Pet Peeves! What's yours?

Mystic Blossom · Mar 3, 2010

I work at my father's dental office as a receptionist, and my coworker says her biggest pet peeve is when people call and say, "Dr. So-and-so please." Without so much as introducing themselves. I never had the biggest of sympathies until this happened to me, just now. I answer the phone, and some guy right of a New Yorker comic says, "Dr. So-and-so please." I ask who I'm speaking to, and he replies, "Dr. Such-and-Such," who I've never heard of. I tell him the doctor is with a patient, but I can certainly take a message. He says, "I'll call back," and hangs up on me.

Grr! How rude!

What drives you up the wall?

Midnight Star · Mar 3, 2010

1. cheerleaders (no offense)
2. People who think they're better than everyone else (see #1)
3. People who think the world is a ball of sunshine (again, see #1)
4. Dogs that jump on people
5. Those who can't spell anything
6. Mail trucks

and so many more I can't think of

underthecity · Mar 3, 2010

Grownup people who chew with their mouths open, especially potato chips. Or slurp their food. Answer their cell phone in a restaurant and have a very loud conversation.

Or saying "ideal" instead of "idea." "That's a good ideal. Let's do that."

aadams73 · Mar 3, 2010

People with pet peeves really cheese me off.

Midnight Star · Mar 3, 2010

aadams73 said:
People with pet peeves really cheese me off.

underthecity · Mar 3, 2010

aadams73 said:
really cheese me off.

Using the term, "cheese me off."

lucidzfl · Mar 3, 2010

STUPID MESSAGE BOARD THREADS!!!!

;D

scarletpeaches · Mar 3, 2010

People who don't know when to shut their piehole.

Maryn · Mar 3, 2010

I don't see what's necessarily rude about the phone caller not identifying himself at first. He did tell you who called and that he would call again, so what more do you need? How is that rude? Maybe not as businesslike as some, but rude? Not to me.

Maryn, confuddled

scarletpeaches · Mar 3, 2010

Oh, I hate that. I want to know who I'm talking to. If someone can't identify themselves and just says "Can I talk to so-and-so?" I ask "Who's calling?" in my 'prim' voice.

lucidzfl · Mar 3, 2010

Speaking of annoying phone calls. I hate the local number you don't know.

"Hello?"
"Yo, Gerome be there?"
"No, theres no Gerome here."
"Yo den who dis?"
"I'm not telling you. You have the wrong number."
"Man do not talk fkin crazy to me, I will FIND YOU."
*click*

Mystic Blossom · Mar 3, 2010

Maryn said:
I don't see what's necessarily rude about the phone caller not identifying himself at first. He did tell you who called and that he would call again, so what more do you need? How is that rude? Maybe not as businesslike as some, but rude? Not to me.

Maryn, confuddled

See, it's not that bad until it happens to you, and the person on the other end has this air of, "I'm so important the doctor will abandon his patient to talk to me." It's just not very professional.

L.J. · Mar 3, 2010

bent cans at the grocery store

Shadow_Ferret · Mar 3, 2010

At this moment, Adam Lambert. My son is watching Leno and he's "singing."

Chris P · Mar 3, 2010

When people bend the cover of a paperback book all the way around.

People singing, humming or whistling in public.

Use of any of the following stupid phrases:

"a perfect storm for a stock market collapse"
"signaled a seachange in US-Soviet relations"
"painted all southerners with a broad brushstroke"

BardSkye · Mar 3, 2010

People with those huge baby carriages who insist on boarding the bus first.

Before you jump on me for this: the front section of our public transit is reserved for baby carriages and those with limited mobility. So it's not like they won't have a place. But they insist on getting on first, making the rest of us trip and bark our shins on them trying to worm by to join the crowd in the back of the bus.

Shakesbear · Mar 3, 2010

Electric light bulbs. The previous owner of my house took all the bulbs with him when he moved out. I replaced them and the bloody things all go at the same time. Bastard things. I hates them. Of course the bloody things always go at night - and then it is too dark to replace them. One evening the ones in the sitting room all blew - so I got up to go and get the spares. Turned the breakfast light on and it went phut! Went to bed by candlelight... bloody light bulbs!

quickWit · Mar 3, 2010

People who won't share their cookies.
Oh yeah...you know who you are.

Cella · Mar 3, 2010

women who take up an hour of my time deciding on which red lipstick is right for them.

Hint: it's the one I pick out for you. well, not YOU per se...

quickWit · Mar 3, 2010

Cella said:
women who take up an hour of my time deciding on which red lipstick is right for them.

Hint: it's the one I pick out for you. well, not YOU per se...

Me. Ow.

Cella · Mar 3, 2010

also, strangers who walk up and touch my stomach and say, "When are you due!?"

To which I want to reply, "If you don't already know, you have no business touching me, do you?"

I don't say it, though.

L.J. · Mar 3, 2010

Chris P said:
When people bend the cover of a paperback book all the way around.

People singing, humming or whistling in public.

Use of any of the following stupid phrases:

"a perfect storm for a stock market collapse"
"signaled a seachange in US-Soviet relations"
"painted all southerners with a broad brushstroke"

My husband breaks the backs of books supposedly to make them easier to read, and it really annoys me.

The phrase, 'at the end of the day'.

rhymegirl · Mar 3, 2010

underthecity said:
Grownup people who chew with their mouths open, especially potato chips. Or slurp their food.

How about gum chomping?

Chris P · Mar 3, 2010

Cella said:
To which I want to reply, "If you don't already know, you have no business touching me, do you?"

I don't say it, though.

Haha! You should!

johnnysannie · Mar 3, 2010

rhymegirl said:
How about gum chomping?

Gum chomping is at the very top of my list.

Other peeves include people who say "like" or "you know' fifteen times in one sentence (one of my teens is very bad about this and I hate it)

People who talk very loud on their cell phones in public

People who call me on my cell phone when I'm driving in six lanes of traffic during rush hour

Telephone solicitors

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Barbershoppin' Harmony Whore

knows a hawk from a handsaw

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