What are your top pet peeves?

[Lammycat]

The butts thing is really pretty easy to do. The only downside is putting them in your pocket while waiting for an opportunity to empty it/them into the trash. The butt without the paper/tobacco after being smoked reeks to high hell (I know, the smoking ain't so sweet either). I was at a wedding last weekend and smoked a cig before we went in and had the butt in my hand as we walked in. There were no trash cans around and it was a tiny church with everyone crammed in. I had to bring it into the pew and asked the g/f to put it in her (new) purse because it was stanking the joint up. She wouldn't go for it because she didn't want the purse to stink. I had to leave the church and walk a block or two to find a trash bin.

[choo-choo-charlie]

I realize this sounds silly, but I can't stand it when people don't clear the counter on a microwave when they're finished using it and there's still time left.

 

My wife always leaves the caps off of pens around our house. That too drives me bonkers.

 

I used to work with a guy who would clip his fingernails at his desk - and sometimes at staff meetings - but he wouldn't wipe them all off into the trash can. He'd lean over and just brush them off the table/desk and follow up with a strong blow to clear away any residue. So gross.

[Lammycat]

Pet peeve: people who don't accept the first wave to go first at an intersection. This applies to car-car as well as car-pedestrian situations. As long as the right of way is accepted first, if I'm walking and I wave a car to proceed past the stop sign in lieu of me crossing the street, just go! I waved first. I acknowledged your vehicle. Don't wave me back to make the cross. It fucks me up.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Pet peeve: people who don't accept the first wave to go first at an intersection.

 

Don't EVER go to Minnesota - or if you've been, it's probably why you've not been back. On my 15 minute commute, roughly four of those minutes are spent waving like a mime at six or seven intersections with my fellow commuters.

 

What drives me even more nuts than that is how my bike sometimes exacerbates this game of charades. If I, on my bike, am the third vehicle to approach an intersection, then I assume I will be the third to proceed through the intersection. All the other vehicles will see my bike, assume I'm running the sign (though I'm already stopped), and proceed to wave me on, stopping and waiting for me to go first. I even try to avoid eye contact with drivers so that they think I can't see their waving, but all traffic grinds to a halt, until I go, and then one of the waving cars tries to go through the intersection even though they waved me.

 

Oh - huge pet peeve: cars who stop when they DON'T have a stop sign at a two-way stop where I, on my bike, have a stop sign. It confuses oncoming traffic and causes more communication problems than simply proceeding through the intersection like you're supposed to. When I'm behind the wheel of a car and I approach a two-way stop where a cyclist isn't stopping, that's just too damn bad for them.

[Sir Stewart]

Not sure if it's been mentioned in the previous pages but I see red when I hear people wearing flip-flops at work. I'd rather they go around barefoot than to hear that tell-tale flip-flop sound.

 

It's an office, not the f*cking beach.

 

The cognitive dissonance between this post and your avatar(s) is mind-bending.

[Lammycat]

Birthday threads to famous people that will never see the wishes. Particuarly the dead famous people (Happy Birthday Paul Bunyan!!).

[bigshoulders]

The cognitive dissonance between this post and your avatar(s) is mind-bending.

I can see your point, SS. Consider this: even The Dude changed into the proper footwear when it was "business time."

I appreciate casual-wear. Honest, I do. but I stand by my original peeve: the office is no place for flip-flops.

[Sir Stewart]

I can see your point, SS. Consider this: even The Dude changed into the proper footwear when it was "business time."

I appreciate casual-wear. Honest, I do. but I stand by my original peeve: the office is no place for flip-flops.

 

Oh, I agree. I wasn't calling you out there, it just occurred to me.

[fatheadfred]

pets

[austrya]

My son gets swimmers ear just about every time he goes swimming. I was out of the drops and called the doctor to see if they would call in more. Nope, I have to get him out of school early, arrange a pick up for my 8 year old, drop my 4 year old off at grandmas, drive 40 minutes to the doctor's office, wait around forever at the pharmacy, miss my other son's soccer game, and pay a $25 copay for the office visit and $11 for the Rx. If a kid gets swimmers ear that much, can't they just look back at his chart and say, "yeah, I guess they probably do know what it is I'll save everyone some time and just call in the stupid drops." Seriously, it the whole process cost me $36 in co-pays and $20 for dinner and ate up 3 hours of my afternoon. Ugh!

