Wait… Who actually uses freeway BBQ stoves?

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s as good a time as any to release some of those sneaky tidbits from the past week on the internet’s favorite complaint site, The Gripe Report.

It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost May, which means that now, almost anywhere you live in this great country of ours, it’s hot weather.

There are few things I enjoy like firing up the grill or the smoker and hitting up some BBQ.

I mean, does anything beat a good long cookout on a weekend or vacation?

Yes, there is, but not much.

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So, I was under the impression that BBQ might be one of the few courses out there, but believe it or not, we’re going to start with the BBQ gripe.

Maybe not in the way you would expect.

Highway Rest Stop BBQs

George wrote about my favorite type of gripes, and those are ones I never thought about, but have been seeing all my life, and now it’s all I can think about:

Public highway rest areas with BBQ grills that I’ve never seen in use? Who are they?

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Oh. Mine. God.

This had never occurred to me, but you are right. Every highway rest stop I’ve been to has one of those charcoal grills you see in parks. The kind without lids and metal boxes with a rusted grate on them.

You are right. Using one of those requires planning. They don’t provide charcoal, and there are no vending machines with different types of meat or a place to rent a set of tongs.

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No, you have to come up with everything, and who does that?

The people who stop at the rest stops are people who are traveling, and you think they really want to kick back, take twenty minutes to fire up some charcoal, then grill all their food, eat, and clean up during an hour-long road trip. again take valuable real estate in their car and cooler to store all these things?

I don’t want to.

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So the only other option is someone who goes there to hell—focusing on one thing and one thing only: BBQing in a lounge.

Nobody does that because I can think of a million other better places to BBQ, from your backyard to the park to the beach to the parking lot. All of those are better options than a public restroom where a bunch of other idiots are just trying to stretch their legs and empty their bladders.

And yet, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a resort that didn’t have at least one rusty grill next to a picnic table that 1,000% has a wasp nest on it.

Make sense…

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“Okay; crowded parking lot, long line of cars behind me… seems like as good a time as any to bring this Hyundai Sonata back and show them how it’s done…”- This guy. (Stock)

People Returning to Space

Tom enters this week with the anger we all experience on a regular basis:

I can’t stand people backing into parking lots. They do right, and we all have to wait for them as they accept us two tons a van or a small hot car into the space. They think they are very special. This should be taken down!

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Now, I like to pull into the lot (though my favorite is the pull-thru; now that’s a more satisfying way to park), but I’m always sure I’ll do it if there’s not a line of cars behind me.

People who don’t think this are straight up sociopaths.

They see a line of cars behind them and think, “They can wait,” and try to turn a three-to-seven-point lot into a Costco parking lot.

I actually think this problem has gotten worse for one simple reason: most cars now have backup cameras.

I’m a 30-year-old (and very handsome) man, and when I first started driving about 15 years ago, they weren’t uncommon, but they weren’t on every new car out there.

Now they have it, and have for years, so I’d bet most cars on the road have it, and that makes a lot of people more confident in their abilities, and choose to go back.

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Honestly, it makes me more inclined to do it. I think I can back my Ford Bronco Sport into any parking lot on the face of the Earth, but only because I have a camera with cool lines that move depending on where the wheel is turned. Add the alarm that says “Hey, you idiot, you’re about to set off the neighbor’s trash alarm,” and any idiot can do it.

I’m man enough to admit that I probably would have walked out if I didn’t have those training wheels. I would be too afraid to scratch my bumper or dent another idiot’s car.

So, just because you have a backup camera doesn’t mean you have to put it back every time.

Oh, and if you’re backing into the angled parking spots in the one-way parking lot, you probably don’t have the ability to be on the street.

This stock photo model understands better how people handle full cups of coffee than most Hollywood actresses, and therein lies the problem. (Stock)

Players with Empty Coffee Cups

Dara is checking this week with something that I can’t believe is happening in the year of our Lord 2026, but here we are.

Why can’t the actors act like there’s coffee in their prop cups?!

It annoys me how thrown, unbalanced, and weightless coffee cups are on TV. The Rookie seems to have more crimes in each episode. Does no one really drink coffee to the extent that they CAN as a coffee drinker? Nuff said.

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Seriously.

We’ve had motion pictures for about 130 years, and coffee for much longer, and this is still somewhat difficult.

I mean, think of all the special effects and computer graphics from movies and TV shows, yet understanding the effect of liquid mass on a disposable coffee cup is problematic.

This drives me crazy, too, because the fix wasn’t more obvious.

You just put water in those cups, and the problem is solved.

Yet it still happens.

Dara referred to The Rookie (not confusing Rookies), and that’s the current show airing new episodes as we speak.

This issue has been talked about for years, and they still don’t understand this.

But it’s not just in the resource department; How did the players not see this?

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Just ask for water or any drink that makes you happy and – fly! — You no longer shake your cup that must be filled with hot liquid as if you were a foreigner who had never seen a human being drink coffee before.

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That’s it for this week.

Thanks to all of you who sent gripes. Hopefully, we will reach more in the next edition of the Gripe reportbut for now, feel free to post any new gripes (or gripes you’ve been sitting on for years)!: mathew.reigle@outkick.com