Need your pet peeves!

I hate when people have to come to a complete stop before turning, OR when they put on the right blinker and turn left...WTH???

I hate it when, everytime I'm shopping and start filling my cart full of one item - like barbie dolls, for instance, everyone else in the store comes over and starts grabbing all the barbie dolls, cause they figure I must be getting an awesome deal on them. Little do they know that I'm paying full price, I just wanted to buy 50 barbie dolls for toys for tots.

When my pet peeves on the rug I whack it with a rolled up newspaper......Oh, wait. Wrong answer.

I get PO'd when people don't slow down when the School Zone sign is flashing.

When traffic does not pull over for emergency vehicles.
When single occupant cars drive in the carpool only lane. (Actually, I don't really care for the carpool only lane, because it's usually empty wasted space, but people should follow the rules.)
I'm sure I have non-traffic peeves, but I just got off the freeway, thanks for the vent.

* Cashiers who can't count and put the change in a lump in my hand with the receipt

* People who don't pull over for a funeral procession

*E-mails that promise great things if you send it to forty other people within the next six minutes (cyber chain letter type things)

johnnysannie said:

*E-mails that promise great things if you send it to forty other people within the next six minutes (cyber chain letter type things)

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And on a similar note, one of my pet peeves is the email that tells you you don't care about people if you don't send it out to ten people you know.

Other pet peeves include, but are not limited to:

People who don't use the turn signal on their car.

People who don't look for pedestrians as the crossing signal turns green (I've had cars hit me because their drivers didn't see me until I yelled at the top of my lungs from on top of their hood).

People who honk their horn the instant the light turns green.

People on the bus who ask you stupid questions at the top of their lungs like, "So, are you going to the bank today to cash your Paycheck?"

Rllgthunder said:

When my pet peeves on the rug I whack it with a rolled up newspaper......Oh, wait. Wrong answer.

I get PO'd when people don't slow down when the School Zone sign is flashing.

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People who honk their horns at a stopped bus when kindergartners are getting on

People who ask me in the grocery store if all those kids are mine (no, I swiped a few because shopping with toddlers is SO MUCH FUN!!!)

People who buy name brand/fad food with food stamps/WIC. Especially candy bars and junk food.

People who cuss in grocery store lines when there are small kids around

Chocolate candy bars placed at 4 year old eye level in the checkout lane

Not being able to buy more than 2 types of cold medicine in a day, because of the pseudephedrine meth laws, when I have adults, children, and infants who are sick. You really think I'm gonna make meth with a .4 oz bottle of infant cold meds?

People who wait for you to back out of a spot so they can take it - but they are too close to you to be able to back out. Hello!

People who buy scratch tickets, scratch them, redeem them, buy more, scratch them... while the rest of us just want to pay for our gas.

Telephone computer help, outsourced to India, who barely speak English and can't deviate from the script so they repeat the same sentence 400 times instead of actually helping you.

Wow, I'm a picky person, aren't I!

Walking behind people who are walking slow and side by side, and you can't get around them so you have to walk slow too.

Having to listen to people eat noisily, i.e. potato chips.

People who respond to message board threads with just "Me too!" or "Yes."

allen

MizzACEE said:

I hate when people have to come to a complete stop before turning, OR when they put on the right blinker and turn left...WTH???

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Yeah, it's a pain - but here in good ol' Okiehoma City, if you DON'T come to a full stop, it's a ticketable offense.

People who telephone you and the first thing out of their mouth is, "who is this?"

Cell phones going off practically anywhere.

People who feel that trying to finish other peoples' sentences in conversation is a way of sounding intelligent

People who say "jive" when they mean "jibe," or misuse words like "fortuitous."

When you sa "excuse me" and the other person responds "uh-huh". When people don't say "God bless you" (or some form thereof) when you sneeze. When employees ignore you while taking a social call, or generally just act like you're a terrible bother for giving them your business. When people don't tip a waiter extra for really great service.

Oh, wait--you only asked for one, didn't you?

People who spit on their fingers before counting out their money or shuffling pages of a book or papers that I'm going to have to touch soon.

People who can't manage to lay down the bloody cell phone for two minutes to conduct the business they came to me to conduct.

Thick accents of any kind on help lines... unless it's East Indian for East Indians' help lines; Okie twang for Okies, Texas drawl for Texans, etc. I want my dialects segregated, PLEASE.

People with 35 items in the 10 item line.

People who mess with the stuff on or in my desk at work. Or my computer.

Is that enough? I have more.

Here's one from today:

People in supermarkets whom block isles by walking SLOOOWLY side-by-side, yapping about absolutely mindless crap and acting like walking through the toilet paper section is a trip down memory lane!
One of these days I'm going to snap and start plowing them down with my cart like they're bowling pins!
Get out of my way damn you, I want my 2-ply and I want it NOW!

