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Game, Pet Peeves :)

October 19, 2006 01:56 PM EDT
views: 65 | rating: 10/10 (5 votes) | comments: 42

Hi,

What are your pet peeves, one to a post, in case others might have the same ones... especially ones that are the kind that people don't think should be pet peeves.

I'll start.

Welcome Center bathrooms, as I almost fell in a toilet (twice), the door kept randomly opening and shutting and I "shut", I really did! And... the toilet kept flushing, why ( ?) I don't know! But it did and it was the only semi-clean one in there!

Ok, that is one of mine, what do you have???? LOL

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Comments: 42

Michelle W. Oct 19, 2006, 1:59pm EDT
Rude cashiers that chew their gum like they were cows chewing cud.
Sheryl O. Oct 19, 2006, 2:05pm EDT
Drivers who refuse to use their blinkers before making a turn....OR, they put their blinkers on just as they're turning. What's up with THAT?
Mellonie S. Oct 19, 2006, 2:05pm EDT
Automated voice systems. When you call a company for help and you have to go through a maze of pounds, stars, press 2's, etc. which takes you up to 20 minutes to only find out that you're NEVER getting in touch with a live person. Argh!
Joe T. Oct 19, 2006, 2:06pm EDT
Whiners!
Mugg Muggles, "The Man With the Jive" Oct 19, 2006, 2:08pm EDT
Tailgating motorists. I want a vehicle with an armored rear end so that I can just hit the brakes and watch them smash their radiators.
Larry H. Oct 19, 2006, 2:08pm EDT
Having to flush a toilet in resturants, stores ect. before you can use it. Nothing like having to look and someone elses .... before you can use a toilet. Actually makes me feel right at home, seems someone here forgets to flush. ha ha ha
Kathy S. Oct 19, 2006, 2:10pm EDT
People who 'crack' their gum when they chew. Worse than fingernails on a chalkboard to me!!!
Beany F. Oct 19, 2006, 2:22pm EDT
I swear! I don't care if I get in the shortest line at any store. I always end up having to wiat on the manager or price of something! always! I never get out of a line from buying things less than 25 minutes!! NO joke. My mom passed this down to me. It happens to her all the time. The person can have one item, and I'm telling you. That item is either marked wrong or breaks, and the cahsier has to call that department to retrieve another one. This also happened to me. I got so tired of waiting I RAN!! through the store! to get my item exchanged so I wouldn't have to wait another 15 minutes..:( Needless to say I got my exercise. Cheri can tell you even cokes busted on me right after I bought them:( bad luck consumer I am.
Nichole - oh so broke - K .. Oct 19, 2006, 2:25pm EDT
One of my MANY pet peeves is when people refuse to turn the knob on the sink just a tiny bit more to keep it from dripping. So because they don't do this, the sick keeps dripping and dripping ... and besides being annoying, it's wasteful...
~~ Sarina ~~ Oct 19, 2006, 2:38pm EDT
Drivers who go slow until you try to pass them.
Oh this list could go on for ever, but I am limited to one pet peeve per response, so it's a toss up, but I would have to say when traveling on a four lane highway and both lanes are taken up by drivers going the exact same speed....That irks me to no end.
Dawne Joy Oct 19, 2006, 2:57pm EDT
Joe - you took mine!

OK, if I can't whine about whiners, I'll whine about my husband never filling up the gas tanks. Granted, he gives me the money for it, but never a warning, and I don't know it's almost empty until I am completely pressed for time ofcourse!
John L. Oct 19, 2006, 3:43pm EDT
asthe last vestige of my Grammar School education causes me to flinch when people misuse the words.....LESS and FEWER. If fewer people did it, it would be less irritating.
Rhonda *TheTightwad* S. Oct 19, 2006, 3:59pm EDT
Oh where to start.....One huh?....People who do not wash their hands after using the toilet.
Debra H. Oct 19, 2006, 4:07pm EDT
When I decide to run a yellow light and the guy or gal in front of me chickens out - BTW Beany - you don't want to be behind me in line because once I get in one everyone in front of me starts writing checks and arguing prices and I use coupons!
amanda wallin Oct 19, 2006, 4:17pm EDT
OK, this one's REALLY odd. No one can relate. Its minor but when cigarette butts don't go out in the ashtray and are standing on end. Don't ask...I know it has to do with my OCD..........
☀ Aunt Shanny Oct 19, 2006, 4:25pm EDT
I've got too many.
Lydia O. Oct 19, 2006, 4:42pm EDT
Mouthy children...
Susan *. Oct 19, 2006, 5:05pm EDT
Mommies who criticize other children when their own kids run the streets, do drugs, are shoplifters and generally are "h*ll on wheels"...they drive me nuts and I avoid them like the plague!
Jiya S. Oct 19, 2006, 5:31pm EDT
Store signs with lousy grammar. The worst is: Today's "Special". Well, if it's "special", is it special in a retarded way, or is it just not special at all and you're trying to pass it off as special? Why would I want it if it's ordinary?

