Pet Peeves

[Selena]

Just discovered that this former thread fell victim of the phantom pruner.

So if you haven't had a chance to sound off about your pet peeves go to it. In fact if you have some old ones you wish to resurrect you can do that too. No-one will be any the wiser.:aok:


My latest ...
Filthy, dirty rest rooms at gas stations and fast food places on major highways.

[fermicat]

Having to work on tedious paperwork BS instead of cool engineering projects.

[talyn3]

People that delete/prune threads.

That being said, I just want to say I love all the mods very much.:)

[NYPinTA]

Hey, you only have 6 left till 1000!

[Digger]

Originally posted by NYPinTA
Hey, you only have 6 left till 1000! Quick! Somebody delete something!

[grinner]

unless I find some more threads of mine to delete... hehehehe.

[witchdoctor]

People that hurry to pull out in front of you on a road, when no one is behind you and then drive slowly.

A related pet peeve is the when you are on the highway and just coming up to pass a couple cars in the slow lane, when the rear most car pulls into the fast lane and then takes 10 minutes or so to pass the other car, blocking you the whole time.

[BlackThorn]

On witchdoctor's note -- People who come speeding up behind you in the slow lane, pull over and around in front of you, then proceed to drive very slowly for the next ten miles.

[Egg]

grinner you used to be nice to people, have you been cloned? are you your own evil twin, has the post count turned you to the dark side?
No shame but vanity a gogo with an ignore?
are you now Grinner?
(I know you'll get the big G :rollin: )
just like Dr Dr Dr.......





Just taking the michael!
sometimes you need it.




:aok:

[grinner]

hey... no fair... I'm not playing with you any more... :( :cry2:

[VBKatLou]

Bad colds. I have one right now. For cry'in out loud. Why isn't there a cure for that yet? You know why? Cos there's a conspiracy among all the companies that make cold remedies. That's why. Oh yeah, and Kleenex and Puffs are part of that conspiracy too. If we didn't get colds, they'd all go broke.

I think I've drunk too much Nyquil in the last two days. It's the only thing that clears my sinuses.

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
hey... no fair... I'm not playing with you any more... :( :cry2:
perhaps I was too harsh




lol







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[Egg]

Originally posted by VBKatLou
Bad colds. I have one right now. For cry'in out loud. Why isn't there a cure for that yet? You know why? Cos there's a conspiracy among all the companies that make cold remedies. That's why. Oh yeah, and Kleenex and Puffs are part of that conspiracy too. If we didn't get colds, they'd all go broke.

I think I've drunk too much Nyquil in the last two days. It's the only thing that clears my sinuses.
and the scotch brewsters, half a bottle and cures the world

[Riot Chik]

People who brush past you and don't say 'excuse me'.

Sorry you got a bad cold, VB. Hang in there.

[BlackThorn]

The Human Race.

[kitfoxer]

Skiffy.

[Selena]

Guess you have the :kitty: Kat flu!

[LiLOrion]

Originally posted by BlackThorn
The Human Race.


I'll second that! :)

Most Scapers excluded of course ;)

[Egg]

Originally posted by Selena
Guess you have the :kitty: Kat flu!
so we kill the moggies and no more flu............................................... .................................................. ..................choices......................... ....fried eggs anyone?

[BrowderChick]

Mine is when you are in here trying to type and people come up behind you and lurk over your shoulder and tell you to get back to work. :):)

[Egg]

:)

[Judith]

Whistling

And when people have big huge screaming arguments in public areas. I feel like I'm being assulted by the emotions of others.

[talyn3]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
Whistling

You don't like to whistle, or you don't like people that whistle alot.

[Judith]

Originally posted by talyn3
You don't like to whistle, or you don't like people that whistle alot.

I don't like whistling. I don't like people who EVER whistle. I don't whistle.

[BlackThorn]

*starts whistling*

[Judith]

Originally posted by BlackThorn
*starts whistling*

I'll cut you.

[talyn3]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
I'll cut you.

What do you have against whistling?? Whistling is great fun, do it all the time. I don't whistle loud though. I try to keep it quiet.

[Mrelia]

Hmmmm...pet peeves.

People who think that because they know your name, they can touch you. I don't mean sexually, I just have issues with personal space and people who don't respect others desire for the same. I also don't like it when people stand really close to me.
With friends and family, I don't have a problem.

