****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

 

[Rameumptom]

[Rameumptom]

My Pet Peeve = When some moron posts huge picks eating up bandwith causing my dial up to stall ;-)

[NCC-1701]

Like you just did, eh? :-)

Seriously, one of my pet peeves is being behind a behemoth like that in your post. I hate being behind them. My road credo is: “If I can’t see over it, around it, or through it, I don’t want to be behind it”.

[BenLurkin]

[Theresawithanh]

Your peeve #2 is my biggest one, people who merge onto a highway where the speed limit is 70 MPH, and they’re going 35!!!!!! GRRRRRR!!!!!

(I feel much better now...)

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Ah, so Alarm Rider is one of those a-holes that likes to harass cyclists on THEIR roads. Hey, I pay taxes too and as long as it is not an interstate I have every right to ride my bike on the road (staying as far to the right as is reasonably possible).

I don't wear neon but I do wear the spandex on road rides, if you ever do any amount of cycling you'll find that they are necessary attire. It is function over form. For mountain biking and commuting I cover the spandex with a pair of shorts.

Cycling is great exercise and a fun way to travel (cycle touring) and enjoy the outdoors. I certainly try to say off busy roads but sometimes it is just necessary to get from point A to point B.

And Absolootezer0 has a point, too:

[shbox]

Or when people post alot of pics

[shbox]

Thats the perfect wife.....

She could stand in front of the TV yapping and you would still be able to see the TV.

[BenLurkin]

Wow!

[bruin66]

I also hate it when I hear “Irregardless”.

[shbox]

Alot of my customers want to hear about the “least inexpensive” products.

That would be most expensive, right?

[bruin66]

My wife and I love to be called “guys”. We’re both over 60. Or this one that’s crept into waiterspeak - “How’s everything tasting for you?”

[r-q-tek86]

Pet peeve:

Being stuck in the office on the first Friday in ... I can’t remember when... when it isn’t raining outside.

When are we gonna go play some golf, Maxie?

[absolootezer0]

wo0t! exactly what i was thinking. :)

[absolootezer0]

if that was in front of you.. why would you be looking at the tv?

[r-q-tek86]

Hmmm... We seem to be the same height... So where does that land me?

(bags removed for height comparison only)

[shbox]

Remember the old saying.......no matter how hot a woman is, somewhere some guy is sick of her crap.

Besides, I got a cold beer and watching The Death Blow III. No time for wimmins right now!

[r-q-tek86]

When did they stop teaching the difference between than and then?

Amen!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Haven’t looked at any replies yet.

I just HOPE people didn’t post non-peeves like “mean people” which is NOT a specific point.

Me: I hate people who drive just as fast in the PARKING LOT as on the road. (The former too fast and the latter too slow, usually.) It’s DANGEROUS, people, to be driving >10 perpedicular to cars that might be moving out and can’t see well, AND for all the PEDESTRIANS there! Geesh!

[shbox]

Oh man, you could sprang for more than Waffle House. LOL