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Spygirl | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 07:09 pm     Kstme - start taking their orders. That'll show 'em  |
Kstme | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 07:20 pm     Spy...heehee...thought about it... Zeno, I agree! Manners NEVER go out of style! Another pet peeve of mine...posters who talk about their dogs constantly! Like no one else has ever owned one! (please, don't take this seriously...I'm talking about me!) |
Spygirl | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 07:37 pm     LOL - you are gonna get in trouble!! |
Sia | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 07:48 pm     Can I mention a pet peeve that affects me only when I'm around my DH? He is sarcastic much too frequently, and it really irritates me. I have long, stress-filled days just like he does, and I have my aches and pains and am chronically tired, too, so when I'm trying very hard to do things for my family his smart-mouthed attitude just hits me the wrong way and I just walk away; I stop whatever I'm doing for him (cooking, packing his lunch, making his coffee, whatever it might be) and go to another room--or to the computer. |
Sabbatia | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 09:55 pm     Bandit, I hate it when people call ya and the first thing they say is "whatcha doin?" Well...obviously I'm talking on the phone NOW> Sia, My husband has this 50 questions thing he does. You make one little comment, and he has to ask 50 questions about it, and most of them he could answer himself if he would just think before he asked. After I've had people in my office all day long asking questions, I don't want to continue it when I get home. War, when I was a kid, my grandma made us keep our hands behind our backs when we were shopping. I STILL catch myself doing this sometimes in stores. |
Wargod | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:41 pm     Hehe, the rule for Caleb is to hold the shopping cart....if I'm feeling nice, I let him push the cart while I hold onto the end and steer and control it. If he taks his hand off the cart...he knows, he's in trouble. Sooner or later, I'm going to have to get Dakota in that habit...however, I'd much rather do my shopping without the kids, LOL! |
Whoami | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:34 am     Our local store now has carts that hold children who are too big for the basket in the cart. The child part of the cart is shaped like a race car, and other type of things that makes it fun for the kid to sit in. Of course, they are more bulky and cumbersome for the parent to push, and they do tend to get in the way a bit. They are, however much better inventions than those horrid "rug rat carts" (as I used to call them). You know, the small carts they had for a while that small children could push. I think the concept was that the child would help in the shopping by having a cart of their own to push alongside the parent. What it ended up being was the parent would turn the kids loose with those carts, and the kids would then proceed to race each other up and down all the aisles at break neck speed. I had many a rug rat cart slammed into me and rolled over my feet. The person who invented those should be shot. The person who took them out of the stores should be given a medal! |
Christina | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 03:29 am     My pet peeve at the moment is my husbands 20 year old niece. Was in college this year but dropped out cuz of a guy!! We have helped her in the past financially. Little here and there. Now that she isnt finishing school and wants to sit on her butt, she cant figure out why I wontgive any more. Though instead of asking out right she just gives these horrible hints. Some crying cuz her roomates want her part of the money. She has even gone so far as to leave credit applications out for us to see!! I wont give unless she does SOMETHING for it. |
Djgirl5235 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 04:37 am     This is a PERFECT thread!!! First, let me just say that Rissa - I want to live in the province you do, since our speed limit is still 100km/h and I'm usually doing at least 120... Okay - pet peeves... I have three really big ones: 1) I agree wholeheartedly with Herm about the signalling - I've been cut off 3 times in the course of approx. 1 mile by the same woman and all three times, no signal!! (That happened awhile ago, but it sticks out in my mind). Since I have to travel about 50km to work each day on highways, I'm constantly speeding along in the middle lane, and people are weaving in and out in front of me without their signals - I have to be right on my game first thing in the morning, or it could be SMASH! 2) People who have called for the elevator, and stand right...in...front...of...the...door. If I'm on the elevator and want to get out of the car, I have to wait for them to react to the fact that there's actually someone on the elevator and move out of the way. The funny thing is that they always look really surprised that there's someone on it... What??? Is it their personal elevator??? 3) People who butt in line in front of you. For example - we have Tim Horton's here in Canada (really good coffee), but there's always two cash registers, that you never know where or who's going to serve you so you hang back in a line that's parallel to the counter. All of a sudden some guy walks into the coffee shop apparently oblivious to the people "just standing around" and walks right up to the counter... THAT TICKS ME OFF!!!!! Okay - I think I just hijacked this thread... sorry... apparently I needed to vent this morning! |
Fruitbat | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 05:13 am     Cashiers who dump your change on top of the bills they just laid in your hand. Change first, THEN bills. |
Sia | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 05:19 am     (((Sabbatia))) Oh, those pesky husbands!! Mine askes me really smart questions like, "Honey, where do you keep the _____ ?" --Insert appropriate word here, depending upon what he's looking for: pork chops, EGGS (my favorite, since they're always in the same place!), skillet, saucepan, ice cubes, etc. Djgirl, venting is good! LOL @ your post: "What, it's their personal elevator?" Edited to add: a child who repeats "Mom. . . Mom. . . Mom. . . Mom . . ." even if you've already said, "What?" |
Ddr1135 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 05:28 am     My pet peeve: People who are negative and can't play well with other people. |
Lizadee | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 06:05 am     My DH who uses a paper towel to blow his nose instead of tissue Maybe I should use tissue to wipe my hands!! My DH who every morning has to clean out his throat by bringing up a big logie out of his throat and spit it out (gross) Sorry I know its early but how do you think I fill I have to cover my ears Another good one (really I do love my DH) he blows his nose while taking a shower I have asked him about this he says he covers his nose with his hands I have asked him if he has any pet peeves about me and he says NO (should I believe him?) |
Ddr1135 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 06:34 am     Sia, I know what you mean! My darling son who is now 15 still does that to me! |
