What is Your Biggest Pet Peeve?

I dislike close talkers too! Just get the heck out of my space.

More pet peeves:
1. People who don't use turn signals when driving.
2. When someone cuts in front of you and then drives 5 miles an hour.
3. The wrong usage of "I" and "me", such as "can you drive Bob and I to the store?". IT'S ME, NOT I!!!!
4. When I see the phrase "loose" weight instead of "lose" weight. I know the weight I need to lose is quite loose, but I certainly won't be "loosing" weight any time soon!

I could go on and on...
Shelbygirl
 
Hypocrites. I try so hard to bite my tongue, and I usually am successful, but it's so hard. Even around here, it drives me nuts to see some folks praising Cathe up and down on her boards, and then joining in on the bashing on some others. But like biting my tongue, I try very hard to quiet my fingers.

ITA with the open mouth chewing thing too - ick! Seems "mouth associated" matters are carrying this list - HA.

Lorrie

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People who drive and talk on their cell phone.

People who try to cross busy intersections while talking on their cell phones.

People who wander aimlessly around stores talking LOUDLY on their cell phones.

People who get up the the checkout and won't get off of their cell phones.

People at restaurants talking LOUDLY on the cell phones.

Oh, yeah, and people like the guy who sat next to me on a red-eye from LA who chose to read during THE ENTIRE TRIP (midnight PST until 6:30 EST!!!) and kept that friggin' overhead light on the whole time!!!
 
MEN who stand in the women's dressing room entrance so they can see what their wife/girlfriend is trying on. (This is especially annoying when the doors to the individual stalls are little saloon-type door with not much privacy). Give us a little privacy when we disrobe in the stores thank you very much!!!! x(

I was shopping last night. :)
 
At work, my biggest pet peeves:

Unclean desks, desks piled with papers
People who talk on their phones REALLY loud
People who interrupt you every 5 minutes for minor problems or just because they are bored :)

At home, my biggest pet peeves:

Dirty laundry on the floor
Clutter in general
Unclean sinks
Overflowing trash

I have learned to deal with most annoyances but these can throw me over the top if I am "pmsing". :)
 
>People who drive and talk on their cell phone.
>People who try to cross busy intersections while talking on their cell phones.
>People who wander aimlessly around stores talking LOUDLY on their cell phones.
>People who get up the the checkout and won't get off of their cell phones.
>People at restaurants talking LOUDLY on the cell phones.

Hey TeTe - I kid you not - yesterday I was getting my hair cut and the lady next to me who was GETTING HER HAIR WASHED answered her cell phone during the wash. She actually sat up with her hair dripping wet and all sudsy to take a call. It was unbelievable!


Lorrie

www.picturetrail.com/lsass

3 days, 60 miles, 1 cure. Check out my webpage:
http://www.the3day.org/cleveland07/lorriesassbenza808
 
>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.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves as well. I guess I'd call it "hearing other people's bodily functions," and it includes the gum smacking, snorting up mucus, eating with mouth open (I once went to lunch with my thesis advisor and his wife, and discovered that he did this...smacking and slurping and masticating...AAK! He definitely went down quite a bit in my esteem, and I couldn't help but think "how can she stand living with that?"); people hawking up a loogy and spltting (I've heard this in the HALLWAY outside my office!).

Also: people who don't use common courtesy in general (including saying "thank you" when you hold the door open for them, often when it's a family pushing a stroller or hauling a young child in their arms, and who act like they deserve the right-of-way; people talking on cell phones in a 'public' voice; people who don't respect other people's private property; people who stand too close behind you in line at the grocery store, and start loading their stuff too close to yours when they could just wait a minute and have the room; people who are paying with a check, but don't start writing out the store name, date and their signature until the transaction is totalled up....a lot of rudeness seems to occur in grocery stores!)

People who write hard-to-read messages on the internet: all caps (STOP YELLING), all lower-case, no punctuation (which also goes under "lack of common courtesy," IMO, because they don't take the few seconds more time to make their message readable and force others to 'decode' it), long messages with no paragraph breaks. I often just don't read and/or respond to them.

Um...I guess that's more than one, huh?}(
 
Tete - this morning while I was driving Sophie to school, I saw a car that had been pulled over by a police officer (I assume she was speeding) and the girl in the car was talking on her cell phone! I was flabbergasted. HANG UP ALREADY!

Oh, and also people who talk on their cell phones while they use the toilet. How... inappropriate.

I have PMS, so I shouldn't start a list. I could be here until next Tuesday.
 
Yeah, the making noise while chewing food, or even worse slurping the soup, chewing with the mouth open, gum smacking, is way on top of all pet peeves for me.

