Archive through September 21, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archive: Pet Peeves : Revisited: Archive through September 21, 2001

Whit4you

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 02:30 am Click here to edit this post
I still have 1001 of these to list - but here's a few of the old ones to get the ideas flowing. I hope these threads aren't offending anyone... but we have 3,000 posters here most will move on after bb .. .I'd love to get things going "here" and that's what I"m attempting.....if it fails it'll ean I'll end up uh cleaning house and stuff this fall... not my #1 plan LOL

OK anyhow here were some of the original posts to get the thread up and running...

Adven39
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 06:26 am [Click here to edit this post]

Hail Canada, is right.

My pet peeve is old men in hats who drive 20 mph under the speed limit(25 km/h in Canada)when you can't pass them, but when you hit a passing lane they drive like a bat out of hell to keep you from getting around them. I just ran into one fifteen minutes ago. I think his pet peeve is impatient younger men without hats who like to lean on the horn and stick out their index finger while wishing you a Merry Christmas as they pass you on the highway.
There. I feel better.

Willi
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 06:46 am [Click here to edit this post]

LOL Adven [:)]

Norwican
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 07:15 am [Click here to edit this post]

Canada also gave us comedian Tom Green... thanks

Wink
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 08:42 am [Click here to edit this post]

You can add these to the list Willi:

John Candy, Martin Short, Mike Meyers, Dan Akyroyd, Michael J. Fox, Dave Thomas. <file:///C:/BBFC/gen1/clipart/proud.gif> .

Wink
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 08:57 am [Click here to edit this post]

Then of course there's the Good - Peter Jennings, the Bad - William Shatner and the Unattractive (but talented) - BareNaked Ladies.

Twiggyish
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 09:52 am [Click here to edit this post]

Adven, do you live in Florida..lol Every driver on the road fits that description.

Willi
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:10 am [Click here to edit this post]

Wink,

Thanks!
I'm Hailing Canada some more! [:)]


I have another driving-related Pet-Peeve...
Drivers who do not yield to pedestrians especially in cold weather...There they sit all warm & cozy and totally unmindful of the freezing pedestrian trying to cross the street/parking lot/etc...! I was out shopping today with Edie(my adopted senior-citizen)

(Note to Adven: I'm driving)...

And, there we are...Trying to cross the parking lot in the cold and cars keep whizzing by...!

Geez Um.

Affinity
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:29 am [Click here to edit this post]

I think my pet peeve would have to be driving in general. Everytime I hit the road, there is always at least 1 or 2 people that don't know how to drive.

I despise the following behavior:
No headlights in total darkness
No directional signals
Driving much less than the speed limit
Driving in between two lanes
Cutting off
Tailgating
Driving slow on purpose to find a parking spot on the street or they are just lost


I also am peeved at people that sit in their car and wait for others to pull out of a parking spot in a parking lot. There are plenty of places to park if you arent lazy enough to walk. Oh, and if you are old and disabled, then you are excused.

Twiggyish
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 11:44 am [Click here to edit this post]

Aff, I have that peeve,too. The whole parking lot can be open with spaces, and I get the person who has to wait for my spot!! grrrr

Guruchaz
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:29 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Really? Dave Thomas is from Canada?

Enbwife
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:49 pm [Click here to edit this post]

We had 30 cm of snow dropped on us Monday night, and my biggest pet peeve is shovelling snow before going to work. Neil and I spent 2 hours shovelling out our house yesterday morning, then had to shovel out our back lane in order to get our little car out. The snow seriously came to my knees. Neil spent most of the time saying he's moving to California... For those of you who don't get snow, thank God now!!!

Wink
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 12:50 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Not the Wendy's Dave the Grace Under Fire Dave.

Fruitbat
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:40 am [Click here to edit this post]

Mine is those tip jars. They sit on the counter of places where you order and pick up your own food AND bus your own dishes. Who are we tipping and for what service?

Guruchaz
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 09:08 am [Click here to edit this post]

Oh, I like the Wendy's Dave.

Wink
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 01:11 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Gee me too GuGu. Finally something in common.

Wink
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:26 pm [Click here to edit this post]

I can't get into chat. When I click on members or club chat I get a blank screen. I waited 2-3 minutes for something to happen but no go. Am I just a loser or does chat not exist anymore?