People who throw trash out of their cars.

People who say, "noo-ku-lur".

People who talk on cell phones while driving.
" " while applying makeup.

People who don't make their kids buckle up or who put children in the front seat of cars equipped with airbags.

[Judith]

Originally posted by talyn3
What do you have against whistling?? Whistling is great fun, do it all the time. I don't whistle loud though. I try to keep it quiet.

It hurts my teeth and it's damn annoying.

[talyn3]

Hurts your teeth?? Do you have a hole in one or something??

[Judith]

Originally posted by talyn3
Hurts your teeth?? Do you have a hole in one or something??

No, they're just sensitive to high pitched noises.

[Mrelia]

I forgot to spew my bile upon those who spell doughnut, do-nut!

:sniper:

[Judith]

People who say things like "very unique", or "slightly pregnant".

[VBKatLou]

Originally posted by Mrelia
People who think that because they know your name, they can touch you. I don't mean sexually, I just have issues with personal space and people who don't respect others desire for the same. I also don't like it when people stand really close to me.

Me too. I'm from the midwest and we need at least two feet of personal space or else we stop being so polite. :rollin:

[fermicat]

I hate it when someone does does something stupid while driving, and then proceeds to gesture rudely and honk their horn at other drivers like they did something bad. MORONS.

And I hate it when I am driving in Boston and I stop at a RED light and the person behind me almost rams me and spends the entire light cycle shooting me birds, flashing his/her lights, and yelling. Red means STOP, jerks.

[Selena]

I hate it when I try to attach an image and all I get is a little white box with a red X. :pissed:

[samati75]

Originally posted by BrowderChick
Mine is when you are in here trying to type and people come up behind you and lurk over your shoulder and tell you to get back to work. :):)

Yeah, isn't that the worst?! ;)

Peeves: A/C in the winter (see the haiku thread)

People who lie or dance around the truth. I HATE that. Say what you mean and mean what you say, people! The truth hurts far worse that a lie and wastes my damn time!

[stellar]

When someone knocks on the door to your office then immediately opens the door without waiting for you to answer. It's good that they like to give warnings, but if you're just going to come in anyway, why toy with me?

[fermicat]

Originally posted by stellar
When someone knocks on the door to your office then immediately opens the door without waiting for you to answer. It's good that they like to give warnings, but if you're just going to come in anyway, why toy with me?

Hopefully they give you enough time to stop picking your nose (or whatever potentially embarrassing thing you could be doing in private -- I won't speculate).

[stellar]

Oh, please... speculate.

[fermicat]

Originally posted by stellar
Oh, please... speculate.

Checking or adjusting your package, changing clothes, watching Oprah, laundering money, laundering your shorts, laundering a body part, chatting with your hog-tied victim, writing haiku, increasing your post count, playing a FMD game, scratching your eema, having phone sex, doing the macarena, watching Scare Tactics, sticking pins into your voodoo doll, scamming the Nigerian scammers, reading the "pees in shower" thread, not liking Charlie......

..... could be any of those, OR WORSE!

[talyn3]

Originally posted by fermicat
.... increasing your post count, playing a FMD game, ......



What's wrong with those two??

[Mrelia]

ANother pet peeve:

People who hint around and then get mad because you don't jump up and do what they want. Like my neighbor, "You can turn that light off anytime you want." instead of, "Would you please turn your back porch light off so that none may observe my sitting by the BBQ in a drunken stupor?"

[Judith]

You know what pisses me off? PEOPLE WHO BOTHER TO STAND IN LINE FOR THREE HOURS TO SEE A MIDNIGHT PREMIER OF A MOVIES AND THEN PROCEED TO TALK ON THEIR CELL PHONES FOR THE LAST TEN MINUTES OF SAID MOVIE! Why would you take the extra time to stand in line for a movie, and stay up til four am, if it's a movie you're not REALLY interested in? Why would you go to an event where it's clear that everyone else there is REALLY interested in said event and then talk over it? It's annoying when seeing any movie...but in this case, it's not just discourtesy, it's malicous discourtesy.

Dude was two seconds away from getting punched by your own sweet Judith!

[talyn3]

Happy thoughts Judith, Happy thoughts.

