OMG.  I want even get started.  It will ruin my morning.  The Majority of you know how I feel about appropriate dress and grooming.

 

I can't go there.  I wont. 

 

Thats all!

... but I knew you would. You just can't help yourself ...

 

You own only five pairs of shoes?  five? 

 

Two years with only one pair of shoes?

 

I think I'm going to faint.

and ...

 

Net 7 pairs of shoes?  You and Keith are as bad a Punch! Let us all join hands and say a prayer!

and ...

 

Never assume that.  Especially if you're meeting someone like me.  It's always better to know your audience / event. 

 

I honestly dont see anything wrong with a sweat suit, based on what you're doing and where you're going.  I've gone power shopping in sweats and a matching hoodie.

 

I can't stand going to an airport and seeing people in PJs.  I just look down nose so hard at them.  They should be seated in the cargo hold instead of coach!

and ...

 

 

I wear sweats and I assure you I do not look sloppy or nasty.

and ...

 

Yep!  Please note, the price of the item is secondary to the quality and "timelessness" of the item.  As there is a time and a place along with the change in society.  Today were a more relaxed society in certain sectors.  I for one know what is and is not appropriate. 

 

If I'm going to the park with Mr. Fussy Pants, and I put on a sweatsuit, I'm appropriate.  If I'm power shopping up and down Madison Ave., I put on a sweatsuit because I'll be changing in and out of clothes, I'm appropriate. If I'm going to the White House and I wear flip-flops, I'm not appropriate!  Men wearing hats indoors at any time, to me, you are an uncivilized moron. 

 

Comparing me wearing a sweatsuit to a black and white movie doesn't make sense.  If you give me an era/decade, then we can discuss.  Yet we would have to break that down into clothing options then vs. today.  Casual, ready to wear, work attire, swim wear, etc.

and ...

 

Yeah but what kind (brand and make) of sweat pants were they?

and ...

 

Trust me dear, I've seen a lot worse.  I'm sure Andre, Joe and Simon will agree with me.

 

As my mother always says, "Money doesn't equate to class or proper etiquette!"

 

If I put on a sweat suit, best believe it's fierce!

and ...

 

 

... and I'm sure we've not seen the last of "... won't go there ..."

 

Vader Chokes Officer - I find your lack of faith disturbing

What grinds my gears......

 

Loud ass colored people who barge in the house like a herd of elephants right after I get Mr. Fussy Pants to sleep!

 

UGH.

 

What grinds my gears......

 

Loud ass colored people who barge in the house like a herd of elephants right after I get Mr. Fussy Pants to sleep!

 

UGH.

 

Just loud ass people period! I swear one day there was a lady walking down the sidewalk having the world's loudest phone conversation. I'm not even sure the phone was turned on, she may have just been yelling loud enough for the other person to hear several blocks away. It wasn't an angry conversation, just insanely loud. Loud as in I was sitting in the back bedroom of my house with the windows closed and the AC running in the window and I could still hear what she was saying. The worst part, she had children in tow, and I'm sure they are going to grow up with zero ability to control their volume.

 

Additionally, its 2011. I know you all have a cell phone. There is no need to pull up in front of someone's house and honk, especially at night.

Additionally, its 2011. I know you all have a cell phone. There is no need to pull up in front of someone's house and honk, especially at night.

 

I hate the excessive horn honking. I live a few houses down from an apartment complex, so I routinely hear horns blaring. The cabbies are the worst though! Several times a week in the morning, there's a cab driver who will lay on the horn for about 3-5 seconds when picking up one of his customers. It is beyond annoying, especially on days when I get to sleep in.

What grinds my gears......

 

Loud ass colored people who barge in the house like a herd of elephants right after I get Mr. Fussy Pants to sleep!

 

UGH.

 

Just loud ass people period! I swear one day there was a lady walking down the sidewalk having the world's loudest phone conversation. I'm not even sure the phone was turned on, she may have just been yelling loud enough for the other person to hear several blocks away. It wasn't an angry conversation, just insanely loud. Loud as in I was sitting in the back bedroom of my house with the windows closed and the AC running in the window and I could still hear what she was saying. The worst part, she had children in tow, and I'm sure they are going to grow up with zero ability to control their volume.

 

Additionally, its 2011. I know you all have a cell phone. There is no need to pull up in front of someone's house and honk, especially at night.

