Pet Peeves

[Laragh]

Omg is it really so hard to wait until everyone has their food to start eating?

[T.G.I.F.]

What is the matter with people who take up the whole sidewalk when they are walking. And it is really annoying when you walk behind one of those people, you just can't pass them. When you want to pass them on the right, the start walking on the right side of the sidewalk. When you want to pass them on the left, they start walking on the left. Just #$#@%#$%#$@$!#@!!!

[EasierSaid]

Bob the Builder speaks English, but his keyboard letters are random symbols. What... the hell.

[gorn]

Don't even get me started on kids programming. Bubbleguppies, they're all underwater, right? I've seen them go fishing in a river, fall off a cliff, get chased by a gorilla, and build a campfire - all underwater! The Fresh Beat Band? Teaches kids communism. They all live in a communal dorm, nobody ever pays for anything, they get smoothies or ice cream or musical instruments whenever they want with no money. And they have no family - when was the last time you saw any of their parents even call to check on them? Dora regularly gets assaulted by a naked yellow homeless man who lives under a bridge; they conveniently call him a "troll." Swiper commits all manner of crime and never suffers any penalty for his actions. Max & Ruby? I swear to GOD I have never seen a child more deserving of a good old fashioned country ass-whuppin' than Max.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Someone asking you to do something for them, then instantly starting to do it themselves. (Especially when this something is looking up directions while they're driving and really should *not* being on their phone!)

[JustSkipIt]

My wife not recording charges. How much time does it take to note that you spent $35 at the car shop or $8 at sonic or whatever?

[JustSkipIt]

I think this one is a repeat: if you drink the iced tea that is made. Make more. If you drink enough that there is less than one glass left, make more.

[Finey_McFine]

Deb: D-I-T-T-O That drives me INSANE!


One of my Pet Peeves...
-A general, all around lack of common sense. I just don't understand WHY people have to be told what to do, repeatedly. They have to be given exact minute details or they can't handle completing a simple fucking task. I'm not saying I don't make mistakes, because I do, but I don't have to told what to do 24-7. If I don't know how to do something, I figure it out. I don't wait to be told to figure it out. And from the person always having to give the directions...it's EXHAUSTING!

[gorn]

I know I've complained about the Bubble Guppies before, but I saw something the other day that raised my blood pressure. There was a building on fire ... UNDER WATER!! There were firemen fish bringing up a ladder. Why a ladder?? Can't you just swim up there? There were bystander fish already swimming around the top of the building! Wtf is this?? No wonder kids are growing up weird today.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Baby talk. It's bad for kids' development, and it's flipping annoying!

[T.G.I.F.]

Found this on Tumblr. Hilarious.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Really obvious mispronunciations. For example, in a recent episode of Doctor Who the Doctor mentioned a planet he had been to several regenerations earlier; okay, so it's a weird word, but couldn't the actor (or a director, or *someone*) have gone and watched a clip from the 70s to learn how it's pronounced? It would not have been that fucking hard. Another instance, the last school I worked at we tried to teach the kids colours in Spanish, and one of my coworkers taught the kids that orange was "narajan" even though the word was always spelled out before her -- it's naranja, the n is very obviously not at the end!! At the same school, a different coworker was teaching the kids about manatees, but kept saying "mantatee" so that all the kids learned it that way. Again, the word was always in front of her, spelled correctly. It's just not that hard to pay attention to how you pronounce things, especially on TV or when teaching!

[JustSkipIt]

When people (usually my brother) tease us about shit we don't have. Like we don't have the latest ipods and shit. We have 2 classics and 2 nanos in the house. 1 nano is a 2nd generation and a hand-me--down from friends and the other 5th gen and hand-me down. He was teasing that we don't have any touches and that we're geezers. Like dude. We don't have any fucking money to buy random new ipods ever few years. These work fine.

[JustSkipIt]

Kindergarten graduation compete with cap and gown. Silly.

[Finey_McFine]

When people throw something in the trash that should have been recycled, like paper, cans, etc. It irritates me.

[JustSkipIt]

Lady whatever sports teams. Today I saw a Lady Panthers sticker. Panthers can be male or female. Do they call the guys' teams Gentleman Panthers?

