Random pet peeves.

[Severen13]

* The sound of a ringing telephone. That just drives me up the wall.

* People who are too busy yammering away on their cell phones to get out their bus fare, then spend five minutes digging in their pockets for the fare and hold up the rest of the bus!

* People who can't wait ten seconds to wait for the light to change before crossing the street, so they start walking while there are still cars coming and act all shocked when they get honked at!

* People who get all upset with the cashier when they think whatever they are buying is priced too high. Because it's all the cashier's fault, dontcha know.

* People who brag about how much they drink and how high they get every night. That's not something to be proud of.

* Not being able to type a coherent sentence and use proper punctuation and people who use chatspeak "ur so kool i lk justin beiber 2 do u lk miley & nick jonas 2 their so hawt!" in everything they type and their sentences just run on and on and on and don't they teach grammar in schools anymore and they dont know the difference between "your" and "you're" and "to" and "too" and it just drives me nuts I cant stand that but I see it every day and they dont capitalize "I" either I hate that!

[rageaholic]

At the top of my head.

-Slow computers. My laptop is usually pretty fast, but when the internet does go slow and I get that stupid circle thing going round and round while I wait, I get pissed. Even worse is when I try and exit, but it freezes for a minute then that stupid error report message comes up.

-Being held up for anything. Maybe it's just my ADD, but I'm an impatient little bastard. Some red lights are ridiculously long, like over a minute (at least it feels that way). I also hate when I'm all ready to leave at a restaurant, but I haven't paid yet. I'd pay, but they didn't bring the fucking check and when I ask for the check, I get told it will be a minute. Seriously, let me pay you so I can leave and everyone can be happy!

-The sound of my ringing phone. It's loud, nagging, and I feel like it's telling me "PICK UP PICK UP, IT'S IMPORTANT!!!!"

-Road construction.

-Persistant people who don't know when to STFU and GTFO. When I say I'm not interested in something, I am not interested! STOP TRYING TO CHANGE MY MIND!! Just watch the movie without me and LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!!!!

Yeah that last one is a major annoyance and believe it or not, this doesn't even cover a quarter of it.

[phantasy]

[QUOTE=Severen13;712752
* People who get all upset with the cashier when they think whatever they are buying is priced too high. Because it's all the cashier's fault, dontcha know.

* People who brag about how much they drink and how high they get every night. That's not something to be proud of.
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Severen, your post reminded me of my own pet peeves. As did the part about chatspeak, but a little different for me.


-People who would yell at me about the high price of their already steamed shrimp (I'm from Maryland), filet mignon steaks and already made food from the buffet- only a few things of the huge cart of food they have, and then pay with FOODSTAMPS. Then after their transaction was denied for having "insufficient funds" by only a few dollars, they take off the BABY FORMULA.

-Peruvian drivers. They're worse than any types of drivers you know. I will seriously get a video of these drivers taken from the top of a building for you to see. It's obnoxious.

-People who come to work in the call center, go to lunch and leave their ridiciously loud phone on the loudest setting on their computer desk. Then get offended when we take it and put it in vibrate/silent because their friends have called them about 15 times.

-People who call my phone, realize that I haven't picked up and continue to call multiple times. This also goes for customers who call my phone at 4 a.m. and call and leave messages like "This is TERRIBLE customer service. I've fucking called fucking 20 times! I shouldn't be put through this!!!". Bonus Points if said customer is in the same time zone as I am.

-WRITING WITH YOUR FINGER STUCK ON THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON AND WRITING IN RUNON SENTENCES LIKE THIS YOU KNOW IT GETS REALLY ANNOYING ESPECIALLY WHEN WRITING A COMMENT OR SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES YOUR OPINION YOUR OPINION IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOSR OF OTHERS AND THEREFORE YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE IT STICK OUT AND BE DIFFERENT.

-Reality shows/MTV. I hate these shows, they're so fake to me and it makes me kinda sad to know that people seriosuly waste their lives watching something thats SO scripted and fake. All the producers want is money and ratings. I cannot sit through an entire episode of Sweet 16 without losing a big chunk of faith in my generations ability to be a decent human being. American Idol also falls into this category of pet peeve*ducks angry glares*

That's a few of them. I'm an easily irritable person.