 

I just said that because I was aggravated my nephew came and woke up Mr. Fussy Pants, right after I got him to fall asleep.

Additionally, its 2011. I know you all have a cell phone. There is no need to pull up in front of someone's house and honk, especially at night.

 

I hate the excessive horn honking. I live a few houses down from an apartment complex, so I routinely hear horns blaring. The cabbies are the worst though! Several times a week in the morning, there's a cab driver who will lay on the horn for about 3-5 seconds when picking up one of his customers. It is beyond annoying, especially on days when I get to sleep in.

 

That is ridiculous.  Nobody should be honking the horn.  Its tacky and show you have no manners or home training.

 

Picture it...Cleveland 1988...my cousin was waiting for a guy to pick her up.  He gets to her house and blows the horn.  she doesn't come out.  he continues to blow, the after a bout 10 min finally gets out the car to ring the door bell, only to be met by my uncle who tells him my cousin isn't going out with anyone who has, "no damn common sense" and slams the door in his face.

 

Just loud ass people period! I swear one day there was a lady walking down the sidewalk having the world's loudest phone conversation. I'm not even sure the phone was turned on, she may have just been yelling loud enough for the other person to hear several blocks away.

 

Cell phones and Bluetooths are liberation for people who talk to themselves. Nobody thinks they're crazy any more when there's some tech device stuck to their ear.

 

Picture it...Cleveland 1988...my cousin was waiting for a guy to pick her up.  He gets to her house and blows the horn.  she doesn't come out.  he continues to blow, the after a bout 10 min finally gets out the car to ring the door bell, only to be met by my uncle who tells him my cousin isn't going out with anyone who has, "no damn common sense" and slams the door in his face.

 

Good for him! I hate lazy people who substitute a car horn for a door bell. Hate them.

What grinds my gears......

 

Loud ass colored people who barge in the house like a herd of elephants right after I get Mr. Fussy Pants to sleep!

 

UGH.

 

 

LOL, I had this image of you finally putting the baby to sleep, and suddenly the Fly Girls and MC Hammer's back up dancers just bust into the nursery and start doing the running man.

What grinds my gears......

 

Loud ass colored people who barge in the house like a herd of elephants right after I get Mr. Fussy Pants to sleep!

 

UGH.

 

 

LOL, I had this image of you finally putting the baby to sleep, and suddenly the Fly Girls and MC Hammer's back up dancers just bust into the nursery and start doing the running man.

 

LOL.  The baby fell asleep and I was dosing, when he just came in and started talking loudly, he said he "thought" he was up?  I looked at him like he was crazy.  It's late, the baby should have already been in bed.  but we both fell asleep on the sofa.

My pet peeve this week is this damn Brazilian volleyball team that has beaten us two weeks in a row.  Id like to break all their knee caps!

Regarding appropriate level of dress, I always assume that Business Casual will be appropriate for everything.

 

Never assume that.  Especially if you're meeting someone like me.

 

That's what I keep my sweatpants around for! :)

Regarding appropriate level of dress, I always assume that Business Casual will be appropriate for everything.

 

Never assume that.  Especially if you're meeting someone like me.

 

That's what I keep my sweatpants around for! :)

 

^ It looks like she's trying to sneak into the house after staying out past her curfew.

 

I'd like you to mix up some other Meryl Streep pictures in your collection. Preferably something from 'A Cry in the Dark', or maybe 'The River Wild'.

^ It looks like she's trying to sneak into the house after staying out past her curfew.

 

I'd like you to mix up some other Meryl Streep pictures in your collection. Preferably something from 'A Cry in the Dark', or maybe 'The River Wild'.

 

Oh.... now you're trying to be my creative director!

.....to Hell with you Sir.

^"That gun doesn't even hold that many rounds!"

People who have to point out every single little inconsistency or blooper in movies such as when a persons hair looks different in two different shots.

Oh, so you have beef with me? :P

People that are too timid/shy/stupid/clueless or whatever to take a divider and empty their small basket of groceries on the checkout belt after the person in front of them while I'm behind them with a cartload of stuff to unload.

People that are too timid/shy/stupid/clueless or whatever to take a divider and empty their small basket of groceries on the checkout belt after the person in front of them while I'm behind them with a cartload of stuff to unload.

