Let's start...

[BusBus]

A novice driver's license? What's that? is it like a learner's permit?

It's a new driver's license. You get it when you pass your driving test. You have to have it for 24 months before you can re-test for your full driver's license. It has a few restrictions, such as passenger limits and zero alcohol in your system. If you are caught breaking these rules or get a ticket, your 24 month probation period starts again. Plus, you have to drive around with a green 'N' on your car. I am personally not bothered by these restrictions, but some folks feel that it's necessary to make fun of me for it (I'm 26 yrs old and still "have an N"). *sigh*

[AFPheonix]

Ah, I see.


The scarlet letter on the car is kind of an amusing touch though. We don't have that here.

[BusBus]

Ah, I see.


The scarlet letter on the car is kind of an amusing touch though. We don't have that here.

*LOL* The scarlet letter? Love it! If you ever drive up the coast, you'll see plenty of them. The novice drivers have a green N on their car and learners have a red L on their car.

[DesignFox]

here ya go...in no particular order...

-sucky customers

-sucky co-workers

-companies that make promises that they won't keep and/or value shitty employees more than the good ones

-nightmares (DesignFox doesn't sleep so well)

-assholes on cellphones

-people who don't know how to drive. This includes, but is not limited to: people who drive the speed limit or less in the fast lane, people who randomly slam on their brakes, people who drive psychotically fast/tailgate/flash highbeams, people who weave dangerously in and out of traffic...

-huge honking SUVs. This is JERSEY people! You aren't going off roading! Hell, you aren't fooling me, I KNOW it's just YOU in there! Get a reasonably sized vehicle!

-When it's busy and some asshat takes up more than one parking space

-Rudeness. Actually, most of the other things I could say, and most of the above, probably all come down to rudeness. I can't stand inconsiderate morons.

-zealots or fanatics

[yahurd]

-zealots or fanatics

im outta luck there

[DesignFox]

yahurd- as long as you aren't threatening to kill people in the name of whatever...you probably don't fit that category.

[tropicsgoddess]

Things I Hate:

Hypcrites

Phonies

Incompetence

Inconsiderate Jerks

Religious Zealots

Racists

Sexists

[Peppergirl]

1. People who drive the exact speed limit (or under) in the left lane and won't move.

2. People who pull out in front of you, forcing you to brake, only to then poke along like they've got all day..

3. Favoritism, especially at work.

4. Hypocrites.

5. My metabolism, which seems to be creeping to a standstill with each passing birthday.

6. Customers who will not STFU and just LISTEN to what you're saying.

[powerboy]

Lets see, what I hate in a shuffled order

1. Rap music
2. People who has their music blaring so loud, that my car shakes.
3. Racist's
4. People who can drive, but has to be assholes while driving.
5. People who are fake.
6. People who lie in their own posts, to make themselves seem cooler. Seen it like of times on forums, I use to go too.
7. Spam mails
8. People who will not control their babies
9. People who abuse the welfare system

[Seshat]

* Pain. All day, every day.
* Chronic illness.
* Invisible chronic illness.
* People who look at me or the people closest to me funny because we're using one of the adaptations for our chronic illnesses and not behaving 'normally'; but we don't 'look sick'.

And on other topics:

* People who get all bent out of shape because of people like me who are trying to make human societies more fair.
* People who don't understand that human societies are a cooperative effort: humanity is not a bunch of individual cavemen each struggling to pass on their genes, humanity is a complex interaction of societies and individuals working for our collective species survival. Anyone who thinks humans should each individually strive to 'win' or 'rise above mediocrity' or be 'competitive' is welcome to leave society and go be competitive on their own. And no, they can't take anything with them - everything 'they have' was obtained by cooperative social collaboration.

* Willful ignorance. Intentional, deliberate ignorance.
* Anyone who drives without the awareness that they're in control of a weapon.

[horror]

Sit back and relax, this is going to take a while.
I'm very stressed, angry and depressed these days.

