What is your pet peeve?

[HoneyBLilly]

I have a few

- I hate it when someone doesn't respond to my text, this is mainly my sister's, husband, or best friend.
- People who don't use their blinkers when they drive.
- People who use 0 in place of O's, that 0ne is a huge ann0yance f0r me.
- Loud drunk people, which is funny because I am a loud drunk.
- Kid's who treat their parents like crap.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I am a complete klutz and you guys would hate to see me out in the wilds of a sidewalk. My awareness of what is going on around me is often poor.

 

[Amaris]

I am a complete klutz and you guys would hate to see me out in the wilds of a sidewalk. My awareness of what is going on around me is often poor.

That's more than a little different than what I mean, though. I'm talking about people with their faces stuck in their iPhone bumping into me when we're the only people on the sidewalk, and knocking a bag of groceries out of my hand. That kind of thing.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Trust me, at some point I would be that person standing dumbly in everybody's way.

 

[6079SmithW]

- Prideful ignorance: People who take pride in the fact that they're really stupid.
- Laziness in the face of urgency: People who know they have to act on something but choosing not to because it requires effort.
- Unaware in public: Mainly those who are moving about in public, running into people because they're not watching where they're going, but this includes driving texters too.

All of this.

In Logan's Run everyone travels on moving walkways and there is no possible way for people to be too slow, in the wrong lane or in the center LOLOL. Everything is very neat and controlled.

It's a great film btw, you should definitely watch it.

I don't know about elsewhere, but in America we actually have these in our airports.

 

[Kestra]

and knocking a bag of groceries out of my hand. That kind of thing.

That was me. But I did it on purpose.

 

[Amaris]

Trust me, at some point I would be that person standing dumbly in everybody's way.

In such a case, I'd just say excuse me, because if I ran into you while you were standing still, it would be my fault for not watching where I'm going.

and knocking a bag of groceries out of my hand. That kind of thing.

That was me. But I did it on purpose.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I don't know about elsewhere, but in America we actually have these in our airports.

I was in some airport there once and I saw these moving walkways, had never seen them in an previous airports I'd been in. I was like, these lazy fat americans can't even WALK to a freaking terminal! I did not get on the walkway to go to my terminal, I just trekked along beside it. If you didn't get on in the beginning you couldn't do it later as there were handrail/wall thingies.

10,000 miles later I finally made it to my gate.

 

[6079SmithW]

Yeah, I try to avoid them as well as escalators. I'm lazy, but I'm not that lazy.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I have been hearing more and more people use the phrase "It is what it is" in the most inappropriate way that it is driving me up the wall.

I use "it is what it is" to describe Law School. I realize it's an absolutely unhelpful description, but I think my thought process is that words are absolutely inadequate to describe it, so it's not worth explaining (I used to use a Stockholm Syndrome metaphor, though).

Anyway, I'm going to go with people who walk way too slowly on the sidewalk, especially if they make it difficult to pass.

 

[auntiehill]

Another pet peeve I noticed today. Hubby started to prattle on about computers and said, "Of course, it goes without saying that---" and went on for another 5 minutes.

Um...if it "goes without saying" then why did you bother to say it in the first place? If it "goes without saying," then shut the hell up.

 

[trekkiedane]

Yeah, I try to avoid them as well as escalators. I'm lazy, but I'm not that lazy.

Oh, another one: I seriously HATE it when people who stand on escalators feel they have the right to stand BESIDES one another so NO ONE can pass them

 

[Captain_Nick]

Well there's an easy solution to that mate. Do what you do to slow drivers on the roads- tailgate the shit out of them.

Walk right up behind them so you are on the step below. They will get the message soon enough.

 

[trekkiedane]

^Been doing that my whole life -you'd be amazed at how few of those actually notice.

 

[Kestra]

Yeah, I try to avoid them as well as escalators. I'm lazy, but I'm not that lazy.

I use them in airports as more of a timesaver thing, especially when there's a really long way to walk (like from the el into the airport).

 

[Captain_Nick]

Hmm. Strange.

Maybe you could try something more radical. Stand behind them, and make noises indicating sexual pleasure or arousal.

Try that and tell me if it works.

 

[RobertVA]

• Drivers that combine making a turn and changing lanes into the same maneuver when there's no place in half a mile where they have to be in that lane.
• Drivers in the left lane of a multiple lane street/driveway that pull past the stop bar, obstructing the view of vehicles to their right who could be making a right on red if their view wasn't blocked.
• Drivers that make a right turn without checking for pedestrians crossing on the same green light.
• Groceries that place displays in the aisles, which not only make it hard to pass customers paused to look at merchandise or walking in the opposite direction, it obstructs merchandise on the regular shelves.
• Retailers with so much "last minute" merchandise displayed at the checkouts there's barely room to place your purchases on the counter. Includes merchandise displayed on the housing that covers the end of the conveyer belts. Related are groceries and department stores with so many racks near the register they form a "cattle chute" barely wider than the shopping carts. When there was a small open area at the end of the belt customers could stand beside the cart to transfer their purchases to the conveyer without the difficulty of reaching across the handle to reach items in the front of the cart.
• Grocery customers that hide the express hand baskets under the end of the checkout belt instead of placing the basket on the conveyer so that the store staff can easily stack the baskets near the entrance for other customers to use.

 

[Schistocerca]

People who fly tip, or litter in general are the scum of the earth. They spoil the environment for everyone by their selfishness.

 

[Quantum_Penguin]

Two major ones I can think of:

1.) Either there's a pause in conversation, or the topic turns mildly odd and one person says, usually in the most obnoxious way possible, "Awkward...". If the topic makes you uncomfortable, why not just say, "I don't feel comfortable talking about that", or, "that's awkward for me"? Or excuse yourself from the conversation entirely. For some reason it grates on me. Maybe it's the sense of judgment being passed on something innocent, or perhaps I see it as a passive aggressive sign of insecurity. Whatever the reason it just grates on me.

2.) People who walk abreast of one another on the sidewalk and refuse to give way when I need to pass. It's understandable when I'm approaching from behind, I can just excuse myself when in earshot and normally the nearest person lets me through. It's inexcusable when a large gaggle of people sees me coming in the opposite direction and still won't budge, forcing me into the gutter or onto a lawn. Are people so damn full of themselves that they will not deign to walk behind their friends so that a stranger can pass?

 

[MLJames]

• Drivers that make a right turn without checking for pedestrians crossing on the same green light.

Especially the ones who blare their horns at you for daring to cross in front of them.




My pet peeve is with people who set the sensitivity on their car alarms so high that they'll go off if a fly farts anywhere in the parking lot. Since my apartment complex has a thriving colony of stray cats, a symphony of buzzes, honks, whistles and sirens is an almost nightly event.