list your pet peeves here...

I'll start....cuz I've been feeling really biotchy lately, so everything is driving me nutso-bonkers!

Gum smacking
Finger licking and double dipping
"All About Me" people....I, I, I on and on....stop and listen for a sec..someone else might actually have something to say!
people who drive right up on my as*, er, tailgate at a jillion miles an hour when there's a red light....where the heck do they think theyre going
DH's obsession with little things...trivial things...perfect care of the garbage and recycle....rolling the toothpaste...etc...who cares?

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

would this sand like feeling in my eye count ?? it's driving me mad !! I can't stand this feeling and I'm 'really" showing it, just ask the kids thats in hiding right now.

I hate liars with a passion !

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Mouth noises drive me up the wall. Smacking, finger licking, slurping, etc.

Poor manners/rudeness.

Poor English skills. I've seen local signs that make me shake my head. Bobs Wheel's and Tire's. There is another sign in town that says, "Soy Candle's and Incences's for Sale." You'd think that business owners would have someone proof their signs before installation.

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Gina J.

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When an item is marked down in a store and they stick the new price label right over the bar code...It has to be peeled back or off for it to scan. ~Lisa

Being interupted. I go back & forth from raising my voice and continuing to talk, to stopping mid sentence, pointedly ignoring the interupter, and refusing to continue my line of thought.

When someone begs you for the opportunity to make extra money (I clean houses on the side) and then you call that person when you need help and they don't call you back! They never hear from me again.

Using the word "God" for anything other than talking about, well, God. I'm not overly religious - still trying to find my way - but this gets on my last nerve. I always want to step back or something so the lightning won't hit me (LOL).

Someone blowing his/her nose in public...especially in a restaurant. I could never do that and can't figure out why someone else would!

well, just about everything and anything my H does. But that's pretty typical these days....

Liars
People who are trying to get something for nothing (ummm...no, you don't get "pain and suffering" because you smashed your finger and the nail fell of. It will grow back! )
Condescending ahole scum-sucking, ambulance chasing attorneys. Which brings me to another thing:
People who think I'm going to be intimadated because they threaten to "talk to an attorney" (Hello? I currently have 6 on retainer--all of them better than yours!)
(yeah, most of mine are work related)

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Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

I hate, and I mean HATE, finding empty ice trays in the freezer! That sets me off quicker than anything.

I also hate when people chew with their mouth open, especially gum.

I hate tailgaiters.

I'm sure there are other things that drive me crazy, but those are probably the top three.

I have a lot but I'll keep it short and only name a few. I hate bad drivers, like those who have to hurry around you just to turn in front of you. Also when people are driving SLOW in the fast lane. If you can't at least do the speed limit, then get the heck over!!!! I also hate when people smoke in their cars and then throw their butts on the grounds. Isn't that considered littering?? I am a sub and I hate when kids cry and whine and don't want to do something. Instead of doing it, they throw a fit for about 10 minutes only to have to do it anyways. They should just do it in the first place. It may work at home but it doesn't fly with me. Yes, it's been a LONG work week. I hate when I call someone and it takes them a few days to get back to me. I know people are busy, but take 5 minutes and say "hey, I'm sorry I'm so busy but I just wanted to return your call". Okay, I'll stop!

I just read an article about a couple of guys who go around and fix signs with poor grammar/punctuation. Mostly folks appreciate it although they did inadvertantly fix a sign in a town that was historical (poor grammar and all) and they had to pay to have it restored :-)

1. People who lick their fingers to turn pages of a book or magazine.
2. People who don't wash their hands after using the restroom.
3. People who cough or sneeze excessively at work or public places (Stay home if you are sick)
4. Graffiti
5. People who take a wad of napkins at fast food places and throw the unused napkins away
6. People who do not park between the lines of parking spaces so they end up hogging two spaces

ROFLMAO. This reminds me of my mom. when she would find the ice trays in the freezer empty she threw them in the back yard. She would then go buy her some bagged ice and dare us to touch it. You have to remember we didn't have ac and in the south in the middle of the summer with 1 box fan it got HOT !.. only took us a summer to learn to refill them . LOL. Hot tea on a 100* day sure made the body sweat and crave for something cold.

Oh, that's hilarious!

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Gina J.

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I hate it when people get their needs met by being jerks...I was directed to "be patient" about a situation IRL, but I just found out about someone who came into the situation after me and made a big stink... got everything on their terms...hello? I'm still over here being *patient* and it backfired...

