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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I hate that. The parking spaces keep getting smaller, while the cars keep getting bigger!

It's like full size crew cab pickups with long beds who park in the compact car spots. Think it depends on the vehicle, too.

I don't have much of anything in the Tacoma - visibility over the hood is just fine and the truck is extremely maneuverable.
Our Lexus - even the over 6 foot Vulcan can't see over the front of the hood, and it's a dog on turning. He misses the in between the area of the lines frequently.
 
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Have you seen the smart cars?! (ie: the deer reported no injuries and left the scene peacefully) Lmfao! [emoji23]
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That's not a car, that's a moped with four wheels.
 
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My company owns a condo in Vegas, that they sent me to as a perk/performance bonus for the Valentines/President's Day weekend. This is at one of the PREMIER properties in Vegas right on the strip. I will not name said property. I will say that if "rented" for a night by the "average Joe" the fee for a comparable room is in the $3-500 range a night. My gripe? They want to add an additional $40 a day for housekeeping and if you want to print out your boarding pass it's $6.95 + $1.00 a page. Yea seriously.
I stayed at an $89 a night Holiday Inn Express in Ft.Lauderdale in December and got "free" housekeeping and "free" access to the business center where printouts were also, you guessed it, FREE. I like Vegas, it's a fun place to visit, but anything on the strip is priced crazy and it seems somewhere along the lines they forgot you have to have people there to spend money on their shows and restaurants and ... gamble.
Greedy greedy greedy.

Anyway, I printed my boarding pass at the airport, for free.
:rolleyes:
 
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I do not gamble, so Vegas for me is always an odd choice. I'm also married so most of the other "sins of the city" do not interest me either. :eek: That said, there are some really fun, interesting, entertaining things to do in Vegas that do not involve gambling or sex. Plus in this case (and overall 3 of the 4 times I have been there) it was a company gift so who am I to complain? ;)

It's certainly no place I go out of my way to go. I vastly prefer other places to Vegas.
 
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There's a nice area of red rocks called Red Rock Canyon that is supposed to be as spectacular as Canyonlands. There's also some pretty good bird watching and it's HOT. We had a June without end one year - cold, rainy, not much sun, so the Vulcan and I had to go just to get warm. Now I'd rather sit in Arches, Potash, or Kane Creek.

We also took a long camping trip in an Opel Kadett. Stayed in a campsite.
The last time, the brat was a baby and I had to give her all the pennies I had just so she could watch the wheels go round in a penny slot. By that time - we had an Opel Manta.
 