People who talk on their cell phones EVERYWHERE, I saw one coming out of the ladies room at Whole Foods the other day, still yacking away :eek: x(

People who think they are the center of the universe, the world revolves around them, they are always right, they know it all ..... you get the picture

Liars and hypocrites!!!!!!!!! Even worse when people lie to me and they think I am stupid enough not to know they are lying. Geez, if you have to lie, then at least don't get caught - not talking about white lies here :)

People who just keep talking and not getting to the point

Boy, I got a lot of pet peeves. I need to loosen up }( :+

Carola
 
Oh, god, that reminds me!!! I was working for a company whose IT guy worked at home. I called about a problem once and, I KID YOU NOT, I heard a FLUSH!!! All I could think was, "You know how to keep my MAC from freezing up, but you don't know how to push MUTE on your friggin' phone????"
 
This is easy - nothing on the planet irks me more than ......

SMOKING!!!!!!!!!!!! Smoking is easily the single most selfish behavior ever invented. Keep your cancer to yourself please!!

I agree 100% on the gum-smacking, eating - poor table manners.
Bad manners in general (not saying thank you, holding doors, etc)
Hyper-Cell phone or blackberry inapproriately in public folks.
Poorly behaved children and the parents that create them.
Stupid, lazy, careless politicians.

Basically it all comes down to thoughtlessness and selfishness. People seem to have forgotten that we don't live in self-contained little bubbles. Most of what we do effects those around us and people seem to have forgotten that. :-(
 
People who talk on their cell phones constantly. It drives me crazy. Especially when you are in the grocery store and someone is yakking on their cell phone and you're trying to get to something. I won't tell you want I want to do to them!!

Also, being waited on in a store while the clerk talks on a cell phone..having a PERSONAL conversation.

Ok..I hate cell phones. I use to work in the industry back in the 90's and it was hellish. I have one but it stays off most of the time.
 
I'm pretty easy going so I don't have a lot of pet peeves, but the single thing that really gets under my skin is people who keep their cell phones on during dinner at a restaurant, let everyone hear their obnoxious ring 5 times, then proceed to have a full blown conversation so everyone can hear. There is nothing ruder IMO. My mom is guilty of this but her big habit is to put the caller on speaker so everyone can REALLY hear the whole conversation. She tried to do this while we were out to dinner a few weeks ago and I looked at her and said "What the he&% are you doing??" :)
 
I heard an interview with Win Butler from Arcade Fire, where he was talking about how when the band is out in the audience performing (which they do quite often), people are so busy taking pictures, video recording it, and/or talking on their cell phones to tell someone else about it, that they miss the entire experience.

Of course, cell phones aren't really causing the problem. I figure that these people are just needy (honestly, can't they be alone with themselves for five minutes?) and rude, but the blatant cell phone abuse makes it more obvious to those around them.
 
Many of the ones listed plus:

Using "nauseous" intead of "nauseated". Nauseous means "to cause nausea". If you say "I am nauseous" that means you are making others sick. I must confess that I've never met anyone who makes me nauseated. I suppose I am lucky. ;-)

I should accept language evolution, but I don't wanna.
 
I have 2 pet peeves; one is when driving in the speed lane on a highway and people going slower do not move from the lane. I am sorry but the left lane is a passing lane, not a "I move there lane and too bad if you want to pass...". My other pet peeve is when people do not return their grocery carts at the grocery store. This is so rude! The worst is when people leave their cart in the handicap zone, pleeeease!
But guess what? I live in Europe now and both pet peeves are non-existant here. When you drive in the left lane, you better move your butt out of the way because people will litterally run you over, especially in Germany. Then when you go grocery shopping they have a system where to get a cart, you must insert a coin or euro to release the cart. If you want your coin or euro back, you must return the cart. To this day (I have been here for over 8 months) I have not seen one stranded cart.
So voila! you have it. ;)
 
<Then when you go grocery shopping they have a system where to get a cart, you must insert a coin or euro to release the cart. If you want your coin or euro back, you must return the cart.>

I hate to say it, but that's a GREAT idea.
 
People in the express lane at the grocery store with coupons for every item, some of which then become disputed. I hate all that coupon mess at other lanes, too, especially when I look at what's being bought with them.

I agree about people who don't use their turn signals, but how about the people who seem oblivious to the fact that they are on and on and on .... and they are not turning.

My students, who seem to be totally disconnected with the world around them because they are either on their cell phones or listening to music on their IPods or text messaging. It's as if I am trying to teach a whole generation of students who cannot concentrate on what is immediately in front of them.

I hate people who talk at movies. If I sense, prior to the film starting, that someone like this is going to keep jawing through the whole film, I ask them if they plan to do so, and if they say,"I don't know, maybe," I MOVE.
 
>I have 2 pet peeves; one is when driving in the speed lane on
>a highway and people going slower do not move from the lane. I
>am sorry but the left lane is a passing lane, not a "I move
>there lane and too bad if you want to pass...". My other pet
>peeve is when people do not return their grocery carts at the
>grocery store. This is so rude! The worst is when people leave
>their cart in the handicap zone, pleeeease!

Yup, German Autobahn is GREAT, you pass someone in the left lane already driving 120 to 140 mph and you can bet that some idiot behind you will flash his lights and hunk the horn, thinking you should drive on top of the car to the right of you, because he wants to drive 160 mph. Don't miss that one bit!!

Carola
 
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