# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/81 "2018-04-09T19:28:01Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I prefer a 16oz [Old Fashioned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fashioned_glass). I’ve never used a 16 oz’er but I like the 8 oz’ers that are sometimes in hotel rooms. It’s both airy and difficult to tip. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/82 "2018-04-09T19:34:38Z")
Any port in a storm. Or Malbec. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/83 "2018-04-09T19:35:33Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > People that leave their dog outside to bark indefinitely as if they can’t hear them too. The whole freakin’ neighborhood hears those shrill little barks but the person who owns the little fucker doesn’t seem to be bothered in the least bit. Why the fuck do you have a little yapper in the first place?? GAAAAHHHHHHH! I thought I was the only one! I hate that! ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/84 "2018-04-09T19:45:45Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > People that leave their dog outside to bark indefinitely as if they can’t hear them too. The whole freakin’ neighborhood hears those shrill little barks but the person who owns the little fucker doesn’t seem to be bothered in the least bit. Why the fuck do you have a little yapper in the first place?? This, though I hope I don’t disqualify it by agreeing. And worse: I used to live in a semi-rural area. My neighbor across the road had a donkey–much louder than a yapping dog, plus it stuttered. I’d like awake through “HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE” until it finally got to the “HAW.” Rinse and repeat, all night, every night. How the owners could sleep, I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/85 "2018-04-09T19:51:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Many of mine have been covered, so here’s a new one: > > In TV dramas (I watch mostly police/detective/mystery stuff) as soon as someone comes home from work, s/he immediately opens a bottle of red wine, pours, and proceeds to drink from a long-stemmed glass. When eating dinner, whether homemade or take-out, again with the red wine in the stemmed wine glass. Tune in randomly to any drama where people are in the kitchen, whether eating, cooking, or going over the details of the murder, and they will be drinking red wine from stemmed glasses. WTF? > > I’m not sure exactly what bugs me about this. Are people really drinking all this red wine? And from tall, stemmed wine glasses? Polishing off bottle after bottle? Every day? With or before every meal except breakfast? > > I used to put away a LOT of wine back in the early 80s. Never used a wine glass, usually a coffee cup to minimize the possibility of spillage/breakage/cleanup-age. > > I guess it’s the fact that it’s such a cliche. Aggravates the crap out of me. > > I’ll go now. If they were drinking wine out of a coffee mug how would viewers know it was wine? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/86 "2018-04-09T20:08:55Z")
I can name something more annoying than little yappy dogs: Big yappy dogs. My mom’s neighbors have a dog that’s some sort of bullish mix, about 80 pounds, and it _still_ yips. To be fair, it only seems to do it under two circumstances: When there’s another dog outside to yip at, or when it’s trying to get another dog to come outside. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/87 "2018-04-09T20:28:32Z")
This has to do with all those new “make it how you prefer” chains of restaurants. Chipotle, MOD Pizza, Quizno’s, that kind of place. 1. There’s always very loud music playing. 2. The food assembler is on the other side of a thick glass divider. 3. The assembler is often a timid teenage girl with a faint little voice. 4. She must say her oft-repeated scripted lines, which are often written by some marketing yahoo who doesn’t know how normal people speak. I.e., at a point when you’d expect her to say “Anything else?”, she must say “How is your pizza looking to you now?” Her sentence comes out as gibberish to me, given points 1-3 above. This all results in me yelling out “What?” all the way down the line. And lest you think it’s because I’m an old broad, I see young male customers yelling “what?” just like I do. But nobody else complains. I’d like to complain, but judging by the music they play, I’m not the demographic group that they give a crap about. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/88 "2018-04-09T20:32:42Z")
I can’t stand the words “arguably” and “inarguably”. After reading that literally no longer means literally I’ve added that the list of words I’ll never use as well. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/89 "2018-04-09T21:06:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I used to put away a LOT of wine back in the early 80s. Never used a wine glass, usually a coffee cup to minimize the possibility of spillage/breakage/cleanup-age. And the cigarette butts give it extra body. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/90 "2018-04-09T21:15:11Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I can’t stand the words “arguably” and “inarguably”. > After reading that literally no longer means literally I’ve added that the list of words I’ll never use as well. Literally still means literally. It just has a new buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/91 "2018-04-09T21:54:16Z")
> [@CoastalMaineiac](#): > > 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 hear you. My dad has been driving big rigs for 50+ years and it’s amazing how badly some clueless drivers behave around tractor trailers. My peeve is colleagues whose offices are disaster sites. I’m OCD about my office for both myself and my students. I think towering stacks of messy papers and no gestures toward making their spaces pleasant sends a bad message; I have messy coworkers come to my office for meetings because their disaster areas make me anxious. Two guys in particular have hoarded offices that could be on TLC. Ah well, academics aren’t known for being neat. My other peeve is my female colleagues who do the “I shouldn’t be eating this doughnut, I’m so fat, tee hee!” STFU and just eat it, you weigh 87lbs and this isn’t a cafeteria table of mean high school girls reassuring you that you’re not fat. This 5’9 175lb chick could give a shit what you put in your skinny pothole. These same women cut pastries people bring to work into six pieces and point out that they’re just taking a teeny piece (“tee hee”). Then they return five times throughout the day to eat the rest. Just shut up and take the whole thing your dirty mitts have germed up.God I hate this stupid girl shit. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/92 "2018-04-09T22:50:18Z")
