whats peoples pet peeves

pinksleepybear

arnoldy wrote: »

People who say "me and my husband" rather than "my husband and I". Presumably they were vacant during the 9-11 years of compulsory education in this country!

Actually, it depends on whether she and her husband are the subject or object in the sentence.

"My husband and I went shopping"; "The waitress served my husband and me"

catch_me_if_you_can

People who press the button at traffic lights and then run across before they've changed so the traffic is stopped for no reason. (And I don't drive but this makes me so mad!)

People who don't seem to consider that using "excuse me (please)" is more polite than just barging past. I put the "please" in brackets as my OH told me that excuse me is sufficient but I think it rude not to say - I am prepared to be wrong but I will always say please! I also thank people for holding doors open for me etc.

People at the post office who spend ages dithering whether they want the ticket for the Counter Services, Travel Money or Special Delivery queue. You must know why you went in the post office!

In supermarkets if the person behind pushes their trolley so far up against me when the conveyor is still fully laden with the person in front's shopping and my trolley hasn't even been unpacked on to it yet - pushing me isn't going to get you served any quicker!

People who come out of/go into shops and stop dead right in the doorway to have a conversation.

Parents who cross the road between parked cars and push the pram/pushchair out into the traffic so they can see if it's safe to cross - makes me go cold every time.

indebtinsussex

I have another one, people with dogs who let them poo everywhere and dont pick it up, was letting my dd toddle about this morning and someone let their dog poo at the end of our drive, so nearly took her arm out trying to stop her toddling in the poo.

also when I was 8 months pregnant someones dog pooed all over our garden and my ds walked across the garden through the poo and all through the hall, I was absolutely fuming, my front garden is not a poo station for a dog

if you cant clean up after it in public, you shouldnt have one

and people who do clean up the dog poo and put it in the little bags but then sling the bag on the floor, that really gets on my norks

georgiesmum

ivylinn wrote: »

Public whistlers :mad:

My hubby is one of those. Sounds like a demented budgie.:mad:

Toto

· People who stand in doorways chatting.

· People who stand chatting at the bottom of escalators.

· People who use sat instead of sitting, "I'm sat here waiting for the bus"

· Chewing gum, if I wished to see a cow chewing the cud I'd visit a farm.

· People who scrape their fork on their teeth with every mouthful.

· Misplaced apostrophes. CD’s drives me insane.

· People who feel the need to share every ‘funny’ thing their child has done/said. I’m actually not that interested in my own kids, never mind yours. And, for the record, most of the time, you needed to be there.

· Children swearing.

moneypuddle

people who use 'messy' to describe a night out. It just makes it sound so gross

Toto

Oh, and adverts. Almost all adverts irritate me but especially that LV insurance advert, dum diddy dum diddy AGGHH. They could give the insurance away and I still wouldn't want it.

olibrofiz

people who don't teach their kids to ASK before touching a strange dog :mad:, and kids that don't listen when you say don't touch - two scenarios:

1. have you not noticed, that while you're chatting to your mate. your 5 year old has come over and now has my doberman in a head lock and it's eyes are popping out/your 10 year old has wrested the dog to the floor - fortunately dog was bombproof, but you didn't know that, and it could have been really, really, really nasty

2. please don't touch the sweet looking cocker spaniel, she doesn't like children, or strangers - cue 12 year old lunging at said dog, smacking it on the back and having to run like hell when it turned into the cartoon character 'Taz' :mad:

SingleSue

People being late or making me late (the boys!), I detest that.

People forgetting to say, or just not having the manners to say, please or thankyou.

Fellow car drivers, driving close to the rear of my car because they want to go 40+ in a 30, it is not safe nor clever.

The use of their, there and they're, lose and loose and the correct use of each one.

Text speak in text messages, msn conversations and even more, posts on forums.

johnatho

(should be a hanging offense)

People who use an S instead of a C

Offence, licence.