remember this??

http://mypetpeeves.com/blog/p,7274/

well, today I get a letter in the mail saying that my claim was denied and that the asshole that hit me was NOT at fault!!!???  and now MY insurance has to not only pay for my damages BUT HIS TOO!!??

but that's only the beginning, I have now found out that the policeman LIED to me that day.  wow, can you believe it?  I was told that the other driver was getting a speeding ticket ALONG with the ticket he was giving me for "reasonable vigilance".  he told me he was giving him a ticket for speeding when I asked him what the hell reasonable vigilance meant while I signed my ticket.  and not only did the other guy NOT get a ticket, he made it seem like I was backing out on the street when he hit me!  I was NOT moving and was STILL on the parking lot, not even off the CURB when he hit me and the first thing out his mouth was, "I didn't see you"  but that's NOT what the police report says.  of course, HE says that he "observed me backing out from a private lot onto the street and he was unable to avoid the movement of my truck and hit me…!!!???"  WTF??!!  I SAW HIS ASS A HALF A BLOCK AWAY BEFORE HE HIT ME.  THAT'S WHY I WAS WAITING TO BACK OUT ON THE STREET!!!  NOW HE MAKES IT SEEM LIKE I WAS BACKING OUT AND NOT LOOKING AND CAME OUT ON THE ROAD IN FRONT OF HIM!  IF THAT WAS SO, THEN WHY WAS I STILL ON THE CURB, STILL ON THE PARKING LOT!!??  I don't know how clear this will be for you to see but this is a copy of what was on the report.   

maybe if you right click on it you might see it larger.well, I don't know how to make it larger, it's hard to see it like this.

and oh, yeah, my insurance will probably be paying for my co-worker's truck too since I was PUSHED into her truck when he hit me and I dented her truck!! 

this whole thing was twisted and turned around and makes me look like I did something wrong and makes me look like the bad driver in this whole mess and I was so pissed to the point of tears because it's so UNFAIR!  I looked when I backed up.  you have to back up a little bit in order to see around the cars parked on both sides to see what's coming.  I did that and stopped when I saw that that asshole was coming half a block away.  what kind of stupid would I be to keep backing out when someone was coming??  and how do you hit someone who's not even in the street???

and I go to court on jan 14 for my ticket.  so if I win, then does my insurance still pay??  this is a mess!

Help me out here. We are all working harder and more hours to make less money while the economy continues to reel out of control. Meanwhile, back in the sporting world these ball players like manny ramirez is holding out for $24 million a year. That is, instead of $20 Million. Sometimes I wonder that all the sports guys and celebrities help to keep feeding the culture that "i can never make enough money" while the rest of us whither. What goes here?

Same thing with the autopresident of GM, Ford.. a couple of those guys made $13 million plus last year. For what? All they did was to continue the failed strategy that they have followed for years. They should give the money back? How do we stop this madness?

Lately I have noticed a ton of vehicles that have "In memory of…(insert name), date of birth-date of death"

Usually aren't In memory of something that had to do with the deceased, or to mark the area the tragedy occurred? Having something on the back window of a car doesn't make sense, unless the car belonged to the deceased. That may be the case in a few of them, but most of them the car is newer than the date of death. Maybe I am missing something. I just think it is an odd way to show rememberance.

My Peeve is why there is even catagory on this website  for Nascar and Busch? I can think of nothing (beside paint drying) to watch on TV that is more boring than cars driving around in a circle one hundred times.  YAWN! Oh wow he made a left turn ohh ohh ohhhhh another left turn, oh wait its another left turn.  Fun, Fun, Fun, NOT!

my truck!  this is what I've been dealing with since Friday, oh, around 12:30 in the afternoon, AT WORK!  yes I was at work when I was hit.

I was waiting to back out (going get lunch), I wasn't  even in the street or ON the street when this guy hit me.  our parking lot is on side of the street so when you back out, you have to look for cars coming down the street. all the cars are parked in a row so you have to back out a little to look for cars coming down the street and when I saw the truck that was coming I stopped to wait for it to pass.  well, when  it passed, it HIT me. to this day I STILL am trying to figure out HOW he hit me!  he had to be SO CLOSE to the curb when he passed in order to hit me.  well, the first thing out his mouth was, and I quote "I didn't see you and I had the right of way!"  to which I responded, "I wasn't even IN the street yet, so why were you SO CLOSE??!!"  he hit me on the side with the broken glass and pushed me into the white truck parked next to me which belonged to the girl who was in the car WITH me.  after that we called the cops and then that's when it hit me, "MY TRUCK IS EFFED UP!"  and I started crying while I called David to tell him about it.  it was still drive-able and the engineers at work clipped off my bumper cuz it was hanging and put it in the back and I drove to the dealer which is right up the road from where I work and I got a rental from enterprise while I was there.  so hopefully, they said they are going to start fixing it tomorrow. the rental I got is a minivan, I hate it!  I miss my truck.  

