Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Moving this over:

[QUOTE=Chico23231;1337524]A quick grinding gears with hotels…man fuck all the taxes and fees with the per day rates[/QUOTE]

I won't blame them for the taxes part. Because cities fuck out of towners with ridiculous added taxes to pay for stuff like buses that no one uses. Hotels have no power over local governments screwing people.

But the fees, parking, etc., is all a way to trick us into thinking the nightly price is cheaper than what we're really paying.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Companies that won't pay Americans to be their customer service reps and the people they hire in another country give you the wrong fucking information twice. And it makes your life way more difficult than it needed to be.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

Dogs with do not pet signs on them. Don't care if it's a drug sniffing dog at an airport. It's neither fair to the dog or myself that I can't pet the pooch.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

People at the grocery store with slippers and pajama bottoms on, like seriously how hard is it to put on a pair of real shoes and pants??

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=MTK;1339849]People at the grocery store with slippers and pajama bottoms on, like seriously how hard is it to put on a pair of real shoes and pants??[/quote]

It’s gross and I see it way too often

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[quote=MTK;1339849]People at the grocery store with slippers and pajama bottoms on, like seriously how hard is it to put on a pair of real shoes and pants??[/quote]

If I can add to this, being at the grocery store and people with Bluetooth on their phones talking to someone like they are standing right there next to them., with no filters MF this and MF that. Seriously I don't want to hear this crap!

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[quote=Giantone;1339852]If I can add to this, being at the grocery store and people with Bluetooth on their phones talking to someone like they are standing right there next to them., with no filters MF this and MF that. Seriously I don't want to hear this crap![/quote]

or the folks that walk around with facetime on and not even talking just have the facetime going; fucking weird

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The best thing for society would be a computer virus to eliminate all cells phones and we just get back to landlines.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Chico23231;1339855]The best thing for society would be a computer virus to eliminate all cells phones and we just get back to landlines.[/quote]

I feel like those were the glory days. I'm so thankful smart phones weren't around when I was in college.

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I tell my kids how when I was a teen going to HFStival or some other big concert you would have to make a game plan for time and meeting location when you were leaving. If the meet up was 10 and you were late you had to figure your own ride home. No cells to to follow location on snapchat. They think it sounds dystopian.

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In 50 years, there will be technology that people will be shocked that we lived without. Change is inevitable.

It makes life more convenient at times, but definitely doesn't make us better people.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1339858]I tell my kids how when I was a teen going to HFStival or some other big concert you would have to make a game plan for time and meeting location when you were leaving. If the meet up was 10 and you were late you had to figure your own ride home. No cells to to follow location on snapchat. They think it sounds dystopian.[/quote]

lol it sounds pretty foreign even to myself now, no GPS to get there, hell even before the days of Mapquest, and no texting to ask hey where are you. Yet somehow we all managed.

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1339860]In 50 years, there will be technology that people will be shocked that we lived without. Change is inevitable.

It makes life more convenient at times, but definitely doesn't make us better people.[/quote]

It would be wild to take a peak at life let's say 200 years from now. Think about how quickly we've gone from riding horses and living by candlelight to electric cars and everyone walking around with a computer in their pocket. Pretty sure in the future we'll be living in a simulated world, if we aren't already.

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[quote=MTK;1339862]lol it sounds pretty foreign even to myself now, no GPS to get there, hell even before the days of Mapquest, and no texting to ask hey where are you. Yet somehow we all managed.[/quote]

I remember being at a show not being able to find my friends and going up to groups of kids my age asking if they were headed to Maryland or Virginia. If they were headed in right direction I'd bum a ride. It was always nerve racking when it was getting late and the crowds were thinning and I still didn't have a ride. Some of the best stories in my teen early twenty years involved these adventures.

You would never tell your parents you were left behind because you were late because that was all on you. Now parents would be made that their kid was left behind if they were late getting to the meet up.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=MTK;1339862]lol it sounds pretty foreign even to myself now, no GPS to get there, hell even before the days of Mapquest, and no texting to ask hey where are you. Yet somehow we all managed.[/quote]

I remember the 1st time I got a text message. I was in class at junior college. I didn't even know what a text message was. And I didn't know they cost 10 cents each either. That didn't go over well with my dad.