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Sia

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve for today: children who will NOT pick up after themselves, even after being told repeatedly to pick up their messes.

Monkeyboy, I assumed you were too young to work in such an establishment. *Ahem* I don't think I've ever been in one of those places; I don't have the nerve.

Twinkie

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, you wuss. LOL

Crazydog

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 08:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't stand when I'm looking through some documents with a co-worker, and they constantly lick their fingers to more easily page through them. Then they hand the documents back to me with their spittle on every corner. Why not use an eraser, or one of those finger grippers?

Juju2bigdog

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 03:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh just great. Now I have an image of Crazydog with a shirt pocket full of finger condoms, offering them to his co-workers the minute he sees the old finger heading for the spittle area.

Urgrace

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 08:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinkie, you take the prize.

My peeve today is the phone callers who call to sell you something you couldn't possibly use, like:

-an extended warranty on a car you no longer own
-siding on your brick house that already has siding on the eaves and gables
-another burial plot - how many does one person need?

AND you've already told them before.

Pamy

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 08:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Monkeyboy, I am shocked at where you work!
can you get me a discount??

Squaredsc

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
pamy you took the words out of my mouth. do yall have a catalog?

Pamy

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Square, maybe we could plan a road trip to Monkeyboy's store, what a great butt shot that would be!

Squaredsc

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 09:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
roflmao pamy.

Twinkie

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 12:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve. My MIL has been deceased for over 10 years yet we still receive mail for her. Even after moving!! I have called everyone who mails her several times to tell them this yet they still keep sending mail to her. Even her sororiety!! Are these people on crack???

Monkeyboy

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Pamy and Square

Whoami

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 04:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Pet Peeve for today. Cashiers and/or baggers who closely examine my purchases. I had a bagger yesterday scrutinize a pack of Wrangler hot dogs I'd picked up for my mom. He was turning the package over and over in his hands, then sat there staring at it. I'm not sure if he was reading the ingredients, or what. Hey buddy, you don't have to know what's in them to decide which bag you put it in. It's not like you care how you bag the rest of my groceries anyway.

I've also had them flip through books/magazines I'm purchasing too. Get your own! Geeze!

Or how 'bout the fellow shoppers who examine the contents of your cart as they walk by? The paranoid side of me wonders if this only happens to fat people. Like, if they see a bag of chips or six pack of soda in your cart, do they check it out to see what other fattening things you have?

Melfie1222

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami, I hope we never cross paths in the grocery store... I am one of those awful people who snoops at other people's carts to see what they are buying. But I guess you could say I offend everyone equally... I look no matter what the size or appearance of the person. I don't know why I do it, just simple curiosity I guess. It's silly, I know...

Pamy

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 07:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Renting a video game, having the clerk tell me the game I rented, I agree yes that is the right game then get home to have not only the wrong game but it is for a completely different system!! Now I gotta go all the way back and get the right one. I think the stupid clerk should have to drive out to my house give me the right game and a credit for a free rental!! URGGGHHHH

Sia

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I look into other people's carts when I'm shopping without my grocery list. I always forget something important on days when I forget my shopping list at home!! Sometimes I'll see an item that will jog my memory. Last week I remembered to buy a bag of ice because I overheard someone asking to be charged for one. We have had lots of snow-cones this week! Yum! Sometimes I use the sickeningly-sweet syrup that you buy in the store, and sometimes I use 100% fruit juice. See, part of the time I worry about my kids' nutrition!!

I also have to admit that I enjoy seeing what the Amish have in their grocery carts. I like seeing what "newfangled" goodies they have discovered from us "English," like baby wipes and disposable diapers! They really load up on boxes of rolled oats and saltines, but once in a while you catch them with soda, chips, and other things that surprise me a bit. A friend told me once that the Amish would come into her store (now closed) over in the village and buy a pint or two of hand-dipped ice cream (they'd just buy the bucket) and all stand outside on the sidewalk eating it on the spot. When she asked why they devoured it so quickly with the plastic spoons she provided them, they told her that the ice cream would be melted before they arrived home in their horse-drawn buggies and that they didn't have refrigeration at home anyway, so they just always ate it immediately. Makes perfect sense to me. . .

. . .all but the part about not having a refrigerator. Yikes!

Whoami

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe I'm just self-conscious then. I guess I always percieve the ones examining my cart as ones who are "approving" my purchases. Not to mention, if I'm buying feminine products for me, or Depends for my mom, I really don't like others knowing my "business."

As far as forgetting my grocery list, I did that just the other day. I walked slowly by the ends of each aisle, and tried to visualize the list, and see if anything down that aisle sparked my memory. I was shocked when I got home, and I had gotten all but one item on the list! First time that ever happenend!

Whit4you

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 03:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami - you asked if folks look in your cart to see how fattening stuff is - thought I'd pipe in with my answer. I'm always looking in others carts - especially when at the checkout stand because there is nothing better to do and I already know what is in my own. I have always done this for one reason - just to see the sort of things other people purchase, to get ideas and to compare it to my own purchases. I did this alot more twhen I was younger (as far as to see what they were purchasing to get ideas, compare to my own shopping etc) but I still do it out of habit.

When I see a good looking man... I've always had a habit of seeing what he's buying for a # of reasons ;)

I've never looked in someone's cart 'because the person was fat' - and certainly not to see if they were buying fattening food.

Hope that helps answer that Q (though I'm not a normal person - I imagine there are plenty others like me as far as 'why they look at others carts' :)

Nonconformist

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve is getting stuck behind someone getting on the interstate and they are only going 45 mph and you have to try and merge with the people that are going 70+ mph.

Also, teachers that can't spell or pronounce words correctly. And teachers that immediately go to my child and want to "talk" about issues that I have brought up with them. Even after I've told them not to. I mean if they can't follow simple directions, how do they expect their students!!

Redstar

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve are people who take 30 minutes to say goodbye.

Shut up and get out of my house already!

Floridagirl1010

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 01:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Redstar!! My pet peeve is having people just show up at my house without calling first! I've been caught so many times with kids toys, dirty dishes and laundry everywhere:( Or I'm trying to put the kids to sleep.

Wink

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 01:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL Redstar. You've obviously met some members of my family.

Wargod

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 01:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Florida, I solved that problem by not allowing anyone in the house if they show up unannounced, excluding my mom and sister. A few times spent on the porch chit chatting and people start to realize that maybe calling first would be a good idea.

Spygirl

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 02:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I cannot stand the drop in! I live alone, so I'm in minimally required attire - probably on the deficit side of required attire at any given time during the day or night.

When I first moved to Louisiana, I started visiting churches. Most of the give you an option for a home visit on the visitor's card, and I specifically listed that I did not want someone to visit me in my home.

One evening - probably about 7 or even 8pm, I hear a knock on my door. I'm wearing pajamas, no makeup, and certainly no bra, and I answer the door to two men at least in their mid to late 70s wanting to talk to me about their church. They came into my house and stayed for almost an hour - uninvited.

I never - ever - went back to that church again. That was over 3 years ago and it still makes me mad.

Heyltslori

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 03:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Spy. I hate the drop in too. Even from my family! I just think it's rude!

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah,the old drop in. Once,my MIL did a drop in and didn't even knock on the door,she walked right in!!!! The look I gave her must have scared her to death,cause she hasn't tried that again.