I'm with you on this one!!

Me and him... It should be

He and I...

I'm surely guilty of this one!! I aplogize!

While I do agree with the grammar people out there, some grammar is area and culture related and there is nothing wrong with that, we are not all alike. :-D

I must agree with Shadow Dancer. It seems I could be on top of a mountain and some idiot parent will come there with a screaming kid who throws a fit. It never fails, stores, malls, parks, they lurk there waiting for me to arrive. When did parents lose such control over their children :-(

OMG, one time a few years ago, I was downtown with Sasha and we were shopping or something. There were a bunch of bums on the street, and normally I don't pay attention and keep walking (even though I do feel bad, some of them are dangerous and I'm not going to risk my life to give a dollar to a stranger, plus, if you give to one, you have 17 others chasing you down). If you've ever been downtown Montreal in the summer on St-Catherine street, you know these people are everywhere, it's not the slums by any means, but most of them just sit on cardboard boxes and have a cup or hat or whatever for passers by to drop change in.
This one dude was really hounding people and he came up to me and was like "I need money, can't you give me some?" I almost NEVER have cash on me, only my cards so I'm usually safe, but we took the bus into town so I had about 3 bucks and change in my pocket so I could take the bus back to my car, and I told the guy I didn't have enough to give out, just for my bus. He was like 'oh, I have a bus ticket, I'll trade you" I responded "No, leave me alone, I'm not giving my money, and all I have are my cards". So he fires back "Well then lets go to the bank, you can give me like, 5 bucks or something"
DO I look like I'm made of money? Dude, back off! And, bank machines only give you 20 dollar bills, duh.
All the while, I keep walking and he's really IN MY FACE, and Sasha is trying to get between us, obviously to protect me, and the guy was just shoving him out of the way. We got to the corner and started crossing the street and he totally was following us! I was running, and he was chasing me with his arm outstretched, and Sasha, who was hurrying across with me turned around and said " Dude, if you ****ing touch my girlfriend, I'm going to leave you in a bloody pulp in the middle of the street". He finally backed off and went to bug someone else, but seriously, who do these people think they are?
This was in the middle of the day, on a busy street downtown with hundreds of people within a 20 foot radius, and this guy was after my 3 dollars I had for the bus... And to top it all off, Sasha gave me heck afterward, because it was my fault for even talking to him. I should have kept going and ignored him.

Most of the bums just kind of sit there, I feel bad for them, but honestly, I work hard for the little money I do have, and I have tons of debt and no assets, so it's not like I have any spare cash to hand out. Sometimes I'll run in to a tim hortons and get a coffee and a muffin and bring it out, but I will never give money, because they just spend it on drugs instead of trying to get off the street. There are homeless shelters and the old brewery mission for these people and help is available.


I can't imagine someone coming to my door and asking for money. I would tell them to get off my property before I call the cops.

I'm pretty tolerant of stuff like that around here, it does bother me that some people can't spell and write really basic things, I mean, school is mandatory, and you're supposed to be able to speak and write correctly before moving up each grade in school, however, I'm not going to call anyone out on it becaues half the people who come here don't write very well. Some people I know who are my age and who had the same education as I had can't write a simple message to save their lives, they just couldn't be bothered to learn. I'm not sure how they managed to pass high school english and I feel bad for any employer who has to read their resumé.
Like I said, on the message board, I do notice the mistakes, and I'm not going to say that making typos means the person can't spell -I proof read my messages, and I'm sure I've let some typos, grammatical errors and punctuation errors slip, but hey, we're only human, and honestly, who cares?

OMG, I just though of another one, but I'm sure I'm the only person on here who has to deal with this crap...

In Quebec, we have the language police (I'm not even joking, welcome to my world). Now, you have to understand that while Quebec is a part of Canada, the gov't here likes to think that Quebec is it's own country, we have different laws and different rules that make things stupidly complicated. Canada has two official languages, french and english. Officially, so does Quebec, but most of the french canadians are arrogant ****s (some of my own family included) who think that anyone who speaks english should be shipped out of their 'country', and that Quebec is french and if you want to speak english, get the h*ll out of Quebec. We are allowed to have english on signage, like restaurants, or whatever, but you have to have the same thing written in french, the french lettering has to come first, and MUST be bigger lettering than the english. On top of that, lots of street names and company names had to be changed because they were english. I think the only exceptions were if your product name is licensed in english. For example, Tim Horton's cannot be changed, but they took off the 's. Or in McGibbons irish pub, they had vintage irish signage inside their bar for decoration and the OLF was after them because their signs didn't respect the rules... There are TONS of things like that, every week there's some OLF dude making a stink about something or other.
Plus if you immigrate here, you DO NOT have the option of sending your children to english school. Even if you were born here, if you went to french school, you CAN NOT send your children to english school.