Oh, so you have a beef with me? :P

Oh we know you send thing 1 and thing 2 to do your grocery shopping, you probably haven't set foot in one since 1990. You would probably be like George Bush Sr. amazed at the barcode reader if you didn't see them at Saks....

 

(ducks for cover)

Oh we know you send thing 1 and thing 2 to do your grocery shopping, you probably haven't set foot in one since 1990. You would probably be like George Bush Sr. amazed at the barcode reader if you didn't see them at Saks....

 

(ducks for cover)

 

ROFLMAO!  Thing 1 or 2 don't grocery shop for me.  That my nephews responsibility!  Seriously, I grocery shop, I'm just not good at it.

How hard can it be? Just go to the Goya isle and buy one of everything...I jest, I jest..

 

I get flack from wife, because I will make a list with her of what to get when I go, and then I get exactly that...she on the other hand considers the list to be merely a strawman for impulse buying.

People who have to point out every single little inconsistency or blooper in movies such as when a persons hair looks different in two different shots.

 

Cocktails!!.... Tom Cruise's hair goes from long to short to long quite blatantly in a few scenes.

Sopranos episode.  Tony eating pasta and some green vegetable.  Green starts out on left side of plate, next scene on the right, then back to left!

How hard can it be? Just go to the Goya isle and buy one of everything...I jest, I jest..

 

I get flack from wife, because I will make a list with her of what to get when I go, and then I get exactly that...she on the other hand considers the list to be merely a strawman for impulse buying.

 

See that's my problem.  We use Fresh Direct for the majority of food, but I still need to grocery shop for small items.  I prepare a list but when I get to the grocery store, items on the shelves somehow magically appear in my cart. 

 

Two weeks ago, I went to the GS for a few items and I left with $85 of "stuff".

My favorites are quick cutting scenes involving characters wearing eyeglasses.  If they'd just keep the damn things on and not try to use them dramatically there'd never be a problem but that just never happens when you're playing a character that wears glasses.

Parents dropping their kids off at a school near my house. There's no parking to speak of so they pull up, throw on their flashers and sit while their 6 year old clambers out of their SUV. Then they wait for the kid to get into the building.

 

This morning a lady did this (day care I guess) and then needed to turn left from the right lane onto the adjacent street.

 

Whatever happened to the days of stunt doubles who looked nothing like the character they are standing in for?..... like the scene in Beverly Hills Cop when Axel Foley throws Victor Maitlin's bodyguard into the buffet, the stunt double for Eddie Murphy looked like Richard Pryor on steriod, but nothing like Murphy.

Not as bad as when Peter Criss didn't show up to one day of filming Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park. They just dressed up a black guy like him and still filmed scenes. It was really obvious.

 

edit: there are conflicting reports on this, but there also may have been a point in the movie where Ace Frehley was also played by a black guy. A buddy of mine says he's seen Ace in that situation, but I've only seen Peter.

When people exercise their ability to get free stuff (or services) when they have no need or intention of using that stuff.

That's hoarder behavior.

Employers who don't understand FMLA leave, dr's appointments, and things like that.  Does anyone on the board have any experience in employment law?

That's hoarder behavior.

 

Hey, I'm a hoarder!  Nothing wrong with a bit of hoarder behavior!

Oh we know you send thing 1 and thing 2 to do your grocery shopping, you probably haven't set foot in one since 1990. You would probably be like George Bush Sr. amazed at the barcode reader if you didn't see them at Saks....

 

(ducks for cover)

 

ROFLMAO!  Thing 1 or 2 don't grocery shop for me.  That my nephews responsibility!  Seriously, I grocery shop, I'm just not good at it.

 

Grocery shop????  Why??  That's why god created restaurants

My Pet Peeve is when you call someone, listen to their phone ring 5 times, listen to their voicemail message, leave a message just to have them call back 10 minutes later to say they missed my call.  Then you say, yeah, did you get my message.  No, I just saw I missed your call.  Then I have to explain all over again.  This seriously is something that annoys the heck out of me. 

I like to call the person  back, then conference in my voice mail so we can both listen to the message.

I liked the days when I simply had a receptionist who wrote the message on a piece of paper and put it in my in box.  That way I could always blame the receptionist and say I never got your message when I did not feel like responding ("you know it is hard to find good help...what are we to do") :-D Oh the good old days.

