your irrational pet peeves?

mlf625 · July 2012

What bugs you way more than it should?

People stepping on the back of my flip flop makes me IRATE. Like, I can't even handle it. Not just when I'm a pregnantbitch, either, but always. My sister stepped on the back of my flip flop at Disney World one time and I knocked her ice cream cone out of her hand. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET.

Now you go.

3monkeysmama · July 2012

People purposly cracking their knuckles, the sounds drives me crazy!!

cmiller0623 · July 2012

DF is terrible about this...

he'll start a conversation with something like "did i tell you what happened today?" i'll answer "no what happened?" and then silence.

that irks me to no end lol sometimes i have to repeat myself 2 or 3 times to get him to tell me whatever it is he wants to tell me.

White0rchid · July 2012

I've posted this one before, but it's repeating. I absolutely hate when people let their kids plaster the back windows of their vehicle with stickers. It makes me all twitchy. It doesn't matter how nice the vehicle is, adding the stickers makes it immediately trashy. All I can think about is how much scraping it will take to get them off.

SoEnamored · July 2012

People at work who grab 10+ paper towels to dry their hands. I'll be in one of the stalls, hear someone wash their hands and then I hear the pulling of ten million towels, "whoosh, whoosh, whossh, whoosh whoosh......" SO WASTEFUL!!!! Argh! It really only takes 2 paper towels to do the job.

PenelopePond · July 2012

When a lane of traffic is ending and there are plenty of warning signs yet there are a-holes that feel the need to come flying up the lane that's ending just to cut in front of people.

skyejo · July 2012

mlf625:

My sister stepped on the back of my flip flop at Disney World one time and I knocked her ice cream cone out of her hand. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET.

Awesome haha.

When I'm walking down an empty hallway towards a person and they stare at the ground or at the other wall and don't even make the slightest eye contact as you near each other. Socially awkward much? I'm totally looking at you, newbie employee on the 2nd floor.

roxyttandme · July 2012

People that park their shopping carts in aisle of the grocery store. It drives me crazy!!!! It just goes to the whole entitlement issues of our country, IMO. They don't give a crap, nor consider others... all they think about is themselves... Makes my skin itch!!!!

When it happens, I just move their cart and proceed. I get glared at sometimes, but I make my point.....

SoEnamored · July 2012

AndreaR1983:
When a lane of traffic is ending and there are plenty of warning signs yet there are a-holes that feel the need to come flying up the lane that's ending just to cut in front of people.

YES! Ugh! I always try to think that they must be on their way to labor and delivery.

Unem · July 2012

I get pissed off when people are in a good mood and I'm crabby.

I also get pissed off when people are in a bad mood and I'm happy.

I wish people would just share my mood all the time.

Hey - you said irrational, right?

mlf625 · July 2012

White0rchid:
I've posted this one before, but it's repeating. I absolutely hate when people let their kids plaster the back windows of their vehicle with stickers. It makes me all twitchy. It doesn't matter how nice the vehicle is, adding the stickers makes it immediately trashy. All I can think about is how much scraping it will take to get them off.

OMGYES. Why?????

CatBus · July 2012

When a table that I know was seated after me gets served first. This happened on Saturday when H and I went out for breakfast. I was incredibly hungry anyway, but we had already been seated for five minutes when the table next to us was seated. The server took drink orders from the other table first, brought out their coffee/juice/water, then came to our table for our orders (and damn it, I needed my caffeine, so this did not sit well with me). He would have taken their food order first, too, but H and I had already decided, so we just ordered with our drinks.

I got way more pissed than was probably reasonable.

3monkeysmama · July 2012

White0rchid:
I've posted this one before, but it's repeating. I absolutely hate when people let their kids plaster the back windows of their vehicle with stickers. It makes me all twitchy. It doesn't matter how nice the vehicle is, adding the stickers makes it immediately trashy. All I can think about is how much scraping it will take to get them off.

I hate this too! I just noticed the other day that my oldest guy plastered the side window with angry bird stickers he got at a bday party. I have yet to peel them off, because I am too lazy. I think I will make him do it as punishment for sticking them there in the first place!

PenelopePond · July 2012

A few things at the grocery store:

-When people stop to talk in the middle of the aisle and block the whole thing so no one can get by. They're always totally oblivious they're doing it which makes it much more frustrating.

-When I'm looking at something and someone comes and stands in front of me to look at something. Not to quickly grab something, but to stand there and compare products.

-When I stop my cart so someone can get by me and then someone behind me cuts in and goes around. Yeah, I was just standing there for fun.

brideandbreve · July 2012

People (mostly co-workers) who want to have conversations before 10:00 AM.