Something else that bothers me. If I go to a store and speak english to the sales person, I expect them to be able to answer me in english (it is mandatory to learn english in school after all),likewise, if I speak french to the person, I expect to be answered in french. You want to work in the public in a bilingual area, learn the bloody language, otherwise you shouldn't get hired in the first place. Nothing bothers me more than asking a question and have the person go "what? I don't understand french/english"
Especially since the question is usually about their product or merchandise, so even if their second language skills are a little rusty, they should still know enough to be able to sell their own product, duh!

BTW, english is not my first language either.

People that are too lazy to search for things themselves. You're sitting in front of the world's largest research tool, use it!

I appreciate your not intending to make me (or the other overweight people here - there are plenty of us on this board, but most aren't going to speak out) upset.

I see your point, though if you look more closely, you might find that many of them buy nutritious food as well as the junk. Then again, some people just eat junk food. But getting peeved about it? Well, you certainly have the right.

Of course obesity has multiple causes. Depression can make it worse, but then again, depression can be caused by obesity. I hope your sister's bypass has helped her.

I agree with you completely about doctors who are afraid - or too locked into their 15-minute appointment schedules - to really push dieting with their patients. Not just "You're fat, you should lose weight," but "You have this condition and this condition, and these are going to get worse unless you lose this weight, and let's address what's making it hard for you to do so."

And let me add to that doctors who see every health issue as related to, or a result of, obesity (or being female, or getting older). Doctors really need to look past that and consider all possibilities, just as is done for a slim, active (young, male, whatever) patient.

I envy you ..... I took two different languages for two years each in high school.........and all I speak is English.......
I think it's wonderful that one can speak multi languages.

Of course..I am here in the states and my English__SHOULD BE__ all that I need.

I totally agree with Debra Mc & Baren* about door-to-door solicitation. I can't even imagine people begging for money coming to my door! The salespeople, the religious proselytizers, the political campaigners and so on are bad enough.

I am a magnet for poorly behaved people in movie theaters. Even if there are only 6 people in the entire building, there will be two numbnuts parking their chatty selves directly behind us, talking (not using the indoor voice), shaking the popcorn tub (as if treasures will rise to the top), kicking the back of my chair, and narrating the [expletive delete] story line.

I, on the other hand feel compelled to say something in my gracious way. ROFL. Pat says that going to a movie with me is always an adventure.

I was in the grocery store the other day, when a mom a 2 kids came in 4-7 maybe. They ran up and down the aisles. Mom never said a word. There was an old man at the bread aisle and the older one ran into him almost knocking him over. He said to me,"Where is the Mother", smiled and we went on. I stopped my basket in the aisle where I knew he was headed! Yep, sure enough her rounded the corner and ran right into my full basket. I was standing behind the basket so it did not move! He was on the floor crying and I never saw the mother anywhere. I know that was not nice of me, but the devil on my shoulder kept saying "Do it, Do it" so I did!

Girl, you sound like us redneck Texans. Thought we only used numbnuts here. I love it. You are so funny.

My pet peeves are
1): signs that are still up AFTER the event is over. Latest example is our local Elementary school who had their sign saying that school was going to be closed Nov. 25-27! I mentioned it out loud last night on our way home.... and today ---- it's gone! Finally.
2) Parents who don't watch their children while in a store, especially those who don't have the little ones strapped into the buggy. (37 years ago my niece fell out of a shopping cart and broke her clavicle! - now at age 40 she is a nurse!
3) Cell phone usage while with other friends, eating out, or anywhere else.

Oh and about the "no soliciting sign", I have one too, and when someone comes to the door selling something, I ask them if they can read, they say yes, and I point to my sign and say "this is why this sign is here".

