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Er, yes, but I am not entirely sure that it actually feels that way.
Yes and no.
Work is on my mind. So much to do. Shall I just work through until I start work at 8 tomorrow? Then I might have caught up (a bit).
Definitely one of my biggest pet peeves. And the other has been relieved by COVID. When you are in a near empty restaurant, and they sit people on top of you. Especially in booths where can feel every movement of the people on the other side of your side
YES! Why is it even if I park way out of the way not near anyone, I come out to two huge vehicles surrounding me?? Sometimes I can barely find mine. There is this ridiculously long pickup in our apartment lot that I try to avoid like the plague. Beyond just not being able to see, it is so long, if it winds up next to me, I can barely back out safely because I have to go so far back before I can start turning.
Don't complain. A few years ago I was parked in a completely empty parking lot. At noon, with a nice Texas sun shining in the sky. As I said, I was parked, making a phone call and/or eating something. Then I saw this car enter the parking lot, not fast, but not too slow. Once the car reaches the row I am in, I see this mystery car turn left. Not on the space between two rows of parking spots, but on the actual parking row, on the bright white lines. I see this car getting closer. And closer. And closer. Full-fledged side hit, resulting in a destroyed door, and some minor pain. To this day, I am still charmed by this crash.
For a while we had what I referred to as "the Monster Truck" in our parking lot, and that thing was a royal pain! After several neighbors complained about the guy parking the thing directly in front of the building, where residents park, he was asked to please park it on the other side, the visitors' side, which, while still being a comfortable walking distance to the building, meant that the truck would cause fewer issues with visibility when other residents were trying to back out of the spaces in the front of the building. That helped, but then we still had to look at the ugly thing, too.... Thankfully, that tenant only stayed a year and it was a huge relief to finally one day see the parking lot free of that monster truck!
There are way too many big SUVs and pickup trucks around here and it's ridiculous. Unless someone has a large family or has a specific need for a pickup truck, why would they want something like this in the highly congested suburbs? This isn't the rural countryside -- why a pickup truck?! Unless one has a bunch of kids, why a big van or SUV? This condo complex is not a family-sized community, either; there are few children here and are mostly babies or very young toddlers, as this is more a place where young couples start out buying their first home as a condo unit, then later moving on to a larger single-family house or townhouse as their family begins to grow....
These big vehicles do cause problems for those of us who like to drive a normal sized car or a compact car. I love my Honda Civic Hatchback, which is fun and sporty and a pleasure to drive and park, but I sure don't like all the big cars surrounding her either at home in the parking lot here or out at local stores and shopping areas!
There are way too many big SUVs and pickup trucks around here and it's ridiculous. Unless someone has a large family or has a specific need for a pickup truck, why would they want something like this in the highly congested suburbs? This isn't the rural countryside -- why a pickup truck?! Unless one has a bunch of kids, why a big van or SUV? This condo complex is not a family-sized community, either; there are few children here and are mostly babies or very young toddlers, as this is more a place where young couples start out buying their first home as a condo unit, then later moving on to a larger single-family house or townhouse as their family begins to grow....
These big vehicles do cause problems for those of us who like to drive a normal sized car or a compact car. I love my Honda Civic Hatchback, which is fun and sporty and a pleasure to drive and park, but I sure don't like all the big cars surrounding her either at home in the parking lot here or out at local stores and shopping areas!
I've seen that happen twice on the road where someone turned onto the wrong side of a road. Once a while back someone turned left onto the wrong side. Luckily, the light ahead was red and no one else turned onto the road from the shopping center. Unfortunately, a cop got them. The other wa s a few days ago they turned before the median instead of after. Didn't see the outcome of that one.
I'm in Texas, my car is very small compared to most. Yet they always end up surrounding me when I'm parked all the way across the lot. It never ceases to annoy me. You've got a huge vehicle, can you park somewhere else not obscuring my view as I pull out of the spot?
Amen to both posts.
And, - and yes - this has happened to me - why, in an otherwise empty cinema (in the days when we used to visit a cinema, which was something I rarely did), and I am a short female who wears spectacles - why do tall males come in, stand, peer around, and then proceed to march straight to where I am sitting and take the seat immediately in front of me blocking my view of the screen?
Actually, years ago, once I had gone to see a movie (in an afternoon viewing, so fewer people, I had hoped) with a male friend, tall, as it happened, - from my student days.
I had wanted to sit at the front of the entirely empty cinema, citing my experience that tall males come into an empty cinema, see me, and proceed to take the seat immediately in front of me.
"Nah", he replied, "come on; we'll sit half-way, and it's empty; nobody will sit in front of us."
And yes, tall males appeared, stood, surveyed the cinema, and proceeded to make their way to where we sat, half way back, and took the seats immediately in front of me, (but not him) thus blocking my view of the screen.
I think the dude I was with could feel the seething, simmering, rage that doubtless emanated from me, because I did not even need to articulate a syllable as he apologetically suggested that we move seats; which we did.
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Yeah I hate when taller people sit in front of me be it at the cinema, or at the stadium.
Another thing I hate are those people (for some reason they’re mostly ladies) at a concert that sing every single song as loud as they can, with the inevitable result that I paid $50 to listen to the person rather than the actual artist. I can understand a song or two but come on.
This reminds me of the time I went to a movie in the early afternoon, thinking that I'd have the place nearly to myself, and indeed I did -- it was great and I was happily sitting there all by myself waiting for the movie to begin when a guy came in, and yep, decided to come and sit in the very row I was in, only a couple of seats away!!! Grrr!!! To top it off, it was a theatre where people were allowed to purchase food, including freshly-cooked hot foods, not just popcorn and candy, and consume it in the theatre itself. So, ugh, not only did I have him sitting there, but I could smell whatever hot mess of a concoction he'd just bought to have for his late lunch/early dinner!!!! I got up and moved a few rows away where I didn't have to smell the food and hear the rustling of bags and such and could enjoy the movie in peace.
I'm short, too, and I get really annoyed when either a really tall man or a woman with Big Hair plops down right smack in front of me in a movie theatre or a concert hall. One time I was at a concert where a couple of rows ahead of me, not directly in front of me thank goodness, there was a man sitting there with this huge cowboy hat on. I wondered if the person seated right behind him would ask him to please remove it. Well, just before the lights dimmed and the concert was to begin, an usher came along and took care of that situation, and I'm sure everyone around the guy was relieved.
These are all reasons why I could quite happily never go to the cinema again. I’d be more than happy to pay the same fee to stream it at release for the few films I wish to see at release. Mostly because I hate spoilers.
When the concert hall, or movie theatre are full, and a tall person sits in front of you, it is an inconvenience - I've occasionally persuaded a couple seated directly in front of me to change or swop seats, - and mostly, they are prepared to do so (as long as their own sight lines are okay) where the shorter (female) then sits in front of me, while the male shifts to what had been her seat - but understandable.
But, I can never understand why - in an otherwise almost completely empty cinema - or concert hall - a tall, well built (male) individual will choose a seat directly in front of me. My thoughts at such times are quite homicidal.
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Relevant part at 2:10. Dialogue is not important, it’s a simple “I can’t see, remove your hats please.”
This is a lot... I am shook more and more every time I think how much time has passed since the 20th century. I was recalling some of my college adventures recently to some younger fellows, had to stop and think that they were 40-44 years ago...
The movie Interview with a Vampire turned 26 years old yesterday. I felt much older than I am at that moment. Time is just flying by it seems.
On a positive note, this case I got for my V60 has gold flecks that are really pretty in the light. I can't seem to catch it as well in a photo though.
