Pet peeves of SCUBA diving

[ukslim]

Just to clarify, it's "Big girl's blouse" not "Big girl blouse".

As in "Stop whining and get on with it, you big girl's blouse".

I've no idea how it came about.

 

[DivingPrincessE]

You dive with a tough crowd.

I would NEVER dive with that sociopath

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...uestion-who-teaching-give-your-main-unit.html

Note to Princessaprilia: Care for a glass of Kool-Aid? (Just kidding!)

 

[krbailey]

Just to clarify, it's "Big girl's blouse" not "Big girl blouse".

As in "Stop whining and get on with it, you big girl's blouse".

I've no idea how it came about.

World Wide Words: Big girl’s blouse

 

[FishOutUvH2O]

To be honest with you I meet majority of the negative people here in scubaboard, a local dive shop, or a sliver of it during scuba diving. I may take it to heart because I haven't found many great memories to replace the negative stuff just yet. You should have heard about my OW experience when I was stationed in Okinawa which in short the OW instructor ran off with my money and no formal OW certification. The next one was when I wanted to use my own snorkel gear in my OW certification in a local dive shop and been yelled and belittled me because I had my own snorkel gear and refused to buy theirs. What am I supposed to do, you know? It's hard for me to smile and say everything is peachy. Other than that fishOutUvH2O, I am doing my best to make things go well with me.

Based on your experiences I can't blame you for having a sour taste about diving, any reasonable person would. I think anyone who dives and does diving related activities (like reading and posting on this board, which, unfortunately, does have a small number of very loud and persistent jackasses that seem to go out of their way to try and make others as miserable as they are) will have some negative experiences. I know I've had a few (including, like you, having a local LDS treat me like dirt because I didn't buy all of my gear from them. Going so far as to tell an employee, loud enough so that I was sure to hear it, that he should "stay up front with me to make sure that nothing goes missing"). I just hope that your getting your negative experiences out of the way all at once so you can move-on to positive ones. There are a lot of great people and experiences out there. For me, I just tend to treat the negative experiences as individual events and not as systemic issues. But I might be able to do that easier than you in large part do to the fact that I've been lucky in my short diving time by having run into a lot of great and supportive fellow divers. And the ratio of good dives to bad is heavily lopsided toward good. Or it could be that I'm just to ignorant to realize all of the crap that goes on around me. So, whether I'm just lucky or ignorant makes no difference, because either way I'm a pretty happy diver. And I hope, since most of us dive for fun, that you'll start having some good experiences as well.

 

[lmorin]

Roll, pitch and yaw
Combine as my big pet peeve,
While I don’t hate it,
I sure would abate it,
Because if I don’t I will heave.

 

[AevnsGrandpa]

Well most everything I could think of has been noted, even a few things that never came to my mind!

Most of my peeves have to do with where I live in relation to water that I want to dive in and the fact that I can only dive 6 months out of the year (only have wet suit) at least locally that is.

Yes, I have had issues at times with other divers and my local dive shop but as it has been stated, not worth my blood pressure so I let it go.

Can't wait till May to come around so I travel 100 miles and go jump in 50 something degree water. Ain't diving cool!

Jeff

 

[Ernesto]

I'm interested by the "novice divers wanting expert buddies" thing.

I've been training alongside my girlfriend - and had anticipated her being my buddy on the vast majority of my future dives. *Should* we both be seeking to do some diving with more experienced buddies?

I think it could be a really good thing that your girlfriend is also your buddy, with a couple caveats.
1. You should try to get out with other more experienced divers, as part of a group, to expand your experience.
2. You need to respect each others abilities at all times and not use other aspects of your relationship to force dive decisions. (Most instructors I've worked with like to split up partners, if possible, during training to keep any domestic pressure at a minimum.)
3. On the upside, you always have a handy dive buddy, sharing accommo on dive boats and vacations will be easy, and you'll both have the opportunity to take the lessons of co-operation learnt while diving and apply them to regular life!

 

[princessaprilia]

I love the colloquialism/slangism from our SCUBA cousins in both hemispheres!

Note to Princessaprilia: Care for a glass of Kool-Aid? (Just kidding!)

KR, we don't drink Kool-Aid here, we aren't big girl's blouses.

We drink beer.

AND PRINCESS!!!!! What's with that? No royal snickering allowed!!!

 

[krbailey]

KR, we don't drink Kool-Aid here, we aren't big girl's blouses.

We drink beer.

AND PRINCESS!!!!! What's with that? No royal snickering allowed!!!

Beer and I have been good friends for quite sometime. (Notice my avatar - 10 lbs of me in a 5 lb wetsuit )

DivingPrincessE - What is a Christmas tittle?

Personal pet peeve: More experienced divers with little/no patience with noobs. We're all new sometime.

 

[SkydiverChick]

I don't have many dives but the few that I have been on have all been a positive experience. The experienced divers were always very helpful, especially when they find out I'm a new diver. The only thing that annoyed me happened on my last dive. We were supposed to swim in a single line up to a certain spot and the two people behind me kept going above me and beside me. They almost kicked me in the face several times. Finally, I decided to just drop back to the end of the line so I could get away from them.