You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[Tawiskaron]

Originally Posted by Canehdianman

That really sucks.

The proper reaction to that has nothing to do with the Calgary Parking Authority and everything to do with the sharp end of your car key.

I really REALLY wanted to, but I figured the moment I did, somehow that would be when the owner actually comes by and I get charged with vandalism.

[Canehdianman]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

That'll teach that rental car!

Let me help you with that.

When the driver returns the car, the rental agency will note the damage and make the driver pay for it.

It actually works better for a rental, because the d-bag won't have the option of leaving the scrape as-is.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Canehdianman

When the driver returns the car, the rental agency will note the damage and make the driver pay for it.

Oh is that how rentals work?

It just seemed funny as it was a rental. My bigger beef of having a car get keyed isn't the monetary cost, it's the hideousness of the door panel and the lack of respect of personal property, and that effect would be lost on a rental.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by GP_Matt

I could be wrong, but I am of the impression that it is illegal to leave the hitch on your truck when you are not connected to a vehicle. He has that thing sticking out almost 8 inched beyond the bumper.

You are wrong.

[Kiran403]

Losing something in my own house GMG. Came home Saturday night and took my watch off and now I have no idea where I put it.

[PeteLFan]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I was up at Crappy Tire in Beacon Hill a couple weeks ago. I snapped a pic. Let's just say that not all a-holes drive the same vehicles....

You should have picked it up and properly aligned it.

[Sliver]

Haha it's not even an Abarth.

[19Yzerman19]

Originally Posted by PeteLFan

You should have picked it up and properly aligned it.

Maybe it was initially parked properly and some prankster moved it.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by Table 5

The most amazing thing about that photo is the fact that I don't see any rust on the wheel well. What kind of magical unicorn Protege 5 is this?

(Please tell me there is rust on the other side and/or around the nameplate on the lift gate)

I was about to post the exact same thing. If the damn thing wasn't so fun to drive, I would have taken a match to it and reported it stolen by now because of the rust.

[OutOfTheCube]

Does someone have to quote each gigantic bad parking picture with their one liner on every page?

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Tawiskaron

On the topic of parking. This happened to me last year after I left a client meeting, had to wait over an hour for someone to move their vehicle. I couldn't even yell at them as they pulled away when I got tired of waiting and went for a Tims coffee. No idea whom was the second vehicle that boxed me in, but it RGMG that common sense was not applied.

Was either car there when you parked? If so you should always leave yourself some room for when you get out whether that is in front or in behind you.

[calf]

There's a person at my office that begins every original email subject line with Re:, I presume to stand for "regarding". So every remaining email in the string has Re: Re: <what the subject should be>.

[lazypucker]

What GMG is when you stop for a pedestrian to cross the street and he takes his sweet time walking while yaking on the phone thinking that he owns the road! Come on dude, you are a grown-ass man and why can't you hurry up crossing the street so that everyone can get on with their own businesses? Often I want to just step on the gas and run the ####### over!

I always make a point of walking faster when a car stops for me to cross..

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

What GMG is when you stop for a pedestrian to cross the street and he takes his sweet time walking while yaking on the phone thinking that he owns the road! Come on dude, you are a grown-ass man and why can't you hurry up crossing the street so that everyone can get on with their own businesses? Often I want to just step on the gas and run the ####### over!

I always make a point of walking faster when a car stops for me to cross..

[4X4]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Does someone have to quote each gigantic bad parking picture with their one liner on every page?

Is that pic showing up as gigantic? On my screen, it's not even stretching the width of the forum. Normal sized, about 1'x1'

[Nyah]

People in my neighborhood that let their cats outside. My garden is ####ed, and my cats now need to be separated due to re-directed aggression towards one another because this cat hung out on my backyard all afternoon one day.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

For the past probably 2 or 3 years, I've been l listening to CKAV(Aboriginal Voices Radio). When it first started out it was quite lame, a good song a bad song, a Robbie Robertson song, a blues song, repeat that 4 song recipe. But then it got fairly decent, with some really good music mixed in with the odd Michael Jackson, or Madonna song. The big thing was there was very little talking and no commercials.
The night time programming was great with things like heavy rock on Thursdays, blues hour etc. Weekends sucked because it was mostly just talk radio about aboriginal issues.
In the last couple of weeks I don't know what happened but all of the music sucks ass, like bad country and stuff, and they've upped the talking.
I had this station on my alarm clock since I am still living in the 60s and don't have a phone speaker/dock. On Wednesday I woke up to some guy talking about talking to trees, wtf. So now I've had to turn it on a regular station to wake up, and of course it is commercials and idiots talking trying to be funny. I've gotten out of bed enraged the last week or so.

this GMG's.

