What is your pet peeve?

[infinix]

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.

Acceptable -

Two people talking at a water cooler:
A: "Weather in April is unpredictable."
B: "Yeah, one day is sunny and 80 degrees, the very next would be rainy and 40 degrees."
B: "What are you going to do? It is what it is."

Unacceptable -

During a status update meeting of a critical project
A: "B, please give us a progress report of your phase of the project."
B: "I have nothing to report because I have not been keeping track of it at all."
A: "What? Why didn't you inform me before the meeting?"
B: "I misread the calender."
A: "What do you mean? I have been sending out reminders every week."
B: "I must have missed those emails. It is what it is."

WTF are you talking about? You don't use "it is what it is" as an excuse for failing to deliver on what is your responsibility. This better be the first and only time you will say that during a meeting. Otherwise, you better start polishing your resume.

Sorry about the rant, but it really ticked me off. Anyway, do you have any pet peeves?

 

[auntiehill]

Grocery store carts being left all over the place, taking up parking spots and sometimes even being pushed into my car---right in front of me, no less. I mean, really. Are people so freaking lazy that they can't be bothered to walk the whole twenty steps over to put the carts away? They complain there's nowhere to park, but it's because they have left their shopping cart in every available spot.

Just today, some lady in the car across from me, takes her ONE bag of groceries to the car, pushes the cart into the next parking spot, and drives off. The cart return was three spaces over. You can't carry one bag of groceries and can't walk three parking spaces over to return your cart? What a bunch of lazy, selfish bastards we have become.

When I was in Kindergarten, I was taught to put these back when I was done with them. Apparently, I am the only one who actually remembers that lesson.

 

[Starbreaker]

Slow drivers. I know I rant about them all the time, but if the speed limit says 70, don't get in the left lane and go 45. It makes people want to murder you. "Mosey" is not an acceptable speed.

 

[auntiehill]

^Not to mention the fact that it's freakin' dangerous. I almost wiped out once, due to someone pulling in front of me, in the left lane, doing 45 in a 65. Thank God no one was in the lane next to me, or I would've plowed into that car and taken us both out.

 

[Velocity]

My dear husband always says "bugger" for "burger" and "vege-tables" for "vegetables" and other goofy childish things. We've been married for 36 yrs and this habit of his makes me want to scream.

 

[trekkiedane]

Ads!

Especially flashy ones!

It would seem there's no escaping from ads.

I hate those things on peoples clothing, on TV, in films, in my mail-box, plastered all over the city and even out in the countryside... "Eat this", "Drive that", "Come here", Go there"... the bloody things are EVERYWHERE.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

- Texting/phoning while driving

- Small talk

- Snow

- Loud neighbors

 

[RoJoHen]

Grocery store carts being left all over the place, taking up parking spots and sometimes even being pushed into my car---right in front of me, no less. I mean, really. Are people so freaking lazy that they can't be bothered to walk the whole twenty steps over to put the carts away? They complain there's nowhere to park, but it's because they have left their shopping cart in every available spot.

Just today, some lady in the car across from me, takes her ONE bag of groceries to the car, pushes the cart into the next parking spot, and drives off. The cart return was three spaces over. You can't carry one bag of groceries and can't walk three parking spaces over to return your cart? What a bunch of lazy, selfish bastards we have become.

When I was in Kindergarten, I was taught to put these back when I was done with them. Apparently, I am the only one who actually remembers that lesson.

On a related note, I hate the way the teenagers bag my groceries at the store. Bagging groceries was my very first job, and I was damn good at it, so it annoys the hell out of me when people do it wrong. If I buy 10 items, I do not need you to separate them into 6 different bags. I don't care if my shampoo is in the same bag as my soup! The containers are allowed to touch!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

We have the opposite problem here RoJo, where no one is actually taught how to bag groceries. You have to watch them like a hawk lest 2kg of laundry powder ends up on top of your grapes.

 

[Holdfast]

Inefficiency, or put another way, Inelegance of thought or design.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

yeah, I get it when it's a 16 year old who does it (though I know I would not have at that age) but when it is one of the older aged people I think they just stopped paying attention some time ago.

 

[Captain_Nick]

Car broke down this morning. That was mildly annoying. It did give me the chance to 'commute' by bicycle this morning, which was fun.

 

[sojourner]

I find self indulgent ignorance really annoying. You know the people that come into a thread/conversation, immediately make an erroneous statement of fact, then go on to expound their "incites" on said topic while claiming everyone else is wrong, refusing to give sources while claiming any counter sources are unreliable.

Now, I like to debate. (as some of you may have seen me "zero in" on a target unmercifully if not always successfully) I will follow a topic and post my arguments backed with source information, but I will also back out if I realize my opponent is more knowledgeable on a subject and can demonstrate it.

I just can't understand the people who continue to argue a point when exposed to contradictory information.

 

[Admiral Shran]

People who ask me what my pet peeves are?

 

[6079SmithW]

-People who walk slow

-People who do not follow traffic pattern while walking. I don't know how many times I've almost collided with someone because they were walking on the left, against normal traffic flow.

-People who talk so loud that the entire building can hear their conversation.

-People who talk or fiddle around in class.

~ Probably many more.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Just last night I had this great thing pop into my head and I thought "I could have posted that on the Irrational Hatreds thread if it wasn't closed".

What the hell it was I can't remember. I hated it with a passion though.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

-People who walk slow

-People who do not follow traffic pattern while walking. I don't know how many times I've almost collided with someone because they were walking on the left, against normal traffic flow.

I'm reminded of a scene from Logan's Run here. You would have felt real comfy there.

 

[6079SmithW]

-People who walk slow

-People who do not follow traffic pattern while walking. I don't know how many times I've almost collided with someone because they were walking on the left, against normal traffic flow.

I'm reminded of a scene from Logan's Run here. You would have felt real comfy there.

I have never seen that movie but from what I vaguely remember having heard about it I take it this isn't a compliment or a good thing.

I just don't like the chaos of everyone going different ways. Regardless if its left or right, I think there should be a definite traffic flow for in and out.

Now, the people who stand/walk in the exact center, those people really piss me off because they impede traffic regardless of direction.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

-People who walk slow

-People who do not follow traffic pattern while walking. I don't know how many times I've almost collided with someone because they were walking on the left, against normal traffic flow.

I'm reminded of a scene from Logan's Run here. You would have felt real comfy there.

I have never seen that movie but from what I vaguely remember having heard about it I take it this isn't a compliment or a good thing.

I just don't like the chaos of everyone going different ways. Regardless if its left or right, I think there should be a definite traffic flow for in and out.

Now, the people who stand/walk in the exact center, those people really piss me off because they impede traffic regardless of direction.

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.

 

[Amaris]

- 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.