It is 7:56 AM. I have only been awake for a little over 75 minutes and I'm hardly sleeping 4 hours a night. Please allow me to consume a caffeinated beverage and sit here in my quiet little silence, listening to the radio, before you come in here and initiate a conversation with me. I cannot fake the enthusiasm before 10 AM, so come back later. Kthxbi.

White0rchid · July 2012

roxyttandme:
People that park their shopping carts in aisle of the grocery store. It drives me crazy!!!! It just goes to the whole entitlement issues of our country, IMO. They don't give a crap, nor consider others... all they think about is themselves... Makes my skin itch!!!!
When it happens, I just move their cart and proceed. I get glared at sometimes, but I make my point.....

You should come live in a college town. Never, ever have I been around such self absorption. Fall semester starts in a month, and I am totally dreading it. Going to the grocery store is next to impossible because they are the absolute worst about parking in the middle of the aisle and then striking up conversations with people they know or taking 3 hours to peruse products. I can't tell you how many times I've needed to be admitted to a mental institution after grocery shopping. It's as if no one else exists except for other college students.

mchupie · July 2012

When people call like, 5 times and never leave a message. Especially numbers I don't recognize. Makes me stabby.

skyejo · July 2012

anitalynn:

skyejo:

Oh my gosh CUTE new siggy pic!

Thanks, love

I figured it was time to update it from the 13 month picture since she's 21 months and all. I'm on the ball.

dmfan897 · July 2012

roxyttandme:

People that park their shopping carts in aisle of the grocery store. It drives me crazy!!!! It just goes to the whole entitlement issues of our country, IMO. They don't give a crap, nor consider others... all they think about is themselves... Makes my skin itch!!!!

When it happens, I just move their cart and proceed. I get glared at sometimes, but I make my point.....

going off of this, I HATE it when people leave their shopping carts to roll around the parking lot. Yesterday I watched a lady leave a cart in the lot..even though she was literally parked RIGHT next to a corral for them. Lazy much?

I hate when smokers leave their butts everywhere..especially when people throw them out the window while driving. It's disgusting. Most of the trash collected at beach cleanups and highway cleanups are cigarette butts.

I agree with aurora though..I don't think that my pet peeves are irrational ;-)

mlf625 · July 2012

dmfan897:
I hate when smokers leave their butts everywhere..especially when people throw them out the window while driving. It's disgusting. Most of the trash collected at beach cleanups and highway cleanups are cigarette butts.

Good one. Drives me crazy, too. Texas has a program where you can go online and report litterbugs. You give the license plate # and time/place of the incident, and the litterer is sent a letter about the incident along with a litter bag for their car. I kept a note pad in my center console when we lived in TX just for this purpose. Who knows if it would change anyone's ways (you probably suck as a human if you'd throw garbage out your window in the first place), but it made me feel a whole lot better.

Cheetara2 · July 2012

1. When people drive 60 mph or less in the far left lane. MOVE!

2. When people at work walk up to my area, see me on the phone, and decide to wait for me to get off the phone. Go away! I'll either come to you when I'm done, or you can just come back later.

3. When people stretch over my food.

4. When people ask 'Can I ask you a question?' Hello, you just asked me a question, silly! Just ask the darn question. Don't ask me a question to ask me a question, KWIM.

Bookelly · July 2012

People who chew ice. The sounds is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Even more irrational? Ticking clocks. DH and I have three clocks in the house that are now no more than wall art. Why? I had to take the batteries out because they ticked too loudly. No one else ever noticed, but I swear I could hear them when I was rooms away.

mrs.kapow · July 2012

Voicemail, at least on cell phones, and especially when it's, "Hey, it's mom, call me back."

I can see you called. You left nothing important in your vm. Send me a text if you want a response ASAP as I can do that from my desk.

tyrannasaurusjess · July 2012

I can't stand when people drop things and it makes a noise. (crazy I know) We have hardwood floors and or tile throughout our house and I just want to go serial killer on my DH, or anyone for that matter, drops something. I can usually let it go once, but seriously... hold on to whatever is in your hand or freakin set it down!

OSUWifey09 · July 2012

1. When my neighbors bang on the wall because I'm apparently being too loud. Yes - because banging on the wall a million times to tell me to shut up when I'm closing a stuck closet door will make things better. Your banging was more noise than my shutting the door. That happened this morning, and I purposely slammed a door shut before leaving. They're gonna hate me when I have a newborn.

2. People who drive the same speed as me and I'm in the slow lane. Speed the fluck up or slow down and get behind me. You're in the fast lane - MOVE ON MAN.

3. This is more a pregnancy one - when people say "You poor thing, being pregnant during the summer. You must be dying! Bet next time you won't get pregnant during the summer!" The heat isn't killing me; the non-stop nausea I experienced up until two weeks ago was killing me. That's why we have A/C in our cars and buildings people - I'm not gonna melt. Geez.

senorita04 · July 2012

LoveLossHopeRepeat:
2. People who, when stuck in a traffic jam, decide that they have the right to drive on the shoulder. It makes me stabby. Irate. I want to chase them down and yell at them for being an arrogant jackhole.

