Pet Peeves

debodun

debodun

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Share some of the things that make you go ballistic.

A few of mine - people that park diagonally across 2 or 3 parking spaces, a person that insists that you order certain items or orders for you in a restaurant, people that leave their dogs out all day to bark while they are gone, contractors that start a job and never come back to finish, people that walk into a grocery or department then stand there in a catatonic trance blocking the door, the display items in a grocery store that stick out partially blocking the aisles, people that make promises with no intention of ever keeping them. My list is endless, but this is to get things started.
 

People who text and drive or talk on the cell while weaving in and out of the traffic lanes.
People who stick flyers in your front door by the screen, punching holes in it repeatedly.
People who stop two car lengths from the crosswalk just because they're busy texting, then when the light changes they make it through and you don't.
Door to door salesmen.
People who stick flyers under you windshield wipers when you're away from your car in a store.
People who don't flush the bowl in public restrooms.
 
People who abuse the handicapped parking privilege!

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People who believe everything they read in the newspapers or hear on the 'news'.... like its being delivered by Moses coming down from the mountain...Not realizing that they tell us what they WANT us to believe.:eek:
 
Loud music drives me crazy. I don't like music anyway, and hate being assailed with it when outside or in shops!
 
People in a store that look like they just got out of bed. It makes me wild to see people in the supermarket or department store wearing what looks like pajamas, slippers or flip-flops, hair in curlers or uncombed. I am not a fashion plate, but, sheesh, at least get dressed before going out in public.
 
debodun said:
People in a store that look like they just got out of bed. It makes me wild to see people in the supermarket or department store wearing what looks like pajamas, slippers or flip-flops, hair in curlers or uncombed. I am not a fashion plate, but, sheesh, at least get dressed before going out in public.
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Agreed!
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People who are speaking on mobile while being served, usually
at the supermarket checkout!

In London, office workers no longer seem to use briefcases.
The underground trains are full of people wearing backpacks
taking up double the space, or pulling roll-along cases with
their Lap-Tops and sandwiches in them.
People that use supermarket trolleys as battering rams as
they rush round the store.
Speeding drivers in the city, they don't get very far after
passing at great speed.

Mike.
 
All of the above go for me too! Auto shops that try to take advantage of women, think we're dumb & gullible. Like the one I thought I could trust which wanted to soak me $425 for a new radiator when a new pair of hose clamps solved problem for $45.
 
Geezerette said:
All of the above go for me too! Auto shops that try to take advantage of women, think we're dumb & gullible. Like the one I thought I could trust which wanted to soak me $425 for a new radiator when a new pair of hose clamps solved problem for $45.
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...well they got the 4 and the 5 right!:)
 
People who won't just laugh at a joke, but have to remind everybody that they've heard it before

and that it's an "oldie". Must make them feel superior. Hey ! Some people may have heard it for the first time. DUH
 
People that have to complain about every item of food at a dinner party or buffet (e.g. "I can't have that because I have gluten intolerance." or "Who brought the stinky fish?"). If they don't like it or have an allergy, just don't take any. Why announce their problems with food in public?
 
Geezerette said:
All of the above go for me too! Auto shops that try to take advantage of women, think we're dumb & gullible. Like the one I thought I could trust which wanted to soak me $425 for a new radiator when a new pair of hose clamps solved problem for $45.
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Yes. I had a dead battery in my car a while back. I needed someone to help me take the old one out and put in the new one!
Well, insurance guy assured me that I didn't know for sure that it was the battery! ...so he wanted to tow me to a repair garage, so they could tell me what was really wrong. I told him, thanks, but no thanks. Jerk!

I finally got a neighbor to run for the battery for me. Too simple a fix for the insurance guy. ..:D


My pet peeve is anything to do with animal abuse in any form.
 
To me, an emergency room is for treating life-threatening conditions. Why use up valuable medical professionals time with ingrown nails and kid's scraped knees when there are patients with urgent needs? I worked with a woman (Asian) years back that took her daughter to the hospital because she had a pimple! When she told me, I asked her why she did that. Her reply was that it was "an imperfection". When I was a kid and scraped my knee, I go right to mom who sprayed Bactine and put a bandaid on it and sent be back outside to play.
 
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People who run their dogs alongside their bicycles on 90 degree days, and the poor animal's tongue is on the ground. :mad:
 
debodun said:
Share some of the things that make you go ballistic.

A few of mine - people that park diagonally across 2 or 3 parking spaces, a person that insists that you order certain items or orders for you in a restaurant, people that leave their dogs out all day to bark while they are gone, contractors that start a job and never come back to finish, people that walk into a grocery or department then stand there in a catatonic trance blocking the door, the display items in a grocery store that stick out partially blocking the aisles, people that make promises with no intention of ever keeping them. My list is endless, but this is to get things started.
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That's one of my big ones too. As well as at night. Also, people who don't get their cats spayed or neutered then let them roam around all night getting in fights underneath my window.

Got some people near me like that.
 

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