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Rules for Living in Las Vegas
1. First, it's pronounced LOSS-VAYGUS. It doesn't matter how they say it in other places. And it's NEV A DA not NEV AH DA. . .Get over it!
2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Las Vegas has its own set of traffic rules. There's no book about them. All you can do is get in your car and hope you survive to learn them.
3. All directions start with, 'Go down 95...'cause you don't want to get on 15.'
4. Las Vegas Blvd, Charleston Blvd, and Torrey Pines have no beginning and no end. (We tried to find them but the search parties have not yet come back.....after many months.)
5. It's impossible to go around a block and wind up on the same street that you started on. The Chamber of Commerce calls this a 'scenic drive.'
6. The 8:00 am rush hour is from 4:30am to 11:30am. The 5:00pm rush hour is from 11:30am to 10:15pm. Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning and ends sometime late Sunday night.
7. If you actually stop at a yellow light, then you cannot be from Las Vegas. You may only apply your brakes when the end of a yellow light and the beginning of the red light create a 'pumpkin-orange' hue.
8. For the most part, you can do anything you want, as long as it isn't in a school zone.
9. Just remember that Camino Al Norte is Martin Luther King Boulevard, Boulder Highway is Fremont Street, Eastern Ave is 25th Street or Civic Center Drive, Desert Inn is Lamb Blvd., Spring Mountain/Sands/Twain are all the same street (and split and merge at will). And don't forget that Ft. Apache turns into Rampart and then turns into Durango. Don't try to figure it out. Just accept it. If you question the intelligence behind this naming convention, people will simply tilt their heads to the right and stare at you.
10. Henderson is the only place in the world where THREE 'parallel'
streets intersect at one traffic light. That would be the 4-way of Green Valley Parkway/Eastern Avenue/Maryland Parkway. For laughs ask your middle school Geometry teacher to try to explain it.
11. Rainbow Blvd. has THREE exits from the 95; this just makes giving driving directions to newbies more entertaining. There is also a Lake Mead 'Drive' and a Lake Mead 'Boulevard' and both run east/west but are 30 miles apart. You have to be specific when you say 'the corner of Lake Mead and........' Again, this is just another way to harass the 5000 newcomers every month.
12. Many major roads just end abruptly in somebody's garage, a Home Depot, a casino or McCarran International Airport runways and start again after the interruption. That was done to encourage you to 'see the sights' and meet new people. For fun, just try to take Harmon Avenue from Rainbow to Nellis.
13. If moisture at hand is determined to be rain, not sweat, all traffic must immediately cease. Ditto for daylight saving time, girl applying eye-shadow across the street, or a flat tire 3 lanes over. Do not attempt to access any road after an apocalyptic event like snow, blowing dust, or a 3-day weekend.
14. Once a year, when it rains, the Las Vegas wash and the City of Las Vegas are one.
15. The wind blows every day, and it is impossible to live in Las Vegas without some kind of allergy drug.
16. Construction on I-15 and US 95 is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment. They actually move the constuction cones every night to make the next day's drive a bit more exciting for you. I-215 will never be completed. Get used to it!
17. Stay away from the corner of Nellis and Las Vegas Blvd., if you do not like the thought of being in a remake of the movie 'Top Gun.'
18. And, yes, we all know that Black man in a teddy and a tiara on Sahara and Ft. Apache. His name is Leslie and he probably makes more money than you do.
19. And always remember, when driving in Las Vegas in the summertime, it is a good idea to wear pot holders on your hands!
 
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You're definitely not one for driving everyday cars like a Camry, are you? :p

Nope. I always wanted a Morgan. Since I don't care for the high priced 2 seaters, I drive an old single cab pickup.

When we had those cars, including my Spitfire, the gas embargo had just started to hit. We were offered a few bucks for our 4 bangers.

Opel has brought back the Manta GT in the EU.
 
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Rules for Living in Las Vegas
1. First, it's pronounced LOSS-VAYGUS. It doesn't matter how they say it in other places. And it's NEV A DA not NEV AH DA. . .Get over it!
2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Las Vegas has its own set of traffic rules. There's no book about them. All you can do is get in your car and hope you survive to learn them.
3. All directions start with, 'Go down 95...'cause you don't want to get on 15.'
4. Las Vegas Blvd, Charleston Blvd, and Torrey Pines have no beginning and no end. (We tried to find them but the search parties have not yet come back.....after many months.)
5. It's impossible to go around a block and wind up on the same street that you started on. The Chamber of Commerce calls this a 'scenic drive.'
6. The 8:00 am rush hour is from 4:30am to 11:30am. The 5:00pm rush hour is from 11:30am to 10:15pm. Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning and ends sometime late Sunday night.
7. If you actually stop at a yellow light, then you cannot be from Las Vegas. You may only apply your brakes when the end of a yellow light and the beginning of the red light create a 'pumpkin-orange' hue.
8. For the most part, you can do anything you want, as long as it isn't in a school zone.
9. Just remember that Camino Al Norte is Martin Luther King Boulevard, Boulder Highway is Fremont Street, Eastern Ave is 25th Street or Civic Center Drive, Desert Inn is Lamb Blvd., Spring Mountain/Sands/Twain are all the same street (and split and merge at will). And don't forget that Ft. Apache turns into Rampart and then turns into Durango. Don't try to figure it out. Just accept it. If you question the intelligence behind this naming convention, people will simply tilt their heads to the right and stare at you.
10. Henderson is the only place in the world where THREE 'parallel'
streets intersect at one traffic light. That would be the 4-way of Green Valley Parkway/Eastern Avenue/Maryland Parkway. For laughs ask your middle school Geometry teacher to try to explain it.
11. Rainbow Blvd. has THREE exits from the 95; this just makes giving driving directions to newbies more entertaining. There is also a Lake Mead 'Drive' and a Lake Mead 'Boulevard' and both run east/west but are 30 miles apart. You have to be specific when you say 'the corner of Lake Mead and........' Again, this is just another way to harass the 5000 newcomers every month.
12. Many major roads just end abruptly in somebody's garage, a Home Depot, a casino or McCarran International Airport runways and start again after the interruption. That was done to encourage you to 'see the sights' and meet new people. For fun, just try to take Harmon Avenue from Rainbow to Nellis.
13. If moisture at hand is determined to be rain, not sweat, all traffic must immediately cease. Ditto for daylight saving time, girl applying eye-shadow across the street, or a flat tire 3 lanes over. Do not attempt to access any road after an apocalyptic event like snow, blowing dust, or a 3-day weekend.
14. Once a year, when it rains, the Las Vegas wash and the City of Las Vegas are one.
15. The wind blows every day, and it is impossible to live in Las Vegas without some kind of allergy drug.
16. Construction on I-15 and US 95 is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment. They actually move the constuction cones every night to make the next day's drive a bit more exciting for you. I-215 will never be completed. Get used to it!
17. Stay away from the corner of Nellis and Las Vegas Blvd., if you do not like the thought of being in a remake of the movie 'Top Gun.'
18. And, yes, we all know that Black man in a teddy and a tiara on Sahara and Ft. Apache. His name is Leslie and he probably makes more money than you do.
19. And always remember, when driving in Las Vegas in the summertime, it is a good idea to wear pot holders on your hands!

