It’s been a while since I’ve vented about driving around LA. A few weeks ago on my way to work, I was beeping so much that my horn gave out, mid-beep. So, it seems like it’s time to exercise a different outlet for that frustration. LA traffic sucks. I love when people from other cities [...]
Archive for the ‘Pet Peeve of the Day’ Category
Pet Peeve of the Day: Aggressive Right-on-Red Turners
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Pet Peeve of the Day: SoCal Traffic
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday morning I was headed to a baby shower that took place in Costa Mesa, leaving from my apartment which is just about in the center of Los Angeles. The shower began at 11 AM. According to Google Maps, the drive should take about 54 minutes. Knowing what I know about traffic around these parts, [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: Staying Through the End Credits
Posted in Movies, Pet Peeve of the Day, tagged Entertainment, Iron Man 2, Kevin & Bean, Movies, Ralph Garmin, The Hurt Locker on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This morning on the Kevin & Bean Show in Ralph Garmin’s “Movie Beat” segment, he mentioned that movie-goers should sit through the credits of Iron Man 2 because there is bonus footage after the credits are done rolling. Nothing pisses me off more than this ploy. First, because of my general feeling that movies today [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: Use Your Horn!
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing bugs me more than seeing a total clusterf* of traffic caused by some fool when no one is beeping their horn. If you are driving like an idiot or causing other people strife because you don’t know what you’re doing, then you deserve to be startled by someone else’s horn. I’ve been beeped at [...]
Enough with the nicknamery already
Posted in MFH a.k.a. Mike, Pet Peeve of the Day on April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Back in the late ’90′s when the Yankees and Padres were swapping Jim Leyritz back and forth, he arrived in San Diego once and promptly informed Peter Gammons that the guys had taken to calling him “The King”. Gammons, in doing his due diligence, asked one of the Padres if this was true only to [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: Various Gym Annoyances
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As a fairly consistent gym-goer, I have developed a list of things that other people do at the gym that bug me. You may ask, “Don’t you have something better to do while working out than pay attention to what other people are doing and get annoyed?,” to which I would reply, “No, not really.” [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: Don’t Make Me Miss the Light Because You Drive Like a Jerk
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many of my pet peeves have to do with driving, as you may have noticed. Perhaps because I live in a city where road rage will get you killed, I have chosen to vent here. I have fallen victim to the following scenario at least twice in the past week. I was behind someone driving [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: Please Stop Texting Behind the Wheel, I Don’t Want To Die
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day, tagged Automotive, Car & Driver, Entertainment, Technology, Texting While Driving, Today on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seeing people text while driving freaks me out. In an earlier post, I mentioned a segment I saw on TV demonstrating that texting while driving is actually more dangerous than driving drunk. Well, it was on the Today show, and they showed an experiment by an editor from Car & Driver magazine. They outfitted a car with [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: Stop Hogging the Right Lane
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on July 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not long ago I read an article about people’s biggest driving pet peeves. One of the big ones was people who don’t know how to merge when getting on the freeway. As we all learned in driving school, it is the merging car’s responsibility to enter the flow of traffic without killing anyone or causing [...]
Pet Peeve of the Day: It’s Gum, Not Cud
Posted in Pet Peeve of the Day on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As an incessant gum chewer (there are always several packs of Orbit on hand in my desk drawers), I have never understood people who chew gum with their mouths hanging open. It annoys the hell out of me. I don’t want to hear you chomping on your gum! And I don’t need to see it in [...]