Sometimes you can't act like a lady and win.


I loved this!!

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Bummer....that doesn't sound good. Hope things get better for you, marilynk!

And I know I'll get in trouble from anna, but I go ga-ga-crazy over:

People talking on the cell phone while driving, shopping, and going to the bathroom (that one takes the cake!)

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

Boys/men wearing their jeans below their rears! How does that even make any sense? Having to either hold them up or walk with their legs spread out. One day when they are older they will look back and say WTH?

People at the mall that walk three wide across the whole isle at a snail's pace and no one can get past them.

The fact that an entire store can be empty except for the exact thing I went in for and every person in the store is on THAT isle...HAHA! Always happens to me! It can be the most obscure item like the other day we went to Walmart for Aloe Vera juice of all things and there they were...HA!

Those ear hole things that the men are doing...OMG that's just nasty! Won't their ears be cute when they are 40 and trying to find a job!

I guess my top 5 for this week would be, in no particular order:

My sweetie's driving. Why would you accelerate toward brake lights and a stop sign?

People that I work with that find their dysfunctional personal lives eminently fascinating and inflict the details on everyone they come in contact with.
"No I really don't care to hear how for the third time this month, you and your husband got drunk last night and woke up in the backyard.

My neighbor that thinks it's ok to allow her dogs (3) to run free in the neighborhood because we live in the country.
"Yes we do live in the country and my piece of the country doesn't need your dog poop on it. I have my own, thank you very much"

Someone that comes into MY home, sees a handgun on my desk and has a hissy fit because she is soooo afraid of guns, she can't be in the same place as one.
(New house rule, friends can't bring new girlfriends to visit without prior interview of same)

And last but not least, people that get peeved at you when they try to manipulate you into doing something and you don't go for it.
"Yes I can honestly say that I don't give a rodent's behind if little Johnny makes his quota for the fundraiser or not."

Wow, I think I need to work on my grumpiness factor this weekend.

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass
It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I was just thinking the same thing the other day. I was looking at a couple young guys with those ear gauges and wondering "What is that going to look like when they are 60 and gravity has pulled that earlobe down another inch and a half?"

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass
It's about learning to dance in the rain.

OK I just have to ask, do you mean lick their fingers to turn a page in a book or magazine?
Because I have never seen anyone actually lick the page itself and it just sounds weird.

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass
It's about learning to dance in the rain.

How about when people smoke in their house/car with children in it? Shouldn't that be some form of child abuse?

You just reminded me when you said that about the dog poop....people that don't pick up after their dogs! At the walking path and at our apartments! It drives me crazy!

At our apartments...the whole building is full of dogs and NO ONE....I MEAN NO ONE ever picks up after their dogs! Can you imagine how much poo there is right outside the door!? Plus the dogs step in it and track it in the halls! No amount of complaining to the office helps one bit! They did pick up the poo in the front of the building(one time) but the back they did not touch! There must be 1000 piles...I kid you not! Now the mowers are mowing over them!

Cashiers that don't know how to do coupon deductions

People that don't know how to iron clothes and always look as though they slept in them

People that wear ill-fitting undergarments and it ruins their entire outfit.

Obama bashers.

Sniffing, especially when you can tell the person needs to blow their nose. GET A TISSUE!!!!

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In defense of all those coughers, sneezers, and nose blowers, me being one of them, sometimes you just can't help it.

I have allergies and I am very sensitive to many perfumes and scented candles, etc. I can be walking down the aisle of a store or restaurant and be put into an instant bout of sneezing that won't stop until I blow my nose. And maybe not even then. Sometimes I'm sneezing so often that finding that tissue in my purse is next to impossible. And then of course I have to do the obvious, blow my nose.

I also get bronchitis about once or twice a year. I have had it linger for as long as 6 weeks. The cough is sometimes unrelenting. Generally I stay home during the worst part of it. In fact I just left the house last Tues. for the first time in 16 days.

I can't always control what my sinuses decide to do and I refuse to spend my entire life in a house just to please people who are annoyed by my coughing, sneezing or blowing my nose. I do try to keep it to a minimum but it isn't always possible.

Which brings me to one of my pet peeves, perfumes, scented anything, and cigarette smoke.

People who drive too fast in subdivisions.