1. College requirements. I far exceed the necessary grade requirements, know I am smart enough to reach honours, am dedicated and driven, but none of that means anything without 50 hours of volunteer work.
2. Finding volunteer work when no one has any openings and everyone is on vacation.
3. People who go on vacation.
4. The fact that I've never gone on vacation.
5. My job.
6. People who do fuck all with their life and somehow manage to have more money than me and manage to have more opportunities. Um... pardon me, but I work my ass off for everything I have and you're getting things handed to you on a silver platter? I hope you spontaneously fucking combust!
7. The fact that people cannot actually spontaneously combust, nor can I make such a thing happen at will.
8. WINTER! I don't know if it's Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder or flat out hatred for anything below 20C but I cannot STAND this weather! Snow is all nice and pretty for a DAY, then after that the thought of leaving my house literally makes me want to break down and cry.
9. The fact that EVERYTHING makes me want to cry these days, and whenever my doctor asks me about things like that I lie and say I'm perfectly fine.
10. Being in and out of doctor's offices so many times in the last few months.
11. Feeling like I'm wasting my life.
12. Celebrity "news".
12a. People who make a career out of reporting celebrity "news". YOUR JOB IS USELESS AND YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT THAN A GOSSIPING GRANDMA! And yet they make 10x what I do. What a world.
13. Young kids who try to act older. I would give ANYTHING to be 10 years-old again. These kids are willingly handing over the best time of their lives just to look, I don't know, cool? You want to be "cool" like a 20-something? Ok, I'll go play with your Barbies and build forts and have tea parties and play in the mud and you can pay my bills, go to work for me, write my college essays, save for school, and balance my debt. Want to know why it's not as cool to be older as you think it is? Two words: pap smear!
14. Fucking know-it-all people who insist on putting you down whenever they can, and refuse to accept any information refuting their claims and deny its authenticity. If you can't admit you're wrong once and a while then don't bother opening your mouth.
15. Being told I shouldn't be concerned with my appearance or want to get into shape because, "You're skinny, you're not allowed to complain," as though the fact that I'm 5'7" and 140Lbs (which is not "skinny") leaves all my opinions invalid. Fuck you. People who think that because a person is not overweight they're not "allowed" to be concerned about their physical size need a reality check. You can be any size, look any way, and it doesn't matter. What a person looks like on the outside means nothing when it comes to how they feel on the inside. To all the people who have criticized me as of late: be thankful you don't feel the same way and do me a favour and shut your fucking blow hole.
16. Stupid people. What? You're a grown adult and can't spell or use even somewhat proper grammar? And you're not learning disabled? Give me a fucking break. There's no excuse for that and when people say things like, "well it's the education system's fault for not teaching them," I want to hit them over the head with a frozen ham. People need to take responsibility for themselves, and there is no reason why an adult who is not disabled in any way that would prevent him or her from learning should not possess the basic English skills that most of us learn and master before we're 12. Either you're flat out stupid or you're terribly lazy when it comes to spelling and grammar. Either way I don't care, you still piss me off.
17. People who assume that by looking at me I can't possibly be smart, and the fact that I care if I break a nail means I'm a moron.
17a. People who patronize me about things like that. You may think you're clever and funny and that your jokes are going over my head, but they're not, and now you've just landed yourself on my Do Not Serve list. And yes, my managers will back me up when I enforce it and tell you that you will not receive any assistance from me today.
18. People who wear non-prescription glasses.
18a. People who choose to wear contacts, then on top of that wear non-prescription glasses. Are you serious? Hey, nonsensical girl at my work, you're ridiculous.
18b. People who insist I'm wearing coloured contacts even when I'm wearing my glasses. I'm sorry you can't accept the fact that my eyes are naturally the colour that they are, but getting mad at me and accusing me of lying is not going to alter reality.

[AFPheonix]

Check out your local Craigslist for volunteer opportunities. Also, ask friends and family if they've got any ins to non-profits to go work for. My mom volunteers at a clinic and I join her there twice monthly for some nice relaxing grunt work.

Furthermore, stop lying to your doctor regarding how you feel. Sometimes just talking about it will make you feel better. If you need a chemical boost, then so be it, but you have nothing to lose by opening your mouth and saying something. The worst that could possibly happen is the doctor blows you off.

