# Pet Peeves only you have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001 "2018-04-07T21:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/423 "2018-08-24T23:14:37Z")
> [@bmasters1](#): > > Sometimes I think that people do this so they can pass judgment on what you’re reading-- they might not want you to be reading what you’re reading, so they give you the third degree. Would that be true in this instance? Some people, I suspect, simply cannot believe that anyone would read for pleasure. You’re obviously so bored that you’re reading, having nothing more entertaining to do. So they’ll do you a favor and start a conversation, just to save you the drudgery of reading a book. That’s my guess as to why some halfwits feel the need to interrupt my reading with their asinine questions. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/424 "2019-01-19T23:06:25Z")
Old time rockers, will you JUST please stop “updating” your keyboard gear? You did the original, legendary record with a Hammond C3 organ, so do you think I want to hear “C.C. Rider” replayed with that cheesy washy synth sound instead of a real organ? Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/425 "2019-01-20T01:59:25Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > People at four-way stop signs who are just _ **sooooo** _ kind and selfless and full of good cheer that they _insist_ that you go first, despite the fact that they were clearly there first and the law dictates they go first. AHHHHHHHH! I hate this with the passion of a thousand suns. No, asshole, you are not doing me any favors. You are disrupting the flow of traffic and just AHHHHHHHH. I think my reaction is slightly out of proportion but IDC. I hate these people. They are probably the type of people who walk around all day with a smile on their face. For no fucking reason. ALL-DAY. Nope, you’re not alone with this one. I actually yell at other drivers who are sitting there waiting for me when it is their turn. My daughter has tried to defend the other driver, “They’re just trying to be nice”. “I don’t care what they’re TRYING to do, what they’re actually doing is fucking up traffic”. My own possibly unique pet peeve is listening to people typing on a keyboard over the phone. I have no idea why this bothers me, it makes no sense but it does. Maybe it’s because I work in telecom maintenance and hear it all the time when working with people. ---
**Author:** ![Littleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@Littleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Littleman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/426 "2019-01-20T03:26:13Z")
People who won’t order a drink or any kind of anything at the drive through but then immediately want half of yours. If you wanted it you should have ordered it. I ordered what i wanted but now I don’t have it and sometimes fully or almost feel the need to go back so I can have what i ordered. Also people taking forever to decide what they want at common places like taco Bell or McDonald’s or Burger King. You probably have everything interesting to you on the menu memorized, you’ve known for 20 minutes you were heading there, you had 5-10 minutes to stare at the menu and decide before you got to the speaker. For some reason you are now dumbfounded and it’s the decision of a lifetime when there’s someone waiting to take your order. Also making special requests to every single thing you get from any fast food place … this is McDonald’s not a five star restraunt…pull up order what you want, order from the actual menu and move on , it’s the whole idea of fast food. And I’ve never worked fast food in my life, I can only imagine what the person with the headset is thinking when you say umm and change your order the sixth time and end with 5 modifications to a single item. ---
**Author:** ![Littleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@Littleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Littleman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/427 "2019-01-20T03:39:27Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > News or how-to items online that are video only, because I can read instructions much faster than the time it takes me to watch the video. > > Complicated appliances or furniture that come with just tiny diagrams but no textual instructions for assembly. This must be the latest solution for dealing with the problem of bad translations. Oh big yes! I usually only need some small part of the information anyhow, I could easily scan to that with text. Otherwise text will allow me to go at my own pace without pausing 100 times. And couldn’t you edit out a few of the thousand “ums” Or not spend the first thirty minutes showing me the package. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/428 "2019-01-20T03:41:12Z")
People (usually older) who go through bottlenecks, (doors, turnstiles, security stops) and then just stop so your are stuck in the bottleneck itself ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/429 "2019-01-20T04:46:35Z")
I like Hawaiian music, and have Dish network TV tuned to the Hawaiian music channel while I get ready for work. But dammit, reggae is not Hawaiian music. Someone must have thought that all island music is the same, so why not intermingle them? I’m not a fan of reggae. The television is one floor away from where I’m getting ready and I can’t go down there and change the channel. I thought channel drift only happened to TV shows. I hope the classical channel doesn’t start playing country and western. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/430 "2019-01-20T08:52:35Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > My own possibly unique pet peeve is listening to people typing on a keyboard over the phone. Even worse when it’s fake. If you call Xfinity (a cable TV company), you have to go through a long menu before you can talk to a real person, and every step of the way the recorded voice is followed by keys clicking, as if the recording is typing in what you say. They must really think they’re putting one over on us. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/431 "2019-01-20T09:03:24Z")
When somebody decides to drive across the front entrance of a grocery store or retail store to exit as opposed to just going along the sides. Meaning that instead of just encountering minimum traffic and leaving the parking lot instead you’re deliberately going to be constantly starting and stopping as people go to and from the store right in front of you. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/432 "2019-01-20T18:01:31Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Nope, you’re not alone with this one. I actually yell at other drivers who are sitting there waiting for me when it is their turn. My daughter has tried to defend the other driver, “They’re just trying to be nice”. “I don’t care what they’re TRYING to do, what they’re actually doing is fucking up traffic”. > > My own possibly unique pet peeve is listening to people typing on a keyboard over the phone. I have no idea why this bothers me, it makes no sense but it does. Maybe it’s because I work in telecom maintenance and hear it all the time when working with people. I’m with you on both of these. For starters, ceding your right of way to another driver causes confusion and introduces uncertainty. The other driver might think you are just texting or daydreaming, and wait…then when they realize you are waiting for them, they go, right when you give up and start to go. Bad news. As a runner, I deal with people trying to wave me across all the time. I don’t trust their judgment and I don’t trust that they aren’t crazy, so I stop and wait until the drive on–this probably frustrates them, but I live to run another day. Worse still are the people who leave a gap in stalled traffic on \*a four-lane road \* and wave left-turners from the opposite lanes through–those car crash videos on YouTube are full of situations where someone goes through such a gap only to be clobbered by a car in the hidden second lane or passing on the shoulder. And keyboards. I can’t stand hearing someone click-clacking away on their keyboard during a conference call. I will almost always ask meeting participants to move the phone away from their keyboard. This is second only to “Darth Vader” (the heavy breather) in teleconference annoyances for me. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/433 "2019-01-20T19:06:23Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > People (usually older) who go through bottlenecks, (doors, turnstiles, security stops) and then just stop so your are stuck in the bottleneck itself I’ve seen this often. It’s rudeness by way of carelessness rather than malice, but it infuriates me nonetheless. I’ve noticed this too in traffic when a light changes green: every car behind the first one is anxious to get through a congested intersection, but all too often as soon as a motorist makes it through the light and into the intersection, and even though their path is clear, they creep along in a desultory fashion, creating a congested back-up behind them. In turn, during the duration the light stays green, instead of the dozen or so cars that could make it through ( assuming everyone is attentive and acts decisively ), maybe 3 or 4 make it through. As to the bottlenecks you describe, what makes it all the more flabbergasting is how the same people behind the bottleneck were anxiously chomping at the bit to surge forward, suddenly turn into relaxed dunderheads who blithely amble their way forward, much to the consternation of the crowd behind them. I seem to remember reading ( or watching ) something that referred to this dynamic, as it relates to crowd psychology. The examples they used were in evacuations of disasters, like burning aircraft or buildings. Same behavior noted of some people’s behaviors. Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/434 "2019-01-20T20:20:26Z")
nitpick, champing not chomping at the bit ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/435 "2019-01-20T21:15:17Z")
I feel like I’ve mentioned this pet peeve on these boards before (and since this is a bumped older thread, I searched to make certain I hadn’t actually said it before in this very thread), but here’s my pet peeve no one else seems to care about. Multiple question marks. Multiple exclamation marks makes sense: “This sentence is emphatic!” “Holy crap, THIS sentence is INSANELY emphatic!!!”. But something is either a question or it isn’t. Adding more question marks to a sentence does not make it more of a question. It also doesn’t (or at least, shouldn’t) make it more emphatic. That is the job of an exclamation mark. Isn’t it!? Yes, it is!!! I fight the good fight alone. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/436 "2019-01-21T12:47:08Z")
You are not alone. That’s why I usually mock them with a numeral!!1!!1 ---
**Author:** ![Littleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@Littleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Littleman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/437 "2019-01-21T13:41:49Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > I feel like I’ve mentioned this pet peeve on these boards before (and since this is a bumped older thread, I searched to make certain I hadn’t actually said it before in this very thread), but here’s my pet peeve no one else seems to care about. > > Multiple question marks. Multiple exclamation marks makes sense: “This sentence is emphatic!” “Holy crap, THIS sentence is INSANELY emphatic!!!”. But something is either a question or it isn’t. Adding more question marks to a sentence does not make it more of a question. It also doesn’t (or at least, shouldn’t) make it more emphatic. That is the job of an exclamation mark. Isn’t it!? Yes, it is!!! > > I fight the good fight alone. IME multiple question marks usually implies a whole lot more questions and that is just the main one or the first to come to mind. Sometimes many to follow. Depending on the answer to the first. Usually in response to something you find completely befuddling. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/438 "2019-01-21T16:24:56Z")
I can’t watch TV shows without feeling like I am losing precious minutes of my life watching the fancy intro that all shows must have and the recaps that they always do after commercial breaks. Even in a commercial-free version of a show those recaps show where the commercial would have been and are just as distracting. My dislike of cool intros holds for YouTube videos as well–almost all channels I watch seem to have oh-so-clever intro graphics that I skip over with a grumble. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/439 "2019-01-21T16:48:45Z")
Here’s one that’s petty and probably sound OCD… When someone takes off their shoes and sets them together but the shoes are on the wrong side - like they’re on the wrong foot )(. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/440 "2019-01-21T18:51:30Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Here’s one that’s petty and probably sound OCD… > > When someone takes off their shoes and sets them together but the shoes are on the wrong side - like they’re on the wrong foot )(. That’s not just you. My wife and I had a discussion on this exact topic a few weeks back. We are of one accord, but my oldest daughter isn’t–she tosses them every which way. We just can’t understand how someone can leave shoes in anything but the correct arrangement on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/441 "2019-01-21T19:14:36Z")
My Brother in law has a habit of saying things like “do you like french onion soup?” and then never making it. I hate the words arguably and inarguably. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/442 "2019-01-21T21:23:27Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I can’t watch TV shows without feeling like I am losing precious minutes of my life watching the fancy intro that all shows must have and the recaps that they always do after commercial breaks. Even in a commercial-free version of a show those recaps show where the commercial would have been and are just as distracting. > > My dislike of cool intros holds for YouTube videos as well–almost all channels I watch seem to have oh-so-clever intro graphics that I skip over with a grumble. I think the recaps are filler or an attempt to decontent. Documentaries on The History Channel were ( I don’t watch that channel anymore ) especially annoying: After every commercial break, they’d waste a couple of minutes repeating/recapping what was shown before the commercial break. I swear, between the commercials and all the repitition, an hour long episode had maybe 25 to 30 minutes of actual “meat” in the content. I agree youtube videos can be a PIA too. Even after silly or flamboyant intros, they take forever to get to the point, or the “meat” of what the title promises…making me feel like I’ve been clickbaited. Of course too, right after the intro, they fart around for what seems like a full minute urging us to subscribe to their channel or “like” the video. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=23)