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<p>This is another pet peeve of mine. I saw online today that this lady is now suing somebody. Please somebody explain why she is suing for HER stupidity?</p>
<p>Hops_scout, that is a good example of MY pet peeve, people NOT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS.</p>
<p>that, and people clipping their nails at the office.</p>
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She isn’t suing because she fell in the fountain. She is suing because the mall security released the video of her on youtube where it went viral, ultimately causing her great embarrassment. Personally I think she should take advantage of her fame by writing a book like everyone else does - how about “Three Texts in a Fountain” or “Mall Fountain Chronicles”?</p>
<p>On topic - DD is doing this extremely peeving thing lately - whenever I say anything she thinks is dubious (pretty much anything I say) she mutters “yeah, whatever”, or “yeah, right”, or something to that effect.</p>
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<p>Thing is nobody would care who it was or probably not even know until she made an issue of it.</p>
<p>Well, she’s now got more hassles. Evidently she’s wanted for outstanding bench warrants of $7500 and other things. She definitely has caused herself more grief than if she was quiet and no one knew who she was. Maybe this is a case of “What goes around comes around?” It is troubling that NO ONE offered to help or insure that she was unhurt and she was a mall employee, according to reports.</p>
<p>She became aware of the video when someone she knew recognized her on tv and told her about it. Since then numerous people she knows have mentioned it to her.</p>
<p>Drivers at either end of the age spectrum who 1) Don’t know whose turn it is at the stop sign, 2) Don’t know how to negotiate a traffic circle, 3) Have no idea what the speed limit is, 4) Don’t know what the colors of the stop lights mean, 5) Can’t stay in their lane and 6) Don’t know that skinny little lever on the left side of the steering column turns on and off the turn signal.</p>
<p>Skeets, I had to laugh at your traffic circle comment. I was driving with my dad a few months ago and we got to a traffic circle and he started giving me step by step instructions on how to navigate it. I’ve done a million traffic circles before and I told him this and he was like “oh, that was the first one I’ve ever came across.” I thought it was really funny. They’re really not that common in most places.</p>
<p>OH, new one I forgot about, until today, pushing a grocery cart on a snow-covered parking lot!</p>
<p>I went back to my home town for Christmas and was driving along a road where they recently (within the last 5 years) installed a traffic circle. I wasn’t prepared for it and drove right through the middle of the circle, much to the delight of our teenaged sons in the back seat.</p>
<p>OMG LOL, lurkerdad!!!</p>
<p>The thing that irks me the most is those folks who are “EXPERTS” about everything and proceed to give very bad (& sometimes dangerous) advice about things they obviously know very little or nothing. Really scary because some folks actually believe them – at least the 1st time. Know several of these folks.</p>
<p>HImom - that describes my former boss. No medical training whatsoever, just a high school diploma. But if anyone was sick, she immediately wanted to know their symptoms, then told them what to do about it. She was a total believer in Airborne. This from a woman who ignored her own diabetes and ate whatever she wanted, and smoked.</p>
<p>People who buy big honkin’ SUVs or trucks and drive like wimps in the snow. Why did they buy a Tundra if they were still going to drive 5 miles an hour because there is snow on the road?</p>
<p>Yes, I know folks who will give medical advice to docs & other healthcare pros as well as legal advice to attorneys, tho they have NO medical or legal training at all and are often dead WRONG (dangerously so). Somehow they never get that people totally disregard their “advice,” or find it outrageous.</p>