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Pet Peeves ^
Posted on 08/03/2007 4:45:17 AM PDT by 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):
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Drivers who refuse to use their turn signals.
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Drivers who take forever to make a turn.
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Drivers who drive under the speed limit, in the fast lane.
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Drivers who think the carpool lane is the fast lane
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Drivers who get annoyed and tailgate you when you are going 10 over the speed limit in the carpool or fast lane.
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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.
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Parents who let their children run amuck, especially in the store.
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Parents who don't teach their children manners.
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Parents who dress their little toddlers like teenagers, especially little girls.
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Girls who wear tight clothing when they shouldn't.
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Pants or shorts that say things on the butt.
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Boys who wear their pants hanging below the waistline, so you can see their underwear.
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Girls who wear the hip hugger jeans, so you can see their bare hips above the waistline.
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The general conception that thin is in and voluptuous is not.
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Co-workers who constantly have to gossip about everyone and generally don't have anything nice to say.
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Co-workers who mess with your computer settings or things on your desk.
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Co-workers you have to remind again and again to do something.
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People who staple in the middle of the page or who staple pages together crooked.
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Messy offices or desks where no one can find anything.
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Roommates or significant others who don't pick up after themselves.
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People who cuss a lot, like every other word, especially in front of children.
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A president who claims to be fighting the war on terror, but refuses to secure our own countries borders.
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Democrats and Liberals, the logic they use and the way they think!!!!
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Illegal Immigrants and how our government caters to them more than their own legal citizens.
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Installing a toilet paper or a paper towel roll so that the tissue unwraps from the under side of the roll
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Using the toilet paper down to the last ten squares without fetching a new roll or leaving the empty roll
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Not crunching or squishing an empty water or milk gallon container before throwing it in the trash.
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People who leave a container of milk in the fridge, when there isn't but one sip left, if that.
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Paying for 200 channels on cable TV, and not finding ANYTHING worth watching.
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Changing the TV channel without asking when anyone is clearly watching
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Standing in my line of sight to the TV during one of my favorite shows
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Finding a TV remote in the car or anywhere else where it couldn't possibly be used
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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.
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Self-Righteous and judgemental people.
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Those folks oblivious to everyone around them who stand or walk slowly in the way of others.
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Being put on the speakerphone without warning.
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Allowing a phone cord or hair dryer cord to become hopelessly tangled.
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Retail clerks that ignore the live customer to help one that interrupts via phone.
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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
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: ofst; petpeeve; silliness
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To: Lucky9teen
My pet peeve are FReepers who click “post” twice causing a duplicate reply.
Man, what’s wrong with those morons.
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posted on
08/03/2007 5:59:35 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Figantice. "You know what I mean.")
To: Lucky9teen
My pet peeve are FReepers who click “post” twice causing a duplicate reply.
Man, what’s wrong with those morons.
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posted on
08/03/2007 5:59:38 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Figantice. "You know what I mean.")
To: Lucky9teen
My pet peeve is people who are LATE! Shows such inconsiderate behavior....and an ego problem by acting is if they are the boss in all situations. TICKS ME OFF.
43
posted on
08/03/2007 6:00:34 AM PDT
by
Fawn
("If it works, we're right. If he dies, it was something else." ---Greg House M.D.)
To: nuke rocketeer
I hate poor spelling.
44
posted on
08/03/2007 6:04:14 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Lucky9teen
45
posted on
08/03/2007 6:07:28 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Red_Devil 232
Yep. By your “About page”, I see you are from Texas. You must drive 35, 10, 20 or other interstate highways regularly. I’ve seen that on IH 35 several times between Austin and the 35 E & 35 W split.
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posted on
08/03/2007 6:11:46 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Stop the invasion. Secure the borders now.)
To: Lucky9teen
Drivers who get annoyed and tailgate you when you are going 10 over the speed limit in the carpool or fast lane.Sorry, but if you're going slower that the other traffic in the fast lane -- even if you ARE 10 mph over the limit, you are an obstruction, and one of my pet peeves.
The way I put is, "Drivers who ust the fast lane, and don't notice that all the cars in front of them are getting farther and farther away, and all the cars behind them are bunching up and having to find a way around them."
The basic principle is, "slower traffic keep right." If you are going slower than the traffic in your lane, move one lane to the right and get out of their way.
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posted on
08/03/2007 6:14:44 AM PDT
by
LantzALot
(Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
To: Drawsing
And...verbage is not a word; it's verbiage, meaning: 1: a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content... 2 : manner of expressing oneself in words. Overall, writing, spelling and grammar have deteriorated a lot in the last 10-20 years. I cringe when I misspell or write incorrectly; most people don't even notice anymore.
48
posted on
08/03/2007 6:16:28 AM PDT
by
floozy22
To: nuke rocketeer
That’s one baaaad fish.
I’d use a howitzer.
To: Lucky9teen
Post Turtle
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old California rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Nancy Pelosi and her elevation to speaker of the house. The old racher said, “Well, ya know, Nancy is a post turtle.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was. The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”
The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain.
“You know he didn’t get there by himself, he doesn’t belong there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, and you just want to help the dumb SOB get down.”
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posted on
08/03/2007 6:19:28 AM PDT
by
5Madman2
(There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
To: LantzALot
51
posted on
08/03/2007 6:20:34 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: Lucky9teen
Drivers who think the carpool lane is the fast lane.For my part, you can add: Drivers who clog the car pool lane and drive slower than the traffic in the other lanes.
52
posted on
08/03/2007 6:21:25 AM PDT
by
LantzALot
(Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
To: fredhead
when a few drops of rain hits my windshield and the traffic slows to 40 MPH immediately!!!!That is an unwritten law in Austin Texas as well. All speeds on IH 35, US 183, Loop 1 and other roads are 45 MPH. This includes residential streets that normally have 30 or 35 MPH speed limits.
Also, speeds on the toll roads go from 70 MPH to 85 MPH or more, since no law enforcement officer wants to get out and write tickets in rain.
53
posted on
08/03/2007 6:24:41 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Stop the invasion. Secure the borders now.)
To: Lucky9teen
Pet Peeve?
People who abuse the language and don't even know it.
TV has dumbed down the people to where they don't even question things like this:
the comment may of been in bad taste
Excuse me?
"may of" ???
I believe that WATCHing TV and doing LITTLE reading leads folks to such abuse.
This person has heard the term may've (a contraction of "may have") and just typed the words without realizing they don't make sense.
It occurs more often with "would've" and "could've", but it's the same cause, I bet.
< /rant >
54
posted on
08/03/2007 6:37:40 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Lucky9teen
Do you know the confusion one could cause naming their pet "Peeve"
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posted on
08/03/2007 6:38:35 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: Lucky9teen
56
posted on
08/03/2007 6:45:18 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: B-Chan
To: Arrowhead1952
Another driving pet peeve.....
People who tailgate you because you’re going slower, but will not use the empty left lane to pass you. (Maybe they think they’ll get a ticket if they speed in the left lane.)
In that situation I follow the advise found on a bumper sticker....
“The closer you get, the slower I go.”
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posted on
08/03/2007 6:55:09 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Teach a man to fish.......and he'll fish for a lifetime.)
To: Izzy Dunne
To: fredhead
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