Rollfast

I remember LOnesome7-7203 and BEechwood4-5789

Hoopdriver

Now there's a real irritation! 5 seconds? Ya think! I can hear riders like you a half mile off so unless I am lucky enough to be going the other way, your choice of noise can impact my serenity for a long time. Use buds, man. My life does not need your personal sound track.

Edit: Just read what I wrote ... talk about being grumpy!

eja_ bottecchia

Trsnrtr

Well said. One can look for slights and faults in others or one can live and let live. Sometimes it's hard not to dwell on what others do but it definitely makes for a less stressful and healthier life.

willyn

Rollfast

I let my lawn die.

Hondo Gravel

KraneXL

I simply thank them for sharing their conversation with the public and reminding me that my life isn't as bad as I though after all.

mackgoo

Yes Keep your thoughts to yourself.

downhillmaster

jag2857

"The other day I was in the grocery store and someone was talking on their cell phone about personnel issues in their business loud enough for all within 5 feet to hear. I started to comment on what he was saying to my wife and the guy shot me dead with his scowling eyes.

I see it as he put it out there in the public square, the information is public and all are free to use it or talk about it. Am I becoming a grumpy old man or should people shut up and keep their conversation about whatever private?"

No, you're not. There's something inherently annoying about people talking on their cell phones. I don't want to hear their conversation for some reason. It's noise pollution. I simply and literally don't want to hear it. You're not grumpy for being annoyed with the annoying.

slorollin

How's this for a grumpifying moment? I'm in the "12 items or less" lane behind a guy talking on his cellphone. He has another phone along with a pager clipped to his belt. He pays with an EBT card. But what chapped my tushie the most was that he had 15 items.

Hoopdriver

Some noise is unavoidable, but adding to it for personal reasons is contributing to noise pollution. Do what makes you happy, but please try to minimise effect on others. Your audio drug is no different than smoking in public.

Colnago Mixte

What worse than listening to other people's phone calls is having to hear their "music". Phones playing music are pretty bad, but motorcycles with loud stereos can be extremely galling to be around, especially at signal lights that take forever to change. I can't believe those stereo are even legal. Where are the police when you need them?

chelvel

Some/many people can not control the loudness of their voices while speaking phone. Nothing to be done.

mitchmellow62

Skimming this thread I can't get the movie Network out of my head. Everyone go the window right now and yell "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!!". Of course, one has to be of a certain age to even remember the movie and quote: which is fittingly ironic and maybe even funnier!

Retro Grouch 

Nope. A real telephone number was something like 56300. 5 numbers, no letters.. Prior to that you had to turn the crank and tell the operator who you wanted to call.

downhillmaster

Trsnrtr

Dang, that's inexcusable.

KraneXL

Two types:

1) those that are mentally challenged (rare) and,
2) the low-class.

If you've ever noticed its always the people with the worse language skills and the most annoying voices. I don't know about you but I've never hear anyone that uses the Queen's English with a mellifluous announcer's voice talking loud enough to broadcast all their business to the public.



Noisy environments notwithstanding.

Joe Bikerider

dennis336

A common technique for going through the express items is to count multiple of the same item as one, thereby allowing the shopper to rationalize going through with, what others may perceive, as "too many items". So, for example, said shopper has 11 unique and different items but then also has four cans of corn (on sale for 4/$1.00). Since the store has consciously and explicitly grouped that quantity of 4 together, one can rationalize they count as 1 item. Therefore, said shopper may arguably say he, or she, has one unit of corn plus 11 other distinct units of other stuff thereby qualifying for the 12 items or less line. Another example is if corn on the cob is on sale for 12 ears/xxx dollars and the shopper purchases 12 ears of corn plus one box of toothpicks to be used after eating said corn on the cob, many shoppers would count that as, really, only two items, thereby qualifying for the 12 items or less express line.

I hope that explains the proper express line protocols.

Colnago Mixte

So is this two items?

Or one item since they get weighed together?

Or 8 items, since after all, eight bananas is eight bananas.

chelvel

"English-speaking people drinking german beer. Talking far too loud for their ears..."

It's old.

KraneXL

One rule: by-the-pound. Therefore, 1 banana or 10 is still one item. However, 10 bananas and 1 apple (or a bag of apples) are two items. While I'm at it, multiple items sold on sale, for example, my 12 bottles of Gatorade @ 0.57 cents/dozen, are also 1 item. On the other hand, same product but less than 12 are counted as separate items. Just for clarity, fifteen cans of peas is not 1 item.