What really locks your jaws--No Politics or Personalities, Please

[usmc1]

Vent, Fume, spew, spout, sound-off, air a peeve, gripe a gripe.

But, try to limit it to two things per post. No fair commenting on someone else's gripes, no matter how inane, insane or irrational. No politics, personality, tax, public policy, or such stuff.

What just pisses you off way beyond the importance of the deed its self. You know, angry way beyond the magnitude of the thing that makes you angry.

Here's my first two:

Idiots on the highway who use their blinker signal as though it is what causes the turn to happen. You know, you've been behind them, bingo they make a turn or lane change without signaling, then as they're into that action, just as they make the move, the damned blinker comes on.

I swear someday I'll follow one of them home and throw a brick bat through their picture window. Whew-Whee!, now I feel better, and of course I'd never do that. Never!

Going into the store, say, Office Depot, and every clerk in the place asks, "How are you today, how can I help you. I'm not talking about greeters, I'm talking about salespeople roaming from aisle to aisle, accosting innocent shoppers asking, "How are you today, how may I help you". Not once, but, sequentially one-after-the-other, until you want to yell, "Once was sufficient, leave me alone to shop and think and price and compare, if I need your help, I'll hunt you down in the break room."

Oh man, I'm going to sleep well tonight, join in, have some fun, air your peeves and get them off your chest.

It'll be interesting to see what locks the jaws of others!

[nacktman]

Willful stupidity and ignorance top the peeve list.
Followed closely by Bullies.

[nudeM]

We have a new restaurant that opened recently and I decided to go with a couple of friends from work. It's a counter order, you sit, they serve type restaurant. We made our orders and sat as we were supposed to and the waitress delivered our food in the proper amount of time and everything tasted great, BUT..........
..........with a new restaurant, they want to make a nice impression, so after we received our food, the constant "How is your meal"?, "Can I get you anything", etc. With at least seven employees roaming the floor, we heard from each one at least two times. We felt like putting up a sign at our table stating "Leave us alone".

I went back about two months later and the same thing occurs. Very friendly, but please, leave the customers alone and let them enjoy their meal. If we need service, we will ask.

Just one of many pet peeves.:smoking:

[naturistoftheyear]

Forms of extreme selfishness, especially in traffic situations:

i.e. cutting in line, not letting pedestrians cross the street, entering an elevator before letting those inside come out, etc.

[BinCo]

People who believe that their religion is so great that it is their "duty" to convert everyone else and in the course of doing that they destroy an entire culture. Yet still think they did them some good. Where is your invitation to destroy a culture in the name of your religion.:mad:

People who drive the speed limit in the left lane as if they are the traffic police and they are determined to hold the law on that little piece of road. They seem to be telling everyone else on the road that they are correct and they will do everything they can to slow traffic. You don't have any idea why someone wants to go faster. Do not presume that you are entitled to do this. You could be keeping someone from getting to the hospital to see a loved one before they die.:(

[Boreas]

Some very good pet peeves so far!

I would add a variation of BinCo's. I get very angry at anyone oppressing others in the name of religion. In the case of the Christian faith, it totaly goes against anything Jesus taught. Frankly, oppression of any kind is wrong.

Apparently I am getting fired up about men telling women what they can and cannot do with their breasts! :eek: And the fact that women listen........:disappointed:

:peace:

[Qikdraw]

Going to Home Depot and not getting any help at all, cause all the sales people have dissapeared, or getting help and getting the feeling like they are doing me a favour by mearly talking to me. Its why I shop at Lowes. :D

People who borrow tools and then aren't respectful with them. "I'll use it like it was my own', no I'd rather you use it like it was mine and that you're going to pay for it if you break it!

Qikdraw

[MoonShadow]

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[Skinview]

I hate when people are going to exit a highway, and they put their right wheels in the exit lane, but leave their left wheels in the travel lane, and then slow to a crawl while they straddle both lanes. It forces everyone behind them to slow down to 15 mph. Move the #@&% over into the exit lane and get out of the way!!!!