[ikol]

My son gets swimmers ear just about every time he goes swimming. I was out of the drops and called the doctor to see if they would call in more. Nope, I have to get him out of school early, arrange a pick up for my 8 year old, drop my 4 year old off at grandmas, drive 40 minutes to the doctor's office, wait around forever at the pharmacy, miss my other son's soccer game, and pay a $25 copay for the office visit and $11 for the Rx. If a kid gets swimmers ear that much, can't they just look back at his chart and say, "yeah, I guess they probably do know what it is I'll save everyone some time and just call in the stupid drops." Seriously, it the whole process cost me $36 in co-pays and $20 for dinner and ate up 3 hours of my afternoon. Ugh!

 

That sucks, but the doctor was probably just covering his ass. There's always a small chance that your son had something more serious than swimmer's ear, and it would be really bad if the doctor just called in a prescription without seeing your kid and have it turn out to be something worse.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Can some of you anti-flip-floppers explain the difference between a flip-flop and another kind of sandal in the work place? This is assuming you're alright with people wearing other kinds of sandals to work, of course. I've never really understood why one is considerably more offensive than the other.

[Lammycat]

Maybe they prefer the Croc....

I've got no beef with flip-flops. Wear 'em all summer.

[austrya]

That sucks, but the doctor was probably just covering his ass. There's always a small chance that your son had something more serious than swimmer's ear, and it would be really bad if the doctor just called in a prescription without seeing your kid and have it turn out to be something worse.

 

Yeah, I totally understand why we had to go in. It doesn't mean it's not a pain in the ass though.

[ikol]

Can some of you anti-flip-floppers explain the difference between a flip-flop and another kind of sandal in the work place? This is assuming you're alright with people wearing other kinds of sandals to work, of course. I've never really understood why one is considerably more offensive than the other.

 

It's probably the annoying sound that flip flops make with every step that more secure sandals do not make. Personally, I just hate flip flops because I can't walk in them for any significant distance without getting blisters.

[The High Heat]

DVDs that won't allow you to bypass the previews.

[Sir Stewart]

People who misunderstand something you just said to them (or even to someone else), and they ponderously over-explain what they thought you said (which is generally slightly "risque" or "perverted") and they proceed to repeat the mishearing over and over, sometimes to others, in a manner that (jokingly, but annoyingly) suggests that you actually do the thing they thought they heard.

[Guest Speed Racer]

People who read additional meanings into what someone says, in general, bother me. Not only in the way you mention, but when someone receives an email that says, "Thanks for coming to the wedding!" and thinks it's a passive-aggressive jab at them for not attending the shower - that sort of thing.

[Dude]

People who misunderstand something you just said to them (or even to someone else), and they ponderously over-explain what they thought you said (which is generally slightly "risque" or "perverted") and they proceed to repeat the mishearing over and over, sometimes to others, in a manner that (jokingly, but annoyingly) suggests that you actually do the thing they thought they heard.

 

That's probably the last time you'll make a joke about f*@#ing sheep.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Every time you apply for anything that requires fingerprinting, the Immigration Service asks on the application if you are disabled and will need assistance. Nevertheless, every time the Immigration Service sends you a fingerprint appointment notice, they include a second sheet of paper about what to do if you are disabled and need assistance. In addition to doubling the amount of paper (why not just include a phone number on the initial notice?), it is also wholly useless to blind people.

[sonicshoulder]

People who misunderstand something you just said to them (or even to someone else), and they ponderously over-explain what they thought you said (which is generally slightly "risque" or "perverted") and they proceed to repeat the mishearing over and over, sometimes to others, in a manner that (jokingly, but annoyingly) suggests that you actually do the thing they thought they heard.

"...it sounded like you just said accidental goat sodomy" yuk, yuk

[froggie]

DVDs that won't allow you to bypass the previews.

 

thats a good one!. and also when you cant bypass the warning screen that says you'll be fined $2,000,000,000 and have have you balls cut off if you try and copy this DVD

[cryptique]

When someone adds water to the liquid soap container in an attempt to stretch out the supply.

 

Especially when there's a new container a few feet away in the closet.

[MattZ]

(1) new LPs that don't come with a digital download.

 

(2) lists of anything, but mainly music, that alphabetize by first name (e.g., Bob Dylan should not be listed under "B" and The Rolling Stones should not be under "T"). Who the hell actually thinks to go to "T" when they want to listen to The New Pornographers???

[Winston Legthigh]

(1) new LPs that don't come with a digital download.

 

(2) lists of anything, but mainly music, that alphabetize by first name (e.g., Bob Dylan should not be listed under "B" and The Rolling Stones should not be under "T"). Who the hell actually thinks to go to "T" when they want to listen to The New Pornographers???

Your sorting system doesn't ignore "The"?