Things that grind your gears Options

[Kiln]

I was being ironic... ...

I sometimes forget that ironic to Americans means "Something made of iron"... ...

Hey!

*Kiln notices truth in this statement for a large portion of his countrymen*

Carry on.

[McBadgere]

Latest one...

Being constantly reminded by people who I respect and have an immense amount of time for...That my opinions on stuff don't count and are somehow wrong...

[Darkness Eternal]

Here's one! People who refuse to respect other people's perspective on things and how things should be done. I've encountered these people this week again in real life. Generally, the lack of open-minded people infuriate me.

[Black Hand]

Yes. These type of people irk me as well.

How ironic that being open-minded and respectful means we most likely will not stoop to their levels...

...some days though...


I forget who said it exactly, and I forget precisely the words were, but to paraphrase to the best of my understanding:

"The problem with the world is that the best are filled with caution and reasonable doubt, and the worst are filled with confidence and self-assurance."

[ThatSkyrimGuy]

Here's one! People who refuse to respect other people's perspective on things and how things should be done. I've encountered these people this week again in real life. Generally, the lack of open-minded people infuriate me.

I have a classic example of this. We are working at a house that needs tons of work for a real estate agent. We are going to make it "marketable". Anyway, repainting is a large part of it. Walls and ceilings. So, I am doing the drywall repairs while my business partner is masking off areas that aren't getting painted, namely, the floor. He lays two strips of masking tape along the baseboards and then breaks out the paint and starts painting them.

I'm like, "Dude, why are you getting a paint brush wet before we protect everything? If we protect everything first, we don't have to switch tasks so often."

You would have thought I killed his mother...He started going off about how "we need to make it look like we got something done and that I should worry about what I am doing and not what he's doing".

I just shrugged and went back to what I was doing. 5 minutes later, he was finishing all the protection first, like I suggested. Why the fuss then?

[McBadgere]

Here's one! People who refuse to respect other people's perspective on things and how things should be done.

Yes, I agree...Which I think makes my point - in many places - a whole lot more precisely...Thanks DE...

5 minutes later, he was finishing all the protection first, like I suggested. Why the fuss then?

Because - to him - you were telling him what to do...And people don't like that...And once he'd gotten over the knee-jerk reaction and thought about it and actually seen it was a good idea, and realised that he'd been an ass...He did what he should have in the first place...but, of course, will - in a manleh way - completely fail to say that it was anyones, except his, idea...

[Darkness Eternal]

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This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: Jun 8 2013, 05:27 AM