Elitist
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:28 pm [Click here to edit this post]

it still works, wink. Some of us are in there now.

Guruchaz
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:28 pm [Click here to edit this post]

That wasn't the question you should have asked.

In any case, I can see how this would totally destroy one's day and complete outlook on life.

Wink
Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:34 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Asked and answered.

Whit4you
Friday, December 15, 2000 - 09:27 am [Click here to edit this post]

My pet peeve is people who say

"So and so isn't doing their job, so I have to work twice as hard"

When your on the clock - your ON the clock and you are getting paid to work and do as much as you can possibly do. Now IF you are able to do "twice" as much because someone else is NOT doing their job, then prior to them NOT doing their job you were only doing HALF of what you were capable of doing.

The last business I owned was a HVAC company (heating and air conditioning) I made it very clear what I expected of my employees and when one of them worked up to those expectations I'd walk up and give him a dollar an hour raise in front of the other employees. He wasn't working "twice as hard" because they weren't doing their job, because he worked as hard as he was able regardless.

You should always be looking for ways to save your company money, to save the company time - by finding quicker and more creative ways to do the things you do, so you have time to do *more* things. You should always do what you can to try and save resources and serve the clients/ customers better and give them better service using less time and resources then you currently use.

If I ever had an employee complain to me about "having to work twice as hard, because someone else isn't doing their job" they'd be LOOKING for another job.

<end rant>

(got 101 other pet peeves - but shutting up now [:)]

Fruitbat
Friday, December 15, 2000 - 09:49 am [Click here to edit this post]

Whit....good one. I had never thought about that yet I have heard it many times.

Soeur
Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 05:35 am [Click here to edit this post]

My pet peeve at the moment, and it rubs me wrong at this time of year, EVERY year...

the year end double issue of PEOPLE. I can never stand the selections they make for the '25 Most Interesting...blah, blah, blah of the year'. It is a dud read just at a time when I could really enjoy picking up a 400 page issue of that magazine and getting lost in it for an long afteroon. They should have the best/worst dressed issue now (well, let's say half the issue be best/worst dressed - with LOTS of pictures in the 'worst' section, tons of 'lil Kim and Celine Dion) and the other half of the issue could be human interest stories about people and their lives. Triumph over tradgedy stuff, stories of secretaries who fulfilled a long held goal and now have personal staffs of 73 people working for them... How could that magazine get it so wrong???

Another wee thing...Helen Hunt (in the issue I flipped through at the newstand - catch me dead BUYING it) filed for divorce from her husband of 17 months citing irreconcilable differences. Irreconcilable differences? explain how they could know they are 'irreconcilable' after only 17 months? It has taken me and my excellent partner well over ten times that amount of time to figure out what our 'issues' are and new ones are still being discovered as we speak...
Whoa! This is morphing into a marriage thing...better go decorate the tree now...ho! ho! ho!

Fruitbat
Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 06:32 am [Click here to edit this post]

Souer...I thought the very same thing when I found Helen and Hank are divorcing. The question, why did they marry in the first place, hangs in the air. They had lived together long enough to see irreconcilable differences coming upon them in 17 months, one would think.

Lancecrossfire
Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 01:31 pm [Click here to edit this post]

In Hollywood doesn't "irreconcilable differences" usualy mean one or both have found someone else they want to have sex with, or have had sex with???

Max
Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 03:36 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Well, let's see. Helen Hunt has been working on pictures co-starring Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, and...I know there's another hunk in there somewhere. Temptation abounds. [:)]

Optics
Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 03:58 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Heck I didn't even realize Helen Hunt was married!

Soeur
Saturday, December 23, 2000 - 06:49 pm [Click here to edit this post]

Guys, thanks for your support with my Helen Hunt peeve.

Now, can we work the PEOPLE magazine problem? That one rubs me the wrong way every December...Another thing they do is mini tributes to people (usually celebs) who have departed this earthly plane during the past year. The tributes are usually one pager lightweight stuff and that just gets me scruff up. That just wastes space that could be better used by fashion trend pics like bead skirts, mood bracelets, glitter skirts & fuzzy sweaters...By the way, did anyone see the profile they did on Michael J. Fox earlier in the year. Now, that was great piece. What a guy!

