And ANOTHER thing that makes me mad...

[Theophylact]

My wife's family is mixed-breed: half of them silent, unrufflable people, the other half short-fused hotheads. The latter couldn't go on for long without exclaiming, apropos of nothing, "and ANOTHER thing that makes me mad...!"

So: Here's an opportunity for a screaming rant on any subject whatever (within the bounds of TechIMO protocol, of course).

The only rule is, it's gotta be solo -- no responding to anybody else's rant -- like yelling into a barrel. Or like a message at Quaker Meeting, only more unbuttoned.

I'm standing well back; let 'er rip.

[Cruez]

I got one....

I got an out-of-state speeding ticket a few years ago, not known to me but if you get one over 10 miles over the speed limit, they send it back to my home state you automatically loose you license for 30 days.... I got no letter telling me this...

SO..I was in a license check a couple of weeks after that and the nice officer told me I had no license, and wrote me a ticket for driving while license revoked. Eventually I went to court and they ended up taking my license for A YEAR!...

I went to a hearing after 3 months to see if I could get it back early or get a provisional license to drive to work....The hearing officer said.. NOPE...because I was driving without a license.

What REALLY pisses me off is that if you get caught drunk driving you can get a provisional license to get back and forth to work......but I couldn't... what crap...!!

Not to mention it added 8 points to my insurance....thats equivalent to 4 speeding tickets....

Who comes up with that crap??....because so many politicians get caught drunk driving??...

To this day I can't believe this happened.........that bunch of freaks...

[bebeangel]

one of my next door neighbour's son thinks is cool to rev up his car engine at all times of the freaking evening. Then you would hear him drive his freaking car up and down the street and then you hear squealing brakes. We've called the police and they have talked to him but it still happens. Nothing can be done until we get evidence showing the son doing what we claim he is doing. However, I am not going to stay up all night with a camera to catch him in the act


-bebe

[Redwolf]

I hate f%$#@!# Worldcomm! They took all my money away! I also hate setting up linux, but you already know that, right?

I have a thing against Compaq at the moment. I'm trying to install an old CDROM on a P2 Presario. Do you think it will let me?? The idea of having no BIOS except their minimal embedded on the board one, which can only be accessed by floppy disk driverts unless you allow it to put a partition on your HDD. Piece of junk!

And to top it off it's got a BIOS password it won't let me change it even with the disk drivers (no CMOS jumper or anything) so now I gotta find a BIOS pw crack for it. Grrrr....

Cheers (kinda... )
Mick

PS Nice idea Theo!

[kenyg]

Here's one that is making me mad at the moment...... (work related)

I have to work with a guy at another office (the home office, in another state) - in creating a marketing campaign... I give him our info.. HE contacts the Ad firm.. (I'm not to deal with them).. and now I get the copy back and it's all wrong.. I mean the basic facts are wrong or misrepresented.. and now there's a week left.

I've got a local Ad guy, that we've been using for 10yrs. He knows and understands our business and our customers... could I use him... Noooooooooooooo - got to use their big hi falootin firm, and spend $$$$$ - to get a bunch of pictures of people looking busy talking on the phone with the wrong information next to them..

I spent days in calls with this guy, even went and met with him.. and they still got it wrong - and in talking with them today - I still don't think they have a clue as to what they're selling or why -

aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhh



oooooh, I feel strangley better now....

[Brainchild]

A few years back I got a ticket for no seat belt. We were moving a few months later, and I found this ticket that I had forgotten to pay. So I called the courthouse. They said we can't find a record of the incident, or acopy of the ticket. when we do we will noify you.
2 years later I got stopped for having a taillight out, and guess what. A warrant on a ticket I tried to pay, that the courts didn't have, and never notified me about finding.
450 bucks and an hour in the graybar motel later, I went home, only to turn myself into to sheriff the next morning, and go to court over the thing.
I turned my self in, and paid my 86 dollar $25 original priced ticket. And I was free to go.
I'm not disputing the fact that I got the ticket, but i triedto make it right, they gave me the shaft, and never even thought twice about it.
It just burns me up that I got to go to jail over something I tried to correct and was told not to worry about.

[JALM69]

ok ok here goes my brother and his 3 brats oopps i ment kids went out to taco bell and my brother ate bean buritos and refries beans. and built up some of the nastiest gas ever known to man. we went to a department store and he starts droppin bombs through the store. he could of took out large herds of taliban with this stench,i almost puked. then he let a large sounding one rip and of course me being a big man people looked at me in dispair like i did it.2 old ladys used there shirts to cover there noses and if looks could kill i would of been dead ok so i was so imbarresed i ran out of the store and waited in the car, the kids ran with me. the ride home was filled with child laughter everytime a gas pocket ripped. needless to say the ac went off and the windows went down for the ride home and im never going out to eat with my bro again

[OuTpaTienT]

I don't care if you are going the legal speed limit. I don't care if you are exceeding the speed limit by double. I don't care if you are lost and trying to read a map. I don't care if you're changing radio stations or looking for a CD. I don't care if you just dropped your lit cigarette in your lap. I don't care if you think it's your right to be there.

Just please do us all a favor, and if someone comes up on you, obviously going faster than you are, then for the love of God, get the **** out of the fast lane!!!

I even give you permission to flip me off as I go by. And guess what? As long as you get out of the way, I won't care.

[Agent_Embryo]

I was back at the motox track yesterday, after over a month of staying off the bike (see motocross crash thread). I once again borrowed my fathers bike, because mine had a flat tyre (I was gonna fix it but we had not patches home).

Well I get on the bike and ride around, taking it really easy with my injury in mind. So the second round I go out on the track I start racing with my oldest cousin and this other guy we know. And I'm riding really good, feeling comfortable and pulling ahead.

Then we catch up with some slower riders, riding up a slope (a "staircase" jump really). I have to slow down...now on the first plateau-landing there's some thick mud. Since I go slow, I can't get through it alright, and I fall over. Nothing serious. Just a slip in the mud.

Well I roll over, get up, look at the bike: no damage.

Then I hear a roaring. I turn around and there's this guy on his 4-stroke Suzuki coming up the hill...and crashes right into my(my dad's) bike. My bike gets thrown around 180 degrees and his heavy 4-stroke ends up on top of it.

By this time I was already cursing loudly. I run to the bike, lift his bike off mine (I was gonna throw it on the ground but decided it was not the thing to do). The guy hears me cursing and says something like "hey calm down..." but I get myt bike up, start it and ride to the pits.

Result of the idiot being too busy in his own world rather than looking ahead on the track and paying attention: Bent handlebar, broken levers, bent front-fender...etc...

NOTHING was broken at the initial crash when I fell.

Dad's gonna kill me. A little.