Pet Peeves Thread

[Iarei]

Put all your pet peeves here!

Like for me. When there is a perforated line on a document --such as a check-- but there is a fold right above said perforated line, so you can't hardly fold the perforation to tear it off. So you struggle with the thing, and then it rips, and then you can't scan the damn check right because of the tear, or it just looks godawful ugly.

GAHHHHHHH

How about you guys?

[Yyan]

#1. Envelopes

Because the damn glue stick either always squirts a GLOB of slime on the envelope and invariably sticks the documents to the inside... or the stick dries out just when you need it.

And if you try to lick it closed, not only does the taste of the hard glue make you gag, but you get the stink-eye from the rabid germ-aphobics that always happen to be standing nearby to see you do it.

AND if you use a damp cloth or paper towel to wet it and appease said nutbags, two words for you: paper cuts. Every... single... time...


#2. Recorded telephone messages

Granted, I don't feel nearly as bad hanging up on them as I do when a live telemarketer calls me, but at the same time, something about this lazy, impersonal method of sales-pitching gets my blood boiling. The worst are the ones that come in Spanish. No, I don't speak Spanish, I took German in high school, danke!

And I always get at least 10 of those recorded calls in the hour before I leave the office.

[Anja]

Silly things. You know, that make you shake your fist and say "Now, that's just silly".

[Niabi]

I feel the need to contribute to this thread but at the same time I feel that by doing so people will realize just how crazy I really am.

I'm going to agree with Xeis about the envelope thing, I hate when people at the post office give me dirty looks for licking the envelope before mailing off my rent check. It has glue already, it is meant to be licked.

#2. I'm sure I have shared with everyone how I can't stand people who can't chat in real words. R, u, y and various combinations of letters that usually have no vowels are not words. They should not replace real words and people who try to do so should be strangled.

#3. Shoes. There is nothing worse then very uncomfortable shoes. Unfortunately some of the more attractive shoes are the most uncomfortable ones and then you are left with either going barefooted, which usually isn't an option or to wear less attractive shoes that may not fit the occasion for which you are trying to wear the nice shoes or you are stuck in shoes that killing your feet.

#4. Clothes that is designed for women. Trying to find clothes that fit just right is ridiculous. If you find pants that fit you in the waist, they are always too long in the leg and you either have to hem them up or roll up the legs so the don't drag on the ground. Then there are shirts, shirts are always made to fit women with really tiny waists who have massive boobs. My problem is that I can find clothes that may fit my waist but the pants are way too long and there is so much extra fabric that sags in the front of the top that I end up looking completely flat-chested. So I end up having to shop in the kids section for clothing and risk being told by someone that their daughter has the same outfit.

#5 Mothers that insist music made for the purpose of entertaining children must be played at all times when children are present. I don't know what is wrong with anyone who can stand listening to Elmo Sings Children Songs for an entire day but I know that it has to be something. I find it incredibly hard trying to resist going into a state of rage while listening to such things and trying to hold a conversation with some other kid's mother about how often her little boy poops his pants.

#6 Similar to number 5, I can't stand the voice of most cartoon characters. There is something about listening to the high-pitched voices of cartoon characters that drives me crazy. Lucky for me I don't watch much television and other then when I am visiting friends who feel they need to have them on for their kids to watch, I don't have to listen to them. Chances are I would probably rip my hair out if I had to listen to cartoons all day.

I know there is a lot more I can add to this list but I'll keep it short for now.

[Pagusel]

My pet peeve sort of relates to the writing with abbreviations thing, but gets a little more specific. I hate when a person's texting (or chatting) style does not jive with my perception of them. I'm not even talking about abbreviations, but even just misspellings and lack of punctuation. If I know someone to be really bright and articulate, and then they text me all "so your gonna be there later huh thats cool " then I can never look at them the same again. If I don't already have the impression that the person is very smart, then it doesn't bother me. I'm the girl whose texts have full capitalization and punctuation.

Oh, and the state of cable news is a pretty big pet peeve of mine, if you can call it that. The idea that we have to distill concepts into baby talk (e.g. "flip-flop" re: John Kerry) in order for the public to grasp what is being talked about, and that anchors have to act as playful or snotty as sorority girls in order to deliver the news (re: pregnant man "Oh my GOD, TMI, you guys!" I'm fucking serious, they said that). The state of it upsets me a great deal, but because it specifically makes me want to throw things when it comes on, I think it also qualifies as a pet peeve. I want Walter Cronkite back. I don't get the BBC, so I watch PBS's The News Hour, run by individuals who have an actual sense of journalistic responsibility.

And Rachael Ray. You're not fooling anybody, Mister Jack-Nicholson-as-The-Joker. We're on to your disguise. And you're getting fat, bitch.

[Niabi]

I thought of some more.

I get really irritated when the cashiers at the grocery store don't know the names of the produce they are selling. Then they just stand there like idiots for a minute before they decide to turn and look at you and ask you what it is that you are buying. At which point I want I to yell at them about how they could spend all day selling produce and not even know how to properly identify them. I might let the super white teenage kids slide when they have no clue what bok choy is but when somebody has that look that they have been working there for years and yet they don't know what radishes are, then they get a dirty look for me.

I have some unnatural hatred for bars of soap. Every time I go to someones house and they have a bar of soap sitting next to their bathroom sink, I find myself staring at the thing when I go to wash my hands. I don't want to touch it because they always seem to have some sort of short little hairs stuck to them that look to either be facial or pubic hair, of which I don't want rubbing on and sticking to my hands but at the same time I really want to wash my hands. To avoid this, I have taken to carrying around hand sanitizer in my purse along with diaper wipes so I don't have to get mysterious hairs, lint, and whatever gross stuff sticks to bar soap on my hands.

[Frug]

Irregardless.

[Yyan]

GGGGAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

[Frug]

Heheh

[Kerrin]

Does anyone else find it crazy irritating when you go round someones house and the toilet paper is on the wrong way round. It'll have the dangly bit close to the wall, and that is WRONG. The loose bit of loo roll must always be closer to the middle bit of the room. Always.

Plug sockets that are turned on when there's nothing in them. Okay, so that's a bit closer to OCD, but it's still a pet peeve.



And i like the childrens songs that are incessantly played around children. I have never managed to grow up.

[Niabi]

I too find those things annoying but at least with the toilet paper that is turned the wrong way I have found that cats and little children find it harder to unroll that way.

[Gia Rilan]

When people say "random" out of context, because they think it describes something well. Saying that you are cooking something random is wrong. In response to "How was your weekend?" this is also just wrong: "I went to this random house with some random guy and there was this random party where we all sat around drinking randomly."

[Iarei]

filling up a bowl too full of a liquid, be it cereal or soup or whatever, especially when the liquid is hot and spills on you when you try to move it. Blech.

[Jasmina Apsara]

When people say "like oil and vinegar," but they actually mean "like oil and water." If you're saying that things don't mix, it's like oil and water, because oil floats to the surface. Oil and vinegar actually go together quite nicely and make a tasty salad dressing.

It also annoys me when people change things that start with C to start with K to match the other word in a double name, just to be cutesy. Examples: Kettle Korn. Kiddie Kobbler. Kountry Kitchen. Kill me now.

[Frug]

Does anyone else find it crazy irritating when you go round someones house and the toilet paper is on the wrong way round. It'll have the dangly bit close to the wall, and that is WRONG. The loose bit of loo roll must always be closer to the middle bit of the room. Always.

I once heard a radio guy ask this question of his callers: toilet paper - over or under? It made me laugh, especially because pretty much everyone knows what you're talking about.

Kill me now.

*stabs*