whats peoples pet peeves

Lovelyjoolz

People who pronounce 'th' as 'f', e.g. free when they mean three. That drives me up the wall - don't they realise it makes them sound thick?

People who say 'possessed' when they mean 'obsessed'.

The dreadful misuse of the apostrophe. Come on people! It really isn't difficult!

My OH leaving doors open all the time - the lounge just gets cosy and he'll go out into the hall and leave the door wide open. Arrgh!

My OH jiggling his feet about in bed at night. Especially if we're lying in the 'spoons' position and his feet keep nudging mine - I hate that!

Alizarin

People who don't indicate at roundabouts (my current catchphrase is "nice indication, d!ckwad!")
Apostrophies where they are not needed ("Now open on Sunday's")
Other incorrect grammar and spelling in signage ("Can't find what your looking for?")

And most of all, this!:

pigpen wrote: »

Other people in general.

Olokia

People who say wrong things.

I was in france at their christmas town "zoo" (they have rabbits and guinea-pigs in one pen, sheep and goats in another pen). I overheard some guy telling his child "Do you know what that is? It's a hamster". While pointing at the guinea-pig!

I was fighting the urge to correct him and laugh at him at the same time. I had to walk away.

People who say ect when they mean etc and brought when they mean bought.

Marisco

tea_lover wrote: »

I'm on a roll now

I realise I'll probably get flamed for this but nevermind! People who don't work who go shopping at lunchtime or a saturday morning. The amount of old people in town at 1pm is a nightmare! Once I've retired and have a choice of when to go, I certainly won't choose when all the office people are running around trying to fit everything into a 30min lunch break.

Also, people who wander off from their trollies then tut at you when you move it out of the way.

That used to be a particular bug bear with me as well. Not Sat morning though!! I just couldn't understand why people with all the time in the world picked lunch hours!! Still don't and I'm now retired! The only time I go into town of a lunchtime, is to have lunch once a week with my mate who still works where I used to. She fills me in on the gossip etc!

Alizarin

Lovelyjoolz wrote: »

People who pronounce 'th' as 'f', e.g. free when they mean three.

When I first met my OH, he used to say "thinger" and "fumb". I worked very hard over the next few years to correct him.

I blame his mother as she's terrible with pronouncing words right. She says "chicking" instead of "chicken" and it drives me mad. I'm so glad when we go round for dinner and it's beef! :rotfl:

janey183

:mad:BAD TIME KEEPING!
OMG, I literaly go INSANE if someone is late, my pulse goes up and I think Im going to explode, even typing it here is making me get mad!
I would rather be 2 hours early for something than 2 mins late:mad:

richardw

When you get a bill with an envelope to pay the bill and 3 pages of A4 paper.

19lottie82

another one related to busy high streets....

groups of people (usually the elderly or families with young kids) who decide to crab walk @ 2 mph, taking up the whole pavement and preventing anyone from over taking them!

pulliptears

Olokia wrote: »

People who say wrong things.

i.e my mother, who on returning from a recent blood test was telling me how little Lobotomist's were paid on the NHS.

Through tears of laughter I explained she probably meant Phlebotomist, but NHS Lobotomies sound like a reasonable solution for some folk I know.

minerva_windsong

flutterby_lil wrote: »

Cars that don't indicate and pull out in front of you.

To follow on from that, drivers who don't indicate when turning a corner and then have the cheek to beep at you for daring to try and cross the road under the impression you weren't about to risk life and limb. If your indicators don't work then that's your lookout, and if you're choosing not to use them then that's probably breaking road rules.

I would also like to add people on trains who don't understand the concept of the phrases 'use all available space' and 'please move down inside the carriage' to my list of pet peeves. Other people want to get on too y'know!