OT: Name some things that drive you fucking nuts

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Isn't there a law about that or something?

It depends on the city/town, but yes generally most places allow you 24 hours to clear your sidewalk of snow. These by-laws are rarely enforced though.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I shovelled my neighbours walk for him the last time it snowed because he just had come out of hospital from a heart procedure and when i was out doing it on sunday i get to the property line and i hear this tapping and i look up and he;s standing there at his kitchen window and motioning for me to keep going, pointing down the hill on his sidewalk

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

People who put their brakes on when the light in front of them is GREEN. Why are these people afraid of the light turning yellow? I just don't get it.

 

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I shovelled my neighbours walk for him the last time it snowed because he just had come out of hospital from a heart procedure and when i was out doing it on sunday i get to the property line and i hear this tapping and i look up and he;s standing there at his kitchen window and motioning for me to keep going, pointing down the hill on his sidewalk

lol

 

[jstewismybastardson]

lol

I didnt do it

we had kids coming over for my daughters belated birthday party and so i was in a mad rush to get the walk shovelled and go inside ... i mouthed the words ... i gotta go and gave him one of these and took off

he looked perturbed ... doesnt help that he looks like Larry David ... everytime i have some sort of dealing with him i hear this in my head:

 

[Comeds]

I couid have walked the few miles to I95 quicker than the drive was this morning.

 

[forty_three]

Hockey parents.

There's this kid. He's an 02 birthday. And in the strictest of terms at the Pee Wee division 01 are "major" and 02 are "minor". This kid is a goalie, and can skate out okay. Across divisions, we have six teams and 10 kids wanting to play goal. 3 01s and 7 02s. And one of the 01s, the starting goalie for the 01 select team doesn't want to play 100% of house games in goal so he can stay in touch with the flow of the game.

So we decided to move the one 02 kid up to play goal on the "major" team because he was most prepared to play goal at that level and will not be a huge liability when skating out. That gives us 6 remaining goalies to split among the 3 "minor" teams. Perfect, right?

Well, no. See goalie kid is friends with another 02 kid. And goalie's mom and other kid's dad got to talking (probably pillow talk) and they REALLY want the two buddies to play together. Skater kid is *not* ready to play "major". So, fine, we can shuffle teams a bit and move the next best goalie/skater up to "major" and put this kid back in "minor" with his friend (probably on my team with my son who spent all last pond hockey season with the game he could play against goalie kid circled on his calendar - oil and water). Because skater kid is already on my team. And my other goalie is pretty sharp, but not a great skater.

So, we work out the teams, put goalie and skater kid together on a different minor team and move another problem child to my team (He hates when I'm there at practice because when he goofs off, I make him do pushups). I like it because I keep my steady if unspectacular goaltending tandem, and don't have to deal with either mom or dad.

Now, skater kid's dad is threatening to remove his son (I say let him). And now Goalie's DAD is saying "fuck that kid, my son wants to play "major". There have been, I shit you not, 31 emails between coaches today trying to sort out what to do. I don't want goalie kid on my team because his mom EARNS the "c" name (and is probably the only person I've ever met that I'd give it to) and I don't want to deal with her (She told her son that he doesn't need to listen to me because I must not be a good goalie if I never played college or pro), and my son will beat his ass before the end of the season.

All because of some dumb ass stigma attached to "Major" vs "Minor". I told the commish to leave me with problem child 2, and call the dad's bluff about yanking the skater. Either way, if the dad yanks the skater DO NOT move the goalie back to major. You just can't keep some people happy.



*whew* I feel much better having vented a bit.

Sorry for firing up the wayback machine, and quoting myself. But I wanted some context for the next rant.

Notes: We finished the season 8-5. Top in our league. Goalie kid played in "Major" where the team did not win a game. Skater kid stayed with us and had a decent year despite missing three games with an injury. Overall, we had good chemistry all year.

Had.

So playoffs start tomorrow. At practice on Monday, skater kid is rambunctious and takes another kid's bag and puts it in the showers (kid dropped his bag early and went to get dinner with mom). It gets caught just before he is ready to turn on the water. The other kid is our top defender and a very solid skater. The D kid also just so happens to hate goalie kid with a passion. Seems they played Selects the previous year and it was such a bad experience that D guy didn't even try out for selects this year. And he would have made it and been solid. Another thing is 5 of our players live in the same neighborhood / go to the same school and have known each other since kindergarten. D man is one of those five.

