What are your pet peeves? - Page 4

Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 08-10-2006, 01:13 PM

Pet peeves about specific words or phrases, spoken or written, irritate me. Unless someone is being particularly rude, I try not take umbrage at, or be annoyed by, how a person chooses to express himself.

It bothers me when someone doesn't clean up a bit as they cook, as a way to avoid there being a sink cluttered with pots, pans, etc. after the meal. Leave a clean sink for the soon to be dirty dishes, please!

Stray hairs sticking to bathroom surfaces. My roommates hair. My hair. WHO'S HAIR IS THAT?!?!?!? Wipe up after each use! Wipe up after each use!

It angers me when someone doesn't at least stand up to let someone pass them when they're sharing a row of seats.

It bothers me when people don't offer their seat on public transportation to let someone elderly, infirm or pregnant have their seat.

When someone unexpectedly whispers hotly and loudly into my ear. My f**king God, I hate that. HATE it.

Prudence · 08-10-2006, 01:16 PM

Nuclear war, cancer, and people who don't use coasters.

Capt Jack · 08-10-2006, 03:59 PM

I dont have pet peeves, I have peeved pets.

€uroMeinke · 08-10-2006, 08:08 PM

Men who grope me in the subway

"call me" messages

thin paper towels

SzczerbiakManiac · 08-11-2006, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Men who grope me in the subway

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

BarTopDancer · 08-11-2006, 07:05 AM

Servers that die and the 6am calls that come with them

scaeagles · 08-11-2006, 07:19 AM

Prolly not much there I can use, GC. I'm not even from the OC so I don't have occassion to takl about it.

mousepod · 08-11-2006, 08:47 AM

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.

tracilicious · 08-11-2006, 04:31 PM

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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.

AllyOops! · 08-11-2006, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by tracilicious

Other things that bug me:

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

Oh, me too!!

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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!

I know you mean me and my hilarious posts that elicit so many forbidden chortles. I apologize.

Okay, I'm with NA on the pepper dealie. I absolutley LOVE pepper and often have to remove the lid, thus leaving behind..pepper dust.

Okay, a total pet peeve..one I'm totally guilty of, and do my best to correct. Replacing the word "said" with "like" or "all" in conversation. Example? "So, she was all "I'm going to his house tonight" and I was like, "You were supposed to come over to my place"! It's so grating and yet I catch myself doing it. Alot.

08-10-2006, 01:13 PM	#1
Eliza Hodgkins 1812 Sputnik Sweetheart Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Long Beach Posts: 2,685	Petting Peeves Pet peeves about specific words or phrases, spoken or written, irritate me. Unless someone is being particularly rude, I try not take umbrage at, or be annoyed by, how a person chooses to express himself. It bothers me when someone doesn't clean up a bit as they cook, as a way to avoid there being a sink cluttered with pots, pans, etc. after the meal. Leave a clean sink for the soon to be dirty dishes, please! Stray hairs sticking to bathroom surfaces. My roommates hair. My hair. WHO'S HAIR IS THAT?!?!?!? Wipe up after each use! Wipe up after each use! It angers me when someone doesn't at least stand up to let someone pass them when they're sharing a row of seats. It bothers me when people don't offer their seat on public transportation to let someone elderly, infirm or pregnant have their seat. When someone unexpectedly whispers hotly and loudly into my ear. My f**king God, I hate that. HATE it.
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Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	Nuclear war, cancer, and people who don't use coasters. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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Capt Jack check your head Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,174	I dont have pet peeves, I have peeved pets. __________________ a clear conscience is a sure sign of a fuzzy memory
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Men who grope me in the subway "call me" messages thin paper towels __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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BarTopDancer Prepping... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Here, there, everywhere Posts: 11,405	Servers that die and the 6am calls that come with them __________________ Spork is the new MacGyver Postcards From My Edge
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08-11-2006, 07:19 AM	#7
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Prolly not much there I can use, GC. I'm not even from the OC so I don't have occassion to takl about it.
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08-11-2006, 08:47 AM	#8
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	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. __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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