Fruitbat
Sunday, December 24, 2000 - 08:52 am [Click here to edit this post]

Soeur....here comes support.....posthumus palavering of any kind has no place in magazines OR Award shows. Giving a dead actor an award is nonsense and life time achievement honoring deserves a super plus in the forehead.

Lance.....Oh course! how silly of me. Your are right. Someone fell in love with a co star.

Fruitbat
Sunday, December 24, 2000 - 08:53 am [Click here to edit this post]

Oh, and Merry Chrismas. <file:///C:/BBFC/gen1/clipart/proud.gif>

Lafatme
Monday, December 25, 2000 - 12:13 pm [Click here to edit this post]

soeur,

STEP AWAY FROM THE MAGAZINE.

don't you know that PEOPLE, like all mags, is nothing but an excuse to sell advertising space?

they would only replace the useless drivel with other useless drivel anyway. get a good book.

merry christmas.

Pooh66
Wednesday, December 27, 2000 - 07:59 pm [Click here to edit this post]

I have to agree with all the driving pet peeves. It seems like everyone forgets how to drive once they hit the road. Forget it in bad weather, they drive as if its a sunny day, & honk at you for driving for the road conditions.

Also, adults playing childish games thinking that they're being adults about the whole thing.

Ocean_Islands
Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 06:28 pm [Click here to edit this post]

I don't have any pets.

Wargod

Friday, September 14, 2001 - 01:28 am Click here to edit this post
WHit, I have two big pet peeves:

1. People who use the last of the toliet paper, then do not put a new roll on the roller, and

2. People who leave one tiny swallow of milk in the cartoon and then have the nerve to put it back in the refrigerator!

The second one really irks me.

Wink

Friday, September 14, 2001 - 06:29 am Click here to edit this post
Hey Wargod do my kids live at your house?

By the way do yours put their dirty dishes directly into the dishwasher or only bring them to the kitchen and leave them there for the dish fairy?

Nutsy

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 06:28 am Click here to edit this post
People who put an ice cube tray back in the freezer with only one or two ice cubes ... is there some sort of water shortage? Just FILL them up!!

=)

Fruitbat

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 06:47 am Click here to edit this post
People who start sentences with "To be honest with you...." So am I to believe they are lying when this proclaimation is omitted?

Juju2bigdog

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 02:03 pm Click here to edit this post
To be totally honest with you, Fruitbat, I'm not sure what the answer to that one is. But then, my pet peeve might be ofuscation.

Wargod

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 06:01 pm Click here to edit this post
The ice cube tray being empty and put back in the freezer infuriates me.
My husband likes to do dishes, but only some of them. Hell do plates and cups, but refuses to do silverware and pans. Everytime he does dishes I just want to scream. Drives me nuts!

Juju2bigdog

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 09:49 pm Click here to edit this post
Hahahaha, War. And then I bet he brags about how much he is "helping out" doing dishes.

Wargod

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 10:29 pm Click here to edit this post
You got it juju! He is always so proud of himself, and leaves me to gripping that I have to finish his work.

Beagle

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 10:35 pm Click here to edit this post
Heres a pet peeve for ya. I can't stand it when people begin a sentence with:

"Don't get me wrong, but..." or "Don't take this the wrong way, but..."

Arghhh, it drives me crazy! It's like it gives the speaker license to say whatever they want about you and you can't get mad at them.

Sharebear

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 10:55 pm Click here to edit this post
hmmmm.....pet peeeeeeeeves....lol....Either I am a really mean human being or maybe I just like things my way I dunno you be the judge....LAUNDRY...whites,brights,darkslinens(not including towels), light towels, dark towels.
Okay so shoot me if I don't like dark fuzzies on my light towels and light fuzzies on my dark towels, I don't like wearing grey shirts that used to be white, and so on and so forth. I find it entertaining NOT when my husband can have all the laundry done in no time at all. His way of doing it all, throw as much in the washer that will fit paying no attention at all to what is what. HA needless to say my husband is forbidden to wash again. Unless ofcourse I separate them first but even sometimes that doesn't even matter. lol maybe I should have posted this under obsessive/compulsive. But to tell all the wives another story about that: I get an interesting phone call from a girlfriend of mine, apparently her husband had tried doing the same thing, and supposedly the thing at work is if you never want to wash laundry again just do this a couple of times and you will get out of it for sure. So if anyone has any input on how I can remedy that I would appreciate it.