So as the regular season winds down, "pond hockey" teams are forming. Pond hockey is 3 on 3 limited rules hockey. No offsides, no icing, no power plays (only penalty shots). One game a week, no practices. Just play for fun on Saturday mornings. The dad of skater kid sends an email to 6 certain players on my team's parents and asks if they want to join a pond hockey team, including four of the five neighborhood kids (not the D man). All four say yes. The email also says "if you know anyone else who wants to play, let me know". So the four tell D man, who jumps at the chance. Then he finds out that goalie kid is going to be on the team and says "Never mind". So this all comes into the locker room Monday at practice and in addition to skater kid and D man sniping at each other, the 6 other kids who did not get invited to play on the pond hockey team are all asking "why not?". Me, unaware of the pond hockey thing, start talking to kids that me an another coach are starting our own pond hockey team and everyone is welcome. One of the six who was asked says he will switch from that team to mine (kid's played for me for three years)

This all escalated to pucks being shot at players' feet in practice, some throwing of snow from skates in the locker room and now parents are at each other's throats because it was discovered that the two people "organizing" the pond hockey team are (and this is a shocking development) Goalie mom and skater dad. And they are trying to make it seem like parents are telling their kids not to play because of goalie kid. When it has nothing to do with that. The kids are all making their own decisions. And now goalie mom is saying that me and the other coach are only starting a team to take kids away from theirs.

The other coach? The head coach from the team I helped out my first year. She is convinced we have something against her precious little snowflake. And we do. Because we coached him AND dealt with her. But we are keeping it civil. At least trying.

And they are going to get an email from the hockey coordinator for Columbus stating that they cannot compete in Pond Hockey unless they have a USA hockey certified coach on the bench. And in PeeWee level there are 13 of us. Not one of us will do it. My Pond Hockey team will have four coaches. Because we will have four coaches' kids. And a fifth coaches' kid, but that coach has other commitments in the spring.

So either she is going to go Vesuvius and say we are getting her team disqualified, or one of us is getting assigned to that team. And I, the only coach with a kid who wants to play goalie, am the most likely as it is suggested each team have two kids who want to play goal, and the team me and the other coach are assembling has three and maybe a fourth if lacrosse doesn't interfere.

I can't wait to see how she reacts when I pull my son out of it and he gets to learn Lacrosse.

It's one thing to be a locker room cancer, but I don't know if I've ever seen a situation where someone is a cancer in a locker room they aren't even in...

 

[forty_three]

The words "fail open".

Anyone who designs a system that does that should be flogged. With their own legs.

 

[dare2be]

huh? I guess I'm glad I've never seen that.

 

[forty_three]

huh? I guess I'm glad I've never seen that.

In a network sense, a device used to regulate traffic can fail to one of two states - open or closed. Example, you have a firewall and it has a hardware issue. When it fails do you want it to allow all traffic or allow no traffic? Fail open or fail closed?

The way I explained it the discussion with the guy who looked like he was going to go home and cry was; you have a dam up the hillside from your town. One of the turbines fails inside. Do you just open the gates or do you close all water off until it is fixed?

He chose... poorly.

 

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Landlords who either refuse or don't know how to fix the hot water heater in their building...

 

[pixburgher66]

Sorry for firing up the wayback machine, and quoting myself. But I wanted some context for the next rant.

Notes: We finished the season 8-5. Top in our league. Goalie kid played in "Major" where the team did not win a game. Skater kid stayed with us and had a decent year despite missing three games with an injury. Overall, we had good chemistry all year.

Had.

So playoffs start tomorrow. At practice on Monday, skater kid is rambunctious and takes another kid's bag and puts it in the showers (kid dropped his bag early and went to get dinner with mom). It gets caught just before he is ready to turn on the water. The other kid is our top defender and a very solid skater. The D kid also just so happens to hate goalie kid with a passion. Seems they played Selects the previous year and it was such a bad experience that D guy didn't even try out for selects this year. And he would have made it and been solid. Another thing is 5 of our players live in the same neighborhood / go to the same school and have known each other since kindergarten. D man is one of those five.

