****THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD****(Salute to Pet Peeves)

Pet Peeves ^

[Lucky9teen]

A pet peeve (or pet hate) is a minor annoyance that can instill great frustration in an individual.

 

The term originated from the word 'peeve.' A 'peeve,' meaning something that is particularly irritating or annoying, is a relatively recent word. Its first printed usage was in 1911. The term is a back formation from a 14th-century word: 'peevish,' meaning ornery or ill-tempered.

 

Pet peeves involve complaints about specific behaviors, rather than general complaining. Pet peeves often involve specific behaviors of someone close such as a spouse or significant other.  These behaviors may include those of disrespect, those involving manners, personal hygiene, relationships, and family issues. 

 

Here are some of my Pet Peeves (in no particular order):

• Drivers who refuse to use their turn signals.

• Drivers who take forever to make a turn.

• Drivers who drive under the speed limit, in the fast lane.

• Drivers who think the carpool lane is the fast lane

• Drivers who get annoyed and tailgate you when you are going 10 over the speed limit in the carpool or fast lane.

• Construction being done during rush hour traffic, where they have both lanes going toward work narrowed to one and the opposite direction, which has no traffic, open to 2 lanes.

• Parents who let their children run amuck, especially in the store.

• Parents who don't teach their children manners.

• Parents who dress their little toddlers like teenagers, especially little girls.

• Girls who wear tight clothing when they shouldn't.

• Pants or shorts that say things on the butt.

• Boys who wear their pants hanging below the waistline, so you can see their underwear.

• Girls who wear the hip hugger jeans, so you can see their bare hips above the waistline.

• The general conception that thin is in and voluptuous is not.

• Co-workers who constantly have to gossip about everyone and generally don't have anything nice to say.

• Co-workers who mess with your computer settings or things on your desk.

• Co-workers you have to remind again and again to do something.

• People who staple in the middle of the page or who staple pages together crooked.

• Messy offices or desks where no one can find anything.

• Roommates or significant others who don't pick up after themselves.

• People who cuss a lot, like every other word, especially in front of children.

• A president who claims to be fighting the war on terror, but refuses to secure our own countries borders.

• Democrats and Liberals, the logic they use and the way they think!!!!

• Illegal Immigrants and how our government caters to them more than their own legal citizens.

• Installing a toilet paper or a paper towel roll so that the tissue unwraps from the under side of the roll

• Using the toilet paper down to the last ten squares without fetching a new roll or leaving the empty roll

• Not crunching or squishing an empty water or milk gallon container before throwing it in the trash.

• People who leave a container of milk in the fridge, when there isn't but one sip left, if that.

• Paying for 200 channels on cable TV, and not finding ANYTHING worth watching.

• Changing the TV channel without asking when anyone is clearly watching

• Standing in my line of sight to the TV during one of my favorite shows

• Finding a TV remote in the car or anywhere else where it couldn't possibly be used

• Calling in to Customer Service for technical help with something and getting the employee who doesn't want to do his job, so he tells you it can't be fixed.  So you call back in and talk to someone else and sure enough, they fix the problem without any hassle.

• Self-Righteous and judgemental people.

• Those folks oblivious to everyone around them who stand or walk slowly in the way of others.

• Being put on the speakerphone without warning.

• Allowing a phone cord or hair dryer cord to become hopelessly tangled.

• Retail clerks that ignore the live customer to help one that interrupts via phone.

• People who give you a guilt trip and/or make nasty comments when they are displeased.

 

"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation"
~ Whoopi Goldberg

 

[Lucky9teen]

 

[Lucky9teen]

 

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Oh, another one of my pet peeves is not being able to post to the OFST today, as I'm leaving for vacation and will be on the road driving to TX...

so have fun without me!!!

 

WHAT ARE YOUR PET PEEVES?

 

[Clam Digger]

First? WOOT!

[Clam Digger]

Pet peeve? People who bitch about construction traffic, and then bitch because a bridge falls in. OK, ALL hypocrites fit that bill.

[doodad]

Saw one of mine this morning. Petty, passive aggressive types who pace a large truck or other slow vehicle and hold up and entire roadway during rush hour.

[nuke rocketeer]

NASCAR wannabees in heavy traffic

[Millee]

Bicyclist that ride in the middle of the road even when there is a wide shoulder (helllloooooo Boulder!) and SLOW DRIVERS IN THE LEFT LANE!!!!

Happy Friday, CD! :o)

[Kate of Spice Island]

Good morning and happy Friday!

[Lil'freeper]

Lane nannies with NASCAR stickers!

[Red_Devil 232]

Lane closures on the interstate that go on and on for miles and miles with no construction, then there is 100 yards of construction activity, then miles and miles of continued lane closure after with no construction.

[Lil'freeper]

Have fun on vacation!

My two, er three, big pet peeves:

1) Girls? Who, like, talk? In questions, like, all the time?
2) Maroons who don't know the difference between yield and merge.
3) Maroon pedestrians who think they know the law about traffic having to stop when they decide to step into a crosswalk, but don't know the laws of physics about minimum braking distances. ('Pod, you probably know the three crosswalks I'm talking about... heh)

[EmilyGeiger]

If you are a Harry Potter fan, this is a jewel that Corin came up with! It's very good! :)

[Enosh]

Pet peeve?

Trout fishing when a grumpy alligator gar takes a shot at your hook, sinker, 20-feet of line and starts considering the rod, reel, your right arm, etc.

(Happened to me yesterday.)

[Drawsing]

1. “Lose” is how to spell the word that means “to misplace”. It is not spelled “loose”.

2. Do not start a story with the word, “So...”

3. There is no such word as “heighth” The word is “height” and it ends with a “t” sound, not a “th”.

4. Do not add two spaces after each sentence when composing type on the computer. That was a rule for typewriters. It does not apply to documents typed on the computer.

5. Do not use text messaging abbreviations in email such as “How R U?”, unless you want to give people the impression that you are an adolescent with an attitude.

6. The word for the electricity from the sky is spelled “lightning” not “lightening”.

7. “Asked” ends with the “D” sound and “Asks” ends with the “S” sound. Neither one ends with the “K” sound. No, I am not talking about people who pronounce it “axe”. That is another topic entirely.

[nuke rocketeer]

That little thing???? heck, what if this baby took a swipe at your hook!!!

[Reaganesque]

John Cleese made a video on "How to Annoy People". Here's a clip:

Click here for video.

[Reaganesque]

Here's Michael Palin as an annoying waiter:

Click here for video.

[fredhead]

Pet peeve?

The roads are filled with dehydrated idiots!!!!!

You want idiots? Just add water. Water in any form!

It could be solid, like ice, snow, hail (this is the worst).

It could be liquid, like rain, drizzle, or just puddles on the road.

It could be gaseous, like fog (idiots will NOT slow down when they cannot see).

I was driving back to Norfolk from DC Monday, running along with traffic in the fast lane (I refuse to say how fast I was going as it would violate my 5th amendment rights) when a few drops of rain hits my windshield and the traffic slows to 40 MPH immediately!!!!

DEHYDRATED IDIOTS!!!!!! JUST ADD WATER!!!!!

[nuke rocketeer]

Some childen are often on their pest behavior.

[nuke rocketeer]

or beer!!!!