What are your pet peeves?

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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.