[Andara Bledin]

* Not being able to type a coherent sentence and use proper punctuation and people who use chatspeak....

Ooh, yes, that!

And, to go with that, people who can't manage to spell their own character class correctly. "Rouges" get mocked horribly in WoW, and well they should be!

And a new one: People who push the button for the crosswalk more than once. Stop it! Stop mashing the button like it's going to make the light change any faster. Not only are you not getting anywhere by doing that (it's a simple yes/no function and it doesn't get any more "yes" the more you push it) and you wear out the switch faster.

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[SG15Z]

-People who call my phone, realize that I haven't picked up and continue to call multiple times. This also goes for customers who call my phone at 4 a.m. and call and leave messages like "This is TERRIBLE customer service. I've fucking called fucking 20 times! I shouldn't be put through this!!!". Bonus Points if said customer is in the same time zone as I am.

My best friend use to do this. One time he kept calling my phone sooo much (Like over 150 times in the span of like 2 hours) that my phone crashed and all my contacts got erased. Well most of them anyway. So yeah he's never done that again.

[Magpie]

Oh yea, I know this one, have a friend who's Mum always took him to a doctor for a sniffle, so he goes too, and constantly gets extensions on his assignments (from HS through to now, an under-grad completing an honours degree) because he isn't "functioning at full capacity." I can't wait for him to get into the real world (which I'm not sure will exactly be for him, I'm sure it's not going to be in medicine like he first though) and see that not everything can be extended (test results) or have a lot of days of sick, you just don't get paid for all of them. That said, he decided it was going to be too expensive to take his wife to the after hours doctor (really, he could have taken her to ED) because she hurt her knee when playing indoor soccer. They live down a steep driveway and she had classes the next day at 9am. She couldn't put any weight on that knee. So it is ok for him to go to the doctors for a sniffle, but damaged ligaments in the knee can wait until the next afternoon (even though she can't exactly walk anywhere by herself...)

This is more aimed at the people who constantly let the same people mispronouce their name, if they are only ever going to say it once, it's not so much of an issue.

My sister had a housemate who constantly got extensions because of a learning disability, and then used them to go out to parties and what not. According to my sister, because it's liberal arts it would be easy for anyone to get an extension. So this housemate would have reactions along the line of "what do you mean you can't go because you're busy? Get an extension." The girl honestly didn't believe that time management was a real world skill.

Ummm... I've given up on my name. There's another name very similar to it, and a) I just honestly don't know how to correct people and b) I respond to both anyhow. It's embarassing, because a lot of people don't seem to realise that yes, they start out exactly the same, I will respond to any of the three. I do, however, correct for my last name when people just flat-out mispronounce it. (It's a -ski name. It's PHONETIC. a) it's easy, it's spelt exactly how it's pronounced b) there is no e where you're putting an e. There is NO WAY for you to pronounce it like that. Especially since I said it to you over the phone, and you chose to put that extra "e" in your supposedly-phonetic spelling.

[HYHYBT]

I understand that you may need it to get from place A to B, but do you really need to take it into place B? Would you drive the scooter right into your friends house? You obviously have some mobility, otherwise you would have a wheelchair, LEAVE THE SCOOTER AT THE DOOR (even if you are going into a mall, leave the scooter at the entrance of each store you go into)

At a friend's house, once you've gotten in the door you can sit down for a visit. In a store, unless you're reading a book or trying on shoes, you're standing up and walking around the whole time, so it's completely different. Generally the reason people use the scooters is because they cannot stand, walk, or both for more than a short time, and even when they're not going to be in your one store more than a couple of minutes, getting into the scooter at the exit just long enough to get to the next one does not reset that.

And, to go with that, people who can't manage to spell their own character class correctly. "Rouges" get mocked horribly in WoW, and well they should be!

Do eyeliners and lipsticks get mocked too?

And a new one: People who push the button for the crosswalk more than once. Stop it! Stop mashing the button like it's going to make the light change any faster. Not only are you not getting anywhere by doing that (it's a simple yes/no function and it doesn't get any more "yes" the more you push it) and you wear out the switch faster.

