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This week's burning topic is:

Are you a snob about anything?
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

I'm afraid I can be a terrible snob. The thing I am most unforgiving about is people who bring small children into non-kid-friendly places. I've had SO many dinners at nice restaurants ruined by out-of-control children. Sorry, but if you are going to have tiny ones either get a babysitter or forgo adult venues for about ten years until they learn to behave. It's not fair to your kids and it's not fair to the others around you.
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

Definitely agree with you about this one!!! (Of course, the excuse is often that they're taking the kiddos out to adult places to give them the experience. ha!)
But, it wasn't the type thing I thought of as being snobbish....more a pet peeve. Will have to think about snobbish. LOL
However, one of my biggest pet peeves is being behind someone at the grocery store who waits until the casher rings up a total on her order. Then, she decides that she's going to write a check and starts digging in her purse for that, etc. (Doesn't have to be a large order where you think maybe she doesn't have the cash)I want to say, "You knew you were going to write a check before you got here! Why didn't you start after you put your items on the belt!" (It won't be like she was watching the scanner for mistakes....more likely she was staring around aimlessly.) So far, I've not done that but contented myself with sharing rolled-eyes with the person behind me. The other day it took a woman twelve minutes to find her checkbook, write the check, find her ID,and get her bill paid. I'm not kidding!! I timed it. The next checker took care of six customers while this was going on!
(I didn't move lanes because I'd already put my stuff on the counter and a guy was behind me. We shared grimaces.) Grrrrr

>>Definitely agree with you about this one!!! (Of course, the excuse is often that they're taking the kiddos out to adult places to give them the experience. ha!)
>>But, it wasn't the type thing I thought of as being snobbish....more a pet peeve. Will have to think about snobbish. LOL
>>However, one of my biggest pet peeves is being behind someone at the grocery store who waits until the casher rings up a total on her order. Then, she decides that she's going to write a check and starts digging in her purse for that, etc. (Doesn't have to be a large order where you think maybe she doesn't have the cash)I want to say, "You knew you were going to write a check before you got here! Why didn't you start after you put your items on the belt!" (It won't be like she was watching the scanner for mistakes....more likely she was staring around aimlessly.) So far, I've not done that but contented myself with sharing rolled-eyes with the person behind me. The other day it took a woman twelve minutes to find her checkbook, write the check, find her ID,and get her bill paid. I'm not kidding!! I timed it. The next checker took care of six customers while this was going on!
>>(I didn't move lanes because I'd already put my stuff on the counter and a guy was behind me. We shared grimaces.) Grrrrr

That drives me nuts too. Or why don't they just use their debit cards. Who doesn't use those now-a-days. Once in a while I realize I left my card in the car or at home. But I fill the ehck out right away, or pay cash.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

That is one of my biggest snob acts too! If you are buying something and paying by check get it together. When I wrote checks for groceries I was always ready! And BTW, don't you just HATE the people who enter the check in the register and balance their accounts while you are waiting?

>>However, one of my biggest pet peeves is being behind someone at the grocery store who waits until the casher rings up a total on her order. Then, she decides that she's going to write a check and starts digging in her purse for that, etc. (Doesn't have to be a large order where you think maybe she doesn't have the cash)I want to say, "You knew you were going to write a check before you got here! Why didn't you start after you put your items on the belt!" (It won't be like she was watching the scanner for mistakes....more likely she was staring around aimlessly.) So far, I've not done that but contented myself with sharing rolled-eyes with the person behind me. The other day it took a woman twelve minutes to find her checkbook, write the check, find her ID,and get her bill paid. I'm not kidding!! I timed it. The next checker took care of six customers while this was going on!
>>(I didn't move lanes because I'd already put my stuff on the counter and a guy was behind me. We shared grimaces.) Grrrrr
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

>>I'm afraid I can be a terrible snob. The thing I am most unforgiving about is people who bring small children into non-kid-friendly places. I've had SO many dinners at nice restaurants ruined by out-of-control children. Sorry, but if you are going to have tiny ones either get a babysitter or forgo adult venues for about ten years until they learn to behave. It's not fair to your kids and it's not fair to the others around you.
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>> Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

That sounds like poor parenting to me. I have seen four and five year olds that are very well behaved in a nic restraunt. And I have seen terrible ten yr olds. I agree they need to be monitored. A couple of weeks ago, when I was upstairs in the lounge at the mt. I ski at there was a group of 10 to 13/14 yr olds. I have no idea where their parents where. They were being noisy and disrepectful. I turned around and spoke to them in my teacher voice. They all quieted right down. My brother and our friend both laughed.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

I have to agree on that one - We took our first vacation this year to an adults-only resort. It was the first time that we did this and I was amazed at how much I enjoyed not having small children around me. When mine were little, we stayed home while today young adults do not hestitate to take small ones out to restaurants, etc and let them run wild. Guess I am getting old.
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Boris's Human, Pam

Ditto on the badly behaved kids! A few years ago I had dinner with a friend and her then 3 y.o. We were asked to leave. I was so embarrassed! She whined that people don't understand what it takes to raise kids. I won't met her in public anymore.

And what's with people bringing super grubby, dirty, snot nosed kids out? When I dated a man with twin boys I always had diaper wipes and clean shirts in the car for them. Takes two seconds...