Pronouncing the confection made from boiled sweetened milk as “car-mel”. It is spelled CARAMEL and should be pronounced “care-a-mel”. Unfortunately, Webster’s disagrees with me as to the preferred pronunciation. Carmel is a mountain in Israel! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/93 "2018-04-09T23:24:06Z")
> [@leschulz](#): > > My pet peeve is the websites where when you hit the back button, instead of going back to the previous page, it takes you back to the previous site. I’ve noticed this on all the SBNation sites, Vox, and others. It’s really annoying! I almost always right-click on a link and open in a new window, leaving the previous window untouched. Because sometimes you can’t get back where you want to by clicking the back button. Another tv cliche peeve: whenever kids are being rounded up in the morning preparatory to driving them to school, a parent ALWAYS says, “Hurry up, we’re going to be late.” I get so tired of that. I used to have a secretary (back when people had secretaries) who was late every single day. Every day. Without fail. You could set your clock by her. Not very late-- only 10 minutes. I didn’t care. But every day she’d arrive breathlessly at the door of our office 10 minutes late and breathlessly apologize. I told her, “I don’t care if you’re 10 minutes late. Don’t apologize. It doesn’t bother me.” And the lateness didn’t bother me. But the apologizing drove me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/94 "2018-04-10T00:45:27Z")
Subject-verb agreement on the local news (“The team were staying at a local hotel…”). Misuse of “alleged” (“The man was allegedly shot…”) No NO. And it’s not an “alleged suspect,” just a suspect. Mangling the pronunciation of commonly used place names. My wife’s pet peeve is my non-stop complaining about this when the news is on. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/95 "2018-04-10T00:52:25Z")
Why is it that it’s always the “intrepid”, “courageous”, “hard-working” news reporters who report on-scene from natural disaster/storm areas that get all the praise when the hardest working professionals on scene (the camera operators) get squat? They are in the same difficult working conditions but they are also saddled with big, heavy, awkward camera equipment yet they keep pace with the unencumbered reporters. That’s always bugged me. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/96 "2018-04-10T00:58:43Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > And worse: I used to live in a semi-rural area. My neighbor across the road had a donkey–much louder than a yapping dog, plus it stuttered. I’d like awake through “HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE” until it finally got to the “HAW.” Rinse and repeat, all night, every night. How the owners could sleep, I have no idea. I’ll see your donkey and raise you roosters. I hate mother-fucking roosters. There are some (illegally) at the place across from my parents. The damn things never sleep. They’re out at all hours, shrieking. It’s enough to get me muttering about target practice. When I lived in a more rural location, my neighbors with a rooster were considerate enough to put their chickens in a barn at night. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/97 "2018-04-10T01:11:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/98 "2018-04-10T01:25:25Z")
I’ll just go with one that’s pretty irrational. It’s about posts on message boards. It drives me nuts when someone signs their posts. They will post, then type out something like, “Sincerely, Jonathan,” on every single post. It’s not a formal correspondence and your name is on the post, so it’s not necessary. Also, if you really need to do that then the signature feature is made for that purpose. I suspect that it’s a OCD thing (on their part) and I would never actually complain, but this thread did request pet peeves that are limited to each of us. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/99 "2018-04-10T01:31:49Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > I’ll just go with one that’s pretty irrational. It’s about posts on message boards. It drives me nuts when someone signs their posts. They will post, then type out something like, “Sincerely, Jonathan,” on every single post. It’s not a formal correspondence and your name is on the post, so it’s not necessary. Also, if you really need to do that then the signature feature is made for that purpose. I suspect that it’s a OCD thing (on their part) and I would never actually complain, but this thread did request pet peeves that are limited to each of us. Oh I think that is a pet peeve that you share with _ **lots** _ of other board members. 😃 I seriously don’t understand it. The only way I can make sense of it is it being a form of trolling. The posters who sign their posts _ **know** _ it gets under the skin of a sizable section of the audience who reads them. Kinda like a non-political “Democrat Party”. So trivial that the person saying/posting it maintains a bit of plausible deniability because its SOOOO trivial and meaningless, geez, the only person with a problem here are the people who actually take offense to such a nothingburger. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/100 "2018-04-10T04:39:19Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I was just mentioning the reason they do it. > > They have an agenda of not-letting-the-restaurant-get-scammed-by-shady-customers that conflicts with your agenda of enjoying-a-meal-in-peace. Except I spoke with one of my sons tonight who is a chef at an upscale bestrow. He said while your explanation has merit it isn’t the true cause of “_helicopter wait staff_”. Apparently back in the day management would push waiters and waitresses to do this as a form of impulse selling. Get the patron to order another cocktail or soda (back when refills weren’t free) or another appetizer or dessert when they wouldn’t have just ordered it without a nudge. Over the years customer attitudes evolved to where people feel if wait staff isn’t constantly around patrons feel like they are being ignored even when they don’t need anything from the wait staff. They just like to know they are there at their whim and constantly coming around asking questions assures this belief. Along comes cranks like me who doesn’t want to be bugged by these nincompoops. More and more establishments, like my sons, are offering select tables with privacy curtains and wait staff alert pagers. The only person in places like this who should be asking about how the food is should be the chef who should come out to the table approximately 2/3 of the way through your meal. If there is something truly wrong with anything patrons tend to notify waitstaff immediately without prompting. All his words, not mine. But I’m eaten there and love the privacy the selected tables offer. Very intimate dinning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=6)