Peeves

[Gordon]

A neighbor of mine, down the alley from me, has a car that everyone in the block can always hear because it needs a new muffler. I honestly think they like the fact their car is noisy, but it's obnoxious and annoying, and I hate it.

Enough said.

Next?

 

[lloorren]

Gaaah that reminds me that some guy (who years after he moved found out was my boyfriend's father) that would just obnoxiously revvvv his motorcycle in the middle of the night or all during the day, it was loud and irritating. There are people who get motorcycles thinking the law doesn't apply to them... But it DOES! Not that all people who have motorcycles are bad, but there are some obnoxious people, and Ryan's dad was addicted to a lot of drugs til the point of dementia/brain damage/schizophrenia so knowing that, I could imagine him forgetting that he revved his engine like 5 minutes after doing it and going to do it again.

Other pet peeves, I guess any time I see a high schooler that skips all the time and does drugs. I know family situations when they are stuck around should I say either troubled or uneducated parents, it truly rubs off on the child's ability to handle stress and to take the real world seriously at all. I'm only 19 but when this kid comes over that is friends with my boyfriend, his stories that he thinks are funny just make me really upset. He needs to seriously consider what he's giving up by not taking his education seriously.

I have too many pet peeves, some more minor ones:

I hate when people leave the microwave open
Chewing with mouth open and talking!!
When my bunny goes behind the aquarium! There was and old bag of fish pellets that spilled behind there that we can barely reach and she finds them and chews away
When people come over and just leave an empty container of whatever they were drinking/eating on the table! If you use the garbage, you save this peeve.

 

[slavetoabunny]

We had a neighbor in California that we affectionately dubbed "stereo boy". Need I explain? I can't tell you how many times we called the police on him.

Some of my pet peeves (in no particular order) are:

People that are never on time.
Drivers that don't use turn signals, tailgate you, or hog the left lane.
Sloppy guests.

That's the short list!

 

[kirbyultra]

People who waste my time

people who do stupid things even though they asked for advice (then didn't consider it)

when people smoke in crowded public places against the law

people who don't let anyone else get a word in the conversation

 

[degrassi]

Gordon wrote:

A neighbor of mine, down the alley from me, has a car that everyone in the block can always hear because it needs a new muffler. I honestly think they like the fact their car is noisy, but it's obnoxious and annoying, and I hate it.

Enough said.

Next?

Check to see if your city has a noisy vehicle bylaw, or what your noise bylaws cover.


My pet peeves are

- People who are late. There is nothing more disrespectful then being late. Your time is not more valuable then mine.
- People who don't use signal lights. I just started driving a few years ago and this was one of the first things I noticed. Lots of people dont' signal!!!
- People who make noise when they breath or breath through their mouth. I can't stand it.
- When people dont' have manners. Does it kill you to hold open a door for someone or give up your seat to a old person or say please and thank you. Treat people with respect and respect your elders. It seems kids these days(that makes me sounds really old but i'm only 26) aren't taught manners and its really sad.

 

[anneq]

Gordon wrote:

A neighbor of mine, down the alley from me, has a car that everyone in the block can always hear because it needs a new muffler. I honestly think they like the fact their car is noisy, but it's obnoxious and annoying, and I hate it.

Enough said.

Next?

I can understand this - but, a couple years back we had a REALLY old (30yr.old Ford station-wagon) car that needed a new muffler - well, we literally did NOT have the money to get a new muffler - we were lucky to be able to get our utilities paid - I'm sure it irritated some people (some joked about it - sounded like a helicopter coming in)...I know some guys like very loud cars, and that does irritate me - but if it's for another reason, I'd try to be a bit more understanding, lol.

My #1 pet peeve?
CELL-PHONE conversations that I truly, sincerely DO NOT want to hear!! If it's that personal, find some place more private to conduct your conversation -not out in public!

#2 Tail-gating - I'm tempted to put a bumper sticker on my car saying: I'll go faster if you will pay my insurance. I literally have had only 2 speeding tickets in my lifetime of 30yrs of driving - the last one was 6mos.ago - I was going 39mph in a 30mph zone. The one before that - 65mph in a 55mph.

#3 Telemarketers Do you HONESTLY believe I'm going to be happy to hear you at 8pm in the evening? Or better yet - at 6pm when we're just sitting down to dinner?

#4 Sales personal that cannot be bothered to utter more than one syllable words as I spend my money in their store. I may like the products in your store, but I'm very less likely to want to shop there if you demonstrate by manner & conversation that dealing with another person is just a pain to you.

 

[degrassi]

- When people text on their phones when we are having a conversation! Its so rude!!! I have one friend that does it all the time. We were even playing xbox and he would be texting while we were playing them game. I got fed up and threw his phone across the room. Now he knows I mean it when I say dont' txt

 

[mardigraskisses]

-The phrase "I don't mean to be racist/sexist/rude/offensive but..."

-People who honk their horn.

-Guys who shout "AY GURL, AY! COME OVER HERE MAMI" from across the street.

-Strangers who shout anything at you, ever.

-Dentists who pretend they aren't even working on you, and carry on full conversations with the people in the next room.


Hah, this list could go on forever.

 

[Mrs. PBJ]

On the loud car thing I have the smae problem my car os loud but we are not sure why we have taken it to a machanic and they say everything is fine but we set off car alarms. When we start the car.

I biggest pet peeve is kids that act stupid is a store. I one time grabs this ladys kid that would not leave me alone and took him to his mother and said controle your child.

