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3rd Trimester
NBR: Pet Peeves
What minor thing is irking you lately?
Mine: When people don't know how to take a decent picture. I am by no means a professional photographer, but I know to move when I'm creating a distracting shadow in my shot and to check the background for incriminating or disgusting objects before posting to fb.
And the stupid duck face pose with the peace sign HAS GOT TO STOP!
your turn.
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Re: NBR: Pet Peeves
I agree with yours totally
AND
When people give you a Nick Name... Like so...
"Hi my name is Daniela " "Hello, Dani" THATS NOT WHAT I SAID! And now people are doing it to my baby too... "what are you naming the baby?"
"Evangelina Mari" and then its followed by " Oh Eva is so pretty"
yeah for eva mendes or eva longoria but my daughters name is Evangelina... dont take it upon yourself to give my kid a nick name dangit! That will happen soon enough GAH!
I have an aunt that happened to and she, ten years later, is SO dramatic about it. She says it was life and death and it so wasnt. Even my uncle rolls his eyes at her when she talks about how "traumatic" her csec was... it was scheduled because she wasnt progressing, she stayed the night before and had it done in the AM there was no rush and the baby wasnt in distress... ::sigh:: shes made it a point to bring it up throughout this WHOLE pregnancy...
Let's go ahead and add "people who impose their labor and delivery horror stories on innocent KU ladies" to the list as well.
So many things irk me. I'm kind of a biitch like that. I hate the way people are so negative, and love to spread their misery.
It really irks me when people sound so surprised that I'm due in 4 weeks...I was at Destination Maternity yesterday buying a nursing tank to hold me over until I know what size my boobs are going be, when they started talking about tiny I am. It's tough to know whether I should be offended or take it as a compliment. I've only gained 18 pounds, and although the OB says everything about my pregnancy screams HEALTHY, he still wants to check on Lentil's growth. So I can't help worrying whenever I think about it.
Bad grammar REALLY irks me. Not just written. Spoken grammar gets to me, also. I judge people who choose not to speak English properly (if they are born and raised here). It really disgusts me. There are some things people say, that just sound like "holy crap, you are klassy".
I am totally guilty of this and I really hate it. I feel like I have become really lax because I have been out of school so long and I work from home so there is no reason for me to care. Does that make sense? There really is no excuse... I should just start improving
This is probably going to be U/O-like, but it irritates the crap out of me when men don't give up their seats on a bus to a woman. Or at least offer. The same goes for holding a door open.
I realize a lot of people find that offensive and sexist, but I don't give a flying spaghetti monster, really. I find it rude not to at least offer, on the same level of rude as not saying "Please' and "thank you".
Common courtesies have gone out the window and makes me sad. I think a lot of problems this country has with interpersonal communications can be fixed with simply teaching our children how to say "please" and "thank you".
Unable to even.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
All of this!
A keystone in my parenting plan is teaching my son to become a gentleman. I get pissy when DH doesn't unlock my car door before his. I'm carrying your spawn mofo!
ITA.
Simple manners have gone out of the window in this country. Europeans and South Americans are appalled at how rude most Americans can be. It's gotten to the point that I use my Colombian passport whenever I travel overseas...especially to Europe, and identify myself as a Colombian and not a North-American (gringa).
Cinema, what in the world are you doing up???
When people find out when I am due and then say: "Well, (insert date here) is (insert event here), so that's a good date." Yes, let me plan my birth around an event in your life. Aghhhh
I'd like to second the medical time frame pressure pet peeve. The stories I read where the doc or nurse or MW breaks your water (and starts the clock) and then you don't progress fast enough to their standards and they scare the piss out of you about infections and emergency c-sections . . . makes my eyeball twitch.
Ha! I get up at 4:30am on the weekdays. I'm a morning person.
Unable to even.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
I know! "Oh well my birthday is on the 4th, everyone born on the 4th turns out pretty awesome so shoot for that day". GAH! So stupid and pointless and unnecessary and did I say stupid??
