What are your pet peeves in general

[Mikey]

This is a bit of a different style of peeve ....

I hate myself getting old and everything that goes along with it.

I hate having backaches...

I hate blowing a fart and finding out too late it wasn't a fart

[garagesale]

when people say "literally..." followed by a figurative language.

Example: "How did the game go?""The Buckeyes literally killed Youngstown State."
"How many megos were at teh megomeet last lear?" There were literally a million Megos"

"How hot was it at the beach?" "It was literally like standing on the sun"

If they literally killed them, wouldn't they get arrested?
I am pretty sure there weren't a million
You would die before you got close enough to the sun to hang on it.

I love this! I've probably spouted something like this myself in conversation! Good to hear others are paying attention to language.

JamesD

[livnxxxl]

Ohh yeah here is another good one to add to the list.

Someone writing a check at a store. They stand in line until they get up to the cash register not bothering to get a jump start on filling out ANY of the info on the check like the date etc. to whom the check is going to...etc... Everything is like a surprise to them when the get ready to pay. Who do I make the check out to? What is today's date? (Some times I feel like saying "Hell - make it out to me...(put in my name) I will cash it providing that it is actually any good to begin with)". Besides who even writes check at a store any more? I thought those days were long gone. ????

OR another example....someone paying for a pack of gum on a debit or credit card. Geez Louise...are you kidding me? One does not even have a couple of dollars cash in their wallet to pay for something that small?

[IRON37]

LOL I just re-read my peeves..I sound like one of those grouchy old men who sit out on their porch on a lawn chair and scream at kids to get off my lawn. All i need now is a neighborhood watch sign and a birdhouse...

[livnxxxl]

I hate blowing a fart and finding out too late it wasn't a fart

[garagesale]

I hate when my students miss class, then ask me the next day, "Did we do anything?"

I always reply, "No, we all just talked about how you were always missing class."

I also hate it when my students come into class late, walk right in front of me while I'm lecturing (as if I wasn't there), and then loudly sit down and start making noises like zipping their backpacks and pulling out books, etc.

I hate it when students start packing up their stuff 10-15 minutes before class is over.

I really hate it when they text message during class. This goes for the world in general at movies and theatre productions... it's like this light just shoots up out of their laps as if some green or blue Ark of the Covenant was just opened.... LITERALLY.



JamesD

[HardyGirl]

Yeah, I hate cell phones too. My school makes me carry one (it's not mine) but when I get off work, off it goes. It's hysterical when I'm on a plane, and people wait til the stewardess warns them AGAIN to turn it off for take-off. As soon as the plane comes to a stop, they all come on again and the people start chatting away.

Also...I would like to take the soccer mom, or whoever it was, who coined the term "play date" and give them a good butt-kicking! I get that stuff isn't like it is when we were kids and you can't just hang out outside. But there's no reason to be so pretentious about it. And the other reason for this term; over-scheduled kids, who parents actually have to pencil in a time for them to play, is a HUGE pet peeve of mine.

[livnxxxl]

Is sit just me? OR..... what is up with the shopping carts being stuck together like they are trying to reproduce or something in the store? Lately, every time I have proceeded to run into a store and grab a cart the suckers are like welded together or something. Often I have found myself struggling to pull two measly carts apart in the store just so I can go shopping and give them my money. OR am I just getting weaker in my OLD age?

[saildog]

OR another example....someone paying for a pack of gum on a debit or credit card. Geez Louise...are you kidding me? One does not even have a couple of dollars cash in their wallet to pay for something that small?

Those Visa Debit Card commercials would have one believe whipping out cash is what derails everything, not using a debit card. What a croc those commercials are because we all know how it really works.

[livnxxxl]

And while I am it....DON'T even get me started on that spiderrogue guy that hangs out around here. LOL!!!

[spiderrogue]

people who dont actually stop at a stop sign and just go through them...stupid people in a small town..lol...

[SUP-Ronin]

People who bother me at work, when I'm trying to look up personal stuff on the internet.

[IRON37]

That cell phone thing just marvels the hell out of me.

On the rare occasion I go to a mall and walk through a crowd of hundreds of people, I can't help but be amazed at how weird everything has become. Watching people run over each other and grimace at the shear annoyance of some twit being in their way is truly amazing. Everyone is in contact with someone, but not connected to their surroundings, as if the real world was "out there" and the here and now is some kind of theoretical notion yet to be proven.

You bring up an interesting point, *steps onto soap box* everyone is so worried about money these days and stocks, jobs etc. But think back in the early 1900's or during the great depression when they had it far worse than us. They didnt have cell phones, videogames, dvd's or computers. This lack of technology made families and communities closer imo. Since they had to rely on one another more instead of having technology to do all the work. Technology is a double edged sword. Its helped make the world better in some ways, but its changed the way kids are brought up too. Most hardly ever play outside anymore when they have a nice new xbox 360 waiting inside. And few need to bother to go ride bikes with friends when they could text each other or instant message. Makes me kindof sad to think about what some are missing out on.

[livnxxxl]

People who bother me at work, when I'm trying to look up personal stuff on the internet.

That is great. I love it! The nerve of those people (wanting you to actually do work) any way. I tell ya!

[spiderrogue]

oh oh..i got another one..when you go to a movie and no matter where you sit, someone always sits in front of you.....or behind you and then they usually talk during the whole thing....happens to us a lot...like when we went to observe and report last week...like 8 people in the whole theater and what do you know..some teenage boys come and sit right in front of us....its not like they had to, either...there were plenty of seats....geesshhhh....