[Mrelia]

I would have loudly hissed. "That guy's got a camera in his phone!"

[fermicat]

I really wish they'd make theaters which do not have cell phone reception, then no one would have to deal with stupid people's phones.

[Judith]

Originally posted by Mrelia
I would have loudly hissed. "That guy's got a camera in his phone!"

I was torn between wanting to punch him and wanting to just reach over, take his cell phone, hang it up, and tell him he could have it back after the movie.

The only reason I didn't do either is because I didn't want to start an argument that would prevent MORE people from hearing the end of the movie.

[Selena]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
No, they're just sensitive to high pitched noises.

You know there is a cure for that!
You just need to go to the appropriate department at your undercover agency and ask them to implant you with a more up to date sonic transceiver. :bond:

[Kurt_eh]

bump

[Selena]

New Year's pet peeve ...
Movies that are horrifically violent just for the sake of portraying violence

Theaters that show adult themed previews before shows that are PG13 because the show has yet to be rated.

TV shows that are utterly gross ... last week saw an ad for fear factor as I was changing channels where someone was made to eat some kind of huge black live bug. :yuck:

[BrowderChick]

Speaking of theatres and pet peeves.....movies that are a higher rating than G and there are poeple there with small children.....Not only is this something the little ones dont need to see but then the parents let them run up and down the aisles screaming and playing..... or something on the screen scared them and they are screaming because of that.

[Judith]

Pet peeve about my family from the holidays...

They have a two story house...my little sister lives upstairs, and my room is also up there. I don't live there, so when I'm not visiting, my little sister pretty much has the top floor to herself.

When my parents have to talk to her, or she has to talk to them, they just shout up and down the stairs at each other.

Is it really that much effort to walk up the stairs?

Not a big deal...just...the constant shouting made the holidays even more stressful.

[Selena]

Pet peeve #52 ... people who cannot differentiate fiction from reality and believe EVERYTHING they read and consider it fact no matter how outrageous.

[Alexxia]

:rollin:
Gee, I wonder where that came from....
:innocent:

[Alexxia]

By the way, I quite enjoyed your "interview," Selena.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Selena
Pet peeve #52 ... people who cannot differentiate fiction from reality and believe EVERYTHING they read and consider it fact no matter how outrageous. Go on jirl... preach it.

[BrowderChick]

I did too.....

[Selena]

:curtsey: :encore: thank you to all my friends and faithful comrades in crime.

[Tox]

Pet peeves...

- people that say 'h' as 'haitch' instead of 'aitch'
- people that say PIN number
- people that hit your car when they open their door
- people that talk over the top of you
- people that ask your opinion, then ignore what you say
- people that throw parties until the wee hours of the morning and keep you up
- people that mow their lawn at 7am on a saturday
- people who are just plain inconsiderate
- people that smoke where you're trying to breathe
- radio dj's that talk over the top of the songs
- tv stations that have the ads twice as loud as the show that you're watching
- eddie macguire

there are just so many more...

[who45]

Originally posted by Selena
Pet peeve #52 ... people who cannot differentiate fiction from reality and believe EVERYTHING they read and consider it fact no matter how outrageous. :applaud: :aok:

[Selena]

Pet peeve #53 ... Dannon yoghurt tubs that spray you with yoghurt when you try to open them. :pissed:

[who45]

Originally posted by Selena
Pet peeve #53 ... Dannon yoghurt tubs that spray you with yoghurt when you try to open them. :pissed: :rollin: :rollin: I am so glad I'm not the only one that happens to. Sometimes my students will bring those for snack and I have to open it for them...it gets me every time.

[AgentSun]

pet peeve #54: people who yell and scream outside your dorm window at 12 am when you're trying to get work done.

[Selena]

I was so peeved by it that I ended up calling the company. They suggested that I prick the top with a needle or something sharp ... like I have something sharp with me at all times :rolleyes:

[who45]

Originally posted by Selena
I was so peeved by it that I ended up calling the company. They suggested that I prick the top with a needle or something sharp ... like I have something sharp with me at all times :rolleyes: Yeah, I can see me saying...excuse me kids while I whip out this here pointy sharp object....how long do you think I'll keep my job after that,lol.