My best friend does this and I started doing it back to him and now he generally doesn't leave messages anymore.

Oh we know you send thing 1 and thing 2 to do your grocery shopping, you probably haven't set foot in one since 1990. You would probably be like George Bush Sr. amazed at the barcode reader if you didn't see them at Saks....

 

(ducks for cover)

 

ROFLMAO!  Thing 1 or 2 don't grocery shop for me.  That my nephews responsibility!  Seriously, I grocery shop, I'm just not good at it.

 

Grocery shop????  Why??  That's why god created restaurants

 

I think you're the only person on this board who can out-snob MTS. You two should hook up.

 

My Pet Peeve is when you call someone, listen to their phone ring 5 times, listen to their voicemail message, leave a message just to have them call back 10 minutes later to say they missed my call.  Then you say, yeah, did you get my message.  No, I just saw I missed your call.  Then I have to explain all over again.  This seriously is something that annoys the heck out of me. 

 

I think it's a generational thing. People my age (~30) and younger are accustomed to caller ID to the extent that voice messages are not relevant. And if you can get what you want across in a voice message, you might as well text anyway.

 

Also, you have to waste precious minutes on your phone plan to listen to voicemail. If you're going to call the person back anyway, you might as well save a minute or two and jump straight to the call.

After 30+ years, my dad still feels the need to identify himself to me everytime he calls me on the phone..... "hey, it's Dad"..... every frickin time..... yeah, I think I have your voice memorized by now not to mention there was this neat little invention about a decade or so ago calle caller-ID.

Oh we know you send thing 1 and thing 2 to do your grocery shopping, you probably haven't set foot in one since 1990. You would probably be like George Bush Sr. amazed at the barcode reader if you didn't see them at Saks....

 

(ducks for cover)

 

ROFLMAO!  Thing 1 or 2 don't grocery shop for me.  That my nephews responsibility!  Seriously, I grocery shop, I'm just not good at it.

 

I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I read this.  This is why I love UO! 

 

Grocery shopping is enjoyable to me.  In my neighborhood there is a great, albeit expensive, store, where the clerks and deli people know the customers by name, smile and are genuinely nice.  The store even gives me a ride home--the entire 2 1/2 blocks--if I am too tired to trudge up the hill.  This will all change soon when I relocate.  Arghhhhhhhhhh.

 

I HATE MOVING.  Any aspect of moving including: packing, sorting, schlepping boxes from the store, deciding what to throw out, what to give away, touching up the paint on the walls, filing the zillion nail holes, letting prospective buyers look through the place and comment on my stuff, etc.  Soon it will be over--breath deeply, count backward from 100.

I'm pissed someone left their garbage in the stairwell.  I sometimes run the 22 floors of stairs of my building to get some exercise.  It's kind of winding staircase, so when I came down I slipped some thin pieces of packaging and fell on my ass on the concrete steps.  I was lucky to pull up so I didn't hit my head.  There's a garbage chute right there, and apparently they chose to just leave it there because the cardboard didn't fit. 

 

The resident was dumb enough to have their name on one of the box labels so I'm going to leave a note in the management office.  The penalty is a $100 fine added to your rent for leaving garbage in the stairs.

 

I don't care if you are in a wheelchair, pregnant, or 95 years old.  Don't leave garbage in the stairwell.  Either find someone to do it for you, leave it in your apartment, or leave the building for a place that doesn't have stairs or halls where you can put your unwanted sh!t

 

 

The resident was dumb enough to have their name on one of the box labels so I'm going to leave a note in the management office.  The penalty is a $100 fine added to your rent for leaving garbage in the stairs.

 

LOVE IT!

I HATE MOVING.  Any aspect of moving including: packing, sorting, schlepping boxes from the store, deciding what to throw out, what to give away, touching up the paint on the walls, filing the zillion nail holes, letting prospective buyers look through the place and comment on my stuff, etc.  Soon it will be over--breath deeply, count backward from 100.

 

I just finished moving to a loft that is on the 3rd and 4th floor of a walkup.  The unit has central AC, but the stairwell did not.  The heat index has been over 100+ in Cincy for what seems like the past month, which only added to the usual pain.  The king size mattress was the hardest thing to deal with, weighs a ton and just flops around if you try to stand it on end.