Then there are the people who are trying to enter a highway, and they stop in the merge lane! Then they move into the travel lane at slow speed. They should have their accelerator floored while in the merge lane until they match speed with traffic, and then change lanes. These timid people are asking to get rear ended, and if I'm stuck behind them, they put me in danger too.

[Naturist4Ever]

not taking responsibility.

~n4e

ps: moonshadow, now you got us all curious....

[usmc1]

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Yeah, you owe us a peeve! Or two.

[nimrod]

This may sound like a Playboy centerfold, but rudeness. It does not matter if it is on the road, or in a store, and there were some examples of those here, but being rude just irks me. It is as if someone said it is OK to be rude, and others listened, I find more and more of it each day. What happened to please, thank you, and excuse me, have people forgotten how to use those words?

A couple of other people have touched on this one too, the need of some people to convert me to their religion. I am thinking that some of it may come from an inscurity with their own faith. Maybe they think that by converting others it makes their faith stronger. I do know that others truely believe that theirs is the "right" faith, but that does not mean that it is right for me.

[usmc1]

Vent, Fume, spew, spout, sound-off, air a peeve, gripe a gripe.

But, try to limit it to two things per post. No fair commenting on someone else's gripes, no matter how inane, insane or irrational. No politics, personality, tax, public policy, or such stuff.

What just pisses you off way beyond the importance of the deed its self. You know, angry way beyond the magnitude of the thing that makes you angry.

[usmc1]

alright here's another.

You call customer service and after giving them your account number, your social security number, your mother's maiden name, your zip code and blood pressure reading over the past five to ten business days, and hearing them clickity-click each item into their computer, they decide to pass you along to someone else, and the request for that same personal information starts all over--name, account number, etc, etc.

And, WTF does everything take five-to-ten business days to accomplish?

[usmc1]

Here's another. Driving the speed limit on the freeway (usually a mistake--you can get run over that way) in the right hand lane and someone comes flying up on you, tailgates for while, pulls out to pass, takes for ever to actually pass, but when finally does pass, cuts right in front of you leaving maybe six feet of clearance and then proceeds to drive five miles under the speed limit.

Who are these people and whee do they all come from?

[MoonShadow]

LOL - great peevies!

Think my biggest pet peeve is the hype by cell phone providers. This is Part I. They enthusiastically bombard you with free minutes, my circle, call your favorite people free all the time, more bars than anywhere else (had to think twice about that one LOL) and when you call a provider. KaPow! Here goes the fees for this, for that, assessments, or it will work on these types of phones.

Then call customer service, Part II of this pet peeve. When you begin to question in detail, they get confused and can't answer your questions. By now you are slightly irritated. They put you on hold (I guess to ask the same question to a colleague, who knows), then they come back and it isn't what you asked for. Now you are getting more than slightly irritated. You ask to speak to someone who knows what they are doing and this has insulted the poor CR Rep. Now, you are getting nowhere. You hang up, fuming! Will make the call later.

[FireProf]

Inconsiderate drivers of all kinds;

Don't use their turn signal indicators (blinkers) or use them as stated.....after they make their lane change or turn.

The use of cell phones in the car. No one pays attention to driving anymore.

Those driver's that race around you, in and out of traffic only to get 8-10 car lengths ahead and then..........stop in traffic right along side you two minutes down the freeway.

Big rig truck drivers that drive over the speed limit and tailgate you.

Big rig truck drivers on the cell phone.

DVD players in the car.


Customer service today;

Lowe's or Home Depot employees that would rather stand and jaw jack to their fellow employees while you stand there waiting for help. I stood at the customer service counter for 5 minutes with the manager, asst. manager and counter person stood 10 ft away fromt he counter, me and my wife in full view, talking about their weekend and neither of them asked if I needed any help until I made a stink about getting some help.........then they said...."I'm sorry..."



In General;

People that say......"I'm sorry..but..." They're not sorry, they're speaking their minds and telling you what they think........they are NOT sorry for what they are saying.