I forgot to tell you that we BOTH got a ticket…him for speeding and me  for "reasonable vigilence".  I asked the cop what that was for and he said cuz I "may" have been at fault too if I was over the curb sticking out in the street a little bit.  BUT even so, IF that was the case, he STILL should have seen me and NOT been so close to the curb!! and I did have to back up some to see if anyone was coming!!! but I was NOT on the street YET!

So I am driving home a few minutes ago, approaching a side street. They have to stop and wait for traffic to clear, right? Right. This PINHEAD suddenly pulls out into traffic, meaning RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!! He (or she, couldn't tell, long haired hippies!!!) spewing BLACK smoke out of the tail pipe (and it was NOT a diesel) just to (or so I thought) get into the slight gap I had between me and the car in front of me.

Alright, I thought, perhaps there is a line of cars behind me and they don't wanna get stuck waiting. I checked the rear view, nothing! Not just nothing, but STILL nothing a MILE later when this dweeb pulls into the banks driveway! This person not only could have waited, but they could have gotten out of their car and pushed it there was so NO traffic behind me!!!

GRRRRRRRRR 

Let me tell you a little story. Today I went to a GM dealer because we are thinking about getting a new truck. I went to the dealership and they totally tried to scam me. I am to smart for that ***** I told the guy I want to go through my bank not GMAC. I know they make way more money going through GMAC then if I go through my bank. They didn't listen to me and ran my credit report without my approval. Came back said we can sell you this truck for 558 dollars a month I just looked him and said the deal is over I told you what I wanted to do. Man was I mad. I told the guy give me the information and trade in on my car and I will run it through MY bank.

So I just ran it through my bank online guess what my payments were for the same thing. 360 bucks 318 without the trade in. What was worse was I just hit a deer with that care and have not turned it into the insurance yet he wanted me to, get this give them the check for the insurance. They would fix the car for fracking free. Then sell it for a big price. I told my wife NO Fracking way we will get the insurance to fix the car get the real trade in value of it and not eat that much money.

If I would have agreed to that deal it would have been stupid on me. I will never go back to that place and I really wanted that GMC Canyon.

My Friday morning has been destroyed. I have never wanted so badly to rip someones arm off and beat the ever living piss out of them with it! I called yesterday to get set up to get my studs on the SUV. The guy says they don't do appointments, but that as long as I'm there at 7am to drop my car off it will be done by the end of my work day (which is perfect for me). 

So I get up early, and get my lazy butt moving (still tired after the hockey game). I arrive at the business 10 minutes before 7. I sit in my car and listen to the radio. There are three other people waiting by the door. Time passes slowly, and I see the clock in the building hit 7. OK no problems, it's a windy rainy morning, perhaps he's running late. Five minutes later my coworker shows up and I said "Go to work, I'll get a cab there. Let them know I might be a few minutes late".

I grab my stuff and I go stand with the other people (now there's 8 people standing there). We're standing around, some are reading, some are chatting, and I overhear a guy say "Yeah he told me the open at 8 but to get here about 7:30."       WHAT????

Apparently I was the ONLY person told to be there at 7, everyone else was told 7:30ish. WTF is up with that??? I have to be to work at 7:30! Why the hell would you tell a customer to show up half an hour before you tell EVERYONE else. Now I'm fuming mad, getting more and more pissed by the minute.

Finally at 7:20 I couldn't take it anymore. I had 10 minutes to get to work and this anus still hadn't shown up. I decided that I would rather pay $100 more for the tires then miss time at work and pay for a damn cab ride because this company owner is a jack-a$$ that can't tell everyone the same thing! Now I have to call a few other places and pick one, then set up an appointment. These other places are ALL pre-approved by coworkers for being good, knowing their $hit, and getting it done when they say it'll be done as well as being there when they tell you they will be there!

GRRRRR I think maybe I'll go look for steel and relive some of this stress I have. 

Calif. lapdogs can stay just that in moving cars

Face value: Why we love, hate, fear cars

by Marlowe Hood Tue Sep 23, 7:31 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - Do you find that the Renault Twingo has a smiling face? That the VW Beetle looks startled? The Trabant is sad? And a BMW looks angry?

