What are your biggest Pet Peeves?

[DarlaS]

Thanks for starting this..

 

1. People who type using numbers or just letters for words.. how r u ? I totally cringe, can't stand it! :glare:

2. The misuse of commonly misused words.. their, there, and they're, accept, except, affect, effect... ACK!

3.People who don't get over to the right when turning right.

4.People who don't get over to the left when turning left.

5. People who tailgate me when the person in front of me is going too slow. I can't go faster than the person in front of me!

6. Narrow or closed minded people, along the same line, people who think they are always right.

 

There are more.. I just can't think of them. :D

 

How about people who swerve almost to the right shoulder (on a 2 lane highway) then turn left? Unless you're driving a Mack truck, it's just unnecessary.

 

Oh, and drywall dust.

Edited July 2, 2009 by darlasowders
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[nukeswife]

I complete agree with the Text talking (the numbers and letters for whole words) Is it really that much more trouble to type those few extra letters for the words like "are", "you" and "for"

 

I also agree with the El Camino, I've said for years either you want a truck or a car, make up your mind!

 

As for the reusable shopping bag full of prepackaged food. I'm guilty of that, but I don't use my own bags becasue I'm trying to be environmentally responsible. I do it because I got sick of the movers the navy sends packing multiple large boxes full of paper and plastic bags that I then have to unpack. The only reason I had those things was because dh is a pack rat and finds it hard to part with anything. If I don't bring home a plastic or paper bag I am helping my dh with his pack rat tendencies. :tongue_smilie:

[MIch elle]

POLICE!

 

I live in a closed loop of about 50 houses. DON'T DO DONUTS IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE!! (THis was when my dc were little.) Do it in an abandoned parking lot.

[2greatkids]

:blushing: Your useer name doesn't set me off. :D

It's the emailing / writing like you're texting, I don't text, and I hadn't realized that was the reason for this, but another poster said text talking, it's all starting to make sense now.. still makes me cringe, though.

Are we really that lazy of a society that we can't type WORDS when we correspond?!

 

:D

[Ginevra]

Here's another one of mine - people who walk around or store, or wait on line, talking loudly on their cell phone. Especially if they're arguing with the person on the other end. Why is it ever a good idea to broadcast someone's business that way?

 

YES! I just witnessed this at the airport this weekend and I was about ready to rap this chic upside the head with her Blackberry! She yacked on for 20 minutes about what Bob did at the party and the decorations and the food, etc., etc., etc. and she was sitting about 25 feet away from me! Then she said, "I have to go; I'm getting ready to board a plane." But, can you believe it? As soon as she hung up, she called some other poor person she's mistaken for a friend and yacked on to them until loading time.

[LibraryLover]

Mine has started using that one TOO! Caught it from the same source, I believe. :)

 

 

It bugs me! Oy! Thank you for uderstanding!

 

Now...how to put the kibosh on it!?!

[Nicole M]

It bugs me! Oy! Thank you for uderstanding!

 

Now...how to put the kibosh on it!?!

 

Whenever my husband starts to say, "To make a long story short," I rudely interrupt him and complete the sentence as "To make a long story even longer, dear?"

 

Once my youngest son overheard this and called me on the interrupting. His older brother said, "Buddy, in this case it was justified. You know how hard it is for Dad to the point of his stories!"

[Garga]

1. People wearing their pjs in public. My dh doesn't see anything wrong with this and we argue about it more than we should. I can't articulate why it bugs me, but it reeeeally bugs me, and he tells me it's just not a big deal. But it is a big deal!! I get really angry when I see someone in their pjs and can't explain why.

 

2. The sound of a ringing phone. I think it's because I had to work customer service at a health insurance company for 2 years. A ringing phone immediately makes me clench my teeth and get in a bad mood. Again, dh tells me I ought to get counselling for my irrational hatred of our telephone ;).

 

3. Making plans and then going over them again and again. "We'll meet you there at 5:00." Then later: "Is 5:00 too early for you? We can change it to 6:00 if you like." Then later: "Or we could all meet at my house and drive together." Let's just stick to the original plan.

 

4. When the people from the fire department call during a fund raiser and get your answering machine and then call out your name, as if they know you, "Jackie! Hey, Jackie, you there? Hello?" Drives me nuts because I think it must be someone I know but I'm not placing the voice, and then they're just some stranger trying to hit me up for money.

[Joanne]

I have an additional one. When a message board poster tries to assert or claim being right because of the multitudes of private support or PMs they got.