Sweet. things are back to your regular program now. Maybe they have to play all aboriginal content for a month or something because of something with the CRTC?????

happy things are back to normal, and this particular gg is no longer gmg's.

[calgarygeologist]

I hate how people are ignorant of our freedoms and are willing to hand them over to the government or have the government limit them.

A petition has been circulated last night and I've seen a number of my "friends" on Facebook post it to their walls this morning. The petition ask for the posting/display of "graphic or disturbing" images to be made illegal because it creates a risk to drivers.

I'm all for increasing safety on our roads and reducing distractions but I'm sure most, if not all, of us are aware of whom this wording is trying to attack. Instead of limiting the petition to "graphic or disturbing" content it should reference a blanket ban on advertising and displays along roadways. Why take away the rights of one group and not another?

I'm appalled that a small group of individuals who become offended by various displays think that it is acceptable to try to limit the freedoms of others.

I'm not a supporter of any specific group that attempts to portray their message using "graphic or disturbing" images but I am a supporter of our rights and freedoms, of limited government interference and of the notion of "live and let live."

[troutman]

https://www.novapublishers.com/catal...ducts_id=23177

The first study of this chapter noted a gender difference in that female drivers appeared to be more distracted when conversing on a mobile phone than did the male drivers; and that the male drivers appeared to be more distracted when conversing with a passenger. The second study examined the question of why a gender difference might exist for mobile phone conversations and varied the content of the conversation so that it was either cognitive or emotive in nature. This manipulation not only confirmed the previous finding that female drivers make more errors than do male drivers but also found that the pattern of responses, in terms of type of errors made, differed for male and female drivers. Overall, both males and females made more errors when the conversation was emotive rather than cognitive in content, especially so for the female drivers. Female drivers were particularly prone to making lateral or lane position errors and there was a tendency for the male drivers to make more errors of a longitudinal or temporal type. These studies are aimed at gaining a better understanding of the apparent gender specificity of some sources of distraction for young drivers, with a view to better targeting safety messages to this at-risk group of drivers.

http://road.cc/content/news/34776-ma...on-says-survey
A survey has found that male drivers are more than twice as likely than female ones to suffer an accident because they have been distracted at the wheel. The news comes in the wake of a landmark ruling earlier this year by the European Court of Justice, due to be implemented in the UK by the end of next year, that will make it illegal for insurance companies to differentiate between customers due to gender.

[johnnyrocket03]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I hate how people are ignorant of our freedoms and are willing to hand them over to the government or have the government limit them.

A petition has been circulated last night and I've seen a number of my "friends" on Facebook post it to their walls this morning. The petition ask for the posting/display of "graphic or disturbing" images to be made illegal because it creates a risk to drivers.

I'm all for increasing safety on our roads and reducing distractions but I'm sure most, if not all, of us are aware of whom this wording is trying to attack. Instead of limiting the petition to "graphic or disturbing" content it should reference a blanket ban on advertising and displays along roadways. Why take away the rights of one group and not another?

I'm appalled that a small group of individuals who become offended by various displays think that it is acceptable to try to limit the freedoms of others.

I'm not a supporter of any specific group that attempts to portray their message using "graphic or disturbing" images but I am a supporter of our rights and freedoms, of limited government interference and of the notion of "live and let live."

Dude, the anti-abortion banners on Deerfoot must be stopped. Its pathetic, disgusting and no one wants to see it. I'm all for this petition if it stops the anti abortion crowd and im not going to be terribly upset if we lose some other advertising along the way. These people can protest without the graphic, disturbing images on their gigantic banners. I do not need that shoved down my throat on my commute.