Your pet peeves...

[Democracy White]

I have a pet peeve when it comes to people who are eating off of plates and use their forks like a rake and it makes that GODAWFUL SCRAPING NOISE!! Screeeeppe!! :shiver: :cringe:

Also people who chew with their mouths open and who insist on talking with food in their mouths. My mom is really guilty of this and I do it on occasion when my sinuses are acting up. But ugh!! Who wants to see what you're chewing up?!


So what are your pet peeves? Share them here.

Dee

[shoelace414]

1. searching for Peeve on google images I got this

[MissMillie]

3. Now I must gouge my eyes with knitting needles

That is just WRONG!

[Richardo]

7. Can I borrow yours when you're done?

Don't bother wiping them off. :scared:

[JimmyJazz]

15. I've got a spork handy if you can't wait for miss millie

[ET Awful]

6. NO, he said pet PEEVE, not pet PERV

:evilgrin:

[shoelace414]

2. This guy

[Lerkfish]

4. white people, talking to other white people, who...

say "our neighbors, you the (whisper)black(whisper) ones..."

god, that irritates me. Why whisper it? if they're black, they're black. Some people do this even if they're being complimentary "Jim, you know, our (whisper)black(whisper) coworker did a great job today!"

I've even had and african american woman do that to me when i didn't know which michelle she was referring to: "you know, the (whisper)black(whisper) michelle".

wtf?

[WCGreen]

20. Some of my best friends are negroes

[toey]

5. i hate people with whiney, nasal voices

[kedrys]

8. People who take their shoes off at the movies

I'm not making this up. These fucknozzles evidently thought they were in their living room, and were making themselves at home with extremely smelly feet. :puke: It almost came to blows. :mad:

[shoelace414]

9. if there is one place I wouldn't want to take off my shoes

it would be a movie theater.. the floor is.. ugh.. you'd leave your socks behind

[Democracy White]

10. Another reason I don't like movie theaters

other than the $8.00 a ticket prices.

Dee

[LastKnight]

11. my pet has peeves?

great, its back to the vet again...

[DS1]

12. People that launch into unsolicited conversations with

"I mean..."

The question "Where are you at?"

Philosophy
Writing Philosophy papers
Having a Philosophy paper due in 4 hours and having NO fucking idea what I'm going to write.

[Napoleon Dynamite]

13. people who pollute

Whether it is throwing a cigarette on the ground before going in somewhere, throwing crap out the window of your car because you don't want it trashed, or whatever it is. I hate it when people throw trash on the ground instead of a trash can.

[rbnyc]

38. ooooh, me too! (nt)

[youspeakmylanguage]

14. Biggest two: People who keep screaming kids in public, and drivers who...

...don't use their turn signals.

As for the first point, my anger rises depending on the environment - I get less angry at a parent who refused to remove their kid from a grocery store or department store, while I get much more angry when they refuse to remove them from a restaurant or movie theater.

I could go on for a while, and have in these forums in the past.

[JimmyJazz]

16. Yeah, those brats will get you every time. I say we keep

all children completely out of public places until they are old enough to behave themselves properly.

[youspeakmylanguage]

18. I don't have a problem with children acting like children in public...

...but when they began screaming their heads off and disrupting other people around them, then they need to be removed from the store or restaurant or theater.

And no, I don't have a problem with kids themselves when they're supervised. I completely blame the idiot parents.

I got into a "discussion" with a mom DUer who stated she didn't have an ounce of concern for anyone around her when her kid started screaming. She stated that it wasn't right to "give in" to the kid by even acknowledging the tantrum. Therefore her parenting strategy trumped whatever concern she had for any other people around her, regardless of where she was or what everyone was doing. It made my blood boil.

[JimmyJazz]

23. That's not a strategy that has been proven to be an effective

parenting technique. I am VERY concerned about other people and their level of comfort, but sometimes I AM trying to do something and it's just not working and it's not always possible to stop grocery shopping with a full cart and walk out of the store.

I don't personally have any friends who would just ignore their child in hopes that they will be quiet which may be why I misunderstood. mea culpa.

[youspeakmylanguage]

24. You missed some pretty good flaming a few weeks ago...

...there were a few mothers that insisted that the only way to effectively stop a kid from throwing tantrums was to ignore them completely. Then they acted as though we were advocating child abuse when some of us stepped up and asked what the people around them thought of that parenting strategy.

I also brought up a personal incident in which a big event was being held outside of the bar where I work on the weekends (I'm a doorman/bouncer). Parents were pissed at me because I wouldn't let them bring their kids into our club to use the bathrooms (which obviously weren't public), even though there were people in there who had been drinking all day and screaming profanity, there was broken glass on the floor, the music was so loud I have to wear industrial-strength earplugs, etc. There were porta-johns outside with reasonable lines. All of this I conveyed to everyone on the thread, yet one poster accused me of forcing children to piss their pants so I wouldn't be "inconvenienced". The same person stated I had no grounds to think that if a kid were cut on glass or had an eardrum shattered by a speaker that I would be held legally liable.

That set off some fireworks that weren't resolved until the "ignore" feature was used.

[Democracy White]

17. People who rubberneck at an accident

or cut you off on the road or drive to damn slow

Busiest street in Grand Rapids: 28th street... will give you a coronary.

I went to Yen Ching's yesterday and there was this idiot who was driving 25 mph... on a 45mph road!!!