[AgentSun]

not only that, to use anything else in your classroom to do it would just be (ugh) unsanitary. that'd get some parents riled up!

[fermicat]

1. Minor office functionaries on power trips = BAD

2. Minor office functionaries on power trips who actually have some power over you = WORSE

3. People who ride your bumper during a snowstorm when you are driving the speed limit (I can understand how someone would be impatient if I were just crawling along, but if I am driving at a reasonable speed then they are just idiots. I need a bumper sticker that warns others "Driver is from GEORGIA - tailgate at your own risk")

4. Those stupid, ever-larger station logos taking up more and more of the TV screen during programs. (Why don't they do that during commercials, too?) Ditto for the captions at the bottom of the screen advertising other shows - Skiffy is famous for this one.

5. Tax forms. All of 'em. Unnecessarily complicated timewasters. "Enter the amount from 1040 line 32 onto Form ZIPPO line 6. Multiply line 6 by .021645328 and enter on line 7. If line 7 is less than line 2, enter line 4 amount into line 21 and skip to line 46. If line 7 is greater than line 2, you are under arrest and are expected to turn yourself in immediately. If line 7 is zero, you must fill in Form WTF and skip to line 20 on Form ZIPPO, where the answer to question 15d is 6 if your birthday is on an odd numbered month and ....."

[BlackThorn]

Originally posted by fermicat
4. Those stupid, ever-larger station logos taking up more and more of the TV screen during programs. (Why don't they do that during commercials, too?) Ditto for the captions at the bottom of the screen advertising other shows - Skiffy is famous for this one.
[/i]

Argh! I hate those! The ones that move and make sounds are the worst. Nothing like watching some engrossing moment on a show and the stupid pop-up logo goes off and makes some stupid noise. Totally ruins the moment you were in.

These people better be careful. Those logos make me want to get all violent. They don't want a private screening of "The Wrath of BlackThorn."

[Selena]

"The Wrath of BlackThorn." is that anything like The Wrath of Khan?

[BlackThorn]

As BlackThorn would never violate Star Trek copyright, I must say that any similarities to people or events whether real of fictitious is purely coincidental.

However, I can say that the scene where the network execs provoke BlackThorn's wrath while she's PMSing is truly horrific.

[SaraD]

people who ask when other people (like me) are going to get over the STOLEN election.

because the answer is: never

[VBKatLou]

Originally posted by fermicat
3. People who ride your bumper during a snowstorm when you are driving the speed limit (I can understand how someone would be impatient if I were just crawling along, but if I am driving at a reasonable speed then they are just idiots. I need a bumper sticker that warns others "Driver is from GEORGIA - tailgate at your own risk")
[/i] [/B]

Yes! Had that happen last night. It was snowing heavily, streets were covered, it was heavy traffic going down a fairly large hill, and this idiot behind me was right up on my tail. Then he cut into the left lane to try and pass me (I don't know why, no one on the road was moving fast) and started sliding back over into the right lane right next to my door. Cretin.

[fermicat]

I just thought of another one (because of a recent post about the anti-smoking story in SMS language):

With apologies to the youngsters around here, I hate text messaging slang, and believe it does not belong anywhere other than in teenager's instant messages. I shudder when I read news stories about how teachers are seeing it pop up in term papers and such, and how it sneaks into office email (bad career move, people).

Words should be spelled correctly, caps used where appropriate, and there are no words that include numeric characters!!!! If you can't use proper written English, "u r prolly gonna hafta learn sooner or l8r." Ick, ick, ick.

[fermicat]

I was just in a meeting where someone said the non-word "tasked". I hate that. Task is a NOUN, not a verb.

[Alexxia]

Originally posted by fermicat
With apologies to the youngsters around here, I hate text messaging slang, and believe it does not belong anywhere other than in teenager's instant messages. I shudder when I read news stories about how teachers are seeing it pop up in term papers and such, and how it sneaks into office email (bad career move, people).

Words should be spelled correctly, caps used where appropriate, and there are no words that include numeric characters!!!! If you can't use proper written English, "u r prolly gonna hafta learn sooner or l8r." Ick, ick, ick.
As an English major, I have to agree with you. Even when I'm text messaging someone, I spell everything out and capitalize where appropriate. It drives my friends crazy. :P

[Selena]

pet peeve # 55.
People who consistently comandeer game threads and other threads with inane ramblings that have nothing to do with the game and exclude others from being able to play or work out what the real thread topic is about.