 

My girlfriend just bought a house and is moving in the coming weeks.  I’ve been taking care of patching/painting, but as for the rest of the stuff, I told her to hire some movers.

 

I HATE MOVING.  Any aspect of moving including: packing, sorting, schlepping boxes from the store, deciding what to throw out, what to give away, touching up the paint on the walls, filing the zillion nail holes, letting prospective buyers look through the place and comment on my stuff, etc.  Soon it will be over--breath deeply, count backward from 100.

 

I just finished moving to a loft that is on the 3rd and 4th floor of a walkup.  The unit has central AC, but the stairwell did not.  The heat index has been over 100+ in Cincy for what seems like the past month, which only added to the usual pain.  The king size mattress was the hardest thing to deal with, weighs a ton and just flops around if you try to stand it on end.

 

That sounds exactly like my old place; it's not right off Short Vine is it?

Oh we know you send thing 1 and thing 2 to do your grocery shopping, you probably haven't set foot in one since 1990. You would probably be like George Bush Sr. amazed at the barcode reader if you didn't see them at Saks....

 

(ducks for cover)

 

ROFLMAO!  Thing 1 or 2 don't grocery shop for me.  That my nephews responsibility!  Seriously, I grocery shop, I'm just not good at it.

 

Grocery shop? :?  Why??  That's why god created restaurants

 

I know right?  Granted I have been in a "cooking" mood lately.  Although my Ex-favorite, ungrateful nephew accused me of trying to kill him with my cooking.

 

After 30+ years, my dad still feels the need to identify himself to me everytime he calls me on the phone..... "hey, it's Dad"..... every frickin time..... yeah, I think I have your voice memorized by now not to mention there was this neat little invention about a decade or so ago calle caller-ID.

 

I think its our parents generation.  My mother starts every message with, "Skippy, it's your mother....then the message"

I think you're the only person on this board who can out-snob MTS. You two should hook up.

 

 

Snob?  I Sir (and I use that term loosely) am not a snob!

I'm pissed someone left their garbage in the stairwell.  I sometimes run the 22 floors of stairs of my building to get some exercise.  It's kind of winding staircase, so when I came down I slipped some thin pieces of packaging and fell on my ass on the concrete steps.  I was lucky to pull up so I didn't hit my head.  There's a garbage chute right there, and apparently they chose to just leave it there because the cardboard didn't fit. 

 

The resident was dumb enough to have their name on one of the box labels so I'm going to leave a note in the management office.  The penalty is a $100 fine added to your rent for leaving garbage in the stairs.

 

I don't care if you are in a wheelchair, pregnant, or 95 years old.  Don't leave garbage in the stairwell.  Either find someone to do it for you, leave it in your apartment, or leave the building for a place that doesn't have stairs or halls where you can put your unwanted sh!t

 

 

 

I hope you took video/pictures to prove it!

I'm pissed someone left their garbage in the stairwell.  I sometimes run the 22 floors of stairs of my building to get some exercise.  It's kind of winding staircase, so when I came down I slipped some thin pieces of packaging and fell on my ass on the concrete steps.  I was lucky to pull up so I didn't hit my head.  There's a garbage chute right there, and apparently they chose to just leave it there because the cardboard didn't fit. 

 

The resident was dumb enough to have their name on one of the box labels so I'm going to leave a note in the management office.  The penalty is a $100 fine added to your rent for leaving garbage in the stairs.

 

I don't care if you are in a wheelchair, pregnant, or 95 years old.  Don't leave garbage in the stairwell.  Either find someone to do it for you, leave it in your apartment, or leave the building for a place that doesn't have stairs or halls where you can put your unwanted sh!t

 

 

 

I hope you took video/pictures to prove it!

 

I just pulled the label off the box.  Actually our building resolve issues based on your honest word.  They don't need photos or proof.  If the resident tries to dispute it and lie, which they almost never do, we have cameras everywhere they can go back and review.  And trust me, the woman that runs our management office.....YOU NEVER give her bullsh!t. 

 

I just pulled the label off the box.  Actually our building resolve issues based on your honest word.  They don't need photos or proof.  If the resident tries to dispute it and lie, which they almost never do, we have cameras everywhere they can go back and review.  And trust me, the woman that runs our management office.....YOU NEVER give her bullsh!t. 

 

Sounds like my kind of girl!