What just doesn’t make sense to you? (Not serious)

[deadwing]

Oct 2, 2024 17:20:58 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

I DO NOT understand drivers who think they are being nice by letting someone have the right of way when THEY are supposed to be the one going. No matter how clear they think they are being in signaling they are letting someone go, it is so dangerous because not everyone else around them might also be letting the person go. It's on the person going to be sure ALL traffic is clear, but I've so many near accidents lately because someone is letting someone go, so they go, but they almost get hit by someone else.

And then there's me, who refuses to not follow the correct flow of traffic, so when someone stops to let me go but they should be the one going, I just sit there and wait for them to go, and it just holds up traffic for everyone.

Ditto.

[UMaineTeach]

Oct 2, 2024 17:20:58 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

I DO NOT understand drivers who think they are being nice by letting someone have the right of way when THEY are supposed to be the one going. No matter how clear they think they are being in signaling they are letting someone go, it is so dangerous because not everyone else around them might also be letting the person go. It's on the person going to be sure ALL traffic is clear, but I've so many near accidents lately because someone is letting someone go, so they go, but they almost get hit by someone else.

And then there's me, who refuses to not follow the correct flow of traffic, so when someone stops to let me go but they should be the one going, I just sit there and wait for them to go, and it just holds up traffic for everyone.

And when they are the only one in the way drives me nuts. It’s a two lane road, I’m going left, you are the only one coming straight. If you GO then I can go. Instead, you stop. Why? It’s not the park after the Fourth of July fireworks, I won’t be trapped forever.

[heygrey]

Oct 2, 2024 17:20:58 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

I DO NOT understand drivers who think they are being nice by letting someone have the right of way when THEY are supposed to be the one going. No matter how clear they think they are being in signaling they are letting someone go, it is so dangerous because not everyone else around them might also be letting the person go. It's on the person going to be sure ALL traffic is clear, but I've so many near accidents lately because someone is letting someone go, so they go, but they almost get hit by someone else.

And then there's me, who refuses to not follow the correct flow of traffic, so when someone stops to let me go but they should be the one going, I just sit there and wait for them to go, and it just holds up traffic for everyone.

I am in an accident nearly everyday because of this! There are several 4 way stops and 2 way stops with cross traffic having right of way between my house and work. Go when you're supposed to! Stop being a nice Canadian! 

[heygrey]

It doesn't make sense to me when people wear a backpack, but don't zip up the main compartment so it's flopping open. I see this often enough with adult size people that it baffles me. The weight distribution when the bag is pulling away from your back is uncomfortable and maybe your stuff will fall out??

[livinitup]

If you walk your dog everyday and everyday your dog pulls ahead of you and you look miserable being half-dragged the entire time - doesn’t it just make sense to, you know, train the dog to not pull? It’s not like you aren’t putting in the time.

[beerlover]

livinitup, we have neighbors that walk by that are ALWAYS being pulled by their dogs. I'm not a dog person/owner, but it always seemed weird to me.

[mrsukyankee]

livinitup, some people just don't want to put the time into it. It's a pain to teach. We've done a ton of work with our dog since he was young and he still wants to pull, but we don't let him (he is in front of us and it may look like pulling but he knows just how far he can get his lead out before we'll stop him). His dog sitters also allow him to pull and so we have to retrain him every time.

[expectantsteelerfan]

livinitup, that is me. While I understand that others may not understand why I walk my dogs with them pulling my arm off at times, I def. have my reasons.

1 is that my dogs don't pull all the time. They get excited if they see something, like a person, so when passing people they might be pulling, but I'd say 90% of our daily walks, we don't pass anyone/anything that gets them worked up.

The main reason though is that we tried training them ourselves and tried having a trainer come to us to work with them, and walking 2 dogs on my own while trying to train them is HARD, and I don't have another person to walk with me and help. So we made a little progress, but it takes some much time/energy/frustration to be consistent to not even get a lot of progress, and it's just easier to walk and deal with the few times they pull.

And our next option, which we have considered, is to send them somewhere like a 'board and train' place for more extensive training. First, those places are $$$. But my main hold-up is that every one I've looked into uses e-collars in the training. I'm not against e-collars at all, but we use an invisible fence at home, and I'm worried that my dogs will get confused by that training, and no place has been able to dispel my concerns about that. I'm guessing it would be fine while at the place, but you are supposed to keep up training yourself when they come home, and I can't see how that wouldn't be confusing for them. Both my brother and SIL both did this recently with their dogs, and they are having to use the e-collars at home and keep up with the training. I have a friend who used a place when she first got her puppy, and her main goal was to have the puppy potty trained there. She came home basically potty trained, but it's a few years later now and her dog definitely isn't well-behaved and 'trained' on anything she didn't keep up with.

[deadwing]

Oct 3, 2024 7:15:16 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

livinitup , that is me. While I understand that others may not understand why I walk my dogs with them pulling my arm off at times, I def. have my reasons.