People who drive too slow outside of subdivisions.

People, (particularly family groups), who get in line and only decide what they are going to order after they get to the cashier. There's a menu up above your heads people. Figure it out and then get in line.

I could not agree more!! I cannot stand to see someone walkin' all straddled trying to keep their drawers up. UGH. Another pet peeve of mine, I use canvas bags, and when I go to Walmart, they'll wrap up my cold or frozen stuff in plastic bags and then put it in the canvas ones...hu?

Garnier Fructis shampoo & conditioner bottles...PITA to open! Grrr...

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

When people call my house and then ask "who is this?" - "umm, you called me..... dumbass"

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On the subject of poor sign grammar..we have a restaurant sign in town , spelled "restaurand"

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Liars
when stores put price stickers on the front of mirrors,picture frames or lense of sunglasses.
people blowing their nose while sitting in a restaurant(gross)
nosy people,its not any of your business how much I make,

Ok. . .some of these are repeats, BUT. . .

People who walk 4 abreast at the mall very s-l-o-w-l-y and you can't get around them. . .and when you finally get the chance to pass. . .they speed up.

When they put the stickers at the grocery store right over the cooking directions or the nutritional information.

Bad drivers. . .like the ones who are half sticking out into oncoming traffic when they are trying to pull out of a parking lot. WTH?

Bad customer service. . .like when you get a blank stare and a "I don't know and I really can't help you." Well find somebody who can!!!!

and finally, automated phone systems. . .press 1 for English. . .press 72 if the Earth has been invaded by aliens and you can't find your bank statement. For crying out loud! GET ME A REAL PERSON!!!!!

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OMG You too ?. and let's not forget the ones that want to speak to your husband and ONLY him. Like I will not find out what the call was about to start with. LOL. Yes I understand the reasons why they can't tell me.but still makes me mad as heck when I tell them you'll have to call him on Sunday it's his ONLY day off. Then they ask for the work number. I DON'T think so. You will not tell me who you are, what company you are working at and I'm suppose to give you his work number ? Not hardly. If its that important call on sunday.

Wildwood, I hear you.
I have the worst sinuses on the planet and as a result I always have a tissue on my person. I have no problem with people sneezing/sniffing when you can see they're looking for a tissue. Lets not even talk about coughing. I practically lived on cough drops this winter. As long as you cover your mouth when coughing it doesn't bother me. Heck, I don't even have a problem with a quick, discrete nose blow in a restaurant if you need to.

Not to be disgusting but the sniffing I'm talking about is when you can hear the snot in someones head and they just don't bother to get a tissue. Do they like sniffing? Do they like dragging all that crap back their throats and swallowing it? Gross!!!

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Or, on the ocassion that I get a personal call at work, and the caller says "What are you doing?" Ummmm....you called me at work!! I'm working dipsh*t!

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Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

Driving down a 3 lane street and there are 3 semi trailers in front of me (1 in each lane)

Having someone come up to me at the information desk to ask a question and while I am giving them the answer, they are walking away - why ask in the first place if you don't want to listen to the answer

Calling tech or customer service and getting someone who I can't understand

Having a message on my answer machine and the person just mumbles very quickly so I can't understand a word they've said - not even the phone # they have left.

poor grammar drives me nuts,me and Dick....it's Dick and I...
you was..... you were!
she do it..............
and English is not even my first language!

empty carton,ice trays ,empty boxes in the pantry,if it's empty,just put in the trash or refill it!

Right Now my biggest pet peeve is SNOWBIRDS!!!!!! I wish they would go home. I am soooo sick of driving behind the hundreds of them in my city. OMG they drive so slow it kills me and might I add the number of wrecks I have seen(actually been stuck in) in the last couple of weeks is NUTS. One day last week I made it through one with 3 minutes until parent pick up time only to have to detour through another one--ALL SNOWBIRDS........

People who are continually negative.

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Heh, so many of these made me laugh in a "been there, done that" way.

More job related, but people that make me feel like "Lack of planning on YOUR part, does not make it an emergency on MY part".

Solicitors that call you up acting like they're your best friend. I had several of these try to get past me to my husband, acting like they were some long lost friend of his. Uh uh. Not happenin'.

People who constantly interrupt when you're trying to explain something to them.

Anyone in customer service that can't take a second to smile. It's part of the job to at least ACT for a second like you care about what you do. It's a small thing, takes two seconds, so buck it up and do it or go work behind a cubicle where you don't have to see one face all day.

