Pet Peeves

[JustSkipIt]

This might approach rant status. Consider that your warning.

My wife doesnt like to make phone calls.that's ok.I don't mind it.except that she always wants to know some damn thing that she didn't mention. I have gotten to the point that I make her write down every single question she wants me to ask. It doesnt help. When I recite the answers she says ...and what did they say about xyz? After twelve years I don't think I have ever asked every thing she wants to know.never.

[Ariel]

Wow, Deb!

Zero on the fun meter. My wife is similar. She wants me to make calls for her that have nothing to do with me. We've been working that one out; I used to help her put together an outline, coach her in it, and she would make the call sometimes with me sitting next to her, holding her hand. The good news is that she now makes lots more calls entirely on her own, but it was a long, long road, believe me!

Ariel

[Foomatic]

Four interviews. FOUR. INTERVIEWS. For a part time retail job. Yeesh.

[Finey_McFine]

When certain people in my house drink all the iced tea and don't make more. Right along with that peeve is the not keeping the ice bowl full and refilling the trays...our freakin' ice maker in the freezer is broken and you'd think keeping the trays full was rocket science or something! Grr...

[BlondCavalier]

Too much ice in drinks! You end up with 80% water and 20% drink - if you drink it fast.

[JustSkipIt]

My wife always uses a dish towel and then leaves it in a big crumpled and wet mess on the counter. It will never dry like that!

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Disappearing sponges!

[Finey_McFine]

When I don't get notifications from threads I subscribe to on this board.

[JustSkipIt]

Years ago there was a Nike commercial with Deon Sanders where they were listing all the things he did in a day and one was babysitting his kids. I was like, what? You can't babysit your own kids! You babysit someone else's kids.

Now I have a good friend at work who calls it babysitting her own kids on the weekend when she's home from work and they're home from day care. She called it babysitting when they went on a Disney cruise this year. It's not babysitting if they are your kids!

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Talking during new episodes of Doctor Who, at viewing parties specifically designed to *watch Doctor Who*. People need to shut up so others can listen to the show.

[JustSkipIt]

Self-diagnosis. My wife does it all the time. Yesterday she told someone that she has no cartilage in her knees. As long as we've been together she's never been to a doctor about her knees. Do people really run out of cartilage? She says stuff like that all the time.

[Ariel]

Celebrities that are too important to learn their lines. This guy is a 'star' probably paid as much as me and my entire cast twice over. He's flown out for the show, provided with a hotel, the whole deal. So why can't Mr. Professional learn his lines? Yes, hello, it takes time and effort to learn lines but it is a realistic part of performing in plays! As someone who has to enter house right and cross to house left, I would LOVE a reliable cue so I know when the fuck to come in!

Thanks for listening. Done now.

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[JustSkipIt]

Long hair wrapped around my toothbrush. Gross.

[faolan228]

Give kid sister her allowance this week. "Put it in your wallet," I said. What does she do? Crumples it up and shoves it into her very shallow pockets that come in girl pants nowadays. Later, she comes over all distressed telling me she lost her cash.

UGH! Almost every other week! Use your wallet, small human!

[BeMyDeputy]

The tiny pockets in girl pants.

Seriously, I've been buying men's pants for forever, because I need pockets. As in, cargo pockets.

[Ariel]

People who do not, DO NOT clean up after their dog, especially when it's on my lawn!

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[JustSkipIt]

We got off at 1:00 today which is great because strangely enough - although we get 17 holidays a year (if they aren't on the weekends - if they are on the weekend we get nothing for that day), we don't get a day for Good Friday or Easter Monday. It's up to the head of each agency to give the employees something. Every other person I know who works for an agency got either the entire day or half the day today and all day Monday. Anyway, so our bosses sent out a note about 11:30 saying we could leave at 1:00. That's cool and great and a wonderful gift.

My pet peeve though: The note says "in honor of Good Friday" and also says to have a Great Easter Weekend. Seriously? I work for a government agency. They can't say "holiday weekend"? Tonight is even the start of Passover to. They didn't drop in a Passover reference. As far as I know there were two Jews (me and one other) working for the agency but the other one retired a month ago. So is that it? We Jews, Muslims (yes, there are Muslims), Hindus (yes we have Hindus), Atheists can just ... whatever?

[Ariel]

Tailgaters . . . again. This one guy was right behind me and had to swerve part way off the road to avoid hitting me. Please clueless wonder, just pull back a bit - save the next heart attack for someone else!

[Foomatic]

People who hit "reply all" and flood my inbox at work. Get a clue already, nobody cares that about your congratulations.

[Finey_McFine]

People who stop with their cart in the middle of the entrance to the grocery store. Seriously, get the fuck out of the way before I plow your ass down.

[unique_individual]

When you say excuse me to someone and they look at you like they are superior to you and don't have to move so they don't -_-

[Finey_McFine]

When you post something on Facebook and some friend ass finds the need to write a fucking dissertation (blah, blah, blah) because they were personally offended. If you don't like what I post, unfriend me, otherwise shut the fuck up.

[JustSkipIt]

People (coughmywifecough) who don't put the shower thingy back down after their shower so that when you lean in and turn on the water, you get dowsed with cold water from the shower head.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

People smoking around food. Yuck!!

[Laragh]

People who don't replace the toilet paper when they use up the last of it. I live alone so this normally isn't an issue but I'm at my mother's while I'm recovering from surgery, and it's driving me insane!

[Finey_McFine]

How about people who replace the roll, but put it on (what you consider to be) upside down.

[T.G.I.F.]

I am the only one (of ten people) on this floor who cleans the toilet. The girls toilet, not the boys. And everytime I cleaned it one of the boys does his number two on the girls toilet and THEY DO NOT REMOVE THEIR TRAIL. Or the just pee with the seat down and splatter all over it, AND ALSO THEY DO NOT CLEAN THAT!

[JustSkipIt]

People who offer their unsolicited authoritarian parenting advice. Like I'm on the guy to talk about running training (about which he's an expert) and he wants to tell me that you can't reason with children you have to tell them what to do and threaten them. Totally against our parenting philosophy. Also he said I must be a new parent because I believe you can reason with children.

[Finey_McFine]

People who offer their unsolicited authoritarian parenting advice. Like I'm on the guy to talk about running training (about which he's an expert) and he wants to tell me that you can't reason with children you have to tell them what to do and threaten them. Totally against our parenting philosophy. Also he said I must be a new parent because I believe you can reason with children.

HA! What a douche. SO not true! I feel bad for his kids.

[faolan228]

When the patty is so much larger than the bun and once close to finishing your burger, you find that the meat-to-bread ratio is completely one-sided and wrong.