Pet peeves? Lets hear yours.

Becky1951

Becky1951

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Fortunately I haven't had to deal with this one since doing online grocery shopping but it's one of the most irritating.

You start up an isle that you need something from and encounter 2 people blocking the isle with their carts just chatting away.

OK, I usually pretend to look at whatever is on shelf, giving them a minute but they don't move.

They see me but don't move. I then roll my cart closer, they still don't move. I say excuse me and they slowly move giving me the evil eye as if I did something wrong.

Sometimes I want to step back several feet and run right at them crashing through. 🤣
 

yep that gets on my nerves as well.. what's the matter with people that they think they can just block the aisle , with themselves, their trolleys and very often babies in the prams.. :rolleyes:...another thing on the subject of supermarkets is, when you're the only one standing at the fridges (say cheese or ham.. ).. and someone comes and stretches right across in front of you to get what they want...
 
another supermarket peeve... re the carts in parking lot. i will admit that i don't always take cart to the little corrals. if it's not close or it's really cold or if just not up to it... the cart will be left somewhere else. BUT BUT NEVER where it makes a space unusable. if a cart is left on the lines where the fronts & sides of car meet, the space is still totally open for use.

billy1951... your peeve makes me wonder where people got their driver's licenses?? you drive on the right side of the road... you should move you're cart along the right side of the aisle.
 

Pet peeves? #1. Jimmie Walker's & Joe Nemeth's TV Advantage Medicare supplement ads. I'd like to "dy-no-might" the both of them.
#2. People, at the grocery checkout, trying to use expired coupons, and then paying by check, drawn on an out-of-state bank.
#3. Log ons that won't let you log on, even though you're using the same info that you've logged on a million times before.
 
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wcwbf said:
another supermarket peeve... re the carts in parking lot. i will admit that i don't always take cart to the little corrals. if it's not close or it's really cold or if just not up to it... the cart will be left somewhere else. BUT BUT NEVER where it makes a space unusable. if a cart is left on the lines where the fronts & sides of car meet, the space is still totally open for use.

billy1951... your peeve makes me wonder where people got their driver's licenses?? you drive on the right side of the road... you should move you're cart along the right side of the aisle.
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that's why our supermarkets make us pay for a cart, and get our money back when we return it...
 
Becky1951 said:
Fortunately I haven't had to deal with this one since doing online grocery shopping but it's one of the most irritating.

You start up an isle that you need something from and encounter 2 people blocking the isle with their carts just chatting away.

OK, I usually pretend to look at whatever is on shelf, giving them a minute but they don't move.

They see me but don't move. I then roll my cart closer, they still don't move. I say excuse me and they slowly move giving me the evil eye as if I did something wrong.

Sometimes I want to step back several feet and run right at them crashing through. 🤣
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I absolutely loathe this.
 
Lewkat said:
People who are not disabled parking in disabled parking spaces. Galls me no end.
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We had a campaign about that very point. A charity that champions the disabled, I just can't recall their name, put it down to old age. that charity showed a parking bay with a wheelchair painted within it. The caption read: "Is this the only time that you put yourself in our place?"

Have you ever been "caught short?" You know what I mean, desperately needing, what we Brits describe as, the loo! The urgency all but overtakes you, ripping your clothing off. Not yet! You inwardly scream at your body, finally you make it, sitting there, feeling so smug, it didn't end up where it shouldn't. Bliss!

Relieved and stress free at being so clever at getting to the toilet quick enough to avoid pooping yourself, you reach for the toilet tissue and find that some moron has left the toilet roll with just one single piece of toilet tissue on it! Morons was a word invented for, well morons who do that.
 
People who own so much "stuff" that they cant park evn one of their vehicles in a 2 or 3 car garage. They seem to be the ones who complain the most about not having enough money for the important necessities in life. I just tell them to stop buying stuff
 
People who choose to walk down the center of the street instead of using the sidewalk.

In my neighborhood, it always seems to be well-dressed women with headphones and large dogs on leashes that insist on blocking the street when they are out for their morning stroll.

They are probably the same people that Becky sees at the grocery store.
 
Becky1951 said:
Fortunately I haven't had to deal with this one since doing online grocery shopping but it's one of the most irritating.

You start up an isle that you need something from and encounter 2 people blocking the isle with their carts just chatting away.

OK, I usually pretend to look at whatever is on shelf, giving them a minute but they don't move.

They see me but don't move. I then roll my cart closer, they still don't move. I say excuse me and they slowly move giving me the evil eye as if I did something wrong.

Sometimes I want to step back several feet and run right at them crashing through. 🤣
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Just experienced this again today. My husband rarely comes grocery shopping (thank goodness) but I try to politely make him stay behind me so the aisle doesn’t get blocked. If I have to, I’ll make up something he should search for.
 
my pet peeve is the audio on tv programs...where the announcer or perhaps actors constantly "whisper" their
lines.....gawd that irks me...I have only one good ear due
to birth defect, and of course getting older it is harder
to hear...but damn these people that create the shows where
actors mostly whisper.....grrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:
 
The phone rings when just sitting down to eat dinner. (I quit answering. That's what voice mail is for.)

Again with the phone: You're watching a two hour movie and the phone rings at the last 5 minutes of the movie. (voice mail!)

Grocery shopping for a specific item on sale and told, "oh, we didn't get the delivery. Check back tomorrow." Right. I have nothing else to do with my time but run back and forth to the grocery store.

At a self service gas pump, instead of a receipt I get a flashing message, "see store clerk for receipt". Have to go into store and stand in line just to get a receipt.

There's lots more, but I don't want to sound petty! :rolleyes:
 
Homeschoolie said:
People who own so much "stuff" that they cant park evn one of their vehicles in a 2 or 3 car garage. They seem to be the ones who complain the most about not having enough money for the important necessities in life. I just tell them to stop buying stuff
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We live on a street where all the houses have three car garages, but even though all of these families consist of only one or two adults, those garages are packed solid with objects of such great value they can stored chaotically for years and never used.

They park in the driveway, giving the whole neighborhood a sort of tacky appearance and come garbage collection day they always to have three bins to our one. How can our economy possibly need stimulation when so many people seem to spend their whole lives rotating goods from store to home to garage to storage unit to thrift store to home.
 
hawkdon said:
my pet peeve is the audio on tv programs...where the announcer or perhaps actors constantly "whisper" their
lines.....gawd that irks me...I have only one good ear due
to birth defect, and of course getting older it is harder
to hear...but damn these people that create the shows where
actors mostly whisper.....grrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:
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I've used closed captioning when it's like that.
 
Just now ....... TV reporters overstating/exaggerating the weather condition/report.

A reporter just scraped up some ? off the sidewalk, then said "look how deep this is, I've never seen ice this deep" OF coursre it's deep .......... you just scraped up a pile of it ........ <shaking my head>

Also, just heard that most area schools will be closed the day after the superbowl ?!?!? I guess the teachers want the day off ?

The Bengals are in it BTW ......... so the whole area is just a buzz with Bengals fever .
 

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