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I laughed out loud when I read this. I don't know if that was a little jab at this thread or if it was a really a pet peeve, but in context with all the gripes here it did strike me as really funny.

Wow. That's bad. We drove by a KFC yesterday, and the sign read, "Great Dael on 9 Piece Meal." They got meal right, but I guess deal was a tad bit confusing. Of course, the hyphen was missing in 9 Piece Meal.

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Gina J.

Proud Army Wife and Coast Guard Mom

That depends. If the sentence reads: "She came to see Dick and Me," that would be correct. It would be correct because you cannot say, "She came to see I." If you drop the other person's name, it's a good test to see if you should use "I" or "me." You could even say, "She came to see me and Dick," and it would be correct for the same reason. Once again, if you drop "Dick," you can't get away with saying, "She came to see I," but you can say, "She came to see me."

Now, if the sentence reads: "Dick and I went to the store," that would be correct. Once again, drop "Dick," and you can say, "I went to the store." In this case, "me" would be incorrect because you can't get away with saying, "Me went to the store."

Hope that makes sense. Here's a site that might explain it better than I did: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexper...grammar/meandi

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Gina J.

Proud Army Wife and Coast Guard Mom

YEP! Correct!

Even better that that is....."Are you busy?"....oh no...I was just sitting here surfing Ebay...!

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At this very moment...my son.

I dropped him off at a friend's house earlier and told him I'd pick him up at 6:00. It's 5:30 and he just called and asked me if I would bring some clothes down for him because he got soaked in the creek. I told him he could either come home now, or stay wet until 6, but that I was not going to bring him clothes and come back and pick him up a few minutes later

He whined and did that long annoying sigh as if both options were completely unreasonable. He finally chose to just stay wet.

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I seen....

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Music is what feelings sound like._ ~Author Unknown

"alot" as one word. I see it every day at least 5 times. A LOT is two words.. makes my skin crawl for some reason, as it's so simple, but so commonly misused.

This is also one of my biggest pet peeves. A lot is always two words. The same goes for all right. I see it as "alright" all the time, and it's all wrong.

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Gina J.

Proud Army Wife and Coast Guard Mom

My H.S. English teacher used a very effective method of teaching "A Lot" as two words. She wrote "A" on the chalkboard, and then wrote (in permanent marker! *gasp*) "lot" on the wall!

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Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

That's funny.. on the last day of 7th grade English my teacher told us all, "If I have only taught you two things this year I want you to remember them. 'A lot' is two words, and never use the word 'get' in your writing. There is always a better way to phrase something."

20 years ago and I don't even remember her name.. but I remember that...

Speaking of grammar. The word is voila not waa lah! That gets me every time! Along with sale and sell.. sale is an event, sell is an action!

Others:
1. Disobedient children. Tell them no, they do it anyway, get hurt and come crying to me.

2. Women who wear revealing clothing...honey I know you have them but I dont need to see them!

3. Women who chase after married men.. there are plenty of single guys out there..leave the married ones alone.

3. Tailgaters who try to pass when another car is coming! Wheres the fire?

4. People trying to get the last penny from you in this economy...

5. Ignorant people. No Im not perfect and I make mistakes but there are some things that are just obvious. I have been seeing way too much ignorance lately its getting on my nerves.

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thanks for the trick!

"me going to the store "not work? ,I don't know about that,I just heard a kid at the bus stop this morning say " them " did it...
I am keeping your link for future references,and will pass it along to English learners...
ot not knowing the difference between there,they're, their....
or using "like" in every single sentence....

Children who don't say please and thank you. I've given up on adults.

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How about when someone says literally...It's "literally" raining cats and dogs! Maybe they should look up what the word literally means...HAHA! Funny I don't see a pile of cats and dogs outside. The news people incorrectly use literally all the time.

Everyone uses your when they are supposed to use you're. If you can say "you are" then please use you're! I see this everywhere.

Paula...NUMBER 2! YES YES YES!!!!! Funny thing though, there was a thread at another forum and I actually said this same thing and some ol' woman replied "if you don't like it then just look the other way"!(I guess she was a boob flaunter) I just replied and said "you bet I do!" I'll have to agree with number 3 too...there's a woman chasing my husband as we speak! I guess they think they are good and broke in and they won't have to train them!