What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[steve tym]

Rotaries are great, except too many people don't know how to use them.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Rotaries are great...

Even if your vehicle combination doesn't fit between the curbs?

 

[kozal01]

They are lying when they say you never have to stop at rotaries (in the video). Most of the rotaries around here are one lane and if there is a car (or a whole bunch of cars) in the rotary, you have to stop and wait for them to clear, just like an intersection (unless you want to take a chance on getting hit).

I am happy for the people that like them, because they probably aren't going to stop building them anytime soon....

Not sure if he was lying intentionally but it is true that you have to stop occasionally but its usually rare and usually not for very long. They are installing more and more of them around here and in every single case it has improved traffic flow. This is one thing that Europe has done right that Im glad we are adopting here.

 

[kozal01]

Even if your vehicle combination doesn't fit between the curbs?

The tight ones are left flat in the middle on purpose to allow semi trailers to use them easily although I’ve never seen anything needing to do that around here.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

The tight ones are left flat in the middle on purpose to allow semi trailers to use them easily although I’ve never seen anything needing to do that around here.

Haven't seen one like that yet.

Then again, thankfully I don't come across them often.

 

[Oaktree]

Even if your vehicle combination doesn't fit between the curbs?

Agree that some of the newer ones are a bit on the small side, mostly in residential areas where large vehicles or trailers other than utility trailers aren't commonly driven. As kozal01 noted, most of these have a flat inner ring to (mostly) accommodate that.

 

[WinterDeere]

Yesterday, I passed going the opposite direction of a 3500 long bed crew cab pulling a 30+ foot triple axle boat trailer, on a road that has a circle every 2-3 miles. Wished I had seen him do the rotary, but since these are all 2-3 lanes, I’m guessing he just hogged two lanes in going around.

 

[K5lwq]

I have a huge dislike for red lights! They should have never been invented. Roundabouts are great in my opinion. I would rather have nothing over a red light! People would eventually figure it out.

 

[Runner]

I will have to admit, there is some sport in trying to clip the apexes of the rotaries to see how fast I can negotiate them. I'm usually up on the roll curbs at all points....

 

[WinterDeere]

Yesterday, I passed going the opposite direction of a 3500 long bed crew cab pulling a 30+ foot triple axle boat trailer, on a road that has a circle every 2-3 miles. Wished I had seen him do the rotary, but since these are all 2-3 lanes, I’m guessing he just hogged two lanes in going around.

So, today I ended up in a busy rotary with another pickup towing a 24’ish ft boat on a tandem axle trailer. He took up two lanes going around, and everyone just kinda naturally slid aside to make room for him. Really wasn’t as big an issue as one might imagine.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Yeah, with two lanes available and a 24-something foot trailer, even Ray Charles could probably pull it off.

It's the small single lane roundabouts that can be an issue with longer vehicle combinations. And doubles are much better than a single long trailer in those situations.

 

[BravoXray]

Yeah, with two lanes available and a 24-something foot trailer, even Ray Charles could probably pull it off.

It's the small single lane roundabouts that can be an issue with longer vehicle combinations. And doubles are much better than a single long trailer in those situations.View attachment 877931

That's an interesting looking rig. I would guess the front trailer is some kind of workshop, and the rear trailer has material needed for the next job. Never saw a short stepdeck trailer like that with a beaver tail.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

That first trailer is a basic dry van that I modified into a toy hauler (once 18 inches were taken off the top) with room for the Jeep in the back.

The second trailer was also a dry van, that I bought to take the air suspension off of, but it turned out to be built on a flatbed so I modified it a bit.

Shortened two feet (for overall length reasons), lowered big time (partially by going with 22.5s), made it a step deck and added a dove tail.

Before:

After:

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Got rudely reminded of this scenario last night.

Try to watch the local news (weather) before calling it a day, but once again, even with sacrificial programming serving as a 1-hour buffer after a sports event, the news were delayed.

How hard can it be to keep a televised sports event within its allotted time?? Okay, maybe that could be tricky, but do they really need to then spend an extra 20-30 minutes afterwards to discuss what they just saw?

By the way, in case you haven't already guessed it, I could not care less about sports.

 

[Jstpssng]

By the way, in case you haven't already guessed it, I could not care less about sports

I feel the same way. The time was when radio broadcasts of sports were relegated to AM stations but that's changed; nearly every night the local FM station has a Red Sox game on. Not only do I not care about sports; I especially don't care to listen to a game when it's almost a given they are going to lose, as was the case last year. During football season several of the stations I prefer are covering that... I'd rather listen to a golf game or ping pong tournament.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I'd rather listen to a golf game or ping pong tournament.

Thanks for a good laugh.

 

[scootr]

My pet peeve today ~ companies that send sales ads to my email with an Unsubscribe option. I click on the unsubscribe option but the ads keep coming month after month. Grrr

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Block or report as spam.

 

[scootr]

Block or report as spam.

Have reported many that just keep coming. Some from companies I don't want to block in case they have something legitimate to communicate or I want to buy from them again where having their email blocked would block sales receipts and tracking info. Not the solution, they just need to honor the unsubscribe option.
It's working like the old do not call option.

 

[Oaktree]

I feel the same way. The time was when radio broadcasts of sports were relegated to AM stations but that's changed; nearly every night the local FM station has a Red Sox game on. Not only do I not care about sports; I especially don't care to listen to a game when it's almost a given they are going to lose, as was the case last year. During football season several of the stations I prefer are covering that... I'd rather listen to a golf game or ping pong tournament.

What's worse are the pre-and post-game shows. Dunno about other teams, but the New England Patriots network has a 3 hour pregame show, and a 3 hour postgame show, either one of which is longer than the actual game!

Like you, I have zero interest in sports, but you'd think that 6 hours of jabber would be more than even the most diehard fan could take.