THIS. Drives me absolutely insane. I have to drive in traffic every morning to go to work. A LOT of people do this. I just don't understand it.

I also cannot stand when people who are entering the freeway use the merging lane to cut in front of as many cars as they can. Uh, hello, you don't have the right of way douchebag. I purposely do whatever I can to make sure they don't cut in front of me.

Jessrof · July 2012

AndreaR1983:
When a lane of traffic is ending and there are plenty of warning signs yet there are a-holes that feel the need to come flying up the lane that's ending just to cut in front of people.

THIS! I will even put half my car in the ending lane and half in my lane so these douches can't pass... I got over ages ago because I know how to read, what is their excuse?!

melody921 · July 2012

skyejo:
mlf625:

My sister stepped on the back of my flip flop at Disney World one time and I knocked her ice cream cone out of her hand. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET.

Awesome haha.

When I'm walking down an empty hallway towards a person and they stare at the ground or at the other wall and don't even make the slightest eye contact as you near each other. Socially awkward much? I'm totally looking at you, newbie employee on the 2nd floor.

lol. Better than this is the creepy guy at my work who, rather than say hello when passing in the hall, just does this weird eyebrow raise. He looks like a predator.

redneckmomma25 · July 2012

I consider myself a pretty good cook. I season my food when I'm cooking. By season I also mean the addition of salt and pepper. It annoys me to the point where I want to hide the pepper shaker with my FIL and BIL come over because they will sit there with the pepper shaker for a good 30seconds putting pepper on their food. I know it's their problem if they want to ruin the taste of the food by putting an inconceivable amount of pepper on it. When the compliment me on the food all I can think of is "how could you have possibly even tasted it."

mrs.kapow · July 2012

tara1223:
mrs.kapow:
Voicemail, at least on cell phones, and especially when it's, "Hey, it's mom, call me back."
I can see you called. You left nothing important in your vm. Send me a text if you want a response ASAP as I can do that from my desk.
haha. You make me feel normal!
I don't check them unless I don't know the number...I do a mass delete once a week. I call people back when I can. I love when they ask, "Oh did you get my message?" Um no, I don't check voicemails for the 1000 time. We just wasted time talking about me checking the voicemail when we could have already covered what you called about.

Exaaaactly!

senorita04 · July 2012

I really dislike when people sneeze multiple times in a row. My younger brother does this all the time. Twice, fine. Three times, okay. Maybe it's allergies. After that, I get pissed. Five, six times in a row... Do you really expect a bless you?

cautionwillburneyes · July 2012

I can't stand when people drive less than the speed limit, or almost come to a complete stop to turn a corner. It invokes feelings of road rage in me.

I also can't stand posts on Facebook that go something like.."The worst thing ever just happened! - Ugh!" Either tell the story or don't put it on Facebook. I am not going to ask what happened, especially if I know you won't reply anyway. My future SIL does this sort of thing all the time. It makes me feel stabby.

roxyttandme · July 2012

Cheetara2:
1. When people drive 60 mph or less in the far left lane. MOVE!

This is also one of my top peeves. Also, if they aren't currently passing anyone, they need to move over! They have no business in the left lane if they aren't. In Germany, you get tickets for this. I think they have it figured out, IMO....

mlf625 · July 2012

LoveLossHopeRepeat:
1. Momtographers. My cousin's wife just started her "photography business" and despite knowing full-well that the people who may hire her are making their own choices, as they're entitled to, it drives me batshitinsane that she thinks she has the talent to charge people for her pictures. My Mother made me stop talking about it the other day because I was getting so ticked.

BIG ONE. Yes. This random acquaintance of mine got a so-so point and shoot camera two weeks ago, and since then has been doing nothing but posting her "photo shoots" on FB. The pics are not even close to being good, and again, she's using some dinky little camera to take them. Then she started incessantly pinning photography ideas on Pinterest, and EACH ONE is posting to her FB. I just saw last night that she responded to a compliment on her pic with "thanks! I'm hoping to get my business going before Christmas!" OMG NOOOOOOO.

I need to defriend, I think.

mlf625 · July 2012

cautionwillburneyes:
I also can't stand posts on Facebook that go something like.."The worst thing ever just happened! - Ugh!" Either tell the story or don't put it on Facebook. I am not going to ask what happened, especially if I know you won't reply anyway. My future SIL does this sort of thing all the time. It makes me feel stabby.

Yes Yes Yes !!!!!!!!!!

