What are your pet peeves?

[katiesue]

The petition people drive me nuts too.

[Gemini Cricket]

-Drinking straws that are too weak to break out of their wrapping or too weak to break through a drink lid. That bugs me.

-Running out of strawberries while eating strawberry shortcake. All you're left with is a lot of red colored cake and whipped cream.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

In Massachusetts, it's not illegal to fool someone into signing the wrong petition. That's how the anti-marriage equality folk did it here. They told people they were signing petitions to legalize wine sales in grocery stores etc when they were actually signing ban gay marraige petitions...

and these folk dont read the actual petitions they're signing?
I always stop and talk to the petition folks...many times to see exactly what bill-of-goods they're selling and if its being done on the up and up.
when you start hearing "oh thats just the one to blah blah blah" and they try to rush you through it...yeah, I read every word. I've caught more than one that either has no idea what it is youre being asked to sign (most cases) or has outright lied/been so far wrong as to the intent as to be a lie.

so ok, guess that counts as a peeve of mine.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

and these folk dont read the actual petitions they're signing?

They showed people the real petition (to allow stores to sell wine) and then had them sign a second petition (the anti-marriage equality one). Often they would say, 'Oh this one's full, here sign this one where there's room.' And, yes, people were dumb not to look at the 2nd one.

I gave a lecture to one of Ted Kennedy's interns once. She was having people sign up for his email list or something outside of a Stop N Shop. I told her I didn't sign those in light of the fraudulent petitions going around. "But it's for Senator Kennedy." She told me. I responded, "Well, tell Ted from me that he should look into it. Once he does, then I'll sign up for his email updates."
She looked at me kind of stunned. (She was like 20.)

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Men who grope me in the subway

So it's okay if men grops you in other locales?

[Matterhorn Fan]

"Try and." You're not going to "try AND do" something--that doesn't make sense. I stopped reading an entire website because of one writer's tendency to use this phrase in every other sentence.

The "security" guards at Target who stand around doing nothing while they could be watching people pay and then ask to see your receipt before you leave. It's already in my wallet, in my bag, next to about a dozen other Target receipts, and you could've just watched me stand around forever at the checkout and not have had to ask. If I wanted to mess with things like that, I would get myself a Costco membership.

To everyone who hates giving out zip codes and such at stores--would you mind giving a Florida zipcode at Trader Joes? Maybe they'd open a store here?

[Not Afraid]

At dinner last night, I remembered another pet peve of mine. Pepper shakers that dispense very little pepper so that you have to either a) shake the damn thing over and over and over, oe b) take the top off to actually get pepper out of the thing.

[Capt Jack]

anymore I go straight to B. usually makes quite the mess but eh...at least I can get the proportions right.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Not catching a spelling error until after the edit window has passed...

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Ooooh, GC reminded me of one that is particularly Californian.

I hate hate hate being accosted to sign my name to a stupid petition (or multiple petitions) for a ballot measure every time I walk out of my friggin Safeway. Some jerk shoves a clipboard in my face with "Help stop the killing of cute puppies," or something equally facile. Once I realized that my signature was worth $1 to them, my newest tactic is to offer my signature on any petition for .50 each. Only seems fair. Nobody has taken me up on my generous offer. Yet.

Ugh! It's the library here. These people have no decency either. You can be walking in/out with five bags of books a three year old dashing all over the place and a squirmy baby and they still will give you guilt about puppies dieing. Gimme a freakin break, people! I often want to start a petition forcing them to stop petitioning outside my library.

Other things that bug me:

Cute kids selling stuff. That's just mean. I don't want to support some greedy company giving ten percent of the profit to the school whose methods I disagree with. That means I have to be mean to a kid!

The phrase "pet peeve." It irritates me so.

These words: libary, jagwire, antanna, bage, and gyro (how the heck do you say that?! I've heard hero, euro, and a weird combination of the two - something like yero.)

People who call vegetables "rabbit food."

People who are so narrow minded that they can't even fathom why someone has an opposite opinion from theirs.

The word "natch." Lame.

People coming over unannounced.

When people post extremely funny things on LoT while I'm trying to put the baby to sleep. Don't you guys think?! Laughter wakes up babies. Hello!

When people say, "hello" and "duh" synonymously, or at all.

People who fish for pity and/or ego reinforcement.