Pet Peeves

[db]

Lids. Or lack therof.

Plastic containers that have lost their lids. Where are all the lids? ..and why did the yogurt people stop making lids all together? Did they not know that it was my favorite sized container? Feeling peevie. Dag.

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[umgaynow]

I'm grumpy today...my peeve level is set to high.

1. Internet companies that insist on sending me "free trial" cds and toot their own horns with slogans like: We just keep getting better! No. uh-huh. sorry...you know what would be better...how about if you shut the f*ck up and stop sending me sh*t I don't need!

2. being forced to empty the electric shredder just because it's too full for the last little slip of paper. I hate you, electric shredder.

3. the fact that my neighbor feels the need to tack hundreds of "neighborhood memos" to my front door each week. You know what. I'd like to stick a few memos to her door on occasion...but if I made a memo for every little thing that frolicked into my mind I think I would go INSANE!

I think you'll find that if you tack a memo to your neighbor's door but use an axe instead of a tax to fasten it in place, the deluge of notes will turn to a faint trickle if not stop all out...

HEEEEEERREE'SSS EEEEMMMMYYYY!!!

[oneyedchicklet]

Surprises of the good and bad variety. I just don't like them. And the more people know this, the more they insist on surprising me.

I also hate when people say "do you want the good news or bad news first". That is just flippin annoying. Just tell me everything. If there is bad news, do you think the good news is going to make it any better? Unless you're telling me the good news is that I've won the multi million dollar jackpot without even playing.

HUGS
Barb

[Artemis]

There's this menial assistant manager, or something, at the local supermarket, who I just want to smite with lightning bolts, or something. Whenever this guy is infesting the store, and there's a big queue waiting for the next available register in the 12-items-or-less zone, he shoves his way along the narrow aisle behind the check-out people calling out "Next please!" whenever someone's customer moves from the register's right side (deposit shopping) to the left side (pay and pick up bagged shopping). Not when the customer is done, just when they've finished putting down their shopping. Which of course means that the cashier is still busy processing the sale, taking their money, and giving them their change. And in no way able to deal with another customer. And given that the check-outs are pretty cramped already (because they were designed by a moron who didn't realise that customers are occasionally wider than 20cm, and thus standing at the pay-money half of a check-out means you're blocking the deposit-shopping half of the next one over) doubling the number of people standing in front of them just means everyone gets in everyone else's way a lot.

So no, I will not move up to the register when he yells "Next please!", because I can see damn well that the cashier isn't ready to deal with me, and the only reason the damn manager's shoving around back there yelling half-arsed orders is that he wants to make the main queue look shorter by packing people into the service area, regardless of the fact that there's not enough room, and it won't actually get anyone served any quicker. So shut up!

I don't get peeved a great deal, but when I do I like to state the peeve in great and scientific detail, in the hope that some recording angel or something is taking notes, and will dispense divine retribution accordingly.

[Emms]

umgaynow wrote:

I think you'll find that if you tack a memo to your neighbor's door but use an axe instead of a tax to fasten it in place, the deluge of notes will turn to a faint trickle if not stop all out...

HEEEEEERREE'SSS EEEEMMMMYYYY!!!

My employer suggested a baseball bat... but I think an ax adds just the right amount of class. Thanks sweetie.

[Boschi]

When friends casually assume it's OK to reschedule things at the last minute. Particularly when those things are favors to said friends, and particularly when they know my schedule tends to be so busy I'm never free.
So I just planned my day around this little
(now rescheduled) event and now I'm all mucked up. Grrrr.....

Peeve #2: When I am a doormat and go along with their silliness. Grrrr at me.

[Auburn]

When somebody explains something to me, but I don't understand it. So I tell them.... and what do they do? Explain it the exact same way.

[Candleshoe]

When somebody explains something to me, but I don't understand it. So I tell them.... and what do they do? Explain it the exact same way.

But louder, right?

Topic: I hate it when my dogs just stand at the back door and bark. They have been fed and they went wee-wee about ten seconds ago, so what is their problem? I suspect they can tell when next-door's dog is in their garden, but they can't go and play with him 'cos there's an 8 foot fence in the way, and they know it.

[Auburn]

Yes, louder. What's that about?

and they went wee-wee

awww

[umgaynow]

And in a related peeve............

When I'm walking my dog at night and she stands and stares into the woods ominously and won't be moved or deterred from doing so...although it was worse with my old dog as he would stare into the woods and growl...not so with Miss Tess...basset hounds don't growl much...I think it's those big lips

[Candleshoe]

Today my pet peeve is me.

I knew I was busy, but what I really wanted to do was to stay and chat with people over coffee after church this morning. I enjoyed chatting to them, and was so pleased that I had done it. Until I heard myself saying "You should come to lunch today" to a struggling single mum and her two boys under 10.

It was the right thing to do, and I very much enjoyed their company. You couldn't find two better behaved chaps in the world - one even had a very intelligent conversation with me about fossil fuel and renewable energy...

But now I'm even further behind with the stuff I have to prepare for tonight, and a small part of me wishes I had asked them for next week, instead.

[Boschi]

Bass thudding through my walls for extended periods of time.