[fermicat]

:applaud: What she said!

And don't you just hate it that every bill payment envelope has that little square with the message telling you that the envelope needs postage.... like you don't know that! And I also hate it that the square is always a different size and aspect ratio from an ordinary stamp, so it is impossibly to completely cover it with your stamp.

[Selena]

pet peeve #56
The stupid companies that ask you to help them by auto-paying your bill from your bank account, and then still send you out a whole envelope of junk every month including your bill with the words ... "Do Not Pay This Bill" ... on the statement and an envelope to NOT post it in.:pissed:

[Alexxia]

I sometimes send them the envelope back with nothing in it. They don't pay for postage unless it's sent back to them. :D

[SeasonOfDeath]

[list=1]
Litterbugs.
People who throw lit cigarettes out of their car windows.
Gentrification.
Neo-Conservatives... wait.. that's something I hate.
The Patriot Act(s).
Rolling Roadblocks.
These are when you're driving on a four-lane highway
and each lane has a car travelling in it from the median
to the shoulder.Excuse me! Some of us would like to get by!
Getting asked to perform a task at work that needs to be done immediately.. and it's 5:00 pm, my computer is shutting down and my coat is on.
[/list=1]

That's all for now. I'm sure there are more.

[Selena]

Not sure if this one was mentioned earlier or not ...

People who work in adjoining offices and slam doors. My neighbor comes and goes about every 10 to 15 minutes and each time it's a door slam.

[Alexxia]

It irks me whenever my housemates leave the front door unlocked when they leave. I mind it less when they don't lock it when they come in, but it's when they're going to classes and leave it unlocked that I get narked about it.

[DRD2001]

My pet peeve... COWARDS

Cowards who call other people liars, when they themselves are telling the lies.

Cowards who hide behind paranoid accusations of persecution to try to deflect people away from the TRUTH.

Cowards who refuse to believe the FACTS given to them, even when it is from their own sources.

Cowards who say nasty lies in their posts, and then delete their posts, thinking no one will ever know what they've said.

Cowards who resort to emotional blackmail to try to guilt honest people into giving them sympathy, hugs and a "we love you" smilie.

Cowards who don't have the guts to admit, in the face of overwhelming facts, that they are WRONG!.

[VBKatLou]

:shrug:

Sounds like you've had a bad experience on the boards.

[trinamick]

1. Having to work inside on days when the weather is sunny and warm, and having people come in and tell me how wonderful it is outside. Thanks, Spucky, keep me posted!

2. Annoying people who interrupt you constantly when you're talking, and if you try to finish your sentence, they just talk louder.

3. People who constantly talk about everyone else they come in contact with, and then tell you how much of a gossip somebody else is.

4. Doing something stupid which had negative consequences (minor, but still negative) from which you have learned your lesson, and then being reminded of it for the next 30 years.

5. Landlords who respond to the news of an enormous leak by saying, "Well, someday when it gets nice, I'll come take a look at it. Gee, thanks, but then you can't tell where the leak is. Meanwhile, I have a pool in my utility room. There are mice doing the breaststroke in my laundry basket!!!

[Selena]

Originally posted by trinamick
...... 4. Doing something stupid which had negative consequences (minor, but still negative) from which you have learned your lesson, and then being reminded of it for the next 30 years.......

Hey trinamick I think we know the same people.

Last week I called the doctor's office about them sending me a 95 cent check because I had overpaid my account on my first visit. I lost the check and it's been lost for a while .... 2 years to be exact. So I call the office wanting to speak to the person who does the billing but being an Aussie and a senior one at that, I said accounts instead of billing.

The smart eemad bimbo that answered the phone said that they don't have an accounting department, but they do have someone who does billing.:rolleyes: So I ask if I may speak to that person. The bimbo then says that maybe she can try and help me, what did I want? I replied (and cut my tongue out because I said something that :pissed: her off) I'd rather speak to the person who knows about billing. She immediately get's really ansty and makes some snide comment that EVERY time I call the office I create a scene.

