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Pet Peeves?
It's slow, maybe someone will play with me. Let's biitch about our pet peeves.
1. A co-worker and I regularly drink coffee, and we take turns buying the coffee for the coffeemaker. Another guy goes through phases where he mooches, and he NEVER buys coffee, even when we mention it, because he says he 'doesn't drink it that often'. Once every couple of months isn't that often. Once a day for a few weeks at a time IS.
2. When people use the @ sign in posts. This isn't Twitter. I still love you though, JRSonday.
3. When people I don't know that well ask me if I can have some gum. It makes me feel like I can't say no, or I sound stingy. But I rarely buy it, so I like to make it last, and if I don't really know you I think it's rude for you to ask. I wouldn't ask them for gum.
Your turn!
Edit: ON TK you can say 'biitch' with just one i. Not on TN.
Edit Edit: WHY ARE MY EDITS NOT SHOWING UP? New pet peeve.
Re: Pet Peeves?
I can't stand the douches around here that either 1 - don't use a blinker or 2 - use a blinker and then drive with it on for another 4 hours after they turn or merge.
I generally don't like text speak and die a little inside every time I find myself using OMG or LOL. What has happened to the English language?!?
I CANNOT STAND when people mix up your/you're or they're/there/their or two/too/to. I call H on this all the time. ARGH!
I also hate when people don't play along when I'm bored.
And another pet peeve - when people don't even try to pronounce your name right. My name is LAURA, it's not that hard, but there are a few people that work in the office who refuse to call me anything but Lauren, even when they are corrected by other people. I have seriously had people say, "Laura, Lauren, same difference." No. It's a different freaking name. What if I said, "Susan, Jane, same difference"?
I'm fairly certain that blinkers are actually illegal in MD. It's the only way to explain the fact that 99.9% of people don't use them unless it's accidentally on.
I come from a huge family where we weren't allowed to be picky (about ANYTHING) so, by default, picky-ness is a really big pet peeve of mine. About food, anything.
Don't get me wrong, I am a very type-A person. I'm detail-oriented, organized, particular about certain things, but I don't like when people are just picky for no reason.
And no picky doesn't mean "just knowing what you like/don't like." It's jussssst annoying.
I also can't stand when people can't spell or punctuate properly or use proper grammar. I know, it's the editor in me, but it really grinds my gears.
PS: I am the queen of abbreviating, but, with the fire-y passion of a thousand burning suns, I hate: "LOL." But I swear I don't pass any judgment on any of you.
1. If I am in a situation where there are ice trays and not an ice maker, people who leave one cube in there and don't refill. I could take to the mat over this, I swear.
2. Shower curtains left open
3. Sneaky bastards
4. Lateness
5. People who do not return books
6. Slow drivers in the left lane. MOVE OVER POKEY!
7. Cheap people - if you can't afford to go out, don't. Don't stiff the waitress or bartender.
8. When people beat around the bush. Just spit it out.
9. Passive aggressives
10. Graffiti
11. Litter
It's funny, I'm kind of the opposite. The only two non-TK-specific ones (like FMIL, or something) I will say are LOL and OMG. OMG is more being ironic, but LOL I use sometimes because I feel stupid if I don't. Usually I say 'haha' or something (and still do in texts/IM) but it got to the point where I felt like I was the ONLY person on the boards not using it.
TK/TN message boards are the only place I use any sort of abbreviation, and somehow I feel like they are different from text speak (i.e. using 'u' for 'you' and such, which makes my skin crawl).
1, 7, and 11 get a big 'ol 'amen, sister' from me. But I am the queen of #9 sometimes.
Only with people who are being complete douchebags, though.
How could I forget these?
12. Laziness as a way of life instead of a few hours or a day/weekend of lounging. GET OFF OF YOUR ASS AND CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY!
13. The rampant over usage of quotes when they are not necessary.
14. People who butt in line.
stealing some of these:
1)lateness (gerren is ALWAYS late)
2)going slow in the fast lane
3)tailgating (not the party, but while driving)
4)leaving your blinker on forever. i want to make a sign so i can hold it up as i pass people who have their blinkers on.
5)riding in the fast lane in general. it is for passing only.
6)when people (ahem GERREN) don't know the difference between to/too, their/there/they're/your/you're
7)slow talkers
8)smokers
9)rudeness
10)weak drinks
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Smokers, when they are in small areas with me, or walking slowly in front of me and I can't get around them, or when they flick their ashes on me, or when they are smoking in a clearly marked non-smoking area.
As long as it's not a close friend/family member, I don't care if someone smokes as long as they do it in their car or house (and there's no kids there).