I have a relative who notoriously posts things like "just never thought it could feel this bad!" or "I'M SO OVER IT" or whatever, baiting people into asking her what's wrong. Which nobody does. Clear sign that you need to step away from FB, relative, because NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR NONSENSE.

OSUWifey09 · July 2012

LoveLossHopeRepeat:
OSUWifey09:
1. When my neighbors bang on the wall because I'm apparently being too loud. Yes - because banging on the wall a million times to tell me to shut up when I'm closing a stuck closet door will make things better. Your banging was more noise than my shutting the door. That happened this morning, and I purposely slammed a door shut before leaving. They're gonna hate me when I have a newborn.
This made me think of one: honking in traffic because no one's moving. I see it more often in parking garages after events than I do on the freeway, but it's happened. I don't understand. Do you think 5 lanes of backup is all sitting still because someone up ahead is daydreaming? That your horn is going to startle them back to reality and we're all going to speed up to 70MPH any minute? Lay off the effing horn, you jackhole. If we had anywhere to go, we effing would. Shut up and sit there like everyone else.

Yes I totally agree - I don't get it either. Why do people do that? Not like I'm gonna be able to move. Asshat.

Megroons · July 2012

I hate when people drive their carts up the "wrong" side of the isle causing me to have to pull to the right, park and wait for your dumb asss to go through. Grrrrr Angry

ifwisheswerefishes · July 2012

mlf625:
cautionwillburneyes:
I also can't stand posts on Facebook that go something like.."The worst thing ever just happened! - Ugh!" Either tell the story or don't put it on Facebook. I am not going to ask what happened, especially if I know you won't reply anyway. My future SIL does this sort of thing all the time. It makes me feel stabby.
!!!!!!!!!!
I have a relative who notoriously posts things like "just never thought it could feel this bad!" or "I'M SO OVER IT" or whatever, baiting people into asking her what's wrong. Which nobody does. Clear sign that you need to step away from FB, relative, because NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR NONSENSE.

THIS. i have actually defriended people for this. it's immature and it drives me nuts. stabby...very.

this might be a regional thing, i dunno. but i HATE when power companies take giant chunks out of trees to make room for power lines. it looks RIDICULOUS and it makes me actually get super pissed off when i see it. it cracks DH up to no end, but it makes me BSC!

CatBus · July 2012

auroraloo:
Jessrof:
AndreaR1983:
When a lane of traffic is ending and there are plenty of warning signs yet there are a-holes that feel the need to come flying up the lane that's ending just to cut in front of people.

THIS! I will even put half my car in the ending lane and half in my lane so these douches can't pass... I got over ages ago because I know how to read, what is their excuse?!
How about their excuse is that when a lane is ending you are supposed to lose both lanes as LONG AS POSSIBLE so the backup doesn't end up going for miles and miles and miles?

YES. Which reminds me, I still need to read Tom Vanderbilt's book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About Us). I heard about it a few years back on NPR (article here).

In general, all available traffic lanes should be used as long as they are available and "valid." This means if there's a sign saying "lane ends 1000 feet," drivers should continue to use that lane until the actual merge point. This does not mean that drivers should use an exit lane to pass other traffic, then cut back into regular traffic.

I hate it as much as others here when people break traffic rules, but continuing to use a valid lane of travel for as long as possible is smart and improves traffic flow overall. The assholes are the people who refuse to let those drivers in because they think the other driver "cheated."

gingerchix1980 · July 2012

roxyttandme:

People that park their shopping carts in aisle of the grocery store. It drives me crazy!!!! It just goes to the whole entitlement issues of our country, IMO. They don't give a crap, nor consider others... all they think about is themselves... Makes my skin itch!!!!

When it happens, I just move their cart and proceed. I get glared at sometimes, but I make my point.....

Couldn't agree more. I always move people's carts for them. Especially when I've stood there patiently for a little bit, expecting them to GET THE POINT. Those people and the ones who think they should both stop in the same place, pointing the opposite way and blocking the whole aisle. Grrrrr.

MississippiCatfish · July 2012

LoveLossHopeRepeat:

I get totally overreactive mad about:

1. Momtographers. My cousin's wife just started her "photography business" and despite knowing full-well that the people who may hire her are making their own choices, as they're entitled to, it drives me batshitinsane that she thinks she has the talent to charge people for her pictures. My Mother made me stop talking about it the other day because I was getting so ticked.

2. People who, when stuck in a traffic jam, decide that they have the right to drive on the shoulder. It makes me stabby. Irate. I want to chase them down and yell at them for being an arrogant jackhole.

On the 4th of July, my husband and I saw a red convertible with 4 young guys do this - RACING along the shoulder as we were at a standstill - and were both irritated. A few minutes later, as traffic moved along, we saw that he had been pulled over a few blocks up...it was the best. We seriously both had grins from ear to ear!

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