Pet Peeves

What are your biggest pet peeves?

Today I saw a woman hit her toddler to punish him for hitting. Fucking HELLO moron!!!
That drives me up the wall. That and people who hit their toddlers because they're acting up or being too noisy in public. Do you think that the kid screaming from being hit is better? Grrr....
That's my biggest peeve at the moment.

Oh, and Grammar Nazis. Get a fucking life.

Laws that limit cell phone use to hands-free while driving, as though the act of holding a cell phone is what causes so many accidents... People who use the walkie-talkie cell phones, and those with horrible cell phone etiquette in general... You are not the only person in the room or the general area that surrounds you, you are not your fuckin khakis... wait a sec...

that drives me crazy

I'm still a sucker for Fight Club references.

Mine is loud gum chewing, people who go SHHHH to strangers (it dosen't fucking help, just causes them to be like WHAT!? etc. more noise) People who don't clean off their tables at places with huge THANK YOU trash cans so I end up doing it to be able to get a table. Plus like all the ones you guys said, and a ton more.

"Adult" males who can't seem to wipe their asses without getting it all over the toilet seat. If they are able to hold a job, they should be able to wipe their asses appropriately. And if they can't, then they need to clean up after themselves, hire an attendant to follow them around and take care of it, or call their mom, wife, or girlfriend to come into the office and do it for them like they probably do at home.

i hate when adults act like children...they start arguments with strangers over the moststupid unimportant things...and often very loudly...or people lay into their car horn continously especialy if there is no way the cars infront of them could move either...im done.

One of my biggest pet peeves is the term pet peeve. I don't know why.

That's funny. It is an annoying term.

Asshole drivers. I've been to a few places in this country, but down here in Florida where the streets SHOULD be the safest because it's all wide, level, straight roads with (usually) little rain, the drivers SUCK! It's pretty typical that about once a day someone tries to merge INTO my car. They look right at me (as if to check for clearance), usually look me in the eye, go back to staring straight forward and then pull the steering wheel sharply in my direction. Most of them look back at me (I suppose to make sure I got out of their way) to find that I"M STILL THERE!

When these dicks try to usurp the entire road, I generally find some way to feed it back to them and then stare at them for the next few minutes. Oh...they see me and generally end up braking and getting really far back in traffic to escape my 'evil eye'.

About 5 weeks ago, a HUGE-ASSED garbage truck drove me totally off the road. I hit the center median at 45 MPH and when I got back on the road, my car was FUCKED! There was no warning -- within about a second ~3 feet of this giant truck was in my lane. Phun.

I wouldn't mind if all these were just accidents, but it's either: 1.) cocky assholes who think they own everything, or 2.) people who don't pay enough attention/have the brainpower to drive. Ugh.

I lived in Florida for two years and found that they are the worst drivers ever if only because it's the worst drivers from all around the US (mostly New England) and transplanted to a different location. I remember stopping at a red light on my motorcycle and this guy in a BMW with New York plates comes screaming up behind me (I just stopped as it had just turned, but he was trying to run it). I spent the better part of the light yelling at him about how here in America, we stop on red, as well as describing the difference between red and green. The people in the other cars were laughing, that guy, not so much.

I think most of my pet peeves come from driving too. People who have to speed up and cut me off just to then slow down to 10 mph under the limit (I hardly ever break the speed limit, but I do go as fast as allowed by law). People who don't stop at stop signs, especially people who squeeze in after someone who was just stopped. People who need an engraved invitation to proceed at an intersection. If you have enough time to cross the street in a leisurly walk, you have enough time to move your ass in a car.

Some other non-driving related pet peeves include being a distraction in a movie theater (phones, talking or other), waitresses who use my first name after hearing it overheard in my conversation and pretty much anyone who I don't know talking to me. Ok, so that last one isn't so much a pet peeve as it is a debilitating social disorder, but I'm counting it anyway.

people on trains who feel the need to shout in to their phones so the entire carriage gets to know what they're planning that night.

I really don't give a fuck, so shut the fuck up you fucking irritant

^ people who swear too much

Women who enable these men.

people who mumble.

people who swear at their kids, or other peoples.

people who hit their kids for any reason.

when people dig there hands in my food! i dont give a shit who u are!
When assholes walk up esculators(considering there are stairs) and want me to stand to the right so they can walk up...Take the STAIRS!
When people sneeze or cough with out coving their mouth.
Subserviant women...

now im mad!

People who feel the need to enter your personal space without reason, like strangers in line at the store. People who get real close to talk to you when they don't need to. When you don't really know someone but they touch you. People who spit profusely when they talk, and pretend not to notice they just gave you a shower. People who are rude to others without provocation. People who are always in a hurry to get somewhere. Crying babies/loud people at the movie theater. People who use words without knowing what the meaning is. People who let their 8 year old daughter leave the house dressed like an underage prostitute. When you let someone into traffic and they don't give you the 'thank you' wave, people who don't know what blinkers are for. Belligerent drunks. When the people at McDonalds hide the onions under the pickles after I ask very politely for no onions. The guys in front of the gas stations who attempt to pick me up in broken english when all I want is a fucking pack of cigarettes and a Dr. Pepper. People who don't have enough common courtesy to say please/thank you. People who don't control their very large, scary dogs in public. Um, I guess I have a lot of pet peeves. This list could go on forever.

tomatoes = pure evil

ironically, and completely honestly, pet peeves (not just the word - but the things themelves) are my pet peeve. it's just so petty right? but by having a pet peeve ... well, i'm caught in a downward spiral of self loathing.

Along those same lines, I hate when someone asks me a question then either interrupts or walks away while I'm in the middle of answering. I also hate at work when I'm asked something, and I give an answer only to hear, "Are you sure?"

Oh and I forgot the worst. When I am talking online to my husband and I have my webcam up and strangers are like "Can I c ur cam?" The first one is a very polite "No, sorry, don't cam with strangers, attempting to talk to my husband right now, but you have a nice day." And then it goes "Plz? I c u r very prty by ur pic, r u doing nasty things w/ur hub on cam?" That is when my head officially *asplodes* And then I get called a stuck up bitch and then the ignore function on Yahoo doesn't work. Here I am trying to talk to my husband, he is in another whole farking country, and some asshat from freaking India wants to see my tits. It would be great if Yahoo would actually allow me to stay 'invisible' for one entire freaking conversation.

oh yeah and people who post way too much on simple boards. i mean what kind of weiner really types that much?

(insert self deprecation smiley here)

spitting in the street

Yep. I hate random spitting, too. What's the point of that, anyway!?