Pet peeves of mine

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I’m not angry enough to post this in the Pit, but there are some things that have been annoying me that I need to get off my chest

  1. People who say they’re going to do something with me and then back out on it. I’m moving away next year. It’s not very far away, since I live in a suburb and am just going deeper into the city. It’s not like I’m not going to see any of my friends ever again, but I know I’ll see them a lot less than I do now. I have this friend, I don’t usually hang out with her alone, just when we’re in a group of friends mostly because she’s a bit anti social. But since I know I’m moving away, I was trying to make sure I would spend more time with her so at least I can say “I tried to spend as much time with my friends as I could in case I really don’t see them again.” Several time, I’ve asked her to lunch with me. Several times, she’s said yes, only an hour before the scheduled lunch, she calls me with some lame excuse of why she can’t go. Once it was because she forgot she had promised to go over to her aunt’s place. Another time, her mother asked her for lunch and she couldn’t put her mother off. Yet another time, her brother had some sort of an accident with a knife and his finger is hanging on by the skin. It goes on and everytime, the excuses get more absurd. I mean, I wouldn’t mind as much if she just outright said “I’m sorry 7 up yours, but I don’t see the point of trying to get closer when you’re leaving anyway.” I would be hurt for a while, but at least I’d be hurt with plans with other friends. What annoys me about her backing out on these lunches is I could have easily asked someone else to do lunch with me. Giving me an hour before lunch usually leaves me with friends who have already eaten, who already have plans, who don’t feel like going out, who don’t like being called up an hour before lunch feeling like they’re a backup plan. I wasted so much time, but at least now, I’ve just stopped bothering to talk to her.

  2. Arrogance. Even worse than arrogance are the people who make everything into about themselves. So I’m walking along discussing different things with my friends, and this person I’m not even really friends with, (she just comes along whenever she feels like) starts butting in into conversations. She then starts saying everything like she’s better than everyone else. None of us really likes her and tries to avoid her as much as we can, but sometimes, she just shows up on our doorsteps and tags along. Not only is she arrogant, she’s thick too. Can’t seem to understand that people don’t want her around.

  3. Whiners. “What do you mean you can’t drop everything and come over here just so I can whine some more about how my boyfriend said something I didn’t like even though it wasn’t really that offensive? I thought you were my friends. WAAAAAH.” Enough said.

  4. CDs that skip. No, actually, I mean friends who borrow my CDs and leave them out and get the dirty or slightly scratched making them skip the next time I listen to them. Easily solved by a disc cleaning kit, but it pisses me off when I’m in the mood to listen to a CD only to find that I have to spend five minutes cleaning a CD. Mood gone by the time the thing’s wiped clean.

  5. Laptop keyboards. I keep doing typos on those nasty things.

  6. Me when I get into a pet peeve rant mostly about people because some of them are just so god damn stupid.

Oi.

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People who post rants in MPSIMS . . . off to The Pit.

Cajun Man ~ SDMB Moderator

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I can relate to the first rant. I once new this girl, she lived in California but was visiting here in Oregon with her parents. At first, we seemed to be good friends, but after a while, she started avoiding me. At the time I was a very nieve person, and didn’t realize she was avoiding me, untill some mutual friends said that they saw her hanging out with other people the nights she told me she was working, or cleaning the house, or whatever b.s. she gave me as a reason for not being able to hang out with me. The night before she left to go back to California, I confronted her on it. Here’s the b.s she said…and I was actually dumb enough to believe it! “Sometimes when I get close to people I hurt them, so I tried not to get close to you to avoid hurting you.”
Actually, this was all years ago, and I haven’t remained bitter about it :smiley:

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Oh, and since this thread is extremely mild, I’ll list a pet peeve of my own, which is nothing really, but still annoying.
I’m walking somewhere one way, somebody else is walking towards me. They ask me how I’m doing, then continue to walk away, thus not giving me a chance to answer them. Now obviously they don’t really care how I’m doing, they’re just giving me a polite greeting. But that being the case, all they have to do is say “Hey.” or “Hi.” or give a nod, or something like that. Asking questions while you’re walking away just seems rude to me.

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One of my pet peeves would have to be people who are habitually late…it shows their arrogance in thinking others will always wait for them.