In a new study, scientists say that if we see a mellow, macho or other expression on the front end of a car, it is because we are hardwired to scan human faces for vital information.

Humans, like other animals, have evolved the ability to size someone up in the briefest of glances, they say. Seeing a face for just a tenth of a second in enough to figure out if that person is hostile or helpful, a stranger or kin — a prehistoric survival mechanism that can make the difference between life and death.

To see if this reflex extends to automobiles, a team of researchers led by Karl Grammer of the University of Vienna asked 40 young adults — half women, half men — to rate the front ends of 38 recent-model cars, all of the same colour.

The researchers first classified the "expressions" on the cars using a computerised system of standardized measures for human faces that indicate degrees of masculinity or femininity, and different emotions, based on the size and position of facial features.

Then they asked participants to rate each car's "face" for 19 criteria: Is the "face" more like a child or an adult? More friendly or hostile? More male or female? Is it arrogant? Happy? Afraid? Aggressive?

Respondents were also simply asked if the car's front end looked like a face and, if so, whether it was more human or animal. Finally, they picked the vehicles they liked.

More than a third said that 90 percent of the cars reminded them of a face, and all of the participants indicated headlights for the "eyes" and a radiator grill for the "mouth."

Their ranking of emotions matched the ones generated by computers in most cases, according to the experiment, reported this week in the journal Human Nature, published by Germany's Springer group.

As for preferences, both men and women showed a clear liking for cars they described as mature, dominating, masculine, arrogant and angry — characteristics the researchers bundled together under the heading "power".

These cars had a low-slung bonnet and wide front, associated with with the square jaw and prominent chin of stereotyped masculinity. Topping the list of "power" cars were top-of-the-line BMWs and the Chrysler 300C, 340-horsepower alpha-male of an auto with a V-8 under the bonnet.

At the submissive, friendly and childlike end of the spectrum were Nissan's New Micra, Volkswagen's New Beetle and the Kia Picanto.

"The tendency to interpret car fronts as faces could be the result of an error management strategy which has evolved in order to not miss any information about faces," the authors argue.

Error management theory looks at the consequences of making a mistake in judgement. In evolutionary terms, faces are the quickest indicators of potential danger.

The next step could be to quantify how our perception of car "faces" affects our auto purchases and driving behaviour, offering potential benefits for marketeers but also for road safety, the researchers say.

"Do we feel that driving a car that looks arrogant and dominant might be of benefit in the daily 'battles' on the road?" they ask.

"Does one change lanes and give way sooner when an 'aggressive' car appears in the rearview mirror?"

my street was BLOCKED!!!

I went to get donuts this morn and when I came back home I couldn't even DRIVE down my street to park in my driveway!  2 cop cars were all in the middle and I had to drive up on the front LAWN of the neighbor's house to get in my driveway.  I live on a dead end street.  so there is no other way onto my street. and then when I got out the truck, I see the cops coming out the house across the street LAUGHING!!!  WTF!!??  couldn't have been too urgent so why couldn't they have just pulled to the side of the street?

THEN when I was leaving out to go to DJ's game, a big truck was blocking the EXIT of my street, stopped in front the manhole in the ground doing something!!!!  I was already rushing and then THIS!!!  THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY IN OR OUT MY STREET, WHY DO THEY DO THIS!!??  so I had to roll up on the curb AGAIN to LEAVE!!!!

I know I said I wouldn't be back until after Thanksgiving, but I just HAVE to get some **** off my chest!! After this post I'm going to go back to not coming here until then. But this site IS called pet peeves, and BOY OH BOY am I just aggravated.

Right now I'm wishing McCain never picked Palin, because now we have news people EVERYWHERE. Gretta Van Susteren is even up here. I hate that woman, and now she's in my city! Tourist season ended last week, but the number of people in town has NOT gone down as it normally does, all these reporters flew up here and took their place. GO AWAY REPORTERS!! You can report about Palin from the lower 48, you don't have to come up here and clog up my streets! Just yesterday I was driving home and I thought to myself "Damn, nobody knows how to drive, but it's not snowing yet" - and then after that I found out about all these reporters. They're making life HELL in terms of driving around town.

As for Obama, I'm SUPER pissed off at him right now. Why in Gods name did he send 30 "lawyers" (or as normal people would call them, investigators) to Alaska to dig up dirt on her? I don't want these people up here, and the only thing they're doing is pissing off the people that live up here! I have seen more and more people that weren't going to vote for McCain decide to vote for him based on Obama doing the smear campaign. And seriously O-man, GET SOME FACTS!! You see MOST of the people that live up here have personally gotten to know Sarah, have PERSONALLY spent time with her. You can't tell us a lie and think we'll believe it, we PERSONALLY know otherwise! 