EVERY time??? I've called the office on 4 or 5 occasions in 2 years and on the very first time I called the office, I got a really rude reception from Ms Bimbo. She asked me what was wrong with me when I asked for an appointment and I replied that it was confidential and I would only discuss it with the doctor. She didn't like that and hung up on me. When I called back I asked to speak to the office manager and she would not put me through. So I went down to the doctor's office later that morning and she wasn't there. Someone else let me see the doctor. I told him how upset I was by the way I had been treated and spoken to and he make excuses that she was new. Boy if I had a new employee that was so rude they would be looking for another job.

The next day I called and spoke to her and apologized saying I was sorry if she misunderstood what I had said and if I had offended her in any way. She didn't apologize to me even though she should have and I thought we had parted on amicable terms. Not so!

Here it is 2 years later and she chose to bring up something that in my mind was over and done with years ago. I've made 2 other appointments with that doctor because I actually like him and as far as I was concerned everything was fine. The I get this comment last week when I call.

I'm convinced that some people just like to bear grudges because they have nothing else in their lives to occupy their miserable existence.

So anyway here's my pet peeve for the day ... people who don't do their job at work but are very quick to tell you how you should be doing yours.

[StarsGoBlue]

Spamming. Spamming is a pet peeve of mine. :eh:

[BrowderChick]

Or should it be spamming yourself. That is really annoying......

[Selena]

Pet peeve #58 ... people who send you unsolicited porn and type stupid things into the subject line to cover their evil deeds.

[trinamick]

Pet Peeve #59: People who think they are so educated, so wealthy, so enlightened that everyone around them is a peon whose opinion doesn't matter. Everybody else is just put on the planet to serve them or to listen to them talk about their own brilliance.

On the upside: At least egotistical people don't talk about others.

[abbadon]

Pet Peeve |\|| *60 when the Hash Key On your Keyboard is not where it should be


Pet Peeve *61 When you discover it's not working anyhow

Pet Peeve *62 When People who never finish a Sent.......

[KayandTonio]

People who don't flush the toilet in public bathrooms! AARGH!!! The excuse I've been given when I chew on someone about it (and I WILL, if I catch someone in the act - or lack of act, that is) is "Oh, the complete stranger who used this before me didn't wash their hands before they touched the toilet handle - ew, ick, I can't possible touch it myself!" Well, guess what skippy - they also touched the DOOR HANDLE didn't they? So unless you've mastered the art of de-solidifying yourself, whisking through the door, and becoming solid again, you're going to have to touch SOMETHING in order to get out of the stall, aren't you? AAARGH!!! ARRGH AAAAAAAAARGH!!! If you are one of the guilty parties, whoever you are - FLUSH THE DAMN TOILET, YOU PIG!!!!!

K (So, K? How do you REALLY feel?)

[trinamick]

:lol You're preachin' to the choir here! I hate that as well - don't want to touch it? Use your foot!

[Selena]

I hate it when people don't wash their hands after being in a bathroom. :yuck:
And if you think you might pick something up from a toilet flush handle imagine what you're getting off the toilet seat ... gross! That's why they put soap and towels into rest rooms - so you can wash your hands and remove that germy mess off your hands ... sounds like an ad for the Clorox wipes doesn't it!

[Sponge]

People who think that because they know your name, they can touch you

I'd have to say that applies to me too. Once when they didn't know my name, too. Not to the same degree as you, I think. But I'm definitely not a touchy person - especially close-to. It just gets me rather narky.

When I get into full flow in a conversation/explanation/rant and someone tries to shut me down. For a short while that gets me seriously annoyed. It probably doesn't help my case that I often get louder and faster as I go along a lot of the time.

People who are fussy with their food. Allergies don't count. But just people who refuse to eat something for no readily apparent reason - it's worse when it's an adult though. It really bugs me.

Bad spelling. My all time least tolerated gripe. This seems to be a popular gripe here. It really drives me up the wall! Not just regular people - I've seen busineeses do it as well (mis-spelled shelf labels usually). But one real estate agent spelled "Professional" with 2 f's once, which really made me want to throttle someone!

[Aeryn_Sun99]

people that try to pay for a $5.00 purchase with $100 dollar bill....grrr....that really erks me....

