[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3211679 27-Mar-2024 19:30

outdoorsnz:

Something that really annoys the snot out of me, two driving habits that are closely related.

Drivers not having good spatial awareness. You see this is double passing lanes on corners. Cars cross the double yellow line and I have to swerve to avoid!
Cars that turn right to turn left!!! FFS learn to drive. You do not need to half pull in next lane to turn left. Cars have power steering these days.

I've seen cars swing to the LEFT in order to turn RIGHT! Riddle me that?!

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#3211683 27-Mar-2024 19:33

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outdoorsnz:

Drivers not having good spatial awareness. You see this is double passing lanes on corners. Cars cross the double yellow line and I have to swerve to avoid!

Or as a friend of mine puts it "drivers who have no idea how wide their car is". There's an awful lot of those around, which you really notice when you drive down a road parked solid with cars on both sides. Speaking of things that annoy, when did it become accepted practice to leave all of your cars on the road? A cursory search of images of NZ suburbs in the 1980s shows streets that aren't choked with parked cars, when did it change?

When Japanese imports lowered the cost of cars

When both people in a household needed to work to get ahead and needed 2 cars

When employment laws changed so that more families always have one person at work 7 days a week

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#3211698 27-Mar-2024 20:41

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When Japanese imports lowered the cost of cars

When both people in a household needed to work to get ahead and needed 2 cars

When employment laws changed so that more families always have one person at work 7 days a week

+ when housing density increased

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#3211699 27-Mar-2024 20:49

Four-bedroom homes with only a double garage, and usually a reasonably small one at that.

Where do you park the kid's cars? On the street of course!

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#3211705 27-Mar-2024 21:14

neb:
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Drivers not having good spatial awareness. You see this is double passing lanes on corners. Cars cross the double yellow line and I have to swerve to avoid!

Or as a friend of mine puts it "drivers who have no idea how wide their car is". There's an awful lot of those around, which you really notice when you drive down a road parked solid with cars on both sides. Speaking of things that annoy, when did it become accepted practice to leave all of your cars on the road? A cursory search of images of NZ suburbs in the 1980s shows streets that aren't choked with parked cars, when did it change?

It was quite likely the legalisation of used Japanese imports in the late 1980s. Before then, the majority of cars in NZ were locally assembled.

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#3211708 27-Mar-2024 21:36

k1w1k1d:

Four-bedroom homes with only a double garage, and usually a reasonably small one at that.

Where do you park the kid's cars? On the street of course!

most of these modern houses dont have much storage space in them, so where do people store stuff? in the garage, where does the car go? on the street. so maybe one of the 2 cars in the garage. or if its an intergenerational house, which are a lot more common there could be 2-4 cars.

A lot of the newer developments around here dont even have garages, and you get a single car park near your house, they also have little storage in them, so i dont know what they do with all their stuff.

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#3211719 27-Mar-2024 22:45

Storage unit companies....
Good money in that business.

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#3211725 28-Mar-2024 00:03

I wish religious zealots would stop putting their junk mail in my mail box.

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#3211765 28-Mar-2024 07:59

Update on my annoyance: roadworks company are here this morning bright and early.

But they’re just here to collect their cones and signs.

I asked one of them what was going on. His answer was he just works for the company and goes where they tell him to go.

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#3211766 28-Mar-2024 08:05

neb:
Speaking of things that annoy, when did it become accepted practice to leave all of your cars on the road? A cursory search of images of NZ suburbs in the 1980s shows streets that aren't choked with parked cars, when did it change?

In the 1980s it was very common for a family to only have one car. It was also in the 1980s that infill housing really started to take off.

If you add more than 25% more houses and each of those houses goes from 1-2 cars to 2-3 cars it fills up very quickly.

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#3211784 28-Mar-2024 09:02

News articles titled to indicate they are going to tell you something specific and definitive, and the article contains all manner of skirting around the issue, and the conclusion contains nothing definitive or specific, usually because it's not finalized yet!

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#3211788 28-Mar-2024 09:05

The gigantic White Tail that decided my wheelchair cushion was a good place to ambush me. Big mistake, once underwear was changed I opened Armageddon on it.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3211789 28-Mar-2024 09:06

That everything is on sale this weekend, except what I want to buy (it's also on sale, but barely worth considering as a discount).

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#3211791 28-Mar-2024 09:12

networkn:

That everything is on sale this weekend, except what I want to buy (it's also on sale, but barely worth considering as a discount).

And a week after you buy what want it goes on sale

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3211792 28-Mar-2024 09:14

networkn:

That everything is on sale this weekend, except what I want to buy (it's also on sale, but barely worth considering as a discount).

I am going to the USA later this year, I will be buying a lot of stuff there to bring back with me. Cheaper and better.

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