give it enough feedback over a long enough period of time you'll rarely have to skip.
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Jun 21, 2015 13:58
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:Live recordings of songs that include a full minute of the audience cheering and clapping before and after the song. This bothers me the most when a song like that comes on when I'm listening to Pandora since I don't want to waste a skip on it but I also don't want to sit and listen to a room full of idiots cheering and clapping when I want to listen to music. On the radio when they play the live version of a song instead of the real version, so you have to constantly hear the audience's off-key screaming of the lyrics instead of the singer. The one off the top of my head is "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton, where he lets the audience "sing" "COCAINE!". It's awful. Moron drivers in cars who swerve outside of the lane to make a turn; i.e. make a wide turn; i.e. this:  You're not in a truck, why the gently caress are you doing this in a VW Beetle???? I swear to god a Beetle did this to me once and I was seriously dumbfounded.
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Jun 21, 2015 18:03
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:The paid version has unlimited skips but it still yells at you if you skip too much. My internet connection is a little shaky on some parts of my commute so it ends up skipping songs on its own and then if I want to skip a song it won't let me. Is there a reason you don't use spotify (or I guess apple music when t comes out)? It's the same price, they have a "radio" function and you can build your own playlists. I tried pandora and the radio part is great but if I want to go listen to a specific song I'd either have to buy it or see if it was on spotify...so I just started using it for both.
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Jun 21, 2015 18:19
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MindlessHavok posted:Is there a reason you don't use spotify (or I guess apple music when t comes out)? It's the same price, they have a "radio" function and you can build your own playlists. I've had my Pandora account since before Spotify was a thing and I've been building my station for at least 5 years now. The thought of starting over is just... ugh.
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Jun 21, 2015 18:30
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Thin Privilege posted:Moron drivers in cars who swerve outside of the lane to make a turn; i.e. make a wide turn; i.e. this: I'm guilty of this. On my drive home there's a right turn from a two-lane street into a side road. The turn is so tight and the road so narrow that to make the turn safely you either have to come to a complete stop and do it in first gear, or do it from the left lane of the two-lane street. When I do it, though, I check super carefully that there are no cars behind me.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:06
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grittyreboot posted:
Related: drivers who slow down to under 45mph on the motorway as they approach a sliproad. I can't overtake them because the traffic in the right lane is going to fast for me to get out from behind this moron and make my escape. So instead, I'm stuck behind them with a giant lorry screaming up on my backside* because Ma and Pa Archer think it's perfectly all right to noodle around on a major highway 30-40 miles an hour under the speed limit/speed of traffic. *And in morning rush hour, I really don't need anyone's rigid grill structure bearing down on my unprotected cargo door.
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Ms Boods posted:Related: drivers who slow down to under 45mph on the motorway as they approach a sliproad. I can't overtake them because the traffic in the right lane is going to fast for me to get out from behind this moron and make my escape. So instead, I'm stuck behind them with a giant lorry screaming up on my backside* because Ma and Pa Archer think it's perfectly all right to noodle around on a major highway 30-40 miles an hour under the speed limit/speed of traffic. Your odd mix of Imperial units and British English liberally sprinkled with Americanisms is confusing the hell out of me.
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Jun 22, 2015 11:02
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Your odd mix of Imperial units and British English liberally sprinkled with Americanisms is confusing the hell out of me. English people use mph for the speed of cars (for some reason). Nothing about that post looked particularly American to me. 
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Jun 22, 2015 12:10
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Thin Privilege posted:On the radio when they play the live version of a song instead of the real version, so you have to constantly hear the audience's off-key screaming of the lyrics instead of the singer. The one off the top of my head is "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton, where he lets the audience "sing" "COCAINE!". It's awful. One of my favorite tweets ever was about these dickholes. "People who swing out to the left before making a right turn must also pump their arms before they sneeze"
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Present posted:I get salty when someone says they can't do a thing for reason x, when its obvious that reason x is not even a good excuse. Just own up to not feeling like it and tell me, I won't mind. The corollary is that I have a friend who simply will not take, "No thanks, don't feel like it." as a valid excuse to not hang out/go to a thing. He'll just keep spamming texts like, "Why not? "You don't have anything else going on." And "it'll be fun!" He doesn't understand that maybe I just want to hang out alone and watch TV or play video games for a night. So sometimes it's easier to just make up an excuse. In fact, right now he's sending out mass texts for his wife's b-day dinner tonight...that he told us about this morning. I'm actually going, but I'm guessing my GF will say no, because she, more often than me, sometimes wants to just chill by herself. So now I'll have to try to make up some weird excuse on her behalf, because if I just say she doesn't want to go, my friend will get the idea she doesn't like him/his wife, when that's not the case. He just chooses lousy days to do things for her schedule and gives little notice.
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Present posted:I get salty when someone says they can't do a thing for reason x, when its obvious that reason x is not even a good excuse. Just own up to not feeling like it and tell me, I won't mind. Ugh yeah, this really gets me. A good friend of mine absolutely loves concocting some huge reasoning for why he can't come hang out or whatever. Just say you're tired/in a bad mood/feeling antisocial, fuuuck.