[trinamick]

When I get into full flow in a conversation/explanation/rant and someone tries to shut me down. For a short while that gets me seriously annoyed. It probably doesn't help my case that I often get louder and faster as I go along a lot of the time.
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Bad spelling. My all time least tolerated gripe. This seems to be a popular gripe here. It really drives me up the wall! Not just regular people - I've seen busineeses do it as well (mis-spelled shelf labels usually). But one real estate agent spelled "Professional" with 2 f's once, which really made me want to throttle someone!

My mother stops me in the middle of conversations all the time and says, "Now you don't have to get all radical." I hate that!

So, when you misspelled businesses was it intentional? :D

[Aeryn_Sun99]

I'd have to say that applies to me too. Once when they didn't know my name, too. Not to the same degree as you, I think. But I'm definitely not a touchy person - especially close-to. It just gets me rather narky.

When I get into full flow in a conversation/explanation/rant and someone tries to shut me down. For a short while that gets me seriously annoyed. It probably doesn't help my case that I often get louder and faster as I go along a lot of the time.

People who are fussy with their food. Allergies don't count. But just people who refuse to eat something for no readily apparent reason - it's worse when it's an adult though. It really bugs me.

Bad spelling. My all time least tolerated gripe. This seems to be a popular gripe here. It really drives me up the wall! Not just regular people - I've seen busineeses do it as well (mis-spelled shelf labels usually). But one real estate agent spelled "Professional" with 2 f's once, which really made me want to throttle someone!
I hate it when businesses send out stuff with miss-spellings...it makes the business look so unprofessional...i mean, isn't that what spell check is for?

[AgentSun]

new pet peeve: my manager. one of them anyway. she's horrible. she's got this bossy atitude and when she wants me to work at the counter and this customer is hounding me to get her some different size, what am i going to do? this woman wants to buy something and give the store money so the company can send my horrible manager her paycheck! so after like the third woman hounds me, my manager tells me again she needs me at the counter. sigh.

[Jeff O'Connor]

I have a thing against television networks. But that's just me.

[Zutulu]

Resurrecting this old thread to let out some newer pet peeves:

-when people have the TV on, but don't actually watch it. (it's even worse when it's some mindless dribble that's on, and other people in the room are trying to study)

-when people swing their keys around on those long around-the-neck keychain things. I have this paranoia that one of these days I'm going to get hit by those. I feel unsafe even if there's a good 5 feet of space between me and the key swinger...

[fiona-maria]

Those in the slower lane who speed up as I am trying to merge onto the freeway.
Those who feel that 2 seconds faster is worth cutting in front of me with less than a foot to spare - I have kids in the car, and these drivers are willing to risk everyone's lives in order to be first.
Those who think that because they exist they have to right to do (fill in the blank).
Liars.
Thieves.
Sociopaths.
Narcissists.
Those who choose to be ignorant and not think.
Those who think that having children means that you do not establish a structure for them, or visit the consequences of their actions upon them.
Those who ask for advice and then don't utilise it. They just want to be able to continue/inflict their complaining on everyone else.
Those who look at their food and loudly refuse to eat it "because they don't want to." How spoiled and undisciplined is that? Excuse me???
Those who monopolise the conversation and don't even know they are doing so.

(O, dear. I am in a mood today!)

[trubador]

...(O, dear. I am in a mood today!)
:rollin:

[Zutulu]

As sweet & warm as a Philly soft pretzel dunked in hot chocolate on a chilly winter afternoon.
People who make you really crave things you shouldn't be eating :P Thanks trub

[zahncrelnik]

people who say they are on your side and then stab you in the back, ...repeatedly
at the job, I actually get paid for that.....

could someone please take the knives out of back............

[trubador]

People who make you really crave things you shouldn't be eating :P Thanks trub
:D

[freckle]

People who park their car outside your house in your street and drop litter from car window..do i sit on your doorstep and leave a mess? no i do not.

I have been known to wait till they leave the car and go downstairs and place macdonalds cup/sweetie wrapper/old newspaper back on roof of car.

[ConnieLyn]

*People with no common sense.
*People with chips on their shoulders.
*People in retail who give me lip.
*People (younger) who are rude to older people.
*Rude people in general.
*People who bring their dog to a fair/festival and let it roam all over and get on other people who do not want a dog all over them.
*Inconsiderate people.
*People who talk on cell phones (loudly) and carry on a long, in-depth conversation THROUGHOUT the whole store, while I'm trying to shop in peace.
*Screaming brats throwing temper tantrums.
*Parents who smack/hit/whip their children for crying because they are tired/hungry instead of realizing little ones cannot shop for 8 hours in 10 different stores like a frelling Energizer Bunny.

