Is there something that really irks you? Something about your job, your family or the stuff you have to deal with every day? Share it. E-mail your peeves to bmail@sunjournal.com or mail them to Sun Journal, attn: b section, P.O. Box 4400, Lewiston, ME 04240, and we’ll print them here. Please keep your gripe to under 75 words.

Dear What’s Your Gripe,

Newspapers who start an article on the back page of a section and have the continuation in a part that we already went through. Why is that? Is it poor planning, poor layout or just a lack of common sense. Imagine an author writing a book using that format! I really believe the Sun Journal can do better.

Sincerely,

Donald Corriveau, Lewiston

Sun Journal’s response:

Dear Don,

That’s a good question that other people might also wonder about. The back page of a section is often as well read as section fronts, and allows the use of color, so newspapers often treat them like front pages, displaying stories and photos in eye-appealing ways and continuing those stories on inside pages.

Store employees and some supervisors have no manners (saying “excuse me” and “thank you,” for example). They don’t move for you when they’re in the way. Who hires these ditzes anyway? They should have an orientation on that before they’re hired. Put more older people in the workplace.

— Anonymous

I am so tired of these handicapped parking spaces. They are not enforced. How often have I seen people parking their SUVs and pickup trucks there and jogging into the store. But they have an invalid tag. No limping or anything. I would guess just one out of 10 of these has a handicapped person in the vehicle. If there is a handicapped person in the vehicle but the driver is not disabled and the invalid is not getting out of the vehicle, the driver should park in a regular space. Some lots have six to eight or more spaces and sometimes they are all empty and people have to go farther, especially when it’s raining, windy or snowing. If they have these zones, they should be required to inspect everyone coming out of the vehicle to make sure the person IS an invalid.

— Anonymous

Lets talk yard sales. I went to several this weekend and people were charging WAY too much money for things. $6 to $8 for a newborn outfit? I can get it new from Kohl’s for cheaper. HELLO L/A. Remember: When you have a yard sale make it cheap to get rid of it.

— Yard Sale Queen

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