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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Ok, So I manage a Restaurant, and you know what really GRINDS MY GEARS??? When somebody drives up to the carry out window to ask for an employment application, or even worse, to turn in an application ! ! ! If you are that pathetic and lazy to not even bother to walk inside and ask for a manager, then I have no desire to hire you and waste my payroll dollars on you!

There. . I do fell better. . thanks for the rant!
 
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Droid is a name of a phone. (Incredible, Eris, X, 2, whatever)

Android is an operating system that is used on many, many phones and other devices. This includes but is definitely not limited to Droid devices.

Droid =/= Android.

And it grinds my gears when people - even Android users and developers who should know better! - still call everything a freaking Droid.

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I worked for Verizon Wireless when the Original Motorola Droid was released, and that whole name confusion was a pain in the rectum ! ! It all started with the Moto Droid and the HTC Eris. Plus VZW made such a big deal about the device launch even though Android phones had been out a long time before Verizon started carrying them. People just got bombed with the "DROID DOES" Commercials that now all they think about is DROID!

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I ride my bicycle around town and around the many bike paths in the part of the state I live in. You can imagine the many things that "grind my gears." ;)

I do have to say that those things are few and far between because many drivers in this area are also bicycle riders as well.

But, about twice a week or so there is the situation wherein I get the feeling that I am completely invisible to a driver and have to quickly apply my brakes to avoid running into a car that has pulled out in front of me or being run over by a car that is driven by somebody on their cell phone.

Diligence and pretending like I am invisible has saved my life and limb many times in broad daylight.
 
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