Djgirl5235 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 06:48 am     Apparently, today is my huff day!!! I have one more to add.... Know-It-Alls... We have a girl here at work who apparently knows everything there is to know about everything even my own medical condition I've had my entire life, and that I'm treating myself incorrectly - I'm sorry... when did my body become yours??? |
Hermione69 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 07:21 am     OMG, Deej, people are unreal, aren't they? I hate it when people try to tell me what it must be like to be deaf, particularly when they downplay it as not a big deal. That happens more than you would believe, even from people who should know better. I don't think they are even aware of how they are sounding, but it still burns me up. <Which is probably why I can't quite bring myself to like Jenna in Survivor. She reminds me so much of people like that, with her dismissal of Christy's feelings, especially from someone who didn't even make an effort to communicate.> <edited for an afterthought.> |
Bbfreak | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 07:24 am     My WORST Peeve is the person behind me in line at the grocery store rolling their cart within 2 inches of me, sometimes even bumping me. Every time I have to put my hand on their cart and PUSH back to get to the groceries in the bottom of the cart. If they don't have a cart, they stand so close I can hear them BREATHE! or Worse, Smell them. Am I wierd to freak out when a stranger comes closer than 1 foot? |
Kaili | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 07:24 am     I'm really neurotic about dishes being put into the dishwasher right away. My boyfriend will finish his meal, then sit there and talk to me over his empty plate and I want it put away NOW, then he can talk to me. And the slurping of food! Ugh!!!!! It also drives me nuts when I'm treated like I am either invisible or poor at stores. Like this one time I was at a resturant and I ordered a side salad with the meal- the waitress was real snotty and said "you do know that costs extra, right?" Like I can't afford a $3 salad!!! Then other times I'll be standing at a counter and wherever I am the people are going about their business like I am not there. Oh- example! When I went to the courthouse to apply for a passport- I stood at the counter for literally 10 minutes while the people glanced at me and went about their business like I wasn't there. This happens at various types of places but hello! I'm not invisible! And I don't have all day! Another example of being ignored- I had a noon apointment at Car-X for an oil change. I brought it in and sat and sat- for an hour and a half. About 45 minutes after I had been there I asked the girl if she had any idea how long it would be until my car was brought in (since I should have been in and out in about 30 minutes). She says "soon" and ignores me for the next 45 minutes as my car is still sitting in the parking lot. She leaves for lunch, the manager comes through and I ask if it is common practice to have a customer sit around for nearly 2 hours with no communication from the people working as to how long it would take- all i wanted was for someone to say "we're running behind..." whatever as long as they communicated something to me. So he says "do you think it's common practice for people to make appointments and not keep them" or something weird and unprofessional like that. So I'm sitting there talking to this other woman and she had an oil change scheduled for after mine- her car was brought in first! I got a free oil change that day |
Kaili | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 07:26 am     Not at all Bbfreak- it's a personal space issue and I hate it when people don't quite get that they are invading it. I know different cultures have different understandings of personal space, but there are people who are as born and raised in Wisconsin as can be who feel the need to stand right in your face when they talk to you and I am always inching back. I don't want to smell anybodys breath! |
Rissa | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 07:30 am     Djgirl, I hate that too!!!! Like the twenty of us in line #1 were just too stupid to see that 2nd register and isn't that guy so clever for picking the shorter line? RFLOL P.S. To be perfectly honest, I have never driven 110 in my life.. I usually lock into cruise control about 125 (78MPH)and I am still the slowest car on the highway most times. We used to live in Ontario and I swear to God, if you weren't going 130 min on the 400... you were begging to be killed (or at least sworn at by old men and nuns as they passed). LOLOL |
Marysafan | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 08:01 am     Mine is store clerks who are talking on phone and waiting on me at the same time. I politely tell them that I will gladly wait until they have finished their conversation. I make them hang up the phone and tend to business. I am sure they dislike me. Hubby's pet peeve is icing of offsides on a power play. It drives him nuts. |
Djgirl5235 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 08:01 am     Lol Rissa - You're so right!!! I don't have cruise control, but I'm usually around 125 in the middle lane with people whizzing past me in the left lane. I'll push it up to about 135 to pass the cars that I need to pass, but I'm NEVER just hanging out in the left hand lane... Doh! Another Pet Peeve... can you guys tell that I'm easily annoyed?!?! |
Bandit | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 08:47 am     Going back to the signaling thing in the car thing-I agree, it's completely important. Here is another reason- let's say you're driving on the highway and there are 3 lanes. You are on an outside one, and somebody else is in the other outside one, and nobody in the middle. Well, if you want to change lanes, and the other person does too, and no one uses their turn signal, what is going to happen? I've seen so many close calls on the freeway because people don't use their turn signals when changing lanes! Bugs me. So many things about peoples' driving gets to me, but I'll spare you all! :-) |
Weenerlobo | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 09:10 am     I luv luv luv luv this thread. It has made me truly laugh out loud today and I needed that! And the reason I was laughing is because I agreed with every pet peeve listed. Well, Hermi, I'm not gonna pretend to completely understand your peeve, because I am not deaf (and would never presume that I know what it's like), but if I think about all the times that somebody tells me how it is to be me, then I think I might be close to understanding your peeve!!! Weener's Pet Peeves: - The use of the word "irregardless" (AARG) - People who are first in line at left turn arrow traffic lights who sit there and waste the green arrow so that nobody else can get through. - I can't stand it when I hear someone say "He shook his head 'yes'." One NODS their head in an affirmative and SHAKES their head for a negative. Grrrrr. I can't think of any more right now, and that is a pet peeve of my own, because I can never come up with the best answers on the spot! |
Hermione69 | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 09:14 am     People who think they are better than everyone else. |
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