ETA: Heehee. Fun images of large fish teleporting through walls. Or perhaps a jackhammer made of fish. Or a fish canon. Or... hmmm... maybe I should move over to the Random thoughts thread...

[dynigirl]

My peeve today is the fact that an 8hr shift becomes and 12hr shift because the "powers that be" decide that tomorrow is agood day to take the system down fo reconfigertion when I relly need to leave on time as I have tickets to see Texas 90 miles away!

[kisstheviolets]

Fun images of large fish teleporting through walls. Or perhaps a jackhammer made of fish. Or a fish canon.

fish canon!! hahaha you're twisted, my dear. but it works for you

i have two peeves at the moment.

1. my complete inability to do anything in a timely manner.

2. parents who find their children's most obnoxious behavior to be the cutest thing in the world as if being a complete spoiled ass is something only their five year old can do. (i was at a baby shower yesterday in which a small army of precocious children was present... it stopped my baby bug dead in it's tracks).

[Candleshoe]

I have tickets to see Texas

I'm so jealous.

it stopped my baby bug dead in it's tracks

You have a baby bug? Is that like an adult bug, but younger? I step on bugs sometimes, I hope I haven't stepped on yours...

[dynigirl]

Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:55 pm Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves

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dynigirl wrote:
I have tickets to see Texas


I'm so jealous.


I'll call and sing to you.... but I don't think it will be the same. Especailly as I donlt look liek charline spittairi (not that I can spell it does that mean I can;t hit on her!"!!!!)

[kisstheviolets]

I step on bugs sometimes, I hope I haven't stepped on yours...

maybe it was you who killed the annoyingly relentless ooohing, awwing, and gushing "i want one!" whenever i'm in the vicinity of a tiny bundle of gurgling joy and not the three year old who kept telling his smiling mother "don't talk to me like that... stop being hyper-masculine! you're a marxist!"

kids say the darndest things eh? freaks. all of them.

[umgaynow]

Bass thudding through my walls for extended periods of time.

ETA: Heehee. Fun images of large fish teleporting through walls. Or perhaps a jackhammer made of fish. Or a fish canon. Or... hmmm... maybe I should move over to the Random thoughts thread...

I knew you seemed familiar...you're that guy on the Muppet Show who used to shoot fish out of a cannon...what was the name? Lou something...hmmmmm

[Candleshoe]

don't talk to me like that... stop being hyper-masculine! you're a marxist!"

That is priceless. I only want a child if someone can guarantee that it says things like that - I could train it to be really rude and set it on people I don't like.


Edited beacuse I temporarily forgot how to quote

[oneyedchicklet]

My sister in law's brother's girlfriend is my current Pet Peeve.

This nasty person never has anything nice to say about or to anyone. I went to my sister in law's parents for dinner as I done every holiday I'm around for the last 11 years. This girl has been dating my sister in law's brother for the last 2 years. First of all she got all pissed off when my youngest nephew was born because my brother and sister in law choose me and her brother as godparents. She was expecting it to be her.
When I walked in this afternoon, she asked not where my kids (who are 15 and 12) were but, where my "rugrats" were. My kids are a bit too old to be called that. Lets forget that she's not much older than my daughter. When I said that they had gone away for the weekend with their fathers family, she responded with "well then why should we be stuck with you?" I really can't stand her and we have all agreed that she's the worst one he's brought home yet. She's just a nasty bitch. My brother, who likes everyone also can't stand her.
I was raised to believe and I've taught my kids that if you don't have anything nice to say, then shut the hell up. She's just completely rude.

DONE!!!

HUGS
Barb

[Candleshoe]

Does anyone else find it irritating that, when replying to a PM, the original message isn't under the reply box like it is when you are replying to a thread?

To whom should I make my case for this assistance for those of us with short term memory issues?

[Boschi]

I respectfully second Candleshoes peeve.

- Boschi

[kisstheviolets]

my favorite kb lovlies, candleshoe and boschi, are peeved by the PM formats...

to which i say: just hit quote when you respond, geniuses

[Candleshoe]

Yeah, but I don't want it quoted in the reply, I just want to be able to refer to it while writing without cutting and pasting and overtyping and leaving bits in and looking like a plonker.

I supect it's too late to not look like a plonker, but never mind!

[justin]

I third that peeve

[Auburn]

People shouting from room to room then having to repeat themselves three times because the other person can't hear.

Dude, the time it took you to repeat yourself you could have walked into the other room and told them in a reasonable manner!

[Boschi]

And besides, the quote thing inexplicably never seems to work for me. I know, I know - probably just operator error.

Yeah Candleshoe. Plonker. Totally. Way to late to get out of that label for either of us I fear. But hey, we are also apparently "lovlies". Who knew??

- Boschi

[umgaynow]

People shouting from room to room then having to repeat themselves three times because the other person can't hear.

Dude, the time it took you to repeat yourself you could have walked into the other room and told them in a reasonable manner!

Hmmmmm...do you perchance live with my mother? Cuz I haven't seen you...must be one of those parallel dimension things

[FineyMcFine]

When people say "flush it out" when they mean to say "flesh it out." Or when they should mean to say it, but don't know the correct way.

[Candleshoe]

oh yes, Sally: and when people say "pacific" rather than "specific"