Pedestrians who walk down the middle of the driving lane in parking lots ... very slowly.

ok, so I'm still stuck in traffic, but really, it's about the only place I peeve.


oh wait a minute, I have one. Female co-workers who are too sick to work 'that time of the month', every month.

Girls. Who. Miss. The. Toilet.

After four years of living in a dorm, this is mighty high up on my list. The number of girls who can't get it in the toilet (and get it all over the toilet seat instead) is astounding. I mean, the heck? We're girls! I heard once that it's because some people prefer to squat than sit, but y'know, that's cool and all, but you can't tell me that they did not notice that they peed EVERYWHERE. Whatever your choice in toilet-use preferences, the average five year old knows that when you make a boo-boo, you clean it up yourself. The RA had to put up a bathroom notice stating as much, it was so bad.

Heh, that was probably more than you all wanted to know! XD But seriously, I dunno, to me that's just about the height of inconsideratness there.

Oh, and teachers (or especially teaching assistants, as its more common) who don't speak good english. Don't get me wrong, I've had truly excellent foreign TA's, but I've had a handful who did not know enough english to understand the question that I was asking. In a subject like chemistry, that is not cool.

Customers who are mean to poor, bottom-level employees. I work in Barnes & Noble, and most customers are nice as can be, but you occasionally get somebody who seriously seems to take it personally when you can't find their book, or when you tell them such and such coupon expired two years ago. I mean, we're just employees--we're hardly making any money, and we don't control any of the stuff they're complaining about. Try and be nice.

AND TELEMARKETERS. I HATES THEM.

Okay, I'm done now. ^_^

People who act superior to anyone who doesn't make as much money as they do, or believe it's OK to tell the poor how to behave.

People who give ruined books to a charity drive (yes, this just happened to me today, and even though she tried to do it anonymously I know who she is and she's a lot higher on the ladder than the great folks who've donated a bunch of NEW books and pretty checks)

People who try to push their idea of "values" and "morals" onto others, and act as if anyone not following their tune is somehow without same.

And my very worst pet peeve: People who use an apostrophe to denote pluralization.

People who walk near me who are talking LOUDLY on their cell phones. I often think they're talking to me. Do they have to SHOUT? Usually what they're saying is a lot of brown-and-smelly anyway.

My pet peeve:

Cashiers (usually the under 25 crowd) at the supermarket, Panera, etc. who chat on and on with their pals when they should be attending to their customers. Hello - you're being paid to work and interact with the customer, not socialize with your buds.

I don't know how many times I've been through the checkout line while the kid is ringing me up, all the while gabbing with another cashier about their weekend plans, or flirting with the bag boy. The only time they acknowledge my existence is when money has to change hands. If I were manager and I caught any of my employees treating a customer in that manner, it'd be pink slip time before they knew what hit them.

Arrgh!!

-Balled up dirty socks under the bed, or heaven forbid, in the closet after being shuffed off by four "have to be naked immediately" girls the minute they walk in the door.

-People chewing with their mouths open. Ew. Ew. Ew.

Chronic complainers
People who refuse to help themselves
Snobs
Mean People

Neighbours whose kids run around and scream right outside the window for five hours straight while I'm trying to study.

Neighbours whose kids leave their toys all over the poorly lit stairs where everyone falls over them.

Neighbours whose kids leave their toys in our parking space, so when we drive in we have to stop the car, get out, and move the toys before we can park.

Neighbours who tell their friends to park in the middle of the drive in the towaway zone, which stops us being able to get out of our parking space.

Neighbours who put the (close and very noisy) washing machine on at 3am.

Get the feeling I don't like my neighbours? Thanks for the chance to vent.

Overweight people who say "I've tried everything, but I just can't lose weight", while sitting on the couch eating pizza and watching TV all day.

People in front of me in the supermarket who complain to the checkout person that they've been overcharged for a tin of spaghetti by 10 cents, and make everyone wait while the assistant goes and checks on the price, only to find out the customer has picked up the wrong brand, which isn't on sale, then decides she (it's always a she) needs to send someone to get three, no, four, tins of the right brand which is on sale, while the supermarket only has one checkout open and there are now fifteen people in line, blocking up the aisles for people who are still shopping...

Yea, I don't like supermarkets either. And don't get me started on the people who stop their trollies right in the middle of the aisles so you can't get past them on either side, look up when they see you approach, then ignore you until you give up and try a different aisle.

Ah, the joy of the rant!

And supermarkets where they'll only open one checkout even though there are fifteen people in line.

KiwiChick

Slutty ten-year-olds who say "no".