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rg8482
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What's your biggest pet peeve(s)?
rg8482
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So the dishes in my office's sink got me thinking about how much I hate seeing dishes pile up. It just looks plain old disgusting to me and I don't get how people can just walk on by and just keep throwing more sh!t on top of what's already there.
Other pet peeves of mine are:
1) when I have to repeat the same thing a billion times because you didn't hear me the first or second time
2) when people make assumptions
3) people who chew with their mouths open (sounds like a horse is eating instead of a human)
4) people who walk through an open door after you open it for yourself and don't even acknowledge you or say "thank you" -- granted you are not required to hold the door for them, but I'm talking about people that don't even give you the chance to walk through the door yourself and just go straight through
So what are YOUR pet peeves?? You can name one or a bunch and GOOO!!
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Re: What's your biggest pet peeve(s)?
people sticking chewed gum on their plate/drink/hand for later, especially when I can smell it. just shell out the 8 cents and stick a new piece in your mouth.
1) My flame worthy one: People who give in to toddler tantrums in the store. (I just got back from Target. A little girl was screaming her head off because she wanted something. Her mom did great for the first 15 minutes or so, and just kept telling her that she couldn't have it. Then mom started saying, if you stop crying I will get you XYZ. After another minute or so the mom was like, ok! You can have it." And the little girl was beaming from ear to ear at the checkout. And she learned that if she screams she gets her way. If you are going to give in, do it from the beginning! GAH!)
2) Neighbors who don't cut their grass.
3) Customers who have no idea what they want, what they need, or how much they want to spend. (I work at a professional portrait studio, and my goal as a salesperson is to get them what they want for a price they can afford. I don't want to offer them things that are out of their budget, or go over products they have no interest in, or try to build up their order with extra prints they don't need. I have a customer tomorrow who will be on her third appointment; after two, 3-hour appointments and viewing the photos online for over a month, she still isn't sure what she wants. And she thinks that I am trying to rip her off because I ask her what she wants so I can try and give her a package discount *sigh* it will be a long afternoon.)
ETA: Oops. Sorry. I started ranting.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to be over, it's about learning how to dance in the rain." -Unknown
Married 3-1-08 | Nathan 11-24-08 | Kaelyn 11-30-10 | Alicia 8-17-13
A variation of this - when I hit the wheelchair automatic door button so I can get my huge-a$$ stroller through the door, and people just keep plowing on through the open door. Uh, I didn't just open that door to help make your life easier!
I live in a rude city.
People who interrupt me while I'm talking
People who resend texts until I reply. I'm not ignoring you! I just so happen to have a baby and more things to do than sit here and text you!
Friends who all of a sudden forget I have a baby. I'm 20, so my friends are in college. I have this one friend who is relentless and gives me such a hard time for not going to her girls nights. DD is EBF (we're working on a bottle but I'm not pushing it bc I don't mind her not taking a bottle) so I can't exactly drop her off at a babysitters just to go out. It's annoying. Secretly I don't mind not going to her girls nights anyways because all they do is gossip, and I just want to go home an hour into it.
Oh yeah!! This is highly annoying. A lot of times, I wish I could do it back but the majority of times it winds up being a little kid that thinks it's funny so I don't say or do anything.
People who blame everyone else but their own behavior for what happens to them
When you let someone in front of you in traffic and they don't give you the "wave"
When my students shrug at me when I ask them a question.
No flaming here! I agree with you. It is horrible that you would start by attempting to discipline your child so that they won't get what they want to then give into their tantrums. That child will not respect you if you let them do what they want all the time.
When my husband answers a multiple choice question with "Yes"
When stores have their open signs on when they are clearly closed. Drives me crazy.
That is just rude!! And as to people that send texts a million times, ugh! I have a friend like that too -- where if I don't answer her text, she'll text me later and ask if I got it. People don't get how busy your life is when you have a baby.
I think those type of people just live for attention and want to act like they're having a conversation, but just want you to listen to them.
1. People who chew gum loudly.
2. People who chew their food with their mouths open and make loud slurping noises while eating. Or that mmm noise that some people make drives me crazy!
3. Other peoples' snot and spit. I once worked in an office with a guy who would spit into his trashcan at his desk. YUCK!
4. Bad grammar. There, their, and they're, your and you're, to, two, and too, definitely etc.
5. When people link things but don't make it open in a new window. I will say, though, I appreciate the clicky links more than non clicky links even if it doesn't open in a new window.
1-Litter bugs
2-chewing with your mouth open (DH, his brothers and father ALL do this!)
3-When people sit on my Sh*t. If I have something on the couch and you want to sit there, move my sweater/book/blanket/remote. Don't sit on it.
My MIL is my biggest pet peeve.
When people ask me if baby is sleeping through the night. No? Next pet peeve, suggesting rice cereal:)
When people say LO is spoiled because he doesn't do what they want during visits.
People who don't respect my wishes or worse yet the pediatrician's recommendations when it comes to LO.
People who suggest that I'm not paying attention to DH/my marriage because I turn down their offer to babysit.
People who wear so much perfume that I have to bathe LO after they leave.
The fact that now that I have big boobs I feel like I have a choice between looking matronly or looking trampy. I have not come to terms with the best way to dress the new boobies. Plus, I'm 36 and now a mom, so I feel like my old junior B cup wardrobe just doesn't cut it anymore. But when I tried to shop at a "grown-up" store, I could have cried. I have told my friends to nominate me for What Not To Wear!
EWW!! I can't stand when people do this obnoxiously on the street, let alone hearing it everyday at my workplace.
I don't mind when people ask me if E is STTN, but HATE when they assume that's what she should be doing and think they know why she wakes at night.
I hide the nice baby blankets when my mother is coming over so that I don't have to do a special load of laundry.
YES! It's even worse when it's just a curious question. "Did you eat crackers a lot when you were little?" "Why?" Because I'm fvcking curious! I don't have an ulterior motive to every question I ask!
peoples lives who have ALWAYS done what you have done and have done it better.
chewing with their mouth open
kids hitting and kicking and mom just ignoring it
giving babies soda in bottles
patients your trying to make appointments for changing their minds 1000 times then picking the first appointment you gave them.....
Old lady perfume they rolled in
people using the F word like they are saying HI
peoples lives who have ALWAYS done what you have done and have done it better.
what I meant was people who say they have done everything you have done and have done it better, or something was just better when they went..etc