No offence to Jahova witnesses here, but they are the worst ones!

Half the time when someone is speaking next to me in public, I am naive enough to turn to face them. I cannot tell you the vitriolic stares I have received for "listening in" to their phone conversations! Cell phones are taking away the ability to think and act independenly. Even deciding between Coke and Pepsi has become a group decision!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

OMG yes.... and you don't want to be rude and tell them off, but if you weren't interested the 17 other times they came, chances are you still don't care for what they're offering!

Yeah, I don't like to be rude to anyone and I even asked them to take my name off their list, but they still come around.

One time my cat ran them off and they didn't come around again for about 6 months. LOL

I have no problem being rude to people who intrude on me trying to solicit, especially the proselytizers. I'll give the usual warning signs first (not answering the door, saying no and don't come back, or if it's when I'm walking down the street, then not making eye contact or changing the subject or otherwise making it quite clear that I don't want to give or hear what they want to spout at me), and if they push past those, they've exhausted my patience and any requirement I feel to be polite.

My problem is that no matter how annoying these people are, I simply cannot tell them off. It's so hard for me to say no and be firm enough for them not to bug me again.

Especially with the Jehovas, I don't even follow my own religeon, what makes them think I would have half a mind to convert to theirs?

Maybe I'll get a tape recorder and record a big dog barking like mad and muffled sounds of struggle... which I will conveniently hit play on the loud surround sound in the living room before answering the door.

I just don't answer the door unless I know who is there. My front door and most of the drive way can be seen from the front window without 'them' knowing they are being watched. And since our vehicles are in the garage they can't tell if we are home or not.

my DH and I were downtown walking one day and a lady with a cell phone kept saying "can you hear me" I turned around and said "we all can"....she stopped and clicked off the phone and I got a dirty look...my DH cracked up laughing.

Quoted from above: ""Even deciding between Coke and Pepsi has become a group decision!!""

Buying fabric is a group decision too. We often have customers looking at fabric and then get on their cell phones to find out which fabric the other person really wants. I asked my co-worker the other day 'What ever did we do without cell phones?'

Doesn't seem like they have any kind of quality control.

You wouldn't like living in Rhode Island, or Boston, they speak funny. I should know. I'm from there.

You mean like saying "cah" for "car" and "Smitt Street" for "Smith Street". LOL, you do get used to it after a while.

The last time the Jahova witnesses came to my house, I told them I was Baptist. They never came back.

There is an exception in the law for emergency workers. I don't know why...arent' they just as distracted?

People who judge my parenting skills by seeing one bad day happen. I'm kidding, kinda...but you gotta give people a break. Maybe the one time you see the kids running around is just a really bad day for mom. Maybe she just found out she has cancer and is off in another world, forgetting to make her kids mind...I dunno..just seems like unless you walk a mile in their shoes, and are with them with their kids, you can't make a judgement call. That mom probably needs a smile and some support...

Littering the highways and local roads. We live in the most beautiful country in the world, and can't seem to keep it clean. Or is that old fashioned?

Did anyone mention political signs for election and re-election........and two months after election day, they are still on the roadside.

That's not old fashioned at all! I don't litter and I keep my yard clean. I also love this wonderful country we live in!

It shouldn't be old fashioned at all. I hate litterbugs. I just don't understand how people can just throw out their trash anywhere they please. Don't they hate the sight of litter on the roadways too?? On trips, I'll carry my garbage until I find a garbage can. It ain't that hard.

LAZY PEOPLE, too lazy to go the extra 10 feet to put the grocery cart into the cart coral.

Inconsiderate sales people, like the one at Penny's today when I asked where the Jewelry Boxes were. She pointed and said: Over there. Thanks a lot. If I walk the store long enough, I probably will end up "over there" wherever that is.

My pet peeve is miss use of There (Their, They're)and the miss of good and well (You did good... You did well)

Women holding or pushing in a cart a crying baby or child and not trying to get them to shut up. They continue shopping as if the child is sleeping. Parents - seems like Mothers - trying to be their childs friends or buddies and not being a parent. They don't get that their job is to raise their kids to be decent adults. People posting so fast and not spelling right or not making any sense, once in a while is reasonable but, some all the time. Lots more also.

I'm with you .