You're as bad as Colorado with pronunciation of Spanish words. Nevada means snowy. We have buna vista, limon and pe-eblo rather than Buena Vista, Leemon, and Pueblo.
 
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You're as bad as Colorado with pronunciation of Spanish words. Nevada means snowy. We have buna vista, limon and pe-eblo rather than Buena Vista, Leemon, and Pueblo.
I shouldn't worry about it. They ain't too good at pronouncing Spanish words in Shandong Province either. :) but the school's two Spanish teachers try their best.
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When you see an alternate once and then schedule for a follow with your ordinary physician only to find the alternate there again... Now it'll be a month and a half before I get to talk to my regular doctor about this probably very important medical issue.

I mean, nothing against the PA, but he is not dialed in on my particular physiology like my regular doctor is.

Oh well, at least all the tests will be done by then... I just have to make sure I don't die in the meantime.
 
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Plain and simple... Tech support.
It's always a pain. A huge run-a-round.
At the end, 75% of the time, was wasted.
A lot of times, never get issue solved.
P.S. I run tech support too, so this is NOT an attack against support techs...

I also do Tech Support, and getting a successful outcome, always involves a tremendous amount of my time, and the final result is not always what the user wants. When you do phone/email/forums tech support, the OP complainer usually does not read, understand, comply with what you have told them to do.

and then they bitch "that didn't work", so you ask for a Blow by blow, did you follow precise instructions?
"uh, know, I just cut to the chase.........." end of tech support
 
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I also do Tech Support, and getting a successful outcome, always involves a tremendous amount of my time, and the final result is not always what the user wants. When you do phone/email/forums tech support, the OP complainer usually does not read, understand, comply with what you have told them to do.

and then they bitch "that didn't work", so you ask for a Blow by blow, did you follow precise instructions?
"uh, know, I just cut to the chase.........." end of tech support

Yes, that's it in a nutshell. I do tech support for a couple of forum software, and for a couple of web hosts.
The "best" part, is trying to get people to file support tickets, for certain issues, especially when the forum states on front page, that it's not for support.

Then of course, is the issue of people thinking the support tech is a mind reader, and saying "You should know this or that, why do I have to tell you?" Well, support techs are not going to know what files you edited or deleted, or what other things you may have installed or uninstalled. One never knows, with the way some people are.
 
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Man, what a night... Trying to get library e-books to work on my system; took me an hour to figure out that I needed to verify my email account, but then Outlook said it wasn't registered.

I spend another hour trying to figure out how to register my very legal copy of Office...

Then I am trying to put books on my tablet and it turns out that the data cable I was trying to use was crap.

Finally get everything sorted... but somewhere along the line I think maybe the SD card got damaged or corrupted, because suddenly half my e-books cause my apps to crash.

Four hours I've been wrestling with that damn machine... To hell with it, I'm going to bed.
 
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