Peeves

I hate it when I say hello to someone on the street and they don't say "hi" or "bye" or "kiss my ***" or anything. *** holes.

Or when I open the door for someone and they walk through without even recognizing my existence, much less a simple "thank you". *** holes.

Grrr. :mad

 

>> Manners are definitely lacking now days. LauraR <<

I agree with LauraR, this is very true nowadays regarding a sometimes appalling lacking in manners by some people in public.

Although, I live in a relatively large city and I have to admit that I can tell you from my own personal experience that when you are walking down the street and some stranger goes out of their way to say "Hello!" they usually (like 9 times out of 10, it seems) actually want something other than just a polite 'return hello.' They are almost always trying to get you to sign some petition or they are likely selling something or bumming spare change or something like that. At least that has been my experience living in the city. I usually just smile a little and say "No thank you..." and then just keep briskly walking.

Additionally, there is a relatively new phenomenon in the last few years or so in the city wherein people are walking down the sometimes somewhat narrow city streets and they are looking down at their phones and they're texting while obviously entirely oblivious to any other people either walking towards (or beside) them. This situation always leaves me begging god for a manhole to open up or something... lol. No but seriously it is a miracle that these folks do not get hit by a car or something like that.

But then the funniest "impolite" ones in public of course: there's the dimwits who are on the subway screaming full tilt into their cell phones which is sometimes actually hilarious but is always ridiculous bad manners in my opinion. One time this lady was sitting next to me going on and on (on her cell phone, that is) about her recent proctology exam and the results in full disgusting detail. I mean this woman was talking about this for the entire commute! People were pointing at her and laughing out loud but she just kept going.

Good Luck! -- COMP​

 

When someone shoulder checks me walking by and doesn't apologize. It takes all I have not to turn around and backhand them and send them flying across the store.

 

Remind me not to body check you in the ice rink rolleyes

 

Another pet peeve of mine is when people are riding their bikes on the sidewalk; especially if there is a perfectly usable "bike lane" out on that street.

Several years ago in my neighborhood a guy on a bicycle was riding on the sidewalk and rammed right into this elderly couple who were walking towards the bike.

The old guy was OK, he just was bruised a little... but his wife had a severe concussion from that collision and her hip was broken and had to be replaced.

So anyway, they passed a law in the town that levied a huge fine if people on bicycles used the sidewalk. However the cops never enforce it so the law is useless and ineffective.

Good Luck -- COMP​

 

I can't ice skate so...


I swear some people do this on purpose. Bumping into me is one thing, but putting your shoulder into it brings the violence in me bubbling to the surface.

 

Related pet peeve:

When cyclists stay in the bike lane like they should, but when i get near with my car, they suddenly jump into my lane.

I've considered attaching a cattle catcher to the front of my car for those bafoons.

 

>> Related pet peeve: When cyclists stay in the bike lane like they should, but when i get near with my car, they suddenly jump into my lane. I've considered attaching a cattle catcher to the front of my car for those bafoons. Adrynalyne <<

LOL... That sort of, well almost exact same situation also happened to us when I was a kid and my family was on a beach vacation. In that area the "bike lane" was between the allotted parking spaces and the curb. When we pulled over and opened the back door of the car a college student riding a mountain bike was flying down the street and plowed right into us; practically right into the back seat! Luckily the guy wasn't hurt but I remember dad giving him an earful before he rode off into the sunset, so to speak.

Good Luck -- COMP​

 

About a month ago at the library I held the door open for a twenty something female who was carrying some folders and when she walked through said "Typical male attitude still trying to dominate, I know how a door works and can look after myself!" I thought just a simple thanks would have been fine :mad
Later back out in the street I saw her again as she stumbled on the pavement and dropped several folders. The folders opened and pages were blown up the street by the gusty wind. She called out "Quick grab those pages it is my final Uni Thesis." I walked over and said " It's a good thing that you can look after yourself as I don't want to send you the wrong message" and then walked off LOL LOL LOL

Karma is a real bitch sometimes roflmao roflmao

One of my pet peeves is when I answer the phone I always give my full name eg joffa blah blah speaking and who am I speaking to?
And then they say either who am I speaking to or can I speak to joffa blah blah please? :mad They haven't even listened when I answered the phone as they already have been given this information :mad

