Pet Peeves

[Jenster]

*rant beginning*

I don't understand why some people offer to "help" after you've expressed a specific need. But they have very little idea how to help you so they just stand around waiting for you to approve of what they're doing. It's worse than having no help because then you have to babysit someone while YOU take care of your own need!! I could do it faster myself!

*rant over*

 

[marezee]

our pool is looking kind of green.

 

[Jenster]

Stupid things that should work, but don't. I'm trying to get my credit report online. The first Web site asked me a bunch of questions and then wouldn't give me my report. The second Web site provided a link to my credit report, but the link didn't work. Now I'm dealing with "customer service" to get what should be free but is definitely not easy to obtain.

 

[marezee]

a car parked in front of our house with no plates, and the police or the town is doing nothing about it!!!!!

 

[virtualgirl]

poison oak

 

[GritsnGrace]

People who run in to the store, two minutes until closing time, and grab a buggy!!! Umm, it is 1:00 am!!! We want to go home!!Then when they get to the check out, they ahve nothing ready!! Oh, I left my wallet in the car, can you wait til I get it?? Umm, you came into the store to shop, why do you not have your money???

 

[marezee]

weeding my garden

 

[Jenster]

We all have pet peeves. Isn't it nice that sometimes -- sometimes -- someone gets their come uppance as well? Today I was in the grocery store parking lot, in my car. A woman comes up; she has parked her minivan in a "compact" space next to me. She opens her door and HITS my car with it, but is she the least bit concerned? Nope. I am miffed. I try to catch her eye, but she avoids looking at me. She backs out, and I get out of my car to check if there's a ding on my door. Even then, she doesn't look at me, doesn't acknowledge that she's done anything. I watch her as she drives away and -- get this -- I notice that she's left a paper cup of coffee on the roof of the car. As she turns out of the lot, the cup goes flying, dumping the coffee onto her car -- and probably into her open window. I'll admit: I laughed out loud.

 

[CoolMom6]

We all have pet peeves. Isn't it nice that sometimes -- sometimes -- someone gets their come uppance as well? Today I was in the grocery store parking lot, in my car. A woman comes up; she has parked her minivan in a "compact" space next to me. She opens her door and HITS my car with it, but is she the least bit concerned? Nope. I am miffed. I try to catch her eye, but she avoids looking at me. She backs out, and I get out of my car to check if there's a ding on my door. Even then, she doesn't look at me, doesn't acknowledge that she's done anything. I watch her as she drives away and -- get this -- I notice that she's left a paper cup of coffee on the roof of the car. As she turns out of the lot, the cup goes flying, dumping the coffee onto her car -- and probably into her open window. I'll admit: I laughed out loud.

 

[country woman]

no baby wipes where I work

 

[virtualgirl]

Having something break just after the warranty has expired.

 

[Auncy]

Having something break just after the warranty has expired.

Or, having something break just after you bought it.

 

[marezee]

having bought a quick set pool with a filter/pump, and not being able to find replacement cartridges for the filter! ANYWHERE!
then having to buy a new pool with a bigger filter because it was more economical to do that then to purchase a new filter/pump!

 

[Jenster]

People who open their mouths and can't stop talking for what-feels-like 5 minutes. My goodness! My cousin calls it "diarrhea of the mouth." lol.

 

[LovebirdsFlying]

I simply cannot read through all 14 pages of this interesting thread at one time, so I hope I'm not duplicating.

Saying "nuke-you-lar." (Mike is guilty of this.) The correct pronunciation is "nuke-lee-ar." Look at the way the word is spelled, "nuclear," and note that there is no vowel between the C and the L.

Typing "u" for "you" and "ur" for "your" or "you are." Textspeech and Lolspeech in general just look uneducated to me. (We need a rolling-eyes smiley.)

Confusing "it's" with "its." The contraction "it's" is short for "it is." The possessive "its" does not take an apostrophe. The cat yowled when I stepped on it is tail? No, that doesn't make sense. So the correct word is "its tail," not "it's tail."

Pronouncing letters that are supposed to be silent. The T in "often" is supposed to be dropped, although enough people put it in, that the dictionary now includes both pronunciations with the dropped T first. My mother pronounces the B in "subtle," and I'm sorry but it sounds ignorant.

 

[GritsnGrace]

Customers who abuse the Mega Sales at stores, wind up paying $2.00 for 6 bottles of shampoo, and 4 rolls of paper towels, leave the store, come back in, and do it again. Then they get made if we call them on it!

 

[ww2pigeon]

My pet peeve:

People that don't let God do the judging and judge other based on what they think they Know. It is not my job, to judge others, I am a very flawed human being, trying to live as God ask me to do.
Matt. 7:1-2

1.Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2.For with what judgement ye judge , ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

 

[dpadre]

My pet peeve: People who dispense the toilet paper facing the wall. =o

 

[marezee]

i dislike it when people spit their toothpaste out in the sink and don't wash the sink afterwards! blech! it just takes a rinse people!

 

[camping family]

Getting out of the shower and realizing all the bath towels are downstairs in the dirty laundry!!