I refer to #4 as a perpetual indicator.
#10 makes me laugh and I agree. Go big or go home! Don't water down my drinks.
1-People who drive slow when I'm in a hurry
2- My co-worker who smokes in front or back of the building with the door open so that the entire office smells of cigarette smoke.
3- The same co-worker who constantly tells me every little thing he is doing. It's called doing your job what do you want a gold star. Furthermore I don't care what you do just leave me the f alone.
4- DH for hogging the bed and blankets. He's so skinny but still manages to hog 2/3 of the bed and blankets.
5- The darn spell check on here! I can't spell and I can't figure out this spell check.
That's all I can think of for now...
Another pet peeve, when people are rude to wait staff/anyone in the service industry. Sh!t sucks, be respectful.
Another, SLEAZEBALLS.
Co-signed, me.
Big ditto here!
Seriously though, where is spell check?!
I use Mozilla firefox, and it's built in a la MS Word. Otherwise, not sure there is one here...
This nearly always seems to go with:
I don't smoke and don't like to have to smell it/breathe it, but what really really really annoys me and makes me jump on the 'ban smoking' bandwagon is the littering. In spring when the snow melts and there are cigarette butts EVERYWHERE I hate smokers with a passion. And when they flick their ashes or their butts while walking, and hit my feet, I go through the roof. (Like seriously, what would that smoker think if I spit my gum on his shoe? How is it different to flick your smoke on mine?) And when they brush by you on the sidewalk and burn you with their cigarette?!!!! (okay, this has never happened to me where I live now, but since it has happened more than once in my lifetime it contributes significantly to my 'I hate smokers' rant).
ughh!!! I'm sooo with you on this one Laura. I HATE it when people call me Diane. It's not Diane, it's Diana with one n. I don't understand why people automatically think it's spelled with two N's. That's not the common way of spelling it. That really annoys me. I also make a conscious effort to put extra emphasis on the last "a" when I introduce myself.
this made me LOL, literally.
1. The name thing (when they call me Diane instead of Diana, or spell it with two N's).
2. When people burn you with their cigarette (I've had it happen twice to me. They say sorry but it doesn't cut it! IT F*ING HURTS!!! Let me borrow your cigarette and burn you so you know how it feels!!)
3. Slow people (slow moving, slow talking, slow everything)
4. Stupid people especially at retail stores... I'm sorry I don't expect you to know everything but if you don't know something find someone who does, just don't say you don't know and leave me clueless
5. Leaving driblets left in the milk/OJ carton. Just finish it and throw it out!!
6. Drinking straight from milk/OJ cartons. I don't want your nasty mouth bacteria fermenting on the bottle so that it can be poured into my drink so I can drink it.
7. Taking out the trash and not putting a new bag in. If you took the time to take it out why do you not have time to put a new bag in??!!
8. Obnoxiously loud people. Omg.
that's all i can think of
i am adding a few more (a day late and a dollar short):
-skanks. in any form. fake nails, denim skirts, weirdly groomed facial hair, etc.
-people who curse in front of children
-when people leave bits of toothpaste in the sink
-when people (GERREN) leaves socks and/or beer cans all over the house
-when people steal all my pens at work
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I forgot a huge one. When I play the jukebox and the sound is too low to hear. Seriously? No thank you. Turn it up.
I hate when people see a cop on the other side of the interstate (separated by concrete barriers) and they SLAM on their brakes. Do you really think he's going to hop the barrier and get you?! This is just one of many reasons traffic blows around here!
I also hate when people wait until like 10 min before a meeting - after you're already done preparing and putting everything together for it - and then cancel or reschedule it. Thanks.
Oh I get that my name is ChristinE not ChristinA... it's also not Kristen or Chris. If I introduce myself as Christine please dont think you know me well enough to call me Chris. No one in my family any of my friends or H will ever call me that.
Wow vent.. I actually would get really mad when I was younger. My mom told me I use to yell at people when they tried to call me Chris. As I have gotten old it doesn't bother me much and I dont correct them.
1. Yard Sale signs left up after they are over
2. white pants/skirts/purses after labour day.
3. Sexy halloween costumes (ie sexy kitten, sexy devil, sexy angel-you get the idea)
4. People who stop in the middle of the road to get a picture of and elk/deer/bear.
5. people who get out of their cars to approach said animals.
6.the fact that my mum does not delete any of her digital photos-even the blurry crappy ones.
7. friends that just ask for a puff of my cigarette and then smoke half of it-get your own or ask for a whole one.
8. people who let their dog off leash to torture my dog who is on a leash.