Internet commercials that you cannot skip

I was just reading an article, the screen flashes and a "word from our sponsors" starts playing.

Don't interupt what I am doing to show me an ad!!!!

To tag on to that, DD, I get so annoyed when I'm trying to watch a video online and the ad loads and plays just fine but then the video errors out. WHAT?! If you can play a stupid 30-second spot for toilet paper or a cell phone carrier, you can dang well play the video I clicked on you to watch in the first place.

You could always just gift the points back to me

I enjoy figuring out ways to maximize the points I get with the card - it's kind of a challenge.

I always pay off about $1 to $10 more than my balance, to make sure the interest works out so that I don’t have to pay again. When my next bill cuts with a credit balance, then I call for a refund and to close the card. But generally I'm scared to close a card since it can lower my credit score.

Smokers:

When the car in front of you is driven by a smoker who hangs the cig out the window (if you love smoke so much, close all your windows and just suck it up, rather than making me smoke with you)

When smokers congregate around the entrances/exits, making you hold your breath in order to pass through, but it still gets in your clothes and hair

My brain:

When you can’t remember if you took your vitamin or not

When you tell yourself “If I don’t go outside and put this in the car right now, I’m going to forget it tomorrow,” and then you’re too lazy to do that, so of course you actually do forget it the next day

I just had to sit through a ten minute argument were both people were arguing the same point, obviously they were not listening to each other! Just shut it and do your damned job!!!!

you may want to head to the HR forum and see the posts on bullying

Suggested solution to your peeve^^I keep dry erase pens in the bathroom and use them to write notes on the mirror about those things I need to remember the next day. Having it literally in my face has cut down on the forgetting.

Is this considered a personal attack on DeeQ or would there have to be mention of Tanq or a Mazda hitting a tree to qualify? I'd refer to my spreadsheet, but I think it may be outdated....

I keep trying to PM you the update version, but you keep exiting the PM as soon as I start it!

I like it! but I'm a little afraid it'll take me down some kind of Momento road, where soon I'll be trying to piece together an alibi from my totally blank memory, based on all my sticky notes

was behind someone like this once, driving down the highway...then they threw the cigaretee out the window, only to have it come right back in and land on their rear dash...and caught it on fire. car ended up burning to the ground...was unsuccessful in trying not to laugh...but i did call 911 for them to get the fire department dispatched

Here, we call those people loan officers.

I have the same lighting problem as TJ. If I'm just reading, and don't keep moving body parts, the lights go out. It's because my office used to be a storage room. No one else has this problem.

No Privacy:

When the locked doorknob gets rattled shortly after you enter the bathroom


Grossness/Being overly germophobic:

When a cashier drops your coin on the floor, picks it up, and hands it to you, rather than getting you a new one, then goes and fixes your food order

When you’re eating at someone’s house, and they take a plate just like the one you’re eating off of, and they put it on the floor for their dog to eat out of

When you’re at a birthday party and somebody’s kid sneezes on the cake

When you fill a glass of filtered water from the fridge dispenser and there are too many bubbles and you’re wondering if the glass wasn’t well-rinsed and the bubbles are soap


More awkward penguin stuff:

When an attractive female sends you a friend request, and your only possible response is to deactivate your account

When you travel out of state to a family reunion, then fake sick so you don’t actually have to attend

The existence of Office Christmas Parties


Not Knowing What is in Your Mouth:

When you’re enjoying some food at a house in another country, and you don’t recognize the shape, texture, or flavor of the meat, and when you politely ask, no one will tell you what it is, but they all start chuckling about it

::hands MBH a red Swingline::

I take it that covering your head with a plastic bag is not your choice? At least the smoke won't bother you then.

When we go out to eat and when I ask "where do you want to go" and the reply is "I don't care". Then a fight ensues because they don't want to go to certain places - ugh!

darn it ... I thought Randy said requiring someone to do their job isn't bullying.

You wouldn't like eating at my house much, then.

As long as they are following proper dish washing protocol (per the 5000000000000 posts above, who know dish washing was such an ordeal but I digress...), who cares if the dog licks the plate?

Perhaps you should ask "Where DON'T you want to go?"

Maybe the smoker should be wearing the bag, just sayin'

Nothing wrong with that RR and manimal...

Maybe I am reading too much into this response but this smells of what is wrong with America today. The mentality here is I can do what I want, even if it interferes with other people.

I am all for people being able to smoke, even reducing the taxes on cigarettes. But people who smoke need to keep in mind other people. Hence why they have had their rights limited.

If people who want to smoke want to do physical harm (as DQ's response implied), then they should continue to see their liberties infringed upon.

The dog licking the plate is PART of proper dish washing protocol. They're the rinse cycle before it goes into the dishwasher.