Yes! You rock my socks! lol
Lately my pet peeve has been the people at my company being late to meetings. These meetings happen every week at the same time. They are no surprise, and we've been having them for years. Yet it never fails that 3 or 4 out of the 12 or so people that should be there show up 10 minutes late. So in the mean time we've all had to sit there wasting time because you 'had to get a coffee first', or 'got busy with something else'. I'm sorry, but you just wasted easily $500 by having the rest of us sit here on our keesters doing nothing.
Perhaps this is just irking me more lately because I can barely make the entire meeting before I have to pee super bad. With the tardiness of these people sometimes I have to get up and go for a pee during the meeting which I hate doing since I typically have a lot of input required.
Wow, really? I might have to start lurking on the month boards and laughing at people.
My grocery store irks the shiit out of me. They have reserved parking spaces for shoppers with children, but they put those spaces as far away as possible from the cart returns. The first time I went to the store with Betsy and parked in one of the reserved spots, I did the following: Turned on the car to get the AC running, put Betsy in the car, unloaded the groceries into the car, realized I had to return the cart, debated whether or not to leave the cart in the parking spot beside me, decided too many people were watching, turned off the car, got Betsy back out of the car and into the cart, walked half the length of the parking lot to the cart return, then lugged B and her carseat all the way back to the car.
Now I just park beside the cart return.
I totally did this to LB (bc she is having LO on my EDD now and bc it is also my DH's bday) but I didn't mean to be annoying about it! :P It was out of sheer excitement!
Mine is when people ask me when I am due (which is now 13 days from today) they say, "Well you're doing good?" (Yes, with a question mark, as if they're not sure how to say what they want or what to say at all.) Also, did you expect me to be doing bad? And what exactly am I doing good? I know this may not make any sense, but I get it a lot and it's really awkward.
When people constantly ask how I am feeling, I say, "Good, how are you?" bc I feel if I tell them the truth (like crap!) they will say, "It's only going to get worse" but wait - they do that already anyway! Pffft!
I HATE bad drivers, especially now that I'm KU. It sends me into a road rage like rant. DH calls me a mean pregnant lady when I'm driving.
I too hate the "You should wait until October 29th, thats my birthday, its a great day to have your baby". I just look at them and say "If you think I'm trying to hold this baby in any longer (esp. a whole week) you're crazy"
You know... I used to think Americans were pretty rude until I moved abroad. No country or culture is perfect but I really believe now that Americans, on the whole, are some of the most generous, polite people I've encountered.
People here don't wait in line. EVER. Things that we think of as common sense in the States just don't apply here. For example, if you're in the bathroom waiting in line with a young child who's holding his pecker and doing the potty dance, you'd probably let them them go ahead of you, right? Here, not only do they not let you go ahead, they CUT in front of you! I mean, how can that be a attributed to cultural differences? There are some things in life that should be internationally understood, especially from one woman to another. Grrr.
Don't get me started on the driving here. Let's just say that it's like MarioKart and Nascar. With kids sitting on the driver's lap. With kids hanging their heads out the sunroofs. With kids sitting ON the open sunroofs. With babies on laps in the front passenger seat. Without seat belts on anyone.
I was at the hospital a few weeks ago and watched a local mother struggle to get into the backseat of her huge SUV with her newborn baby in one arm and her overnight bag in the other arm. Her husband just sat there in the front seat with the a/c going. Get out of the fvcking car and help your wife and baby! After a couple minutes she finally was able to hoist all her things and herself into the seat and they drove off (without a car seat of course). And they give luxury car seats away for free at the hospital here, btw.
I also do not appreciate nicknames. How hard it is to say Julie? Do not shorten it to Jule. 1. it's ugly. 2. it's not that hard nor does it take much effort to tack on the "ee" sound to that, mmmkay!
I was also very annoyed by the Kardashian episode this week with the neuticles. Really? Is Bruce Jenner THAT insecure with his masculinity that he felt the need to give Rocky testicle implants? Loser.
I am also finding myself increasingly annoyed by the 0-3 month people who pop in to give us unsolicited advice. I cannot stand unsolicited advice. I have to deal with it enough IRL, so internet people, spare me.
I have so many. First, people who brag about being home owners when they didn't come up with the down payment on their own(I have a lot of friends whose parents do this for them). Second and third time around brides who have big weddings and expect everyone to forget that they were married before. People who post everything stupid detail of his/her life on facebook.