shroud wrote Andrew Hall's sig sums up one of my bigger pet peeves way better then I could've ever put it:Habitual contempt doesn't reflect a finer sensibility.
Why, thank you. I stole it from the graphic in the background of one of the interviews in the fantastic, can't reccie it enough movie, Helvetica. I added it as a .sig to remind myself sometimes.
Cell phones etc don't bother me per se, it is that they are just an excuse for rampant ill-manners. My wife is an MD and the cell phone is a lifeline - literally in some cases. That means put it on buzz and, if you have to scream at in incompetent resident, you take outside the restaurant. Or, more casually, a quick buzz when someone is running late and you answer quietly with 'ok, thanks. see you when you get here.' Click. If you have the manners thing down, then it doesn't matter what the occasion or tool is.
My biggest pet peeve is that people don't respect other's people's passions or expertise. They will run down and shout ripoff about something you are into enough to appreciate and pay for small differences and then blithely drop $$$$ on stereo cables or pets or whatever that means absolutely nothing to you. I will grant that you (rhetorically) see and pay for differences that I either don't perceive or don't value - do the same for me.
Adult cyclists on the sidewalk has now progressed beyond pet peeve to homicidal rage...
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