What are your top pet peeves?

[PopTodd]

Also, on that note, people that respond to "how's it going?" with some really cheesy, overly emphatic phrase like "I'm so happy, I can't stand it!" or "If I were any happier, I'd be twins!"

 

I usually respond with a very flat, very deadpan, "swell... great... never been better."

 

Most common response to that is, "Okay then."

[anthony]

Sinks in public restrooms that have the spigot so short that you are forced to rub your hands on the back on the basin. What is the point of washing your hands if you have to rub the same spot as the last 1,000 people?

 

Grrrr....

[Guest Speed Racer]

Also, on that note, people that respond to "how's it going?" with some really cheesy, overly emphatic phrase like "I'm so happy, I can't stand it!" or "If I were any happier, I'd be twins!"

 

Sometimes I feel cheesy, over-the-top happy, and I say so. Other times, I say it to peeve the person whom I know the answer will annoy.

 

I like to use "It's not a ride people!", which I ripped off from Seinfeld.

 

One of my pet peeves is when people make passive-aggressive declarations about a situation when the only issue at hand requires: "Excuse me, I'd like to pass you. Thanks!" I hate blockers as much as the next person, but being polite and assertive serves me much better (as recipient and sender) than a "joke."

[Gobias Industries]

Long nails. No lie. Comes from having played instruments for 13-14 years of my life and having to keep them short.

[KramkonG]

I hope Larry David is taking notes on this thread...he has 8 more seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm right here!!

 

But really, my peeves:

-people talking to me on the phone and eating

-people who decide to take their FULL shopping cart into the self-checkout lane

-the over-usage of "like"

-people who pronounce the word "amateur" as "ama-too-er"

-during rush hour in Milw. there are way too many drivers who use the shoulder as a lane on the Marquette Interchange...not only dangerous but what gives you the right to be in such a hurry?

 

(sigh) I'm sure there are more...

[Guest Speed Racer]

People that act like their problems are bigger than everyone else's.

 

Don't forget people who equate being productive with being rude, loud and rushed.

 

Last week my colleague found something out, swore and slammed things for 10 minutes as a reaction to this "terrible" news asked me to do the task for him because he was "buried", complained for another 10 minutes about how stupid it was that either of us had to do it, and when he asked me how I could possibly have time to do it, I replied that I save about two hours a day by not bitching about my job.

 

Long nails. No lie. Comes from having played instruments for 13-14 years of my life and having to keep them short.

 

I keep nail clippers and a file in my backpack, desk and at home. Once my nails cross a threshold, I can think of nothing else until they are shorter.

[sonicshoulder]

people who eat in grocery stores

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people who bring animals into hardware stores(home depot,lowes), what makes one think this is acceptable?

[jff]

people who eat in grocery stores

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people who bring animals into hardware stores(home depot,lowes), what makes one think this is acceptable?

 

People can be really stupid with their pets sometimes.

 

Some dumbass brought their cat to the pizza place down the street from my house, and thanks to him they don't allow any pets on their patio anymore.

[KramkonG]

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People can be really stupid with their pets sometimes.

 

Some dumbass brought their cat to the pizza place down the street from my house, and thanks to him they don't allow any pets on their patio anymore.

 

 

I don't understand taking the cat out of the house...on walks, on car rides or into pizza joints...is it just because I think cats are lame? (my apologies to cat lovers - pm me if you want to throw down)

[ikol]

-people who pronounce the word "amateur" as "ama-too-er"

 

That reminds me: people who pronounce centimeter as "sauntimeter".

[cryptique]

Sinks in public restrooms that have the spigot so short that you are forced to rub your hands on the back on the basin. What is the point of washing your hands if you have to rub the same spot as the last 1,000 people?

This.

 

Also, restrooms where they've installed the new, enclosed toilet paper dispensers so low on the wall that your wrist has to be double-jointed to get paper out the bottom of them. GAAAAHHHH!

[bjorn_skurj]

That reminds me: people who pronounce centimeter as "sauntimeter".

Along those lines, people who pronounce Franklin D.'s last name as "Roooooosevelt" instead of Rose (like teh flower) evelt.

[sonicshoulder]

HYGIENE WISE: People who don't realize that wax accumulates in your ears and it needs to be tended to, people who don't realize 5-7 inches of backfat are exposed,long finger nails(2x for smokers),people that drink Mountain Dew all day, not a soft drink hater but the Dew and 6 Marlboros for breakfast really grosses me out, my dad's dandruff, outty bellybuttons,arm shavers, and Europeans.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Bands that have no 'hits' releasing Greatest Hits records.