People and their cell phones. What is it with people that think everyone in the world wants to hear their phone conversations........and they all talk at the top of their voices as though they have to speak louder so the person on the other end, 5 miles away, can hear them.

Young people and their rudeness to adults, teachers, authority and no respect for anyone else but themselves.

Young work force.................now that's also an oxymoron. The younger generation doesn't want to work, they want damn near every day off and they want and think they should be paid, at least, low 6 figures for it as well. Most think they should START at the top and not the bottom.....and...they don't like having a boss because they don't want to be TOLD what to do.

Damn......I got alot of pet peeves!!!!!

[christy799]

Road bullies, i call them. When driving on the interstate, I am keeping up with traffic, and people are tailgaiting me. Also, people pass me, driving on the shoulder, the shoulder yes i said it, to pass me. Grow up to the ones that do that.:D

[Qikdraw]

Telemarketers. Even if you are on the 'do not call list'. Now they are masking it as 'research' on products. Shut the hell up and leave me alone!

Qikdraw

[Boreas]

Here's another. Driving the speed limit on the freeway (usually a mistake--you can get run over that way) in the right hand lane and someone comes flying up on you, tailgates for while, pulls out to pass, takes for ever to actually pass, but when finally does pass, cuts right in front of you leaving maybe six feet of clearance and then proceeds to drive five miles under the speed limit.

Who are these people and whee do they all come from?

I don't know who they are, or where they come from. I do know they are up here too!! The "four oh one" across Toronto is particularly full of them!

[Boreas]

Speaking of cell phone providers....our local provider also provides landline service. It is a ROYAL pain just trying to get in to talk to one of their "helpers". There are of course many choices in the automated answering system. You get a computer woman asking you ever so nicely what she can do for you. Then she will say "please say what you are calling about".....they have since added "or press #_" Of course, I have NEVER had a question or concern that is listed as one of their choices. (does anyone). If you hit zero, you start again. The trick is to hit zero twice. Once you do get a real person, it is generally a good experience. They are usually helpful and fairly friendly.

I would think that a communications company should be better at communications than mere mortals. But then, if I thought that, I would be wrong!

[nacktman]

Gotta agree with the various 'drivers' peeves, seems like I run into each and every one of them on a daily basis.

Telemarketers and obsessive waiters do tend to get one peevy as well.

Another peeve of mine would be those rude enough to come up to a serve counter talking on their cell phone ignoring the counterperson when they are asked if they desire assistance then get bent out of shape when the counterperson goes about their work or heaven forbid helps another person who is not on a cell phone.

I have seeing a growing trend among counterpersons to ignore cell phone users until they get off the damned phone - which 'insults' the arseholes on the phone all the more - and I say good for them, the cell phone 'rudies' need to be insulted.

[Nude in the North]

I'm going to start with Driving , because that seems to be one of the biggest problems around the world.

Certainly it's rude, and possibly dangerous to be the "slow" car at the head of a line of impatient drivers. There have been times that I have been "that car" for certain reasons.
When that is the case, I will find a section of road where I can make it as easy as possible for the drivers behind me to pass. Sometimes actually pulling entirely off the road. Oddly, it seems some people would rather stay behind me, tailgate, and Complain than take advantage of the opportunity to pass.
On the flip side of that. I have seen people take risks, passing several cars at a time, working their way through the line of cars untill they finally have made it to the front of the line. Only to pull off at the next exit, or take a left turn onto a side street mere seconds after risking everyones life with their illadvised passing manuvers.
For God's sakes people. Is it really worth risking so many lives "including your own" to save a couple minutes on your commute.

My advice for all drivers is. If your holding up traffic, find a way to let the others pass. Pull onto the shoulder or off the road if you have to. But find a safe way to let them get by you.
If you find yourself behind that slow driver. Be patient. Not all drivers have your amazing skill behind the wheel, or an extremely high IQ like you think you have. Just be glad the stupid drivers are smart enough to take it slow when they arn't confident about what they are doing.
And thank God for the driving skill that allows you to speed and weave in and out of traffic without ever having to consider anyone elses saftey. After all. Getting home from work 2 minutes earlier is far more important than anyone elses life.

