Rink pet-peeves

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

My pet peeve at the rink is self important jackasses who listen in on a conversation, and interrupt to offer nothing relevant to the topic except a demonstration of their complete lack of courtesy, social skills, and their glaringly ignorant and narrow view of the world.

Yeah those guys are the worst. :D

lol!

It's important to be able to laugh at yourself (unfortunately for me, I do it more often than not, but still - good on you S15)

[Grinder 2]

LOL! Nicely done, all. Can we get back to the fun now?

Cheers.

[Chadd 916]

at the risk of reigniting world war four here, I bring water from home because the chlorine and other crap in the water at the rink makes me sick. It actually makes me physically ill, not just annoyed. For that reason alone, taking my water is very high on my list of pet peeves. Then there are the guys that haven't bought a roll of tape in five years. Just once, buy a roll of tape and give it to one of the guys who has been supporting your habit for the last half decade you cheap bastard.

[DarkStar50 679]

I skate with the same group of guys every Friday for over 20 years. We do have a few characters. There is Joe. He is the guy who plays right wing, sets up his big ass in front of the net, and literally throws elbows at the D-man. When Mike, the D-man calls him out to knock it off, Joe always says, "What? I didn't do anything!" Every time. Joe is also famous for his hooking the winger going by him on a rush. The winger is 62 year old JP, who in his day could really dangle. Now JP gets plenty of room since he is your basic truck on skates. Joe hooks JP, JP yells "that's boo-shit hockey" in his thick French accent, and Joe denies hooking him. Every time. I got on Joe's team a few years ago to avoid all his bs. Then there is John. John is on my team. No one likes John. We have to pay our rink dues every three months. I am always tempted to collect enough money to buy out John's spot. The guy never talks to anybody, he skates in his own world which is usually hanging at center ice, cannot take a wrist shot so every shot he takes is a slapshot from 15' in front of the goalie over his head, and of course, he never passes the puck. The last part goes without saying but I had to say it. I have actually gotten into a fight with John when he played on my team! He started some lip, I returned the favor, he jumped on for a shift, and turned around to come back to the bench to fight me! I am 5'6", 145 lb., not exactly heavyweight goon material! I think I yelled just get away or something. Ever since then I have called him the human hemorrhoid. I make it a point not to talk to him. He missed the three month summer session but now he is back. He really is a pain in the ass and he is on my team. Everyone in my group gets along great except for John.

[Gummer12 134]

Per the Water Bottle Conv, If I have a problem like that, I usually just wrap some white tape around it, and write SICK, AIDS, or SARS or some other disease on it.

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

Per the Water Bottle Conv, If I have a problem like that, I usually just wrap some white tape around it, and write SICK, AIDS, or SARS or some other disease on it.

With my luck, there'd be a guy on the team that would be like Oh! That's a wonderful coincidence! I have *ALL* of those! (as he takes my bottle in a loving oral embrace) :lol:

[DavidT 11]

My biggest peeve is the fact that a lot of folks dont know what a trash can is for.

[stick9 890]

What bugs me the most are the people who have no clue what to do no matter how many times they've been told. I call em pond hockey all-stars. How many time do need to be told as winger your job is to cover the point.... I skated up to this guy one time and asked him what position he was playing and he said, I don't know.

We have this one guy who never passes and I mean never. I've seen him try to deke around three guys while the other forward was all alone with a wide open net. If I break out of the zone with this guy, I go for a change. The sad part is, it's not like he's good enough as to where he'll do these things and score.

[ronnychencharik 0]

Another one, the guy who takes his sticks after the game (or practice) and knocks over all the other ones.

[Grinder 2]

We play in a large barn-like buildling, and nets and boards for the corners need to be brought out from storage at the start and end of each night. My pet peeve would be the people who sit around bs'ing until all the setup is done, and then disappear at the end of the night to avoid helping clean up.

[JR97 2]

Sub goalies that don't even try is a pretty good peeve. While forfeiting or going 6 skaters, or trying to talk someone on the team to suit up sucks @ass, I'd like the sub goalie to at least make an effort. I"ve seen far too many not even go down (or worse... not ever get up) to make a save. We had one guy pretty much stand up straight the whole damn game and lounging against the cross bar until the puck was in our zone. wtf? I"ve actually been on both sides of that. We got up 6-0 on one team and some of us pretty much stopped shooting because it was a joke. Their sub-goalie basically gave up after it was 3-0 in the first 10 minutes. Of course we had the stat hounds who fired from every where, but whatever. Their prerogative and I don't really blame them. I just can't play like that.