My other pet peeve is people who smoke in restaurants when people around them are still eating their food. My sister in law used to do this all the time as she always just orders an entre for her main course and then finishes before everyone else and just lights up at the table while everyone else is still eating :mad
Luckily for the last few years in Australia. smoking is banned in restaurants, so now she has to go outside to smoke with my other brother LOL

 

>> Luckily for the last few years in Australia smoking is banned in restaurants, so now she has to go outside to smoke with my other brother. joffa <<

The city where I lived while I was in college was actually one of the first places in the country to successfully ban cigarettes, cigars, whatever in restaurants and bars. Shortly after that they prohibited tobacco smoking in workplaces and many other public places as in retail stores as well as inside (and outside of, as well) all city state federal government buildings, etc.

The restaurant and bar owners associations and their and employees were against it at first; of course. They were all worried that smoking bans would deter business, but it did not really affect them in a very bad way because many people, especially families with kids went to restaurants even more often than prior to the bans taking place. Many of the restaurant and bar owners also saved a bit of money on 'fire insurance' premiums due to the ban. Also, at first the many of the bars were allowed to have smoking outside; but they eventually decided to stop that practice because too many patrons were getting into drunken brawls all the time outside.

Additionally, there are currently numerous apartment building landlords in that area, particularly those serving section eight elderly and disabled clients; who have decided to entirely ban smoking inside and outside their buildings and even making it an (eventually) evitable offence, for "repeat offenders" meaning either tenants or even possibly "guests" of tenants.

Good Luck! -- COMP​

 

I have never had someone not say thank you when I have held the door open for them. Men and women. Maybe follow them around the store and find a way to trip them? :-D

 

Yeah - send them over Adryn's way, tell them "See that good-lookin' guy over there...yeah, the guy wearing the Samurai Penguin shirt...yeah, him - he said he dares ANYBODY to shoulder check him: ANYBODY! Go ahead - do it!"

:innocent

 

There is a easy counter to this, if you feel nasty and are fast. I suspect you are fast. Slightly exaggerated arm swing, into the, well, let's just say reproductive area? Is quick, subtle to bouncers, but works well. Just keep on walking like you own the place.

 

Have seen his daughter, I am not shoulder checking him. I really hate when jerks do that. The low hand ball check plays in that scenario. Not that I endorse violence.

 

I dislike it when co-workers stab other workers in the back. Mean-spirited criticism is cowardly.

 

Good one Fred roflmao roflmao roflmao

Banana skins maybe
or better still put the bubble solution from your kids bubble blowing kit on the floor.......... man a few years ago that nearly did me in just walking across our family room :-o It is soooo slippery

 

Yeah dirty back stabbers
It seems to happen more in big companies

 

Pet hate, when someone uses the cello tape and doesn’t fold the end back

 

I endorse violence that sheet works! Talking works too if you have time and patience but you can't argue with the instant results violence brings.

Stressed? Got blood pressure? Irrationally peeved at those around you? Go violent! It reduces your stress and gives you a little workout keeping you fit!

So remember, some violence a day keeps the doctor away!

From you.:cool

I'm lacking a creative outlet ATM:-D

My 160GB Ipod classic peeves me off. I've got 160GB of storage space in a cool little portable package, but in fat32 so I can't put files over 4GB on it:mad It can be completely wiped to ntfs but then can't be used as an ipod.

 

>> Stressed? Got blood pressure? Irrationally peeved at those around you? Go violent! It reduces your stress and gives you a little workout keeping you fit! Rikky <<

LOL Rikky... Your post just gave me an idea: I'm thinking of starting a "Psychic Hotline" type of service; (only I'll call it 'Psychic Scream-At-Me Instead' Hotlines) - wherein if you get all pissed off you can call me up at my 888 number and yell and scream all you want to, instead of taking it out on your spouse, kids, significant-smotheres or passersby! I believe this service would allow people to affordably call me instead of some head-shrinker!(lol)

Good Luck! -- COMP​

 

I notice the same thing happen the other day. I was exiting a store a few seconds behind these two older ladies and noticed a man, that was about to enter, who instead held the door open for the two ladies and since I was a few seconds behind them, he held it for me too. The two ladies didn't acknowledge the man in any way, so I decided to say thank you to him just a little bit louder than normal that the ladies would hear me as well, he said you're welcome just as loudly. They did hear us as they glanced back towards me and I hope it made them feel guilty for their poor manners.