[Boreas]

Why is it that Murphy gets involved in traffic? Murphy's law seems to be that if you have an exceptionally slow vehicle in front of you, you will have a "hot dog" in a one ton truck roaring up your hind end. (I drive a small car, one tons are big from that angle)

[Mike2Nude]

Driving is always a good pet peeve, but I think I'll go with parking. People who park crooked and those who illegally park in handicap parking spots hold a special spot in my view.

A distant second would be 40 check out lanes and 4 cashiers working? Why so much equipment if you aren't going to have people using them?

[Qikdraw]

Internet providers and their 1st level tech support.

Our internet was dropping for 15 seconds to 2 minutes every 2 hours, then over a few days it got worse and would drop every 45 minutes. Since my wife works online this is simply not acceptable. Calling tech support proved to be an exercise in frustration, they kept saying it was our fault. (we have a router) My wife finally had enough after 3 days of futile calls and talked to a supervisor, who immediately relayed us to a higher end tech support who immediately found the problem, on their end. He sent it on to get fixed and today there was a call back saying they had fixed the problem.

So first level tech support is my pet peeve.

Qikdraw

[Dail17]

What a great idea for a post!

I'd have to say:

1. People who attempt to dominate others who they haven no actual authority over

2. People who make life harder for others for no reason (i.e. making messes for fun that janitors whose days are already hard enough have to clean up; or people who destroy or deface public or private property for no good reason).

[usmc1]

People who program their phones and answering machines so that you're subjected their choice in music when you call and are waiting for them to answer. C'mon, Rap's had its run, could we just move along now.

People who take boom boxes to the beach and park and blast away the sound of nature..thank goodness for MP3 and Ipod.

People in cars who have the volume and base jacked so high, you expect to see glass shatter and develop nosebleeds and eventual deafness and brain tumors from being next to them at the light.

[usmc1]

Oh forgot this one 'til now.

People in the check out line that dibble and dabble and poke around in their pockets and purses to come up with the exact, precise to the last penny amount of change in the check-out amount.

The line may be reaching to the back of the store and these anal/compulsives take an eternity to count out eighty-seven cents a penny and nickel at a time turning inside out all their pockets or down in the bottom of their purses for that last three-cents.

Sometimes don't you just want to scream, screw it! put it on my card!

[Joontiki]

Reading through everyone's peeves, i'm thinking, "Yeah. . . oh yeah . . . no freaking kidding . . . GRRRR! . . . " Hehe. You've said it all!

But i should add that not only customers on their cell phones ignoring the sales clerk/cashier, but i've also had the opposite happen - sales clerk/cashier on their cell phone ignoring the customer. Man, i hate being ignored. Fine if it's business, but when it's a personal call? *sigh*

Oh, OH! I thought of one! Something that burns me beyond belief is the trend for people to just log off when chatting with a friend online to end the conversation. No goodbye, nice to talk to you . . . no thanks, i'll ttyl . . . just gone. If they were talking to a person on the phone or in real life, would they just hang up on them or walk away without saying goodbye? I would think not, unless they truly are the rudest people on earth! So what's the difference online? What on earth makes some people think they can just "hang up" on a friend online and that's ok??? GRRRRRRR! AAARRRGH!

Ok, now i feel better too! :-D

[eagle59]

As a member of a civilized society I understand that there are going to be times when i am going to have to wait in a line. I understand thia and I plan this into my day and am quite willing to accept the fact that I am going to have to wait my turn. What really grates on my nerves is when the person next to me in line wants to stand there and complain to me about having to wait in line. It is especially bothersome when the person is an old retired person with no where else to go anyway. I don't care if you can't understand why you have to wait your turn, I don't want to discuss why there are 12 registers and only 2 cashiers, etc., just turn around and shut up. If I want your opinion I will ask you and since I did not ask you keep it to yourself. If you would like to have a conversation about the weather, politics, the war, etc. thats fine; strike up the band. If you just want to complain about stupid things that neither you or I can fix then just shut up.