****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

 

[300magnum]

My pet peeve is the "Saftety Police".

[fredhead]

Reminds me of an old B.C. comic. Remember the bird who rode on the turtle’s back?

In one strip the bird was saying something like, This is humilating! Now I’ve seen it all. Feetbelts on a turtle.”

[nuke rocketeer]

Or this one?????

[alarm rider]

My pet peeves:

Old guys with pony tails- GET A HAIRCUT LONG HAIR LOOKS STUPID ON SOMEONE YOUR AGE!!!

People that have those back pack things on wheels that they drag around behind them- IF YOU CANNOT CARRY YOUR STUFF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF.

Adult “bicyclists” with neon spandex butts in the air. GROW UP AND GET OFF THE ROAD, IT WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOUR CHILDISH TOYS.

Thank you, thank you very much...

[nuke rocketeer]

[StarCMC]

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

That's just it -- there IS no logic. LOL!! THAT'S why it makes you nuts!

[Arrowhead1952]

Another driving pet peeve of mine is

Some idiot passing me when I’m in the right lane, at a high rate of speed, and then slamming on the brakes to make a right turn.

[nuke rocketeer]

[Darksheare]

Idiots, like the Dicks’ Concrete and Paving guy I saw, who pull U-turns in a 55 MPH zone while one car length away from you without looking, and then act like YOU are the idiot when you slam on your brakes and honk your whorn while trying to avoid them.

[nuke rocketeer]

[StarCMC]

My pet peeves:

WHINING!

Parents who don’t discipline their kids.

WHINING!

People who constantly change plans.

WHINING!

Stupid drivers - especially the ones who stop the whole stinking freeway because they’re about to miss their exit because they’ve been traveling in the fast lane and at the last minute decide to drive across 4 lanes of traffic to get to the ramp!

WHINING!

People who always have a “worse” story than you. No matter what happens to you, they can one-up you with what happened to them.

WHINING!

Libs.

WHINING!

[StarCMC]

Do you live in Illinois?? :-D We always used to complain about that on I-70 when we were traveling across Illinois to college in Indiana.

[Darksheare]

Route 80, perpetually under construction.
It was under construction when I was born and we left Ohio, it was still under construction (re-re-reconstruction?) when we visited not too long ago nigh on twenty three years later..

[Fudd Fan]

Only one of my many peeves:
Improper use of Capital Letters.

[fredhead]

My wife’s purse.

She can never find anything in it.

It’s too heavy to carry for any length of time.

We go shopping and the first thing she does is put it in the cart. I end up pushing the cart, so now I’m stuck with it. No big problem, except when I go to look at something I want to buy, then I can’t find her. So I call her cell phone. Guess where it is? IN HER PURSE!!!! Also, I can’t leave the cart, BECAUSE HER PRUSE IS IN IT!!!!

Why does she need so much stuff? I don’t understand. I carry a wallet, comb, keys, change, pocket knife and chapstick. All in my pockets. Cell phone on my belt. I don’t need anything else. She carries so much stuff she needs a Navy sea bag for it all. Then she complains that the purse is too heavy.

Other pet peeve: Wife and daughter who get in front of the TV.

[nuke rocketeer]

OH YEAH!!!!

[FAB]

Co-workers who mess with your computer settings.

GUILTY.. hehehe

[Fudd Fan]

...and it’s foliage, not foilage.

[Arrowhead1952]

Day before yesterday, I was at a traffic light on the way home. The light was green and the van in front of me took off and slammed on her brakes. I was already moving too, and had to stop. Some

BIG TIME IDIOT

would have T-boned her, if she hadn't stopped.

We both honked and indicated to him that we thought he was the number one driver on the road. He seemed to think we were the problem.

[Fudd Fan]

Oh I don’t mean SHOUTING...
I mean people who Capitalize Everything.

I CAN DEAL WITH SHOUTING!!