I don't understand why it's so hard to say please or thank you. I tend to say it everywhere I go and surprise quite a few amount of people with it, which is actually a complete shame.

 

Here's one that I've run into just a few times. You're driving around the shopping center parking lot for 5-10 minutes; trying to get a space near your store and the place is jam packed.

Finally you see someone pulling out of their parking space and * ZING * at the last second, someone in a compact car zips into the parking spot before you can pull in and park.

I also saw this situation in a movie once with Kathy Bates and she gets all huffy and RAMS the car that stole her space. lol I wouldn't go that far of course, but it is an irritation in any case.

Here is the clip from the movie w/Kathy Bates.​

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0z9FjxP-Y

Good Luck -- COMP​

 

Pet Peeve #69 -

When people ask me:

1. "You know?" (Do I know what?)

2. "You know what I mean?" (Is it different from what you just said?)

3. "You know what I'm talkin' about?" (Obviously not!)

:confused

 

Forgot one:

4. "You know what I'm sayin'?" (Yes - I just heard you, dammit!)

:confused

 

>> When people ask me: "You know?" (Do I know what?) Caliban <<

So true, so true, Caliban... I can't stand that either!

I have a friend who says that exact phrase after practically every single sentence he utters and it drives everyone he knows (including me) out of our minds!

"So I was going down the street, ya know? And then I got to the read light, ya know? And then I went through the red light, ya know," and on and on from there, non-stop.

And nothing can stop him, either. I tried saying to him, You really don't have to keep saying "Ya know!" and he will stop doing it for just a few minutes or so but then go right back to it.

Also, another peeve of mine is people who keep saying the word "like" to continue their individual sentences into one long "run-on" sentence, that's another one... LOL

Good Luck - COMP​

 

Here is one that is cringe-worthy:

When people type or say 'could of'.

"They could of done something differently"

STOP!!!! It is could HAVE.

 

>> Here is one that is cringe-worthy: When people type or say 'could of'. <<

Yes, "could you" is also a very misused phrase when its erroneously used instead of the proper "will you" as in when someone says:

"Could you call me tomorrow?" I am sometimes tempted to reply: No, I cannot because I do not know how to use a phone!

Or when people sometimes say "I could care less!" instead of saying it the correct way as in: "I could NOT care less!"

It's supposed to be "I couldn't care less" because they have no interest... instead of "I could care less" which means there is still some interest.

Good Luck! -- COMP​

 

Sheesh again?
Why am I finding so many threads/posts that are about negative feelings?

Being negative is BAD for you
https://www.google.com/search?site=...17.0....0...1c.1.31.hp..5.15.1708.NQ14nx7hCjI

Why did your husband hold the door for the lady? to get a thank you? or because he felt it was the right thing to do?

Don't have expectations when you do something for someone. or expect the worst hope for the best.

http://www.mazapoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/life-is-too-short-picture-quote.jpg

 

You know what I think you need to get?

A clue.


This is a thread about peeves. Peeves are not things that you like, they are things you dislike.

Don't like it? Don't read it.

Simple, right?

 

I hate when someone tries to tell me what kind of day to have. What if I don't want to have a 'nice' day?

 

worse than being told what kind of day to have, is being told WHEN to have it!
I want my good day later not NOW.

 

good point

allow me to fix the problem by adding you to my ingore list
******
much better!:-D

 

LOL
:cool

 

Nice try kiddo.

 

Hmm, always thought Adry was a male. Now, I am not so sure. :-D

 

HAHA!!! Thanks, Fred - you've made my day! roflmao

 

Well, I go to work and leave the house. If I was female, I wouldn't :-D.

So I guess by process of elimination, I'm a guy :-D

 

Not according to the MajorGeeks site.... :-D

 

I am married. That makes me a heterosexual male or a lesbian female. Either way, I win. :-D

 

Due to the family nature of the site, will leave it at that. :-D

 

Probably a good idea :-D

 

Uh huh. :-D And you do know I was just jerking your chain right?

 

So I am a man then, jerking my chain and all?


:-D

Edit: Excuse me while I go punish myself for that comment.

 

Pervert. :-D