whats peoples pet peeves

catkins

I've thought of some more!

Tv programmes that show what's coming up and after every break recap what has already been shown. Also programmes that show you what happened on the last episode. I have a bad memory but I can manage to remember what happened in a programme a week ago.

People who ring the bell on the bus when it has already been rung. Sometimes it will be rung 2, 3, 4 times for the same stop. If I were the driver I would be screaming

Customers who seem to think I am some sort of tourist information/shopping expert. I get asked where is xxx bank, where is the cinema, what time does Tesco close, where can I buy balloons, ribbons, book ends, picture frames - I was asked all these questions in the 2 days I worked last week.

People who talk in the cinema, eat noisily in the cinema, use their phones in the cinema

People who talk in concerts. I have paid £100 to hear someone I like sing not listen to someone having an inane conversation

London_Town

A pet peeve of mine is the way advertisers and the media tell me to "grab" something. There's a drinks machine at my gym and it says "grab a bottle for £1". Apart from the price being obscene, I'd rather not "grab" anything thank you. To me, grabbing suggests aggressive, hostile, ill mannered, vulgar behaviour. If I wanted a drink I'd take one not grab one.

SnowyOwl_2

My pet peeves...

• Badly applied fake tan, and fake tan stains around fingers and under nails
• Make up that looks like it was applied by an orangutan, especially foundation which is the wrong colour and ends in a harsh line somewhere around the jaw
• People who look over the shoulder of a person using an ATM
• The use of "break" instead of "brake". Similarly "would of" is actually "would have".
• People who smoke in their cars while there is a child or children with them.
• Shop assistants who put your only purchase into a plastic bag - I really do not need a bag to carry a newspaper or single pint of milk out of the shop, thank you.
• People who refer to female shop assistants as "the girl". Why don't they refer to male shop assistants as "the boy"?
• Misuse of the apostrophe in shop signs eg Buy your summer shoe's and sandals here.
• Cigarette ends being thrown on my drive by visitors to my house. I don't throw rubbish near your front door so please have some manners!
• People who come into my back garden on legitimate business, eg oil delivery man, window cleaner, but who can't or won't close my back garden gate when they leave.
• Children who can't control their footballs or cricket balls yet persist in kicking or batting them around when there are cars parked in the vicinity. This especially annoys me when they hit a car, albeit accidentally, and then run off indoors because they are afraid they have caused damage and don't want to get caught.
• People who buy bicycles or, even worse, quad bikes for their children even though they do not have the space for their children to use those vehicles safely. Pre-teen children on bikes on the road is not safe.
• Getting phone calls late at night and being asked "were you asleep?" then being told "sorry to wake you, it's not urgent". I had very bad sleeping problems for years, and this sort of interruption late in the evening would result in me being awake and anxious the entire night.

Ahh, that's better!

new2012

People who don't read posts properly then comment on things that bear no relationship to the post.

e.g I tried selling my house,

answer as you live in rented accomodation why don't you try to get an exchange.

heretolearn_2

Noisy people in cinemas (under 8s forgiven, otherwise SHUT UP) and people who are too thick to realise that although using their phone to text etc doesn't make a noise it does glare light and ruin the film.

People who eat with their elbows sticking out straight so they need the space of three people at the table or give you a black eye. Bad table manners in general.

Parents who forget that they are in public and do disgusting things to their children for example changing pooey nappies. The other day I was in the bank queue and the mum in front of me had a toddler standing on the back of the buggy. She spent ages going through his hair millimeter by millimetre like a chimp grooming session, picking god knows what out of it (lice? Dandruff? scabs?) and flicking whatever it was on to the floor -yeeeeuk. And THEN she started picking bogies out of his nose with her fingernails. I honest to god felt sick and couldn't get any lunch after that.

devildog

People who eat noisily/with their mouth open and people who have to hold a sandwich with two hands(and usually with their elbows on the table too)

pulliptears

People who, on seeing a very busy car park, park like this...

shell_girl

It's not so much a peeve of mine as it makes me laugh, but I have noticed that lots of people type 'bare' with me when they mean 'bear' with me. I'm tempted to slip off some clothes before I carry on reading the post!

Having said that, once I'd noticed it a few times I then started imagining people growling and eating honey together as well.

ETA I've just realised that I may have set off someone's pet peeve by answering a thread about peeves with something that isn't really a peeve... sorry!!

thriftymanc

devildog wrote: »

people who have to hold a sandwich with two hands

Perhaps I'm just greedy but if I didn't hold my sandwiches with two hands all the filling would fall out!

thriftymanc

People who don't understand public toilet etiquette, i.e.: only occupy a cubicle directly next to another occupied cubicle if there is no other cubicle available.

I can't stand it when you go in public toilets, there are for example three cublcles, all of which are empty, so you go in an end one, and someone else comes in and goes in the middle one right next to you instead of the other end one thereby leaving a polite gap. And of course they then go all quiet for ages like they're listening to you, so you get all nervous and can't go yourself, and it becomes a drawn-out stand-off into who's going to do their business and leave first. If they're shy themselves, why go in a cubicle right next to another person in the first place? Why not give themselves a bit more privacy? They're either numpties, or creeps who really like listening to other people relieve themselves.