which characteristic you really can't stand in other people?

same with cleaning i guess. i have no fucking idea how to change a tire though that is what AAA is for i thought.

i guess paulhw and i can't be friends.

I can change a tire, but prefer not to.

I just did a spot of house cleaning so Paulhw wouldn't hate me.

he sounds a bit uptight anyways, i'm probably better off.

I hate the way the tire-changing gear and the spare are stowed in really hard-to-get-to compartments in the car. I always have the back of my stationwagon crammed with gear, and to get out the spare I have to take everything out and lift up the floor panel. Grrr!

i can't stand that characteristic in cars

The bolt holding my spare tire has been rounded off completely and is impossible to take off with normal tools. So my idea of 'changing a tire' is running the flat one to Discount Tire for free repair.

i think my answer to this is, i am willing to put up with most people's personality flaws if they will put up with mine.

I distrust anyone who says Henry James is "boring."

To return briefly to tire-changing—I hate the designer of the donut spare! WTF, you ungenerous car manufacturers!

The Golden Bowl is somewhat hard going. I loved a lot of the earlier books.

people who are older than, oh let's say 27 or so, who are still massively consumed with the status of their perceived hipness. It was annoying before, but really. You are old. Stop it.

ok i really cant stand people who call 27 "old"

I think they're kind of cute.

The great thing about age is... IT WILL GET YOU, TOO, IN THE END!!!

hey I'm 31.

lol 27 is so young! hip is annoying at any age.

ummm... oh the Golden Bowl - that was a ridiculous movie. they took the meaning of Metaphor to a new level. it was always like "::gasp::! the Golden Bowl, it has CRACKED!"

I am a curmudgeonly son of a bitch though.

Not knowing how to cook.

this is me. i'm a bachelor. fuck off.

cooking hyper-snobs really annoy me actually - and dissuade me from bothering to try cooking for myself sometimes.
once i managed to make poutine with chicken and peas (it was delicious) and i caught static from some of my friends for not doing the gravy from scratch and cutting my own fries. like what the hell - i didn't raise and slaughter the chicken either but as soon as i did the gravy and fries myself i know this is what they'd throw in my face next. fuck a cooking snob!

i know i'm a total 3 step meal person. i don't feel great about it but i certainly hope people can stand it

i love cooking when i have time, but yeah, i'm very amateurish at it. i won't cook with my sister cos she YELLS at me for the inefficient way i chop things. do it yourself then! i don't like when she does that, but i still love her.

Amy's cream of mushroom soup straight out of the can with a slosh of Marsala makes a yummy and elegant gravy.

My husband can never eat plain roast chicken. He always has to tart it up, hence the emergency gravy knowledge.

yeah I get a lot of tongue-clucking and eye-rolling when I try to help with the cooking.

people who think it's okay to TUG ON THE BACK OF MY PANTS to get my attention while i'm serving another table.

ok. well, its a total myth that big dogs need to run around 24/7. the two dogs ive lived with over the past 10 years both easily exceed 100lbs (a bull mastiff and a great dane)and both are the laziest mfs you could ever meet. they like walks like any dog but if they have to go outside for anything else you can see that look on their face like 'are you really going to make me get out bed??' and they both average 20+ hours sleep a day too. both of these dogs have large yards which rarely get used for more than poops and pees. dogs are so much more about being your friend and playing than wanting to run through fields all day long. yeah, there are breeds of dog, big and small, that need a yard. duh. anyway, owning a big dog in a city = sense of entitlement/animal abuse and you might as well be running dog fights is pretty fucking insulting besides being incredibly stupid but what the hell else am i supposed to expect from a kenan post?

You make a good point, and I take it back.

I do think people should not be allowed to have children in the city, though.

hahahaha!

being too much like me

people who think it's okay to TUG ON THE BACK OF MY PANTS to get my attention while i'm serving another table.

What the fuck???? That call for "accidentally" spilling whatever beverage you have in your hand all over them because you wheel around so quickly.

calls.

i would enjoy witnessing this 'tug and spill' scenario at an eatery

I accidentally did that once - had a drink tray that had some spilled water on it, spun around to see who was poking me for attention, dumped a little bit of the water on a woman's head.

Bitch whined and moaned until the whole table was comped.

I used to share a house with a cooking snob, she used to make me feel really crap for not being able to cook. But that's because we went out for a couple of months and she dumped me. And I had really low self-esteem at the time so anything I wasn't very good at made me feel like shit, especially if she was giving me a hard time about it. Now I am free to not know how to cook and not care about it! Hurrah.

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Buttered toast is one of the most divine foods on earth and one that even you can master, Colonel.

please stay in city kenan thX!

that is one of the most divine things, and i always kick myself for not being more of a toast person. i love toast so much.

if it's a later in the day toast, i like toasted jewish ry or the like with butter. the salty is fun.

i usually (because this happens more than you'd think) turn around very deliberately and say very slowly (while looking them right in the eye) "i'll be with you when i've finished looking after these people". and then i finish with the table i'm already at, walk off and piss about for 10mins.

but what is so so so awesome about these people is that, while you'd think they must be in a dire hurry to get to a freakin' loved one's deathbed by the way they're acting, when i actually go to the table and say "are you ready to order?", this is the typical response:

(looking at menu)"ummm... i'll have... ummm... ohh... hmmm... what are you having?... hmmm [repeat for 5mins]"

i mean, seriously, WTF?!

ok, that's my petty rant for the night.

people whose immaturity is directly, obviously traceable to the fact they did not have to financially support themselves in an way until they were 25.

*in any way

I'm sorry but who the fuck thinks it's okay to put their hands on someone in the service industry in order to get their attention in any way? If I was at a table of people and one of them did that, I would be SO mortified.

tell me about it. the behaviour of humans while in public places being served by fellow humans never ceases to amaze me.

someone also whistled at me to get my attention the other night. i was in a bad mood so i actually said "excuse me?" in a really rude tone and she did look slightly embarrassed.

I would kick their asses for you.

(I wouldn't. But I wish I would.)

People who ask "Where are you from?" and then act like I'm obviously bullshitting them when I say "Canada" or "Ottawa." This is marginally better than people who congratulate me on my excellent English.

Hypocrisy of the double-standard or dish-it-out-but-can't-take-it varieties.

Being pedantic and condescending when you clearly don't know what you're talking about or even have above-average knowledge.

Shutting down valid points/questions with pointless sarcasm/stupid beside-the-point jokes.

thanks accentmonkey :)
the intention is much appreciated. i know i said that was my one petty rant, but there are two types of people who annoy me:
those who think that because i'm a waitress i must be doing a Phd in astrophysics, and the waitressing is a side gig.
and
those who think that because i'm a waitress i must be brainless and i can't get a better job.

the truth of the matter is that i'm working my way through a degree AND i can't get a better job ;).

OTM about buttered toast

only thing better is peanut butter toast

*tiger woods fist pump*

Better again is toast with peanut butter, little bit of honey, and slices of banana. Yum yum yum.

yes that is killer. creamy heaven.

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whoa, i MUST try that