A lot of pet peeves are shared by many. But what little things bother you and you are convinced it’s pretty much only you that cares?
Mine:
I don’t like when I tell people they should try a food and they take a microscopic bite. Or they tense up, take a tiny bite, and immediately decide they don’t like it. I feel like you have to really “want” to like a food and take a regular size bite. Again, just me.
I have others, but they are probably shared by more people. Anyone have anything else that you think bothers just you?
I watch the local new every night at 6pm, I hate, hate, hate ‘The wheel of Fortune’ music. My peeve is when I can’t get the channel changed, quickly enough, before that music starts.
Misplacement of adverbs such as “just.” (You aren’t doing it, BTW.)
For example, if I was speaking to you and you alone, and I said “I was just talking to you” what I would be saying is that I was only talking to you as opposed to also poking you with a sharp stick. What I should have said is “I was talking to just you.”
I also hate, hate, hate when I order something from eBay or Amazon marketplace, and they send it in one of those padded envelopes that has a tear strip for opening, and the sender has put shipping tape over the strip, so you have to find scissors, and worry you will damage the item when you cut the envelop. This happens ALL THE TIME.
No, I got what you meant. I was agreeing with you, except I was saying that my particular bugbear is “only” as opposed to “just.” People make essentially the same error with both words. They are not always synonyms, but they can be in some cases, and when they are, they are subject to the same error. Somehow, “only” clangs against my ear when it is wrong, more than the misplaced “just” does, but after this conversation, I will probably start noticing all the “justs” as well.
Speaking of misplaced words, it drives me nuts when people misuse a reflexive pronoun, usually the personal one. They are often trying to avoid choosing between “I” and “me” as the object of a preposition, because while their lizard brain knows it should be the objective pronoun, they have been corrected so many times for using the objective form incorrectly as children, their higher brain is afraid ever to use it, so they reach for the reflexive pronoun, which no one has ever taught them to use correctly, so they’ve never been reprimanded for using it, and they figure it can do no wrong. Even Sheldon Cooper uses it wrong practically once an episode.
My pharmacy puts my Rx in a ziploc bag, and then staples the printout to the ziploc bag, not just defeating the purpose of ziploc in the first place, but rendering it useless for any future use in my fridge. So the only real effect is to bloat the consumer cost of pharmacy, and to add plastic to the landfill.
Well, anyone who drives a big rig probably shares this one with me, but middle lane loafers on a six-lane highway.
My state has a keep right law on any highway where the speed limit is 65 miles per hour or more. It does not change to “keep middle” just because they add a third lane. But when they add that third lane, it’s off limits to truckers, so middle lane loafers effectively prevent truckers from passing anyone unless there’s space on the right. They usually tend to be the oblivious types, as well, so they’re often doing about 15 or 20 miles below the posted limit, unaware of anyone behind them.
There are numerous signs reminding them that they need to “keep right except to pass,” but they remain glued to the center lane even when the 90-year-old grandma’s are flipping them off for going too slow.
What’s worse, is there really isn’t any justification for staying in the center. This is the Maine Turnpike from Scarborough to the New Hampshire line. It sees a fair amount of traffic, but on-ramps and off-ramps are far enough apart that there is no need to leave the right lane free for merging and exiting traffic, like there might be in a congested city area. It’s just flat out lazy driving.
I don’t like the phrase “please advise” in an email (that’s the only place I’ve ever seen it). I think one of my past clients used it in a very passive-aggressive way and it has made me cringe for years.
Why not “what do you think?” Or “how can you help?” or “what can we do about this?” Or “can you fix it?” “Please advise” sounds so snarky.
My number 1 pet peeve is pull-doors that look like push-doors (and vice versa). Pull-doors should have a distinctive loop handle to grab onto and push-doors should have a flat plate or bar to push on. Anything else is a design failure.
People who put the year stickers all over their rear license plate. It goes on the lower right hand corner over the previous year sticker, not all over the rest of the plate so I can’t decipher the actual plate number.
I love, Love, LOVE issuing citations to the retards (yes, RETARDS! Bite me!) who do this and have yet to have 1 single person not get convicted on the zillion cites I’ve issued for it.
I also know of no other cop who hates this shit as much as me. Hence my contribution to this thread.
PCV system on cars and Catalytic Converters. Let’s cycle oily blow by back into the intake and bottleneck the exhaust. Can’t they find a better way to protect the environment or are we stuck sacrificing performance and dirtying up everything?
The biggest one is when I am walking in the same direction as someone and meet head on and step sideways only to have them do the same, then do it again with the same result. Laughable and a forgettable thing for some but makes me want to grab and throw them inside a garbage can, actually possible with the rage it gives me.
Just easier for the tags to get stolen (yeah, I can’t believe it happens either) when not in the little recessed area. Can’t take 5 minutes to take the old one off? That lazy? You deserve a ticket.
Stubborn tag? Oil and a Flathead screwdriver, comes right off.
On the note of the ease of this; I score mine with a razor and cover it with clear tape after application. If they get under the tape, it’ll tear off in 10 annoyingly small thumbnail-sticking sections/can’t be reused. It’s amazing how many people don’t do this.
Broadly, glass doors, and specifically, in fast food restaurants. I can’t find the exit at Burger King.
Three walls are entirely windows. Only one window moves if you push it. That’s the door. Sometimes there are two doors next to each other. Only one of them opens. Guess which one. Pull one, then push it, then pull the other, then push it. Then you notice the sign that says Please use west door. You just came off a freeway exit and drove around the building. Which way is west?
When someone asks me “what I’m going to order” at a restaurant. I HATE that question. I think it goes back to childhood, and my Mom would ask me that, and then argue about my choice, so I had to pick something else. God I hated that. The question still irks the hell out of me.
I hate how the use of double negatives has become so commonplace that people just accept it as part of how people talk these days. No, godammit. If a sports star says “They couldn’t do nothin to our defense” the reporter needs to call them out and ask “They couldn’t do nothing?”,or “They couldn’t do anything?” I think you mean “Couldn’t do anything.” When you say “Couldn’t do nothin” that actually means they could do something and makes you sound like an uneducated moron. So, would you like to try again?
