****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

 

[najida]

[LongElegantLegs]

Pet peeves:

People who drive slower than I do.

Also people who drive faster.

[StarCMC]

LOL!!!

[nuke rocketeer]

THat’s competely normal rush hour traffic behavior for the idiots in I55 going into Chicago.

[nuke rocketeer]

Drivers in a rush who stop at traffic lights often see red.

[StarCMC]

LOL - yeah. And then there are the people, who, have seen the signs for 6 miles that there’s road construction coming up and they decide that even though there’s about a half mile distance between me and the car behind me, they have to cut me off to get in front of me, only to slow down to 5 mph under the posted limit.

A friend of ours from MI had a GREAT idea — everyone, upon renewing their driver’s license, should be given a dart gun that shoots rubber darts and their allotment of 10 rubber darts. Upon encountering a stupid driver, you would then have the option of using one of your rubber darts on their car. Any car seen driving with 3 rubber darts would be immediately pulled over by police and ticketed for being stupid, on the testimony of three witnesses, as evidenced by three rubber darts. :D

[Darksheare]

What can I say, Buckeyes have a twisted sense of humor.
(I speak with firsthand knowledge.)
;-)

[shbox]

pretty much everything irritates the hell out of me. I just dislike people in general.

flipping to a station on TV and arriving 2 seconds before a commercial break. EVERY TIME.

People that don’t put things where they belong. When you need something, you have to stop and look for it. ESPACIALLY TOOLS

And why is it that a bank teller automatically induces incontrolable sleepiness. Have you ever noticed that? When people stand at the bank, they practically lay on the counter. Nobody can stand up straight in front of a bank counter.

Kids who don’t say ‘mr’ or ‘mrs’ or ‘sir’ or ‘maam’

Kids in general.

Fishing for flounder and having them damn crabs stealing your bait.

Two dead 18v Dewalt batteries and an empty charger. (there is no excuse for this)

If you buy a 12pack of beer from the grocery that is not quite cold enough so you stick one in the freezer ~~~ I hate it when someone takes one out of the freezer and does not replace it.

[Arrowhead1952]

I hear you. The speeds some kids drive in commercial business zones is nuts.

I can’t stand the “ricers” either. Their stereo has a higher decibel level than their engine has horsepower.

Cedar Park has an ordinance now that a person can be ticketed if you can feel music vibrations from 30’ or more.

[Darksheare]

There’s an intersection near me with a blinking CAUTION light.
I cannot tell you how many times I have near rear-ended someone who stopped at the caution light in the 55 zone.
But it has been often enough to cause me to yell out the window, “It’s a CAUTION light moron!”

[BenLurkin]

CARPOOL lanes — that we even have them is my pet peeve.

[Darksheare]

That would work.

[Fudd Fan]

There ya go!!

[oldtimer2]

You will not truly know the stupidity of the average driver until you join me in the cab of an eighteen wheeler. For some reason when the average driver gets in the vicinity of a big truck, his common sense completely leaves him. (or her)
Try to pass him and he will speed up enough to stay just beside my rear trailer wheels, keeping me out in the fast lane for miles. If you come onto a hill, he will automatically slow down enough to stay in the same place. I guess he has never seen a tire blow along side his window.
And don’t mention merging. It is good manners to move left to allow someone to enter the road, but if I have traffic to my left, I am not required to stop so you can merge.
It seems to be getting worse. When I encounter a driver that seems to get it, I am astonished.

[Maximus of Texas]

Any babes here today?

[Darksheare]

Fart Can Exhaust “system”, I’ve heard lawnmowers that sounded far more impressive.
And these kids think it’s cool to sound like their car has an intestinal problem with indigestion due to their stereo having more bass than a Primus concert.

[Maximus of Texas]

What about people shorter than you?

[shbox]

People who say “huh?” when they clearly understood what you said.

[StarCMC]

I can’t believe it when someone does that — I HATE driving next to an 18 wheeler and when I’m passing one I try to get past as quickly as a safely can. I watched a tire blow on a truck a couple years ago and it confirmed my dislike of being “right there” as we were dodging the tire pieces. People are stupid. All it would take is a little common courtesy! (And yes, I know how to flash my lights to let you know it’s ok to come over on me.)

[absolootezer0]

Adult “bicyclists” with neon spandex butts in the air. GROW UP AND GET OFF THE ROAD, IT WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOUR CHILDISH TOYS.
,br> that depends entirely on how good she looks in spandex :)