The other bigs thing in washing hands it really bothers me when people dont wash there hands right.

And people that come to my house and say my dog is itching it has flees and I tell them what to get and they say I dont have the money when they have cable and very nice cloths. I am known aorund the complex as the go to girl fpr anything et related

 

[kirbyultra]

I agree with so many of these!!!! It made me chuckle to read them as I am nodding in agreement. great thread!

Adding one more: sorry parents out there, but it grinds my gears when small children scream wildly in public places. I don't mean like a park. I mean in a restaurant, theater, train car, bus, plane, etc. And I get it, sometimes you cannot control he kids' screaming but there are parents who literally sit there reading a book as if oblivious to the intense noise while everyone else is staring and wondering why the child is yelling and bawling. It drives me nuts!

 

[anneq]

kirbyultra wrote:

I agree with so many of these!!!! It made me chuckle to read them as I am nodding in agreement. great thread!

Adding one more: sorry parents out there, but it grinds my gears when small children scream wildly in public places. I don't mean like a park. I mean in a restaurant, theater, train car, bus, plane, etc. And I get it, sometimes you cannot control he kids' screaming but there are parents who literally sit there reading a book as if oblivious to the intense noise while everyone else is staring and wondering why the child is yelling and bawling. It drives me nuts!

LoL ....oooh I can so relate to this. Probably why for a VERY long time my husband and I did not frequent the nicer restaurants when our kids were small. Granted I've had people come up and comment on how well-behaved my kids are, but I've seen this so often - parents acting as though everyone else should have to put up with their kids...and don't even get me started on parents who WON"T control their kids in the grocery store. I'd have 'the talk' with my kids when they were little right before we went into the store - if they started acting up, OUT we went.

 

[Brandy456]

Uhhm
- When I can hear people chew.. even if their mouth is closed.
- People who breath heavily
- People who are obviously thinner then I and think their fat
- Dog owners that dont use leashes
- People who couch and don't even bother to cover their mouth
- People who think their 'all that and a mars bar'
-WHen people make that flemmy noise before they spit
- People who suck their teeth
-People who don't control their kids in public

- People who are obnoxiously loud at sit-down restaurants (like if we're going to pay 25$ a plate, SHUT UP. =) )

- People who say the F word every 2 words

- People who stare at me in silence

- People who don't clean the sink after they brush their teeth

-People who come in my home and tell ME what to do.

- People who assume what i'm saying/people who talk for me.

- People who touch my food/drink my drink without asking.

- People who stand behind me and watch whatever i'm doing (computer/homework) and critisize.



I'm a very irritable person, i know

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Brandy456 wrote:

I'm a very irritable person, i know

We bunny people seem to be an easily irritated bunch :biggrin2:

My #1 killer peeve is disrespect for food... spitting it out, complaining about it, not finishing whats on the plate.

Body Odour is #2.

Apart from that, not much else really gets me going except the screaming kids w/ oblivious parents (as mentioned).

I think I should join a convent, where all is quiet, all the time

 

[kirbyultra]

Maybe that's why we luv rabbits, Autumn. We appreciate quiet

 

[BethM]

I agree with a lot of these. Especially the uncontrolled kids in public. Also, parents who get mad at *me* when I'm just walking in the store, and their unruly kids fail to pay attention to where they are walking and run into me. Come on, it is not my fault when I'm minding my own business and they run into me.

People who can't sit still. People who channel-surf non-stop. Ugh! Pick something and watch it, or turn the tv off!!!!

 

[mardigraskisses]

BethM wrote:

People who can't sit still.

OMG my boyfriend is a drummer, and even at night when we're going to bed he's always fidgeting his legs and tapping and it drives me nuts!

And my other friend paces constantly when she gets bored. It makes me so nervous.

They're both totally unaware of how nerve racking it is. :biggrin2:

 

[kirbyultra]

BethM wrote:

Also, parents who get mad at *me* when I'm just walking in the store, and their unruly kids fail to pay attention to where they are walking and run into me. Come on, it is not my fault when I'm minding my own business and they run into me.

:yeahthat:

 

[Pekoe]

NorthernAutumn wrote:

My #1 killer peeve is disrespect for food... spitting it out, complaining about it, not finishing whats on the plate.

I have to agree with this! Especially if I am making a big meal and somebody decides to eat something right beforehand, while I am standing there making this food. Pickiness about food is a HUGE pet peeve for me.

Anyways!

-Girls who dye their hair bleach blonde when it is so obviously unnatural.

-People who think they're always right/act superior.

-People who don't bother to learn about looking after their animals properly.

-People who think all pit bulls are killers, or believe the 'locking jaw' myth. Honestly?

I could think of more if I tried... but I'll just stop there xD.

 

[undergunfire]

Uhm.....people are my pet peeve (which most of you seem to have the same pet peeve as me) LOL.

:bunnydance:

 

[BethM]

Pekoe wrote:

NorthernAutumn wrote:

My #1 killer peeve is disrespect for food... spitting it out, complaining about it, not finishing whats on the plate.

I have to agree with this! Especially if I am making a big meal and somebody decides to eat something right beforehand, while I am standing there making this food. Pickiness about food is a HUGE pet peeve for me.

LOL! I'm SUPER picky about food. Sorry, but I think it's more disrespectful to lie about liking something I just don't like. And I try to be very healthy about my food choices, so I also won't eat something that's outright unhealthy, or goes against my preferred food choices.

I actually get annoyed when people eat everything on their plates, even if they're already full. Especially when they lay around later complaining that they ate too much.