What is Your Biggest Pet Peeve?

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Cathlete
While at work today...I became painfully aware of one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. My coworker came up behind my chair, staring at my computer screen while SMACKING his gum. I mean, he was workin' this gum like it was going out of style. I finally had to turn around and tell him to stop!!!

I think "smacking" in general just irks me. Whether its gum or food.

What are some of your pet peeves?
 
Oh where would I begin? Okay, I'll give you one of my biggest ones:

Having no sense of humor.


Debbie

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I have many pet peeves, but the gum cracking is definately high on the list. The last movie I went to see, there was a gum cracker seated in our row. The theatre was full, so we couldn't change seats. We were assaulted by her crackin' and smackin' for 2 hours, it ruined the movie for me :-(

I also can't stand it when people "excavate" their noses in public.
 
Oh my goodness, I HATE gum smacking! Sometimes I just want to kill my DH for it. He chews it like he has a chaw of tobacco in his mouth! Drives me NUTS!!! I also hate it when people sit and flick or tap their finger nails. Something about that sound of fingernails tapping is just irritating. Besides that, I am really easy to get along with! :)
 
People who talk with their mouth full of food!!! The lady behind me at work - who is in her 40s mind you, constantly talks with her mouth full of food and on the phone, too!!!! To customers!!! I think it should be addressed by management, but apparently they don't notice. And she scrapes the inside of her yogurt container to get every last blasted drop. Give it up already!!!

Nan
 
Smacking gum is near the top of my list, too. May as well run fingers down a chalk board. I had that happen in a movie theater once. Finally after half an hour I could not stand it and turned around and politely asked her to stop chewing like a bloody cow (not in those words, of course). I got applause from the people around me.

Another of my pet peeves is people who do not use turn signals.
 
since i am in school, talking while the professor is lecturing, people who don't yield when the sign says to do so, people who don't say good morning when i say it passing them on my morning run, and people who don't hold the door open for you when you are walking right behind them. I have many more but thats the tip of the iceburg.
by the way, i tend to smack my gum sometimes: sorry:p
 
Oh, there are way too many to count. Let's see....hmmmmm...people who don't say "thank you" when you hold the door for them and they just walk on by, loud chewing, the sound of teeth on untensils, people who pull out into the road RIGHT in front of me when there isn't even anyone behind me, people who say "like" a lot, arrogance, people with no manners, those who insist on going to the grocery store the moment they see one snowflake and stocking up on milk and batteries, people who go in the "express line" at the grocery store with a cart full of groceries. Wow, I'm so uptide and anal! Yikes.

ummmm, i think that's all I've got for now. I'll be back with more... :)
 
People that are constantly worried about offending others, afraid to say anything, our society has turned into one big, "politically correct mess". So I guess like some of you, my peeve is no sense of humor, get over all of it already society!:7 :7 Geez.
 
Rude people with no sense of humor that TAILGATE!!!!!!...http://smilies.sofrayt.com/eng/problems.gif[/img]
 
Do you have all day? ;-)

Gum smacking and related noises would be at the top of the list.

I also do not like people (majority of them women) noting what I eat (usually happens at lunchtime at work). I hear comments such as "mmmmm! Smells good!" or "You're so skinny! How come you eat THAT!" etc etc etc
Back when I ate crap like Lean Cuisine I would turn over the box so a nosy co-worker could not see what I was planning to eat. If I wasn't in the room at the moment she was in there she would turn over the box to see what I was eating.

I also despise people who lack the common courtesy to say thank you when I hold the door open for them.

That was my cranky post of the day :7 :7
 
Close talkers. You know, the people who have to come within 2 inches of you to speak with you. It immediately makes me ill at ease.
 
There have been quite a few listed that I agree totally with- People with no manners...bad drivers...people with no sense of humor and the biggest 'know it all's'.:+


Michelle
 
I'm with Beavs on this. People (women!) who obsess about food and say things like 'Oh go on, I'll be naughty' for eating a bar of chocolate. I just want to shout 'You're an adult. You choose what you put in your mouth. No-one's going to tell you off!' Aaarrgghhh!
 
I must say - not holding the door open (when they clearly see me coming!!! Hello!!!)

Also, I hate when you are walking and someone in front of you makes the snorting noise with his or her nose, and then spits.
I have seen women do this too! (not many)

Also, I hate when people are eating and they lick every single finger to get the food off instead of using a napkin (my DH sometimes does this when he is eating wings - I give him the worst face ever!) ha!

:)



"Life is too short - Be the best you can be every single day of your life!" :)
 
My biggest pet peeve is very close to the gum smacking peeve, but it differs slightly. It is people who make noise while eating (I call it schmultzing). It's like chewing noisily, and making a noise when you open your mouth to chew. All I can picture is the food being smushed in the mouth and rolled around on the tongue....it drives me INSANE! AHHHHHHHHH, just thinking about it is giving me the creeps. A close second is children with long nails (usually with dirt underneath them). My poor kids, I cut their nails so low sometimes that I nip the cuticle (Ouch, I know).
 
I'm another one who hates that smacking sound when people eat. My DH does it and it drives me nuts. x(

Another is people who don't read their email. Why give out your email address if you don't read your mail?

People who take themselves too seriously.

People who will never admit to being wrong.
 
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