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Tiggum posted:English people use mph for the speed of cars (for some reason). Nothing about that post looked particularly American to me. I'm 1/2 and 1/2; my Also, driving idiocy transcends national and cultural boundaries; every time I'm on the M3 southbound where it splits into two halves onto the M27, one half towards Portsmouth and the other towards Southampton, some demifuckwit always ALWAYS cuts me off at the last minute to swing across four lanes because he's meant to be going to Soton rather than Portsmouth (and vice versa). It's well signed, and you know these dozy bastards probably travel along this stretch on their daily commute. Soz about the confusion Bertrand Hustle; you have a lovely avatar, by the way.
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Arrath posted:Ugh yeah, this really gets me. A good friend of mine absolutely loves concocting some huge reasoning for why he can't come hang out or whatever. Just say you're tired/in a bad mood/feeling antisocial, fuuuck. An unavoidable obligation or circumstance (gotta wait for my contractor to arrive to fix my toilet) keeps your more persistent friends from responding like this: "I'm tired" -- "Oh come on come out with us just for a little while!" "I'm in a bad mood" -- "This'll definitely cheer you up!" "I'm feeling antisocial" -- "Well you won't be after a few drinks!" I'm not a guy who will make up excuses for everyone all the time--the vast majority of my friends can take "no" for an answer if I'm not feeling up to doing something (rough day at work, how about next time?) and I do the same for them. Seems like everyone's got those two or three friends who will just keep pestering you unless there's a clear-cut way out of it, though.
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Thin Privilege posted:
I should have specified that the incident I was referring to was a guy making a left turn from the left turn lane: A VW beetle, in the left turn lane, making a left turn, in mid-day traffic, on a normal 2 way x 2 way intersection, swung wide to the right in order to make the turn. The wide right turn people suck but at least it's predictable, so I can recover, unlike when this kind of crazy thing happens, which has happened more than just the VW event. I just don't get why you would make a wide LEFT turn unless you're a truck driver and are used to making wide turns in general? Thin Privilege has a new favorite as of 20:15 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Present posted:I get salty when someone says they can't do a thing for reason x, when its obvious that reason x is not even a good excuse. Just own up to not feeling like it and tell me, I won't mind. In my experience this happens most often with people who don't want to repay favors - I've helped people out before just because it's a nice thing to do, whether they asked or not. But some of those people routinely decline or make excuses when I suddenly need help, and that poo poo's infuriating...so I stop doing favors for those people and lob the same excuses back at them. They either take the hint and stop asking, or worse, get all uppity like you just stole their car and murdered their family because you refused to do thing for them. Another one from work: when someone asks for info but won't say what it's for or why. Had a client at work today start asking for paperwork from their agreements with us, licensing, anything else like that, but wouldn't say why. Turns out their company is being bought out by another larger company so they need the papers to hand off. I wouldn't mind this client loving off outright, their main "decision maker" is a poo poo-talking, fake-it-to-make-it phone tough guy that knows dick about IT and always bitched about spending money on anything, even if it was an actual necessity or something critical was broken.
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Ozz81 posted:Another one from work: when someone asks for info but won't say what it's for or why. This sort of thing kills me "Hey, Fai, there's a surprise meeting at 1:00 today. Make sure you come." "I'll be there. Is this about [upcoming event our company is planning]?" "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IT'S ABOUT, YOU NEED TO BE THERE REGARDLESS" Jeez, buddy, I was just curious. Go jump in a lake. Sorry I wanted to know so I could decide what documents I should bring to this meeting so I didn't end up unprepared.
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I hate people who can't answer simple questions, especially when we're texting. I had this conversation with a friend this morning via texts: "So do you want to go out for a drink or just come over and watch a movie?" "Yep, sounds good." Which one sounds good, motherfucker? I gave you a choice between two completely opposite activities, this isn't a yes or no question, goddammit. 
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^ Even worse in any IT support Is your VGA cable plugged into the laptop, or into the dock? YESThis is not a yes or no question, I'm asking WHICH you have the cable plugged into so I can determine where the problem lies
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cyberia posted:I hate people who can't answer simple questions, especially when we're texting. This is why I just ask direct yes or no questions - like "so do you want to go and get a drink?". Giving people options just prolongs the process. 9 times out of 10 they are going to do the "ok sure" thing, or just say "either one is fine, you pick". I can't remember the last time a friend (or family member for that matter) actually made a decision when I presented them with options. This kind of indecisiveness is tremendously irritating with picking a restaurant. My mom and siblings are the worst about this - you ask what kind of food they are in the mood for, and it's always "I dunno" or "anything's fine, you pick". Then once you get there they start complaining about how they can never find anything they like here and on the way back they won't shut up about how bad their meal was. Maybe you should have suggested somewhere else then. I also hate the vague "come here" emails at work (I get one like once a day from my current boss). It's almost always a very quick question that I could have answered faster than the 30 seconds it took me to walk to your office, or they just want me to look at something funny they found on the internet. I don't understand the aversion to just writing down your question or sending me a link. The latter I don't mind so much, except when they send it right after I head out of the office for the day and have to make the 30 minute trip back in just in case it's something important (they normally don't respond if I send an email asking if it's important). Why do I have to be in front of you to see/answer this?
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Murphy Brownback posted:This kind of indecisiveness is tremendously irritating with picking a restaurant. My mom and siblings are the worst about this - you ask what kind of food they are in the mood for, and it's always "I dunno" or "anything's fine, you pick". Then once you get there they start complaining about how they can never find anything they like here and on the way back they won't shut up about how bad their meal was. Maybe you should have suggested somewhere else then. This is why I want to open a bar and grill called "I Don't Know". The commercials would be easy--"Where you wanna go? I Don't Know!"
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