It's pathetic. I guess it goes to show they really don't have a fight against her though, if they did they'd stop trying to attack her personal life. I guess when you're that good, people have no choice but to make up lies and call you a pig with lipstick (by the way, thanks for giving us up here something to laugh about, we really do love that one!).

I can't wait for this election to be over. I can't wait for these F'ing reporters to go back to the lower 48. I'm going to go piss Gretta off tonight, I'm going to go stand behind the camera guy and everytime she talks I'm going to just yell at her. Nothing rude either, just be loud enough to piss her off. She had on her heavy down winter coat too!! Us locals are still wearing T-shirts out, and she's got on a winter coat!!!

GO HOME REPORTERS!!!! We finally got rid of the tourists, we don't have long until the snow starts to fall, so PLEASE give us our few weeks of easy driving on the roads!! If ya'll don't leave soon, I'm filling my vehicle with drunk natives and paying them to do what it takes to make you leave!!

OK thanks guys!! I'll stop by later before I leave work. But after today I'm done coming here again. I stopped by today to say hi and get that stuff off my chest, and I see it's exactly how I predicted, too much political BS for me to stay around. 

while I was driving and it read "LYKMBIG" and of course she was driving a HUMMER H2.

driving that, I'd think that plate SHOULD have read "LYKMGAS"!!!!

LOLOLOL!!! I crack myself up sometimes.  I was laughing in the car while driving. I guess people thought I was nuts!

Buying a car from a dealer is one of the few remaining truly miserable experiences the citizens of this great country are unfortunately subjected to on a regular basis.

I happen to be shopping for a new car last week.  I have never been confronted by a bigger bunch of liars, cheaters and thieves in my life.  Car dealers and their sales staff engage in some of the most deceptive, deceitful, misleading and underhanded sales tactics I have ever witnessed.  I can smell the scams when I enter the showroom (rather than the smell of new cars).

Now it just so happens that I’ve bought/leased and sold many cars over the years.  Plus I know a little bit about cars and the car business.  But it took all of my experience and patience to ensure that I was not “buried” in a bad deal.  That’s what the car dealers themselves call it (while laughing in private): “Burying” someone in a deal. Isn’t that pleasant.

Does anyone have a horror story about buying a car from your friendly neighborhood car dealer?  I’d love to hear it.

I think I’m going to buy a bicycle instead.

Peeve On!

The Peeve Meister

P.S. Congrats to Diolma, our Rant-of-the-Week winner from last week. And good luck to all you Super Peevers this week. We'll be awarding another set of prizes for the best comment to this week's "Rant of the Week."

Ok…..there are those who don't beleive we should drill off our coasts. There are other nations doing it off our coasts right now.  We would be safer than them. They don't care if they spill and screw up our coast.

But lets forget about that. Ok, lets say we forget about drilling and ONLY look for the "other". Ok, some egghead figures something out. Now ALL our vehicles (forget that tires are made of oil) are now obsolete. Now what? Only the rich will be able to get their new vehicles, what about the poor? Oh wait the Democrats can make ANOTHER welfare program to help them out. Furthering their afgenda of two classes of people (although they say they want one class). They have the leaders (them) and the poor/ the followers. We can gratefully take the handouts they think we deserve. Now what about all our oil dependant vehicles? What do we do with them??? Talk about an environmental hazzard. I can see the HUGE junk yards now. Plus without oil, they will need to find a new way to make tires.

Ya, the alternative fuel is the ONLY thing we should be researching!!!

Idiots have to much time on there hands. There are major problems and they bitch about this.

Signs in Atlanta will no longer warn passersby of men at work. Women aren't hearing of it, since they're at work, too. And the city listened.

Women's magazine editor Cynthia Good asked that all the "Men at Work" or "Men Working Ahead" road signs be taken down, and Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista complied, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Good, 48, who edits the women's magazine PINK, isn't stopping with Atlanta, though. She's going nationwide with her crusade.

"We're calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination," she told the paper.

The signs were everywhere and would often be posted where women were working alongside the men. So Atlanta's Public Works employees will replace 50 "Men at Work" signs with those that say simply "Workers Ahead," according to the Journal-Constitution.

It will cost $22 to cover over some of the existing signs and $144 to purchase new ones.