Beagle

Monday, September 17, 2001 - 10:58 pm Click here to edit this post
Sharebear, are we married to the same man??? LOL

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 08:59 am Click here to edit this post
Possible cure for errant husbands doing laundry: Wash his white underwear with a new red sweatshirt. That should make a good demonstration of why one separates colors.

Norwican

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 09:48 am Click here to edit this post
Doesn't work Juju... for some men there is no shame in wearing pink underwear.

Jushvnfn

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 10:14 am Click here to edit this post
My Pet peeve is people that have husbands that do laundry! Where do you get one of those? After 24 years, I guess it's hopeless.....LOL

Fruitbat

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 10:54 am Click here to edit this post
My husband and I share doing the laundry. Whoever thinks of it just puts a load in. When the kids were here we all did our own and I did the sheets, towels etc..

As soon as they were old enough to reach the bottom of the washer it was their job to do their own laundry. My second son didn't hit a growth spurt when I thought he should have, so I bought him a stool.

Best thing I ever did.

Kstme

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 02:24 pm Click here to edit this post
Pet peeve...doctors that don't listen! I know why I'm in their office...they don't! lol

Dogs not leashed in our neighborhood! They doodle on the lawn and make our dogs go beserk! Not a pretty site because our dogs are already psycho! :)

This applies because I live in a gambling town...people that push their way to the machine you "just" left!! Don't know why that drives me nuts, but it does! It's not like there aren't 10,000 other machines around this town! sheesh!

Gee, I feel sooooo much better now!

Nutsy

Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 12:00 pm Click here to edit this post
People who slam into you, walk on your feet, etc. and so on ... AND NEVER SAY EXCUSE ME, SORRY, ANYTHING. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

What's even worse is when you get the slam into your shoulder and hear the excuse me at the same time. Don't people know you're supposed to SAY excuse me BEFORE you pass them?

Whew. Thanks.

Pcakes2

Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 12:26 pm Click here to edit this post
leaving one square of toilet paper on the roll...what am I supposed to do with that?!

Cats! (sorry, now I 'll get hate mail from cat lovers) If I want to walk my dog, I've got to have her on a leash, but cats can roam free.
(and poop in my flower beds...yuck!)

Kittykeeper2k

Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 01:40 am Click here to edit this post
hehehe sorry about your flower beds pcakes2.
I love cats!! I have 4 .
pet peeve people standing in MY space at the grocery store etc. hey I need to be able to turn around here,, this isn't a twiggy your next to.
People who DO NOT wash their hands when they go to bathroom/(ever watch in public johns?)
(How TACKY!!) even my young child knows to do that!.
my biggest peeve People who DO NOT KNOW what that little thing is on theleft side of their steering wheel.THAT'S A TURN SIGNAL,want me to show you how it works?? DUH!!

Nutsy

Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 06:20 am Click here to edit this post
People who make toast, eat it at the kitchen counter and don't use a plate, or wipe anything up.

I'd so much rather wash a plate, than wash the floor!

Axman

Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 07:05 pm Click here to edit this post
People who have a lot of pet peeves. **grins** **Ax ducks and runs out of the room**

Wargod

Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 08:48 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL.Im gonna get you Ax! I got plenty of pet peeves!

Im in college, but homework is another pet peeve.

And peer review groups, where people who do not know much more than you tear apart your greatest essays!

Lines at pharmacies drive me nuts, especially when the person at the front of the line wants to tell the pharmacist their life story and make me wait an hour to get a prescription.

Oh, and when one of my kids gets sick and I cant do anything to help them.

Dont worry Ax, Im sure Ill think of some more for you, lol.

Zeyna

Friday, September 21, 2001 - 06:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Absolutely hate it when people play with their toes! Actually have to look away because it makes me cringe.

Grooch

Friday, September 21, 2001 - 06:32 pm Click here to edit this post
People who don't get their stuff ready when you are waiting in line.

I can stand in line for 20 minutes and the people ahead never think of looking for their money/credit card/checkbook till after everything is rung up.

The same thing goes for people filling out bank slips at the bank, finding the exact change in the exact change lane at the tollbooth, etc, etc. I can go on forever and it really, really irritates me.