H has a 2013 or 2014 Corolla with a fancy radio/phone automatic attachment thingy with a screen and does it work? It’s haunted!
I get in the car this morning and try to set it to my cell phone so I can listen to music while I drive and there’s no response. None. H is behind me because we’re dropping off the other car for service and while stopped at a light, I start getting bits of what HE is listening to on HIS phone in the car behind me! So then, finally, the system responds so I can change to my phone, phew…
On the way home, H wants to sleep since he had to work the night shift. Fine. I have Waze on with Shaquille O’Neal’s voice and H asks me to turn the music off so I do. And then, every single time Shaq says “turn right” the music comes back on! I hit pause and then have to hit pause again. If Shaq is saying several things, it won’t pause until he’s done - and I have to hit pause again. This is the same system that starts playing music as soon as you start the car, like it or not! And it always starts with the first song in your list of songs alphabetically which isn’t even one of my songs but one of the kids’ from back when we all shared an Apple account. No I don’t want to hear Vampire Weekend every time I start the car!
Just another way technology does what the hell it wants. I can’t wait until this system gets “old” and starts really going on the fritz!
I hate when cashiers give me my change back… putting bills on the bottom, a pile of change on top and then try to put the receipt on top of that. Why not just put the change in my hand first and then the bills - at least?
Another car peeve - considering I know next to nothing about car mechanics I generally take mine to the dealership to be fixed. Why can’t Honda dealerships share their service records? Or keep them in a central database that can be accessed by VIN?
So when I hear my van needs crank shaft, blah blah, pulley warped, blah blah, timing belt tensioner, blah blah, - I hear TIMING BELT - every car gets a new timing belt just after 100,000 miles so shouldn’t that still be covered? A few phone calls, a dredged up service record from a different state, and voila, my bill goes from $1600 to $700.
So now I’m happy about only spending $700 for a car repair!
I have some TV pet peeves. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes - I cannot listen to that man for more than 30 seconds without getting a massive headache. He never stops talking. His guests just might as well fade into the woodwork as they never get a word in edgewise.
Then that new Gain commercial where that ridiculous women starts dancing every time she smells her pink sweater. She is just so weird.
Several couples will be going out to dinner this weekend. The one friend who is the main offender will be there. I will let you know what she does…haha.
My pet peeve is sitting in a long left turn lane and another car pulls up on the right, then puts on their blinker to be let over. Most of the time it’s not because they just realized they need to get over to turn, they just don’t feel the need to wait .
My patients with breathing difficulties who take their oxygen off to go outside and smoke , or even worse, the ones who don’t take their oxygen and smoke anyway.
" No I don’t want to hear Vampire Weekend every time I start the car! "
@ greenwich
Let me guess…It’s A Punk ?
I have that as the first song in my library and I have grown to despise that song for the very reason you are peeving on.
I have blue tooth option as well as iPod plug in to recognize my music. If I plug my phone in before starting the car and make sure my iTunes is on my playlist rather than jumping automatically to alphabetic listing from my library , I can listen to the music I actually want to hear
My husband suggested I delete A Punk, but then I will just hate the next song
Katie Couric’s voice goes right through my head. The drawn out “een” for “ing” drives me insane. I don’t know if it’s a Midwest thing, or what, but I notice it with some other celebrities, but not nearly to the extreme, nails-on-chalkboard extent of Katie Couric.
Siblings who refuse to get medical insurance, and, when faced with life-threatening illness, complain about their medical care (and refuse to get what coverage is available), preferring to be treated as indigent. And in one case, the sib continues the smoking and drinking that feeds the stage 4b that’s already raging. Selfish beyond words.
Being on hold with the IRS for 70+ minutes only to have the system state “The IRS offices are now closed, please call back during normal business hours”. Hey guys…it’s a new world…time to go 24/7 like every other institution that is reliant on a customers $$… Oh wait, private institutions can’t simply attach your bank account if they wish to ‘settle’ the issue.
Recently had a huge ethical dilemma with a home visit patient who frequently smoked while either wearing the cannula or “tossing it to the side.” The dilemma was that the patient lived on the bottom floor of a multi-level senior adult community building. Total fire hazard!
In the end I had to call APS so they could involve the fire department. It’s ok if you don’t care about your own safety. It is not ok to take down 300 people in your apartment building with you!