Some female Public Works employees complained about the male-focused signage years ago, according to city union leader Gina Pagnotta.

"It is a little bit biased to say 'Men Working,' " she told the paper. "Women are working, too."

about any of you 'new' to buying a car. . .

I wonder if it has leg/head room?

The parking lot at work is a private parking lot for our employees and our customers ONLY. We have signs posted everywhere but people still park there anyway. When you ask them to park elsewhere they cop a major attittude saying that there are no posted signs!  Our signs are all over and easily read these people see them they just don't give a fig.

Not sure if any of you have seen the 'freecreditdotcom' commercials, but I have! They tell ytou throughout the ad that 'all' you do is go online, and get your FREE CREDIT REPORT!!!

Well, I looked and it is true, the report IS 'free'. . . as long as you use a credit card to sign up for a 30 day trail period!!! So, what if the REASON you are looking is to see WHY you can't get a credit card? I don't have one and they don't take debit cards! I was looking for a background check, not even for a credit card. I was (and still am) wondering what prospective employers might be seeing.  But, since I don't have a credit card, I guess I am gonna have to hire a private eye or something. . .

I've decided that being my auto insurance is up for renewal next month that I will shop around for the best price I can get. I have been with this company, I won't mention their name *cough* progressive *cough* since I first got my learners permit, over 10 years ago. I usually pay in full (which I will not anymore being I got the brand new car and it's a bit more). 

After using a few websites that send you quotes and calling a few places, I was honestly shocked to see that this company *cough* progressive *cough* was over $100 MORE then any other company (geico not included - but I won't go with them because of that STUPID lizard). I mean I have been with this company for so many years where is my "loyal customer" discount? Or at least my FAIR price?? They were always the best priced for me, but all of a sudden they are $100 more then the rest? Do they think they can just WALK over loyal customers??

Needless to say, tomorrow I will send all my info to another company, the lowest bidder for the SAME exact coverage (actually better coverage) and will start with them when mine runs out. The cheapest company also gives a discount for doing a direct payment from my account!! That stupid company *cough* progressive *cough* just lost a customer for life. One that was never late with payments (my credit is through the roof) and one that just purchased a brand new car. Stupid Insurance Company!

On the plus side, my new insurance company sponsors my favorite NASCAR driver.. hehehe, so convenient! Kinda made my day that they were the cheapest!

I hate when driving on the highway you see signs that say 20 miles ahead there is construction taking place and to merge with the opposite lane. What bugs me are those people who ignore all the warning signs until the last possible moment to merge and cut everyone else off in the process.  I swear to god the next jerk in a compact car that tries this is gonna get a bumper full of Jeep Wrangler!

This is a nightmare.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos /Cycling-Matamoros/ss/events/sp/060705cycling/im:/080602/481/38c49a12cf0144c195d 4fea1e5580b3c/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24947044

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24779216

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/StrategyLab/Rnd17 /P1/HighIQjournal20080524.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/us/15brfs-GASOLINEAVER_BRF .html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Now this is just AVERAGE for the entire state. Right now in town we're up to $3.90, and I hear out in the villages they're up past $5.00.

When are we going to open ANWAR??? I also think we should have some refineries up here too! I mean it's a total waste to get the oil from here, ship it to the lower 48, turn it into gas, then ship it back. I think it would lower our prices, and maybe some of yours, if we had a refinery up here to do the work. Then it wouldn't be shipped as far!

…people who turn their head ALL the way around while changing lanes and driving!!!  I mean, WHY??!!  that's what the rear/side view mirrors are for!  that's how accidents happen, the minute they turn around to look behind them, then the person IN FRONT them will put on brakes and BAM!!  Unless you are missing these mirrors, you should, AT MOST, only need to GLANCE QUICKLY to the side because of the blind spot in the mirrors.  I was just driving on the interstate and this JAG OFF was not only driving fast but was changing lanes like a fool AND EVERY time he changed lanes he'd turn around AND stick his HEAD OUT THE WINDOW!!  I made sure I stayed FAR away from him.  he was an accident waiting to happen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24582399

I guess the price of gas NEEDS to go back down, huh???   YEAH, RIGHT!!!

Did I screw up or something?? I just saw a commercial for Jeeps where they are giving you regular gas (87) for $2.99 for three years. Check out jeep.com it's even there! If I had known this I would have waited until now to buy my new vehicle!!!

Also- Iggy - is there any way to set up the post-making section so it doesn't select "People who are" by default.. Sorry, I know I'm getting picky aren't I?