So as the regular season winds down, "pond hockey" teams are forming. Pond hockey is 3 on 3 limited rules hockey. No offsides, no icing, no power plays (only penalty shots). One game a week, no practices. Just play for fun on Saturday mornings. The dad of skater kid sends an email to 6 certain players on my team's parents and asks if they want to join a pond hockey team, including four of the five neighborhood kids (not the D man). All four say yes. The email also says "if you know anyone else who wants to play, let me know". So the four tell D man, who jumps at the chance. Then he finds out that goalie kid is going to be on the team and says "Never mind". So this all comes into the locker room Monday at practice and in addition to skater kid and D man sniping at each other, the 6 other kids who did not get invited to play on the pond hockey team are all asking "why not?". Me, unaware of the pond hockey thing, start talking to kids that me an another coach are starting our own pond hockey team and everyone is welcome. One of the six who was asked says he will switch from that team to mine (kid's played for me for three years)

This all escalated to pucks being shot at players' feet in practice, some throwing of snow from skates in the locker room and now parents are at each other's throats because it was discovered that the two people "organizing" the pond hockey team are (and this is a shocking development) Goalie mom and skater dad. And they are trying to make it seem like parents are telling their kids not to play because of goalie kid. When it has nothing to do with that. The kids are all making their own decisions. And now goalie mom is saying that me and the other coach are only starting a team to take kids away from theirs.

The other coach? The head coach from the team I helped out my first year. She is convinced we have something against her precious little snowflake. And we do. Because we coached him AND dealt with her. But we are keeping it civil. At least trying.

And they are going to get an email from the hockey coordinator for Columbus stating that they cannot compete in Pond Hockey unless they have a USA hockey certified coach on the bench. And in PeeWee level there are 13 of us. Not one of us will do it. My Pond Hockey team will have four coaches. Because we will have four coaches' kids. And a fifth coaches' kid, but that coach has other commitments in the spring.

So either she is going to go Vesuvius and say we are getting her team disqualified, or one of us is getting assigned to that team. And I, the only coach with a kid who wants to play goalie, am the most likely as it is suggested each team have two kids who want to play goal, and the team me and the other coach are assembling has three and maybe a fourth if lacrosse doesn't interfere.

I can't wait to see how she reacts when I pull my son out of it and he gets to learn Lacrosse.

It's one thing to be a locker room cancer, but I don't know if I've ever seen a situation where someone is a cancer in a locker room they aren't even in...

I have literally no clue how you guys do this crap. Honestly, parents are possibly the most ridiculous beings on the face of the earth. A good friend of mine from high school, who I grew up playing every known sport with, is coaching middle school volleyball at our alma mater. Since I'm home this week, I wanted to show her some support and catch a game. The game was against an undefeated team (and their asshole of a coach acted like it...because apparently an undefeated girls middle school volleyball team was his life goal), and they took them to a third, deciding game. They got handled in the final game, and it was a rough outing for them. So, after the game I go to talk to my friend, say congrats regardless, because it's still awesome that she's doing this, but she's talking to her assistant, so I just stand against the wall and wait. Then this large father steps up to her and they have a heated discussion. He starts puffing his chest out because he's like a foot taller than my friend, and then his wife comes up, equally giant, doing the same thing. They then proceed to loudly yell at her, call her names, tell her they're going to rip her a new asshole, all because their daughter isn't getting playing time. They pay for her to play club volleyball, so she should get playing time on the school team! All those superstars that the coach is playing suck, that's why they lost! Clearly coach hates our daughter and thinks she sucks! Rabble, rabble! I sincerely thought this dude was going to assault my friend. Just ridiculous. People wonder why no one wants to coach.

 

[dare2be]

This one is for Pix.

New Castle HS basketball team drives me fucking nuts.

 

[pixburgher66]

This one is for Pix.

New Castle HS basketball team drives me fucking nuts.

Never can be those daggum flabbergasted jerks. Hampton was soooo close in the WPIAL finals, but went cold as ice from the line. Would've won if they hit their FTs. They're...umm...well, this will sound racist, but it's true: they play street ball.

 

[pixburgher66]

Sidenote, although it wouldn't change things because of New Castle: both of those schools being in AAAA is silly. Playing a team like NA on the regular is crap. They graduate 3-4xs what Hampton does. I graduated with 250, they average like 800.

 

[Darkstone42]

Sidenote, although it wouldn't change things because of New Castle: both of those schools being in AAAA is silly. Playing a team like NA on the regular is crap. They graduate 3-4xs what Hampton does. I graduated with 250, they average like 800.

Your graduating class was bigger than my whole school. By almost 100 students.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Watching Chris Phillips play ice hockey in 2013-2014.

That is all.

 

[stammer78]

When watching a hockey game live and an idiot yells behind me to shoot the puck when clearly there is a defender standing right there in front of the puck!!!

 

[stammer78]

Kissy faces!!
Bad Sports commentators!!

 

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Bath tub faucets. Caulk.