Then later on my way back from the restaurant.. This Speedy Gonzales guy cuts me off just before I get to a red light.

Gah!!

Where's a "banging your head on a steering wheel" smilie when you need one.

Dee

[youspeakmylanguage]

19. There is a small town immediately south of Charlotte...

...in which local yokels will drive 40 MPH through the middle of the little main street (25 MPH speed limit), then will slow down to 25-35 MPH when the speed limit changes to 55 MPH farther down the road. It's so incredibly stupid that it leaves me speechless.

[Democracy White]

21. Makes you wonder about the human race, huh? n/t

[youspeakmylanguage]

22. One of the best bits of wisdom my mom gave me, years ago...

...was the observation that people drive the same way they think. I've found it to be 100% true throughout my life.

[Left_Winger]

34. I know that town!

By any chance is it where the Bakkers ran their con operation?

[Left_Winger]

35. self delete

[youspeakmylanguage]

49. LOL, no, that's Fort Mill, SC...

...I'm thinking of Pineville, which is really more of a suburb than a town.

[Left_Winger]

50. I work in Ft. Me-yull

The people there are very similar.

I commute every day, but only for half a year. So I'm not burning up all that much gas. But I can't live there, or even Rock He-yull. So, I choose to live near my family.

[MN ChimpH8R]

25. Nitwits who get off escalators and stop

like there's nobody behind them. Hel-LO!

Asshats who charge into elevators as soon as the doors open, and trap the people who are trying to get out. :grr:

[JimmyJazz]

26. Good one!

[Democracy White]

27. Im very claustrophobic

and can't stand to be in an elevator for more than 5 mins. So anyone that charges in before I get out is gonna get mowed over. :D

Dee

[RiffRandell]

28. People who write checks at stores and

don't start filling anything out until the clerk tells them the amount. I hardly ever write checks, but I always have everything filled out but the amount when the cashier is ringing me up.

[Democracy White]

29. I hate checks

but I love my debit card.

Dee

[u4ic]

30. Anybody in a pickup truck

do they have to pass a special a$$hole drivers ed course, too?

edit: DRIVING a pickup

[Democracy White]

31. I hate people driving big ass SUVs

Geez, just cause you got a big ass vehicle doesn't mean that you are the king/queen of the road.

Sorry to all you big ass SUV drivers out there but I stand my ground.

Dee

[u4ic]

40. I agree

Here, anyway, I find most crappy road behaviour is by pickup truck/SUV drivers.

[MrScorpio]

32. DO NOT EAT CRUNCHY SHIT NEXT TO MY EARS!!!!

Unless of course, you want to FUCKING DIE!!!!!!

[oldcoot]

33. The "smile" police and some cell phone users

I hate having complete strangers coming up to me and telling me to smile. If you do not know me, then you do not need to be dictating what facial expression I have on my face.

I also hate people who use cell phones at inappropriate times such as in a movie theater or while driving.

[Left_Winger]

36. People who pop or chew their gum loudly

especially when I'm on the phone with them.

[rbnyc]

37. People who don't keep to the right on the subway stairs!!!

I think they should be euthanized!

[Twillig]

39. People who:

put their (greasy) hands on a glass door to push it open when their is only one way to open it--by pushing on the crash bar.

Drivers who turn their head to carry on a conversation with the passenger on a two-way street or highway.

People who must pay the cashier in the express lane at the supermarket in exact change.

That guy who runs his motorized little kiddie scooter up and down my street every evening. He's gonna meet some 100 pound test fishing line on the day I snap.

[Democracy White]

41. Oh I forgot something..

People who act fake towards you.

Shiny, happy people..

People who listen to "c'rap" music and turn up the bass in their cars so loud that you think that there is an earthquake.

Dee

[newsguyatl]

42. VERY similar to yours

while both those things bother me, i think what bothers me more is when folks scrape their teeth with their fork when eating. when i hear it, i honestly want to claw my eyes out.

also, i hate the sound of someone chomping on an apple. if someone at work is eating an apple around me, i have to get up and leave :-)

those are some of my EATING-related peeves, but oh do i have more ;-)

[Democracy White]

43. I hate it also when people smack in my ear.

SMACK! SMACK!!

Ugh, I just wanna slap them!!

Dee

[newsguyatl]

44. you sound neurotic like me

i love it :D

:woohoo:

[Democracy White]

46. I guess I am neurotic

so do I. I don't think I could ever be "normal"

Dee

[Darth_Kitten]

45. My biggest pet peeve today

Summer students at work who talk and talk and talk all day, and say "What's that?" over and over and over and over again.

shut up and work, you aren't funny, moron.

[Maddy McCall]

47. Women who use lip pencils.

I can't understand why an older woman would draw her lips in and make the lip outline twice the size of her real lips and then fill in the empty area with lipstick. Jesus Christ (next door neighbor) it makes you look like a bloody clown.

I mean this lady put her picture up in the laundry room and she was kissing Mayor Daley. She has her lips puckered up like a fish and you and you can see the pencil lines and the lipstick that is filled in so that it looks like her lips haven't gotten smaller with age.

I wouldn't say anything but she is one of the rudest witches around. "Stop drawing your lips in it looks bad"

:silly:

[Democracy White]

48. Trying to make the lips look fuller.

As it envied by woman the nation over. Full lips are supposed to be sexy for some inane reason.

Dee