I've been called a snob for refusing to follow the crowd before. There are no designer or athletic labels on my clothes. I won't buy products once they become associated with 'branding' a group or sub culture. And the moment some says, "you have to...(join, wear, display, partake) to be part of the crowd, I'm gone.

I'm also a food snob. There is more to life, even on a strict budget, then velveeta (which I bought for the first time just two weeks ago to make a requested recipe at Punky's birthday party) and cheap bologna. People who can't taste the difference between say, Godiva, and the waxy psudeo chocolate used to make Easter bunnies baffle me. Cheap bologna is for when you want to relive happy childhood memories, not a backbone of a diet!

Ok not sure I would say a snob.
Pet Peeves:
smokers (those who smoke with children in the car, or in the house, or around me)
People who do not spay or neuter their pets.
People who let their children watch R rated movie and M rated games when they are only 5,6,7 years old.......
OH big one I can't stand it when someone drives under the speed limit. Come on every one knows you can go 5 over with out getting pulled over. And if you aren't going to do that at least go the posted speed. Not 10 to 15 under. Yeah I got stuck behind someone this morning on my way to work.

No Child Left behind laws. I feel students are learning less now with those laws than they did before the laws.

I have a ton of others but I'll stop now.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

You all have listed some good ones, especially the unruly children syndrom...

People that talk on their cell phones while driving. Or, who constantly answer it during dinner/lunch, etc., and chat with a friend (not an emergency call), indicating the people they are out with aren't as important as the person on the phone... People who talk loudly on it in public settings, etc...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

>>People that talk on their cell phones while driving. Or, who constantly answer it during dinner/lunch, etc., and chat with a friend (not an emergency call), indicating the people they are out with aren't as important as the person on the phone... People who talk loudly on it in public settings, etc...

Tammy, I've got to agree with you on this. Nothing irritates me more than a person who interrupts our conversation to talk on the cell phone to another. After patiently waiting for 5 minutes or so, they hang up and say something like, "Boy, I wish that they'd stop calling me." I reply that they should just leave their cell phone in the car or at home. This is one of the main reasons that I don't even have a cell phone.

Now a bit off topic but, does anybody here watch that show Pussycat Dolls, Search for the Next Doll? I think that it's kind of cute and enjoy watching it everytime that it comes on.
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Ruby and the Kitties
Simba, Samantha, Katrina & KatyKatt
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Oh ack! NCLB! They are the saddest of all. I'm SO glad I'm not a public school teacher anymore!

>>No Child Left behind laws. I feel students are learning less now with those laws than they did before the laws.
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>>I have a ton of others but I'll stop now.
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>>Jaime owned by
>>Mya the dog
>>and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

No Child Left behind laws. I feel students are learning less now with those laws than they did before the laws.
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Ugh! As if Big Scary Man and I didn't have enough to debate over while trying to pick a school district for Punky! These frickin' frackin' new rules have made it so difficult for him he keeps throwing in the towel and insisting I home school the kid. Can you say stunted social skills?!? (hers, not him...)

>>No Child Left behind laws. I feel students are learning less now with those laws than they did before the laws.
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>>Ugh! As if Big Scary Man and I didn't have enough to debate over while trying to pick a school district for Punky! These frickin' frackin' new rules have made it so difficult for him he keeps throwing in the towel and insisting I home school the kid. Can you say stunted social skills?!? (hers, not him...)

I thought u were over seas! They have stupid laws over there to? Or did I just imagine that you lived over seas? haha.
As for homeschooling, it isn't bad if you can find a good homeworking network. There are a lot of people that homeschool now a days. And if you get into one of those networks, your daugther would be able to make a lot of friends.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

I thought u were over seas!
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I'm in Ohio, but having worked with people who transfer here from all over the states, I've been told it's a whole little world unto its own......

>>I thought u were over seas!
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>>I'm in Ohio, but having worked with people who transfer here from all over the states, I've been told it's a whole little world unto its own......

Oh that is funny. Where did I get the idea you didn't live in the states. haha. Sorry about that.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

The first thing that came to my mind was the food thing. While I refuse to do the designer thing with clothes, etc, I will spend for good food. In fact, the only coffee that I will drink is Italian cappucino with steamed milk. I have to order my coffee as I will only drink LaVazza or Kimbo. There aren't any Italian stores where I live. I firmly believe in having something that tastes good, regardless of the price.
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Boris's Human, Pam

How about people that put big door dings in your car when they open their car door... That really ticks me off...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

Ok, here goes: Cell phones are only for emergency use at work, not chatting on and on about nothing! People stop work, just to chat about what's for supper, etc. Grr, turn it off!
Next-bossy people, who insist they are always right and everything has to be done thier way, aka my sister-in-law. It is their way or the highway.I try and be flexable, but start feeling like one of those rubber toys. Freeway entrance on the right.
Free loaders! My brother, and his family, who we invited for Christmas dinner brought someone we didn't know. He had asked me if they could bring a friend of my niece's, and thinking it was someone from the college she goes to who could not make it home, I said yes. This old bald guy shows up at my door (brother's friend), and it was "who are you?" and do I hide the family silver that was put out for the dinner? He basiclly said to the guy, "want a good meal? come to my sisters."
One's beliefs about religion, politics, are yours. Don't RAM them down everyone elses!
Ah, venting, that felt good!