1 is that my dogs don't pull all the time. They get excited if they see something, like a person, so when passing people they might be pulling, but I'd say 90% of our daily walks, we don't pass anyone/anything that gets them worked up.

The main reason though is that we tried training them ourselves and tried having a trainer come to us to work with them, and walking 2 dogs on my own while trying to train them is HARD, and I don't have another person to walk with me and help. So we made a little progress, but it takes some much time/energy/frustration to be consistent to not even get a lot of progress, and it's just easier to walk and deal with the few times they pull.

And our next option, which we have considered, is to send them somewhere like a 'board and train' place for more extensive training. First, those places are $$$. But my main hold-up is that every one I've looked into uses e-collars in the training. I'm not against e-collars at all, but we use an invisible fence at home, and I'm worried that my dogs will get confused by that training, and no place has been able to dispel my concerns about that. I'm guessing it would be fine while at the place, but you are supposed to keep up training yourself when they come home, and I can't see how that wouldn't be confusing for them. Both my brother and SIL both did this recently with their dogs, and they are having to use the e-collars at home and keep up with the training. I have a friend who used a place when she first got her puppy, and her main goal was to have the puppy potty trained there. She came home basically potty trained, but it's a few years later now and her dog definitely isn't well-behaved and 'trained' on anything she didn't keep up with.

You cannot effectively walk and train two dogs simultaneously.  Each dog needs to be trained to walk politely individually.  Only then can you attempt to bring them together.  Walking two dogs together with poor leash manners is a disaster waiting to happen, especially if the dogs are large.

My two dogs have incredibly different walking styles.  I HATE walking them together and rarely do it other than from the door to the car and back.  It's not fun for any of us to walk as a group.  They both have leash manners and walk well individually.  One wants to go for a leisurely stroll with plenty of sniff breaks.  The other wants to go at a brisk pace without stops. 

[expectantsteelerfan]

deadwing, one was 3 when we got the puppy, and was already well-trained on leash walking, but walking them individually is SO MUCH HARDER than walking them together for various reasons, so I've walked them together every day pretty much for the past 4.5 years. Luckily they do both have decent leash manners (they know to stop and wait for me to say 'cross' when we cross the street, they know to switch sides of me if I say 'side' because they are getting tangled, etc. But the younger one is just very excitable and pulls when she sees something/someone that gets her excited, which as I said only happens maybe 10% of the time. But her pulling makes any neighbor who see us when she's excited to say 'are you walking them or are they walking you?' because she is clearly pulling, so I am clearly the type of person livinitup, was talking about. There was only 1 time in the past 4.5 years I worried about not having control of them despite the pulling, and that was the time I fell and broke my arm while walking them because a neighbor's dog got loose and ran over to us and I was trying to separate them because this dog wasn't particularly friendly. But that one time was enough to make me consider at least if there is something I could do to make walking them better. But unfortunately, walking them individually isn't an option. When I did have the broken arm, I had my DD help most mornings to walk them, but even that didn't happen every day and their walk was so much shorter than usual and I was glad to be able to go back to walking them together.

[jinkies]

Oct 2, 2024 17:20:58 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

I DO NOT understand drivers who think they are being nice by letting someone have the right of way when THEY are supposed to be the one going. No matter how clear they think they are being in signaling they are letting someone go, it is so dangerous because not everyone else around them might also be letting the person go. It's on the person going to be sure ALL traffic is clear, but I've so many near accidents lately because someone is letting someone go, so they go, but they almost get hit by someone else.

And then there's me, who refuses to not follow the correct flow of traffic, so when someone stops to let me go but they should be the one going, I just sit there and wait for them to go, and it just holds up traffic for everyone.

I was in an accident as a teenager because someone waved me out, but there was a car coming up behind them and we collided.

I never wave people out now and rarely go when I'm waved on unless I am REALLY sure there isn't another lane of traffic.

It's one of those things that *seems* like you are going a nice thing, but you really aren't. I wish everyone would just go when it's their turn.

[glw]

Dark mode on screens. I find it nearly impossible to read light text on black background, but this seems to be default/preferred now for many apps.
I've been trying to find a new theme for my phone (Samsung) and nearly all of them have a color scheme on the texting app that I can't read.

[lavenderblue]

Oct 4, 2024 12:53:20 GMT -5 glw said:

Dark mode on screens. I find it nearly impossible to read light text on black background, but this seems to be default/preferred now for many apps.
I've been trying to find a new theme for my phone (Samsung) and nearly all of them have a color scheme on the texting app that I can't read.

I've had my whole phone in dark mode for years. I hate when I try to use an app that doesn't support it and I get blinded. 

[UMaineTeach]

How come restaurants have to put all your food on a tiny plate, so you can’t attack it to eat it?

Sure, it all technically fits on the plate, but I can’t actually cut this burrito because it’s going to cause the rice to fall off the plate.

Give me room to work!

[babsbunny]

Every time I read the CEP thread with the reminder to get covid and flu shots, my left arm covid injection site (last jabbed in 2022) aches.