The ones who keep pushing it, sure. If they just push it once more, perhaps because it seems to be taking longer than usual to change and they're no longer sure they pushed it at all...

[Andara Bledin]

Do eyeliners and lipsticks get mocked too?

Well, the only time you hear people referring to their class as either of those is almost invariably right after someone's announced their rouge-ness.

The ones who keep pushing it, sure. If they just push it once more, perhaps because it seems to be taking longer than usual to change and they're no longer sure they pushed it at all...

I'd actually meant that to say "once or twice," because I have no problems with someone pushing it a second time. Either because they don't think the person already there pushed it (I see this all the time, and I can't figure out why people don't just push the freaking button while they're standing next to it), or they want to make sure it registered.

But it's the ones that stand there and just jab the button over, and over, and over, and over again that drive me to distraction.

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[protege]

Road construction.

You'd have a meltdown if you ever visited Pennsylvania

Right now, quite a few of the main roads are under some sort of construction. As if that wasn't enough...they've decided to tear up some of the side roads (which would allow traffic to get around the mess) too! What the hell?

[Aut]

People who are selling their cars and park them in empty lots. Next thing you know, the whole lot is full of vehicles for sale. Hmmm, I wonder why the lot that is for sale hasn't been snatched up yet.

[Lace Neil Singer]

At the moment, my pet peeve is people who bitch at me while I'm at work cuz petrol prices keep going up. It is not my fault! Geez!

[shankyknitter]

The phrase 'I didn't do nothing' That means you did something people! Double negative equals a positive! I might be over reacting but dear gods.

Net speak. Namely using net speak in a non-internet capacity. If I read your essay and you wrote 'u r wrong when u ask y' rest assured that I am already thinking of places to hide your lifeless corpse. Also emotes ( ) have no place in essays or official e-mails. I understand the internet is a cold emotionless void of open interpretation but I don't need a constructed smiley telling me how I should feel about the War of 1812.

People who assume that because I am a history major I'm either A. Stupid or B. Taking easy courses because I don't have lab work. Just because I'm not looking at unicellular organisms eating bacteria under a microscope and watching them start to secrete dye that bacteria had been stained with doesn't mean I'm too dumb to understand the process. I understand what's going on just fine thank you, just because I don't care for working with numbers or bacteria does not mean I don't understand you.

Being told I can't do something because I'm a girl. Excuse me sir I can do everything you can (aside from pee standing up without pulling my pants down) in high heels and a low cut top. I've been handed power tools and told to take shit apart in dress pants, heels and a halter top. I sure as hell can lift a 25lb box of paper.

there's more but I'm sleepy.

[RootedPhoenix]

Also, people telling me that I don't have a medical condition because I'm walking, talking and exercising without showing that I'm in pain.

THIS. It just makes me all and when people don't think anything's really going on because it "doesn't look like it", or you're not "acting like you're sick".

Do hey really need an acting performance designed just for them? Because they sure sound like they need one. Too bad I'd need payment first.

Few things annoy me as much as this. I just....can't stand it. Yes, I'm in pain, you don't need to see it for it to be there, This is not your body feeling it, IT'S MINE, YOU MASS OF CRAZY! Go be annoying someplace else.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Another thing... "you're" and "your" are two different words and should be treated as such. Please don't use them willy nilly; "you're" means "you are", and "your" means "as belonging to you". Using them wrong just makes you look like a moron.

Same goes for "there", "they're" and "their". Also, please think before you force a poor, illtreated apostraphe into abuse. "Its" and "it's" show this.

Do not steal the Great Wall of China when you post. Typing out a giant block of text with no paragraphing makes it very difficult to read your post. Full stops, commas and their ilk need to be used, but not overused.

Finally, I make this post realising that everyone makes mistakes, and that not everyone is perfect. I myself am a lazy typist on occasion; I have been known to use some shortened words. People who are not native English speakers find the language very difficult at times, as does anyone who suffers from dyxlexia. However, it is very easy to spot someone who just is not bothering to even try to type out posts correctly. A little effort goes a long way.

[telecom_goddess]

One thing I hate is when people are being ignorant and type in run on sentences that last for days....I mean really -- like it was mentioned, there is punctuation like commas and periods you can use...take advantage