 

Call 'em Best of

[pillowy star]

HYGIENE WISE: and Europeans.

 

Care to elaborate?

 

It makes me lethal when my boss criticizes something I have done, I then explain her why I've done it the way I did (not in all, but in most cases quite sensible reasons) and think it is okay that way, and when she realizes she's got no more sensible argument to prove me wrong, she just says "well we don't need to discuss that now, do we?" with a false toothy smile just for the one reason to shut me up, no matter if I am right or not.

[sonicshoulder]

Care to elaborate?

 

It makes me lethal when my boss criticizes something I have done, I then explain her why I've done it the way I did (not in all, but in most cases quite sensible reasons) and think it is okay that way, and when she realizes she's got no more sensible argument to prove me wrong, she just says "well we don't need to discuss that now, do we?" with a false toothy smile just for the one reason to shut me up, no matter if I am right or not.

Just a joke

[caliber66]

Just a joke

When people miss the punchline that is spoon fed to them.

 

The correct answer is, "well we don't need to discuss that now, do we?"

 

[pillowy star]

 

When people share my way of humor Oh no, that's the other thread

[bigshoulders]

People that always talk about money.

[jff]

 

 

 

 

One of my pet peeves is when people make passive-aggressive declarations about a situation when the only issue at hand requires: "Excuse me, I'd like to pass you. Thanks!" I hate blockers as much as the next person, but being polite and assertive serves me much better (as recipient and sender) than a "joke."

 

This works if it's only one or two people blocking an escalator, but when the entire escalator from top to bottom is blocked, "excuse me" is worthless.

[Guest Speed Racer]

This works if it's only one or two people blocking an escalator, but when the entire escalator from top to bottom is blocked, "excuse me" is worthless.

 

No, it's really not. You say excuse me, and then the people directly in front of you move. Then, you approach the next block. And then...you say excuse me again! until you are at the end of the escalator. It's worked for me for years, and it's deceivingly easy.

[jff]

No, it's really not. You say excuse me, and then the people directly in front of you move. Then, you approach the next block. And then...you say excuse me again! until you are at the end of the escalator. It's worked for me for years, and it's deceivingly easy.

 

Yes, it really is, despite how much you want to be right.

 

Where is the person in front of me going to go if there is a person directly in front of them and another person directly next to them...and there are people directly in front of and directly next to those people, and so forth on every single stair of the escalator?

 

Sometimes you're just stuck and you have to ride it out.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Sometimes you're just stuck and you have to ride it out.

 

I understood your statement to mean that shouting out passive-aggressive declarations would be more effective in the case of a packed escalator than a simple excuse me.

 

In the case of a jam-packed escalator, does the pet peeve of not standing to the right even apply? Likely you're in a crowded venue, not an empty building with a bunch of asshats packed like sardines on an escalator. It's not like you'd be able to move any swifter through the crowd of people once you got off the escalator.

[cryptique]

More on the whole "pass on the left" peeve, from an experience I had yesterday...

 

OK, granted, it was my fault showing up at a local park and expecting to get some exercise at the same time that a March Of Dimes walk was happening, but let's review the facts:

 

1. It's a public park.

2. It was weekend morning, a peak time for park usage.

3. The March Of Dimes had not reserved the entire 5-kilometer, paved, two-lane trail, they were merely using it.

 

Given these facts, I believe I had a reasonable expectation that those participating in the March Of Dimes walk would use the trail properly -- i.e., staying in the right lane, allowing faster traffic to pass on the left, and allowing oncoming traffic to use the other lane.

 

Nope. Obviously no one at the March Of Dimes bothered to explain basic trail etiquette. I know it's a charity and all, but please, people, have some respect. You don't own the trail. I shouldn't have to yell at people to give me space to pass, or go off the trail to get around people spread all the way across the trail.

 

Oh, and ... this is a walking/running/biking trail. There were people trying to get around that loop on bicycles. I dread to think what happened when a cyclist encountered the horde of oblivious walkers (something I did not, thankfully, witness).

[Winston Legthigh]

Yes, it really is, despite how much you want to be right.

 

Where is the person in front of me going to go if there is a person directly in front of them and another person directly next to them...and there are people directly in front of and directly next to those people, and so forth on every single stair of the escalator?

 

Sometimes you're just stuck and you have to ride it out.

People ride escalators side-by-side? I'm saving that one for a future pet peeve.

 

That's like my one friend who will ALWAYS sneak in behind me in a revolving door so that we're crammed in there. He only does it because he knows it'll piss me off!