Know what really grinds my gears?
People who back into parking spaces.
I'll be more specific. People who back into parking spaces and take approximately 8-12 weeks to do so.
If you can back into a parking space in the same amount of time it takes an average driver to pull forward into one, have at it. More power to you. I've even met one. I've yet to meet the other. But if you're lining up for your 10th crack at backing in, don't get mad at me because I'm honking at you to get out of my way. Be ashamed of yourself for purchasing that tank of an SUV that probably would take you at least four tries to park forward successfully.
Why do you need to back in anyway? I can think of only one reason: you're robbing a bank and need to make a quick getaway. But if you're simply returning a movie to Blockbuster, and it takes you longer to reverse-maneuver your Honda than it took you to watch that copy of "Titanic," I have one word for you: Netflix. And get better taste in movies.
And that's what really grinds my gears. Back to you, Tom.
Posted by Brian at 11:41 PM
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Category: Rant
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Posted by: Betsy on January 11, 2008 03:21 AM
Don't forget that some people have really itsy bitsy cars to park. :)
Posted by: Betsy on January 11, 2008 03:24 AM
by the way...your blog clock is off. I posted my comment at 6:21 a.m., not 3:21 a.m. :)
Posted by: chris on January 11, 2008 04:42 AM
Thank you, sir, for the 'mad props' as the kids say, and for the lovely Family Guy reference. Shame you had to sully it at the end with a link. Otherwise, it would have been a delightful amusement to those of us 'in the know', as it were. Most delightful.
Good day, sir.
Posted by: Diane on January 12, 2008 01:49 PM
Yes, yes, yes - I hate these people. I also hate people who don'gt put grocery carts back, people who litter (this includes those that for some reason thing cigarette butts aren't trash), and people who expect you to know when they are talking to the secret person living in the blue tooth in their ears or when they are talking to you. I also really hate the guy that sells all those cleaning products on TV.