Jiya S. Oct 19, 2006, 5:32pm EDT
(abruptly ending rant and trying not to look like a crazy woman)
keith crawford Oct 19, 2006, 5:48pm EDT
People who won't shut up in movie theatres and keep having a conversation right in the middle of the best part, don't come to the movies if ya want to yap! lol
Amy just hangin' out M. Oct 19, 2006, 6:04pm EDT
Waiters and waitresses who are rude, and take forever to get your refills. I'm not talking about when they're covered up busy, but when they're standing in a little group gossiping and such.
Deanna P. Oct 19, 2006, 6:13pm EDT
My Pet peeve is when asked how are you doing and you know they dont want to know.
Miz Lynn aka/BooBoo Oct 19, 2006, 6:31pm EDT
People who are perpetually late!!!
DJ B. Oct 19, 2006, 10:38pm EDT
People who throw their trash out of their vehicle windows.
For Pete's sake, is it really so hard to carry a trash bag in the vehicle, put trash in it, and take it to a trash can when you leave the vehicle? :o\
Dawne Joy Oct 19, 2006, 10:43pm EDT
When I see people smoking beside their kids, who usually have asthma or some other breathing problem, and they are like "I don't know why he/she has those problems," then puff in their face. "Go fetch my my cigarettes kiddo."

Seriously! I see crap like that all the time.
Sandra L. Oct 19, 2006, 11:16pm EDT
Channel surfers!!
Beany, That's US in front of you in the grocery store! :)

amanda, that's not weird, I don't like it either!

Paul, Cell phones? No kidding! I've been in a store and "thought" a person was talking to me and ANSWERED them, only to realize they were talking to someone on a cell phone, and in our little pharmacy (family-owned, Dad and two sons) they put up a big sign that says, Cell phone? No service! Why? Because it's RUDE.

I'm laughing too hard to say anything else about anyone elses, but wow, can I relate!

One more:

People who use so much perfume/after shave that you can smell them way before you ever see them and I'm allergic to it! (cough, cough, sneeze, tears, red-swollen face, there ought to be a law about that somewhere!)
Sharila S. Oct 19, 2006, 11:34pm EDT
i was travelling domestic...the plane had not even landed yet and people switched their cell phones on. that was the limit...
also i simply cannot take people who lack brains, but show off all the materialistic stuff they own...
Donna D. Oct 19, 2006, 11:48pm EDT
women who pee on the toilet seats and leave them like that, even if you stand over the seat you still can get it on you, so you have to wipe the seat first. I just usually try to find another one to use if I can.
Cortney R. Oct 20, 2006, 2:17am EDT
I have two. One is people who are bad drivers to begin with, talking on cell phones while driving. The other one is when in apartment complexes, people who come to pick someone up instead of going to the door, they just honk the horn. It wouldn't take that much to get out of the car and go up to the door.
Dawne Joy Oct 20, 2006, 8:24am EDT
Oh my! That cell phone thing happened to me before right in my own home. When the guy from directv came to install my satellite, he started saying "I hope you're cooking dinner! I want you to wear that little nightie I bought you!"
It didn't look like he had a phone. It was an ear bud and he had longish hair to cover it.
I was speechless! I think he saw the look on my face and how i was slowly backing up to the door without taking my eyes off of him because then he looked at me like i was an IDIOT! I must have been because at that time I had never heard of those kind of phones, so I said "Oh" like I understood, then I picked up my phone and called my husband at work in the other room, and he explained it to me.
John S. (arizona) Oct 20, 2006, 10:50am EDT
Telephones period. (any kind)
Sandra L. Oct 20, 2006, 8:40pm EDT
Grown women who feel compelled to talk baby talk to other adults!!!!

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