[Finey_McFine]

1- People who step just inside the doors of the grocery store and come to a screeching halt for no apparent reason.
2- People who block the aisle at the grocery store by parking their cart in the middle and standing on the other side, making it impossible for you to pass on either side.
3- People who drive the wrong way down the lane in parking lots and then try to park in a space that is slanted in the complete opposite direction.
4- People who walk down the middle of the lane in parking lots without a care in the world. *Same people as above*

Can you tell I made a trip to Walmart today?

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Using a new plastic bag for nearly every item. It's okay to put juice and cookies in the same bag!!! Don't people understand how wasteful and unnecessary it is? I usually take reusable bags to the store, but anytime I don't I have to be sure to pack my own bags because I don't need milk in one bag and bread in another, and I do not need a bag for my tiny box of tampons when that's all I'm getting thank-you-very-much.

[JustSkipIt]

Shel, you missed:

#5 - People who back up in the grocery store aisle. Without looking behind them. With a cart.

Jas - In Austin there are no more plastic bags. You have to bring your own or buy one or buy a plastic one (for $1!!!).

[BeneathMyWillowTree]

When I receive text messages on my birthday. I seriously hate that. I appreciate a person thinking of me and sending me a message, but I don't like it. What's wrong with calling me? Or leaving me a voicemail? Or even just sending me a card.

I don't get it. I always call people on their birthday's. If they don't answer I always leave a message. Everyone always says they love the things I say and keep my message saved. Okay, well, if you love it what makes you think I won't?

[JustSkipIt]

One of my wife's little quirks is that she always wants me to respond immediately whenever she speaks.

But...

She also mutters and talks to herself A LOT! (like she admits this). If she says something and I don't hear and I ask what she frequently then snaps "I wasn't talking to you!"

[JustSkipIt]

When the picture associated with a crochet pattern shows the baby more than the blanket. I mean, I love babies. Babies are cute! But I need to see what the blanket looks like to decide if I want to make it.

[Laragh]

When people converse with someone who doesn't speak English as a first language and think imitating their accent/fragmented speech is going to help the communication.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Jas - In Austin there are no more plastic bags. You have to bring your own or buy one or buy a plastic one (for $1!!!).

Deb, that is awesome! Sadly it is not the case where I'm leaving now, and the grocery store in my mum's tiny town has to be the worst I've ever seen; one day we got an avocado, milk, bread, and oreos, and they were put into 3 different bags, which I find beyond ridiculous.

[Objection]

People who think they know what they are talking about when they actually don't.

[JustSkipIt]

When a doctor's office calls the number in the file rather than the number you leave on the voice mail. Asher has a doctor that I needed to speak to the nurse this week. I spoke to her 2x and left 2 messages. On each I said xxx-xxx-xxxx this is my cell phone. Please call it so I can answer. I will answer it any time. So ... she calls and leaves a message on the home phone. That is a major pain because my wife never checks the home phone voice mail. She just doesn't think of it and I don't terribly blame her for that. Hardly anyone ever calls the home phone and the blinking light is pretty hidden. But I didn't get the message from the nurse until after the doctor's office was closed.

That's why I stressed that I wanted her to call my cell phone!

[EasierSaid]

Parents who don't wear bike helmets when their kids do on a bike ride. Who's going to raise the kids when they survive a bike accident and the parents don't?

[Finey_McFine]

People that won't let you off the phone. You tell them you need to go and they flat out ignore you. Not only do they keep talking, but start a new subject. I have a few friends that do it and my sister does it to me constantly! Ironically, these are the same people who call you immediately after you text them. If I was available to talk, I wouldn't have texted you in the first place! Then they get pissy if you don't answer.

[Laragh]

When people pick up your non-diet drinks, as you're drinking them, and proceed to tell you how many spoons of sugar are in them, all the while sipping their diet colas.

Newsflash: If I'm drinking it, I don't really care.

[JustSkipIt]

When my wife tells me that someone recommended something that she thinks is a really good idea.

Except I mentioned it last week and she acted like I said we should set the house on fire.