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Those pants the Sawatzy crew received from Henry look great, but they scarily remind me of one of the worst inventions of the last century.
ORGANIZER PURSES!!!!!!!!!! I HATE them, I can never find anything, waaaay too many compartments and I can never remember where anything is. It's embarassing standing in the checkout line in a store and unzipping and rezipping trying to remember what you put where, while people who are in a rush to get through this life clear their throats, whisper and drum the death march with their finger tips on the acrylic display cases behind you. Then, the icing on the cake, as you finally exit the store shamefacedly, you realize you forgot to rezip one of the closures as your small change hits the floor with an earsplitting clatter and takes off in all four directions of the compass! What colour red is my face?????? Ever sat in a wedding when your cell phone rang....I hate cell phones, never wanted one, they rank right up there with organizer purses! But I succumed. Now I have the two most idiotic inventions combined into one force. Mostly no one has my number but my family. Now they are all with me. Of course I have squirreled the offending electronic gadget away in one of those pockets inside pockets between slots in my unorganized organizer purse. Eventually it quits ringing. A new record in red face!!!! Later, curious to find out who could have my number and why they would be trying to reach me I found out it was a wrong number...someone wondering if I was "Partying like a Rock Star"??????????????
What's your favourite idiotic invention?
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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One of the worst is an accessory to go along with your infernal cell phone. It's those micro HFD's or Hands Free Devices that are getting so small they are approximately the size of a chunk of ear wax, undetectable to most of the unobservant fellow shoppers. I hate those things. You see people walking around talking to themselves and they look completely deranged. In restaurants they'll be sitting alone in a booth, loudly talking and laughing with some invisible (imaginary? I wonder) presence. It's hard to eat your waffle and bacon while you keep wondering if the guy in the booth next to you is about to tell himself in a loud voice to start stabbing everyone with his fork.
But the worst part is when you get involved with these psychos. Like when you're over in the magazine department in Walmart, looking at a GQ magazine (purely from a sign painting trade interest) because it has a photo shoot of Carmen Electra getting body painted in it, and the dude next to you all of a sudden says "HEY"... you say "Hello..." he says "What you doing?" and you say "Well, my wife thinks I'm a big lug so I'm trying to read this magazine to improve my style and grace" and he says "Can we have dinner tonight?" and you say "No, I have plans...." and suddenly you realize that he is totally oblivious to you, and communicating with some other person through his piece of oversized ear wax. Embarassing.
Did I mention I hate those Hands Free Devices?
-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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In high school I bought a camouflage wallet because I thought it looked cool. It didn't look like much of anything when I dropped it into some weeds and spent 10 minutes trying to locate it.
My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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Mike, even worse is the 3-Way Stop intersection, especially when the city covers the face of one of the Stop signs but leaves the sign in place so someone coming up sees the back of the former Stop sign and the city does not change the signs at the intersection from 4-Way to 3-Way.
My wife got broadsided at such an intersection in the only brand new car we'd ever owned and she was also ticketed for failure to yield. The city had changed the intersection the week before and the cops told my wife there had been an endless string of accidents at the location daily since the change. Pleas to the judge fell on deaf ears.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5092 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Pop-off can lids. Either I pry off the handle as I'm trying to pry it up or I cut myself. Those things are dangerous! I have an electric can-open & a crank one in the drawer. I can't imagine the emergency where I would be stranded on my way home from the supermarket & need to pop open a can of cream corn in order to survive.
As for hands-free I hate those earbuds. I tried one, it's buried somewhere in my shop. I bought a supertooth 2 hands-free. It's a little box that you clip to the visor, take a second to pair it when you get in & off ya go. No headaches from the earbud, clearer voices, no head-in-a-pot sound.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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LOL Wayne..only someone from "hot and humid" would say that!
After having spent a couple of years, off and on, in Mexico I know what ya mean, plastic coat hangers are the only way to go!!!!
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THE ELECTRIC HANDS FREE CAN OPENER....what a joke..........
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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politicians, lifetime warranties neither one is worth a damn and stand behind what it says
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Oh, good one, Ray, they probably quit producing thouse after the tenths victim burned to death because the "guy with the key" didn't get there in time.
My morning newspaper comes rolled up in it. For years I used to try and find the end to unwrap it. Eyesight and nimble fingers failing! Now I delicately slice down the seam with an acto knife but always seem to get a newspaper that looks like somebody has attacked it with a razor!
Then the reverse. "Cling wrap the cheese Jon before you put it back in the fridge" Damn! Ripping it off the roll results in a tangled mess. Impossible to find a start or finish. Arrgh!
Like Barb "Blister Vaccuum Packs" drive me to distraction too. Takes a friggin hack saw to get into ... then you find the product isn't what you wanted anyway
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