As for worrying about other people who seem to have more than you, don't. All you can do with your life is worry about yourself and do what you can with what you got. Everything else is cake.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Oh, lordy, here we go.

1) Men who think that I must be wearing heels and a dress especially for them to gawk at and hit on. Yes, I like to look classy in public. But just because you're wearing nice clothes as well doesn't mean I'm automatically going to be responsive to your clumsy and offensive attempts to hit on me in a public place. There are children in a grocery store, dammit! Don't stare at my chest in front of them and make crude remarks to your frat buddies about me---and then get offended when I'm visibly annoyed with you, and call me a bitch as I walk away. If I wanted to be treated like that, I'd wear a miniskirt and tube top, or go around naked, thank you.

2) Women who assume I'm going to be snotty to them because I'm skinny. Okay, it's time to let the cat out of the bag. I used to weigh 300 pounds. Yes, that's right, I used to weigh 300 pounds. I was mentally and emotionally abused as a child by my family and my peers, and I developed a serious eating disorder to cope. It took a Herculean effort on my part to get better, and I decided that if I was going to go to all this effort, I was going to do it all the way. So now I'm a health nut---I eat lots of health food and I lift weights every day, and that's why I look like this. So don't assume that I'm going to look down on you just cause you're overweight. I've been there. I know what it's like to be the fattest person in the room. I don't appreciate being pegged as a snooty bitch just cause I now weigh 120 pounds, anymore than you appreciate being looked down on by skinny people because you can't shop at the Gap. I'll be perfectly nice to you as long as you're perfefctly nice to me.

3) People who think I'm talking out of my ass. I am *extremely* over educated. I have a very high IQ, I read voraciously, and I have a 90% recall rate. So yes, sometimes I do resemble a walking encyclopedia. If you ask a question, a serious question, and I answer it with facts and figures, that means I've read about it somewhere and remembered it. I am not speaking just to hear my own voice. You asked a question, and I'm doing my best to answer it! If you want to refute what I say, great. Do it in a polite manner, and cite a reference or 2, if you can. But don't look at me like I crawled out of the library sewer. I assure you, I am not making this information up for my own benefit.

4) People who lie in wait to spring the Jesus question on you. Don't think I don't see you, hovering back there near the front pillar, just waiting to follow me around. Do you really, actually think that I have heard the Have you found Jesus yet? question before? Did you think that this time would somehow be different than all the other times I've had it sprung on me? Do you really want me to respond in a sarcastic manner? You've lost him again? You people really can't seem to keep track of your deity, can you? I mean, Buddha never gets lost. I've never, ever had one person come up to me going 'Have you found Buddha yet?' with a pleading look on their face. I respect your right to believe whatever you little heart desires: so why can't you respect mine? Do you have any idea how offensive it is to deal with someone who's actions basically say "sorry, you are not capable of choosing what to believe, so we need to do it for you."

5) hairstylists who want to chop off my hair and dye it. STOP BOTHERING ME IN PUBLIC. I like my hair really long, and I like it's natural color. You don't often see women with my color hair, simply because those who have it either bleach or dye it, because you've convinced them that light brown hair is a sign of a mousy, unhappy personality. Everyone has to be either PLATINUM or SABLE or TITIAN. Do me a favor and leave me alone.

[horror]

HAIR DYE!
Just be. the fucking. colour. on. the fucking. BOX!
And if you can't manage that then please sprout legs and crawl into a fiery pit of death, you lying sack of drugstore filth!
Is "stabby" a mood? I'm feeling quite "stabby". haha

[blas87]

I have to agree with PhoneGoddess.

I have never been overweight, but I was raised to treat people with respect and dignity, regardless of what others look like. Just because I put effort into my appearance and sometimes look like a Mischa Barton or Paris Hilton clone doesn't mean that I AM one of them. I cannot stand when larger women or very masculine girls try to threaten me or treat me like dirt because they think "That little priss probably thinks she's better than me!" I get that attitude a lot, and I think it sucks. Especially when I have a very friendly disposition and never do anything that would give a normal person the impression that I am a priss.

Above all, I hate people who take their low self esteem out on me. I have my own issues, and I NEVER air my dirty laundry in places I shouldn't.