[zahncrelnik]

*People with no common sense.
*People with chips on their shoulders.
*People in retail who give me lip.
*People (younger) who are rude to older people.
*Rude people in general.
*People who bring their dog to a fair/festival and let it roam all over and get on other people who do not want a dog all over them.
*Inconsiderate people.
*People who talk on cell phones (loudly) and carry on a long, in-depth conversation THROUGHOUT the whole store, while I'm trying to shop in peace.
*Screaming brats throwing temper tantrums.
*Parents who smack/hit/whip their children for crying because they are tired/hungry instead of realizing little ones cannot shop for 8 hours in 10 different stores like a frelling Energizer Bunny.

Wow, you listed some good ones there, ConnieLyn.

[fiona-maria]

People who park their car outside your house in your street and drop litter from car window.

O, freckle, my next-door neighbour's children's friends do that. I am constantly finding sweet wrappers, burger bags, beer and cheap brandy bottles, ice-cream sticks, pop tins, you name it. I have found all kinds of stuff. I tell my kids: here's a 5-gallon bucket. Pick up the trash on my verge, and up and down the street, fill the bucket, and you will get $5. 3 kids, and they come back with full buckets, all 3....

What, do these people poop in their own beds?*huh* Honestly....

[RustySlinky]

Pet Peeve #59: People who think they are so educated, so wealthy, so enlightened that everyone around them is a peon whose opinion doesn't matter. Everybody else is just put on the planet to serve them or to listen to them talk about their own brilliance . . . The "trailer-trash" part of me will sometimes start getting "wound-up" when richer, stronger, or more successful people "diss" others; Out of short-sighted, narrow-minded, self-centered, or one-dimensional thinking.
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:box:Spew Warning: Ethnically sensitive rant below.


The last time I got uptight over this was earlier this spring, when I was collecting voter-petition signatures so that I could earn extra money (being unable to land any other job) and avoid going on welfare.

I think I had around 300 to 400 signatures, but not a single one (yet) came from an Asian voter - And I live in an area that is at least 30 to 40% Asian. There were a handful of instances where I got upset on this assignment, but here's one:

I met one of my friend's wife's brothers: Vietnamese-American, Family fled from Saigon. First Generation US Citizen. College Graduate using US Government-Sponsored Financial Aid. Electronics Engineer. Income now over $100,000 per year. The guy bought his first $750,000 house at age 28.

So I told him that I'm doing this as a job right now, and asked if he'd look the petitions over:

"No." he said with smug-contempt that I would even try to waste his valuable time talking about civic-responsibility: "I don't vote !!!".

That he didn't even want to consider what the voter petitions were about - This one hurt for me . . . Really Bad. :(

Despite me wondering (improperly) why he was even in this country if he didn't give a frack, I held my tongue. Today, he and I get along (We did a cook-off together last week) - as long as I stay away from topics like voting, jury duty, etc. :)

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ETA: As the assignment went on, a few Asians eventually signed these petitions, but as I understand now, it's a cultural thing and not ethnic: i.e. Meaning that Asian immigrants tend to be more family-oriented and less community-oriented. :)

[zahncrelnik]

I really hate it when I am driving, in heavy rush hour traffic, behind someone
who can't stop scratching their head. What is the deal? Do these people have
fleas? ..lice? What gives?
If my head itches that bad I am in the shower with some kind of anti dandruff-type
shampoo or medicated shampoo or whatever. But I am not endlessly scratching
my head anyplace.
I have been stuck in traffic behind people who scratch the same part of their head
for, like, ten minutes straight. It's gross.

And, I am SO glad that I am in the car behind these people and NOT in the car with them!!

[Zutulu]

people writing text messages while you are trying to talk to them

[RustySlinky]

Having to get off the bus to take a dump, and then being 30 minutes late for work afterwards. :(

What's so nice about the McDonald's burgers is, that they're the most comfortable if you gotta "hold it in" for that extra hour so you don't have to bail off a bus to run for a toilet. :aok: