What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[WinterDeere]

Or you end up pulling a half dozen bags making frustrating futile attempts to bag one onion with uncoordinated fumbling fingers. Where's the savings in making thin produce bags,if you literally pulled a half dozen before you can get one to work like it's supposed to?

The thoughts that bounce around in one's head late at night are funny and unpredictable, but this bag thing came back to me, and here's what I was thinking: single-use plastic bags nearly always blow out on the bottom, when something sharp in the bag starts a tear. It's never the handles that fail, and any tear that starts higher up usually still holds the item, not a catastrophic failure.

So, if "they" really wanted to save plastic, rather than making the bags so thin that everyone just uses twice as many, they'd do well to make the bags a gradient thickness. Go ahead and make the top half and handles of the bag as thin as 0.5 mils, but keep the bottoms at 1 mil. You'd think this'd be easy enough by making them of sheet stock that's thicker on one edge than the other, or thinned down in the middle (they seem to fold and seal to make these). With thicker bottoms, most might only use 1 or put twice as much into each, and you'd be saving net plastic usage with the thinner tops, where strength isn't needed as much.

 

[Runner]

When someone in your household "cleans house" throwing away your broken cheaters, realized this morning those broken but still functional glasses are needed to put a new screw in your current somewhat wearable pair. So using a micro screw driver trying to screw in micro sized screws at arms length is my new pet peeve.this morning.

Not a problem here, I have 8 pair stashed in various rooms in the house, 2 in the shop and 1 pair in each vehicle (total of 4 in vehicles) and 2 more brand new spares in the desk drawer in the den.

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. Winterdeere, just curious what you do to quiet your mind?

That's not a smart azz question...not many go to the completeness of thought to probe a topic as you do.

 

[Runner]

Pro Tip regarding plastic bags - save your heavy plastic fertilizer or grass seed bags. They are great for disposing of sharp objects like broken glass, etc. The sharp stuff won't tear through the fertilizer bag and this keeps it from tearing though the regular trash bag. I have a 30 gallon trash can full of old fertilizer bags for this purpose.

 

[Runner]

I am very close to having a new peeve. Need to verify this first, but the other day, I could SWEAR I saw a new police cruiser with a "dazzle" paint scheme, just like the ones they put on Navy ships during the war to make them hard to see. I just caught it out of the corner of my eye passing me the other direction, but I'm almost sure that's what is was. No excuse for deliberately making emergency vehicles hard to see.

Has anyone else seen one of these? I would post a pic, but I can't even find one on the internet (probably because it's such a bad idea, no one else has done it).

 

[WinterDeere]

Mr. Winterdeere, just curious what you do to quiet your mind?

Summer: Gin
Winter: Bourbon


Or... podcasts!

 

[jjeff]

I am very close to having a new peeve. Need to verify this first, but the other day, I could SWEAR I saw a new police cruiser with a "dazzle" paint scheme, just like the ones they put on Navy ships during the war to make them hard to see. I just caught it out of the corner of my eye passing me the other direction, but I'm almost sure that's what is was. No excuse for deliberately making emergency vehicles hard to see.

Has anyone else seen one of these? I would post a pic, but I can't even find one on the internet (probably because it's such a bad idea, no one else has done it).

I've seen razzle type paint schemes on new unreleased car models and prototypes testing on public roads. Never saw a police car or other emergency vehicle painted like that though.

 

[jjeff]

Not a problem here, I have 8 pair stashed in various rooms in the house, 2 in the shop and 1 pair in each vehicle (total of 4 in vehicles) and 2 more brand new spares in the desk drawer in the den.

Yes so do I usually, except can't find them when I really need a spare set apparently. I have grown very accustomed to buying them by the fairly cheap 12 pack and.use the straps to keep them around my neck when not needed. I'm currently 500 miles away from my primary residence. Guess I'll buy another 12 pack and leave them up here.

 

[Jstpssng]

Computers that act like they are talking to me. I turned it on about 10 minutes ago to do something quick; it's been updating ever since. It was on all night...wtf couldn't it update when I was sleeping?

 

[Runner]

I'm sure this has been posted, but doing it anyway: Brick and Mortar stores that don't have anything. Wall clock in the shop died, looking at Blowe's and Home Creepo, 1200 clocks in the warehouse, not a single one in any store. Have to order it and wait 4 days.

Go on Amazon, get the one I want, will be delivered TO MY DOOR in 4 days, same price. No sympathy for stores losing business to Amazon in this situation.