Neighbor Issues

You know what really grinds my gears?!?


Neighbors grind my gears!  I spend countless hours on my yard.  I make sure no trash is lying around, the grass is properly cut and manicured and even pay TruGreen to fertilize.  I make sure noone can complain about my lawn.  


Here it is...Saturday morning coffee on the back deck and I have to look at this?!?  Do you care that your nasty, trash ridden backyard makes neighboring lawns look just as bad?! Get your act together or a phone call to the Property Manager is on its way!

Construction dysfunction

You know what really grinds my gears?!?

In light of spring/summer, I bring you a road construction issue that always grinds my gears!  The picture you see below was taken during the winter, but nothing has changed.

This is probably the discussion right before this picture was taken: "Hey Rick, since you're the newby, get your ass down in the hole.  We'll stand right here and walk you through this."

This is road construction at its finest.  One guy working (who we can't see because their 8 feet under the road) and 3 to 4 guys standing around not doing anything! Q: You know how much faster the work would be done if EVERYONE was working?  A: 4 times faster, that's how fast!

Bookstore etiquette

You know what really grinds my gears?!?!

Picture this...You walk into a bookstore to find a book.  You walk around aimlessly until you think you found the section.  Then, you see this:

A book store is for finding and purchasing books, magazines, calendars, movies, compact discs, etc.  The book store shouldn't be used as a library!  If you want to read a book, buy it and go home.  This is exactly why book stores are struggling to survive (and iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc).  Do us all a favor, buy the book and LEAVE!!!! 

What do you think?

Bathroom Etiquette #1

You know what really grinds my gears?!?

Walking into the bathroom just to see what someone else left behind.  FLUSH THE TOILET!  It's not that difficult.  I don't care to see how what came out of you.  For the most part, I am not proud and neither should you be.  Be courteous to the next person and flush it all away.

Due to the nature of this topic, a picture was not necessary.  You want to eat later, right?

Fake chicken

You know what really grinds my gears?!?

Fake chicken found inside frozen meals.  There's something rubbery and disgusting about this crap. I'm no dietitian, but there can't be anything "healthy" about this crap.  Chicken that has been fried/baked, frozen and then shoved into a cardboard box ready for the microwave?  Really?!?

Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice, Tyson...You can keep your FAKE/processed chicken!  I want the real thing!

Walmart at Night

You know what really grinds my gears?!?

Shopping for groceries at Wal-Mart at night!  We were there at 10pm...not the wee hours of the morning.  Here we go, thinking we're going after the rush.  It can't be busy, right?  WRONG!  The store is swamped with Wal-Mart workers stocking the shelves.  They place pallets after pallets in the aisles so you can't get what you're looking for.   Then they act rude if you climb over them to grab a bottle of Heinz 57.

After FINALLY getting everything we needed, we felt relieved.  BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE....1 checkout open.  Seriously?!?  You got it, 1 checkout open with 30 people in line.  This REALLY grinds my gears.

Lesson learned....go out of your way to go to Meijer.

Interstate + Moped = Disaster

You know what really grinds my gears?!?

Someone holding up rush hour traffic.  Rush  hour traffic is bad enough...we don't need someone to assist.  Going north out of Indianapolis on I-69 is self torture.  I highly recommend everyone avoid it at all cost.  This specific day, I could not tell what was holding up traffic so bad, until I FINALLY maneuvered around a slow car.  I found a slow car but the reason was much, much worse.  A moped on the interstate is not only illegal, but extremely stupid. Keep your moped to side streets and country roads!!!!!  What are your thoughts?  Have you seen something similar?  What have you seen that Grinds Your Gears during rush hour traffic?